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Good Overview
This book provides a good overview of air permitting and good explanations of many of the issues involved. I don't think it "...shows facility air quality managers, regulatory agency staff, and consultants how to prepare permit applications for Title V Federal Operating Permits or for New Source Review (NSR)or Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) perrmits for new or modified sources of air pollutant emissions, and how to comply with permits obtained." The differences between different facilities and states are too great for one book to do all that. Most books providing advice about air permitting imagine the reader is working for some "Mega-firm" with a team of eager co-workers. They might prove more useful if they focused on the poor guy locked alone in a room with six inches of forms and a bad calculator. Still, Leonard knows his material and provides many useful insights into the permit process.He writes clearly, has organized his material well and does a better job with a huge topic than any other book I have found.

This is a great book on Air Quality Permitting in the U.S.
I used this book last year, as a text book in a class at UCLA that Iteach.I am also using it this year.The book was very well received bythe students.I found it very useful to teach from, and as a referencebook.It is the only book of its kind, as far as I know.Thanks, Leon! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Air    2. Air Pollution    3. Environmental    4. Environmental Engineering & Technology    5. Environmental Law    6. Environmental Science    7. Environmental permits    8. Law    9. Law and legislation    10. Pollution    11. Science/Mathematics    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. United States    14. Atmospheric pollution    15. Heating, lighting, ventilation    16. Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection    17. Occupational / industrial health & safety   

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Whistleblower Lesson #1 -Buy this book TODAY!
If you're a whistleblower, and you are not familiar with Concepts and Procedures in Whistleblower Law by Mr. Kohn, you are at a serious disadvantage already. I had no idea what I was up against. I was getting clobbered by the system at every turn. The information in this book evens the playing field quickly. S.O.S.A first hand review from a survivor :
This book is indispensible to an employee who is beaten down by the corporate world for reporting a violation in good faith of unethical or unlawful matter . I was cast into the stormy sea of politics without a hope of survival until I was tossed this book; my only life preserver in a corrupt world. S.O.S.A first hand review from a survivor :
This book is indispensible to an employee who is beaten down by the corporate world for reporting a violation in good faith of unethical or unlawful matter . I was cast into the stormy sea of politics without a hope of survival until I was tossed this book; my only life preserver in a corrupt world. Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Business & Financial    3. Discrimination In Employment    4. Dismissal of    5. Employees    6. Labor & Employment    7. Labor And Employment Law    8. Law    9. Law and legislation    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. United States    12. Whistle blowing    13. Employment & labour law    14. Law / Business    15. Personnel & human resources management    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Cases    3. Employee fringe benefits    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Pension trusts    9. Taxation    10. United States   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Discrimination against people with disabilities    3. Employment    4. Labor & Employment    5. Law    6. Law and legislation    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. People with disabilities    9. Reference    10. States    11. United States   

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Fire and Emergency Law Casebook
This is an excellent book for tutorials in a classroom setting.However, this is not an ideal book for a reader that is deeply involved with case law in the industrial fire setting. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Technology    2. Law and legislation    3. Legal Reference / Law Profession    4. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Civil Procedure    7. Engineering skills & trades    8. Explosives technology & pyrotechnics    9. Mathematics and Science    10. Technology / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades    11. United States    12. Fire Science    13. Assistance in emergencies    14. Legal status, laws, etc.    15. Cases    16. Fire departments    17. Fire fighters   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Labor & Employment    3. Law    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Collective labor agreements    3. Hospital Administration    4. Hospitals    5. Labor & Employment    6. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    7. Law and legislation    8. Medical    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Strikes and lockouts    11. United States    12. Health systems & services    13. Medical / Administration    14. Strikes   

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An essential guide to the new world of work
Amid the endless hype about the "new workplace," it is difficult to grasp the enormous changes that have occured in the world of work over the past quarter century.Katherine Stone's FROM WIDGETS TO DIGITS is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to understand or to affect the character of labor in the globalizing economy.
Exceptional Analysis of Present Situation
The best and most authoritative analysis of why so many workers feel "nervously employed". A scholarly work of great value to all including those eager to take responsibility for their place in a turbulent workplace. It brights attention to the fact that productivity gains have gone to owners of capital not workers creating wealth...a must read!

