You can buy this book in second editions for about $100.00 so if you are purchasing it as a collector or for information and not on edition-out of print value then look for a button collector who can help you locate the less expensive edition.

Just about the best all around guide for the serious button collector.

This is the most complete button reference book I have ever seen. It is well worth the money. Beautiful pictures and informative price guides.

Reiner Zimnik, a former carpenter, was 26 and student at the Munich Art Academy when he wrote and designed this book in 1956. The illustrations, simple black and white sketches, stayed with me all my life. The most powerful one covers two pages with a few black strokes of sky, a fallen over little shoe, a dazed bird und the scribble: "Da war das Land traurig, und die Erde weinte." (The country was sad. And the earth wept.) As an adult I might say that it's a fable about the Second World War - what was there before and what came after. As child I experienced no other book that would speak to me with such immediatness. Though it wasn't that widespread in Germany I would still say that it's our best children's book till today.

I read this every summer at my grandma's. I never quite understood it, and I didn't quite like it but I did keep coming back to it. It's something of a fairy tale and something of a philosophical tale. If I had to describe it now I would call it hauntingly beautiful.

'The Crane' is one of the most beatifully written childrens stories of this century. It is a parable that carries many important questions about who we are and how we live. As a teacher of English, I have found this book a remarkable resource and one that really allows for differentiation of learning with children around 11-12. It is a funny, sad and very touching story and I emplore somebody to reprint it, so that more people can access this wonderfull book. Why it isn't more widely known I do not understand.

I love Marion Woodmans insight! This is an easy read for Marions work, yet no less profound! If your interested in deep personal transformation Marion Woodman is a must in your library.

This book is so easy to read. It illustrates its points so well that it will give the reader new insight into masculine and feminine. I recommend it!

Woodman's book, like all of her works, is right on, as far as it goes. On a still deeper soul level, it is not about men and women at all, but rather, Inner Figures. Hence, the wise white man will say (or think, or meditate): no woman is the carrier of my Dark Soul; and the wise woman will say: no man is the carrier of my Dark Spirit. This praxis may lead to sanity within, the balance we crave, but as James Hillman points out, we practice, not to become practical, but practiced (that is, we as males). I cannot really speak to women's praxis; some wise woman would have to inform me of that. I only know that a man can indeed "marry the Anima," and that She does indeed "protect him, love him, and guide him to the Treasure hard to attain." Enough said for now...

Berton is by far the best historical author of our times. The characters that make up our history come alive with every page that is read. For anyone that has felt the lure of gold, this is a book is a must have.

If all history books were like this one, we would have a lot more History Majors. Berton has taken a time in the past and written a wonderful book. The trouble and hardship that these people of a by-gone era are willing to endure and die for is unbelievable. Fiction can't touch what actually happened in the late 1800's as thousands headed North for what was to be the last great gold rush.

Berton is a master at organizining material from diverse sources and weaving a fascinating tale. He left no stone unturned. With the passing of Klondike participants, this book could not be written today. I highly recommend it.

With all that's negative in the world today, it's a pleasure to read something that will positively affect children.

The book, "Marion the Magnet's First Mission," by Sharon Hackleman, is a cute story about a happy little magnet who is sent to earth to teach children about their "magnetic powers." Marion teaches children to think positive thoughts instead of negative ones, to keep an open mind, and helps children to realize that they can accomplish anything they set their minds to. Brightly colored illustrations are scattered throughout the book, and help to explain the important moral of the story.

One thing I would have preferred, is fewer "image-less" spreads - three just seemed a bit much, even though they were scattered throughout the book. This was something that bothered my seven year old. Images play a huge part in keeping a child's interest - I could feel my daughter's eyes wander a bit while I was reading those pages.

...-- my daughter and I both enjoyed it and she learned a valuable lesson. She learned that she held the key to a wonderful power inside herself.

Marion The Magnet's First Mission is a lively, energetic color picturebook for kids, written by Sharon Hackleman and illustrated by John Blair Moore, starring a charming hero -- who also happens to be a magnet. The message of this story of Marion's adventures is the importance of creative thinking and harnessing the wonderful font of ideas within. An excellent storytime or bedtime read to encourage self-expression in young people, Marion The Magnet's First Mission is recommended for family, school, and community library picturebook collections for young readers.

"Marion the Magnet's First Mission" is easy to read and sends a powerful message to young and old about how we all have "special gifts". An excellent book for families with children.

This book helped me a lot to sum up all the different technologies that are today available in the telecom industry. Of course I heard of lots of them during my studies but we can't see all of them and in a such exhaustive manner as the author did. I especially learned a lot with the first part as deregulation is a very new issue in France.

