Strickland Read (17 results)

Condition: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The 13th book in the Fairacre series. "The English village of Fairacre may appear idyllically peaceful to passersby, but those who live among its shady lanes always have problems to untangle. When a terrible rumor emerges - that the Fairacre School is to be closed and the children bused to nearby Beech Green - the village is up in arms at once. The schoolmistress, Miss Read, suffers agonizing indecision at the prospect, and her situation is made worse when her infants' room teacher decides to leave and the short-tempered Mrs. Pringle becomes more contrary than ever."--Fantastic Fiction.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Book Club Edition. Book club edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. The ninth book in the Thrush Green series. John S. [Strickland] Goodall (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardback. Condition: New. Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer's skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This highly personal and impassioned book is their defense of lawyers and the rule of law in the United States. The Lawyer Myth confronts the hypocrisy of critics from both the right and the left who attempt to exploit popular misperceptions about lawyers and judges to further their own social and political agendas. By revealing the facts and reasoning behind the decisions in such cases as the infamous McDonald's coffee spill, the authors provide a clear explanation of the operation of the law while addressing misconceptions about the number of lawsuits, runaway jury verdicts, and legal "technicalities" that turn criminals out on the street. Acknowledging that no system is perfect, the authors propose a slate of reforms for the bar, the judiciary, and law schools that will enable today's lawyers-and tomorrow's-to live up to the noble potential of their profession. Whether one thinks of lawyers as keepers of the springs of democracy, foot soldiers of the Constitution, architects and carpenters of commerce, umpires and field levelers, healers of the body politic, or simply bridge builders, The Lawyer Myth reminds us that lawyers are essential to American democracy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. 1996 date printed to the title page, "First American edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, and $21.95 price and date code 1096 printed to the jacket's flap. Set in one of Read's beloved fictional villages in the Cotswolds, this Thrush Green tale is rich with the author's highly acclaimed observances of nature and the changing seasons, each of the twelve month chapters depicting village life and activities, spiced with humor. Fine in cranberry linen over cream-blue boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine; pale-yellow headband and tail-band, basket illustrated end-papers; in a very nearly fine dust jacket; original printed $21.95 price and date code 1096 still intact to the front inner flap.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Physical description: 254 pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Subjects: Fairacre (England : Imaginary place); Fiction; Country life England; Villages England; Fairacre (Imaginary place); Education in popular culture. 1 Kg. …

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Previous owner's signature to ffep. Physical description: 254 pages, illustrations, 21 cm. Subjects: Fairacre (England : Imaginary place); Fiction; Country life England; Villages England; Fairacre (Imaginary place); Education in popular culture. 1 Kg. …

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Condition: New. Confronts the hypocrisy of critics from both the right and the left who attempt to exploit popular misperceptions about lawyers and judges to further their own social and political agendas.&Uumlber den AutorRennard Strickland is the.

Hardback. Condition: New. Lawyers and the legal profession have become scapegoats for many of the problems of our age. In The Lawyer Myth: A Defense of the American Legal Profession, Rennard Strickland and Frank T. Read look behind current antilawyer media images to explore the historical role of lawyers as a balancing force in times of social, economic, and political change. One source of this disjunction of perception and reality, they find, is that American society has lost touch with the need for the lawyer's skill and has come to blame unrelated social problems on the legal profession. This highly personal and impassioned book is their defense of lawyers and the rule of law in the United States. The Lawyer Myth confronts the hypocrisy of critics from both the right and the left who attempt to exploit popular misperceptions about lawyers and judges to further their own social and political agendas. By revealing the facts and reasoning behind the decisions in such cases as the infamous McDonald's coffee spill, the authors provide a clear explanation of the operation of the law while addressing misconceptions about the number of lawsuits, runaway jury verdicts, and legal "technicalities" that turn criminals out on the street. Acknowledging that no system is perfect, the authors propose a slate of reforms for the bar, the judiciary, and law schools that will enable today's lawyers-and tomorrow's-to live up to the noble potential of their profession. Whether one thinks of lawyers as keepers of the springs of democracy, foot soldiers of the Constitution, architects and carpenters of commerce, umpires and field levelers, healers of the body politic, or simply bridge builders, The Lawyer Myth reminds us that lawyers are essential to American democracy.…