We recently bought this book based on its design. A smart looking cookbook with no pictures? Definately. As we have been trying the receipes, we have been very impressed with the subtle flavors of the various dishes and less impressed with the design of the book. The fish soups, and in particular, the Carrot and Mussel soup, are wonderful. I have been less impressed with the "slender soup" section, but then of course, that may have something to do with the lack of fattening ingredients and better offerings in other vegetarian cookbooks for example. My one complaint with the cookbook is that I would have preferred an order to the soups based on main ingredients rather based on themes such as "festive" or "slender". The ingredients used are generally easy to find here in Seattle, and most of the receipes seem to be reasonably easy to prepare and economical.

For those who love to warm the home and heart with great soups but can't take the whole day to cook this is a terrific resource. The recipes are based on common ingredients, the instruction is clear and the results are a treat!

This is a great cookbook to have on your "everyday" shelf - to grab when it's cold and rainy outside and you don't really want to run to the market to prepare a great dinner.

Enjoy...

Before I had a copy of "A Good Day for Soup", soup to me was chicken noodle in a can (yuck, those mushy noodles!). Now, having sampled over half the recipes in this culinary treasure, soup is not only warm and delicious, but a fun and creative experience. There is a recipe for just about any mood or any ingredient in your fridge, from Curried Chicken Chowder to Ball Park Soup. This cookbook guarantees a warm, nourishing meal for one or for a crowd. I hope the authors read this review, because I'd like to offer them my thanks.

At last! An in-depth history of one of the most memorable if not orginal sitcoms. Royce's book takes the reader back and behind the beginnings, middles and ends of the series as well as touching on the whereabouts of the participants since. It is a easy read and pleasing to any fan. It would probably help someone just discovering the series also. It is obvious that Royce enjoys her subject, but never lets you believe they were portraying history as it was. However, the pictures and artwork were a bit underwhelming. There were a few rare photos and such but with the abundance of TV memoirs etc. out in this nostalgia obsessed culture we inhabit, a bit more color etc. might have completed the picture more thoroughly. That aside, BUY THIS BOOK!!! And enjoy, then go watch one of the reruns.

I have a passion for collecting books about television shows, and have read them all from Bewitched to Taxi to the Twilight Zone to Get Smart, but they all pale in comparison to "Hogan's Heroes". I wish every one of the others had an episode guide as detailed as this one, as well as the excellent cast biographies and histories of the show and the persons who made it happen. Exceptionally well researched, thoughtfully written, there is none better!

This book looks and reads like the carefully researched work it is. The appearance was a bit disappointing; it looked like a book I might find in the library and use for a college thesis. The photos, all black-and-white, are inside in various sections. But the text more than made up for the lack of visual pizazz. Separate sections on each actor, plus smaller bits on guest stars and recurring characters, added greatly to the overall tapestry of this work. The author answered questions such as why did Kinchloe's character leave the show (when the actor left, the show never addressed why or how Kinch left camp), and provided interesting sidelights on the relationship between Bob Crane and Sigfried Valdis (Klink's second Frauline Helga). The episode guide is extensive and complete. It perhaps takes up more of the book than I would like. I would have preferred more detail on the actors today, for instance. Overall, though, if you enjoy Hogan's Heroes, I can't imagine a more complete source. I have had this book for two months and I am still enjoying the many tidbits of information spread throughout it.