A very informative reference. I have found myself sharing this with those outside and inside the industry who have been able to read this and better understand the technology and its very profound evolution and impact to our society. I was fortunate enough to have had the author as an instructor. We were the first class to have the published version taught to us and those who had already had the course rushed to purchase it when it was released due to the very nature of both the teacher and the content of the book. Thank you Professor Cole and I am very much looking forward to your next publication.

Hi. I am active duty in the USAF, and work in communications and I can confidently say that telecommunications, by Marion Cole, is by far the best book on the subject that I've come accross. The book is very well organized and the content covers everything that one who deals with telecommunications would need. From the history of telecommunications to late breaking technologies. This book covers every aspect of analog and digital technology, from the simple telphone, to multiplexing phone and data lines over fiber using Wave Division Multiplexing. I personally recommend this book to anyone who would like to learn the technology or just to brush up on their skills. This book is a number one choice!

I bought this book for my sister who has always wanted to be a cop. I thought she was making a poor career choice because of the prejudice she would face, and the danger. But after reading about women like Jadel Roe, Beverly Hall, and Debora Byers, I realized that policing can be a good career and that my sister deserves my support and respect for wanting to make a difference in society. I am proud of the choice she is making - and glad there are other women out there who have led the way and are there to mentor her.

I bought this book after reading a review on nycopmagazine.com - and the reviewer was so right! The stories of my colleagues across the country - how they achieved command positions - and the dignity with which they serve their agencies - are lessons for all men and women in law enforcement. I was especially touched by the words of two of the women in the book: Captain Robin Benziger of the New York State Police who said, "I want to leave a legacy...that our organization is a place where both men and women work together and are happy and effective," and Lieutenant Laura Lightner of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in Phoenix who said, "I think that my job makes a difference...." This book, and the women profiled, made a difference in my life. I now feel like I have mentors all over the country - and I learned a whole lot about the history of women in policing, and what the future might hold.

My police officer husband read a review of this book on nycop.online and bought it for me. Now I'm glad a woman is his partner on patrol. The story about how an L.A. female officer saved her male partner and herself made me realize how important it is to have women in blue. I have a whole new perspective on this topic and don't feel threatened or worried anymore about women on the police force. This really is an important book for wives and girlfriends to read.

I wanted to get back into the dating scene after my husband passed away but it had been twenty-five years scince I had been in the dating game. This book helped me search and place personal ads on both the internet and in print.

More importantly I learned how to set first time meetings in a safe no-fear environment. Being a woman it was important to me to feel secure and in control when meeting a man for the first time.

Buy the book.

38 years old and tired of the Bar scene or trying to date people you work with, I had just about given up on finding someone to have a meaningful relationship with. "Any One Can" gave me new ideas of where and how to meet new people and thanks to the the helpful tips and insights provided in the book, I have found someone! And we are getting married next year!!!!

This is an excellent guide for Any One who is trying to make a positive change in the new relationship aspect of their life. Many singles go at the dating game with no forethought of what they would like to have in a relationship.Then they take a rather aimless approach and often end up bitterly disappointed, not knowing how they got to that point. Mr. Eggleton's book gives rational approachs to dating in today's world. He gives specific guidines that are realistic and sensitive to the needs of the single person's feelings.
This is what has been missing in the singles market of books for a long time. This writer is newly married but spent 6 years as a separated then divorced woman. The wonderful advice this book offers was not availableduring the single time period but was sorely needed !
It should become a classic dating guide for singles.

Missing in many Holocaust works are the experiences of common German Jews and what daily life for them became like after Hitler's rise to power in the early 1930s. One can read about the Nuremberg Laws or the November Pogrom but one can't get a real feel for how those laws impacted daily life except through memoirs and the testimony of common people. Marion Kaplan's book wonderfully fills the gap between history from the "top down" and history from the "bottom up."
This book makes you realize that stories of hiding and rescue weren't just an occasional thing that's celebrated by Hollywood in such things as Schindler's List, but they happend every day. Kaplan also makes it clear the incredible courage involved in hiding and also the courage of others who hid Jews during Hitler's reign of terror. One bone of contention among historians many times is also how popular were the anti-Semitic measures, with many historians asserting that the population at large really wasn't that bad. Kaplan's book destroys any myths that the German popluation didn't overwhelmingly approve of Hitler's anti-Semitic measures, even if they perhaps didn't see the conclusion of them coming in the "Final Solution." If a German didn't know about the anti-Semitic measures it's only because they willingly didn't pay attention or tried to delude themselves.
One interesting part that Kaplan writes about are the Jews who collaborated with the Nazis in cities as "Jew Hunters," including one Jewish woman who led the Gestapo to over 60 hidden Jews in a single day. Reading stories such as this, perhaps Hannah Arendt's frightening conclusion wasn't so far off in that without the help of the Jews many more could have been saved.
The one drawback to this book is that Kaplan focuses on memoirs and testimony exclusively from women and assumes much about the male Jewish population. This could have been a much better book if she had included memoirs from a wider selection of men rather than constantly referring to Klemperer's book.

