This book is perfect for children. The illustrations are what first drew me in ... and after reading it, I found the book itself wonderful as well. The illustrations are hilarious and will hold a child's attention. I think this is a book that a child would read over and over again just to see the creative pictures of the green goblins and to read about what each of the goblins is wearing ... such as "Thompson trying some tulip underwear ..." It's a great book for kids (and adults). It will bring about many laughs. I highly recommend it!

In God Lives Next Door, Lyle Weiss shows how ordinary people can share the same extraordinary experiences of God that characters in the Bible had. By exploring such issues as the presence of evil, the call to mission, the need for repentance, and the experience of love, the author invites readers to reflect on their own encounters with God in light of the lives of many biblical characters. It's very down to earth, and theology is made as readable as a paperback novel. If you've never read a book about God, the Bible, or personal spirituality, this is the one to get you started. In God Lives Next Door, the extraordinary is made ordinary, the inaccessible is made accessible, and the divine is brought to the human. What more could one ask for?

A very good look at the Spanish conquest of the new world with emphasis on the Aztecs and Incas. There are graphics in this book that I have not seen before. Wonderful color photos of artifacts; liberal DePoma reproductions - some in color. A very nice book!

Collaboratively edited by Nicholas Boyle (Professor of German Literary and Intellectual History, and Head of the Department of German, Cambridge University) and John Guthrie (Fellow in German and Director of Studies in Modern Languages, New Hall, Cambridge), Goethe and the English-Speaking World: Essays for the Cambridge Symposium for His 250th Anniversary is an impressive compilation of informed and informative college-level essays and thoughts about Goethe's work, ranging from close readings of the well-known "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister", to scrutiny of recent translations of his poetry, to a look at how Goethe's texts have affected Ireland literary culture in particular. Goethe And The English-Speaking World is strongly recommended reading for its deep, varied, and eclectic compilation of erudite contributions on the classic works of an immortal master writer.

An excellent book of pictures of the people and country. Makes me want to return to this lovely land of Greece again.

I am a second generation Greek/Italian, and having grown up in the Lowell area it was always known to me that there were a sizable population of Greeks that once lived in the Lowell area. After a visit to Greece my curiosity brought me to research my heritage. In the "The Greek Immigrant Cronicles" I found information about what regions of Greece the immigrants most came from, their customs and their stories. My grandfather was a Maniote and I now better understand their stife (and why they're so easily offended and stubborn!). The "The Greek Immigrant Cronicles" tells many a story through the eyes of the first wave of Greek Immigrants and reveals the hardships, the strength and the hopes, of our grandparents as they were forced into this new world. I understand better now the way my grandparents and parents felt about family and the passing down of customs and preserving the Greek Orthodox religion. It was hard for them to let go of their home land and they never did. My memories as a child are only now understood through facts and other information that I have learned from reading "The Greek Immigrant Cronicles". I learned that the church that I attended as a child was the site of riots and turbulence in the 1920s and that it is now a National Treasure because of it's status as the first Bizantium style church in North America. The church which I will be married in. I learned of the coffee shops and stores where the Greek men would debate politics. Places that I can only drive by now and immagine what they were like. Nicholas V. Karas does a splendid job of interviewing the Greek old timers and capturing their story and their spirit. If you've ever had a desire to scratch the surface of your Greek heritage, especially coming from the Lowell MA. area, this book will bring a mix of emotions from sad and remorse to uplifting and funny but in the end you will feel more attached to your heritage and hopefully, as I felt, more gratefull to these Greek immigrants who paved the way for our (their children) lives here in America.

This is a wonderful book, continuing the tradition of very high quality output from the Center for Romanian Studies. It tells the story, in great and fascinating detail, of the rise of fascism and official anti-semitism in Hungary and Romania between the World Wars. It is a story of the consequences of Versailles -- Hungary got a much worse deal there than the much better known raw deal received by Germany -- of the consequences of different paths of economic development -- both Hungary and Romania suffered from their different histories of economic stratification and (especially in Romania) rural underdevelopment -- and of the consequences of the actions of important individuals -- Admiral Horthy in Hungary, King Carol and Marshall Antonescu in Romania, and the various leaders of fascist movements in both countries.
In each country the story is told slowly and carefully from the time of the Treaty of Versailles (though with plenty of pre-Versailles context) through the onset of economic depression to the end of World War II and beyond. Beleaguered governments, some cynical and some less so, try to navigate between politically powerful landed classes, disenfranchised but sizable groups of peasants, and, in Hungary at least, an important and largely Jewish middle class, with Hitler's shadow growing all the while. Horthy and other Hungarian politicians come out of this looking pretty bad, as does Carol of Romania, while Romania's Antonescu appears as a decent man trying to cope with an increasingly hopeless domestic and international situation (his current posthumous role as a hero and symbol of the Greater Romania party notwithstanding).
All in all, this is a remarkable book. I don't know to what degree it was "revised and updated" from the 1970 original before its author's recent death. Readers interested in this part of the world or this period of history will find it quite valuable.
Other recommendations:
1. On the historical background in Romania, Paul Michelson, Romanian Politics 1859-1971 (Center for Romanian Studies, 1998) and Frederick Kellogg, The Road to Romanian Independence (Purdue, 1995)
2. On the tightening of the German and Russian noose around Romania, and the vain Romanian hopes for Western (especially French) intervention, Alexandru Cretzianu, Relapse into Bondage: Political Memoirs of a Romanian Diplomat 1918-1947 (Center for Romanian Studies, 1998)
3. On life in Romania during this period, the remarkable Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, by Mihail Sebastian (Ivan R. Dee, 2000)

A truly entertaining chronicle of a english teenage boy. I read it growing up and it remains a favorite to this day. I even watched to British television show they made out of it. Highly enjoyable.

This was a very insightful book for my very first weimaraner. It is a basic beginners book that is very easy to understand and follow in all the different aspects from diet, to health, to training, to play. Wonderful. It sure has helped me with mine. I have read this book many times as it is a book you can read in one sitting which makes it even better.

The Beatles have said much about Hamburg, including that they believed that it was there that they did their best performances, and it was there that they really learned how to be a band.

Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann were kids growing up in Germany, whose early memories included all the chaos that Germany went through in the last days of the Third Reich and the aftermath of the war. As college students, they rebelled against the old order, and came upon a band that seemed to bring with it something entirely new - The Beatles.

They all became friends, so much so that Astrid got engaged to Stu Sutcliffe and took the first professional photos of the band, and Klaus would later design the covers for the Beatles' albums "Revolver" and "Anthology" as well as play bass on albums of Ringo, George, and John, after the Beatles' breakup.

This two-volume set is absolutely gorgeous. The first volume, besides photographs and documents, goes into the story of what kind of state Germany was in after the war, and why it was that the Beatles' type of music attracted many young people to it, as well as telling how the band came to get there, and what kind of conditions these very young men were willing to put up with in order to pursue their passion of music. Most of the text is by Voormann, but George Harrison and Paul McCartney also wrote short pieces to go into this book.

The second volume is a collection of art pertaining to the Beatles done by Voormann. I saw Voormann and some of these pictures at Beatlefest 2001 in Chicago, and these are interesting too, as something that belongs in part of this collection.

The main problem with this book is that it is a prohibitively expensive limited edition. However, it is a perspective of the era and the Beatles that is carefully done by people who have known the Beatles since this time, and were qualified in putting a project like this together.