The "Critique of Judgement" is Kant's third and crowning work of his critical-transcendental philosophy. In it, he expounds his theory of aesthetics, broken down into two divisions, the "Analytic of the Beautiful" and the "Analytic of the Sublime". The "Analytic of the Beautiful" attempts to explain what we perceive to be beautiful, which is, Kant contends, a four-step process. First, the material for the perception of the beautiful is supplied by the faculty of sensibility, as the basis of the judgement of the beautiful. Secondly, the faculty of the understanding is linked, by means of a unique causal mechanism, to the faculty of the imagination, thus enabling a judgement to be made. In the third part of the process, the judgement is presumed to be disinterested, i.e. "purposive without purpose" -- the subject making the judgement, Kant argues, has no stake in the object of contemplation (being disinterested). Which is to say, he/she regards it as merely beautiful for its own sake. Fourth, this judgement of the beautiful, though singular in logical form, -- i.e., "the vase is beautiful", has the status of universal validity, since the judgement is made in the "a priori" supposition that all rational beings should regard it as valid. Kant's valuable formulation is that there is a distinction between an object which is sensually attractive (the basis of a mere "sensory judgement") and the true object of aesthetic contemplation -- the beautiful itself. However this reductive analytic aesthetics fails to acknowledge that the line between the sensory and the aesthetic may be very unstable. It also cannot preclude the dimension (stressed by later aestheticians such as Nietzsche and Freud and many contemporary philosophers of art) of the drives, out of which the whole realm of the aesthetics exclusively derives, though via the sublimation of affects and percepts, thus ruling out by fiat that any aesthetic contemplation could be "disinterested". The "Analytic of the Sublime" is perhaps the most enduring contribution of Kantian aesthetics, which has been seized on by one of the leading philosophers of postmodernity, namely, Lyotard. Kant defines the sublime as possibly being contained in an object "even devoid of form, so far as it immediately involves, or its presence provokes, a representation of 'limitlessness', yet a superadded thought of its totality." -- In other words, the sublime lies beyond the confines of sense-experience, leading us to form concepts of pure reason. Like the rest of Kant's critical philosophic works, "The Critique of Judgement" is written in the eighteenth century style of the German academy, and is devoid of anything even remotely resembling a single literary flourish. It is best approached as reference text. A livelier work of critical-transcendental aesthetics would be Schiller's "Letters On the Aesthetic Education of Man". Schiller casts his own artistic, political and ethical interests within the paradigm of his master Kant, but being a man of letters, he at leasts presents the theory to the reader in a more amenable form.

The Critique of the Power of Judgment (the 3rd Critique) is the most important work in Modern philosophical aesthetics. The Guyer and Pluhar editions are to be preferred to that of Bernard, as the first two have more extenisve notes, and better translations, including of the First Introduction.

The 3rd Critique presents a vision of beauty, sublimity, and art that avoids reduction of them to them to the biological, a la Nietzsche or Freud. Instead, Kant describes the *justification* of reflective aesthetic judgments in terms of the conditions for using jugment, stressing the contemplative and harmonious character of the experience of beauty. Beauty is linked to cognitive and moral betterment; sublimity, a secondary subject, is discussed more purely in terms of it connection with morality.

The work is difficult; however, there is no substitute for close reading of the whole work. (Certainly not Schiller, who goes far beyond Kant in claiming beauty and art as foundational for knowledge). The 3rd Critique is still very contemporary in its import, including its theory of disinterestedness, which is compatible with intelligent accounts of affect.

This is the root of modern (is there any other?) aesthetic. Kant's third critique completes the circle of the trascendental philosphy; perhaps this is the most impotant book of the Königsberg philosopher beacuse it draws a bridge between pure and practical reason.

Gustav Klimt is amazing. I love his work and I have most recently become more intrigued by his ideas and sketches. If you like Klimt, check out Auguste Rodin, and Egon Schiele also. They all have similar sketch stylizes and imagery. I am an art major and I specialize in painting portraits, so Klimt's sketches are a natural way for me to go. I love his work so I loved this book but as another reviewer stated, the images were too light. The drawings were awfully faint and on gray paper, I would have liked them to be printed darker or at least on white paper. Also there were a lot of his major sketches for his masterpieces missing that I've found in other books. Over all it's a very good book for a nice price.

What more is there to it? Maybe that's all art's good for: giving you a hard time. I thought the reproductions in this book were a little faded and that's why i gave it four stars and not five, as the drawings deserved. Also, i did not found some drawings i was sure to find here. Great if you want an introduction to Klimt, the explicit erotic artist.

this is an amazing book! as an amateur graphic artist, this has been an invaluable reference and inspiration to me. all of the drawings are of figures, mostly women, mostly naked. they were largely done without direction to his models while they lounged around his loft so they are very intimate, sensual, and sometimes erotic.
his style is so lucid, i can stare at the images forever. the line is so smooth and light(usually pencil, sometimes charcoal), that the images seem like stencils. the body is basically a contour drawing and then the hair is captured in typical art nouveau style, with stylized strands moving in one direction.
i can't say enough about this book. the work is so simple and stunning...when i try to relate what it means to me, i can't think of a thing to say.

An intimate look at Rommel as a commander and superior officer written by an aide who served him on a daily basis in North Africa. Provides insight into why Rommel, a Field Marshal who was not above jumping into a ditch to help his men "unstick" a vehicle from the sand, was so respected by the men who served under him.

Living in the same spartan conditions imposed on his men, Rommel was a foot soldier's general who sometimes conducted his own reconnoitering, at great risk, led from the front lines, and believed in ACTION. Feared and respected by the British, his chief opponents in Africa, he became a subject of formidable mystique which worried their Middle East HQ and inspired jealousy from the German General Staff. They regarded him as an over-rated middle-class upstart who, in being promoted Field Marshal by Hitler, had encroached upon sacred ground previously occupied mainly by German nobility.

