For anyone entering the world of law, this is a crucial read that offers a powerful message about effecting positive social...
In this inspiring debut guide, Tyner presents stories and ideas to motivate and encourage those in the legal field.
The author, a lawyer and a public-policy professor at the University of St. Thomas, demonstrates her passion for preserving the legal profession—one of the most revered careers in Western society. She notes that many schools give students the tools to practice law without offering leadership lessons. Furthermore, she suggests that leaders are made, not born. The “new social justice lawyer,” she says, is one who not only solves real-time problems, but who also diligently works to help build the future of the American justice system, its actors, and the communities it serves. Her book draws from the wisdom of thinkers spanning several centuries and uses vivid metaphors to illustrate its points; for example, while discussing the lawyer’s role, she quotes the late psychologist Abraham Maslow: “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Tyner suggests that lawyers use the multitude of tools at their disposals—not only to recognize current social problems, but also to envision social-justice for the future, and in new contexts. She notes it’s crucial for the new social-justice lawyer to research and analyze current issues and to compare the American legal system with other countries’. The book also emphasizes that today’s attorneys have an obligation to train and mentor new generations and to provide models of effective characteristics and skills. Tyner uses stories of law professors, as well as people such as Nelson Mandela and Mohandas K. Gandhi, to show how one can use leadership to encourage the strengths of others. Such themes of authenticity and integrity ring through the entire book.
For anyone entering the world of law, this is a crucial read that offers a powerful message about effecting positive social change.Pub Date: July 7, 2015
ISBN: 978-1627226646
Page Count: 238
Publisher: American Bar Association
Review Posted Online: Jan. 26, 2015
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
This is not the Nutcracker sweet, as passed on by Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa. No, this is the original Hoffmann tale of 1816, in which the froth of Christmas revelry occasionally parts to let the dark underside of childhood fantasies and fears peek through. The boundaries between dream and reality fade, just as Godfather Drosselmeier, the Nutcracker's creator, is seen as alternately sinister and jolly. And Italian artist Roberto Innocenti gives an errily realistic air to Marie's dreams, in richly detailed illustrations touched by a mysterious light. A beautiful version of this classic tale, which will captivate adults and children alike. (Nutcracker; $35.00; Oct. 28, 1996; 136 pp.; 0-15-100227-4)
Pub Date: Oct. 28, 1996
ISBN: 0-15-100227-4
Page Count: 136
Publisher: Harcourt
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 15, 1996
BOOK REVIEW
BOOK REVIEW
An extravaganza in Bemelmans' inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. For Bemelmans was "the man who came to cocktails". And his hostess was Lady Mendl (Elsie de Wolfe), arbiter of American decorating taste over a generation. Lady Mendl was an incredible person,- self-made in proper American tradition on the one hand, for she had been haunted by the poverty of her childhood, and the years of struggle up from its ugliness,- until she became synonymous with the exotic, exquisite, worshipper at beauty's whrine. Bemelmans draws a portrait in extremes, through apt descriptions, through hilarious anecdote, through surprisingly sympathetic and understanding bits of appreciation. The scene shifts from Hollywood to the home she loved the best in Versailles. One meets in passing a vast roster of famous figures of the international and artistic set. And always one feels Bemelmans, slightly offstage, observing, recording, commenting, illustrated.
Pub Date: Feb. 23, 1955
ISBN: 0670717797
Page Count: -
Publisher: Viking
Review Posted Online: Oct. 25, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1955
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