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Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook)

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The Seventeenth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of all areas of constitutional law, including judicial review, separation of powers, federalism, due process, equal protection, free speech, and religious liberty. It emphasizes constitutional law as a species of law, and aims to enable students who use it to practice constitutional law as lawyers. It also seeks to illuminate the historical, theoretical, and philosophical background that bears on constitutional law and informs its practice. The 17th edition thoroughly revises, updates and streamlines this classic casebook, emphasizing contemporary problems in areas from the war on terror to new uses of the Internet. Highlights of the 17th edition include updates on extensive coverage of the War on Terror (executive discretion on latest Guantanomo case in Chapter 6; update on decisions involving congressional civil rights enforcement power; the latest First Amendment cases involving fleeting expletives and religious monuments in public parks; updates on campaign finance (plus look at ;millionaire exception); voter identification requirements; and the right to bear arms (Second Amendment) individual right (Heller).

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Mediocre Textbook, October 10, 2010

Robin Waltz (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

Honestly, I really wanted to like this book because I am a big fan of Kathleen Sullivan, but this is not a great textbook. I am a second-year law student, so this book might work better for someone in an undergraduate course or someone reading Constitutional Law for fun.

Pros:
Good selection of cases to achieve the finer points of Constitutional Law
Mostly useful notes after cases

Cons:
There are many typos in the casebook, and some weird citations. The formatting is generally poor, and I think they should have waited or had more copyediting done with this text.
The notes section, though helpful as stated earlier, is often incredibly long, and this can make it hard to synthesize different portions of the notes together
In this vein, sometimes portions of full cases that are cited later are referenced in lengthy notes earlier, when it would have been easier to merely insert the full case in the earlier section

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opaque, March 22, 2011

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This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

This textbook is by far the most opaque text I have ever read. While some of that comes from the opinions, the textbook authors don't really help. There are far too many cases in the notes sections, and some of those note cases are longer than the cases they denote separately. It's very hard to tell which are the important cases since many of the note cases are actually very important in history for different reasons.
Hopefully if your professor assigns this textbook he is good at explaining the issues, because the textbook really doesn't do that very well.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

A Case For A Well-Written Study ..., November 12, 2010

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This review is from: Constitutional Law, 17th (University Casebook) (Hardcover)

Constitutional Law started out by taking me from the highest level view of our Constitution, then carefully ~ blending Constitutional Law case rulings and the views of our Founding Fathers as expressed through both "The Federalist Papers" AND "The Anti-Federalist Papers" ~ taught me what our Founding Fathers truly intended us to know about the planet's greatest legal document ever conceived. This textbooks also crafts an understanding of what our Founding Fathers intended our Federal Government to do and should never do with each Citizen's individual freedoms and rights OVER and ABOVE the powers of our Federal Government ~ a point oft times forgotten in today's political landscape we're living in.

The authors craft our Founding Fathers words and case precedence to enlighten the reader into precisely what every American citizen should know about the law of our Republic and how it applies to us every day in every aspect of our lives. In one sense, it is a guided tour... Read more

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They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing

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The book that demystifies academic writing, teaching students to frame their arguments in the larger context of what else has been said about their topic–and providing templates to help them make the key rhetorical moves.

The best-selling new composition book published in this century, in use at more than 1,000 schools, They Say / I Say has essentially defined academic writing, identifying its key rhetorical moves, the most important of which is to summarize what others have said (“they say”) to set up one’s own argument (“I say”). The book also provides templates to help students make these key moves in their own writing.

The Second Edition includes a new chapter on reading that shows students how to read for the larger conversation and two new chapters on the moves that matter in the sciences and social sciences. line drawings

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Adults returning to school, August 2, 2010

KiKi "gold fingers" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)

My English 101 professor had us use this book to make our papers pop! Some may say that this book is elementary, but I think that it is perfect for those that were never taught how to build an argument in an essay/research paper. I find the templates useful, and I will use them until the ideas start to kick in naturally. This is an excellent book, and I will always have a copy on hand.

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An easy to use framework for writing a critically thought out scholarly argument, October 22, 2010

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This review is from: They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)

In `"They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing', Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates that are designed to help students in college and beyond formulate scholarly arguments.
Specifically Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of writing templates that they offer provide a framework for the development of critical thinking skills. As the authors themselves put it "Perhaps the most distinctive feature of this book is its presentation of many such templates designed to help you successfully enter not only the world of academic thinking and writing but also the wider worlds of civic discourse and work".
Although some people believe that critical thinking and writing are more complex than any set of linguistic templates, Graff and Birkenstein insist that these deeper thought processes cannot be used without the means to express them in a clear, organized way.
For the most part I agree with their approach. In my view the types of... Read more

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Great organizational tool for writers, June 12, 2011

S. Adams-Lanham (West Dundee, Illinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Paperback)

This was on the 'optional' list for my Practical Criticism class, but the 3rd time the prof mentioned it during lecture, I decided to buy it. I found it very worthwhile, and curiously, reading templates about how other people share their opinions made me more confident about using a strong voice in my papers. I went from B+ and A- papers to A and A+ ones...and feel as though my papers are MORE my own.

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Abnormal Psychology

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Each new edition of Ronald Comer’s Abnormal Psychology has offered a fresh, comprehensive, and exciting presentation of the field, with objective, balanced coverage of a wide range of theories, studies, disorders, and treatments and all major models. Each new edition has also integrated the latest in pedagogical tools and state-of-the-art media for students and instructors.

But even by Comer’s standards, the new edition of Abnormal Psychology is an exceptional revision that captures the way the field has changed, the world has changed, and students have changed. The beautifully redesigned new edition features more than 2,000 new references from the years 2006-2009; hundreds of new photos, tables, and figures; and expanded coverage of multicultural issues, cognitive theories and treatments, and neuroscience topics. There has never been a text for the course so well-attuned to both the field of abnormal psychology and the wide range of students exploring it.

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Sorry to give it up, March 15, 2007

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This review is from: Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)

If I didn't need the money so badly, I'd keep this textbook. It's the first time I haven't been dying to get rid of a textbook. Make no mistake. This book is intelligent, a great read, and the layout is not overdone (unlike some books where your eye doesn't know where to look first). For me, it is the perfect model for a psychology text--reading never felt like an assignment or chore. It really was something I looked forward to.

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

The best text book in the field so far, February 4, 1998

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This review is from: Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)

Only after having to read and digest so many boring and endless text books, first medical ones, and then psychological, I can apreciate a good one when I see it. "Abnormal Psychology" is an easy to read, elegantly formated, and very interesting book about the subject. It is not, however, what one might call popular sceince type. Fitting very well for 1st-2nd year students, it will serve as a waem welcome into the world of pathopsychology.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

A joy to read! Not too technical, but full of useful info!, May 10, 1999

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This review is from: Abnormal Psychology (Hardcover)

I liked this text because it presented the information in an unbiased manner. It used a lot of case studies and current events to support the various psychological theories. The CD ROM was extra helpful because it had quizzes over each chapter as well as videos.

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