Lots of humor books out there but most aren't funny. This one is hilarious -- and the humor is sustained throughout. This is the sort of book you keep quoting to someone ("hey, listen to this") while they're reading their newspaper and ready to kill you. I enjoyed it so much I found it difficult to put it down so I could return to checking my mail on AOL. Paulette Cooper

This book definately without a doubt opened my eyes to the life in the United States. Granted the book is outdated, being experinced over twenty years, however the facts CAN NOT be over looked. The stories and experiences of Jacob Holdt are absolutely amazing. This book NEEDS to be read not only by the American people but also the people of the world. No matter your personal belief system, this book has the potential to shed an infinate amount of light of the "sore subjects" of America. Take and read this book with your eyes, mind, heart and soul open. It's dosen't get better! It is worth every penny!

This is a great book. I am presently one of Jacobs' students and he is the best professor i have ever had. His reading material in this book is easy to read and very interesting. Most technical books are boring and hard to understand, but not this one. His teaching style is integrated in this book with excitement and wonderful theory. This book explains the OP AMP in detail along with power supplies, layout procedures, waveform generators, filters, non-linear circuits, and many more great concepts. Even if you are not taking the course, the book is an excellent reference.

Angel Mae is a touching story. It gives me the opportunity to talk about many issues with my 3 year old : jelousy, anger, anxiety, excitment, happiness. Yet the story is natural, funny, and definately not soppy. The illustrations are excellent.

This is a kick-a** little book which is sadly now out of print. The 90+ pages are a sampling of some of the many political protest posters of the Reagan/Bush era, covering issues from local city politics, to police brutality, abortion rights, gay rights, US involvement in El Salvador, the Gulf War, nuclear disarmament and more. Some of the posters were commissioned works, but most were "sniped" (illegally wheatpasted in the dead of night) in city streets. The bulk of the selections come from New York and San Francisco, and some of them will be readily identifiable or familiar to people of leftish persuasion. Barbara Kruger for example, Keith Haring, David Goines (who is more widely famous for his restaurant and wine identity work), Artfux, Guerilla Girls, and Robbie Conal (sadly his "Meese Is A Pig" piece is not included). Graphic design guru Heller contributes a nice little condensed history of graphic political protest, and Jacobs offers a few pages on the culture of protest postering. It's a wonderful book that should inspire the activist and graphic designer that lurks in all of us.

The man is a saint. Still teaching at his age. Very interesting person. Always a giving person.

The author, a school-teacher in pre-war Holland, describes the events that befell the Jewish community in the Netherlands following the German invasion in 1940 -- from the first, seemingly harmless bureaucratic steps of registering the population according to religion, right through to the banal industrial efficiency of the deportation and incineration of 100,000 human beings into smoke and ashes in the death camps of Poland.

This book will dispel any illusions you might have that the Anne Frank experience was at all typical of the fate of most Dutch Jews. The book makes clear that everyone involved in this sordid story tried to act in what were their own selfish interests -- from the German soldier who was "only obeying orders", the Jewish communal functionaries who "tried not to make trouble", the non-Jewish population who out of fear for their own lives did very little to intervene, to the average man and woman in the street who desperately tried any means to wriggle their way out of the trap.

The book is well-written, thoroughly researched, and accurate. The lesson to be learned is how easily the bourgeois stability of a Westernized, democratic, tolerant, peace-loving country like the Netherlands, could be transformed almost overnight into an unbelieveable hell-hole.

It is very gratifying to see Sparrow's translation of Boehme's "Morgenrote am Aufgang" in print again. Jacob Boehme, the shoemaker from Gorlitz whose life was forever altered by a visionary experience, captured the imagination of Emerson and other Transcendentalist writers. Boehme saw nature as a reflection/representation of God's plan, a concept which American thinkers found congenial to their intrinsically optimistic world-view. "Aurora" was most likely first introduced into the U.S. by German Pietists. The original is enormously difficult to translate (or even to comprehend) in German. Thus, the 19th century reader was probably just as thrilled to find a translation as we are lucky to have a reprint of the Sparrow edition.

The aurora is a book of spirit not of understanding. The simplicity of the author is so profoundly penatrating that unless you have walked the tight-rope your self, the book will completely alude you. I believe this book is a major cornerstone for the student on the way to enlightenment. Boehme's presentation has been called clustered at best, but if ready, the word unfolds from within, and you will walk away a changed person.

Good rogue sub yarn. Irving A. Greenfield's novel is about a submarine called the Barracuda. It's captained by an ultra-patriot who sees commies everywhere. One of the first ships the submarine attacks is a ship called the African Wolf. The captain thinks that the United States and the Soviet Union are at war so he decides to attack what he perceives to be enemy shipping. He's supposed to be participating in war games but he's taken them too far. Read this book to find out more.