This is indeed a beautiful book. It was originally published in 1988 and re-published last year. But the photos look like they could've been taken last week. There are 90 photos taken throughout New England (mostly in Northern N.E., it seems) and they vary from woodland landscapes to bayside scenes, and a variety of sorts in between. It's nice to see a little diversity because, believe or not, looking at a book full of Autumn landscapes could actually be somewhat monotonous.

I enjoyed some of the poetry/writings, such as that from Emerson, Thoreau, and Frost, but I didn't take much from the likes of Emily Dickinson and E.A. Robinson. But I'm not a big fan of poetry to begin with.

The "flaw" that I alluded to is something I think any photographic book like this gets nailed with: the pictures are exciting to look at a limited number of times. So maybe you only pull this book off the shelf a couple times a year to browse through and reflect on the joys of the best time of year -- like maybe after a hot Summer day.

All in all they did some good work, even putting together a rudimentary tour guide that points out some viewing hotspots in each N.E. state.

The photos in this book are exceptional. Combined with the writings of New England authors this book celebrates the wonder and spirituality of nature that we, non-writers, feel but for which cannot find the words.

I spent two years in Boston and I was surprised at the beauty of New England especially in autumn. This book always reminds me of sweet memories in Boston and beautiful foliage in New England.

I don't know, how good is the English translation, but the story and characters are so good I hope more English readers discover it! It reminds me of C.S. Lewis' writing in this respect, that it speaks deeply to both young and old. You can read and re-read it and it grows as you grow. The story is timeless and its turn-of-the century Budapest setting doesn't make the book dated or hard to relate to. The real setting is in the hearts and minds of children on the brink of adulthood.

For those who are learning the Hungarian language at an intermediate level the original text of this book makes for great reading -- fantastic story and the vocabulary and style are not at all complicated.

This tale of two groups of boys who fight over a vacant lot where they can play in Budapest gripped me from the first page. I couldn't put it down. The boys exemplify old-fashioned bravery and honor and values that have been out of style for a long, long time. The character Boka learns a profound lesson about life - that it encompasses death. I loved this book and I am a middle-aged woman, not the intended young boy audience.

It helps that I read this in Budapest in the neighborhood of Paul utca and the Botanical Garden. When I mentioned the book, my hosts smiled and said I would love it, then took me on a tour of the main sites where the story takes place.

By the way, I don't think it's out of print in Hungary. I saw copies of the English translation in every bookstore in Budapest. It's published by Corvina Books.

The Paul Street Boys is a wonderful tale of bravery, heroism, patriotism, honour, truth, love, war and passion. It contains all these in the microcosm of two groups of teenage boys living in Budapest who are about to fight for a small open space amidst the busy streets of the big city where they can play ball. But that's just the basic plot. The characters, Boka, Feri Acz and Nemeczek especially, are incredible children. They, when I read the book as a child, were a symbol to me of what boys were supposed to be like. Not because they fought. Not because they had fun on their playground. Not because they had secret societies. Because they knew the important things in life: love, honour, home. The story is funny and sad, light and tragic all in one, and more importantly, it teaches a lesson without beating you over the head with it. I learned the lesson when I first read it when I was just a boy, but when I read it now that I am all grown up, it still makes me weep. Why? Because it is about growing up and learning to live and learning that life is about winning and losing and sometimes both at the same time. And at the end of the novel in our souls, just like in Boka's, "for the first time there begins to dawn an understanding of the great mystery of life in which sorrow is so strangely intertwined with joy."

I would never build a sailboat. It would take too much time. But, this book makes me want to change my mind. At the very least, it give interesting insight into journeyman boatbuilding. I used to check this book out of the library about twice a year - whenever I'd get an irresistable urge to dream about sailing away into the sunset. I don't buy very many new books but I finally decided to just buy a copy of this one because I kept wanting to keep it when my check-out time was over (there was always a waiting list). Also, if you ever want to buy a boat - just pick one of the ones described in this book and you'll at least appear to know what the heck you are doing!

