"I have had the privilege of hearing Cantor Leo Fettman's story of Holocaust survival personally... As I read this book, I could hear his voice and see the pain in his eyes once again. ...I will recommend this book to counselors, educators, and those who seek insights in the personal impact of the Holocaust that transformed ordinary people into extraordinary survivors. ...I am grateful that Cantor Fettman worked through his own pain of remembering to bring us this great treasure!"

Reverend Steven E. Boes Director of the St. Augustine Indian Mission Winnebago, Nebraska

I just finished reading SHOAH: Journey from the Ashes.

For the past 25 years I have read an average of two Holocaust books per week. I have read good books, bad books, mediocre books, and some outstanding books. This book I would gladly recommend anyone read as it goes beyond the Holocaust and goes to humanity.

Cantor Fettman mixes in sociology, psychology, common sense, and his experiences taking him from faith to faith never with a loss for where G-d is in his life.

I am proud that Cantor Fettman was one of the 60 interviews that I conducted for the Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He is a man that leaves an impact. He is a man who has made a difference.

This book is well written with just enough reference to the Holocaust to be a Holocaust book and at the same time this book becomes a primer on how to live your life.

I dare to dream for a moment thinking how this world would be if in each persons life a Cantor Fettman appeared. It is also leaves that void wondering how many Cantor Fettman's were murdered during the Holocaust.

This book should be required reading for everyone at any age and with any religion.

I would tell anyone searching for a book on the Holocaust to begin right here.

In Shoah: Journey from the Ashes, Paul M. Howey and Cantor Fettman have done an in-depth historical prologue which chronicles 2,000 years of anti-Semitism. Then they have recorded Cantor Fettman's tragic Holocaust experiences (and) then they have listed current hate groups who sadly are still part of our society. This book does an excellent job of showing unless we are proactive, history will continue to repeat itself.

Shirley Goodman, M.S. Educator and Author Omaha, Nebraska

Pacific Asia has become a very important region for commerce since the easing of trade barriers and expansion of the global economy. The effects of globalization have had a tremendous impact on Pacific Asia, not only through the creation of big multinational corporations, but their effects on social values and nature of doing business resulting from this increased competition. In Entrepreneurship in Pacific Asia Past, Present and Future, Professor Leo Paul Dana gives an in-depth description of the entrepreneurial events that have been occurring in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

Professor Leo Paul Dana is the deputy director of the MBA International Business Program at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, as well as a Senior advisor for the World Association for Small & Medium Enterprises and the Associate Director of the ENDEC Entrepreneurship Development Center. Along with his expertise on entrepreneurship, Professor Dana has personally visited each location and therefore each chapter is written from his personal travels and experiences.

This book answers all your questions about how countries in Pacific Asia are dealing with the internationalization of entrepreneurship in the new global economy. This includes new and exciting incentives governments are providing to encourage entrepreneurs and create new opportunities for locals as well as the need for foreign experts to help train and work with local talent. The support programs that local governments are beginning to implement and the increasing amount of venture capital that is now more readily available for entrepreneurs, has made Pacific Asia a very attractive region for new business enterprises.

Each chapter begins with a countries historical overview that is essential in understanding the specific events that tailored and shaped the entrepreneurial activities and opportunities in each individual country. By acknowledging the past, we can better understand what strategies need to be implemented in order to support a strong entrepreneurial spirit in the future.

Professor Dana has shown how culture can greatly affect the business practices of a country. From the work-loving, motivated Buddhists in Thailand, to the multicultural, diverse and efficient Singaporeans, each country has its own cultural diversity that has shaped the economy and business community.

One of the main stresses of this book is on the role of the Chinese in entrepreneurship. The Chinese have deep entrepreneurial roots in each of the chapters described. For example, there are one million ethnic-Chinese in Vietnam. In Ho Chi Minh they compose 12% of the population yet control up to 50% of the local economy. Usually making up only a small percent of a country's total population, the Chinese have historically been very active and influential on their economies.

This book is perfect for both new business students who want to gain insight into the field of international business and entrepreneurship as well as more advanced students who can gain a more clear insight into the characteristics of Pacific Asian economies and business opportunities available in these 12 countries.

After reading this book, one will be able to see the limitations and advantages offered in each country and compare how these governments have attempted to expand there efforts into stimulating new business opportunities and remain competitive in the new global economy.

Did you know that marijuana is not only legal in Cambodia, but is often used as a flavoring in soups? Or that traditional Chinese law in the fifth century forbade merchants from wearing nice clothes in public? Did you know that in Japan, giving a potted plant to a sick patient is a bad omen, a sign that a malady may take root? Or that Laos produces some three hundred tons of opium annually? How about the fact that the Philippines is the word's third largest English-speaking country (in terms of population)?

In Leo Paul Dana's new book, Entrepreneurship in Pacific Asia: Past, Present & Future, the countries of the far east are presented with both the precision of a shrewd business man, and the sensitivity of one for whom this region of the world holds an obvious and ineluctable charm. Covering the ten countries that make up what is known as the "far east" - Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam - Leo Paul, in short erudite chapters, attempts to convey both the complexity and appeal of a region that harbors extremes of material wealth, divergences of spiritual practice and histories as rich in flavor as they are in turmoil.

