During the 1930's it was fashionable to include small photographs of Hitler attached to cigarette packages. You would then paste the photos sequentially into an album that included glowing textual references to Hitler and the Third Reich. I own the original version of this 1936 book and this new offering is considerably less powerful than the German version. Still, this is an effective way for people of our era to understand and grasp the enormous importance of propaganda in the Third Reich.

Goebbels and Hitler were masterminds of this art and the book personifies their mastery of mass persuasion. In the photographs, Hitler is presented as a "normal guy" in civilian clothes, surrounded by adoring children at his retreat on the Obersalzberg. He is also presented as the omniscienet Fuehrer, presiding over mass rallies in Nuremberg, mesmerizing the audience. The photographs, all by Hitler's official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman, are excellent representations of a nation gone collectively mad, seduced by Hitler's paralyzing charisma.

One cautionary note: this book is not written by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. The text is incidental and was certainly not penned by Goebbels, who scarcely appears in this book. Despite the misleading title, this is an essential book for anyone with an interest in how Hitler effectively and brutally utilized propaganda in the 30's.

I've had this same book for many years only it was simply entitled "Adolf Hitler." I thought it was no longer in print until I finally found it here on Amazon. This is one of the most fascinating books I've read. It is a reproduction of the 1936 cigarette album many Germans had on their coffee tables during Hitler's years of victory. I have one of the original cigarette cards pictured in this book, and it is an excellent reproduction in detail and size. The book contains tons of photos (some in color) celebrating Hitler and the advancement of the German nation after he came to power. He is shown with children, giving speeches, relaxing (one photo has him peeling an apple), visiting wounded soldiers, at rallies, inspecting a Mercedes Benz racing car, visiting a factory, etc. Chapters celebrating different aspects of Hitler's successes and interests are provided by such important party members as Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels (he penned the preface and four of the 13 chapters, which may be the reason he is listed as the author), Architect Albert Speer (who, of course, would become disillusioned with Hitler during the war), Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach, Four-Year Plan head Fritz Todt, etc. There is no historical commentary, no afterward added from our benefit of hindsight, and no qualifications expect for the line "Lies told to the people" on the back. There is only the raw propaganda Germans were subjected to when the Nazis controlled the press and most of their thoughts and lives. One eerie piece is a memorial written by Rudolf Hess for SS Brigadefurhrer Julius Schreck who died in 1936. Schreck looks like a bloated Hitler with the characteristic mustache (decoy?). Of course, the whole book is eerie knowing where the happy people in these photos were headed. I am glad this book was preserved, translated into English, and put back into print so future generations can learn what powerful and all-encompassing propaganda can do to a nation.

I just got this book yesterday,and stayed up til midnight scan- ning it. The subject matter is repellent, the packaging and mar- keting of Adolf Hitler, for the German nation, but at the same time, it is fascinating to read. Dr. Goebbels utilized some very "modern" ideas to market Hitler, such as using paste-in stickers for booklets, showing Hitler using the then revolutionary concept of flying all over Germany to get to multiple sites for speeches. Giving the impression he was omnipresent, and concerned about all economic and age groups-where ever he popped up.

It is both horrifying to read, because you know what happens even tually, but strangely fascinating, watching how the devil's mar- keter packaged him, complete with glowing testimonies from people coming from all walks of life. In all the photo ops, der fuehrer is shown smiling benevolently, as ecstatic crowds greet him. Yes there are the requisite baby-kissing, attentively listening to children, etc.

So, if you wish to study the black side of marketing and packag- ing a political figure-read this book. And remember it's lessons well when you are asked to vote for someone that is packaged a little too smartly.....there lurks no friend, but a savage mask- ing behind a sheep's clothes.

Well worth the price for it's historical value, as well as the wrenching reality that one has seen such slick packing of polit- ical figures before-remember The Selling of the President?

This is another in the long line of hornbooks from West publishing. It is an excellent source to supplement and even embellish the law of Civil Procedure contained in whichever casebook you are using. Since most Civil Procedure courses are a year long, I would strongly recommend investing in this hornbook, it is very handy to have when outlining and preparing for finals.

The "book description" above belongs to a different book: this hornbook is not part of the "Black Letter Series," its author is not Professor Clermont, and it doesn't come with a handy computer disk.

It is, however, an extremely helpful hornbook to have and use during your first-year course on Civil Procedure. If you're a One-L, buy this early and use it often; it'll go with pretty much whatever casebook you happen to be using (mine was Yeazell). It's extremely well-designed and its discussions are clear and sound.

