Stetson Books

The casebook and two days of classes left me utterly befogged - but an evening with this book cleared the mental clouds and clued me in. Most useful: the pages of questions - you get to test your understanding and check your answers against the detailed explanations. Lots and lots of questions, so you go over each point time and again. Especially useful for the Rule against Perpetuities.

This book got me through property my fist year at law school. The answers for the study problems are wonderful in the fact that they explain exactly what you need to know to understand the reasoning behind the legal pricipal. This book was reccomended to my class by my professor to help us get through the toughest part of property law, Future interests.

A beautiful cookbook with menus to suit every pallette! Recipes run the gamut from easy-to-prepare picnic food to New York gourmet. I would highly recommend as a gift.

Easy and elegant entertaining; recipes from some of the Big Apple's most notable restaurants and star chefs. A beautifully produced and styled book that takes readers on a culinary tour of Manhattan's diverse neighborhoods and cuisine.

I enjoyed the product. A must for those law students like myself who have the MC property exam!

If you prepare for law school exams by doing problems, as I do, this is a great series of books to use. It doesn't have any black-letter law summaries, so don't expect it to teach you the material, but what it does have are great, detailed issue-spotter problems -- the kind your professors will most likely be asking you to answer on their exams. Even better, it has full essay answers to the problems, so you'll be able to read an "A"-type answer written by a law professor and learn how yours differs from that. I used Siegel's as often as I could during law school and was able to beat the curve more often using their products than anyone else's.

Wow! There is no other book like this out there all about Stetson hats and the Stetson company. Many different hat types are shown from western to city to women's hats (did you know Stetson made women's hats? ). Great history of the company, the people who worked there, and the hats they produced. I know this book is being used for reference by museums. Great for collectors, dealers, historians, anyone interested in the West ... The list goes on. Jeffrey B. Snyder has put together a classic. It will be a long time before another Stetson book this good will be produced.

Do you have an old Stetson hat and wonder what it's worth? This book may help. It also contains a history of the company, photographs, as well as a section on women's hats manufactured by Stetson. I often refer people to the section on care and the handling of hats.

So when do the school boards also provide textbooks from the other major religions of the world and of other citizens of the US? Seems to be very one-sided unless these other books are in the works. Oh and by the way. How about something that talks about the 14,000,000 citizens of the US who have NO RELIGION at all? How about talking about their contributions to our society as well?

D.Walters, AZ

Update: We can now upgrade the book to 5 stars. On Dec. 19, we received another (third) copy of the book. This was apparently the publisher's "response" to our complaint that the second copy of the book had the same problems as the first. Happily, the newest copy no longer had any creases or wrinkles and is quite satisfactory. It was not on glossy paper which made the book thicker.

We are quite pleased with the content of this book and hope many public high schools adopt it as part of their curriculum (we are homeschoolers). We agree wholeheartedly with the Project's intent that a person's education is incomplete without an understanding of the Bible, and its background, purpose, and influence in many facets of life. The quality of the binding, which is poor, led to the lower rating. The pages are all wrinkled and some were even creased. The book does not lie flat. The pages, while glossy compared to usual textbooks, seem fine to us. We did contact the publisher to explain the problem and they kindly sent a replacement; however, it arrived in the same condition. I suggested that the publisher find a new bookbinder, but they did not respond. Our daughter noted that the book would not be "allowed" in a library because turning the pages makes a loud crunching sound.

I returned my copy for 3 reasons. The first reason was the cheap quality of the book. It is printed on flimsy paper identical to furniture or department store flyers one gets in the mail. The pages were not flat when the book was bound, many pages had detectable ripples, and the binding created waves in the crease with each turn of the page. One reviewer referred to it as a "coffee table book." I don't know what he/she was thinking but this book is nowhere near the quality of a typical coffee table book.

I would have been disappointed with the quality after paying $25 for this book. Paying double that is ridiculous and the second reason I returned the book. So far: ZERO stars.

