If you want to know what real, live jurors have to say about witnesses, judges, and lawyers, then this is the book for you. James Stanton and Trey Cox articulate ten rules every trial lawyer should know and use every time he or she appears before a jury. These are not lawyer rules, these are The Texas Jury Rules. The Rules are based on hours and hours of actual juror responses in post-trial, video-taped interviews. Before your next trial, arm yourself with The Texas Jury Rules.

Whether an attorney has spent years in the courtroom or is embarking on his first trial experience, gaining insight into a jury’s thought process, decision making and perception are all key advantages at trial. In order to better educate and prepare attorneys to navigate this complex jury process, Trey Cox, partner with Dallas-based Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP, and the Honorable James Stanton, former presiding judge for the 134th District Court of Dallas County, have developed the Jur...

Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography, 2006-2023 is the definitive guide for navigating the expansive and ever-growing body of scholarship on America's greatest theologian and philosopher. Building on the legacy of M. X. Lesser's foundational bibliography, this volume--painstakingly compiled by Adriaan Neele and a team of associate editors--maps out the terrain of Edwards studies from 2006 to 2023 with scholarly rigor and accessibility. The result is both a research compass a...

The understanding of warfare in ancient Mesoamerica has blossomed in recent years. In this volume, the authors use recent empirical studies to help us understand the patterns and nature of Mesoamerican warfare. Using evidence from ceramics, settlement pattern, epigraphy, ethnohistory, and ethnography, these projects define the martial nature of Mesoamerican societies and link it to ritual, political economy, and other cultural systems. The studies range from preclassic to post-contact and ...

Brother against Brother: 140 Civil War Memoirs assembles a vast documentary chorus from the American Civil War, illuminating combat, command, captivity, nursing, naval service, campaigning, and the unsettled moral terrain of national rupture. Ranging from terse battlefield recollection and military analysis to reflective autobiography and eyewitness narrative, the volume preserves the varied registers through which participants made meaning of war. Accounts of major operations stand beside...

140 Civil War Journals, Diaries and Memoirs assembles an expansive documentary chorus from the American Civil War, joining battlefield recollections, camp journals, prison narratives, naval observations, military analysis, and retrospective memoir. Its range of forms preserves the uneven textures of lived history: immediate diary entries register uncertainty and exhaustion, while later accounts impose narrative shape on campaigns, command, captivity, and survival. Accounts of marching, com...

In this memoir collection, retired veterinarian James Kenyon recalls his days in veterinary practice. From heartwarming to heartbreaking and everything in between, Kenyon writes of his care for beloved family pets, livestock, and their human caretakers. His memories illustrate a true devotion and love for veterinary work, as well as a passion for people and local history. Each chapter relates a specific memory of working with a quirky, loyal, and loveable animal, as well as the quirky, loy...

Following the fall of Rome, the sea is increasingly the stage upon which the human struggle of western civilization is played out. In a world of few roads and great disorder, the sea is the medium on which power is projected and wealth sought. Yet this confused period in the history of maritime warfare has rarely been studied; it is little known and even less understood. Charles Stanton uses an innovative and involving approach to describe this fascinating but neglected facet of European m...

The Handbook of Family Psychology provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical underpinnings and established practices relating to family psychology.Provides a thorough orientation to the field of family psychology for cliniciansIncludes summaries of the most recent research literature and clinical interventions for specific areas of interest to family psychology cliniciansFeatures essays by recognized experts in a variety...

Originally published in 1984, this book focuses, firstly, on how patients interpret and act in response to symptoms of illness; secondly on how social and psychological factors influence the treatment process; and thirdly, on certain kinds of illness where the psychosocial perspective is of particular importance to the providers of health care – for example, chronic or particularly disabling illnesses. It demonstrates how essential it is to bring an interdisciplinary perspective from the s...

The Wit and Humor of America gathers ten volumes of American comic writing into a capacious archive of satire, burlesque, dialect sketch, parable, anecdote, verse, and social observation. Moving from early republican wit through nineteenth-century regionalism and the modern magazine sketch, it reveals humor as both entertainment and cultural criticism. Comic monologues, mock-heroic poems, and sharply observed tales sit beside enduring reflections on politics, manners, sentiment, class, and...

From renowned trial attorney and New York Times bestselling author Gerry Spence: a must own book for every lawyer and business professional seeking to make cutting-edge winning presentations--in court, at work, everywhere, any time.Gerry Spence is perhaps America's most renowned and successful trial lawyer, a man known for his deep convictions and his powerful courtroom presentations when he argues on behalf of ordinary people. Frequently pitted against te...