With Rommel in the Desert shows that Rommel's appeal lies in his action-oriented personality, his code of chivalry and fairness. It is clear after the North African campaign that he missed the clarity of purpose and independence he enjoyed during that time, and chaffed against subsequent dealings with the politicized world of the German General staff and the Nazi regime which helped build his reputation.

Like Patton, Rommel was out of his depth when dealing with political matters, as when he became involved on the fringes of the July 20th plot against Hitler, and like Patton, he was a skilled and highly professional military man whose ego led him to be exploited by the propanganda machine of the nation he served. An excellent book for anyone interested in this famed but enigmatic German commander.

One of the best portraits of Rommel I've ever read. Told from the viewpoint of a close aide who served Rommel on a daily basis, this book is an intimate look at him as a commander and a superior, offering insight into why he was so respected by his men and yet, as a middle-class "upstart," posed such a threat to the German nobility who comprised the bulk of the professional officer corps.

Rommel placed the same spartan demands upon himself that he imposed on his men. A "hands-on" commander who often led from the front lines, conducted his own reconaissance and exposed himself to great danger, even as a Field Marshal he was not above jumping down into a ditch to help his men unstick a vehicle from the sand. More of a personal memoir, With Rommel in the Desert gives the reader the best look at Rommel's action-oriented personality yet. A soldier first, last and always, he had a code of chivalry that harked back to simpler times, and, when it was over, he missed the clarity of purpose and independence he had during the North African campaign. He was similar to Patton in two respects: He was out of his depth when dealing with political matters, as when he became involved on the fringes of the July 20 plot against Hitler; and also, the needs of his ego compelled him to allow himself to be exploited by the German propanda machine. An excellent book for anyone interested in this renowned and enigmatic German commander.

I have to say I'm biased, for this book marked a decisive moment of my childhood. This was the FIRST book I read in my life. I was eight y.o. then, and I stole it from my father's bookshelf. I loved the book, even if I didn't understand it all. I read it so many times that I'm sure I knew it better than Mr. Schmidt. It's war, written from a very personal and somewhat innocent point of view. After this book, I devoured everything that was printed, and still do. Thanks, Mr. Schmidt, you'll never know how important you've been to me.

This book is not for the lighthearted. It is an excellent account of the life of Werner Heisenberg and of the strong nationalism that blinsided him to the situation in Nazi Germany. His brilliance as a first rate physicist notwithstanding, the book shows by example what happens to science when it becomes totally subservient to a totalitarian regime and shows the problems of regional politics overtaken by a ruthless dictator in the funding of science. The fine line that Heisenberg walked did not diminished his scientific accomplishment but did not excuse him from his participation in a scientific enterprise that could very well have changed the course of history had it been successful, a Nazi A-bomb. The book is also a lesson on the results of elitism in science and it shows how the Nazis cheated themselves from an even greater role in nuclear physics because of their policies.

This book is superb as a biography and as history of Quantum Mechanics. As you read the pages you grow together with Heisenberg in his daily life and his achievements in Physics. You start to understand how the Quantum Mechanics was founded, how trial and error methods eventually developed into such a fundemental theory. The book is very voluminious but if you have patient in reading it on each line you live the life of a great man. I found it very interesting that even though he is one of the great founders of the Quantum Physics, he had more vacations than me and enjojed the life better than me. It shows that to be a good scientist you just have to carry your brain and think while wandering in the country side. Isn't it great. Apparently he did not even know Matrix Theory until Bohr showed him. Every page is full with history, science and suprise. Story is so vivid that you can even visualise the streets of Munich or other German towns as you read the book. Grat book,a lot of pages in fine print but worth of it.

A must for everyone. I would like to express my gratitude to his wife Janet for her many years of encourangement. If it was not for her would this great book have been created? Thank you Janet for the awesome book ( and i almost forgot to the author David Cassidy)

As any fan of the show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, knows, the Solomons are a group of aliens, sent from another galaxy to study the earth and humanity. This quirky book is a distillation of all of the things that the Solomons learned. Sadly, as every fan of the show knows, every lesson they learned is hilariously wrong! This book is a collection of hilarious observations of the human condition, guaranteed to leave you in stitches!

This book is so incredibly funny. You'll be laughing all the way to the next galaxy. A must-read for fans!In what other book would you find Harry's Movie Reviews, where he says that "Showgirls" is a good film for youngsters. I quote him in that, "the dance sequences will dazzle young and old alike." A quick read, and not one that you will soon forget

I am a huge fan of this show, and I think that this book is the funniest thing I have ever read! It is filled with zillions of pictures, color and black-and-white, and tidbits from each character on everything imaginable and unimagineable! I reccomend this book to anyone who loves this fabulous show, and is in the mood to laugh uncontrollably!!!!!

