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Alcoholics Anonymous has two million members worldwide; yet this fellowship remains a mystery to most people, and is even viewed by some as a cult or a religion. Written by an award-winning psychiatrist and educator in the treatment of alcohol and drug abuse, What Is Alcoholics Anonymous? provides the most in-depth overview to date of this popular and established yet poorly understood recovery movement. The result is a thorough, objective, and accessible investigation into what AA is, how it works, and how the organization might be considered and used by both healthcare professionals and anyone affected by pursuit of recovery.

Professor Smith has produced a comprehensive survey1 of the relations between state and religion in India which will be of great value to students of modern Indian government and politics as well as of religion. Moreover, this useful, stimulating and very readable study raises questions of compelling, interest for all who are concerned with problems of "church and state". India, the seat of a civilization renowned for elaboration of religious thought and pervasiveness of religious observance has, even by Professor Smith's rigorous standards, successfully established a secular state. In this volume, Professor Smith has undertaken to explain how this has come about, to analyze the Indian achievement and the problems that accompany it and, finally, to indicate how India may advance to the full realization of that "true secularism" which he so enthusiastically endorses.

Traditional law—Hindu, Muslim and customary—has been almost entirely displaced from the modern Indian legal system. Today, the classical dharmaśāstra component of Hindu law is almost completely obliterated. It remains the original source of various rules of family law. But these rules are intermixed with rules from other sources and are administered in the common-law style, isolated from śāstric techniques of interpretation and procedure. In other fields of law, dharmaśāstra is not employed as a source of precedent, analogy or inspiration. As a procedural-technical system of laws, a corpus of doctrines, techniques and institutions, dharmasastra is no longer functioning. This is equally true of Muslim law. 3 The local customary component of traditional law is also a source of official rules at a few isolated points, but it too has been abandoned as a living source of law.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Enlargement and Withdrawal of the Legal World -- Learning from Lawyer Jokes -- PART ONE: The Enduring Core and Its Recent Accretions -- 1. Lies and Stratagems: The Corruption of Discourse -- 2. The Lawyer as Economic Predator -- 3. Playmates of the Devil -- 4. Conflict: Lawyers as Fomenters of Strife -- 5. The Demography of the World of Lawyer Jokes -- PART TWO: The New Territories -- 6. Betrayers of Trust -- 7. The Lawyer as Morally Deficient -- 8. Lawyers as Objects of Scorn -- 9. "A Good Start!" Death Wish Jokes -- PART THREE: The Justice Implosion -- 10. Enemies of Justice -- 11. Only in America? -- Appendix: Register of Jokes -- Notes -- References -- Index.