The book is the first of its kind, pulling together a wealth of knowledge that will be required reading for anyone - student or professional - interested in getting to know either the culture or the business possibilities that abound in Pacific Asia. In Indonesia, for instance, a carefully constructed balance has been created between the country's massive reliance on agriculture, and the need to modernize and create more opportunities for entrepreneurship. Development programs have been set up to bridge the gap between traditional village life and the needs of a growing world economy. Considering the tensions in East Timor, it is important for entrepreneurs and western businessmen to be sensitive to climates that are undergoing such radical changes. And while it is perhaps impossible to retain the sort of agriculturally based economies that have led us to the present day, it is a worthy cause, as Leo Paul shows, to try and save those cultures within a broader context. Even in France, where the world economy is clipping along, there are fierce battles raging over how to manage GM foods and how the cultural inheritance for today's children will be defined. Leo Paul's book testifies to the presence of an Asian entrepreneurial spirit, and at the same time attempts to show the importance of paying attention to the cultural values that define that spirit. In Singapore, for example, "clan associations" were founded in an attempt to foster co-operation among people who spoke the same language. As Leo Paul says, "Mingling with other members helped individuals understand trends in product development as well as price fluctuations."

The complexity of entrepreneurship in Asia is astounding. The importance and preponderance of Chinese immigrants, for example, is a phenomenon which Canadians and Americans have witnessed on their own shores, but whose effect, perhaps, they have been ignorant of in other regions of the world. The Chinese brought both Mandarin Script and Chinese Medecine to Singapore; and in the Philippines, although they comprise only 2 percent of the population, they control more than half of the market capitalization in that country. Often, despite prejudice from local populations, as well as from colonial powers, the Chines have not only fostered, but helped expand an entrepreneurial spirit throughout Pacific Asia.

Filled with stunning photographs, taken by Leo Paul himself on his trips to the various regions detailed in the book, Entrepreneurship in Pacific Asia is a must read for the business minded of the next generation. That is, those who recognize that the world of business is no longer an isolated one, that to be successful you have to understand, or at least be interested in the whole world. An exciting time indeed to be an entrepreneur!

But what book about Machaivelli could possibly be sufficient? Only "a commentary consisting of many volumes" could accomplish that.

Nonetheless, this book is almost sufficient for understanding The Prince. One can only hope that de Alvarez is busy preparing a commentary on the Discourses.

Cosimo: send me an e-mail. I would love to discuss this book with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Leo Paul deAlvarez has finally released the book that many people have been eager to read for the past several years. Called the "Master of Machiavelli" by one of his students, deAlvarez has the uncanny ability to discern the many strands of the artful web of writing woven by the wiling Florentine. When we see that Machiavelli's primary audience are those thinkers who came after him, we begin to see the magnitude of his enterprise. He seeks to rule all those who come after him by keeping them ignorant of classical thought. Just how he accomplishes this task is now more exposed because of the work of deAlvarez. Dogmatic Pocockian Republicans will be aghast, but so will those who fail to see that the true evil of Machiavelli is his obfuscation philosophy.

Cosimo Rucellai

This winter break I went on a Shakespeare buying spree, and this book is one of the fine gems I found. A large, but fascinating book, this work of great scholarship and excitement takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of Shakespeare, even into rather obscure corners of his works (Trollius and Cressida, Timon of Athens). This book is a must read for any would be deep thinker about Shakespeare.

Shakespeare as Political Thinker is a must for everyone interested in the political thought of William Shakespeare. This reprint will finally allow new comers to become familair with a commonsensical approach to Shakespeare's plays. The introductory chapter by John Alvis is worth the price. Perhaps the best Shakespearean critic alive, Alvis has an uncanny ability to show Shakespeare's moral seriousness without making the bard an unquestioning adherent to any political school or theological creed. Many of the essays that follow are also well done: Jaffa's chapter on Shakespeare's entire corpus, Laurence Berns' meditation on Lear etc.

The second printing of Shakespeare as Political Thinker gives hope to those interested in relearning ancient wisdom and pays tribute to its inspiration, Shakespeare's Politics (Allan Bloom).

Jack Williamson has the skill to capture one's interest right from the first sentence of a story and hold it, drawing one in to read on and discover the mystery and wonder that follow. He has a very visual style and in the title story Wolves of Darkness he provides a scientific explanation for lycanthropy instead of the usual supernatural rationale. He also describes a process that sounds very similar to the way that micro-processors are made today! And this was in 1932, some 20 years before even the transistor was developed, let alone micro-chips! When this story was written even the vacuum tube was still a rather new thing.

Williamson writes in the pulp fiction style of the day, which is somewhat repetitive and tiresome at times, but since the going rate for a pulp magazine story back then was a half cent a word or less, it's understandable why an author would "flesh out" a tale as much as possible! Even so, these stories still hold up well.