This book is an excellent reference text for people who already know something about aquatic chemistry. It contains more material and covers more topics than any other book in the field. As a teaching text, however, it is severely lacking.

The first problem is the often convoluted writing, which lapses at times into incomprehensibility; read this book for 5 minutes and you will find at least one confusing sentence or circular explanation. The second problem is the lack of clarity about how to actually solve equlibrium problems: there are lots of examples of tableaus used to solve problems, but the explanation of how the tableau is constructed is not good, and neither is the description of how to obtain the proton condition or what it is (and it is crucial to understand this). Finally, many so-called "examples" do very little to help clarify things. Readers who find the tableau method confusing as introduced by Stumm and Morgan will find themselves consulting the aquatic chemistry text by Morel (or the later edition by Hering and Morel) to learn how to actually use the method. When they do, they will probably find that text highly preferable: clearly written, with all the examples worked out from start to finish.

These problems really make learning from this text a monumental struggle for students not already versed in the subject. However, as previously noted, as a reference for professionals, it is unequaled.

Stumm and Morgan remains the best aquatic chemical book ever written.

It is fundamental in its approach to the processes that control the composition of natural waters, it is a pleasure to read and should be a must for any student and/or professional in the field.

After more than 20 years working in the field I still find it useful and up to date in many respects.

A pitty that there is no Spanish version of it, thousands of Spanish speaking chemists and geochemists are missing a classic.

This book is an excellent reference. It presents a thorough discussion of a complex topic. The authors provide many worked examples, with all required numeric inputs and resutls, that permit the reader to quickly verify his or her understanding of the material. The consistent and proper use of units throughout the book is refreshing.

The great weakness of the American business press is that it writes a lot about American business, a little about Japanese business, and almost nothing about anything else. As a result, most Americans are very uninformed about the major nonAmerican corporations and their leaders. This book is a useful remedy for reducing that ignorance. You will have a chance to get a thumbnail sketch of Daimler-Benz through the merger with Chrysler, Deutsche Bank through the buying of Bankers Trust, Bertelsmann and its expansion into worldwide entertainment, Allianz (the world's largest insurance company), Krupp and Thyssen through their merger, Hoechst and their merger with Rhone-Poulenc, Siemens, VW, Lufthansa and Airbus. Each profile also details the current leader and his background.

Of interest to those concerned about Nazi roots of some of the older enterprises is that the book covers that ground somewhat. You'll have to look at specialized books to get more.

As German businesses become more effective world competitors and U.S. presences, chances are you'll be dealing with these companies. Now is a good time to start getting acquainted.

As the context for this book, the author argues that the 50th anniversary of the former West German democracy, the 1989 end of the cold war, and the rise of a new generation of German business leaders mean that German businesses will "Go West" and "Think Big."

As anyone knows who has done business in Germany, the current leaders know a lot about the U.S. and speak American English well. To expand beyond Europe, the U.S. looks good. A variety of strategies are pursued, which the author puts into categories that didn't quite make sense to me -- perhaps it's the translation.

The book could have used a stronger analytical base. This is written more at the level of a weekly news magazine than a business book. With high cost equity capital and weaker technology in New Economy businesses, German businesses are in a poor position to play on the world stage in the emerging opportunity areas. Primarily, these are old economy businesses where scale is important that are trying to keep up. Because they have to pay cash and are usually not the biggest company in the world, the German businesses usually have to buy into marginal American operations. Getting Chrysler for stock is a function of the abysmal valuations of the auto companies in the U.S.

Having encouraged German clients to take the U.S. market more seriously over the last two decades, I'm glad to see the proof that it is finally starting to happen. I am sure that Act II will be much more impressive than the Act I that began with the DaimlerChrysler merger. Naturally, the jury is still out on how well all of these mergers will work. It's not easy getting two giants from different cultures to minuet together.

Good luck in overcoming your misconception stalls about German businesses, and finding new opportunities as a result!

