Maybe I read this book more than 10 times. I cannot say I was bored reading this book. A boy named Robert goes to many Worlds. When Robert rubs his eyes, then he enters another world though a TV screen, camera, or painting. But they are not normal worlds. They are past worlds. He went to a cold Laundromat in Russia, Italian palace, and Australia, too. He must find his way back home. Before he returns home, he meets many troubles, sad events, and exiting things!
Probably all the students who like to imagine will love this book. If you are their parent, try to present them this book. Probably you are not going to regret buying this book. Also, this book is a very good one for the parents. You can understand what your son and daughter's thoughts are.
There are not any bad words, or bad things. So, I think this book is appropriate for 10~15 year-old children to read, and when you read this book (if you are their parent or family member), then you will 99% recommend Lost In Time to others.

In Hans Magnus Enzensberger"s Lost in Time, a boy daydreams and sees strange scenes when he rubs his eyes; but one day finds the visions all too real when he lands in the past and finds himself caught in increasingly complex political worlds. Robert covers close to four hundred years of history as he jumps through time in search of the elusive way home. Lost in Time is an original, well-crafted, and totally involving story of time travel with a different tone and twist.

This is the most charming book I have come across in years, and I can't wait to read the original in German (available now on amazon.de for about $30.) The combination of master storytelling by Dische and Enzensberger and Sowa's richly surreal art is mesmerizing. The story is light, simple, and very rewarding. You will return again and again to this story of a rabbit traveling through modern Germany. It brings back memories of my time in both East and West Germany, around the wall. When I read it, I smile and feel better.

This book really helps for children and even for adults too! This book is fun and interesting and not the type of "yellow pages and small writing" type of book. Sometimes when ur teacher teach u sumthing outside the school syllabus, u might not fully understand. BUT, this book makes u understand the whole situaation of waat ur teacher's saying. E.g ur teacher might say sumthi like prime numbers, but in this book the number devil ( a character ) calls it prima donnas!Its really fun! This book is actually teaching u math, but in a story way!

I loved THE NUMBER DEVIL! I've always thught that math was really interesting and exiting, but this book made me even more sure.

THE NUMBER DEVIL is about a boy named robert who starts to dream about a number devil. In his dreams the number devil teaches him all sorts of interesting facts and shortcuts to math problems in an interesting and funny way.

I would have read THE NUMBER DEVIL in about 2 days, but some of the things explained in the book were confusing, so it took alot longer. One thing about the square rute, or rutabaga, of 2 was really confusing and I had to read it about 10 times before it made sense, and there are some things that I still dont get. One thing I thought was weird was I always had to flip back and re-read some of the facts for other things to make sense. Though I have alot of complaints, I like math, and still really enjoyed this book, and would reccomend it to anyone who likes math, or hasn't figured out whats so interesting about it.

Is there a devil on your back thats been hounding you to learn those numbers? Well, there is an easier way to learn and understand numbers. With Haans Enzensberger's childrens book The number Devil, its not only fun, but makes it all look easy. Sometimes it is, other times it can be overwhelming. The number devil is a story that takes place in dreamland where a child, who hates math and numbers finds out how numbers are essential to the world we live in. He also finds out that numbers are easy to understand, so long as we take the time to understaand them. Each chapter attempts to study a number. Starting with 0 and 1, then moving to others from 2 on up. Every number is a pattern and creates more patterns. Its a matter of seeing the patter that clears up the muddle of large numbers. I found this book easy to read and fun and educational. Highly reccomended!

"Civil Wars" is something of a collection of Enzensberger's ruminations and rantings on the state of the world on the eve of the much-heralded new millennium. The book is divided into three parts: the first and principal section is an essay titled "Civil Wars" in which the author takes a hard look at the world's many conflicts and concludes that most, if not all, can be referred to as "civil wars." He defines the latter as any situation in which people living at close quarters are in a state of conflict. Thus, street gang strife in America's inner cities or the wars in Rwanda, Bosnia, etc. can all be called civil wars. However, here Enzensberger tends to generalize a bit much when he equates the various insurgents, rebels, vandals, skinheads, terrorists, "freedom fighters," etc. across the board as perpetrators of autistic violence with no underlying ideology or cause (when they do proclaim some ideals, Enzensberger says this is empty rhetoric with no deep resonance or meaning). This is a bit hard to swallow, as a case-by-case study of the belligerents in the world's various "civil wars" would perhaps refute this thesis. Thus, he gives the impression of someone who just raises his hands in disgust, claiming that "all of them" are crazy, so to hell with them. Despite this, many of Enzensberger's views are worth noting, as they are quite sobering. He points out that there is little call for the hopes that the globalized world economy will contribute to greater peace and prosperity for all, since the brutal economic logic of this process will eventually make even more people throughout the world superfluous and turn them into have-nots. And these have-nots, he adds, will hardly join together in some sort of liberating class struggle, but will more likely take out their frustrations on each other, which is already the defining mark of the type of conflicts Enzensberger discusses in this book.

Another particularly interesting part of the book is the short section on Europe in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Enzensberger cites the observations of several largely forgotten observers (mainly Americans), who painted a grim picture of Europe. The purpose of this section is to remind Europeans that only a few decades ago their prosperous continent was as devastated and destitute as any of the "underdeveloped" regions whose immigrants they so fear today. The essential point of this entire book is to warn people, nations and governments to take care of their own problems at home, their own "civil wars," before becoming involved in those of others. Although this is basically a call for a new form of isolationism, it tends to make sense - just because most of today's foreign interventions, despite the real motivations, are cloaked in a veneer of pious moralism which is nothing short of hypocrisy.