Third, I returned the book because I saw that I wasn't going to use it. After a quick review I believe the book would be useful for any public school wanting to study the enormous 'impact' of The Bible on Western literature and culture without actually reading a Bible. But for any parent or student willing or wanting to read a Bible, this book is a poor choice. Almost any other Bible commentary or other such book would be a better companion for Bible study. As for its impact on Western civilization...once you have first hand knowledge of The Bible the impact is obvious during the study of literature and culture.

I can't say how useful this book might be in public schools but for that purpose I'd give it four stars (not counting the cheap paper). If you're a homeschooling Christian, think long and hard before spending $50 on this book.

The book is an excellent attempt to cover Biblical principles and theory without using the book to convert or modify the readers present theological beliefs. It is approached from a historical basis and has the purpose to educate the student about the Holy Book called the Bible. It is well written with many interesting facts spread throughout the chapters to peak ones interest. Appears to be well balanced for a book that is trying to stay within guide lines for a public school curriculum. As our society becomes more open to the teaching of basic religious concepts/beliefs in the Holy Books, I can perceive that it would be a key component of a series of such texts that included other religions as well or texts that delved deeper into the books major topics(New Testament Study Or The Life Of Jesus etc.). Overall, an excellent beginning to educate without being over zealous .... students of all backgrounds will benefit.

I purchased this somewhat expensive but beautifully printed secondary school textbook because of an article which appeared in TIME during March 2007. The article was entitled "The Case for Teaching the Bible". I was encouraged that a book had been produced for the use of Bible in Literature courses in American Public High Schools.

The writers have given a reasonable survey of the contents of the 66 books of the Protestant Canon of Old and New Testaments in the Christian Bible. The presentation is essentially a version without historical critical undertones and without religious overtones. It is strong on the social influence of the Bible in American life.

If one wants the historical critical and religious perspectives there are the standard introductions by such writers as Bernhard Anderson and Lawrence Boadt on the Old Testament and Raymond Brown and David DeSilva on the New Testament. Indeed, if one seeks these perspectives at a similar level to The Bible and Its Influence, I would think that the introductions of John Drane would fill the gaps.

All in all, this is a positive presentation of the Bible that will go a long way to encourage secondary and early tertiary students to read the content of the Bible in a modern English translation with thoughtful understanding of its relevance down through the years.

This is a very specific review - if you go to Wayne State Law School and have Dillof this book is a must. It's never assigned reading but it answers the questions he asks in class.

In a more general sense I'd recommend this book to anyone taking Criminal Law as a 1L. Dressler does a really good job explaining things overall. It fleshes out the casebook well.

I don't know what has happened. But I still have not received this title since I order a month ago. A month has passed!

If your professor uses the Dressler textbook, this hornbook is a must have. Dressler acts as lecturer, explaining concepts which he should have (but did not) explain well in the textbook. He explores the Philosophy of punishment and the elements of crime in equal detail, and cites examples along the way.

If you're not using the Dressler text - I wouldn't bother with this.

Dressler's case is book is well written, and his Understanding counterpart is a helpful supplement to its reading. The book is only fairly concise, but the explanations are good, so one could look past that flaw. The book is worth the money, especially if you are not prepared for class, and will definitely be a resource approaching finals. The only real annoying thing about the book is that Dressler cites to himself, ALL THE TIME: What an elitist.

For some reason it's very hard to find books on the law specifically directed toward non-lawyers. This is odd since the law is an important instutition which should be simple enough (and usually is) for anyone to understand it. Since there are so few popular books on the law, if you want to learn about the law these "Understanding" books are a good place to start. I don't have any formal education in the law, but I think that these books are sometimes used as study guides ( which is why student reviewers seem to refer to them as 'hornbooks' )for law school, but a formal student of the law would read the cases themselves.