I love this book. It offers the author's selections of the best boats in a wide range of categories ranging from small rowing skiffs to bluewater cruisers. The emphasis in each is on quality of construction, design, and performance. Ample photographs and diagrams give a good idea of each boat's design, and the accompanying text gets you itching for the feel of salt water spray on your face.

This book is an excellent read, not only for the football history, but also for the context of the times. This paints a clear picture of what it was like in Stalinist Hungary after the war, and how even a man in a position of privilege could decide to leave. You don't need to be a football fan to appreciate this book, as it is an easy read, broken up into sections where other key figures are interviewed and offer their take on the same topics. Highly recommended.

This book depicts not only the life story of Ferenc Puskas who without any doubt should always be the member of the World Select, but the intrigues of the Communist system. I happen to personally know some of the participants named in the book, as I have lived In Hungary during the years of the Golden Squad! To have a team such as the Hungarian Select of the '50s may happen only once in a 100 years. The book, brings to life not only the achievements of the players but the intrigues of the totalitarian system that used such talents as Puskas & Co. to prove the superiority of the "Socialist Man".You don't need to be a "soccer" footbal fan to appreciate its true to life account of an era and its players gone by. The play-by-play reporting is outstanding. There was only one Puskas and this book immortalized him forever.It sure brought back the memories of the '52 Olympics, the "6:3" match in London and the thrill and the horrible end of the'54 World Cup... This book is a microcosm of man against the system and the system against the MAN...

this play was hilarious. Rough Crossing is wonderful, and in usual Stoppard form, filled with quirky characters. Dvornechek (sp?), the waiter who keeps drinking the cognac he brings for his passengers, is one of the funniest characters i've come across. the others have their little "traits," too, adding up to a wonderfully confusing show.

These two plays (in one volume) are ones that only true Stoppard devotees have read. When Stoppard's "accomplishments" are listed, they always include ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, JUMPERS, ARCADIA, and the likes. But they almost never include these two plays. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved all of the plays listed above (and just about everything else Stoppard has written), and I heartily recommend them. But "ROUGH CROSSING" AND "ON THE RAZZLE" certainly ought to be on the list. Both are adaptations of other plays (but in the same way that ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD is an adaptation of HAMLET -- that is, Stoppard takes the other plays as a starting point and goes from there) and both are absolutely hilarious. "ROUGH CROSSING" is the story of a producer, director, musician, and a couple of actors on a boat bound for New York and a Broadway theater. The only glitch is that they have to write the musical before they get there! In typical Stoppard form, the lead actor (Adam) has a speech impediment, so that he is always responding to a character after several other characters have already said something. Stoppard's genius lies in his ability to make Adam's statements mean different things depending on what they are responses to! The writing is difficult to describe, but a true treat to read. "On the Razzle" is equally complicated and equally funny. If you are a Stoppard fanatic or have never heard of the man before, GET THIS BOOK! You WILL enjoy it

This short, but incisive book represents a decade of research by Mitja Ferenc, a leading Slovene historian, on the Gottscheer German ethnic group which occupied an area of southeastern Slovenia (a Germanic "linguistic island") for 650 years. The current book is translated by Edgar Erker into English from the dual German/Slovenian edition first published in 1993. It is the official catalogue that accompanies the permanent exhibition dedicated to the Gottscheer culture in the museum of the city of Kocevje in the present Slovenia. The book's strength is that it manages to distill a great amount of factual information related to the reasons "why" the Gottscheer lost their ancestral homeland, being first resettled by the Nazis and then finally driven out of Slovenia.

In conducting his research, the author has gone to all the major archives in Europe, as well as having visited each of the 170 or so former Gottscheer settlements at least three times--a seemingly exhaustive undertaking. Consequently, the book contains valuable information (especially in the Appendix) not found anywhere else: such as the number of houses that still exist in each of the former Gottscheer villages; the current state of preservation of what is left of churches, chapels and cemeteries; and what happened to this area under the Communists. The many before-and-after photos of the former Gottscheer villages serve to illustrate the tragedy that befell this unlucky ethnic group once Hitler invaded Yugoslavia and began to apply his various ethnic policies.