If you're looking around in order to decide whether you need a hornbook at all, the answer is: yes, you probably do. There may be students who can squeeze a profitable education out of the "casebook" approach, but I'm not one of them and you probably aren't either.

During your first semester, it will be tempting to spend a lot of time briefing cases. Don't let me talk you out of doing so, or you'll be really mad at me the first time you get called on unprepared. But you'll probably be better off spending a little less time briefing and a little more time reading this hornbook first.

This is the most helpful study aid available for Civil Procedure! The text is very easy to understand and it is orgainized to follow the progression of the law school course. The authors do an excellent job of explaining the development of personal jurisdiction and subject matter jurisdiction to the present day. It also does a fine job of explaining the federal rules (and includes an index of each FRCP and where it is cited).

Very nice. Title should be "Bay Area from Above." It covers Silicon Valley, San Mateo, Marin, and many other parts of Bay Area -- with SF. My only complaint is the 25 overhead views of wineries out of 200 pages -- they all look pretty much the same... Overall, a very good book.

This is a great photo book of the San Fransico bay area. It includes just about every area around, including San Jose, Oakland, Stanford, etc. It has photos of the city, Silicon Valley and most of the major Computer companies and chip makers such as Intel and AMD. Living in this area, I really like this book as I can see what my area looks like and there are a lot of photos, including every major bay bridge.
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I love the before and after pictures contrasting the same street now vs. 100 years ago. Susan likes it too!

The 149 core words of the Jewish spiritual life were explained. The words presented in the alphabetical order, except the first one YHWH, the name of God.

According to the author, the translation of YHWH is "Is-Was-Will Be." The name of God was to be pronounced only once a year by the high priest in the Holy of Holies on Yom Kippur.

"Atah" is the Hebrew word for "you." According to Martin Buber, the author says, every "you" we speak contains within it echoes of the "eternal You(God)." The first two letters of "Atah" are formed with the beginning and the end of the Hebrew alphabets(Remember that Jesus said "I am alpha and omega, beginning and the end.").

Every word has its own spiritual meaning. The author is mining those profound hidden meanings sublimated in the long Jewish history. Every word was explained very briefly in one page or two pages. This book is an excellent introduction to understand the Jewish life and Judaism through the meaning of the basic key words.

Although a Christian, I recently approached Messianic Judaism (or Hebrew Christianity?). Since I come from a Gentile religious culture, I was perplexed during the worship services when they spoke in Hebrew terminology. Words such as emunah, shema, seder, etc. "sounded" deep and spiritual. But I didn't have a clue as to what these words meant. Also, I was too embarassed to ask anyone in the congregation. It just happened I ran across this wonderful book. Arthur Green is clear, concise and a joy to read. My thanks to the author for making my Messianic worship far more meaningful.
through understanding the key terms!

This book is so much more than a mere lexicon of "must know" Jewish words. What Rabbi Green has done is to create a series of creative lessons about basic Jewish concepts. In the process, he clearly demonstrates how common words (and some not so common ones!) have very specific meanings within Judaism, meanings that express the inner dimensions of the religion, but are often lost in translation.

Judaism has never worked well in translation, and there was a time when all Jews learned these words in their original Hebrew contexts. Nowadays, that is no longer true, and Jews who are marginal in their Jewish identities often tend (wrongly) to use the dominant culture's translations of Jewish texts as the lens through which to read their own religion -- with the disastrous result of thinking that Judaism has no spirituality.

Rabbi Green's book helps to correct that misperception. He explains, for example, that learning Torah is not just studying the law as an intellectual exercise. It's an ongoing process of interacting with the sacred texts on a very personal level. In that sense, this book, too, is "Torah," and when you are done reading it, you will have the necessary vocabulary for grokking Judaism on both the outer and the inner levels. I highly recommend this book to anyone -- Jewish or not -- who wants to get a firm grasp on the basic vocabulary of Judaism.

In 1903, there occurred an outbreak of animal maiming; farm animals were found horribly mutilated and left to die. Obviously a sick hand was at work. George Edalji, a 30-year-old solicitor became the suspect of authorities. At best George can be describes as a shy, anxious and physically quite frail, not exactly the hardened criminal type. On the evening of the grave event George returned home from work to take a short stroll before dinner, that night in the field less than a mile from his home, someone disemboweled a pony and left it to die. The police under pressure to apprehend the culprit arrested George and charged him with the crime. Conan Doyle on looking at the evidence decided a grave miscarriage of justice had occurred. Conan went out on a campaign to set the record straight and in doing so staked his reputation on the innocence of Edalji; condemned to seven years penal servitude by a country magistrate.

