I loved this account of Aviators. Rock On

While Elie Wiesel's first book, "Night", recounts his experience in the concentration camps, his new anthology, "After the Darkness", gives a wider perspective on the Holocaust. This book serves as both a historical record of this dark period and as a memorial to the 6 million victims of the evil that went unchallenged for far too long.

The factual documentation is accented with Survivors' testimonials that were previously unpublished. Full-page photographs add an incredible dimension to the stories that makes them easier to comprehend. There are two photographs that particularly moved me. The first is of a woman hanging from her balcony, desperate to escape the Nazis who wait on the street to capture her. The second photograph is of four women smiling as they peel potatoes just a few feet from a long stretch of corpses. This photo lets me see the utter loss and indifference that Wiesel describes in his book, "Night".

"Night" let us see the horrors of the Holocaust through Wiesel's memory. "After the Darkness" shows us how the Holocaust slowly crept up on an innocent and unsuspecting world. The narratives demonstrate the devastation that the Nazi regime had on many different people, and the photographs will remain in our memories to enforce the adage, "Never forget."

Algeria 1830-2000: A Short History directly addresses the history and root causes of the deadly, long-term civil war that has killed at least 80,000 people out of this nation of 28 million. Written with painstaking detail about the 1954-1962 Algerian civil war and the nation's history since its independence, Algeria 1830-2000 features college-level narration and analysis supplemented by tables, a very convenient acronym list, a 26-page chronology, and an index. Benjamin Stora (Professor of History at the University of Paris, Saint Denis) has written a new introductory chapter on Algeria's colonial period (1830-1954) and revised the final section with up-to-date information, making Algeria 1830-2000 a clear, detailed, rigorously factual, and up-to-date account of this troubled nation from 1830 down to the present day.

Only two years older than the author and illustrator himself, the "superhero" character of nine-year-old Ben is quite a capable young man. He has set out to prevent a gang of pesky aliens-which only he can see-from reaching their obvious goal of taking over the earth. Thanks to a costume which gives him special powers of perception, he is able to thwart the aliens at the neighborhood park, the mall, the grocery store and in his own backyard. The "earth-saving" qualities of his heroic deeds are not always recognized, or appreciated, by adults. Yet in the end, our hero succeeds in ways even he doesn't expect and thanks to Ben, we can all sleep better tonight.

This book is very amazing for the alternative healing. So practise to learn and to do it. We can do as same as the author for anything, but be patient because this methode is just mental healing, no touch, no intervention, no drugs, just simple to do it. However, we must believe the power of GOD, vast and real. Common, let's do it, you will be a new human in the world.

This is an excellent biography of Gen. Davis. He was a great soldier, who managed to become an officer in the US Army in the face of Jim Crow racism. His career was held back and often endangered by this racism. Yet he never turned his back on serving his country or gave up his career in the face of so many obstacles. It is a truely inspirational story about a great American.

I found this book was able to shed some much needed light on America's first master painters. I found Flexner's writing to be beautiful and the result of reading this book has been several trips to view the works of the artists featured within. I heartily recommend this title to all who are interested in this period of American/art history, or to those who would likee to be!

Gerald A. Benjamin and Joel Margulis tell the current or prospective angel or early-stage investor how to best judge pre-IPO investments. They emphasize matching investors with the right entrepreneurs to create an effective team in which the investor not only provides the seed or early-stage capital but also contributes good advice and contacts. Besides discussing effective strategies, the book includes an extensive directory of top venture forums, angel organizations, publications and Web sites. In addition, any investor will benefit from the thorough rundown of due-diligence points that the authors recommend. While the book is targeted at prospective investors, we [...] encourage entrepreneurs with start-up companies to use it as a productive guide to making more effective funding pitches, although the companion book for entrepreneurs would probably be more helpful. One caveat: Some ideas are repeated - even with similar wording - from chapter to chapter. But overall this is a solid book, even though the free flows of money it evokes have been arrested somewhat lately.

What is pederasty? A great number of readers will have no immediate answer, or at best an ambivalent one, to this question. And while this is unfortunate, it is not at all surprising in a society where good taste promulgates mass confusion in matters of sex, particularly abnormal sex.

To return to the initial question, pederasty is, in its strictest sense, simply anal intercourse between two men. However, lay usage has expanded its meaning to include any sex acts performed by members of the same sex. The interpretation of pederasty in the present book follows the first definition, with the additional emphasis being placed on the historical meaning of the term: that of love between a man and a young boy. Thus Pederasty in Europe is an in depth study of the resurgence of Greek love in the European countries.

Chapter and subchapter titles include such topics as pederasty in boarding schools, Oriental religions and pederasty, celebrated affairs and criminal trials, pederasty among Roman emperors, antiquity of pederasty in India, China, Japan, Persia, and Greece, pederasty in Russia, France, England and Italy, sexual physiology in jurisprudence.

The work was originally published in the 19th century, so it has a unique collection of material and insights.

An extraordinarily lucid, erudite, and dense work that treats
some of the seminal figures of German modernity - from Leibniz
onward - with uncompromising philosophical seriousness and
originality. The chapter on Benjamin and the paradisal epoche
is one of the few works in recent years to offer any new
insights on this immensely popular, but often superficially
discussed, figure. Also noteworthy is the daring interpretation
of Leibniz, expanded from an earlier version in MLN, which

constructs a rigorous theory of antonomasia, relating it to
central problems in the Classical and modern theory of language.