This volume on the criminal law covers the basic principles of criminal law. The way intent is treated in crimes, defenses (insanity, self defense), mistakes (of law and of fact), and reviews some basic crimes in general terms including their development from the Common Law such as murder, conspiracy, attempt, theft etc... Most specific crimes are not covered (e.g. class B Felony and such things are codified by particular states and therefore are not covered in a book on the concepts of criminal law). The book does not cover subjects like when the police can search your car, such things are referred to as Criminal Procedure.

I found this book to be very interesting, and it would be accessible to anyone with an interest in the law.

Peterson is a self-made man and obviously is, and should be, proud of it. He is so proud of it in fact that he sees himself as the living paragon of black bootstrap success; the model that all blacks should strive for and emulate. Its the tired old "if I can do it, anyone can do it" model of black American success.

There is of course a lot to be said for this model; and it certainly does no harm to promote it as a template for black male success -- especially these days when there are so few models except for rich whiney athletes, hustlers, drug pushers and rap stars. However, like the liberals he criticizes so mercilessly, Peterson is also guilty of not being able to see beyond the idiosyncarcies of his own experience.

Terms like "systemic" and "structural" racism obviously have no place in his reasoning nor any real meaning to him. He would of course dismiss the idea that black Americans are not the worst off in this culture. Yet, it is true. Arguably, Native Americans are not just worse off, but are much worse off than blacks. They do not live cramped in the inner city ghettoes, rife with crime, drugs, and illigitmacy, and arguably are the most assimilated of all of America's minority groups, yet they are much, much worse off than blacks. How does Mr. Peterson begin to explain this phenomenon in terms of his bootstrap success model?

Surely he will use whatever cultural characteristics Native Americans have and exhibit, against them; that is, he will continue explaining away their problems by blaming their character. If so, then we can move on to poor white people, who in various pockets of America, are also as bad off, if not worse off than most blacks, and incredibly these very hard working high moral and religious people have all of the advantages of being members of the superior white race. Again, one would presume that Mr. peterson would have to find some clever way of attributing negroid behavior and character to them, and claim IT to be responsible for their lack of "bootstrapped" success.

I believe the poor, all poor, not just the black poor, must share some of the responsibility for their plight. Yet, there are indeed larger forces in play in our society which are determinative in many, if not most instances. And for that reason alone there must be an end put to these "blame the victim" testimonials masquerading as social theory and explanation.

Jessie Peterson's success is admirable on its face and he should justifiably be proud of it. But it does not explain anything but how he as one individual "lucked out." As much as we all wish it were true, his success is not a fail-safe template for U.S. success, writ large any more than the liberal welfare system was a template for raisng the poor out of poverty. These problems are just not that simple.

The point of systemic racism is that in gerenal, young white men, do not have to "luck out." For them success is a given, unless they screw up along the way; and even then they get multiple chances to correct their mistakes and move again onto the success track.

For young black men such as Peterson, the opposite is true: failure is a given unless all the stars of the universe happen to line up in the proper configuration, and even then white people must like you and you must have the right attitude, wear the righ clothes and speak properly.

Booby traps are planted everywhere -- specifically to snare you. One bad credit report, one too many traffic violations, one fist fight, one bad report card, one too many sick days, not to mention going to jail for even the most trivial reason, and your success story is over. What would be minor indiscretions for a young white, are life sentences for a black male youth.

I "lucked out" and so did Mr.Peterson, but I am willing to bet any amount of money, that as is true in my case, that in the same household as Mr. Peterson, with the same strong values and high moral codes that he seems so proud of, that very few if any of his other own siblings were able to "luck out" to success as he did.

Although there are many good aspects to this book, overall it is anti-intellectual, narrow-minded and a self-serving vehicle for morally questionable right-wing causes and propaganda. Clearly Mr. Peterson is cashing in on his radio show popularity. And even though his success story -- being an uneducated black man and yet making it in a very hostile American culture -- is one worth telling -- a little humility and less of the right-wing tripe -- would have made this a much more interesting piece.

Despite these shortcomings, I still recommend that blacks read it -- if for no other reason than to see what a narrowminded success story, and having a right-wing political pedigree and connections can do to swell the head of an uneducated black man. Two stars

Jesse Peterson is exactly what all Americans need to get past racial tensions created by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton....

