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Perfect length, style, and structure. I never was aware of the problems concerning immigration in my own country before. A great book for anyone

The original German-language version of Hitler's Table Talk is a truly outstanding book. There are extremely rare photos of Hitler, his various girlfriends, and many hitherto unpublished drawings made by Hitler. The editing is outstanding.

Henry Picker was a young German officer who knew stenography and took down Hitler's Table Talk for a period of four years during World War II. This book was first published in 1951 and has enjoyed many reprints in the intervening years. This edition is by far the best because of the revealing footnotes which leads the reader to other sources.

Though Hitler is invariably portrayed as a raving madman in American "docudramas," he could also be a thoroughly charming and intensely charismatic private companion in his off hours. A man capable of seducing 65 million Germans and of his monumental crimes, had to possess an elemental force both inexplicable and fascinating. This book provides some clues to Hitler's personality, though in fairness, his mesmerizing mystique had been dulled by drugs and megalomania by 1941. He was surrounded by sycophants, but there were some perceptive and intelligent people in his milieu, most notably Joseph Goebbels. Hitler's secretaries were also articulate and intelligent ladies. However, his chauffeurs and other aides, such as Linge and Schaub, were hardly junior Einstein's.

Hitler's monologues are faithfully presented here and he emerges as a genius in certain areas (his knowledge of architecture and art was encyclopedic), and as a sexist boor in other realms. His believed himself to be omniscient and believed further that he was a messiah selected by Providence to save the German nation. Anyone harboring such delusions is bound to sound arrogant and insufferable on occasion.

This is a must have book for anyone interested in Hitler, his entourage, or his paralyzing effect upon other people. It's chilling that Hitler casually discussed trivialities while Europe was being torn asunder because of one man's twisted ideology. If you read German, I can't recommend it highly enough.

"Indefinitely" tells the story of Johnny, left to die as a baby only to grow up to find out that he is, in fact, immortal. The story unfolds over nearly 500 years, following Johnny as he falls in love and loses the ones he loves, joins the army to fight invading alien armies, does time in jail, and wanders the world in search of people just like him. Soon, he does find other immortals and begins to unlock the secrets of his kind, including learning about mysterious beings that have the power to kill immortals.

This is a richly detailed, sprawling novel that never lets up. There's always something new within each chapter to keep the reader interested in the tale. Most endearing about this work is the heart at its center, the way the author makes Johnny a believable and sympathetic character who goes through the story trying to figure out what and who he is, just as we the reader are doing so as well. Immortality is looked at through a more personal eye than what might be seen in other novels. We root for Johnny. We're up when he wins and we're down when he loses. In the end, we're satisfied with a tale well told.

Definitely worth checking out.

I bought Jr. Doctor for a family friend and she cannot stop playing it. This game really challenged her to think like a doctor. Now, she runs around saying how much she wants to be a doctor! With storybook characters as patients, she's so excited to treat them and make them better. After this success, I purchased Jr. Vet as well which utilizes animals to teach kids about being a vet. Must-haves!

A crew came to me explaining how they used the product both on the scene and in the ER. They were very happy with the results and the ER was impressed with how easily the Kwikpoints worked to get information in a hurry. Ironically, one of the fire fighters on scene was trying to dial a free interpreter line to figure out what was going on with this patient. The medics, with the Kwikpoint, figured out the complaint and necessary information before the interpreter could get on the phone.

Stephen Krempl has written a simple yet powerful book using the story of one man's medical emergency and subsequent necessary life changes as a metaphor for the man's similar problems at work. The author begins with the man's basic health problems and basic business problems and weaves them into a tale of slowly developing insight into both. There are questions after each chapter that help the reader clarify what problems exist for them in both of these areas. The effect is one that makes the reader think through each stage of insight to reach increasing levels of understanding one's self in life and in the workplace.

Themes of simplifying complex issues and concerns, honing things down to focus on only important essentials and improving differing levels of communication are primary. This book will definitely help you take an organized look at your life and health and learn some basic skills that are needed to deal with persistent unresolved problems. The author gives us simple steps to correct health or career problems before either is damaged beyond repair.

This book is interesting, short, to the point and easy to read. It describes basic steps needed to change your life when it is not working well.The author warns us that to ignore these problems will only make them worse and extract a toll of fear and anxiety that compromises our health and career. Leadership ER is a great read and helpful book for anyone. I give it a five star rating.

Published in 1973, DKH tags along with Larry Mahan, to the Pendleton Round-Up, talking with folks like Phil Lyne, Gary Leffew, Don Gay, Chris LeDoux and many other great World Champions of this era. This book is about the blood, guts, glory, waking up in a bathtub (12 to a room), life of the rodeo cowboy. Has a few B&W photos.

Judging by the fact that I am the first reader to review this book, I wonder how many people will read this!
Anyway, this book is a must for real Mahler aficionados, as it explains Mahler's masterpiece in great detail. The book is divided into 4 sections:
1- Preface on Mahler's work before 1908, date of compostion of Das Lied.
2- Genesis.
3- Reception.
4- Study of the Music
Chapter 4 gives an in-depth analysis of each of the six songs (or movements), with an emphasis on the first (Das Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde) and the last, the marvelous "Der Abschied". At the end of the book, the author gives, as an Appendix, his own English version of the poems, which I found better than all the other translations I have come across so far, as they fit the music very closely.
All in all, a marvelous book, that will greatly help Mahler enthusiasts to better understand and enjoy the masterpiece that he considered to be his Ninth Symphony, but was afraid to publish as such.

The Manga Guide To Databases is an excellent introduction to the principles of database design and usage for new users. The concepts and procedures for designing tables and normalizing them is presented concisely and clearly, and the basics of SQL querying are explained with numerous practical examples. The manga format is cute and gives the reader respite from the dry nature of the core topics. This would make an excellent textbook for an introductory course in database usage at the high-school level, or for management trainees.

The layout of the book is rather lax. It is difficult to pick out the concepts by thumbing through the book. Page real-estate could have been put to better use... The addition of headers and marginal notes would vastly improve the utility of the book.

Regretably the book is written in German. It covers the whole spectrum of novels on the English and German bookmarktets during the decade before Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The book gives insight into international market relations of the time: French publishers in Den Haag and Amsterdam produced books which were read simultaneously in English and German as soon as the translators had finished their work. In great detail Simons offers an interpretation of the novel vs. romance debate as it influenced the fashions. He implies that the rise of the novel began as a rise of the -scandalous- novela in Spain before it reached France and England. A rise of the romance beginning with Fénelons Telemaque (1699/1700) gives this process a new direction after 1700: The novel with its potential to spread indecent news is redifined as a genre of primarily poetical implications. Simons locates this development within the greater process in which "literature" became a field of public discussions devoted to poetical and fictional works. Secondary literature, Simons implies, created this field of discourse in an attempt to reform the scandalous market, that existed before 1720.

A scientific book (with numerous illustrations) giving vivid insight into early 18th century Europe