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Uncommon spirit.......2005-09-15
Roscoe Pound was Carter Professor of Jurisprudence at Harvard University in the first half of the twentieth century. This text, derived from a series of lectures given in the 1910s, has held up over time (its initial publication was in 1921, and has been reissued periodically ever since) as a touchstone of historical and theoretical explorations of what common law is and how it operates, both in the British and American contexts.
Unlike constitutional law and other kinds of codified law from legislative bodies, the common law is more of a development from the masses, at least insofar as it connects with the judicial aspects of government which in turn recognises certain things as legal or illegal. Indeed, Pound sees the triumph of the idea of the supremacy of law over authority to be a victory of the spirit of the common law (specifically, he refers to the supremacy of the law over the Stuart monarchs in Britain, but also that common law practice has survived Renaissance, Reformation and the institution of Roman law).
Pound looks at the common law in different phases - feudal underpinnings, Puritan influences, relationship between judiciary and the Crown/executive authority, philosophers such as Locke, and growing judicial practice in the trans-Atlantic context during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Pound does have a distaste of law for law's sake, and warns against attitudes that are 'a natural result of measuring the law solely by standards drawn from the law itself.' He is strongly concerned with the idea that the law be accessible to all, regardless of background, education, or ability to pay - there should not be one law for the rich and another for the poor.
Law is for the betterment of society, and the spirit of the common law has this at heart, according to Pound. This text of Pound's, an enduring favourite, is a good exposition of how and why the law is important for a well-regulated society, and how the spirit of the common law needs to be cherished, preserved and strengthened by the legal profession for the sake of whole community.
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Masonic Common Law
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THIS 56 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Masonic Jurisprudence, by Roscoe Pound. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564590488.
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The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident. Inspired by the example of American freedom and justice, a movement in Franconia among the peasants, who have revolted several times even before the arrival from the future of the town of Grantville, an independent revolutionary movement has arisen, flying the banner of the head of a ram. The West Virginians fully approve of liberating the peasants from the nobility, but they are also aware of how revolutionary movements can lead to bloodbaths. And avoiding that deadly possibility will require all of their future knowledge and all their plain old American horse-trading diplomacy. . . .
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don't buy this book.............2007-09-11
....unless you have nothing else to spend your money on. I am a great fan of the other books, especially 1633, but this one is a poorly, maybe even unethically, conceived project. Many of the "stories" contained in the book were written by non-professional writers, and it really shows. Apparently many of them are available on the web, which makes the decision to publish them in book form, without warning the purchaser, rather iffy, in my opinion. The theme that is supposed to hold everything together, "Brillo" and his use as a symbol for a new form of government, is just, well, lame. The songs are unbelievably tedious, and the idea is not ever presented coherently.
Pass on this one, save your money for 1634: The Baltic War.
Weakest of the Series.......2007-09-10
The Ram Rebellion is easily the very least of the otherwise great 1632 series. Flint, in the introduction, says that the book is not quite an anthology and not quite a co-written effort. That middle of the road approach hurts the book. For a series that is normally a political action series with a great deal of research behind it, this book feels like a massive collection of events and characters that might be important some day (say, in 1636 or so), but weren't interesting or important enough to warrant their own treatment.
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Also, the idea of Brillo the Ram gets irritating and repetitive so fast that I found myself wishing that they'd just kill it already; if the damn sheep is tainting the gene pool, EAT THE SHEEP. Don't complain about it so much that you start a cultural icon! If the Brillo stories were actually interesting, it wouldn't have been so bad; but they were called funny by so many characters and were so uninteresting that it rubbed me the wrong way.
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Speaking of so many characters, there were a LOT of characters that were utterly unimportant. I'm sorry Mr. Flint, but you yourself acknowledged that writers typically write about Great Men. There is a good reason for this: the commoners are frequently boring. Important, yes. Interesting, no. After feeling cheated buying the hardcover edition, I decided not to look into the other anthologies of the series and stick to the main storyline.
many stones do form an arch, singly none.......2007-06-07
As many reviewers have noted, this book has a lot of characters, and none of them are the "main" characters of the 1632 world. It takes place off the beaten path. If you haven't been reading this series, then by all means go and read 1632 and 1633 first.
The book's lack of a single central plot and a small set of characters is very much the authors' point, though. This book is deliberately set against the "great man of history" approach. The idea isn't the usual plot in which a small number of characters seize control of events. Instead, events steamroll along in the interactions of many seemingly unrelated characters, each trying to figure out their own small part of the world.
In many ways this book comes closest to the spirit of the 1632 enterprise, which at its heart is about "ordinary" people shaping history with "ordinary" resources.