Take care of your children, demand a quality education from the teacher's union, clean up your house and call the cops if someone is doing bad things beyond your control.

Then we'll see how much racism there really is and begin to focus on what needs to be done to correct inequities and help the needy.

This book really hit home for me. Peterson provides some fundamental reasons as to why the black community has not reached it's full potential. We are the only race that has completely politicized our culture. In return we have recieved promises and rhetoric, and yet the chasm that seperates the black community grows wider.
His assessment of our so-called leadership is also dead on. Unfortunately, many people will call him an "Uncle Tom" or self-hating black. However, one only has to honestly read the book, not from the perspective of politics, i.e. Democrats or Republicans, but from the perspective of honest self evaluation.
An excellent read.

Jesse Lee Peterson is the epitome of bravery and greatness. He is one of the few people who's truly color blind. He also recognizes that today's racism is more residual than prevalent. He confronts the true issues haunting the black community and it's NOT institutional racism from whites. It's a propensity toward crime (blacks are 13% of population yet commit more than 40% of ALL crimes), very high illegitimacy (nearly 80%!!of all black babies are born out of wedlock), sexual promiscuity/immorality (HIV/AIDS is not only rampant in Africa, it's growing exponentially among American blacks), sale and use of illegal drugs, and a lack of education (more than half are high school dropouts). Also at issue is the black rap culture which denigrates women, encourages violence, and further degrades society. In summary, the black community is plagued by an overwhelming moral malaise. All races and creeds should support Rev. Peterson in his cause. There's a victim mentality which is routinely perpetrated on blacks by so called leaders. This mentality breeds hate and despair. We all want the black community to succeed. But we need more George Washington Carvers, Frederick Douglass', Harriet Tubmans, Booker T. Washingtons AND Jesse Lee Petersons- and fewer Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons.

This was not all that bad, but it is not as good as his book SCAM. This book doesn't really focus on the decietfulness of black leaders, but it does however, show the very anti-white statements that blacks make, like black authors, black entertainers, and that there are black groups that actively don't want whites to adopt black kids. Could you picture the outcry if there were a white group that tried to prevent blacks from adopting white kids? Such bigotry would never be tolerate in this politically correct culture.

I didn't like his chapter on abortion, because to me it is like capital punishment; you already have you mind set up before coming into the debate.

I did think his views on immigration were interesting. IN fact, I was kind of shocked to hear a black man speak out against illegal immigration. Peterson states taht it's already bad enough in LA and other major US cities that black males have higher unemployment rates, but add that with illegal immigrants who take their jobs. This also deters teenagers and young adults when illegal take low paying jobs, because those menial jobs are a good way to get experience, get a good work ethic and learn job skills.

It's really not that spectacular. I would say pick up his book, "SCAM: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America"

I'm not sure why a lot of these reviews mention flash cards, I have this book and it didn't come with anything like that. However, it is a great study aid. It has flow charts, a simplified outline, exam tips, and practice questions. It really gave me a better understanding of the subject.

I bought this product about 2 weeks before my torts final. The black letter law cards are prety generic and you're likely better off following what your specific professor says. On the other hand, the hypothetical cards were very helpful.

I think law students will get more out of other study aids. It was not concise enough to use as a supplement to a class, outline and it should not replace your class outline.

When I ordered this book, I was skeptical it would be of much use, and didn't even pick it up to help me study until the night before my final. When I finally got around to reading it, I realized that it was a wonderful resource. The tips about what to expect on the exam were very helpful and easy to remember. The information is given to you in a way that helps you retain key words and facts you need as you are writing your essay answers on the test. I believe that this book helped me more on my Final than the review of all my other materials from class and online.

