Editorial Review

The PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible is the most comprehensive book available for the Logic Games section of the LSAT. The intent of this book is to provide you with an advanced system for attacking any game you encounter on the LSAT. This same system is covered in the live classes taught by PowerScore, and all of the methods and techniques discussed in the book have been tested in classroom situations over many years.

The book features and explains a detailed methodology for attacking the games section. All aspects of Logic Games are covered, from recognizing game types to diagramming rules to making inferences and answering questions. Entire chapters are devoted to the most advanced game techniques and to time management strategies.

Logic Games are divided into individual types, and a discussion follows that teaches you how to approach each type of Game, and drills are presented to help you apply and understand the techniques. Thereafter, real LSAT logic games are used to illustrate how the techniques apply to real tests. Using real LSAT questions is a must for high-level LSAT preparation, and twenty-one real LSAT logic games are contained in the book. Each logic game is accompanied by a detailed analysis of the game setup and related questions.

The author has over 12 years experience teaching the LSAT and has scored in the 99th percentile on a Law Services-administered test. An expert in LSAT preparation, he has overseen the preparation of thousands of students and founded two national LSAT preparation companies.

The Logic Games Bible can be supplemented by The Ultimate Set-Ups Guide, which features setups for every game in each released LSAT from 1995 to 2002.Also, both books provide access to a unique website for additional LSAT and Logic Games information, and has answers to frequently asked questions.

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Beats the competition hands down, December 21, 2003
I have currently completed studying logic games with this book, Master the LSAT (which was recommended in several Amazon.com reviews), Kaplan LSAT (for average students), and Kaplan LSAT 180 (for very strong students). The Logic Games Bible by PowerScore was definitely the most helpful of any of the books. Applying PowerScore's methods has reduced my time per game from 13 minutes to 8 - which gives me enought to complete every game in the section - and to boot, I'm hitting 100 percent accuracy on most of the practice tests I've taken from real LSATs and simulated tests from other companies. I didn't think that was possible.

PowerScore was helpful because it includes clear suggestions for the best way to diagram any of the game types and what to watch out for when diagramming. (As I mention below, Kaplan doesn't do this.) It is the only book of the four I've used that exclusively uses actual logic games administered since the LSAT was rewritten in 1991. The other books don't do that because they don't want to pay as much in licensing fees (which is reflected in this book's comparably high price), but their simulated questions have a much different feel. Simulated questions are often too easy, which can leave you underprepared, or too difficult, which can frustrate you needlessly. In addition, there are certain patterns in the way real questions are set up that other companies haven't been able to imitate.

I read the reviews that gave this book three or fewer stars, and I found all of them unconvincing. It's true that the book won't solve your timing issues automatically, but no book I've seen was very helpful on timing. PowerScore does have a fairly strong section discussing who should skip a game and who shouldn't, and it goes over some rules for picking the hardest game if you do decide to skip one. I haven't seen anything more than that about timing in any other book. Ultimately, practice makes perfect, and again, using real questions for practice will be a big help in terms of timing.

This book does have a few typos, which I was surprised to see in a book of such quality in terms of content. But this isn't a mass market publication, and the fact that PowerScore apparently doesn't have the financial resources to hire decent copy editors won't impact your LSAT score.

Kaplan's book wasn't nearly as helpful. It gives broad suggestions (e.g., use a concise system that you understand), but it's much more helpful to have someone suggest symbols that will capture the essence of most games. I'm still thinking about taking Kaplan's classroom course, since I presume that there is more information in it, but I wouldn't recommend their book to someone on a limited budget. It took me only a few hours to get through the lessons, and I think studying simulated practice tests is a waste of time when you can get real tests.

Master the LSAT is not a bad book. Unlike Kaplan, it does include a real LSAT logic game in each section. I think it will be a good tool for reading comprehension and the analysis section. But if you can afford to get the Logic Games Bible, I would study with that first and only go to Master the LSAT if you have extra time. Once you have studied the Logic Games Bible, most of the examples in Master the LSAT will be easy. (I completed some Master the LSAT logic games in under four minutes with 100 percent accuracy.)

Overall, an excellent resource and well worth the extra money.

A serious book for anyone seeking serious LSAT scores, June 6, 2003
This book is extremley comprehensive in every respect... But if you are smart enough to begin your LSAT preperation a few months ahead of time--and are willing to work [hard]--then this book will do the trick. It helped me score a 179 in February.

Before purchasing the Logic Games Bible, I took KAPLAN's $1000 classroom course... Right away, I knew "The Bible" was going to be better than KAPLAN because it used the commonsense approach of setting up games BELOW the questions (where there's actually room to write). In every respect, The Bible provides a more systematic and organized approach to setting up games than does KAPLAN. Having The Bible's more diciplined and systematic approach to setting up and solving the games proved invaluable on test day. I finished all four games with 9 minutes to spare. You should have seen the confused looks I got when, after only 26 minutes into the Logic Games section, I put my pencil down, raised my hand, and asked to go to the restroom! Their system paid off. Agian, this book will deliver the goods--but like most things in life, you'll only get out of it what you put into it.

The Best, Period, September 10, 2005
I've been studying for the LSAT off and on for the past two years, and I've worked my way through a lot of study guides. Princeton Review's LSAT publication and the Kaplan book (not the 180) are good as general overviews, but I wouldn't bank on taking away any methods that will drastically improve your score. Additionally, using such material in addition to PowerScore materials may leave you confused as to what symbols or methods to employ in a given situation. That said, this is by far and away the most powerful tool that you can have in your arsenal as you prepare for the LSAT. It teaches clear and easy symbolization techniques, helpful places to look in making deductions, and the most effective ways to tackle different kinds of questions. Even after using other LSAT prep materials, I was still answering only about half of the questions in the Logic Games section correctly. After going through this book thoroughly twice, I am much more efficient and scoring near perfect in Games on every previously administered LSAT that I take. This book, in combination with the Logic Reasoning Bible, raised my practice LSAT score ranges from the mid-150's (153-157) to the high 160's (166-169). Beware of study prep materials that tell you that you can perform without first making deductions on the Logic Games portion of the LSAT, as deductions are incredibly important (most likely not only for me) in pre-phrasing answers and eliminating wrong answer choices, allowing a rapid attack of the questions. Also be advised that taking previously administered LSATs under timed conditions is another very important key to success, and the more tests you take, the more your comfort level will grow and the higher your average score will become. In short, if you are struggling with the Logic Games portion of the LSAT, buy this book!

Not The Savior Everyone Says It Is, May 9, 2004
I agree with the reviewers who mentioned that the Logic Games Bible is complicated and slows you down.

I feel it, first of all, has too many classifications to memorize--especially in their Grouping Games section--then goes into somewhat-complex explanations about each one. Also, if you have read other guides and are used to the way they classify Games (for example, many guides seem to call them Sequencing, Grouping, Matching, Hybrid/Mixed Games), this guide is confusing in that way, too, because their classifications are pretty different (for example, they have no category called Matching...I think they include those as Grouping Games, but I really haven't been able to tell yet).

Second, I believe that the author spends a little too much time writing and a lot less time demonstrating. Thus, you can basically sit there and read a whole page of the author's explanation of a type of Game and might not understand what he's really trying to say, particularly if you're a person who better understands by seeing examples already worked for you demonstrating their techniques before you try them on a game yourself. At most, they give you the question and maybe one or two rules as an example...then they set you loose with about 2-4 practice Games to attempt on your own without really seeing what they were trying to say worked out for you beforehand--I, at least, give many of the other guides that!

Third, I think the author explains some types of Games better than others. For example, he goes into pretty good details about strategies to use on Sequencing and Grouping Games, as well as the many types of Games within those categories. However, after that, the guide gets even more complicated than what I was saying before. For example, the section on Pattern Games, which I had never even heard of before this guide but definitely had encountered in my practice, is mentioned in this guide--which is great--but their explanation of Pattern Games is only two pages (and not even a full two pages) and really doesn't give much insight into them other than to tell you how to recognize them. After learning of these Games and attempting the practice questions they provided in the Logic Games Bible for this game type as well as one I found in "10 Actual, Official LSAT Preptests," I definitely feel that I don't understand these Games any better and don't really know how to approach them--they are the hardest Games to me, and this guide didn't really do anything to clear that up (I still miss almost every question on these Games).

As far as the more common Games, such as the Sequencing/Linear and Grouping Games, I think the techniques the guide mentions are very good and quite helpful...BUT, using them, I now go even slower in completing Games than before using these techniques! The only Games I have been able to complete in 9 minutes have been the simplistic Sequencing ones. At least I can actually get the answers correct on these Games, though, and have an easier time knowing how to set them up (unlike the Pattern Games). However, I will probably sit down and re-read the guide again, looking for anything I may have missed, trying to understand things I might not have understood before and keep trying to internalize their techniques (and pray I don't get any Pattern Games).

Reading the explanations given after the 2-4 practice Games they offer in each section is also helpful...but, again, they are not written in the most easy-to-read manner like many other guides out there (I actually think this is the LEAST readable guide of all the ones I've read, and I've read almost all the guides). They also don't have a simple answer key you can just go down to quickly see if you got the right answer--you have to fish through their long explanations (and I just happen to be someone who likes to quickly see whether I got the answers right, THEN read the explanations).

Conclusion--the book is NOT exactly a page-turner, is NOT exactly written in the most user-friendly way, is NOT a total savior or some kind of guarantee that you will be able to get all the Games right within the time given after you finish it and is NOT worth $44, especially only being 232 pages (a THIN little book, thinner than LSAC's books of 10 but more costly!!) and not giving satisfactory techniques for all Game types.

WONDER TOOL FOR THE LSAT!, April 17, 2004
Are you smart? Were you shocked at how fundamentally simple you felt in the presence of the logic games section? Read on.

Of 77-78 possible points on the other three LSAT sections, I typically score 70-72, not a slouch performance. On my first LSAT pre-assessment GAMES section I answered 12 (half of the possible) with only two correct answers. You want to talk about a reality check?! The sheer magnitude of the failure crushed me.

So I did what you've likely done - purchased "Master", "Princeton", "Kaplan", "Kaplan 180", blah, blah, blah, ad infinitum. Most give obtuse instruction for someone with my GAMES ability. I needed remedial help from step one with a "1-2-3 learn and apply" appoach. This is where the "Bible" shines.

By using accessible language for someone from a non-logic background, it guides you step by step into full comprehension of games principles (through the most complex and universally applicable) and, most importantly to me, to practical application of those principles by drilling in practice exericses. Included are full (read:complete) explanations of all answers for the times you say, "huh?".

Remember calculus? You kind of understood the fundamental principles, but the ceaseless practice (homework) made you proficient. Same thing. No need to have the esoteric comprehension of a logician when you can apply and win. After all, isn't law about practical application of principles? (Aspiring judges primed to write opinions and set precedents please do not respond.)

If you are already scoring 20 points in the GAMES section or possess a preternatural ability to manipulate these questions in mental space, forget this book. Pick up "Kaplan 180" and enjoy your Yale scholarship. For the rest of us, the "Bible" is REQUIRED reading.

Your scores will go up, March 18, 2006
I used this when preparing for the LSAT and my practices scores increased an average of 11 points once I had mastered the games section. Unless you are a natural with this section, I highly recommend you use this book to learn strategies to attack that section. It will teach you how to identify which "type" of game you are dealing with, and then you will learn the various strategies specific for each type. It's a really big book, so you will have tons of practice. This book removed all the mystery of the logic games for me, I'm so glad I had it. I only wish I had ordered it sooner so I could have spent more time on it. You might want to also consider the Logic Games Setup, which helps breakdown the solutions on past LSAT tests.

If You are Scared by Logic Games Get This Book!, November 18, 2003
For me, the worst part of the LSAT was the logic games section. I purchased several other books including Kaplan and Princeton Review before buying this book. This by far, was the best resource I could have invested in for the Logic Games Section of the LSAT. I can't imagine having taken the test without the aid of this book. It wasn't a page turner, but I worked my way through each chapter carefully and ended up doing much better on the Logic Games section of the LSAT than I ever imagined possible. If you are anything like me and are CONFUSED and frustrated by the logic games and about to give up, buy this book, work through it carefully, take notes, and you will notice a huge difference in your performance. Following the advice in this book was the single most important step I took in improving my score, and I recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a good LSAT score and is willing to invest some time and energy in methodically applying the techniques that are outlined in the book to their practice tests and studies.

Taking the Lsat?--Buy this Book, May 10, 2005
I am recommending this book to anyone who is going to take the LSAT but not going to take a review course. The Logic Games Bible exposes you to a variety of games and clearly explains each game and answer. The first practice tests I took, I was getting 10-12 of the questions correct, now I'm only missing 2-4. My score has jumped from 149 to 162. A lot of it has to do with reading this book. Hands down, the best book you can buy to self-study for the LSAT.

Clear and Comprehensive, July 6, 2006
I usually dreaded logic games like the ones that appear in the LSAT. While some of the questions were generally straightfoward, there were some that I just couldn't get or would eventually get after spending great quantities of energy and time -- which is a definite no-no on the LSAT.

I bought the Logic Games Bible because I wasn't impressed with Kaplan's review materials, and I wasn't going to waste my money on actual classes. After only a few weeks of careful review, the logic games became clearer. I began to solve them faster and with greater accuracy. I scored perfectly on the LSAT logic games section after using onyl this book.

This is a definite buy for anyone who struggles with logic games. Powerscore takes you step-by-step to not only set up the games but also to teach what inferences can be drawn from certain game rules. Like most learning, once you see Powerscore set up a problem or draw and inference, that knowledge stays with you.

Highly recommended.

this one worked for me, May 3, 2004
There are two things to know about the LSAT before studying for it: (1) at least for native English speakers, the analytic (or "logic games") section of the test is by far the most challenging; and (2) no one can do well on the analytic section without study and practice. Thus the choice of the correct study plan geared toward the analytic/logic games section of the test can make or break your LSAT performance, which in turn can go far toward determining where you go to law school (local vs. regional, regional vs. national, top 15 vs. top 5, etc.).

For some reason, I chose the PowerScore book, and now I'm sitting pretty. This guide has four huge advantages over other guides that I looked over:

(1) the suggested notation is concise, thus leading to less scribbling time and more answering time in the test. This is very important insofar as the logic games section of the LSAT is the most "intensely timed" section of any test that I've ever taken.

(2) the categorization of problem types is accurate and easy to understand. As any guide will tell you, the logic games featured in the LSAT fall into a small set of recognizable types. However, some guides that I've seen posit phalanx of potential problem types, including types of problems that make reference to non-essential attributes like time. This is BAD. A linear problem is a linear problem regardless of whether its linear in time or in space. Anything else is needless confusion.

(3) this guide does NOT propose shortcuts to problem solving. By contrast, other guides that I encountered suggested FROM THE BEGINNING that test takers plan to skip a problem completely in order to save time. This is a supposed shortcut that actually cripples your performance before you've even begun. In reality, there are methods for solving logic game problems, but there are no short cuts. Use the methods recommended, practice alot, and then and only then consider skipping anything. (In my LSAT, I answered every problem, scored well, and had a minute or two left over to sharpen my pencil.)

(3) the sample problems are mostly taken from actual LSATs, and the made up problems are true to the LSAT model. Particularly nice is the reference in the back of the book that characterizes EACH published LSAT analytic problem as regards problem type.