Oscar Slater a pimp, hustler and a draft dodging German, had abandoned his wife and ran away with his mistress. On the eve of December as Oscar was planning to migrate to America, a few blocks away Marion Gilchrist was murdered by an intruder after he jewels. The case against Slater was circumstantial at best. Oscar was found guilty for the crime and sentenced; despite mountain evidence proving his innocence. In this case Oscar began a letter campaign and appealed to judges to re-open the case and correct the wrongs done.

In both the cases Conan Doyle has shown his immense observation and deduction techniques to illustrate the grave injustice done.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was not only a writer: he was a scientist, physician, political activist and an amateur detective himself. Two actual criminal cases same to his attention and inspired him to become involved: these two cases are documented in the True Crime Files Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for the first time and will represent a 'must' for any avid Doyle reader surprised to find something new.

I believe this book is more than a book just for Sherlock Holmes fans or Conan Doyle fans. It is for anyone who wants to match his or her wits against the Great Detective himself, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The authors or editors of this book have taken articles, letters to the editor, trial transcripts, and even handwriting samples and reproduced them from the pages of the Daily Telegraph of London, a paper that is still going strong today. They can match wits with Conan Doyle as he tries to solve the mystery of George Edalji. In a similar fashion they can follow along with the reasoning of Sir Arthur as he probes the case of Oscar Slater, a German-born jew convicted of jewel theft and murder in Glasgow. This is a book that lets anyone interested in mysteries, particularly true ones, be the judge of whether the men were innocent or guity as charged.

I recently reread Valhalla's Child, and it has not lost any of its power. The conversations, banter, and other verbal interchanges between the Marines took me back to the time I spent in Vietnam, and brought back memories that were like yesterday. The author's personal acquaintance with the war, the jungle, and the Marines comes through his writing loud and clear. Still an excellent read.

Powerful hard-hitting book written by an author who obviously has experienced the horrors of war first hand.

you can tell pirkle was there and a part of the war. he uses a special writing technique to show us what the vietnam war was like. you feel what the characters where going through. fast action excellent read.

This book is really good but it's time for a new edition ! Compared to another excellent book (Jerry March) it is also too expensive. I would give 5 stars to a new and cheaper edition.

The book is very good for reference, yet it is too expensive for graduate students. I would also suggest taking $$$off, relative to March's and C&S's good text, this one is really forbidding.

I took an undergraduate course on advanced organic laboratory method and Vogel was meant to be an incredible reference and life-saver. The overwhelming size of the book might seem somewhat frightening yet the useful information is worth the size and money.

Pavia's "Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques" might seem to be a water-down version of Vogel. Vogel is extremely well-written and detailed in laboratory tecniques such as chromatography, distillation, HPLC, crystallization, extraction, etc. A chapter is also devoted to discussion of solvents and reagents, which helps tremendously for separation experiments.

Vogel also discusses aliphatic, heterocyclic, and aromatic compounds and introduces spectroscopic methods. Vogel is recommended for advanced lab course that requires frequent modification of lab procedures and reference for chemists.

I'm currently plodding through the post-break-up depression that followed on the heels of a doomed relationship, and reading stacks of self-help books in an effort to salve my spirit. I'm usually skeptical that they'll contain worthwhile advice -- but this one is actually fairly useful, and even though it's aimed at across-the-table regret, I found it to be particularly well-suited to relationship-related regrets. For example, it discusses how we cling to unrealistic "memories of the future" --creating (after-the-fact) a wonderful future to our past relationships and situations, which then permits us to regret the loss of the fantasy futures which we never initially had. It shows how clinging to the past and "woulda,coula,shoulda" fantasies trap us and prevent us from moving forward and finding the life we want. The book starts with a an somewhat humorous analysis of the many types of flawed thinking -- overgeneralization, selective editing, catastrophizing, all-or-nothing thinking, mind-reading, etc. and gives plenty of examples of each of the above (and more). In the first chapter, I felt scolded for ever thinking that "all the single men my age are gay or ax-murderers." The book suggests numerous cognitive therapy techniques to get your thinking back on track, back in accord with reality (rather than self-defeating fantasy). The book challenges our instinctive desire to cling to the past and small comforts -- to hang around where there's a trickle of water rather than to risk searching for a full-blast fire hose. If you're stuck looking back and having difficulty moving ahead, give this book a try. It might not cure all of your regrets, but it should go a long way into helping you to give your regrets a reality check (and ultimately, give your regrets the boot).

