This one is just another timeless artpiece of Gerald A. Brown at his best in his prime time, simply wonderful, period. The movie was also not bad. Readers who failed to read his books would not understand what a real thriller could be achieved by a great writer. Unique writing style, amazing plot and scenario, outstanding charaters...the praise could go on and on.

I've ready everything Browne has written, and this one ranks at the top. One of the few books I have read more than twice. It's the kind of adventure novel you read when you're down with the flu for 3 days and can take it from start to finish--you won't want to read it in several sittings!

This is a valuable book for anyone interested in the decorative arts, especially for understanding the impact of the respected artist and teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow within both the American Arts and Crafts movement and American visual culture. It is a book suited both for the serious academic as well as the art enthusiast. Nancy E. Greene an Jessie Poesch have achieved a fine balance between their insightful scholarly text and the beautiful illustrations of prints, watercolors, photographs, pottery and furniture by Dow and other well-known exponents of this aesthetic shcool. This is truly a visual feast, a great book all around!

This book was well-written because it was written in broken english. It was easy for me to understand and comprehend it better than with other books because I talk like that. I think that others should read this book because it teaches you of the past and the present. It is kind of like the Giver by Louis Lowry. I believe this book is worth reading because there are 10 different stories with a connection. This story can last a lilfetime.

This collection of Sasse's essay written between 1927-1939 are thus particularly fascinating and enlightening as the context of the Nazi regime and intro to American Christianity way heavy on the author.

Here one will discover what it truly means to confess one's faith in light of pressure and temptation. Thus, the lonely way.

Confessional words from this studied church historian and exegete and ecumenist pour forth on observation of his own ecclesiastical scene as well as ours here in the States.

The opening essay is fascinating, since it entails Sasse's initial visit to America. His comments are penetrating and analytical, e.g. "This churchliness of life has a down side to be sure: the secularization of the church. ... Tkhey have opened their doors in part to modern civilization, which has endangered the purity and depth of the faith. Here is the reason for that superficiality of American church life which repulses us Germans." "The consequence of this, along with the concurrent leveling effect of American life, is an elimination of confessional anthitheses. .... All this has created a common religious atmosphere, in which the confessional lines are blurred. Thus fighting has been replaced by cooperation, one of the great American catchwords."

Delivered in 1928, an essay on the church as body of Christ is yet another of Sasse's confessional themes, strongly confessing the Lutheran substance of sacramental presence of Christ: "The church is the body of Christ, is identical with the body of Christ, which is really present in the Lord's Supper. The participation in the body and blood of Christ present in the Lord's Supper is synonymous with membership in his body."

Instructive thoughts and admonitions which provide more than ample reflective thought of their adaptation and input to current theological issues and ponderings.

A valuable resource for the church of the Reformation and those interested in listening in on this timeless saint of the Lord's literary output.

This compilation of Locke's political writings not only contains his famed second treatise, but also suplementary essays supporting his views and espousing other particulars. The book is a must for any one interested in political philosophy in the least simply because most of the ideas espoused were incorparated into the foundation of our country. The essays set up locke's basic democratic theories and his version of social contract society. the reading is mildly technical and archaic, but not too bad. an excellent start to any one interested in philosophy

Gerry gave a very honest account of the New York Jets.

You'll enjoy the stories of the early years. Recounting the selling of season tickets from the apartment of one of the original owners, Walt Michaels finding a "good practice field" while fling home from an away game (it was located on the grounds of a NYC prison), the press' examination of Joe Namath's knee in the restroom of a local restaurant and many others.

Those who were at that dreadful Miami comeback at the Meadowlands in 1994 will relive that sick feeling in the pit of their stomach.

Parcells has come and gone and we still don't have another appearance in the Super Bowl. This book might expain why.

But we return each season with high hopes of reaching the big game. Reading Mr. Eskenazi's book will remind all of us of the pain we go through to have some fun on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Meadowlands (NJ).