In Between Dignity and Despair, Kaplan sought to examine the everyday lives of Jewish people under the Nazi Regime. Many Holocaust historians tend to approach the Jewish history from the male perspective (as men were involved in politics). Kaplan sought to explain the importance of women's roles in the Jewish society and how Jewish women urged their husbands to leave Germany when the Nazi gained power and influence.

Kaplan also sought to explain what it felt like to be a Jew living under the Nazi regime and how they became isolated from the rest of the society. She also explained how by and large Germans participated in this persecution and by this she did not mean physical persecution but social persecution.

She gave special attention to the Jewish women and how the women tried to adapt to their new roles and the new situation. The women were able to provide mental and emotional support to their families when their husbands lost their jobs. It was indeed insightful to see how the women were able to cope and how they were the first group to realize the isolation that took place, mainly because of their interaction with neighbors, store owners, public officials, etc.

I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to learn more about the Jewish life under Nazi Germany and the focus here is not those who suffered under the concentration camps but the "ordinary people" who had to cope with their new situation.

Between Dignity and Despair is haunting and painful. The statistics of the Holocaust and "sadistics" of its perpetrators can never capture the true cost in Human terms. History is more than a chronicle and analysis of events. It is also an understanding of the experiences of the people who lived through those events. These experiences do not lend themselves to quantitative assessment and validation. None-the-less, the stories and letters of the people who lived during that time are essential to our interpretation of the geopolitical, military and social events that have shaped our world.

The great question facing us today involves the "collective guilt" of the German people for the persecution and genocide of their Jewish neighbors. The frightening and logical extension of this question is: if such horrors can arise from the children "of the enlightenment," could it not also come from "the sons and daughters of liberty?" It is clear from these accounts that the society as a whole, actively and passively, participated in this process. When studied in Human terms, it is inconceivable that it could have happened any other way.

Cain, after murdering Able, asked of God "Am I my brother's keeper?" The response of the German people to the obvious disenfranchisement, persecution and suffering of the Jews seemed to be: "It depends on your definition of 'brother.'" It teaches us that our high and noble beliefs such as equality, liberty, freedom, and brotherly love, are empty words if not applied universally. This lesson was painfully learned in 19th century America when the statement "all Men are created equal" was understood as only applying to those of White, Northern European ancestry.

Between Dignity and Despair is haunting and painful because within its pages we see our own demons and feel the fragility of our own Humanity. We also see to what extreme our quiet personal prejudices can lead us when they go unchecked by the better angels of our nature.

Ms Kaplan has contributed to our understanding of the horrors of systematic psychological terrorism practiced by the Nazis. No revisionist, seeking to absolve German society, can deny the conclusions drawn from the experiences she has documented. Her work is essential to an understanding of the Holocaust.

'Distant Moments' lovingly written and very descriptive gives the reader a look at life in New York City in the early 1900's. Angela's struggle to overcome obstacles in her young life in a new country with a new language gives insight to what every immigrant must go through. Simple tasks we Americans have taken for granted since most of our families melted into the big pot several generations ago.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend to you whole-heartedly.

This is a delightful read, and one I'd like to share with my friends. Thankfully, the author didn't think it necessary to use curse words to tell a truly amazing story.

As the story unfolds, you see this brave young Angela who was forced into an unwanted marriage having to immigrate to America. The way she survives an unfaithful husband and goes on to establish Antique Row in New York City is amazing. You are feeling what she feels and seeing what she sees as Marion Landry tells the story in such a realistic manner.

The real pictures are superb, and you can tell the author has a loving attachment to Angela. After reading it, so do I! I hope Marion Landry writes more books. I like her style!

This story has everything--love, hate, disappointment, despair, and it touches a universal experience--a no good cheating husband ruining the lives of all around him. This author handled the plot in such a way that the reader forgot he was reading a book, but instead, imagined himself really living the story. This is the mark of an exceptional writer. One had to sympathize with Angela and hurt for the terrible things that was happening to her. Once again, the skillful author, Marion Landry, stirred up our emotions and tore us apart, only to calm them and put them back in order with a happy ending, when Angela finds someone that will make her happy the rest of her days. This is the type of story I like to read.