If you read it with that theme in mind, instead of by trying to see the one central plot that ties everything together, you'll probably enjoy the book.
If you don't enjoy somewhat chaotic stories with lots of completely unintended consequences, then by all means go far, far, far away from this series. There are plenty of excellent alternate histories in which a few incedible people drive events (S M Stirling probably writes the best of these, though John Birmingham is worth checking out). The 1632 series, on the other hand, is an experiment in chaotic history.
This philosophy does lead to a lot of books in the series that seem like "sidelines" compared to the main military histories that have big armies blowing each other to pieces at the command of kings and presidents and cardinals. But to the "ordinary" peasants of Franconia, all of that stuff is the sideline, and in many ways that's the point!
Useful Addition to the 'Ring of Fire' Series by Eric Flint, et al.......2007-04-07
The Book is a collection of stories in Four parts.
Part 1. Recipes for Revolution is set in 1631 and 1632. It's chiefly two stories about "Birdy" Newhouse, a farmer on the border of 'The Ring of Fire' who lost acreage in the transfer across time and wants to rent or buy extra land from the local German owners. This presents problems and opportunities which form the basis of the stories. There are also three short glimpses of Mike Stearns with Melissa Mailey.
Part 2. Enter the Ram introduces Flo Richards, a farmer's wife with four grown children who had bought a small flock of type C Delaine Merino sheep and some angora rabbits before the RoF in the hope that she'd see more of her youngest daughter once she'd finished her studies out of town. The RoF had left Jan, the daughter behind, and Flo was dealing with this loss by concentrating on her livestock. She, and JD, her husband have local Germans living with them as partners now that farming has become more labour intensive. Flo's laments about the poor quality wool of the locally obtained ram (who comes to be known as Brillo for that reason) stike a chord with some-one and before long a number of 'Brillo fables' appear in the local broadsheet.
Flo Richards has mixed feelings about Brillo. He has escaped from his pen and interfered with her merino breeding program, yet his fame due to the stories spread through Grantville out into the rest of Germany. The Women's League of Voters uses a Ram's Head as its emblem, schoolchildren sing songs about Brillo and Elizabeth "Bitty" Matowski, introduces Ballet to the down-timers with a Brillo ballet.
Part 3. The Trouble in Franconia begins in December 1632 with the King of Sweden, Gustavus Adolphus having assigned the administration of those parts of Franconia that were Catholic to the New United States (NUS). They don't have the manpower to occupy the province and there are actually pockets of resistance in at least two fortresses that the Swedish King simply bypassed in his conquest. These, and other things have to be dealt with by a mixture of up-timers and down-timers. All this sets the scene for the longest story in the book.
Part 4. The Ram Rebellion. In Franconia, a schoolteacher has been reading "Common Sense" by Tom Paine. He also finds the Brillo stories interesting. The farmers in Franconia (and Thuringia for that matter) have a history of dissent concerning serfdom and Mike Stearns has hopes of getting some fundamental changes made in the way that Franconia is run as a result of a farmer's rebellion of sorts. He neglects to include this in the briefing given to the civil servants sent down to administer Franconia although Johnny F. and Noelle Murphy, among others have an effect on the schoolteacher's "Ram rebellion".
I think that this book gives useful background about developments outside of the main geo-political story where the greater history of Europe is taking place. Franconia is a local area where things are happenning to local people. I've only given it three stars because although it is entertaining and fleshes out the story-line I think it is an optional addition to the main story of Grantville in the Thirty Years War.
Anyone who gets into the series to the extent of The Grantville Gazette and Baen's Bar in the internet will probably find this book a useful addition to their entertainment.
Notably better than average but not really outstanding.......2007-03-07
As the author says this is an oddball. It isn't an anthology of commonly themed stories in fact there are 4 very different sets of stories. It isn't the type of book where the main author writes a skeleton and guests fill in appropriate stories as is seen in Science Fiction and in The Academy: Tales of the Marketplace by Laura Antoniou (BTW read my review before considering purchase). Instead it is a crazy quilt of stories which illustrate the Americans interactions with the native Germans. The first third of the book has three main themes: German land law and how to deal with it (Birdie's struggles to buy more land for his farm), Brillo and how he (a Ram) becomes a symbol and celebrity and lastly in A Night at The Ballet how the American ballet teacher overcomes snobbish attitudes of the German upper crust and Nobles. The last two thirds of the book is set in Franconia which is classically set up for a disaster. The Americans (called the NUS for now) administer it; but only the Catholic parts (Gustavus Adolphus' Protestant allies are exempt). Unfortunately Catholics and at least some of the Protestants are intermixed and the NUS has no real forces to enforce authority. When the rebellion starts the cheif leader calls himself "Helmut speaking for the Ram" having recently read a copy of Doc Smiths Galactic Patrol. The attempts of the Americans to figure out his motives are amusing. Also is the fact that the rebels choose Brillo as their symbol. While this is a pretty good read it isn't as coherent as it could be with a lot of threads and different characters as well as writers leading so some inconsistencies.