Important and Compelling Book
In this excellent and highly readable book, author Stone shines new light on the structural changes in the modern American employment relationship.Stone's analysis is original and compelling--essential reading for policy makers, scholars and students.Drawing on her expertise as both a labor historian and legal scholar, Stone argues that throughout the twentieth century, employers have encouraged long-term employment relationships through "the use of implicit promises for job security and well-defined paths of career progression."As a result, labor and employment policy have been molded to meet these ends.The problem, according to Stone, is that modern day employment arrangements are no longer driven by stability, but rather by flexibility, as employers seek, for example, to farm out more and more of their core operations to independent contractors and short-term hires.The result is a regulation regime for a vanished era.More than just analysis, From Widgets to Digits, also offers a progressive, concrete program for the workplace, thereby allowing policy to keep pace with the employment revolution. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Employees    2. General    3. Human capital    4. Industrial relations    5. Labor & Employment    6. Labor market    7. Law    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Manpower policy    10. Employment & labour law    11. Law / General    12. USA   

Editorial Review

Multiple regression analyses are rarely the subject of heated public debate or 225-page books for laypeople. But John R. Lott, Jr.'s study in the January 1997 Read more

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Be wary of reviewers here.
It would be in the best interest of those thinking of purchasing the book to scan over a copy of it themselves before purchasing it.The especially negative reviews should be scrutinized.....they are obviously written by people who do not like looking at what Dr. Lotts' data says.They claim that he is a mouthpiece for the firearms industry, but the truth of the matter is that the man never even owned or operated a firearm until AFTER he came to the conclusions he did in the paper that subsequently led to this book.He chose to purchase a firearm only after he learned the effects private ownership had on crime.
Review the reviewers
Poorly researched and using fictional statistics, this book is a great example of how NOT to do research!
Attracted to the book because of the critics...
I have a concealed carry permit and am a member of a number of gun rights organizations.However, I simply am not one to use utilitarian arguments for such positions and so would normally not be interested in econometric modeling to defend something like the right to keep and bear arms.Nevertheless, as I began to find all these attacks on Dr. Lott -- even by miscellaneous gun rights advocates on USNET, I just had to see what it was all about.
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Subjects:  1. Criminology    2. Firearms    3. Firearms and crime    4. Government - U.S. Government    5. International Relations - Arms Control    6. Law and legislation    7. Political Process - General    8. Political Science    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Politics/International Relations    11. United States    12. Causes & prevention of crime    13. Social Science / Criminology    14. Social law    15. USA    16. Violence in society    17. Weapons & equipment   

Subjects:  1. Business Law    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Labor & Employment    4. Labor laws and legislation    5. Law    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal assistants    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / General    10. Employment & labour law    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Job descriptions    7. Labor    8. Labor & Employment    9. Personnel And Human Resources Management    10. Personnel management   

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Health Care Law Nutshell
A very good introduction to all major legal issues presented in what is called Health Care Law.Topics covered include: contractual aspects of the doctor-patient relationship (duty to treat, termination of relations); thelegal nature of health care organizations; ERISA preemption; medicalmalpractice and informed consent; anti-trust; and ethical considerations. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. Ethics    3. Health    4. Law    5. Law and legislation    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Medical Law & Legislation    8. Medical care    9. Medical ethics    10. Practice Of Medicine    11. Reference    12. United States    13. Medical equipment & techniques    14. Public health & safety law   

Subjects:  1. Alien labor    2. Employment agencies    3. Immigrants    4. Labor & Employment    5. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    6. Political Science    7. Politics - Current Events    8. Politics / Current Events    9. Politics/International Relations    10. Services for    11. United States    12. Labour economics    13. USA    14. Work & labour   

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Outstanding coverage, best prep for CJPEE
This text clearly and concisely covers the most critical and challenging aspects of California mental health law. No legalese or unusual jargon, just common sense answers to your most frequently asked questions. I used this text to prepare for the CJPEE and I could not recommend it more highly. It's an interesting read and very helpful to the practicing therapist.

