| | The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (Eighteenth Edition) |  | Publisher: Harvard Law Review Association
Category: Book
Buy New: $24.99
New (6) Used (10) from $23.75
Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 179318
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 18th
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 600014329X
EAN: 9786000143299
ASIN: B000E5GQ18
Publication Date: 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 A truly evocative and powerful effort July 22, 2007
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Let's be honest. A lot of people felt that Bluebook had fallen off. After that award show confrontation with ALWD and the concealed weapons charges, Bluebook looked like they were on the ropes. That only makes this 18th edition more triumphant for the Bluebook. A stunning return to the form that made them such an irresistible bunch of ragamuffins to begin with, Bluebook has a sure answer to the naysayers who thought they couldn't adapt to the electronic movement--a blistering tribute to Internet citation.
For anyone interested in their new "harder" sound, the blue practitioner pages don't disappoint. Meanwhile the smooth, sculptural rhythms of "cases in textual sentences" will leave a smile on your face.
Overall, the soothing melodies of this consistently powerful album are ideal for any mood, whether it be insomnia or deadline adrenaline rushes. And let's be honest, it's the Bluebook. You're going to buy it. As another reviewer observed: buy it, don't download it off the internet! The artists really deserve our support.
 No Nonsense November 8, 2006
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Research and writing guides for the academic community (and the legal community in this case), don't come much more direct and no-nonsense than this. The Bluebook doesn't mess around with cheesy tips on how to write or structure a paper, which are useless puffery in other style guides that are merely there to add space and cost. The Bluebook lays out the highly complex requirements of the style in an easy-to-follow format, with useful examples for all (or most) possible sources, from standard newspaper articles to sections of foreign constitutions. The book ably provides what you need to write a properly-cited paper for the legal academic world, with no need to waste your time slogging through the filler of a typical style guide. The only problem is that the Bluebook is not quite adequate for beginners, even if they're fairly knowledgeable, because it assumes you're already familiar with the voluminous Latin terms and other arcane language of the legal realm. Basic introductions to some terms would certainly be an asset here, but eventually you'll have to buy a law dictionary anyway. [~doomsdayer520~]
Essential Reference May 4, 2007
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
Mom & Dad, buy this book and a Black's Law Dictionary for your law student- to-be. If you buy anything when you go to law school, buy this. Current attorneys should own a copy; paralegals need to memorize it. I would never put pen to paper and write anything without this book by my side. It is a complete and easy to use reference guide. A time and grade saver for law students accross the nation.
A best seller! January 31, 2008
5 out of 11 found this review helpful
Forget the New York Times bestseller list! Out of the anals of human history comes a book so compelling, so emotional, so all encompassing, that it defies description. On a level with "Great Expectations," mere words cannot describe its insightful witticisms ("Go forth and construe")("To interplead is human, to demur...devine"), its quaint conundrums ("To quash or not to quash, that is the interlocutory question"), its prophetic wisdom ("a footnote, in the right format, is worth a thousand words"), and yet its ultimate tragedy ("As you shall sow, so shall you replevin"). No true literary scholar should be without their own copy. Why wait for law school when you can own your copy today!
Bilgerunner is correct! August 5, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bilgerunner is correct! We should neither overlook the religious, nor the astronomical implications of The Bluebook, "Oh for heaven's sake!"; the complexities of its tautologies "because ... get this ... the Bluebook CREATED those complexities in the first place!"; its promotion of elitism and class-warfare "What do you expect when you let a bunch of Harvard *students* write the rules?"; its acknowledgement of the metaphysical group-think of a closed society, "the entire legal profession has foolishly signed on"; and, as previously stated, its ultimate tragedy, "Until ALWD is the standard in legal practice, you'll need the Bluebook if you plan to be a lawyer." Nothing, NOTHING, compares to the sweep; the scope; the onomatopoetic characterizations; the vivid text-painting; the dramatic tension and resolution; the historical perspective; the skillful use of regional dialects; the frank and earthy, yet futuristic, dialogue; the compassion and depth of human emotion; the dialectical materialism--in short, and as Governor Palin would say, the simple gosh-darn transcendence, of The Bluebook!
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