In sum, I studied for a month and a half for the LSAT, using the Logic Games Bible as my study guide and LSAC's 10 More Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests for my practice material. I practiced the tests (both in part and in full) under timed conditions. I disregarded the reading comp. and logic sections almost entirely. Result: I scored well enough to get me where I want to go, and suffice it to say I was aiming high from the beginning. ... Read more

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great price, November 12, 2010
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2011 nec code book, October 31, 2010
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At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works he despised.
In a race against time, behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force ofAmerican and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Momuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.
Focusing on the eleven-month period between D-Day and V-E Day, this fascinating account follows six Monuments Men and their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. ... Read more

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A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF A NEGLECTED WW2 TOPIC, September 3, 2009
The most devastating damage and acts of looting of art objects in the annals of history took place during World War Two.These were perpetrated by the Nazi hordes ,carefully directed by the Fuhrer himself.The Nazi army was perpetually pillaging the finest art in Europe.The vain Goering and Alfred Rosenberg were among the main culprits involved in those brutal crimes against the human creative talent.
Fortunately,there was a Western Allied effort to mitigate combat damage, primarily to structures-churches,museums, and other various monuments.In the course of those brutal years, particularly during 1943-1944,the Allies paid much more attention to finding and protecting cultural items which were stolen from their owners,many of which were Jews.The bosses of the Third Reich transported more than five million cultural objects to many sites in Germany, where they hid them , hoping that one day they would not only be the masters of the world, but also the masters of art.
More than 350 men and women served as Monuments People.This number was culled from thirteen nations.In the end, only a handful of them were active and this book is their story.It was the responsibility of this group to save as much of the European culture as it could.
Mt. Edsel has been living in Florence ,Italy, in the 1990s when he wondered how so many of Europe's monuments and other works of art could have survived this unprecedented orgy of destruction.Thus, he set out to conduct a very careful process of extremely meticulous research which led him ultimately to interview those soldiers who have risked and dedicated their lives pursuing this mission.Many of them were art curators,scholars, educators, architects and archivists in their early forties.There are captivating chapters on the fate of museums in Western Europe, such those in France, Belgium,Holland and Italy.You will meet well-known paintings and the fate of them.Among these are the "Mona Lisa" and "The Night Watch".There arealso letters written by the heroes of this book to various relatives of theirs and some directives given or sent to Nazi officials.
Mr. Edsel's forte in the book is especially interesting when describing what happened during and after 1945 in Altaussee, Austria- a site where many tunnels served as sanctuaries for an enormous number of stolen works, as well as another chapter devoted to the Merkers salt mine in Germany where the largest paintings from the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin were placed for safekeeping (along Germany's gold reserve and paper currency).
We are also informed that the castle of Neuschwainstein, which was built by Mad Ludwing of Bavaria in the ninetennth century, served as a key Nazi repository of the greatest works of art stolen from France.It took the Monuments Men six whole weeks to empty it.Some of the stolen art objects belonged to the Rothschild collection in France.
This is an originally told and well-researched chapter with a happy
end, not only because of the outcome of those devoted men and women, but also because they finally got the right historian and researcher who is responsible for bringing up their extrordinary achievements, and for whom humanity shoud be more than grateful.I must warn you: once you start reading the book, you will not put it down easily.
Five points go to this book!

Heroes of Civilization, August 25, 2009
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History

The Monuments Men brings to life the untold story of the heroes who risked everything to save the treasures stolen by Hitler and the Nazis. The world owes much to them for their selfless acts. In one word, this story is remarkable and every school library, military base, and political leader should own a copy as a reminder of the legacy of the Monuments Men and of the importance of protecting culture in times of conflict.

Great book that offers an interesting take on the subject of art looting and rescue during WWII, September 21, 2009
This is a great read. There are several other books on the subject, but all are very academic in nature and tend to omit the exciting adventure and personal stories of the Monuments Men. As the title suggests, this is really a story about the Monuments Men themselves. Mr. Edsel has done a very good job bringing the characters who are at the center of the story to life. His use of the Monuments Men's personal letters interspersed throughout the book really helps to develop their characters and they allow the reader to truly connect with the Monuments Men.
I also enjoyed seeing some Nazi documents inserted in the first section. Those who are well read on the subject know about the Nazis' plans to confiscated Jewish owned art collections and also Hitler's desire to build the F�hrermuseum in Linz with his massive collection, but rarely do you get a chance to see the actual documents ordering the massive looting of art.
Mr. Edsel's accounts of the events at Altaussee were obviously well researched as he offers some new opinions and much more detailed explanations than most books offer about what happened in the final days of the war when there were attempts to destroy the mine.
I think anyone who enjoys books on WWII, art history, or even just a good adventure or love story will really like The Monuments Men. It is an engaging book, and it moves quickly so it is easy to finish in a few days.

An exciting and dramatic story; told in a pedestrian & choppy way, September 18, 2009
Even before the first shots of World War II were fired in September 1939, Adolf Hitler was dreaming of transforming his hometown of Linz into a kind of Nazi cultural capital, and his political aides were helping him earmark works of art from around Europe that could be added to his collection. Unlike today's avid collectors, however, Hitler opted to obtain his works via looting, confiscation or as a kind of trade for the owner's survival, safety or escape from the Nazi regime. The fight to retrieve this art and return it to its former owner goes on to this day; the Amber Room is still missing from the Tsarist palaces of St. Petersburg, while works by Klimt have only recently been returned to the families of their original owners.

That's the backdrop against which Robert Edsel (and his writer, Brett Witter) craft their story of the adventures of six very different "Monuments Men", a motley crew of artists, curators and other types who landed on the beaches of Normandy in the wake of D-Day and, hitchiking from one town to another, battled to protect, rescue and, later, retrieve lost masterpieces. The material in the book is compelling, but the way in which it's delivered and presented falls short, which astonished me given the sheer drama of the quixotic adventures of the monuments men. Part of the problem are the ultra-short chapters (sometimes only three or four pages), which just gave me a chance to immerse myself in what one of the monuments men was up to before it jumped, sometimes both geographically and thematically, to another chapter dealing with something else. I ended up feeling dizzy and distracted.

I also struggled with two elements in the writing of the book. Firstly, Edsel has chosen to pay tribute to the individuals involved by providing a lot of detail of their personal lives. Alas, this doesn't do much for the narrative, even in the case of Harry Ettlinger, whose dramatic last-minute emigration to the United States in 1938 opens the book. (He later becomes one of the monuments men.) Most of their lives are relatively ordinary, and while I'm sure they loved their wives and children and worried about their ability to pay the bills, in the context of the rather choppy structure, this just becomes a distraction that doesn't propel the book forward. (That's not to say the same information couldn't have been conveyed in vignettes scattered throughout the book; it simply felt like I was struggling through a rather dull preamble.) Secondly, for a book about the preservation of monuments, there's little attention to the art history itself. Reading about the preparation of the lengthy list of buildings that the Allies had labeled as to be protected, I wondered about how it was composed. What criteria were used? Did people argue over the inclusion or exclusion of some locations? I did ferret out some tidbits, but this is a book more about the people and the derring-do than about the art, and anyone not well-informed about the importance of Van Eyck, Michaelangelo, etc. could find this frustrating.

There's already an excellent book that deals with similar material in print -- The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War -- and the stark contrast between the two doesn't favor Edsel's offering. True, he goes into greater depth than Nicholas on the adventures associated with the recovery of the art work. But returning to glance into Nicholas's book, I realized that I, at least, valued the broader context it offered me into the whole tragic episode, from the first thefts and the persecution of artists like Chagall, to the pesky issues that still surround the debate over who owns some of these works of art. If you've read Nicholas's book, and want to delve more deeply into this particular part of the story, this is a laudable effort. It's just not a great book in its own right.

Forever Changed....., September 21, 2009
The Monuments Men shows what a gifted storyteller Mr. Edsel is along with his co-writer Bret Witter (loved Dewey as well!). Following up to his first book Rescuing DaVinci and the documentary film The Rape of Europa (co-producer)- Monuments Men takes us even further into the adventures of 10 of the men and women serving in the Monuments Fine Arts & Archives section. I would have read it in one sitting if I had the time!! You will never again look at art or WWII in the same way once your eyes are opened the awe-inspiring stories of these inviduals and the role they played in rescuing art and other cultural treasures from the hands of the Nazi thieves. I highly recommend the film The Rape of Europa as a companion to this memorable story - an enlightening documentary of the highest quality rarely seen in today's media which seems more concerned with the latest celebrity shenanigans or mindless reality shows.

With some editing could have been five stars, October 12, 2009
The search for artwork stolen by the Nazis in WWII has been aptly described as "the greatest treasure hunt in treasury." As the soldiers who participated in this hunt were also charged with saving historical churches and other historical monuments, they were referred to as "Monument men."

The heoric quest of the Monument Men is an undertold story of WWII. Outside of art scholars and musuem curators, few are aware of the details of their saga. In his book, Robert Edsel provides us the details. He spent many years conducting research for this book and, particularly in the latter half of the story, the reader is rewarded by his effort.

While the research is impressive, I give "Monument Men" just four stars. With some better editing, it could have been a five star book. Here are some examples of the poor editing:

1) Early in the re-telling we are introduced to the only female character of importance, but we do not learn her backstory until some chapters later. Keeping the reader "in the dark" about the background of a main character is a literary technique fit for a mystery --- not an important work of non-fiction.

2) About halfway in the story we are told about an explosion behind allied lines. However, we do not learn the results of that explosion into well into the next chapter -- a chapter that concerns a different monument man hundreds of miles away. Again, the reader is given a mystery, and has to wait for the facts.

3) Seperate from the main body of the text, the author includes several relevant (and some marginally relevant) letters. The typeface used for German/Nazi sources is very similar, if not identical, to the typeface used from allied sources. Since the first few letters are from Nazi sources, the reader is setup to expect letters with the particular typeface will be from Nazi sources. In any reprinting of this book, there should be clearly different typefaces for Nazi and Allied sources.

Still, these flaws aside, a strong four stars.

Exciting Book!, September 22, 2009
Mr. Edsel has produced a true gem by revealing this little known story about the Monuments Men to the world. The Monuments Men are an important element of art history of the era. Edsel truly honors the Monuments Men by preserving their stories in this book. The author is a gifted story teller that helps give each Monument Man (or woman) a distinct personality and character. This book gives a more in depth understanding of what the Monuments Men endured, continuing from the first book, Rescuing Da Vinci. This book is facinating and hard to put down. Robert Edsel is a true American hero and I'm happy to give this book my full endorsement.

great book, June 30, 2010
Monuments Men is a great way to present history so that it sounds like a novel. It make the reading easy and brings out the human side of history,the sacrifices people made, their successes and failures. That is above and beyond just bringing back to our attention this moment in history when the winning armies aimed to preserve the art of the countries affected.

A beautiful story, June 13, 2010
The Monuments Men follows the story of the lives of eight soldiers very closely and also includes some of their correspondence in a revealing look on a rare subject. The Monuments Men were a small band of soldiers whose jobs were to assess damages to cathedrals, statues, and other relics during WWII and to advise on the appropriate measures to restore or protect such treasures. As the Monuments Men advanced with the front in Europe, their job focused on reclaiming the works illicitly confiscated by the Nazis. The end of the book describes the discovery of hidden German repositories of art. The volume and quality of art found in these hiding places is absolutely staggering. A beautiful read.

The Monuments Men, January 23, 2010
During their occupation of most of Western Europe, the Nazis looted, seized, and otherwise took possession of literally thousands of the major works of art of mankind, from ancient scrolls to modern masterpieces. Their theft knew no bounds: museums, private homes (especially Jewish homes), churches, and libraries were all targets and fair game. These cultural masterpieces were loaded onto railcars and shipped deep within Germany, to be stored in any way possible until they could be placed either in a permanent museum or in private homes of elite Nazis including Hitler and Goring. In the event that the Nazis were not successful in the war, Hitler determined that everything should be destroyed.

Only a small band of men, the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Subcommission, were not only ordered to ensure that Allied generals preserve existing monuments during the invasion, but also tasked with locating all of the looted masterpieces and returning them to their true home. This is the story of the Monuments Men's great adventure, and it is well researched and recounted by Robert M. Edsel. These fearless cultural caretakers deserve the wider attention that they will surely receive from this book.

Reviewed by Margo Orlando Littell ... Read more

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SOFTCOVER VERSION: Featuring time-tested safety concepts and the very latest industry standards in material design, the 2009 International Building Code? offers up-to-date, comprehensive insight into the regulations surrounding the design and installation of building systems. It provides valuable structural, fire-, and life- safety provisions that cover means of egress, interior finish requirements, roofs, seismic engineering, innovative construction technology, and occupancy classifications. This content is developed in the context ofthe broad-based principles that facilitate the use of new materials and building designs, making this an indispensable reference guide for anyone seeking a strong working knowledge of building systems. ... Read more

Reviews

Cheaper at Amazon, November 30, 2009
Ordered the set for work. This is the least expensive price I found and free shipping.

Must have in 2010..., October 10, 2010
This is required for certification in 2010 (unless you can schedule a 2006 paper and pencil test). Bought this through Amazon and pricing was similar to ICC though delivery options much better.

Nicely bound code book, July 16, 2010
This is a reasonably priced building code in a nicely bound book. I HAVE to have a code for work and the Amazon price was the most exciting part.
Not your relaxing read but informative.
Amazon, thanks for the price break...I'll be back.

IBC 2009, March 8, 2010
The International Building Code. Pretty much speaks for itself. Again, I buy from Amazon because of the excellent customer service and quick turnaround.

2009 international building code, February 23, 2010
what can you say about a code book. amazon had it at a better price than school and received it within a week of order. no problems.

WOW, October 27, 2009
I ORDER THIS ITEM LAST SEPTEMBER 24 AND NO IDEA WHEN I WILL HAVE MY BOOK. THIS IS A BASIC BOOK-CODE FOR ANALYSIS AND DESIGN. ... Read more

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The PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible WorkbookTM is the ideal companion to the PowerScore Logic Games BibleTM, providing the opportunity to apply the concepts and approaches presented in the renowned Games Bible. The Logic Games Workbook contains thirty logic games, reproduced in their entirety from actual released past LSATs, and multiple drills created to reinforce the skills you need to effectively attack the Logic Games section. Each game s answer key presents an ideal setup for the game, with every rule and important logical inference discussed and diagrammed, and all of the questions answered and explained. ... Read more

Reviews

Good Practice!, December 3, 2009
I bought this book for more LG practice, especially after reading how pointless the "setup book" is!
I would like to say that I never purchased the Set-up book so I can't attest to its worth. This workbook however is great, it is just more drills and games. It is necessary to first work through the logic games bible however in order to understand the explanations and general comments. The first half are drills, then there are 10 individual games then 5 "real LSAT sections" totaling 20 games for a grand total of 30 games! It is a must if you need additional help with the LG section and can benefit from seeing their setup and full explanation.

Great Practice...Highly Recommend!!!!, August 3, 2010
I had previously bought the Logic Games Bible and worked through it cover to cover, yet found myself needing more repetition. The workbook allows for just that, logic game after logic game to hone skills introduced in the Games Bible and to build up your rhythm in attacking each game as well as confidence in facing them. I would almost say that this book is necessary if you're working with the Games Bible, but especially so if you find yourself, like me, needing some more time reinforcing concepts and gaining familiarity with how to go about working with these brain teasers. I recommend this very, very highly!

more practice, March 25, 2010
It provides more practice base on the skills from the logic game bible.
It's good to practice with it.
You don't have to worry about your memory ability while you're studying reasoning or reading part.
I just use this book from time to time when I study reasonning and reading.
Even if you learn the great skills to attact logic games, if you don't use it, You'll lose it.

Love, love, love this book!!, December 3, 2010
I am attempting the LSAT for the fourth time, and for the first time, I finally understand and am scoring almost perfectly because of this book (and the other "Bible" Logic game book)!! I wish I would of found this book before I spent thousands of dollars on private tutors who couldn't help me.

Power Score is great, November 17, 2009
I like workbook much more as just Logic Games Bible. This one is shorter and still loaded with lots of games and good explanations.