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This book is a detailed guide to the Mental Health Law of California.It elaborates in lucid fashion the details of the law including the role and responsibilities of physicians for commitment of the mentally ill.It makes clear the situations where the physician can and cannot act.
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Subjects:  1. California    2. Legal Reference / Law Profession    3. Mental Health    4. Mental health laws    5. Psychology    6. Psychotherapy - General    7. Reference    8. Social law   

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Excellent referral source.
Excellent referral source. Solid information with background information in clear concise format.

Simply essential reading for labor-side representatives!
This text gives us an impossibly clear overview of labor laws from labor's perspective.The sections on organizing and the legality of different kinds of strikes are particularly helpful.A must-read for all BA's, Organizers and Union Officers. --Michael Murphy, Washington College of Law (formerly of Food and Beverage Workers Union, Local 32) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business Law    3. Labor & Employment    4. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    5. Labor And Employment Law    6. Labor laws and legislation    7. Labor unions    8. Law    9. Law and legislation    10. Legal Reference / Law Profession    11. United States    12. Employment & labour law    13. Law / Corporate   

Subjects:  1. Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice    2. History    3. Labor    4. Labor & Employment    5. Labor laws and legislation    6. Law    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. United States   

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A fine and thorough book
Litwak provides about as much as a professional could share in this throrough outing.He also shares 'boilerplate' contracts for virtally all key players in a film production.Of course, direct experience is the best teacher, but EVERY neophyte in film or television must own this book, and its a handy reference for seasoned professionals and part-timers. This is the best book on contracts for film/TV
Mark Litwak's book is by far the best book available on film and television contracts. His book is a no nonsense, thorough guide to the complex world of contractual law for an industry that has a history of taking advantage of those who don't take the time or spend the money to hire good legal representation. He is an advocate for the rights of artists, writers, actors, etc., and his contracts are a good basis for negotiations and deals in the TV/Film industry. Even if you hire your own attorney, this book will help you understand the structure of your deal and alert you to details and potential booby traps in all that fine print.D. Kuspa ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Artists' contracts    2. Business Aspects    3. Contracts    4. Contracts (Law)    5. Entertainment    6. Film & Video - Reference    7. Forms    8. Law and legislation    9. Media Studies - Electronic Media    10. Motion picture industry    11. Performing Arts    12. Performing Arts (General)    13. Performing Arts/Dance    14. Pop Arts / Pop Culture    15. Reference    16. Television    17. United States    18. Contract law    19. English law: contract law    20. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administration    2. Community Health    3. Health    4. Health & Fitness    5. Health Care Issues    6. Health/Fitness    7. Home care services    8. Law and legislation    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. United States    11. Law as it applies to other professions    12. Nursing & Ancillary Services    13. Social security & welfare law    14. USA   

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A fascinating look at civil rights development in the US
John David Skrentny has written a profound and deeply enlightening look at the development of affirmative action. His examination of the co-option of the race and quota issues by the right wing in the early 1970's is a mustread for any student of history, politics, and American culture. A giftedand highly readable author, Mr. Skrentny takes the reader on a cook's tourof the social and political development of affirmative action. An excellentcompoanion volume to Hugh Graham's civil rights work. Highly recommended. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Affirmative action programs    2. Business/Economics    3. Labor & Employment    4. Labor & Industrial Relations - General    5. Politics / Current Events    6. United States    7. Constitutional & administrative law    8. Equal opportunities    9. Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations    10. Political science & theory    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business / Economics / Finance    3. Business/Economics    4. Employees    5. Human Resources & Personnel Management    6. Labor    7. Labor & Employment    8. Law and legislation    9. Performance Appraisal    10. Popular works    11. Rating of    12. United States