Donald Mitchell

Coauthor of The Irresistible Growth Enterprise (available in August 2000) and The 2,000 Percent Solution

(donmitch@fastforward400.com)

You can tell the author is a business magazine writer, and that each chapter is a vast expansion of a more crunched down version of what would normally be an article in, for example, Forbes or Business Week. I'm not sure the typology into which the book divides types of big German businesses really works (e.g., "Anti-comglomerate," "Pivots") but then Teutonic writers have always over-stressed forced classifications. Read Spengler if you don't believe this. Unlike Spengler, however (but yet eerily echoing Spengler's theme of "The Decline of the West") this book is easy to read, and rewards even a distracted skimmer with great informatin housed in biographical digressions focusing on current leaders of distinguished German companies. We learn that Thomas Middelhof from Bertelsman wrote his PhD on the internet in 1985, which seems to give him more credibility to be tangling with AOL. We are told that Jurgen Shrempp actually knows how to tear down and reassemble a truck engine, having dropped out of school and become a mechanic before he got in touch with his inner taskmaster and went to engineering school. No other chief of a big auto company can do this. This reminds me of how the computer companies fit here. Who's the better leader for Apple? The guy who made them in his garage, or the guy from Pepsi who writes autobiographies focusing on how his wife like to stay in Connecticut while he, John Scully, takes a break from selling sugar water in order to "change the world"? So we learn of clever and practical Germans, with tons of money, expanding into the post-Cold war business culture of "America" and with the refreshing admission that the more American you are, the better you business is. This is a sea change from the viewpoint of American academic pretentions from the 1980s (my time in college), who stressed the superiority of things European, and downgraded American habits and practices as unduly "puritan" (i.e., hard-working) and too obsessed with "progress" to appreciate the finer points of life, to be found in more continental patterns of things like more frequent trips to open-air markets, and taking 3 hour lunches. Read Tibor Scitovsky's "The Joyless Society" to see my point. And Rollo May. And bob Goudzwaard (Dutch interloper, but with plenty of anti-American opinions). Compared to this, these Germans profiled here are portrayed as so many Rodney Dangerfields from "Back to School" who buy their way into old institutions, and along the way spice things up for everyone else who is just slogging through. Still, you have to wonder what was in it for Chrysler to get eaten by the ambitious Daimler, driven by the truck mechanic. You will also learn what the intials "AUDI" stand for, and how Porsche and Pietche fit together. The portrait of Alfred Krupp may be too sympathetic, compared to the treatment by Kai Bird in his book "The Chariman." But this author does certainly probe into the Nazi antecedents of some companies, or more accurately Nazi interregnums of many of them. IG Farben is explained very succinctly (not easy to do) as is the dominance of Deutsche Bank. We'll see if the Germans are any better than the Japanese at hiring and working with people who are not like them. The book makes them sound pretty exclusivist, and Daimler's annual report certainly looks like the typical group of "white guys" who may find it hard to identify with the America that is quite a bit more complicated than a truck engine.

Unlike the book "Japanese Rage: Japanese Business and Its Assault on the West " ASIN: 094142359X, in which Japan is some sort of foreign environment that is out to get the U.S., this book outlines many reasons that we have common interests in the expansion of Germany. As you read the reviews that seem to cover the back cover of the book and "Part I: Go West, Go Global the New German Challenge" They probably do not want to spoil the rest of the book for you.

I was personally interested in the mistakes make by the German companies, as the company I work for was bought as part of a global expansion. Some of the mistakes came close. My personal favorite is about our company. The sales people in Germany are used to the company making a product and then giving the consumer the choice from the product line. At the first confutation with a US customer with the "you will use one of our variations," the customer told the sales man that when they made something to the useful specification of the CUSTOMER not the manufacturer they would buy it. Did the salesman learn that the customer knows what tools are necessary better than the manufacturer? No. The German salesman just said this must not be our customer and looked for another one. He is still looking.

This book shows three strategies with 10 cases. Werner Meyer-Larsen uses well-known corporations. He keeps the cased on a level that does not require you to be an economist with a minor in math.

If, on the other hand, you are looking for lots of pictures of great riders and equally great horses, this is it! It is a beautiful book with a lot of photographs and very little text. It takes the reader through the 'ideal' developmental stages of dressage but without detail. I was looking for more practical words of wisdom on how to achieve the pictured perfection, but found none.

This book is full of large photos of what dressage should look like and in my years of riding I can tell you a picture is worth a thousand words. Every trainer in the country uses all the same words but unless his horses look like these he is incorect, it is that simple. The poll is the highest point always and the head should never be bent past the vertical. Klimke did a great job of collecting pictures of real horese being schooled in dressage corectly something few trainers bother to do nowdays anywhere in the world. Use your eyes and you can learn volumes from this slim work!

This book is one of the most beatifully photographed books on dressage and horse sports in general available. Even if you are not a dressage lover, the chronicle of the developing horse will be of interest. This book includes some very rare photographs of some of dressage's great equine and human athletes. With the untimely demise of Dr Klimke the book will certainly be more difficult to obtain.