This is a well-written history of the New York Jets. It covers the one great accomplishment (Super Bowl III) and the many failures and disappointments. As a fan you love the team and always get your hopes even though you know they will dash them in the end. This book covers those emotions well.

Along came Bill Parcells and New York thought its troubles were over. Last year we were a half hour from the Superbowl and now we're in the cellar again. If you find yourself scratching your head and asking why. This book has the answers--the history of the Gang Green struggle and where we went wrong.

Any young man growing up wishing they were as fast or as strong as their peers can identify with 12-year-old Albert Abrams. A doctor's son living in Brownsville in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933, Albert has the highest I.Q. of any student recorded at P.S. 133. Yet he would gladly trade every ounce of his brains for the ability to run fast, or hit a punchball over three 'sewers.' "To Brooklyn, With Love" portrays the raw intensity and violence of urban decay affected by the Depression, with incredibly descriptive vocabulary mixed with audibly authentic Brooklynese accents and syntax. History buffs and preteens alike will follow Albert's day-in-the-life as he runs the streets with his gang, the Raiders, trying to keep up in his role as the lowest man on their ladder rungs. His world is a mix of savagery and intellect, told brilliantly by Green in this loving memoir of a much tougher time. My brother and I read this book in paperback in the late 60s. We loved it so much that we would lay in bed at night, quizzing each other on little facts about the book as well as the Depression and Brooklyn. WWII vets, transplanted ex-Brooklyners/New Yorkers and older Jewish persons will take a magic time travel in this volume, not only to the period but to a different time in their lives--pre-adolescence.

This is the magical tale of a single, sweltering summer day in the life of a 12-year-old boy. The world of Albert Abrams comprises a few square blocks of Brownsville in Depression-era Brooklyn; a world of forgotten street games and survival of the fittest, where the melting pot of Jews, Poles, Italians and blacks is bubbling in 1933 like asphalt in the July heat.

The family's patriarch is an irascible, endearing general practitioner (see "The Last Angry Man" for the genesis of his character). His wife is serene, a pillar of reason, retreating to her cool parlor for the classics and mahjong while the doctor rants at his ungrateful patients and his luck. The streets outside are a jungle of youthful gangs, dark and dangerous corners, and stickball played practically to the death-everything, in other words, a young boy could ask of a summer day. In the midst of it all, Albert can still find time for the pure pleasure of a breakfast bagel with cream cheese and the sports section of the New York Times, where he savors the language with the same joy that the author apparently does.

The adventures of this day speak volumes about a time I never knew and a place I'd never been when I first read the book more than 30 years ago. I've lent it to anyone who would try it. In fact, it's out right now. Brownsville comes alive in a tapestry of characters and voices and sights and sounds-Yiddish words and Irish slang and the imagined smell of exploding garbage bags on a hot sidewalk, right through to the peace and fading clatter of a summer night. You'll swear you hear a childish voice yell, "Ringalevio!" from the next block...or the last century. Few books are this memorable, and few images as vivid as those in this little epic from Gerald Green.

Review on Kris Raghuram Review: This review is a descent review, I agree and disagree with some ideas in this review. First off, it's a pretty good human document, not an "amazing human document." It could be better written and it could have better description in the story. I agree with the second sentence in the review. Many stories that are about this event are fiction, but have close relations to what really happen. I have a different opinion on the next statement about the German wives, I do believe some German wives knew what was going on in the camps, and they just went along with their husbands and believed what they were doing was right. They had to listen to their husbands, or they might do something against the Nazi rule, and they too could be in trouble. I also don't believe that this is the greatest or best book to read if you are wanting to read Holocaust material. There are plenty of other great holocaust books out there that are better than this book. All around this is an okay review, but I disagree with most of his opinions in the review.