Logic Games, June 8, 2010
Bought this for my son to study for the LSAT test. He was having difficulty with the Logic Games part of the test, he said it helped him figure out how to work the problems and hopefully do his best on the test. We will see, he just took it, results in about 3 weeks!

Great buy!, April 5, 2010
Thank you for selling me a great product for a great price! It is in perfect condition, thanks again for the deal! ... Read more

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This comprehensive code for homebuilding combines building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas, energy, and electrical provisions into a single resource. The 2009 International Residential Code? For One- and Two- Family Dwellings uses these provisions to provide detailed insight into the construction of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories high. Using foundational principles that facilitate the use of new materials and building designs to guide the content, this reference guide also establishes minimum regulations using prescriptive provisions. ... Read more

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New IRC, October 28, 2009
I am happy with this purchase. The book was shipped when promised and the packaging was very good. The new IRC has a lot of good updates in it.

Codes now available online FREE, October 22, 2010
As a result of a 2002 court case, much of the local building codes can now be found online for FREE at:
[...]

If link is outdated, then Google: "international residential code" + "Public Resource" to find the page on the public.resource.org site.
I found most of Georgia's building code in a 756 page PDF document, but for 2006 instead of 2010. The information doesn't change much year to year and many local inspectors are known to not be current, so this is a great resource if you don't have to have the latest edition.

According to the case (293 F.3d 791, 5th Cir. 2002 - VEEK vs. Southern Building Code), building codes that are written into LAW are "owned by the people" and therefore part of the public domain and not protected by Copyright.

Check out Wikipedia for International Building Code for further info.

Good luck!

Buy It., March 5, 2010
This is, of course, essential for anyone building...

It is the Law or Code for building 1-2 story residential buildings.

I found the code book to actually be superior to books such as Graphic Guide to Frame Construction (For Pros By Pros) It is harder to read, but tells you how far to space your nails for each element etc. It not only has similar pictures, but is also the law that most cities and counties abide by, and gives ALOT more info. Some counties have more restrictive guidelines, but this is the baseline to start from.

Cheaper at Amazon, November 30, 2009
Ordered the set for work. This is the least expensive price I found and free shipping. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Hannah Arendt’s authoritative report on the trial of Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann includes further factual material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. ... Read more

Reviews

Emphasis on Banality, December 5, 2007
A previous reviewer claims that Arendt's book shows the ambivalence of human nature, proving that in effect anybody could have done what Eichmann did. In fact, this is exactly the cynical point of view that Arendt opposes in this, and her other writings. Her argument here is a revision of her earlier position on 'radical evil' advanced in The Origins of Totalitarianism, a position which Heidegger claimed to find 'incomprehensible.' She argues here that banality and "sheer thoughtlessness" (akin to Heidegger's reflections on boredom) are in fact the root of Evil. To put it better, evil continues precisely because of its inherent rootlessness, its constitutive disregard of the world. Thus, the detachment of claims such as "Anybody could have done what Eichmann did" distort her intention. Evil, she insists, is not an inevitable aspect of human nature, but instead arises from an unwillingness to understand.

Rethinking the Nature of Evil, November 19, 2007
"It was sheer thoughtlessness that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of the period," political theorist Hannah Arendt observes of Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of the logistics behind the mass deportations of Jews and other so-called asocials to ghettos and extermination camps during the 2nd World War. The face of evil, she suggests through her portrayal of the high-ranking SS bureaucrat at his trial in Jerusalem, is not necessarily that of a radically perverse pathological mastermind, but instead and more frightening still, can come in the form of a banal and unimpressive caricature of normalcy.

In his testimony, Eichmann characterizes himself as a blameless cog who was only following orders, and even goes on to cite instances where he tried to help certain Jews who were friends of his escape their inevitable fate. His tone is that of one regaling a run-of-the-mill human sympathy story of hard luck, and his telling is rife with contradiction, blanks in memory, and ridiculous clich�. According to Arendt, this "created considerable difficulty during the trial - less for Eichmann himself than for those who had come to prosecute him, to defend him, to judge him, and to report on him. For all this, it was essential that one take him seriously, and this was very hard to do, unless one sought the easiest way out of the dilemma between the unspeakable horror of the deeds and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man who perpetrated them, and declared him a clever, calculating liar - which he obviously was not."

Also relevant for its criticism of the shaky legal foundation upon which the trial was conducted (Eichmann was illegally abducted in Argentina, then was brought to Israel and prosecuted there using an outdated framework that was unable to properly address the problem of genocide as specifically carried out by the Nazis).

This book is very smart, very elegantly written. The questions it raises about ethics and preconceived notions of good and evil are universal and remain relevant to the times. If it were a person, I'd sleep with it on the first date.

A Classic that Elaborates on the Genocide of Jews and Others, September 19, 2007
I am delighted to see this classic back in print. Jewish author Hannah Arendt has provided a wealth of timeless information that goes far beyond the trial of the German war criminal Adolf Eichmann. This review is based on the original (1964) edition.

Arendt (p. 39) gives the readers a taste of the scale of the Kristallnacht (November 1938): 7,500 Jewish shop windows broken, all synagogues burned, and 20,000 Jewish men incarcerated in concentration camps. In common with many others who wrote during the first two decades after WWII, Arendt (p. 5, 11-12) addresses the issue of Jewish passivity in the face of death during the later roundups and transports to the death camps.

Arendt briefly discusses the fate of Jews of some individual European nations. She mentions the conniving of the Bulgarians (with, of course, the implied freedom to do so) performed in order to avoid sending their Jews to the death camps, and the fact that Finland, Germany's ally, was never seriously pressured to turn over her 2,000 Jews to be murdered (p. 170). Clearly, the latter part of the oft-repeated statement, "Not all of the victims of the Nazis were Jews, but all Jews were victims of the Nazis" is incorrect.

Throughout this work, Arendt gives various biographical details of Adolf Eichmann. For example, she mentions that he was a Gottglaubiger (p. 27), a Nazi term for those who had broken with Christianity, and which Eichmann maintained right up to the very moment of his hanging, having refused the solace and Bible reading of a Protestant minister (p. 252).

Arendt briefly discusses Hitler's flouting of the Versailles treaty and his rise to power. While Jan T. Gross has asserted that there were Poles who praised Hitler in the 1930's, Arendt makes it clear that this was far from limited to Poland during that time: "...Hitler was admired everywhere as a great national statesman." (p. 37).

While most recent Holocaust materials focus on the real or imagined collaboration of locals in the sending of Jews to their deaths, Arendt is unsparing in her criticism of Jewish collaborators in this regard: "Without Jewish help in administrative and police work--the final roundup of Jews in Berlin was, as I have mentioned, done entirely by Jewish police--there would have been either complete chaos or an impossibly severe drain on German manpower. (p. 117). She adds that, because of this collaboration, only a few thousand Germans, most of whom furthermore only did office work, were able to send hundreds of thousands of Jews to their deaths (p. 117). Finally, Arendt concludes that: "Wherever Jews lived, there were recognized Jewish leaders, and this leadership, almost without exception, cooperated in one way or another, for one reason or another, with the Nazis. The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and a half and six million. (According to Freudiger's calculations about half of them could have saved themselves if they had not followed the instructions of the Jewish councils..." (p. 125).

Arendt (p. 42, 118, etc.) elaborates on the actions of a Jew, Rudolf Kastner (Kasztner). He made a deal with Eichmann in which 1,684 Jews were allowed to go to Palestine in exchange for Kastner's silence before and during which 476,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

Jan Tomasz Gross, who has gotten a great deal of publicity for his books (NEIGHBORS and FEAR), has stated that the 2-3 million Poles who died in the hands of the Germans were largely the collateral victims of military action. Arendt knows better: "...Eichmann knew that right behind the front lines all Russian functionaries ("Communists"), all Polish members of the professional classes, and all native Jews were being killed in mass shootings." (p. 95). "At no point, however, either in the proceedings or the judgment, did the Jerusalem trial mention even the possibility that extermination of whole ethnic groups--the Jews, or the Poles, or the Gypsies--might be more than a crime against the Jewish or the Polish or the Gypsy people, that the international order, and mankind in its entirety, might have been grievously hurt and endangered." (pp. 275-276). Arendt realizes the alternative future: "The measures against Eastern Jews were not only the result of anti-Semitism, they were part and parcel of an all-embracing demographic policy, in the course of which, had the Germans won the war, the Poles would have suffered the same fate as the Jews--genocide. This is no mere conjecture: the Poles in Germany were already being forced to wear a distinguishing badge in which the "P" replaced the Jewish star, and this, which we have seen, was always the first measure to be taken by the police in instituting the process of destruction)." (pp. 217-218).

Arendt praises the Danes for saving Jews during WWII and then, without mentioning the incomparably more difficult conditions under which Polish rescuers of Jews labored, nevertheless gives the Poles their due. After listing some individual examples of Polish assistance to Jews, Arendt adds the following: "One witness claimed that the Polish underground had supplied many Jews with weapons and had saved thousands of Jewish children by placing them with Polish families. The risks were prohibitive; there was the story of an entire Polish family who had been executed in the most brutal manner because they had adopted a six-year-old Jewish girl." (p. 231).

A plea for clear thinking and honest speaking, March 26, 2009
The story floating around in the zeitgeist about Eichmann in Jerusalem is that Hannah Arendt established how boring the Nazis were: that the men responsible for the destruction of millions were just paper pushers. This captures part of Arendt's book, but not nearly all of it. Overall, I think it's best to describe Eichmann in Jerusalem as a clear-eyed look at the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a study of guilt, and a dispassionate analysis of war-crimes trials. It's a tremendous book.

Many Jews may stop reading when Arendt seems to accuse them of collaborating with the Nazis. I know virtually nothing about how this book was received, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if it offended a lot of people. If the historical record is as clear as Arendt claims, however, then there's nothing to get upset about. Councils of Jewish Elders, says Arendt, were formed in every country that the Nazis took over; those Councils documented the assets of the Jews within their communities, dutifully went around collecting them, turned them over to the Nazis, and only later found themselves herded into cattle cars to Auschwitz. In the death camps, she says, Jews did much of the gruesome work, like removing gold teeth from gas-chamber victims.

This is obviously sensitive stuff. Arendt's style is to deliver it as honestly and forthrightly as possible. Her style, indeed, is tightly bound to her subject. She writes of Eichmann,

[H]e apologized, saying, "Officialese . . . is my only language." But the point here is that officialese became his language because he was genuinely incapable of uttering a single sentence that was not a clich� ... To be sure, the judges were right when they finally told the accused that all he had said was "empty talk" -- except that they thought the emptiness was feigned ...

She says elsewhere in Eichmann that the man's inability to speak was a symptom of his inability to think. It is her duty, then, to view Eichmann's trial with the clearest eye and sharpest mind possible.

Readers may recall the backstory here: the Israelis kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina in 1960, tried him in Israel, and hanged him in 1962. The trial sought to paint Eichmann as one of the masterminds behind the Holocaust and the vilest sort of monster. Arendt retorts that he was, at best, a high-level functionary, and indeed a paper pusher, and that everyone at the trial could see immediately that this was the case. He never killed anyone, and indeed it seems pretty clear that the merest sight of blood would make the man queasy.

None of this lets Eichmann off the hook, though, which is exactly the point: there's a world of difference between passers-by, who allowed the European Jews to be destroyed, and the Eichmanns who filed away the forms to send them to their destruction.

Granted, then, that Eichmann deserved to pay in a way that the silent millions did not, why was Israel the proper forum for his punishment? Arendt is skeptical that it was. Eichmann's crime was a crime against humanity, and he should have been punished the same way that other Nazis were punished at Nuremberg. At the same time, no other nation had stepped up to try Eichmann, and Argentina was refusing to turn over the Nazis within its borders, so Israel may have had no choice. Arendt, and the court's decision itself, approvingly quote Grotius's line: "punishment is necessary `to defend the honor or authority of him who was hurt by the offence so that the failure to punish may not cause his degradation.'"

Israel seemed to believe that it had the right to try Eichmann because of his crimes against the Jews, which makes me wonder: does Israel automatically grant itself the right to try crimes against Jews even today? Suppose some other country tried to kill all the Jews within its borders now; would Israel grant itself the right to try the leaders of that country?

Arendt says that Israel's trial of Eichmann was much less about Eichmann and much more about the history of anti-Semitism from the time of Pharaoh all the way up to the Germans. There is an element of farce in all of this, and I think it's fair to say that Arendt took offense: a crime as serious as Eichmann's deserves a serious trial, rather than a circus. Fortunately the legal decision that came down at the trial's conclusion was a model of seriousness.

Even with Eichmann swinging from the gallows, there's still the matter of Europe's guilt. Arendt, as ever, is only as brutal as she needs to be here: the nations of Europe stand guilty of allowing the slaughter to happen. The French, for instance, allowed foreign Jews within French borders to be shipped off to Germany, but put their foot down when the Nazis demanded French Jews. Their refusal to export their own Jews points out another matter: when nations said no to the Nazis, the Nazis often backed down. They were by no means an immovable wall of violence. The evil that European nations allowed to happen is all the more inexcusable when we know that there were exceptions.

At the heart of all of this is the basic principle, which Arendt summarizes so well:

There remains, however, one fundamental problem, which was implicitly present in all these postwar trials and which must be mentioned here because it touches upon one of the central moral questions of all time, namely upon the nature and function of human judgment. What we have demanded in these trials, where the defendants had committed "legal" crimes, is that human beings be capable of telling right from wrong even when all they have to guide them is their own judgment, which, moreover, happens to be completely at odds with what they must regard as the unanimous opinion of all those around them.

This moral question, and the denunciation that necessarily follows it, doesn't go away even if the Nazis mercilessly destroyed those who refused to follow their orders. We wish for a clear voice calling out from the maelstrom. Arendt's is that voice.

Incredible investigation of Adolf Eichmann, May 14, 2008
Arendt's analysis of the "banality of evil" characterized by Adolf Eichmann is a chilling look into how evil can be systematized, how it can be seemingly bureaucratic, and how normal people can be turned into monsters through law.

This is a great book for anyone interested in World War 2, the Holocaust, political philosophy, or getting really really depressed.

"Some of my best friends are anti-Semites", May 15, 2010
I apologise for the flippant tone of my title, but this phrase of Arendt's seems to sum up the entire, absurd and sickening conundrum presented by Eichmann. Arendt is not, by and large, a humorous or entertaining writer, but she is a clear and thoughtful one, and such flippancy is not the norm. What she seems to have established, and the paradox is so absurd as to defy belief, is that Eichmann, a senior figure in the realisation of the Final Solution, was not an anti-Semite at all but a "Mitl�ufer". He accepted his association with anti-Semites in the tone indicated, but seemed not to think much of them and to have some respect for Jews. The image that emerges appears to be not that of a pack of ringleaders but that of a herd of murderous but rather dim sheep, where even the shepherd bleats and runs off the cliff.

This starts as an absurdity when you first encounter it, and then as you proceed through the book the sheer terror of the possibility that it is true soaks into your bones. The possibility must occur to the sceptical reader that Eichmann was merely trying to present a positive face to the court that was sure to hang him. Eichmann, frankly, doesn't sound that bright. In fact, he sounds like a fool. Arendt asserts, and I think convinces, that Eichmann simply lacks the intellectual gifts to dissemble effectively. When he is not remembering something that impinges on his own career advancement - apparently his central obsession - his memory appears to be confused and his errors not consistently tending to his own exoneration.

I accept Arendt's account, partly because she is so convincing a thinker but partly because it tends to resolve a paradox that I have been dealing with for years - that the most advanced civilisation in Europe could have bent its hand to the Shoah and annihilated one of its own most advanced and civilised minorities. Eichmann was not a monster, so a nation of monsters is apparently not necessary. Eichmann was normal, "Or at least, more normal than I am after examining him," according to one psychologist. He seems to have been a good boss, and kind to his subordinates. He loved his family. He had enough self-knowledge to doubt his own role and accept his own arrest and execution, going to the gallows with dignity. His moral responses to the violence of the Holocaust started off normal - and remained that way for about six weeks.