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"There's no such thing as a mature business," only a growth business, write leading business consultants Ram Charan and Noel M. Tichy. Every Business Is a Growth Business is a step-by-step manual for turning any company into an expanding company. The book is packed with real-world examples and key concepts for executives to get their businesses on an upward trajectory.
Charan and Tichy assert that growth requires sticking to two principles: "strategy from the outside in" and "changing the genetic code." The first means putting yourself in your customers' shoes and asking what are their needs and how are they changing. From this perspective, a company can redefine its market and come up with creative ways to expand demand. The second principle, changing the genetic code, means revamping the corporate culture so that a new mindset for growth can thrive. As anyone who has ever worked in a company knows, corporate culture is a hard thing to overhaul. The book gives concrete steps to make that happen; sometimes it requires whole new leadership.
Charan, who has been on the faculty of the Harvard Business School and Northwestern University, and Tichy, a professor at the University of Michigan Business School, speak from experience. They've advised companies such as Royal Dutch/Shell and Mercedes-Benz. One of their heroes is the late Roberto Goizueta of Coca-Cola. When Goizueta took over, the company was on cruise control. It dominated the U.S. soft- drink industry--a market that many experts believed was mature with nowhere to grow. Under conventional thinking, Coca-Cola was maxed out: it would do well just to defend each tenth of a percent of market share against archrival PepsiCo. But in the 1980s, Goizueta framed the question of market share in a different way. Goizueta got his top executives to see that globally, Coca-Cola accounted for less than 2 ounces of the 64 ounces of fluid that each of the world's 4.4 billion people drank on average every day. In one simple stroke, he redefined the market and opened vast new areas of opportunity for his company. Coca-Cola became an immensely successful growth company under his leadership. Similar stories about Compaq, Citibank, and other companies abound. Every Business Is a Growth Business is an inspiring and practical book for business leaders looking to grow their company. --Dan Ring
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Everyone wants growth, coauthor Noel Tichy explains on this audiocassette, but how many businesses are truly geared toward that end? At a time when the business cycle demands growth--or businesses risk death--but when so many businesses have already grown beyond anyone's wildest expectations, it's hard for companies not to circle the wagons and protect what they've already gained. If you can get past Tichy's somewhat droning delivery and his excessive use of "think-out-of-the-box"-level clichés and buzzwords, you'll find the secrets to continual growth for your company. Or, if you're an investor, you'll get insights into why some companies keep growing while others stagnate, and thus learn new ways to choose the best companies to stake your retirement funds on. (Running time: three hours, two cassettes) --Lou Schuler
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What's the number one item on every company's agenda?
Profitable Growth.
Every Business Is a Growth Business is your one-stop guide to making profitable growth happen. It's a radical and refreshing source of ideas, inspiration, and common sense, all based on the unparalleled experience and access of Ram Charan and Noel Tichy.
Charan and Tichy have worked with some of the world's leading executives--people such as Jack Welch of GE, Eckhard Pfeiffer of Compaq, Larry Bossidy of Allied Signal, John Reed of Citigroup, Dick Brown of Cable & Wireless, Alex Trotman and Jacques Nasser of Ford, and the senior management of Coca-Cola--who have transformed their companies into profitable growth machines. Every Business Is a Growth Business is a distillation of what the authors and these unique leaders have learned about profitable growth:
If your business isn't growing sustainably and profitably, it's dying.
Any business can grow profitably. There is no such thing as a mature business.
A company grows because growth is in the corporate mindset, created by the company's leaders.
The mindset of growth starts at the top, but it must reach all the way to the bottom.
Sustainable growth is profitable and capital-efficient.
"Broadening your pond," changing your company's genetic code, developing a growth strategy from the outside in, and other unique ideas.
Every Business Is a Growth Business includes inside accounts of how GE Medical, Allied Signal, Compaq, Citibank, Reynolds and Reynolds, Praxair, and GE Capital developed profitable growth strategies. It includes "The Handbook for Growth," a highly practical guide that will be an immense help as you and your team develop your company's profitable growth strategy.
