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Uniform Commercial Code: Secured Transactions (Hornbooks)

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If you are in Secured Credit and are using White's textbook - "Secured Transactions - Teaching Materials" copyright 2000, do not buy his hornbook. He has merely lifted the explanatory text from the textbook and put it together as a hornbook. Furthermore, if you are looking for help on Secured Credit, there are other books that work much harder to make it understandable to the novice. "Understanding Article 9" is one of them.

This book is bizarre. I stared at both the hard cover version and this version on "Look Inside" for a long time, and even went through the table of contents carefully to make sure they were the same: they are.

Yet what arrived is a very slim book, barely 200 pages long. This book is actually the front matter and the last 200 pages of the hardcover version--they just removed the first 20 chapters! The pages numbers skip from page 24 to page 709!

What this book is is the chapters on Article 9 and nothing else. They didn't change the page numbers, they didn't change the table of contents, even the index still refers to chapters that are not actually in this book. It is the laziest piece of work I have ever seen.

It has one advantage--it is slim and paperback, so easy to carry. Any class on "Security Interests" focuses on Article 9 anyway, so this is mostly all you need.

The most difficult thing to explain is why they are charging $38.00 for 1/3rd of the $60.00 book.

On reflection, I think I will keep this one, just be forewarned: for $22 more, you might as well buy the whole book. The only reason to buy this one is that it weighs less. You will be seriously irritated if you buy this book expecting a softcover version of "Uniform Commercial Code."