After that - and here's the resolution - the normal became inverted. Proper organisation of death transports, the observance of orders and the tidy identification and packaging of Jews became the "good" thing to do, and in the atmosphere of a totalitarian state and the conformance of all around one I am not sure that many of us would do otherwise. Hence my terror. Being a good guy is no defense. The banal become evil when the law itself is morally "illegal"; even the good become evil. This could happen anywhere, at any time. Staggeringly, the urge to conform and be a "good German" even seems to have extended to prominent Jews, who played a role in the "Judenr�te" which facilitated the orderly deportation and murder of their fellows. This observation, however - and again I accept Arendt's case - seems to have got her into hot water with US Jews, who largely responded with a storm of vitriol and in effect excommunicated her. I hope that this generation sees her and this book more kindly, because I think she is correct and this book is important.

A few other oddities evaporate when one sees things Arendt's way, such as that the methodology of the Final Solution was designed to reduce distress for its perpetrators and that even the victims quietly cooperated.

Arendt deals with the character of Eichmann, the nature of evil, the paradox of the cooperation of Germans and (German) Jews alike, the possible irregularities of the trial - Eichmann broke no law that existed in his nation at the time, had been kidnapped and could legitimately have been demanded by German courts, which have according to Arendt been depressingly "understanding" when dealing with Holocaust figures - and the course of the Shoah in Germany and outside. Her account of the course of the Holocaust elsewhere throws a more positive light on parts of Europe than I have tended to see in the past. There is real hope in her accounts of Bulgaria, Italy, Holland and especially Denmark, where even German officers exposed to moral normality began to sabotage orders and most of the Jews made it to Sweden alive. On the other hand, there is that depressing banality of evil and a clear signature of European, Christian anti-Semitism which confirms my impression that Nazism merely extended and exploited a traditional Christian agenda, changing it from theological to racial. In Romania, spontaneous pogroms of such brutality took place that - further absurdity on the way - the SS intervened to save Jews from butchery. (Gassing being presumably more humane. How can one read this and remain normal?)

Another conundrum that arises is how to deal with a genocidaire who is only giving orders. Eichmann basically just transported people. His hand was on no trigger. In fact, quite often the disposal procedure was run by the very victims themselves, so the only hands on triggers were those of the dead. Who, in such a case, do you prosecute? (My answer to this is deplorably anti-intellectual - "Eichmann". The Israelis and more widely the the N�rnberg trials arrived at the correct and the only conceivable resolution.)

Another reason for controversy over this book may be that Arendt undermined Ben-Gurion's narrative of the Shoah as merely the culmination of millennia of anti-Semitism predating Christianity itself. If it did, I am not sure that I agree; anti-Semitism was quite definitely behind the Shoah. It could hardly be otherwise. What Arendt establishes is that it did not suffice, and that its absence was no defense.

A generation and more has passed since this book's publication. I hope that it will now be viewed more coolly and more positively, as it is a work of unique historical and philosophical value. Tens of thousands of pages of transcripts from the trial are held in Israeli national archives, providing a record of this rare captive specimen of a genocidaire, but Arendt's is a unique intellectual voice, speaking in the accent of a German Jew but not bending to the nationalist narrative of the Israel of her day. She speaks coolly, and I think correctly.

The evil are not remarkable. The evil are you and I in another place and time.

Worth Reading Twice, April 25, 2010
I am a bit surprised that this book was so controversial when it was first published. Most of her observations--unique in 1963--are common knowledge today. Arendt analyzes and discusses Eichmann from her perch in the audience during his Israeli trial which occurred after the Mossad's glorious black ops abduction. Eichmann proved to be much more a mailman personality wise than Fuehrer. As a mind he was a disappointment to those who believed that a malevolent virtuoso lurked behind his acts. While he was a true believer, he was not able to justify his crimes to even himself on the stand. My favorite quote from the text is "Despite all the efforts of the prosecution everybody could see that this man was not a `monster,' but it was difficult indeed not to suspect that he was a clown." As a native German speaker Arendt's perspective was invaluable as she recorded his daily wrestling with language which was both pitiable and humorous. Eichmann would have been a nothing had it not been for Nazism and he ended his life with the ignominy he deserved. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Autumn 1945 saw the start of the Nuremberg trials, in which high ranking representatives of the Nazi government were called to account for their war crimes. In a curious yet fascinating twist, witnesses for the prosecution and the defense were housed together in a villa on the outskirts of town. In this so-called Witness House, perpetrators and victims confronted each other in a microcosm that reflected the events of the high court. Presiding over the affair was the beautiful Countess Ingeborg K�lnoky (a woman so blond and enticing that she was described as a Jean Harlowe look-alike) who took great pride in her ability to keep the household civil and the communal dinners pleasant.� A comedy of manners arose among the guests as the urge to continue battle was checked by a sudden and uncomfortable return to civilized life.
���The trial atmosphere extends to the small group in the villa.� Agitated victims confront and avoid perpetrators and sympathizers, and high-ranking officers in the German armed forces struggle to keep their composure. This highly explosive mixture is seasoned with vivid, often humorous, anecdotes of those who had basked in the glory of the inner circles of power. Christiane Kohl focuses on the guilty, the sympathizers, the undecided, and those who always manage to make themselves fit in. �The Witness House reveals the social structures that allowed a cruel and unjust regime to flourish and serves as a symbol of the blurred boundaries between accuser and accused that would come to form the basis of postwar Germany. ... Read more

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User-friendly and up-to-date, these National Electrical Code?Tabs are a great way to organize the NEC? 2008.These self-adhesive tabs can reduce the time spent searching to find key information.Tabs are durable and allow for positioning adjustments after being placed on the code paper.Affordable and time-saving, these are a must-have for NEC? users. ... Read more

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NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CODE 2008 TABS, May 25, 2008
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N.E.C. tabs, October 17, 2008
This is a great help in locating chapters and topics that you are researching. It would be difficult to use the N.E.C. without them. I highly recommend them.

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Mislabeled Title Description, January 22, 2008
Yes the product title is incorrect, but the rest of the description is absolutely correct. It should be obvious to even the most casual observer that the tabs go into the book - as the "better together" section clearly shows. There are many other sources for these items that do describe them properly, but be prepared to pay more.

So here's the choice: Pay less and be infinitely irritated that Amazon made a small, insignificant listing error out of the billions of listings they have, or buy it for more money elsewhere, but be content in the knowledge that the description was correct.

Sheesh.

NEC Code book, March 9, 2008
I thought I was ordering a paperback book,I received a looseleaf book.I don`t know if the mistake is mine or a misprint.I do know that thr NEC Tabs are not a CD Rom, they are sticky back tabs that stick to the page to locate articles in the book quicker.I`m pretty sure I saw "paperback"and I don`t recall seeing "looseleaf".In either case bold print identifying paperback or looseleaf would be most helpfull. ... Read more

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Reviews

Fantastic book!, March 12, 2009
I loved Hunting Eichmann. Bascomb has taken a subject that itself is both universally recognizable and relatively interesting, but has taken it to the next level by crafting a narrative that jumps off the page and keeps you up reading in a way that rivals the best spy thrillers. He has also researched the heck out of this - talking with people in four languages on three continents and getting the fascinating first-hand details that make a very good book into an unquestionably great one. One of the two or three best books I've read in the last year. Highly recommend.

A Gripping Tale Well Told, March 9, 2009
Bascomb's "Hunting Eichmann" is a revelation, a light shone in dark and hidden corners, for those of us who were electrified by the news of his capture back in 1960. Israel was little more than a decade old at that point, and the stunning victory of June 1967 remained in the future. Bascomb's access to the dwindling band of operatives who planned and executed this master stroke of international justice is a real service to modern history. These actors were both dedicated and self-effacing in their service to justice for the slaughtered millions. It is good to know their names and see their faces.

Their persistence in the face of many false trails and of skepticism that justice would or could ever be done, their self-control in bringing Eichmann to trial, the loathing and dread they felt in his presence, banal as that presence was (whether taking his picture in close-up surveillance or sitting next to him on the El Al escape flight) -- these and much more are compellingly conveyed by Bascomb. I was particularly struck by Bascomb's ability to hold so many narrative threads in his hand and to play them out so clearly and in a way that left the reader engaged. One got a sense of both operational detail and high politics: The dreary, cold, rainy surveillance outpost on the railroad embankment above Eichmann's house; dealing with capricious banana-republic police; pushing the technical limits of the aircraft that spirited the criminal out of Buenos Aires; the scenes with Ben-Gurion and Meir; the Nazi underworld and its enablers in Peronist Argentina; the indifference of the Adenauer government in Bonn (indifference to everything but maintaining its myth of de-Nazification); the high dudgeon in Germany and Argentina over the supposed defects of a trial that neither state had any interest in initiating; and finally Eichmann's trial and the execution of sentence and disposal of Eichmann's corpse -- one could go on, but the point is that Bascomb has gathered these disparate element, structured them as a compelling narrative, and grips his reader from the very first page. I had the simultaneous feelings that I wanted to read pell-mell to the end and at the same time I didn't want to reach the final page and the end of the book's revelations of what really happened.

In a larger sense, Bascomb has written an overdue tribute to these daring Israelis and their personal self-restraint (many lost their families in the Holocaust) and to the dignified sense of high justice the Israeli State brought to the whole affair. He does not use colorful or emotive prose, but lets the facts speak for themselves -- speak they do.

Please don't be put off by S.McGee's review, which seemed to me to miss most of the book's many virtues. (McGee is, in fact, right to use the words "subjective" and "quibble" about his review of the book.) I'm glad I read the book before I read that review, because it might have put me off.

A great thriller with real historical teeth, March 11, 2009
I'm a great fan of historical narratives, but it's rare that an author has access to the primary research that allows him to inject the book with real novelistic detail. Bascomb interviewed Mossad agents, El Al staff and combed through the archives of the CIA and other agencies, unearthing all kinds of new, exciting information, including the passport Eichmann used to escape Europe under the name Klement. While all this information in and of itself is interesting (and newsworthy), in Bascomb's hands it becomes the foundation for a rich, nuanced, taut thriller with relentless pacing. I could not put this book down, even though the conclusion is well-known to the world. Part of that was because Bascomb did a fantastic job of bringing the "characters" to life. The Mossad agents were all survivors in one way or another and their personal motivations and struggles were imprinted on every page of the manhunt, capture, and deliverance of the monster known as the architect of the Holocaust. I give this book my highest recommendation. I hope there's a movie, too! I assume they'll be one -- you can certainly see it in the book.

RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL JUDGE THEIR MURDERER!", April 12, 2009
"THE ACCUSED, DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1939 TO 1945, TOGETHER WITH OTHERS, CAUSED THE DEATHS OF MILLIONS OF JEWS AS THE PERSONS WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN OF THE NAZIS FOR THE EXTERMINATION OF THE JEWS, A PLAN KNOWN BY ITS TITLE *"THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH QUESTION.*"... this was part of the indictment brought by the State Of Israel against Adolf Eichmann on April 11, 1961 at 8:55 A.M. This intricately... historically detailed book tracks Eichmann from his days during the Holocaust as he despicably and callously... and with great personal pride... sets forth to wipe out every Jew in Europe. In a Hungarian ghetto Eichmann announced to Jewish prisoners: "JEWS: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. WE WANT ONLY THE BEST FOR YOU. YOU'LL LEAVE HERE SHORTLY AND BE SENT TO VERY FINE PLACES INDEED." Those Jews were then forced into freight cars in which one entire village of one-hundred-three Jews were crammed into a single car that would have fit eight cows." The train of course led to one of many concentration camps where families were separated... and most... never saw each other again... as the chimneys of the crematoriums belched the smoke of Jewish death.

At the war's end Eichmann and many other Nazi's escaped from Germany and some were helped on their escape route by the Vatican. The author comprehensively re-creates the many twists and turns that lead to Eichmann's numerous living arrangements... under many different aliases... that eventually culminate in Argentina under the name of Ricardo Klement. During this time period the Nuremberg Trials take place... and there is a great deal of damning testimony regarding Eichmann that will be used against him down the road... such as the testimony by Lieutenant Colonel Brookhart who when asked "WAS ANY QUESTION ASKED BY YOU AS TO THE MEANING OF THE WORDS "FINAL SOLUTION" AS USED IN THE ORDER?" Brookhart answered: EICHMANN WENT ON TO EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT WAS MEANT BY THIS. HE SAID THAT THE PLANNED BIOLOGICAL ANNIHILATION OF THE JEWISH RACE IN THE EASTERN TERRITORIES WAS DISGUISED BY THE CONCEPT AND WORDING "FINAL SOLUTION." "Was anything said by you to Eichmann in regard to the power given him under this order?" "EICHMANN TOLD ME THAT WITHIN THE RSHA HE PERSONALLY WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE EXECUTION OF THIS ORDER."

After almost fifteen-years of false leads and near misses Israel finally tracks Eichmann down... and here is where the author and story is relentless. Israel and the Mossad knew Argentina would not extradite Eichmann to Israel so Israel had to sneak an entire capture team into Argentina. The agents had to have multiple fake identities... one to get in from other countries... one to get out... and all the paperwork that would entail. They couldn't come in together... and how would they get him out? El Al airlines didn't fly into Argentina and it would be too risky by sea. When they captured Eichmann they had to keep him in a "safe-house" until the date of their ultra-risky exit strategy.

Being that I am part of the first post-Holocaust Jewish generation... I was raised with first hand stories of the Holocaust from my family and members of my community who bared the concentration camp serial numbers on their arms... so to me... one of the most chilling parts of the story is the fact that every member of the Jewish capture and "extradition" team had lost a large part if not all of their family... or were in concentration camps themselves... as a direct consequence of Eichmann during the Holocaust. The personal demons... and hatred... and revulsion... that each of them... though they already carried the horrors with them every day of their life... had it all multiplied by a million... in every pore of their body... when they were in the presence of the devil incarnate himself. Each individual had to restrain themselves from their immediate animal hunger of killing this genocidal debauchery of a thing G-d somehow put on earth. If you are Jewish you feel what they felt... that can't be given justice by mere words. One of the Mossad members who was tasked with grabbing Eichmann off the street and throwing him into a car... wore gloves... because he couldn't stomach touching his skin.

The reason the Israeli's did not simply execute him on the spot... is because... "HE WILL BE TRIED BY A JEWISH COURT IN A JEWISH STATE. HISTORY AND OUR PEOPLE'S HONOR... BOTH ARE AT STAKE."

There is enough drama --- and enough characters --- in this book to flesh out a Dickens novel, March 25, 2009
Two or three generations have now grown up to whom the name Adolf Eichmann, and indeed the whole ghastly 12-year Nazi era, are just chapters in history textbooks.

It is good, though, to be reminded of these horrors and to draw lessons from them. Journalist and author Neal Bascomb has accomplished both ends in this narrative of the escape, pursuit, capture, trial and execution of Eichmann, the Nazi officer charged with carrying out the "final solution to the Jewish problem." That "final solution," of course, involved the roundup, deportation to concentration camps and summary execution of as many Jews as possible in Nazi-occupied central Europe. The now-accepted figure of six million victims has never been seriously challenged.

Eichmann escaped from Germany in the chaotic last days of the defeated Third Reich and was sent under an assumed identity to Argentina, a country whose government and population were both infested with Nazi sympathizers. He hid there successfully for 15 years, joined by his wife and sons, keeping out of the limelight by holding a series of nondescript jobs. The victorious Allied governments, preoccupied with postwar occupation problems, had no real interest in tracking him down. Private-enterprise Nazi hunters like Simon Wiesenthal worked fruitlessly at finding him, dealing with unfounded rumors that he was living in places like Kuwait, New Zealand, the United States and even Israel.