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Growing even the best businesses.......2007-04-06
The authors describe how great businesses redefine themselves and think from the outside in to expand and to conquer stagnation. There is a series of worksheets at the end which test the reader to see how you thing which was helpful.
Great Title,.. borrow from library instead.......2006-12-19
The title of this book caught my eye and I thought I would learn something profound. Quite frankly, there isn't really anything new here. The basic premise of the book is to understand customers needs or create needs and find a way to fulfill those needs in a profitable way. The book doesn't get into specifics but sites several examples of CEOs growing their respective companies. In general, those sources of growth were simply this..
1.Natural growth, where the market for what you make is strong and expanding
2.Gaining market share through low cost - high productivity growth, rapid cycle times, high asset turnover
3.Proprietary or patented technology
4.Highly-developed distribution channels that you've built over time
5.Opening new markets for your existing products - for example, globalization
6.Gaining power in the marketplace via acquisitions, alliances, vertical integration
7.Expanding your pond
8.Resegmenting your markets
9.Moving into adjacent segments
Ofcourse, the book goes into greater detail about each of the above, if you don't understand it in one sentence.
Main focus of book is to view your company from the outside in,..
1. How can I identify or create needs?
2. How can I meet them?
3. How fast can I meet them?
In essence, look at needs as the drivers of change
Pretty common sense stuff don't you think?
This is why I don't highly recommend this book. Its probably best to just borrow it from the library. You save money ;)
Every Leader should read this...then read again!.......2002-04-12
This is one of my favorite leadership books by two authors with whom I have a great deal of respect for their advice. The premise of the book it that by looking at the entire business landscape affecting your clients, there are larger opportunities in which to solve the client's CEO issues beyond the immediate customer orders. Written with real world examples, some of which were first hand consulting jobs by the authors, the examples are detailed and written so you can relate them to your own work.
I have applied these principles in my own professional work and find the concepts very useful in business growth development efforts. In almost every growth opportunity development session with employees, collegues and clients, the going in premise is that there is not enough budget or too limited a market, thus preventing us from pursuing a given opportunity. Applying the author's concepts to creating the expanded view of the opportunity almost always proves to incite a bigger picture for everyone.
The book may require better book bindings because I refer back to it so often that I will one day wear out the bindings!
Read and Expand the Pond! Highly Recommended.
A Good Read!.......2001-03-03
Ram Charan and Noel M. Tichy make the case that no company, even a very large corporation, should think of itself as a mature company or as part of a mature industry. If you look at the market broadly and take your customer's perspective, you will always find room for growth. First, look at your customers' changing needs and think of how your company can expand beyond its current market. Then, expand that approach throughout the company. The basic message may sound familiar, but Charan and Tichy bring a strong how-to approach to their directions for implementing it in your company. We at getAbstract.com appreciate the utility of their mix of examples, graphs, charts, and workbook, which should prove helpful to executives and company owners.
A well-written, very practical recipe for growth and change........1999-03-01
I found this book to be one of the best I have read on the topics of growth and change in some time. This book is devoid of the psychological "fluff" that permeates many other books in this genre. It reads like a practical recipe to be followed by those commited to growth and change. Not at all unlike Welch's annual letters to the shareholders of GE. Whereas the annual letters of others companies drone on and on about what was, surrounded by the fluff of what can be, Welch's letters read like a master plan for action, which can be understood and driven to all levels of the company.
The authors define "desirable" growth from the perspective of shareholders as capital efficient, profitable growth. They then describe a framework for "growing the pond you fish in". Next, they point out the necessity of changing the "genetic code" of the organization so that growth is pursued by leaders at all levels in the organization. They describe a framework for producing this change in the genetic code of the organization. This framework is primarily based on a "teachable point-of-view" developed by the leadership, and constantly reinforced and reiterated through various carefully designed "operating mechanisms". The teachable point-of-view consists of key business ideas, values, emotional energy, and "edge" (on tough calls).
I've read this book twice already, and may read it again. I've started to implement the methodology in my company...so far, so good.
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Beyond XS and OS: My Thirty Years in the NFL
Jim Hanifan , and
Rob Rains
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Arguably the finest offensive line coach in the history of professional football, Jim Hanifan of the St. Louis Rams tells the story of his life in the NFL as he enters his final season.
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Israel 2000 Years
Dan Bahat , and
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In the pages of this book, with its integration of a fascinating historical text and spectacularly beautiful artworks collected especially for this purpose from all over the world, Jerusalem reveals itself as a unique bled of reality and imagination, matter and spirit. The quality of the printing and the production accord the book a resplendent and impressive appearance, and open a window upon Jerusalem's glorious and incomparable past.
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