The book is simply excellent

This is an incredible achievement. It absolutely must be in the library of every architect and architecture student in the world, because we have lost contact with the beauty and social glory of living urbanistically. The architecture we produce supports this suburbanized lifestyle, and the anti social results of this new pattern of living can be seen daily on the news in all manner of bizarre murders and cultist activity. Well then! Without advocating a style of architecture in particular, this book advocates a type of planning that, if we are intelligent enough to understand this book, could save this country, and save the world. I do not exaggerate. Buy the book. You'll be a different person for having purchased it.

What an astonishing ride. This is the complex, profound story of some of the world's most famous intellectuals thinking their way through the shock of post-war Germany and reunification. Locked in frivolous abstractions, their theories were in every detail dramatic, exquisite failures. Terrified of the people they pretended to care about, with almost no instrumental understanding of real-world economics or culture, they blustered and strutted through a sewer of dirt-stupid intellectual tribalism. Not only has Jan-Werner Muller clarified the seriousness of the events, he has introduced some bright new minds to the English-reading world.

The Austrian playwright Werner Schwab is just beginning to be brought to English-speaking audiences. His career recapitulates many familiar features of the German-speaking enfant terrible: major drug abuse (well, alcohol), massive productivity, an early death. (Yo! Fassbinder! C'mere!) His talent, however, was unique, if Michael Mitchell's translations are anything to go by.

Schwab exploits the remarkable capacity of the German language to make abstract concepts seem like solid objects. This is what drove Nietzsche up the wall, but Schwab revels in it, making extraordinary black comedy out of the plastic qualities of German. It sounds academic, but it's not. A character in one play says that her husband might "get a nervous spasm down his marriage". In another play, while a person is being beaten up, a character muses that "human society beats up human society too much." The remarkable thing about this book is that Mitchell manages to make this extremely weird and singular idiom fresh and funny.

Schwab's sense of construction is no less weird. If a character gets killed in Scene 1, chances are he or she will be back be Scene 3 as if nothing had happened. Schwab's vision is as dark as Thomas Bernhard's, but it's as if Bernhard's consciousness of despair and loss has been determinedly blurred in an ocean of cheap beer. There's a "version" here of Schnitzler's La Ronde which reads like it was rewritten by the collective mind of the Sex Pistols. It's good to see this amazing writer being served so well by a translator. I doubt that American producers are going to leap at the chance of putting Schwab on Broadway, but that's the public's loss. He is a vigorous kick up the fundament of the all-too-slack and showbizzy English-speaking theatre.

Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hat crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass communication, and history. These experts analyze the degree of antisemitism, xenophobia, remembrance, and Holocaust knowledge in German public opinion; the groups and organizations that propagate prejudice and hate; and the German, American, and Jewish perceptions of, and reactions to, these phenomena. This is crucial reading for students and scholars of Germany, the Holocaust, and antisemitism, and will be fascinating for anyone interested in this timely and important issue in modern Germany.

I bought this book with the intention of improving my knowledge of health and Spanish. I ended up learning much more than that! I was able to learn how to improve my health and practice my Spanish skills. I seriously recommend this book for anyone who would like to do learn both Spanish and healthcare. If you are like me, read it and then decide!

Archi-neering provides valuable insite into the theory, development and design of Helmut Jahn's projects. Through interviews with Jahn and the engineer who makes his work possible, Werner Sobek, the book highlights the value of architects and engineers working toward a common goal: building a better future. While the professions sometimes experience a bitter rivalry, it is refreshing to see how men such as Jahn and Sobek have learned to work together and produce wonderful projects.

So far, there has been no anatomy atlas in the world that has beaten Pernkopf Anatomy. No anatomy book contains such detail or such visual confirmation. This book is a work of art, something everyone in the medical field should see. Frank Netter's atlas cannot be compared to Pernkopf's. They are in completely different leagues. The controversy is over. It is time to start the presses again!

So far, there has been no anatomy atlas in the world that has beaten Pernkopf Anatomy. No anatomy book contains such detail or such visual confirmation. This book is a work of art, something everyone in the medical field should see. Frank Netter's atlas cannot be compared to Pernkopf's. They are in completely different leagues. The controversy is over. It is time to start the presses again!

I bought this for my husband, who has recently taken up hiking. He loves it and in fact reads it at bedtime every night. Says it is the best book he has seen for beginners. And, not a bad price either!