Israel did not exist when Eichmann dutifully supervised sending those millions to the gas chambers. But the Israeli intelligence service, of course, had special motivation for going after him. They assembled, from within their own ranks and elsewhere, a band of a dozen expert operatives who went to work in deep secrecy. The group included a master forger, a doctor, an expert in disguises, people who knew Argentina well, an experienced interrogator of prisoners, and people with both the physical strength and the will to subdue Eichmann when the time came. Most team members had themselves been scarred one way or another by the Holocaust.

It was a ticklish business --- in effect kidnapping a German citizen on Argentine soil and spiriting him off in secrecy for trial in Israel. It involved forged documents, deceptive identities, false cover stories, the whole repertoire of cloak-and-dagger tactics. They even developed a means of instantly changing license plates on the cars they were using in order to elude pursuit.

Inevitably, a key element was sheer luck. The big break in locating Eichmann came when one of his sons bragged to a girlfriend about his father's major role in the Nazi death machine, not realizing that the girl's father was half Jewish and a passionate Nazi-hater. Learning about this, the man alerted the Nazi-hunting network in Europe, and the chase was on.

Neal Bascomb tells this story in straightforward, almost journalistic style. He has a large cast of characters to manipulate --- the pursuit team itself, the several European governments that were involved, Eichmann's abettors and protectors --- but the attentive reader can still follow the complex plot clearly.

Simply apprehending Eichmann was only part of the problem; the pursuers had to find covert means of getting their people into Argentina, keeping Eichmann in secret captivity after his capture, getting him onto a plane and getting him to Israel, all without many of the people directly involved knowing what was going on. It was a beautifully planned operation and masterfully executed. There were a few cliffhanger moments when things threatened to unravel, but the team had backup plans for most of them.

At his trial, Eichmann famously claimed that he was only following orders from superiors. He styled himself a faithful soldier proud to do his duty for his country and showed no real regrets (he had even told one of his captors "In a way, I love Jews."). Bascomb covers the famous trial itself only cursorily, since many of its themes had been touched upon in his main narrative of pursuit and capture.

There is enough drama --- and enough characters --- in this book to flesh out a Dickens novel, but Bascomb wisely does not try to be Dickens. He is simply a good reporter, telling us a story that needs to be told, and also needs to be remembered and learned from.

--- Reviewed by Robert Finn

"Diplomacy" at its finest, April 17, 2009
A great book that 'reads like a spy novel.' I read it in one night. Just enough info about the holocaust to set the stage, and then a blow by blow description of the preparation and frustration of finding and capturing a man who was truly asocial, amoral, and evidently simply had no feelings whatsoever about the death of millions. God Bless the Israelis.

Bascomb nails it again!, March 28, 2009
I was introduced to the writing of Neal Bascomb when I read his best seller, The Perfect Mile. Usually, I read novels and current events books, but I love track and field and the story of Roger Bannister's breaking the 4-minute-mile barrier intrigued me. That's when I got hooked on the writing of Neal Bascomb. Since then I've read all his books and just finished his fourth book, Hunting Eichmann.

Like all his books, Hunting Eichmann reads like a well written novel. Bascomb organizes his trademark, extensive research into a riveting read. He takes a historical figure and surrounding events that I probably would have never read a full book about, Adolph Eichmann and his capture, and makes them fascinating and difficult to put down. Because of his excellent writing style and attention to accuracy, I pre-ordered Hunting Eichmann. Bascomb nails it again! It is excellent.

I highly recommend this book. Then again, I highly recommend any of his books. Bascomb makes all his subjects interesting. Whether it's a race to build New York's highest skyscraper, training for and running a record mile, leading a mutiny on a Russian battleship, or hunting down a notorious Nazi, Bascomb brings history to life.

hunting eichmann, September 16, 2009
This was an exciting book that captured my attention from the first page to the end. Neal Bascomb interwove the book, the preparation for his capture, as well as the capture itself, with a story that read like a mystery novel,but at the same time, provided the details of what happened with meticulous devotion to the facts of the case.
Because there were so many names involved in Eichmann's capture, I would have liked a chart of these names, so I could have more easily kept track of the many names mentioned in the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about this brilliant and amazing operation. We get a glimpse of the inner workings of the Mossad, and the reason it was so successful in bringing to justice the villain that received his just reward.

Absolutely Spellbinding, September 7, 2009
Even 26 pages of end notes and 10 pages of bibliography cannot explain Neal Bascomb's remarkable mastery of his subject. He combines a dedication to historic accuracy with a lively presentation of historic detail. He brings us conversations and actions which heretofore existed only in archives and in the memories of the participants. He draws together fifteen years of Eichmann's hiding and fifteen years of his victims' searching into a tense and passionate story. Most incredible is the planning and execution of Eichmann's actual capture in Argentina by Mosad, the intelligence agency for the new state of Israel. The way the Mosad agents spirited Eicmann out of Argentina, drugged and aboard a diplomatic El Al flight, is the stuff of theater.

The most dedicated Nazi hunters had given up on finding Eichmann. He had proven himself a resourceful escape artist and, amazingly, had actually worked as a lumberjack for some eighteen months under an assumed name in British-occupied northern Germany. He changed his identity regularly, and eventually managed to get a Red Cross passport and passage to Argentina where he started a new life. Relocating his family to Argentina ultimately led to his downfall. When one of his sons, who unaccountably still used the Eichmann name, let loose an anti-Semitic torrent in the presence of his girlfriend's father, the end game started. The girl's father was half Jewish and had been beaten to blindness by the Nazis.

When the lead German investigator couldn't get his own government interested in trying to deport Eichmann, and with Peronist Argentina providing a sanctuary for Nazis and their sympathizers, it was time to turn the investigation over to Israel. Even so, the first investigator Israel sent came back empty-handed. Only when Mosad became involved was the game up for Eichmann. The complexity of the operation was stunning and the tension stays high throughout the book, even for a reader familiar with the outcome.

This is a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story about the search for a man who built and managed a business around the mass murder of innocents, who planned the brutal murder of millions and left millions more bereft at the loss of their loved ones. It is the story of a man who never showed the slightest trace of remorse for the most grisly of crimes. And he came so very close to getting away with it. But fifteen years after the last of his victims died, his trial brought fresh light to his atrocities and brought the world face to face with the man who more than any in human history personified inhuman cruelty.

It's absolutely spellbinding, and all the more remarkable for being true.

Hunting Eichmann, June 4, 2009
Hunting Eichman: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most notorious Nazi

This is a real thriller that focuses on the hunt and kidnapping of Eichmann that beat all the odds. Absolutely breath-taking!!! A true story so incredible that no author could make it up. ... Read more

Editorial Review

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition provides a clear roadmap to the laws and how to get better services for all children with disabilities. This Wrightslaw publication is an invaluable resource for parents, advocates, educators, and attorneys. You will refer to this book again and again. ... Read more

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Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition - wins EP Symbol of Excellent, February 14, 2007
It is the night before Jessica's first big IEP Team meeting and her parents are scrambling to find something - ANYTHING - that can help them prepare for the meeting. Try Wrightslaw. Sally's advocate is packing her briefcase as she heads out the door for the IEP Team meeting. She checks for her most critical resource. Wrightslaw. Susan, a school district attorney, checks her bag before heading off to her next meeting. Yup. Wrightslaw. Is there no one who hasn't heard of Wrightslaw?

Actually, we are sure that many readers have not, so today we review two new books from Wrightslaw. Both are second editions of books Pam and Pete Wright first released several years ago. The Wrights have updated both books to reflect the 2004 changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA] and its implementing regulations. We use both books in our regular course of business and highly recommend them to parents, educators, advocates, attorneys and anyone else who has a need for quick but comprehensive manuals on special education law.

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition [Wrightslaw] is a wonderful and ready resource for all who want to be able to find and then quote chapter and verse of IDEA law and regulations. The book includes the complete text of all four parts of IDEA as enacted in December, 2004. Wrightslaw also contains the complete implementing regulations for IDEA that became effective in August, 2006. These texts alone are worth the cost of the book.

But Wrightslaw does not stop with the IDEA statute and its implementing regulations. Wrightslaw also includes the complete text of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA]; the text to Section 504 [the Rehabilitation Act of 1973]; and the text of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. These inclusions ensure that the Wrightslaw user always has the key educational laws right at her fingertips at a moment's need. We have cited our Wrightslaw at IEP Team meetings, due process hearings, client meetings and the like.

Pam and Pete Wright make Wrightslaw even more valuable by including commentary on how to apply the included laws to typical special education circumstances. They talk about the No Child Left Behind Act and show how it fits into the special education law scheme. They cite and include the text of the major court cases that have shaped how special education law should be interpreted and implemented. And they have included a glossary of special education terms and acronyms with a user-friendly index.

We regard Wrightslaw as an essential resource in our practice. We believe the book should be part of every parent's [and educator's, advocate's, attorney's] special education library because of its rich and vital contents.

We also heartily recommend Pam and Pete's second book, Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition. The Wrights call this book "The Special Education Survival Guide." And well it is. The Wrights designed this book primarily for parents who need a one-stop how-to resource that will teach them to be strong and effective advocates for their children.

We cannot say enough about the contents and organization of this book. The Wrights have divided it into five sections. Section One helps parents to organize their thoughts and ideas, creating a mindset for them in their undertaking as advocates for their child. Section Two highlights the practice of advocacy, outlines the players, identifies common traps and provides strategies for resolving conflicts and managing crises. Section Three gives parents nuts and bolts information needed to make parents experts on all facets of their child's education; from file organization to testing to writing strong IEP's. Section Four walks parents through the broad principles found in IDEA's major provisions, touching on Section 504 and the No Child Left Behind Act. Finally, Section Five shows the now-well prepared parent how to advocate in the trenches: at the IEP Team meeting, collecting and documenting information; and managing and winning disputes.

We like From Emotions to Advocacy because it is loaded with sage advice that most parents will find easy to understand and apply. We especially like that the Wrights pull no punches in telling parents what they are in for as their child's advocates. Their "Rules of Adverse Assumptions," discussed in Chapter 21, are particularly powerful and to the point - don't expect others, especially educators, to see things your way. Plan and prepare to win your case on your own, using your own wits and resources. They then show you how.

Through Wrightslaw and From Emotions to Advocacy Pete and Pam Wright have provided a great service to parents, educators, advocates and attorneys, providing them with hands-on resources that pack power to the punch. We proudly award both books the EP Symbol of Excellence.

A critically important addition to school district and community library Educational Laws & Guidelines reference shelves, June 9, 2007
Now in a newly updated and significantly expanded second edition, "Wrightslaw: Special Education Law" provides parents, educators, child service advocates, and family attorneys with a clear and superbly organized introduction to the federal laws affecting the education of children with disabilities. An invaluable guide to special education rights and responsibilities, co-authors Pete Wright (who has represented children with disabilities for more than 30 years including appearing before the U. S. Supreme Court in 'Florence County School District IV v. Shannon Carter, 510 U.S. 7 - 1993 in which he won a landmark victory for all children with disabilities) and Pam Wright (a psychotherapist who has worked with children since the 1970s and is the Editor of 'The Special ed Advocate' newsletter), "Wrightslaw: Special Education Law" addresses the issues of a child's right to a free and appropriate education; individualized education programs, IEP teams, transition and progress; evaluations, re-evaluations, consent and independent educational evaluations; eligibility and placement decisions; least restrictive environment, mainstreaming and inclusion; research based instruction, discrepancy formulas and response to intervention; discipline, suspensions and expulsions; safeguards; mediation, confidentiality, new procedures and timelines for due process hearings. A critically important addition to school district and community library Educational Laws & Guidelines reference shelves, "Wrightslaw: Special Education Law" should be considered 'must reading' for anyone (but most especially by parents and school authorities) charged with the responsibility for educating a disabled child regardless of the nature or degree of the disability.

Excellent resource, March 24, 2007
This book is an excellent resource and a must have for any special education teacher, administrator or parent.

not in depth, September 23, 2009
This book is a basic overview of the laws governing special education. The included summaries and footnotes are helpful to those without a basic understanding of education law and current regulations. This book would have been more helpful to school personnel and informed parents if it had included additional footnotes that clarified the statutes regarding eligibility.

A Special Ed Lifesaver, March 11, 2009
As children we are raised with the belief that figures of authority have our interests at heart and would never lead us down a path that would not assist us. Sadly if you find yourself with a child requiring Special Services, more often than you may not find this is the case for your child. Make this book your best friend. Read it from cover to cover first, then bring it with you to school, to the nightstand, Post-it note it, get a spare for the car, and wear it out. It's an excellent resource. Frankly I don't know how parents made it through the Special Ed tangle before the Wrights came along. In my case I chose to hire a lawyer anyway, but I made it quite a way before hand, and if you're still on the fence, my education lawyer highly recommends Wright's publications too...

Important book to have!!!, June 7, 2008
this is a very well written and easy to read.it has been very helpful for me in implimenting my childrens IEP's.

Excellent Resource, March 31, 2008
Special Education Law is an excellent resource for teachers and parents. It is well organized, and written to be understandable and useful. I will definitely order other material by the same author.

You need this!, February 13, 2008
I found this book very helpful and consider it a necessity for anyone dealing with the special education system.

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, May 28, 2009
I bought this book for my wife to assist her with the federal laws & the school district. It has been very beneficial for her.

cheri brodeur, May 15, 2009
This is a very informative and helpful resource for families and educators alike.Families often don't have a clear understanding of the special education process and without knowledge of how the system works, they cannot be prepared for important meetings. This resource also has important information for educators to have on hand and to become familiar with, especially when advocating for a family. ... Read more

Editorial Review

This first fully documented biography of Simon Wiesenthal, the legendary Nazi hunter, is also a brilliant character study of a man whose life was part invention but wholly dedicated to ensuring both that the Nazis be held responsible for their crimes and that the destruction of European Jewry never be forgotten.

Like most Jews in Eastern Europe on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, twenty-four-year-old Simon Wiesenthal did not grasp the nature of the Nazi threat. But six years later, when a skeletal Wiesenthal was liberated from the concentration camp at Mauthausen, he fully fathomed the crimes of the Nazis. Within days he had assembled a list of nearly 150 Nazi war criminals, the first of dozens of such lists he would make over a lifetime as a Nazi hunter. A hero in the eyes of many, Wiesenthal was also attacked for his unrelenting pursuit of the past, when others preferred to forget.

For this new biography, rich in newsworthy revelations, historian and journalist Tom Segev has obtained access to Wiesenthal’s private papers and to sixteen archives, including records of the U.S., Israeli, Polish, and East German secret services. Segev is able to reveal the intriguing secrets of Wiesenthal’s life, including his stunning role in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, his relationship with Israel’s Mossad, his controversial investigative techniques, his unlikely friendships with Kurt Waldheim and Albert Speer, and the nature of his rivalry with Elie Wiesel.

Segev’s challenge in writing this biography was Wiesenthal’s own complicated relationship to truth. Wiesenthal told many versions of his life, his suffering in the camps, and his involvement with the arrest of individual Nazis. Segev shows that in order to gain the information he sought and twist the arms of reluctant government figures, Wiesenthal needed to seem more influential than he really was.