If you're in a non-ABA law school (mostly found in California, Alabama, Tennesse and Massachusetts) then these Torts flash cards are wonderful! The first 250 cards or so cover things like the evolution of contributory negligence to comparitive negligence in the 46 states that use the comparitive negligence doctrine. The format of these cards is fun and tests your knowlege of black letter essentials using actual names in situations that are spoofs of your favorite cartoon characters from childhood such as 'Wiley Coyote' These torts flash cards are wonderful! These flash cards can always be found on Amazon for $20 to $30 which law students know is a very good price!

Stetson
S.L. Rottman
The Penguin Group 2002
222pp $16.99
ISBN 0-670-3542-4

"The falcon was totaled. The front end had rammed into a large tree, and the whole left side had collapsed. You couldn't see any of the Falcon's eye's or beak. The left front wheel stuck out at a cock eye angel. In the windshield there were two stars, the bigger one on the driver's side. Both of then were blood stained."

Stetson or Stet as he likes to be called, is 17 year old delinquent living a small hick town that he wants desperately to leave. But first he needs to graduate, and rebuild his car, that's why he got a job at the scrap yard working on cars, and in addition does dares for money. Then one day he goes to far and gets suspended but when comes home from his after school job, he's suprised to find that his alcoholic father picked up his long lost sister. She was born a little after their mom left the house, now she's dead and Kayla has to stay with Stet and his father in a beat up old trailer.

I really loved this book! It's realistic fiction about one week in the lives of two teenagers. I love the way the author describes the events and the people, because the whole story is old from the point of view of Stet who has to be the responsible one in the family and take care of both his dad and kayla. It also has teaches moral lessons about the dangers of alcohol and peer presure. Even thought it's not from a christain perspective (they swear sometimes) I still think it was a pretty good book. I rate this 4.5/5 stars.

This book is about a teenager that had grown up in rough time. His father isn't the kind of person that would anyone would rely on. So he's been doing it almost all by his own. Then one day, his life would change forever. His sister that he never met before were before his door.
Stetson is the teens name. And his sister's name is Kayla (a fourteen-year-old). whenhis mother left him and his father, his mother was pregnant. Until now, he has never met is sister. Stetson is an very good artist and he could build or fix an motored vehicle. All he needs to do is get a passing grade then he his set.
Now read the book and find who the will live there life from now on!!!

You have a drunk dad and you work a lot you have this car you really like. One day after work you find this girl in your house turns out she is your sister and your mom died. this is what happened to Stetson (the main character) in this book.

This was a great book it had a little bit of everything drama, action, hate, love, and cars. I liked that the author put the car in this book. Stetson really likes that car and I think it symbolizes that one thing you cherish. Something I didn't like was that once or twice the author emphasizes some things a little too much. I would recommend this book the author writes i very well. Overall this was a great book this is only my opinion you maybe agree or disagree but in my case I thought it was a great book...

When I started reading this book I put it down but near the end I could not stop reading.

On the positive side it had a great story and awesome ending. Also the characters were not just descriptions they were like real people in my mind they were that good.

On the negative side some parts were over dramatized and some parts were to slow. For another thing it took so long for one day to go by in the book I thought it took place over a month.

I thought that this book was actually more interesting then what the cover actually said. With the book cover it didn't look very good but after I got into it was one of the best books I have ever read in my life. It starts out with Stetson in school and doing stuff he shouldn't do to get kicked out of school and then he goes to his daily job to get car parts for his 1980 Honda civic that he has been fixing up for a long time. His dad is one of the biggest drunks you will ever see. He works at the mill, where everybody works in that small town. All his old friends had dropped out and started to work. He goes home to see that there is a strange girl on the couch and he finds out that his mom was pregnant before she left him with his dad. The girls name is Kayla and she tells Stetson that their mom had died. It's a very exciting book and I would highly recommend this book if you like working on cars and young adult books.

Book was in great condition. Took awhile to receive, so just order early.

I consider this book an interesting tool for an international law class, because of its variety of cases and its handling of matters such as jus cogens, that makes it really didactic and comprehensible. Worth to be have in mind by University professors, students and investigators of this law area.