Anyone interested in Lanz tractors and their history should read this book. It includes a large number of high-quality photos of most of the Lanz models some of which because they come from a variety of countries will inevitably be new to almost every reader. The text provides an interesting account of Lanz tractors during their development.

I am not under 13 but I read this book when I was and since it is out of print I thought I was eligable to write a review. It was one of my most favorite and memorable books as a child. I have been trying to find this book because I want my two children to read it also. My little brother loved this book and I was happy to volunteer to read it to him at his request. I feel any child with an imagination would absolutely love this book. It is definitely a must! Mom's out there...You need to find this one! Kelley Templet

As the author, I have struggled for years to sew left-handed with right-handed products. I'm very sincere in helping others sew, especially those who are left-handed. This is a great book to give to someone who is sewing for the first time or has sewn all his/her life. On my PBS TV show, The New Keeping You In Stitches, my students and I often mention left-handed vs. right-handed. I hope you enjoy this book written out of love.

This book is good for anyone who is concerned about the consequences of being involved with things of the occult. It is also a helpfull book if people in your family are involved with the occult. The book gives real life examples of people who have had their lives turned upside down because of magic. The book covers fortune telling and it's many forms, the consequences of healing with magic, magic persecution, death magic, the dangers of spiritism and occult literature. The last chapter has real life examples of God's healing and deliverance. I see similarities in the book and my own life where the powers of darkness have tried to destroy me and members of my family. "Between Christ and Satan" by Kurt E. Koch is a must read for anyone who wants to know what happens when you play with fire. It also points the way to the only person that can really help in troubles with evil.

Despite the ludicrous price the publisher is charging for this book, I would recommend everyone sell some plasma and stagger out to buy it. One of the best show-biz bios I have ever read. Chatty, informative, stunningly well-researched; often funny. The author takes us not only into the life and career of a very successful (but now forgotten) star, but takes us on some fascinating side-trips as well.

A superb job--many pats on the back to Mr. Gänzl.

Having traveled and trekked in Nepal, we found the Tharu MAHABHARATA very informative. To most travelers, the indigenous Tharu Tribes and their customs are totally unknown. We enjoyed reading the rather archaic version of the well-known story.

This brand-new paperback edition of the 1991 revised English translation of a 1976 indispensable "classic" is superior to virtually any combination of individual Mahler biographies that come to mind. I hope I'm able to explain why in this review, and to further explain how it is that a book on Mahler can be a "page turner."

The music of Gustav Mahler has been the centerpiece of my musical listening for virtually all of my adult life, in excess of 40 years now. It's fair to say that it started for me, as it did for others of my generation, with the recordings of Bruno Walter in the late '50's and Leonard Bernstein and others throughout the '60's. It's also fair to say that Mahler's music engenders intense personalization on the part of a listener who is drawn in, to the extent that there is a never-ending desire to know more about the man, his creative processes, his quite obvious contradictions, and the bipolar way in which his contemporaries, his critics, his musicians, and audiences and critics ever since his death, have characterized the man and the music.

I have yet to read a Mahler biography or critique that is not in one way or another colored by the thoughts and opinions of the biographer, starting with the first Mahler biography I read about 30 years ago, by his widow, Alma Werfel-Mahler. Each has had a "pitch," an agenda, which has left rather an incomplete, and often judgemental, picture of this complex human being. Perhaps, had I read all of them in an attempt to weigh matters in the balance, I would have been satisfied in having reached a reasonably accurate overview.

Kurt and Herta Blaukopf, in their "Mahler: His Life, Work & World," have done something quite different and remarkable. As a result of reviewing what must have been millions of words by and about the man and his music, incorporating the most up-to-date research on the availability of these materials, and selecting and incorporating those pieces that illuminate the man, his music, his life, and the times in which he lived, a gripping yet balanced portrait of Mahler, from birth to the first posthumous performance of his "Das Lied von der Erde," conducted by Bruno Walter on November 20, 1911 (six months after his death).

Along the way, we follow him through success and failure, appointments gained and appointments lost or surrendered, works that came relatively easily and works that resulted only from Herculean struggle, through his own words and the words of friends, associates, subordinates, superiors, acquaintances, rivals, and critics (who, it is clear to see from the selections chosen for this volume, were clearly on one side or the other in the matter of the worth of his music). In several instances, the juxtaposition of critical reviews by admirers and detractors, published the same day but in different papers, lead one to ask "Were these two critics at the same concert?"

The pages literally fly by. When, in the last year of his life he experienced his greatest triumph (the first performances of hs Eighth Symphony) in the face of mortality, the narrative becomes absolutley gripping, despite its being comprised of nothing more than what is in the written record. The last dozen or so entries are simply heartbreaking in their poignance as the end approaches, a fellow composer places a valuation on his estate as testator, and, six months after Mahler's death, Anton von Webern corresponds to Alban Berg about the text to the final poem in "Das Lied von der Erde" and how, in planning for the two of them to travel to Munich to hear this as-yet-unplayed music, in the premiere conducted by Walter, he knows that they will "...expect to hear the most wonderful music that there is. Something of such magnificence as has never yet existed." And of course Webern was absolutely correct in his assessment.

The Blaukopfs note in their Preface that "The biographer who seeks to portray an artist is unable to resist colouring the picture with his own ideas. Documentation, on the other hand, is more disciplined: it provides the reader with the factual components of Mahler's life and identifies their sources. Each individual can then fit these pieces together to form their own Mahler portrait." At barely 250 pages, this book is a treasure for the Mahlerite. It could have been twice or three times as long and still have been the page-turner that the Blaukopfs have created from the private papers and public records of Gustav Mahler.

Every Mahlerite should have this volume in his or her collection.

It's really a shame this book is out of print, as it is just as good as the more famous Ambrose books. The reason "The Making of a Paratrooper" reads so well is that Kurt Gabel was a paratrooper and participant in everything he describes...something Ambrose can't claim. His is a light, easy style of prose that reads easily, yet conveys the emotions, both high and low, of war. Friends blown to pieces or shot in the head right next to you. Moments of hilarity and joy...or the abject misery of fighting in hellish conditions. It's all here, from the beginnings in the tough jump school--it's amazing how hard these men trained--to the bloody European battlefields. All I can say is, this book pulls you in and keeps you there in a way that few tomes do. It is well worth the purchase. I might also add that Dr. William Mitchell, a paratrooper in the same Airborne outfit as Kurt Gabel and who wrote the final chapter of "The Making of a Paratrooper," was my political science professor at the University of Oregon in Eugene. He still proudly wears his paratrooper beret.

This well researched text provides a vivid depiction of the burgeoning Guatemalan maquiladora industry. It is full of first hand information and interviews of workers and fairly evaluates the costs and benefits of this new industry. A must read for any one concerned about global capitalism.

I'm a sophomore in High School. This book made things very easy to understand and it tells you what to look for on the test. With help from this book I passed the adaptive test in 15 questions(the minimum) and a lttle over 10 minutes. This is a great book to read for this test and it will help you a lot. If I can do it, so can you