For two generations of Americans, Simon Wiesenthal was a Jewish superhero—depicted on film by Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier—and the muse for a Frederick Forsyth thriller. Now Segev demonstrates that the truth of Wiesenthal’s existence is as compelling as the fiction. Simon Wiesenthal is an unforgettable life of one of the great men of the twentieth century. ... Read more

Reviews

Thoughtful, Thorough and Dispassionate, September 15, 2010
Tom Segev, an Israeli writer and reporter for Haaretz, has produced a scrupulously researched account of Simon Wiesenthal's life and "legends", by which he means the often varying versions of Wiesenthal's hunt for Nazi criminals. Wiesenthal did his work from an office, first in Linz, then in Vienna, combing through documents in search of SS officers -- "the murderers among us", as Wiesenthal termed it. Famous for locating Eichmann in Argentina, for hunting down the commandant of Treblinka and many others, most famously Mengele, Wiesenthal gave varying accounts of his activities. Segev has gone through the archives, the biographies, the adventure stories, with - I can only say the doggedness of a Wiesenthal.

Unfortunately, not all the details of Wiesenthal's work in, say, the 1950's are necessary. I could have skipped a lot of the minutiae without regret. Martin Gilbert also collects minute details about Churchill but as a historian he is a compelling, lucid writer and Tom Segev, at least in translation, is not. The narrative gets bogged down and the reader loses the thread. As the story develops and Wiesenthal gains greater reknown, however, the story picks up speed. Segev describes the establishment of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles and Wiesenthal's initial support for its director, Marvin Hier, and his growing dissatisfaction at being treated he felt, as a mere figurehead. Even more interesting was the rivalry Wiesenthal felt with Elie Wiesel for moral authority and indeed, for the Nobel Prize. Segev brings out the basic philosophical difference between the two: Wiesenthal was a universal humanist, insisting the Holocaust happened not just to the Jews, but to millions of other victims of the Nazis. Wiesel, on the other hand, in establishing the Washington Holocaust Museum spoke out for the primarily Jewish effect of the Holocaust, though there were other victims.

Segev's tone is strictly dispassionate. Nazi crimes are mentioned only in very general terms. The focus of the book is on retelling the life and sifting for the truth as thoroughly as possible. Segev is very factual. He asks at every turn, is there evidence?

Segev presents Wiesenthal as a difficult person, with reason. He seemed not to care about his wife and child. His daughter grew up and went to school in Austria, an anti-Semitic country. Wiesenthal brought many Nazis to justice, but he had many failures, too. Segev astutely assesses his motives for Nazi hunting as rooted in survivor guilt. He explains this better than I could in the last chapter. I think Segev's journalistic skepticism is needed, but at times I feel he is overly European in his outlook. For example, he dismisses Golda Meir as "a suspicious person with narrow horizons" in the same breath as he praises Austrian chancellor Bruno Kreisky as "a statesman who thought in the broadest international terms". Yet Segev's discussion of Kreisky's character in contrast to his arch-rival Wiesenthal in terms of Viennese Jew versus Ostjude, is right on target. Lots of good material here, but most of it is in the last 100 pages of a 400 page book.

Simon Wiesenthal, November 3, 2010
Well researched, but the writing or translation was somewhat awkward and jumped from one topic to another without good transitions and often the topic ended incomplete.

Like a ship going nowhere !, December 19, 2010
I remember the days when I saw Simon Wiesenthal hurry in the mornings to get to his office in Vienna in the first district- the city I was living during the 1980. He looked humble, yet strong and proud of himself and I was extremely happy to have been a witness to one of the bravest men that has had the courage to face the devil and the ex-Nazi beasts by himself.
However, with time, I started reading more and more about the Holocaust and for some years actually worked in the field of research with many known historians in the academic world.I published quite a few things about the Holocaust, too.
Wiesenthal was not forgotten and ,as time passed, he became for me more and more enigmatic and less and less the hero I so much had admired before.
Tom Segev's book is one of those rare ones which have been published during the last years and I decided to read it in the original language, Hebrew. Mr.Segev had to cope with hundreds of thousands of pages belonging to the archive of Wiesenthal, in addition to the other bulk of material published so far. Wiesenthal lived a long life -he was over 90 when he died- and was indeed a brave man, but was also a man full of contradictions and in many cases made false accusations, was an egomaniac and on different occasions a liar as well.
Segev's book is very disorganized, badly written, repetitive ad nauseam and does not produce any new things which could be pointed out. The main parts of the book revolve around the trials of capturing of Eichmann and Wiesenthal's quarrel with Chancelor Kreisky. The rest is written without any sense of direction or purpose and the reader gets lost amid the thousands of little pieces of information.This book could have easily been shortened to a 100-page monograph.
In short, this book is a huge disappointment. If you would really like to read about Wiesenthal, I largely recommend Guy Walters' brilliantly researched book called: "Hunting Evil"(see my review on;amazon.co.uk)
Mr. Wiesenthal will still have to find another good biographer,in the meantime.

Too much detail, but a great story, October 10, 2010
This is an interesting look at a man who was famous for his Nazi-hunting, but written with the eye of a thorough journalist. Segev shines a light on both the humanity of Wiesenthal and the incredible circumstances surrounding Jews at the end of WW2. None of us have a good understanding of what these people endured after WW2 and this book gives you an, at times, overly thorough look at this incredible and insane time. Drink a lot of coffee to handle all the details, but enjoy a facinating look at this part of Jewish and world history!

RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "G-D WAS ON VACATION AND HAD NOT LEFT ANYONE TO REPLACE HIM", September 24, 2010
Simon Wiesenthal the infamous international Nazi hunter has had numerous books and movies written and produced about him. Including the tear jerking DVD "I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN YOU". The author Tom Segev's research and investigation is excruciatingly detailed and perhaps too minutely targeted. Utilizing newly available information from governments around the world including data from the secret services of the United States, Israel, Poland, and East Germany, along with having access to Wiesenthal's private papers... the author spends as much time and energy raising questions about Simon's motives, integrity, and boasts... as he does on his actual historical accomplishments. What after awhile seems to be an ongoing flood of decades of soap opera like accusations... many claims are disproved... some claims are acknowledged... and some are left to simply float into the ether.

Wiesenthal's childhood and his internment in multiple Nazi prison camps are discussed but they are not the type of intricately despicable details as have been covered in other Wiesenthal media. This is more of a textbook like dissection of Simon's interaction with all forms of media representatives such as newspaper and magazine reporters, and his connections, both real and imagined with multiple countries secret service organizations. Untold microcosms of innumerable events within each of these categories are held up to a bright light with the sole purpose of filing each individual circumstance into a slot designated either... "HAPPENED-WITH-PROOF"... "NEVER-HAPPENED"... "POSSIBLY-HAPPENED"... "MAY-NOT-HAVE-HAPPENED"... et al. Because of this constant attempt to put even the smallest details (Which may not even be that interesting or earth shattering) under the strongest literary microscope, many parts of the book seem to drag.

There are of course the names of histories must wretched individuals ranging from Hitler to Eichmann to Stangl to Mengele to Bormann... and so on... through the list of the Holocaust's horrific non-human abominations. But this book does not attempt to go anywhere near the detail on these individuals that have been unearthed like the turning over of a rock many times before. Covered are Wiesenthal's many books he authored... the many articles he wrote... the speeches he gave... his battle for funding... his allies and enemies (in his quest for bringing Nazi's to justice)... and the constant effort by the author to prove... disprove... or not come to a full conclusion... on seemingly endless minute issues... rather than more fully explore and share the bigger picture items that made Simon Wiesenthal such a revered figure keep this book from fully satisfying the reader.

With the overall tone of the book seeming to be verification or non-verification on the historical image that was Simon Wiesenthal a quote from Mordechai Elazar a Mossad (Israel's secret service.) agent seems to sum it up well:

"WIESENTHAL WAS A MAN WITH MANY IDENTITIES-LIKE A DIAMOND WITH MANY FACETS," "ELAZAR RECALLED AFTER HE RETIRED. THEY SPOKE YIDDISH. IN THE EYES OF HIS ISRAELI FRIEND, WIESENTHAL WAS THE ULTIMATE JEW AND THERE WAS NOTHING THAT WAS MORE JEWISH THAN HE WAS. HE WAS REFERRING TO, AMONG OTHER QUALITIES, WIESENTHAL'S WILLINGNESS AND ABILITY TO LIVE OUT OF CHOICE IN A COUNTRY WHERE JEWS WERE NOT WANTED AND TO HIS INCLINATION TO FEEL AT HOME THERE."
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Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, second edition will teach you how to plan, prepare, organize and get quality special education services. In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your childs disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing your childs file and devising a master plan for your childs special education. You will understand parent-school conflict, how to create paper trails and effective letter writing. This book includes dozens of worksheets, forms and sample letters that you can tailor to your needs. Whether you are new to special education or an experienced advocate this book will provide a clear roadmap to effective advocacy for your child. You will use this book again and again. ... Read more

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From Emotions to Advocacy wins EP Symbol of Excellence, February 14, 2007
It is the night before Jessica's first big IEP Team meeting and her parents are scrambling to find something - ANYTHING - that can help them prepare for the meeting. Try Wrightslaw. Sally's advocate is packing her briefcase as she heads out the door for the IEP Team meeting. She checks for her most critical resource. Wrightslaw. Susan, a school district attorney, checks her bag before heading off to her next meeting. Yup. Wrightslaw. Is there no one who hasn't heard of Wrightslaw?

Actually, we are sure that many readers have not, so today we review two new books from Wrightslaw. Both are second editions of books Pam and Pete Wright first released several years ago. The Wrights have updated both books to reflect the 2004 changes to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA] and its implementing regulations. We use both books in our regular course of business and highly recommend them to parents, educators, advocates, attorneys and anyone else who has a need for quick but comprehensive manuals on special education law.

Wrightslaw: Special Education Law, 2nd Edition [Wrightslaw] is a wonderful and ready resource for all who want to be able to find and then quote chapter and verse of IDEA law and regulations. The book includes the complete text of all four parts of IDEA as enacted in December, 2004. Wrightslaw also contains the complete implementing regulations for IDEA that became effective in August, 2006. These texts alone are worth the cost of the book.

But Wrightslaw does not stop with the IDEA statute and its implementing regulations. Wrightslaw also includes the complete text of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act [FERPA]; the text to Section 504 [the Rehabilitation Act of 1973]; and the text of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. These inclusions ensure that the Wrightslaw user always has the key educational laws right at her fingertips at a moment's need. We have cited our Wrightslaw at IEP Team meetings, due process hearings, client meetings and the like.

Pam and Pete Wright make Wrightslaw even more valuable by including commentary on how to apply the included laws to typical special education circumstances. They talk about the No Child Left Behind Act and show how it fits into the special education law scheme. They cite and include the text of the major court cases that have shaped how special education law should be interpreted and implemented. And they have included a glossary of special education terms and acronyms with a user-friendly index.

We regard Wrightslaw as an essential resource in our practice. We believe the book should be part of every parent's [and educator's, advocate's, attorney's] special education library because of its rich and vital contents.

We also heartily recommend Pam and Pete's second book, Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition. The Wrights call this book "The Special Education Survival Guide." And well it is. The Wrights designed this book primarily for parents who need a one-stop how-to resource that will teach them to be strong and effective advocates for their children.

We cannot say enough about the contents and organization of this book. The Wrights have divided it into five sections. Section One helps parents to organize their thoughts and ideas, creating a mindset for them in their undertaking as advocates for their child. Section Two highlights the practice of advocacy, outlines the players, identifies common traps and provides strategies for resolving conflicts and managing crises. Section Three gives parents nuts and bolts information needed to make parents experts on all facets of their child's education; from file organization to testing to writing strong IEP's. Section Four walks parents through the broad principles found in IDEA's major provisions, touching on Section 504 and the No Child Left Behind Act. Finally, Section Five shows the now-well prepared parent how to advocate in the trenches: at the IEP Team meeting, collecting and documenting information; and managing and winning disputes.

We like From Emotions to Advocacy because it is loaded with sage advice that most parents will find easy to understand and apply. We especially like that the Wrights pull no punches in telling parents what they are in for as their child's advocates. Their "Rules of Adverse Assumptions," discussed in Chapter 21, are particularly powerful and to the point - don't expect others, especially educators, to see things your way. Plan and prepare to win your case on your own, using your own wits and resources. They then show you how.

Through Wrightslaw and From Emotions to Advocacy Pete and Pam Wright have provided a great service to parents, educators, advocates and attorneys, providing them with hands-on resources that pack power to the punch. We proudly award both books the EP Symbol of Excellence

An excellent 2nd edition!, December 20, 2005
I wrote a review for the first edition and this edition just gets better. It includes IDEA 2004. So not only will you learn how to create call logs and master lists you learn the MOST CURRENT law. IDEA goes into effect July 1,2005 and this is an AWESOME book for anyone who is new to the special education maze, but also is an EXCELLENT resource for those that have been in the system for awhile. I've learned to write letters that have been recognized and not filed under a pile, I've learned to keep a complete call log that has helped me when trying to obtain services for my son, and I've learned to understand the many complexities that come with the special education system.

I have MANY, MANY special education books, but this is this is the book I return to over and over again. I reccomend getting the Wrights Law Book and the Wrights Law IDEA 2004 to go with this. This book does reference some of the special ed law and it is great to be able to flip to the specific paragraph in the law book to help fully understand what Emotions touches on.

An awesome book!

From Emotions to Advocacy, March 27, 2007
I've been involved in advocating for my special needs son for 14 years and this is the BEST book I've ever read on the subject. A real "how-to." I just walked away from an IEP meeting with MORE than I asked for and it all happened in less than an hour. I was SO prepared. In particular, the chapter on the Rule of Adverse Assumptions helped me prepare. Thanks to this book, I had the confidence and the information that allowed me to effectively go to bat for our son. I'm using FETA in a parent training class I'm conducting now and it's SO helpful. From Emotions to Advocacy is a real treasure and should be the bible for every parent of a special needs child.

From Emotions to Advocacy Pam and Pete Wright, June 9, 2006
I am a paralegal who has been an advocate for children with disabilities for 13 years. I have read and studied From Emotions to Advocacy since I bought it about a year ago. It has become one of my first choice references because of its straight forward and easy outline of what I would call a preponderance of material. Having also attended Wrightslaw BootCamp and used their website search engine for language, cases and legal cites, I think Pam and Pete Wright are truly revoluntionary in their ability to make the law and information easily accessible. I can always count on my now well worn From Emotions to Advocacy manual, as well as the Wrightslaw site when I need some quick information before a meeting, or some indepth research on a certain point. It doesn't get any better than this.

Am I missing something?, May 21, 2006
Maybe it's just me, but I didn't find the book that helpful. I think that some of the information is good, but many parts were a bit condescending to parents. Now, I may not be an attorney, but I have more than a 5th grade education, so I don't need every little thing explained in order to make the book so repetitive that reading it is a chose and quite boring. Choose another book, one that actually thinks parents are intelligent and that is not as repetitive.

A 'Must Have' for your Sp Ed library!, May 22, 2006
I recommend all parents of children with disabilities purchase this book! Read it and re-read it to ensure you fully understand how the special education system works. The book is written in a format that is easy to understand. It will tell you the things you won't hear from school district trainings. It's the `unwritten rules' of special education. You will learn the importance of good documentation. Most of all you will learn how to participate in the process of developing an appropriate educational plan for your child.

A MUST HAVE!, January 9, 2007
I purchased this book after a nightmare of an IEP. I needed something to lead me in a positive direction that would allow me to be an advocate for my son on a professional level and not with so much emotion. I wish that I had bought this before my very first IEP experience, it is that valuable. It is a 'how to' of sorts. You learn about filing systems for your childs documents, how to write a letter appropriately, about testing, scores, and so much more. It helps to separate the emotions that tend to attach themselves to the IEP experience. I'll speak my mind, even if my voice is quivering, but this book has taught me about the correct way of approaching situations and issues, not my heart just leading the way. We have to remember that we are our childs voice BUT we are in this for a long time and need to maintain the best relationship possible with other parties. This book will guide you to Advocacy in the IEP and Special Education maize!

