Customer Reviews

Essentials of Business Law and the Legal Environment

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Well written book that provides a good introduction into business law principles. Outlines complex concepts with case law that makes it easy to understand. A reccomended read for the pre-law students as well as a valuable reference for business owners.

I had to buy this book because it is the required textbook in my class. I bought it here in Amazon because it is cheaper here than in my school's bookstore. Although it is cheaper in Amazon, the book still costs 150+, which is still very expensive for a student like me.

Anyways, If I only knew before what I knew now, I could have saved my self $150+! The content of this book is almost very similar to the Smith and Roberson's business law book. I happen to get an older version in a trift store for $25 and while scanning through the book, I realized that the two books are almost the same! The wordings and the case files tackled are almost the same. I hardly even used this brand new book at all.

Recommended?
If it is really really required in your class and you have money to spare, then go for it. But if not and you dont have much money to spend on text books, I would recommend that you look around at other USED business law text books like the older versions of Smith and Roberson.

This book was so helpful, It is just like the newer edition but much more inexpensive!!! I couldn't bring myself to spending $200 on a book, so this one at $30 was much more affordable and a great buy too!!! Packed full of great information for my Business Law class and easy to follow too!

I'm taking a college course using this book and it is not well written. The author has a bad habit of replacing all the "his" pronouns with the "her" pronouns -- I see what he's doing but it interfers with the reading of the book.

The problems at the end of the chapters are not bad, but the author really gets into legalese and specialized language throughout his chapters that makes reading it a chore as I beat up a dictionary trying to get through it.

The glossary is woefully incomplete.

Aspen Publishing makes a much superior business law book.

Paralegal's Introduction to Business Organizations (Aspen Law & Business paralegal series)

order on the Jan 8,2012 and i still have not received anything. I end up canceling my order. I would never by anything from this seller.

This book was purchased for my daughter's Business class and she has told me at least every day since purchasing the book how much she loves the book and how glad she is that I purchased it because she wants to make sure she can keep it for future reference. I love Amazon.com and everything I have purchased from this website has been top quality. Thank you Amazon!
Aleatha

Book has pretty solid case studies to help with the understanding of the different terminology! Needed this book for college and found it here for roughly $100 cheaper that at the college. Now if only my teacher would follow the book and powerpoints she assigned for class I would do better on the tests!

The book was rec'd timely. However I tried to cancel the order 5 min after ordering and was not able to do so. I waited for the book and tried to contact the seller at least 4 times with no response. I mailed the book back anyway and will be disputing the charges.
No I am not satified.

This was advertised as "like new," and its far from that. The book has written notes all over it (like every 15pages & its about a 600 pages book). Some of the writing is pencil, which is ok I guess. I just erase as I go. But a good amount is in pen which is a pain & will make it difficult to resell. The seller was book_holders, all that said, it was still a decent price & much less than the school book store.

As for the book content, its really good and written in a very interesting way. Everything is broken down into laments terms which I appreciate, its a good supplement to my instructors lecture. HOWEVER, if you are reading this book on its own in an attempt to understand contract law...forget about it. This book is 600 pages of supplemental/refresher material. It gives you a basic concept with an example or two, but leaves out A LOT of information that with give you the full grasp of the complete concept. A majority of the writing is case studies (which are sometimes helpful, except the author does not give you a full explanation as to why the case was decided on way or the other), there are also chapter discussion questions but unless I'm missing something the answers aren't included so again if you're reading this on your own, I don't know how helpful they will be. There is a glossary of terms in the back of the book, as well as an index but I've found that [...] is a better resource because most of the terms or ideas that are mentioned and I had questions about are surprisingly not covered in detail other chapters so naturally they aren't in the glossary or index.

Again, this is great supplemental material to an in-class lecture or as a refresher, however this book cannot stand on its own to give you a solid structure for understanding business law. And I'm not positive, but i don't think it's designed to do so.

Very good the delivery time and quality of item listed which were met.The item was a heavy book that should be wrapped properly to prevent minor damage to the book cover's corners.It's only a small detail that didn't change my satisfaction.