This may well be the best short book on the former Gottschee using the most up-to-date research. Mitja Ferenc, who has devoted much of his professional career as a consultant to the Slovenian Ministry of Culture to studying this unique German ethnic group, has written a remarkable work that stands as a fitting memorial to the Gottscheers whose culture had been an integral part of the history of Slovenia.

For the advanced organic chemistry researcher who is entering the wonderful world of heterogeneous catalysis in general - and heterogeneous hydrogenation in particular - there is no single resource such as this to guide him. Working in the field of heterogeneous hydrogenation myself, I had felt that a modern, up-to-date, readable text was long overdue. Heterogeneous Catalysis in Organic Chemistry has all of these attributes and much much more. It will help you o brave chemist to safely navigate the enormous and often useless primary literature and reach what you were looking for. Be that experimental details for a particular transformation, current developments in the scope of the field, understanding of the underlying theory. I strongly reccomend all organic synthesis research departments obtain a copy. It will be invaluable for the whole range of staff, from the first year inexperienced graduate student nervously exploring the field, to the research group leader who wants to update his knowledge and understanding, painlesly, accurately and quickly.

Once upon a time an old greek philosopher said that the human souls smell in Had.So,is it a good scent or really bad one?Doesn't matter,we all are what we are,anyway.So was Liliom.Read the book and find out there's a little bit of him in each and every one of us. Quod me nutrit me destruit.And such quotes that perfectly explain unexplainable.And why we dont get any logic answer,not now,not ever.And still live and love,faking sense.What mostly seems an major Irony,in fact is Devine.

I've been an esperantist for more than 20 years and a teacher of modern languages for a lot longer than that. This
book is the best direct language book I've seen in any language.
I have only three problems with it. While I know enough about Szilagyi to know he wasn't a bigot, the 1930's style ethnic humor used in two or three places in the book could definitely give offense today. The second is that the grammar notes and pronounciation guides are modest. The other is that the reading material in the back of the book is skimpy and, again, dated. If anyone ever had the desire to issue a text book of Esperanto they could do a lot worse than to update this one.

If you're interested in Esperanto you can find an amazing amount on the web. Just type Esperanto into your search engine and you'll see it is far from a dead language.

I agree it is an almost indispensable book for anybody building a boat. I cannot rate it with 5 stars only because of the many (however silly and inconsequential) mistakes which plague my "Revised Edition": Something is said to be "200% under the list price" (214); the advice to drain the head sink into the head (page 278) is challenged by the drawing in page 289. The use of asbestos is recommended without a warning (219); it is suggested to deliberately damage the plywood pile so the stuff could be bought later much cheaper! (212); in 224 the author does not realize that he does not need to make a water level with 70 feet of costly transparent tubing (only the extremes should be transparent); it is said that you will have no waste if you cut the ribs with 45 degree angled sides (page 55) while in fact that is valid for any angle, as they are supplementary of each other; a very simple method -2 sticks and a pencil- to draw the deck's crown is ignored; in 326 the drilling of the lowest hole is advised in order to properly align a tang (any hole will do, as long as it is only one). There are a several references to non- existing drawings or photos (one to a non existing section (362)), while a couple of identical pictures is repeated in different chapters. The name of a chapter is misquoted somewhere else. Figures should be numbered, anyway. (As I said, my copy is what Albatross Publishing calls a "Revised Edition"; I wonder about what the UnRevised would be...) All in all, however, the book displays a lot of humor and includes lots of good advice. I would complement it with Michael Naujok's on boat interior woodworking -great color photos- and of course with Nigel Calder's Boatowners Manual, but Mate's is VERY useful as it is.

I would suggest this book for anyone who want to understand the structural elements of a sailboat.

This is a great book. Ferenc Mate has a very enaging style of writing, and he weaves nuts and bolts information and construction techniques into an excellent reference book. He has strong opinions on most matters, and lets the reader know why he believes things should be done a certain way. I found the book very useful not only for boatbuilding reference, but also as a guide to good construction techniques for existing boats. I have learned how to look at a boat's construction with a critical eye-- How would Ferenc Mate have built that? If you are considering building a boat, get this book first.