Helps you organize your child's educational plan., July 4, 2006
This is a great book for learning how to develop an educational plan for your child. It teaches you many skills you'll need to give your child the best chance to succeed in school.

* How to organize the mountain of paperwork that gets generated.
* Who is typically responsible for what job in the school.
* What to expect in an IEP meeting.
* How to write and evaluate goals.

The Wrights set up a multi-stage approach with the school. You start by trying to form a cooperative team. If that doesn't work, you'll already have set up the documentation for any compliance issues. It's basically a carrot and stick approach. Hopefully the school will fulfil their obligations, but if not, you'll be prepared for the next level.

It's a great book for parents and educators. It provides a great structure to keep all the details organized so that you can concentrate on the important goal, helping your child succeed.

If Read No Other Book, Read This One, April 9, 2007
This book is by far the best I've read regarding Special Education law and how to successfully advocate for your child within the school system. It shows you how to level the playing field and become an equal and effective member of the IEP team. The commentary provided by the authors is invaluable and something you'd probably pay top dollar for if you had to hire your own attorney. We as parents can be effective advocates. "From Emotions to Advocacy" is the one tool in your box you can't do without.

A MUST Read for Every Parent Advocating for their Child, June 5, 2006
I am a parent of a child with a learning disability. I have found the book to be a MUST read. Emotions play such a pivotal role for parents that it is important to be able to put all that energy to good use in effectively advocating for your child. The book explains how to successfully navigate the process of providing for a child's educational needs, while protecting important legal rights. Navigating through special education is often a foreign experience for parents. From Emotions to Advoacy helps parent negotiate in the best interests of a child. Pete and Pam Write speak from personal and professional experience in dealing with special education issues. I could not recommend another book that speaks as succinctly to the issue of advocating for a child. ... Read more

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Get the expert support needed to comply efficiently, avoid violations, and keep electrical installations on track with the National Electrical Code? in this exclusive NEC? 2008 Handbook from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Only the handbook offers the full NEC? 2008 text alongside expert commentary from code specialists, offering insight into code rationale, explanations of new and revised rules, and practical, hands-on advice on how to apply the code.A valuable resource for anyone involved in electrical design, installation, inspection, and safety, this book will give users the knowledge needed to feel confident that their work will be safe, efficient, and code-compliant.Delmar, a part of Cengage Learning is pleased to make this one-of-a-kind reference - containing the most widely accepted and most frequently used criteria for electrical installations in the U.S. - available directly from us for our customers who work in and around the electrical trades.It may be used independently and also makes an excellent companion to books in Delmar?s best-selling electrical wiring series. ... Read more

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A must have!, January 22, 2008
This book is a must have.... That's why I can hardly wait to get one! Seriously, if you are an electrician and need to argue your case to an inspector this book (if it's like all it's predecessors) is the authority to help the inspector see your reasoning. After all, this book was written by the NFPA (The same agency that produces the NEC)! If you are an apprentice then you should buy this book instead of the 2008 NEC Code Book. This book has detailed explanations, pictures, and examples to help you understand most if not all the legalese found in the code. It also has the complete 2008 NEC text. If you want to be an expert on electrical code then this is the text for you!

Handbook is a usefull tool, September 30, 2008
The NEC Handbook is a large book that won't fit into your toolbox but it is a good reference and project planning resource. I found the explanations to be clear and, in my case as an occasional electrician, apropos for my objectives. The graphics and use of color in diagrams adds to the quality experience when using the book. Eric R. Lewis, Ph. D.

NEC 2008 Handbook, July 23, 2008
This is not a book for the average do-it-yourself. It is, however, the Bible for professional and apprentice electricians, engineers, professional inspectors, and construction professionals who design, build, maintain, and approve residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural electrical systems.

If you are just looking to remodel your bathroom you don't need to buy this book---though you may want to refer to it. If you are making a living in the construction trades, then this book is an essential part of your toolbox.

Great Book, August 5, 2008
I bought this book for my class. This book contains the latest standards in the electrical industry. The pictures in the book also give you a head start on working with circuits.

Very Helpful, October 11, 2009
As a general contractor, I need to keep up on all the codes, electrical included. This book, while more expensive than the regular NEC 2008 code book provides narrative to explain the intent of a particular code item and also provides many color pictures to better clarify the code item. I find it very useful since if you have ever read a code book, they are not the most clearly written books out there. I've used the handbook version of the NEC on more than one occasion to correct an electrician as well as electrical inspectors. I believe it's a must have if you are in the building trade to have in your library. Not so much if you are a homeowner trying to do your own electrical work. There are "How To" books out there to assist you with you electrical projects.

Everything as it Was, April 25, 2009
I used the book for my PE test and now I can use one at the office and not have to track it down. Book was brand new, and nearly 60$ less then what you would have to pay from the official NEC site.

The book rocks!, February 18, 2010
I have purchased the NEC handbook ever since the format changed in 1999. This book is just as informative and useful as every other year.
The pictures along with the text explanations leave little to ponder. This is a nice tool to have when the AHJ or Engineer wants to give you his/her opinion on what the NFPA 'meant'.
I have been able to convince more than once Inspector that my installation was EXACTLY what the NFPA 'meant' after showing them the pictures and explanations in the handbook.
The only drawback is that other electricians in our local call me to ask my code advice because they know I have the handbook. I tell them, "buy your own darned book"! :)

NEC 2008 HANDBOOK, January 30, 2009
The product is at the right price. Well written and easily understandable examples. Recommend this to every one involved in the trade or any DIY'ers to ensure SAFETY and QUALITY work.

Good Buy!, December 16, 2008
This was exactly as promised and it is so full of information that I desperatly needed

Sloppy Workmanship of Hardback Cover, March 25, 2009
The 2008 NEC Handbook that I purchased from Amazon was poorly constructed. The hardback cover didn't completely cover the pages.
Apparently this is a common problem, after returning the book that I had ordered from Amazon I visited a few local bookstores and found the same problem with the 2008 NEC Handbooks that they were selling. ... Read more

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it is not complete as the title suggests, November 29, 2007
It is a good book but, it frequently refers you back to the main code check book for the service you are working on e.g. in plumbing it will refer you to the code check plumbing book for complete information. had I to do over again I would buy the individual books.

Handy All-in-One Reference on Residential Building Codes, June 5, 2008
This is a handy composite easy-to-use reference book of the four major building codes covering building, electrical, plumbing and HVAC. It is for residential buildings.

Previously, the Code Check series was (and still is) issued for each of the individual codes noted above. This guide combines all four into a condensed and smaller spiral bound hard cover book. It is easier to carry and use if you need to take a quick peek at more than one of the various building code references.

It is an easy guide for contractors, home inspectors, and others interested in the current rules and regulations as they pertain on a national basis. It is not meant as a substitute for your local code regs however.

I believe both formats have a use and am glad they came out with this newer composite or complete version of all residential codes into one small book.

An individual contractor or tradesperson might appreciate the individual CODE CHECK flip chart style guide better. As they cover one of the 4 various building codes, they are slightly larger and much more durable than the composite book. They are published on damage-resistant plastic coated card stock and impervious to moisture damage. They are also larger, yet thinner and are quicker to use as they flip open with their sections all summarized on the cover.

The composite book is smaller, yet thicker. While it is also spiral bound, the paper it is printed on is not tear or moisture-resistant. The value for the composite is superior in that it provides most, if not all of the same information as the individual Code Checks. It is also much less expensive buying the composite compared to buying the four code checks separately. The pages are smaller and more difficult to read if one relies upon glasses in order to read.

The other glaring detraction is the information for the Electrical section. Perhaps the book came out a few months too early. Everything in the Building, HVAC, and Plumbing sections is up-to-date. The Electrical section still contains the information from the 2002/2005 National Electrical Code. Not the newest 2008 version. I would imagine however, that the next edition of the composite "Complete" Code Check book would contain the latest info. Many, if not most local jurisdictions tend to operate off the older NEC, so it may be of little consequence at this point anyway.

One other small observation, is that if you lend out your code check "complete", then you lend all of it out together. Unlike the individual publications. Also, it is not as durable, so if one does lend it out, it may not hold up in the long run, unlike the other larger plastic-coated booklets.

It is still a wise investment for the money. And a great way to have all the major code R&Rs in your hand for a quick and easy reference.

One other note, the publisher on their website also offers several downloads free of charge. One is the "California" Building Code. Another is changes or errors and ommissions in the Code Check Complete. It is after all in its first edition. However the mistakes are kept to a minimum.

Code check complete review, April 7, 2008
good source book for those who are making their way through the permit and inspection process. Seems to be complete, but misses a few things such as smoke alarm requirements. An index would have been really helpful.

Outdated, October 7, 2009
Nice format but, don't assume they will release new sections as the code is updated. This version is already outdated as it's based on the 2005 electrical code. It also has may typos and mistakes.

Code Check is complete guide!, October 13, 2008
I was suprised how complete the codcheck series is. If you live/work in California you will need the special California edition

Code book comic book, October 4, 2010
This came highly recommended.
The cartoons are professionally done, but I found them distracting. When you need code information, you need facts not comic illustrations.
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The most complete guide to your legal rights and responsibilities, The Employer's Legal Handbook shows you how to comply with the most recent workplace laws and regulations, run a safe and fair workplace and avoid lawsuits. Learn everything you need to know about:

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Based on the fourth edition of The Law of Higher Education—the indispensable guide to law that bears on the provision of higher education—this Student Edition provides an up-to-date reference and guide for coursework in higher education law. It also provides a guide for programs that help prepare higher education administrators for leadership roles.

This important reference is organized into five main parts Perspectives and Foundations; The College and Its Governing Board and Staff; The College and Its Faculty; The College and Its Students; and The College and the Outside World. Each part includes the sections of the full fourth edition that most relate to student interests and are most suitable for classroom instruction, for example:

• The evolution and reach of higher education law
• The governance of higher education
• Legal planning and dispute resolution
• The interrelationships between law and policy
• The college and its employees
• Faculty employment and tenure
• Academic freedom
• Campus issues: student safety, racial and sexual harassment, affirmative action, computer networks, services for international students
• Student misconduct
• Freedom of speech, hate speech
• Student  rights, responsibilities, and activities fees
• Athletics and Title IX
• Copyright

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A Must-Have for University Administrators, December 29, 2004
Kaplin & Lee's "The Law of Higher Education (Third Edition)" was the required text for a graduate course, "Legal Aspects of Higher Education" and should be present on the bookshelf of any university administrator. The book's subtitle, "A Comprehensive Guide to Legal Implications of Administrative Decision Making," is wholly accurate in describing the scope and utility of this massive tome (over 1,000 pages from cover to cover).

The book is a valuable investment on a number of fronts, not the least of which is the paucity of comparable texts on this complex topic. "The Law of Higher Education" begins with an overview of postsecondary education law and continues with an interesting organization that considers the college and its various constituencies -- "The College and Trustees, Administrators, and Staff," "The College and the Faculty," "The College and the Students," "The College and the Community," "The College and the State Government," "The College and the Federal Government," "The College and the Educational Associations," and "The College and the Business/Industrial Community." Each chapter is further broken down into key arenas (for example, in the chapter on students, a few of the topics include admissions, financial aid, disciplinary rules and regulations, and athletics). Each topic includes a context and is connected to numerous examples from case law. Despite the high degree of legal terminology, the book is readable for the layperson. There are separate indices for subject, statute, and cases that make it easy to locate relevant information.

This book is an excellent treatment of the enormously complex field of high education law.

Expensive but very thorough, March 8, 2007
This is an outstanding book on higher education law. Lots of case examples and descriptions. A little repetative at some points, but I suppose that is true about law in general. Not even as dry as one might think about a 2 volume law book set.

Good overview of legal issues, September 27, 2008
This book provides a broad overview of the legal issues in higher education. It discusses relevant cases and handles the complexities of federal and state legal issues in a way that is student friendly. While it does assume some basic understanding of the legal system, the appendices are helpful resources that can assist with that necessary background for students new to law.

Higher Education Law, September 14, 2009
The book was in excellent question. As for reading content - it is considered the best for law in higher education. Our professor hopes we will keep it on our shelves when the course is over. It is dry reading but then that is expected with the content. If I had more time to read it I would enjoy it more.

excellent, August 10, 2009
The book was in excellent condition and arrived in a timely manner ... Along with an excellent price ... I would buy more from this seller!

Binder Block, February 19, 2010
The binder of the book broke within one week of reading. I am looking for glue.

The fell apart the first time I read it!, January 26, 2010
terrible experience with this book...I bought it brand new, but when I opened it and read, I found it already fell apart! It is not the service, it is the quality of the product...I wish I had bought a used one!

The fell apart the first time I read it!, January 26, 2010
terrible experience with this book...I bought it brand new, but when I opened it and read, I found it already fell apart! It is not the service, it is the quality of the product...I wish I had bought a used one! ... Read more

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Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured  -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives.
 
At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party.  Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers.  Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives.
 
In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor, and even members of Western intelligence services.  Based on all new interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and Italy, Hunting Evil  authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post war era, including myths about the alleged “Spider” and “Odessa” escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. 
 
From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down, Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller.
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Reviews

No revenge, but all fugitive Nazi criminals should have been brought to trial, June 30, 2010
On May 9, 1945, the Russian Army that liberated the concentration camp Waldenburg, in Germany, announced: "We are giving you three days of absolute freedom to rape, to steal and to kill Germans. We have full empathy for your suffering, because we have lost 22 million of our people." The Russians fervently derided the Nazis; they were vengeful. I did not go out to kill Germans. I was a desiccated mass of bones and skin. I was then more dead than alive. Furthermore, had I been well, I could not have killed anybody. I remembered my father's adages:" Hate hatred, Shun violence! You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge (Leviticus 19:18)." I was definitely not vengeful! I was grateful that the Germans did not succeed, during the Holocaust, in debasing my inherited values, which were instilled in me during the formative years of my life. The Nazis damaged my constitution but could not destroy it. I asked God to enable me to live in a peaceful world among the righteous and not to have to face the wicked again.

I have not been aware of any killing of Germans by my liberated co-inmates. Therefore, I am surprised to hear, from Guy Walter, that some survivors were not just hunting Nazis in order to bring them to trial, but took the law into their own hands. "There were Jews who did murder their former oppressors" (p.101). I am wondering if wreaking vengeance on Germans alleviated the liberated Jews' physical and mental pains. It definitely did not bring back to life their loved family members.

It is however very disturbing to me that some thirty thousand Nazi war criminals got away with murder. Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Franz Stangl, Martin Bormann, and so many other murderers succeeded to have many years of a pleasant life, after the war. They settled in hospitable Argentina, Peru and other South American countries. Egypt, Syria, Italy, Spain and even the Vatican were accommodating fugitive Nazi war criminals and their collaborators. According to the recent report"Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War criminals, U.S. Intelligence and the Cold War", American counterintelligence recruited former Gestapo officers, SS veterans and Nazi collaborators. The Americans helped Klaus Barbie to escape to Bolivia. Tracking and punishing war criminals were not high among the Army's priorities in late 1946. In 1952, the C.I.A. moved to protect Mykola Lebed, a Ukrainian nationalist leader, from a criminal investigation by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. He would work for American intelligence in Europe and the United States through the 1980s, despite being implicated in guerrilla units during the war that killed Jews and Poles and being described by an Army counterintelligence report as a "well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans."

HUNTING EVIL is a monumental work; an in-depth researched one. It brings to light how evil Nazis and other unsavory characters that had committed atrocities in WWII found havens after the war. Many of those who escaped justice had been instrumental in implementing the Holocaust and other massacres like the murder of thousands of Slavs, Gypsies and Jews in Croatia.