This book was amazing. It is filled with events that must be known to the world so that nothing like this could ever happen again, but in a way, history is already repeating itself. Abortion is the same thing, ridding the world of a "race" of people, in the majority, simply because they are "unwanted" and cause trouble. But that's a different story.
This book has caused more emotions in me than any other book I have ever read. It has made me cry uncontrollably, laugh out loud and at one time I even threw the book across the room in disgust at the horrific things humans will and can do to one another. It is no secret of mine that I get very "into" all the books I read so this may be why I reacted in this way. It's a compelling story of a boy who learns to be a man through struggling to survive on his own, without family and without friends. It tells of his narrow escapes and death defying acts that keep you inticed throughout the entire book. It teaches about life, and has definitely changed my perspective of the way I live and all the everyday things I take for granted. I would reccommend this book to everyone. It makes you put people and things in your life in perspective, and helps you come to appreciate human kindness and justice so much more.

This novel tells the fictional story of two Germans, one on each side of the holocaust. Rudi Weiss is a young Jewish boy whose family refuses to acknowledge the growing threat of Hitler and the Nazis. They realize too late that they should have left Germany and become embroiled in the persecution and elimination of the Jews. Erik Dorf is a new lawyer whose wife prods him to become an SS officer under the direction of Heydrich. He rises quickly through the ranks of the SS and it is disturbing to see how his nonchalance about the Jews becomes full-fledged hatred throughout the course of the story. The book alternates the voices of Weiss and Dorf, effectively showing both sides of the conflict in a manner that will both educate you about why Hitler chose the Jews as a scapegoat and shock you with its sometimes graphic depiction of abuse and humiliation. This book needs to be read so that the horrifying memory of the Holocaust will never be forgotten or repeated.

I was quite amazed by the wide range of topics and applications covered by this book. And yet, each topic is covered in detail, with many algorithms presented to achieve a certain goal. The various algorithms are always summarised and compared, so that it is a simple matter to know which algorithm to choose depending on the circumstances of the problem at hand. I liked the very detailed examples which tend to run over a good number of iterations so that one can easily test one's understanding of the operation of the algorithm.

However, the disappointment lay in the number of mistakes that are made. Most of them are very subtle, and are only discovered if you go through the text carefully, or try to implement an algorithm based on the example pseudocode. In most cases it is the pseudocode that has gone wrong. If you are only a beginner programmer, then it will be difficult to sift through the poorly written pseudocode. On the other hand, a seasoned programmer will have no problems.

In summary - a top class book marred by some mistakes. If you know how to program, then this book is for you. Beginner programmers will be slowed somewhat by the poor pseudocode.

I like this book and have been reading it since 1985. I would be very pleased,if I am able to buy the student series edition, which is much cheaper than hardcover and practical. Why don't you supply also this edition?

I found this edition of the book to be very easy to understand, especially for a novice. All of the algorithms were very helpful. The wide variety of computer examples (Matlab, Mathematica, C, etc.) that are used make the book a great tool for students.

Like da Vinci pencil-sketching a future masterpiece, Gerald Green used "The Last Angry Man" as a sort of scratch pad for "To Brooklyn with Love," a small but wonderful novel he would write a decade later. This earlier work is a character study-and a fine one-rich with textured detail and the colorful language of first-generation Americans and the other survivors of hardscrabble life in the postwar ghetto. Dr. Sam Abelman, who will reappear in the later book with little changed but his name, is angry. He rants about disease, poverty, intolerance and the absence of ambition; he resents the specialists who steal his two-dollar patients, and the patients who are too cheap to pay. He is a frontier physician with a heart of gold, a lovable curmudgeon who might be an angel with a better attitude and fewer Yiddish curses.

The plot isn't uniformly gripping. There is a particularly arid stretch in the third quarter. But this portrait of the gritty Brownsville section of Brooklyn and its inhabitants is infectious and real, and Green's generous prose takes us to a faraway time and place and culture as effectively as any time machine ever might. The trip is worth it.

Green's work is especially relevant in today's culture where our leadership doesn't seem to have any moral or social backbone. The Last Angry Man portrays a truely noble doctor's attempt to reclaim such morality, by oddly caring about the consequences of his actions and the reality of his situation. Being the older and poorer practictioner, loosing patients to yuppie specialists and a neighborhood that is falling apart. Life's difficulties are explored and his undying anger prooves there are still some of us that care.