I found myself in a relationship with a woman who treated love and life with such ease. She almost destroyed my life during the realtionship not on purpose obvioulsy but because of her ease at how she treated my love. I kept asking myself why didn't I do this or do that, of course now I realize it was just the way she was no matter how I tried to help or change her for the better. Sure the book showed me how we all say we should have done this or could have done that, but also it showed me that I should have got away from her way of life before it hurt me. This book will show you that you could have lived and done things so much different. I would recommend if you meet some one who is vastly different from your own core values don't fall in love with them unless you are willing to be terribly hurt in your own heart be careful of trying to be there for someone who doesn't know how to be there for you. Buy this book and realize no matter how you wish things could be different with you, they won't be if they have lived such a different life before you. People change yes but they don't change how they value certain things in a relationship. I was completely heartbroken by this woman don't let it happen to you. I have forgiven her for the hurt she caused but I should have seen it coming in fact I did that was the hardest part about it all.

After going through an unwanted divorce, I really was looking for something that would help me get past mourning over my lost relationship. So I ordered several books on "moving on" but this was by far the best. The authors explain in layman's terms the basis of cognitive therapy, which basically says that it is our thoughts about events which bother us. If we can change our thoughts, then our feelings will follow. This book is packed full of simple, yet understated advice that anyone could benefit from reading.

One of my favorite quotes from the book occurs at the end of a chapter and basically says, "Moving forward doesn't mean forgetting where you've been. It means that where you've been is not the only place you can go." I realized that I was stuck in wanting my past relationship (or one just like it) that I didn't know I could have something different.

Anyway, this is a definite for anyone who is afraid to move ahead because they "might" make the wrong decision or they "should" know the perfect answer. And if you have made a wrong choice or completely missed the mark, then this book will help you not only learn to forgive yourself, but also help you to begin taking baby steps in taking new risks and realizing that "Plan B" or C or D might be just as rewarding or maybe even better than the already failed Plan A.

"100th Day Worries" is a story about a girl who is supposed to bring a collection of one hundred things into school for the 100th day of school. She worries about it up until the night before the 100th day still with no idea about what kind of collection she is going to take into school. The next morning, she was still stumped, so she turned to her family for help. They gave her each groups of ten things to take into school. So her problem was solved and she ended up having the best collection because her collection was "filled with love".
I think that this is a pretty good book. I didn't really think too much of it, but I'm sure many other people think highly of it. I didn't think it had too much of a meaning to it. The plot was pretty well put together, but it wasn't anything to get all hyped up about. Overall, I think it was an ok book.

We first checked this book out of the library and we just love it. The story is so refreshing and Jessica's(the main character and the worrier) family really comes through for her. My five-year-old loves the math concept: the different ways to get to 100. This book reinforces a little learning in a loving and thoughtful way.

I found this book to naturally combine important math concepts (different ways to get 100 items) with the many emotions and experiences that the average child faces. I believe children (and even adults) will find themselves in the pages of this book as they relate to the times when the creative energies are not flowing and the deadlines are fast approaching.

The stories contained in this book provide further reasoning for outlawing adoption altogether, although the authors mean to support the open records movement. They are certainly accurate in pointing out that, where adoption is concerned, a change is necessary. Unfortunately, their alterations are too minor to solve most of the problems adoption creates. This book would be good reading for anyone who has recently begun to accept that adoption is not a perfect (or even remotely GOOD) solution for unplanned pregnancy.

Touching on a current, pervasive, yet unfamiliar subject, the authors bring to light the intricacies of the adoption triad and the difficulties faced by all involved. From an adoptive parent's perspective, the nature of the relationships can be complicated. With the proper communication mechanisms, whether records are sealed or open will have little impact on the individuals involved and, I think that area has not been addressed in the book. However, that is not to say it is unworthy of reading. Those who are not members of the triad, or object to adoption, cannot regard this book with true sincerity and those involved can achieve a better understanding of all parties invovled.

This is one of the finest books ever written on the subject of adoption. Reading this book, in my opinion, is one of the best gifts that any adoptive parent could give to their child or to themselves. The insights provided by the authors are invaluable in helping adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents alike understand the exquisitely unique and complex issues that adoption "triad" members face throughout their lives. This book dispels a lot of commonly held beliefs and myths about adoption, and provides a sober look at the reality of what it means to be an infertile parent, or a beholding adoptee; and it addresses the myriad of expectations that inevitably lead to hurt and disappointment. Armed with the knowledge and insights revealed in this book, adoptees and adoptive parents can forge a happier life together; and birthparents will find comfort in knowing that others understand their sacrifices. As a reunited birthfather and an advocate for better communications between adoption triad members, I highly recommend this book. Buy it ... it will change your life!