I wish Guy Walters would have focused more on Simon Wiesenthal's accomplishments rather than on his self-aggrandizement and misinforming. Some contradictory details could have been attributed to Wiesenthal's unreliable memory rather than to fabrication. When Solomon became king of the Israelites, God told him to ask for what he wanted, and He would grant it (Kings 3:5, 7-12). Solomon asked for an understanding heart, to know how to distinguish right from wrong.

HUNTING EVIL is thoroughly gripping. Mr. Walter deserves credit and appreciation for his efforts to collect so much valuable information for the benefit of historians and future generations. At the conclusion of Klaus Barbie's trial, Serge Klarsfeld said: "Because memory is related to justice, it means that the children of Izieu will not die away in memory. They will not be forgotten." Teaching the Holocaust legacy and its intrinsic lessons will hopefully be beneficial to all ages and so will Waltes's HUNTING EVIL.

All perpetrators of Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbie's ilk should have been brought to trial for the sake of justice. The British paper, The Sun, called for "Hunt and Punish the Nazi War Criminals" I would have rephrased it; Hunt them, catch them and bring them to trial.

This book should be re-titled, "Hunting Wiesenthal", May 19, 2010
When an author chooses to write a book, s/he obviously needs to select a focus for the work. This is an obvious statement but points to a central problem in "Hunting Evil." Mr. Walters appears to have a dual purpose here. He wishes to recount the struggle to bring war criminals to justice which he does admirably. But, Mr. Walters also very clearly wishes to "set the record straight" about the shortcomings of famed Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Although a work examining the record of Mr. Wiesenthal would be a necessary corrective to the image of "St. Simon," Mr. Walters near obsession with Wiesenthal muddles his book and frankly makes the author appear shrill. For example, in his chapter recounting the capture of Adolf Eichmann, Walters takes a long detour to recount how Wiesenthal attempted to take credit for this the most famous of war criminal captures. It ruins the flow of the narrative. This unfortunately happens repeatedly in the book. Mr. Walters research was admirable. His focus on Wiesenthal should have been saved for his next book.

Solid Aggregation, June 29, 2010
I have read three of the author's fictional works; The Traitor, The Leader and The Occupation, as well as, his nonfiction account, Berlin Games: How the Nazis Stole the Olympic Dream. Obviously he is deeply fascinated with Nazi Germany and its continued influence on history (and fiction). Hunting Evil updates work such as Blowback by Simpson, Unholy Trinity by Aarons, The Real Odessa by Goni, amongst others.

Where Walter's work differs is in his condemnation both of the existence of ODESSA and the debatable contributions of Nazi Hunter, Simon Wiesenthal. The stories of Eichmann, Stangl, Mengele, Kaltenbrunner, and Barbie are provided in solid detail but with no real new material. As is the rather spotty follow-up by the Allies of war crimes and the various ratlines meant to secret individuals to safe bastions. The book attempts to break new ground and be provocative but ends up a solid aggregation of previous research.

Lacking focus, September 1, 2010
The book started off well enough but it quickly lost focus. This seems to be a trends in books where journalists attempt to write about history. The book is just as much about discrediting Simon Wiesenthal as it is about fugitive Nazis. While this may be deserved (I don't know and I don't care), it seems to me to be a topic for a different book. The author re-trods a lot of familiar ground--Eichmann, Mengele, Bormann, Barbie--but does cover some (for me) new material as well. The discussion about ODESSA was interesting. Overall, however, the books was unsatisifying.

Not terrible but not recommended.

The Imperfect Hunt for Former Nazis, August 29, 2010
With the end of the Second World War, there was much that had to be repaired, and among the human repairs that were needed was hunting the former Nazis that joined the teeming displaced masses. There is a perception that there was a postwar Nazi network "Odessa," the members of which were pursued by determined investigators like Simon Wiesenthal. It all fits into our sense of justice, and unfortunately it is mostly untrue. Yes, the victors did have efforts to bring the former Nazis to justice, and they are chronicled by historian and journalist Guy Walters in _Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped & the Quest to Bring Them to Justice_ (Broadway Books). But Walters says that he learned so much about what actually happened, so much that was scandalous and infuriating, that he almost called his book _Hunting Evil (Or Not)_. While justice was done in some big cases, it was delayed in many others, and delayed sometimes until the former Nazis had lived out their lives in full. Often they were helped by the Catholic Church or by nations who were glad to get their help in fighting one side or the other of the Cold War. And sadly, Simon Wiesenthal, regarded by many as a hero in the hunt, played a consequential role in only a few captures, while boasting that he had been instrumental in hundreds. Walters's book has excitement in it, as it describes some of the hunts that were eventually successful. More often, it is a necessary but disheartening account of how far from the ideal was the search for Nazi criminals. The decades have rolled on and the hunt is over; _Hunting Evil_ is an important summary of how justice was done, and in many cases was not.

There were loose organizations that helped former Nazis out of Europe, though they were nothing like the Odessa organization that was imagined by Frederick Forsyth in the book and resultant movie _The Odessa File_. There were ways that former Nazis did get to South America, for instance, but it was by haphazard efforts. It is astonishing how many of these efforts were aided by the Catholic Church. Adolf Eichmann wrote: "It was odd how throughout my escape journey I was helped by Catholic priests... In their eyes, I was just another human being on the road." It was not only church officials who did what they could to help the former Nazis and keep them from trial or punishment. The governments after the war found that there was little political will to spend effort and money to try the thousands of war criminals who deserved trials. Friedrich Buchardt, for instance, may have been responsible for 100,000 deaths, but got post-war paychecks from Britain's MI6, and later aided the Americans, and instead of being hung, he died quietly in his bed forty years after the war. There are many distressing pages in Walters's work, for he has to detail the crimes for which these former Nazis were hunted (or should have been). The lack of motivation of the Allies to ensure justice, too, is disheartening. The most surprising and disappointing revelations, though, are about Simon Wiesenthal, who was a media focus as a Jewish seeker of vengeance, and whom many knew as "The Man Who Never Forgets." He is celebrated as some sort of secular saint, and got plenty of awards and was nominated repeatedly for the Nobel Peace Prize. Walters shows, and shows conclusively, that Wiesenthal invented much of his own autobiography and exaggerated his achievements. "Wiesenthal's reputation is built on sand. He was a liar, and a bad one at that." Wiesenthal claimed, for instance, that the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in 1960 was his greatest triumph, but in documenting the story of the capture here (and it is an exciting part of the book), Walters shows that Wiesenthal contributed slightly and the contribution was more of a hindrance to the Mossad agents, not a help. Wiesenthal inexcusably hounded a Polish immigrant, Chicagoan Frank Walus, for collaboration with the Gestapo and other crimes; no such crimes had occurred, and Walus got a payment and an apology from the US government. He never recovered his reputation, however, and Wiesenthal and his organization just kept quiet about ruining it.

Walters allows that Wiesenthal did provide essential help in a dozen or so captures, but not the 1,500 he claimed. He allows also that Wiesenthal had the enthusiasm to work on the right team when many others who could have prevented injustice were letting former Nazis go. Wiesenthal also provided a focus for the world to think that justice was being done. The beginning epigram for _Hunting Evil_, however, is from Petronius: "_Mundus vult decipi_" - "The world wants to be deceived." I take it that Walters deliberately left off the last part of Petronius's sentence, "_...ergo decipiatur_," which adds: "so let it be deceived." The book is a study of deceptions on the part of Nazis, governments, church officials, and Nazi hunters; if the world wants to be deceived about them, it will be only despite the revelations in _Hunting Evil_.

these are good reviews, November 26, 2010
why a review at all, the book's strengths and weaknesses demand it. the book needs focus. there is no overall theme, its not about one person, and does not have the necessary framework to be an overall study of nazi-hunting. the author chooses to follow three cases intently, eichman, mengele and klaus barbie. you will learn something from the details about these cases you do not know. there are tangents into the allies use of nazi informants and Weisenthal. i thought the Weisenthal material was well-sourced and intriguing, so yes, i was interested, but perhaps too much. also thought the documented search for Mengele, long after he was dead is amusing, in a cynical way. well researched book that could use more focus. not about 1 case, not about all cases, stuck in the middle.

Is this book about Wiesenthal?, July 23, 2010
Ok, we get it, Wiesenthal was an obnoxious baffoon. You don't agree with his methods, tactics and how he presented his findings or lack thereof. But do you really need to spend the entire book, which, according to the synopsis, is about escaped Nazis, on how Wiesenthal was this and how Wiesenthal was that. Just write a book called "Wiesenthal, the fake Nazi hunter" and get it over with.

It is a pity, because the author had obviously conducted great research on the subject, interviewed main protagonists and it all came down to name calling and finger pointing.

Therefore, I wouldn't be using this book as a resource on ex-Nazis.

Quite Good, May 5, 2010
Nazi hunting is a fascinating topic, and one very well addressed by Guy Walters in "Hunting Evil". The book is well researched and extremely well written. One of my favorite sentences (Page 273), "...is the worst kind of misapplied a posteriori thinking and borders on casuistry." Bravo! And Walters' dry wit is wonderful and refreshing -- not what one would expect, given that his chosen topic is anything but inherently funny. Some salient examples:

When referring to a potboiler, "Act of Violence", Walters observes "Although Bormann does not appear, there is a satisfying fight with a giant ape [Page 343]."

In referencing the movie, "Commando Mengele", the notorious doctor is protected by "...an army of tight-trousered bodyguards [Page 366]...." and "Mengele's experiments involve injecting women with the fetuses of chimpanzees, which appears to result in little more than the women growing unfeasibly large eyebrows [Page 366]...."

Mengele's autobiography is "...a monumental work of narcissism that featured forty pages alone on his birth, and one-and-a-half pages on his placenta [Page 367]."

A couple of negatives. First, Walters really sticks it to Simon Wiesenthal. He deserves it, to be sure (what a mountebank!), but Walters carries on in an almost obsessive manner. Second, he seems to have it in for the Catholic Church, and I've had it with "socially acceptable" anti-Catholic rants.

I wonder how many more books on Nazi hunting will be written. It's all become rather academic, hasn't it? Does anybody still say they want to hunt Nazis? It's akin to expressing interest in joining an order of Teutonic knights. After all, how many of the bastards are still alive? And of those who are, the youngest must be 90! No, it's a door that's closing. Read "Hunting Evil" before that door shuts completely.

good read, October 5, 2010
Though I am not finish reading the book.I am impressed with the information that is in the book. Things you think about the war you never would have known because they are not put in the history books. The notion of how bad the Nazies where and how much help or how much the allies really cared about bringing people to justice. It also brings out the Alli namely the US support of dictators in south and central america. Something that I would have never thought about is the Arab support of the Nazies after the war. This is something that I and others have never thought or even would have guessed. But on the flip side the Jewish support and namely that theyget away with going into another country without any type of prosecution is astounding. Good book! Thanks CBC ... Read more

Editorial Review

Alexander and Alexander's best-selling AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW, Seventh Edition, sets the standard for texts in educational law, an increasingly vital area of expertise for today's school and district administrators. This combined textbook/casebook provides an authoritative and comprehensive view of the law that governs the public school system of the United States, including common law, statutes, and constitutional laws as they affect students, teachers, and administrators. Featuring civil and criminal cases selected from hundreds of jurisdictions and newly updated to reflect the latest legal trends and precedents, the text reviews key laws and relevant court decisions. The case method offers ample opportunity for class discussion to discover and expose the underlying rules and reasoning, and the text actively encourages readers to relate factual situations to the law while anticipating similar experiences they may have as practicing teachers and administrators. Written in an engaging and accessible style, AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW, Seventh Edition, explains even complex points of law clearly and effectively for non-lawyers, and the authors maintain a diligent focus on the unique needs of professional educators preparing for successful careers in administration. ... Read more

Reviews

Almost Painless Public School Law, February 23, 2006
This Sixth Edition of American Public School Law is a comprehensive treatment of noteworthy public school case law that also serves to outline the history of our country. It's user friendly, while not lowering the bar for comprehension. Legal lingo is left intact, but translations are offered for those of us who are reading it for School Law classes, as opposed to Law School classes. There's a useful glossary, and a handy index for locating specific topics, and the cases that illustrate them. This is a book you'll want to keep.

Public School Court Cases, February 18, 2006
I ordered the book for my graduate class. It contains landmark court cases and rulings dealing with public school issues in all U.S. states. It is a great source for public school administrators and basically an easy read for those who have never had a law class.

School law, September 30, 2005
The book is great for administrators who need to learn about school law. The book can at times be confusing. There should be additional reviews of the cases involved in the chapters.

Oustanding School Law Book, April 4, 2007
I got this book for my graduate class on School Law. At first, it was VERY intimidating as it was filled with lots of legal jargon and so on, but the book did a good job of making it fairly "easy" to read. (Though I do admit I've slept on the book a few times...) It is well organized by different sections, and the cases as well as their significance are explained clearly. I liked that it presented very straightforward information, with little slant/bias one way or another, leaving it up to the reader to make up their minds. While I was not required to read the book cover to cover for my class, I have tried to do so because I found the information pertinent and informative. It is a great reference, and definitely a book that I'll keep getting as new editions come out. ... Read more

Editorial Review

SOFTCOVER VERSION: The 2006 International Residential Code?brings uniformity to construction of one- and two-family dwellings and townhouses up to three stories high.A comprehensive code for homebuilding, this book brings together all building, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical provisions.It establishes minimum regulations using prescriptive provisions, and is founded on broad-based principles that make possible the use of new materials and building designs. ... Read more

Reviews

Good code book, August 12, 2007
like my title suggest this is a excellent code book for a residential project, personlly i am in the building trade so i have all the building code books The IRC + all three Voloums of UBC. It all depends on what part of the trade you are in I am in the remodeling part so actually i could probably get by with just the IRC Residential. the main thing to do is find out what code books your city building department is useing.
Like i said if all you can afford is one book then i would go for this book, an then later on as your business grows buy the rest.

Everything you need to build a garage (or house)!, April 5, 2008
If you are acting as a contractor on your home or garage project, then this book is invaluable to make sure that the subs are building to code or making sure that you are building to code. As an retired contractor and engineer, I've come to realize over time that codes actually do have a purpose in life besides making the building process a pain. The old farm house I bought probably wasn't built to code and it shows. A lot of farmers around here have to get up on their out-building and shovel snow because every year one or two more of their buildings collapse.

The book is well organize by project phase so things are easy to find--cement pad, walls, floors, roof, etc.

This fits your needs if you want to build, May 16, 2007
Ever wonder how in the world you could learn all those building codes and all that crazy jargon your contractor throws at you. Well this will help you gain an understanding of some of the requirements necessary in the residential work.

2 week old book falling apart, March 23, 2009
I know this is not amazons fault but this book is coming un-done after only a few weeks. If I could have bought it at a local bookstore I could return it but it took a long time in the first place to get from Code-It Books. You need at least 3 weeks lead time if you order online.

content on target, March 19, 2007
this is a great book but i'd rather they organize there diagrams better and in a more direct way. grouping them up in a non cohesive way is counter intuitive. Blocks of pages are just diagrams then in the reading I have to go back and find the page with in that block of diagram pages. Its detailed but just not organized in a good way.

latest IRC, August 22, 2008
This was exactly what I expected. In the professional engineering circles, it is important to maintain the latest specifications on which your analyses must be based.

IRC 2006, June 22, 2008
The book quality and condition are as the same as the seller describes.
If it's original copy, it'll be much better and easier to use.2006 International Residential Code - Softcover Version (International Residential Code)

2006 International Residential Code/soft cover, September 18, 2007
This code book is like all such books very hard to get into, but it is a good reference. It lacks as good an index as I would like. The paper, printing and binding are good.

International Residential Code 2006 Review, July 8, 2006
The International Residential Code 2006 is basically a technical manual for builders yet is also our bible as far as codes are concerned. It is a great reference. ... Read more