This is a handsome volume, well-made, with colorful reproductions on the endpapers of the covers of the old pulp magazines in which the stories originally appeared. This book is a must-have for all Jack Williamson fans and all science-fiction/horror fans in general!

This is a handsome book, well-made, with colorful reproductions on the endpapers of the covers of the old pulp magazines in which the stories originally appeared. Some of these grand old pulps can still be found on auction sites and in second-hand book stores, and they're worth collecting, not only for the stories but also for the wonderful illustrations. The quality of this book and the early Jack Williamson tales make this volume worth its rather high price.

I wanted particularly to read the short novelette Wolves of Darkness, because I'd heard it was the precursor werewolf tale to his later classic Darker Than You Think, and I was not disappointed! Williamson has the skill to capture one's interest right from the first sentence of a story and hold it, drawing one in to read on and discover the mystery and wonder that follow. This book is a must-have for all Jack Williamson fans and all science-fiction/horror fans in general!

Our local teacher's union gives a copy of this book as a present to each new teacher hired by our district. The book is part of three books given to each new teacher. The other two books are: "Pitfalls and Potholes: A checklist for avoiding common mistakes of beginning teachers" and "Bright Ideas: A Pocket Mentor for Beginning Teachers." The books are wonderful for helping new teachers feel confident and pursue their classes with style and zest.

Perhaps it is the troubled past and constant news of conflict that originates from the Middle East, but of the vast array of English language books written on world economies, relatively few seriously dwell on the prospects for a prosperous and powerful economic future, in this corner of the globe. The very fact that Dana has written a book on precisely this topic is evidence of his unconventional and highly enlightened world view. This book gives a unique insight into the economic situation of eleven Eastern Mediterranean countries. Many would not consider it beyond a joke to suggest that these economies may some day exert a major international influence, never mind have the potential to become global superpowers with influence on millions of lives, as Dana intimates here. In a well-drawn analogy however, Professor Robert Hamilton of the University Of Canterbury notes, in the foreword, that the same was once true of Japan! (Few would try to deny the international influence that this nation has exerted over the past few decades.) Based on the premise that technology, energy and access to affordable wages are the major contributors to economic advantage, Dana builds a logical case for the growth potential of these eleven countries, given peace is one day realised. By way of introduction, an entire chapter is devoted to an explanation of the Bazaar Economy, the history of it and how it differs to the Western firm-type economy. An understanding of this is vital as it constitutes the very heart of the culture, society and values of the people from which it was derived. Dana illustrates the inherent risks involved in attempting to do business without this cultural understanding. As a number of cases demonstrate, too many Western firms have made the extremely costly mistake of approaching business from a Western perspective, assuming this to be a globally understood one. For this, they have suffered the consequences and some will continue to do so, for years to come. Unfortunately, this is not simply an occurrence of the past, but instead appears to be a lesson many western companies are still intent on learning the hard way. Dana explains the centrality and value of interpersonal relationships to the Bizarre Economy and how these values have been replaced in the West by a focus on the product and market share; the result of governmental ideologies and free-market forces. There is a touch of irony in noting that in the West, where this concept appears to be so foreign, it is in reality gradually being re-embraced in the form of relationship-marketing, perhaps a warning to the West to maintain an open-minded and non-condescending attitude towards the "wider world". With the broader business context having been established, Dana proceeds to devote a separate chapter to the discussion of each country. He expresses a well-argued belief that understanding the historical and cultural foundations and the manner in which they affect and define the marketplace is a precondition to success within it. For this reason, each chapter begins with a general introduction followed by a concise account of the history, events and ideology that have shaped each nation. Only after this background has been established does Dana proceed to discuss the economic situation and relevant circumstances, infrastructure and policies restricting or encouraging free enterprise and the various industries of interest. Naturally, comprehension of this discussion is greatly enhanced, given the previously established understanding of the context. At the end of each chapter is a section discussing economic prospects for the future. Based on the availability of comparatively cheap labour, technology and alternative energy sources and with due consideration to the circumstances of the country, Dana draws a number of insightful conclusions. The possibilities contemplated, particularly regarding the consequences of peace and reinvestment of defence budgets are intriguing and cannot help but capture the reader's imagination. Throughout, Dana demonstrates a remarkable ability to vary his style. His enthusiasm for the subject is obvious and contagious. With the aid of a few indicative photographs, he brings alive encyclopaedia-like facts, combined with personal anecdotes and on occasion, almost poetic description to create a vivid picture of the hive (or potential hive) of entrepreneurial activity within these societies. The depth and breadth of knowledge and research procured in this book is exceptional. Aspects of religion, culture, society, history, politics and law are all discussed, to create a complete picture of the business environment in each country and the issues surrounding it. The inclusion of culture as, not just a cursory discussion, but something to be seriously considered; as the underlying sculptor of every other aspect, is both rare and insightful, especially in what is essentially a guide to world economies. In short, although at times the inclusion of a map would have been a useful aid to understanding, particularly some of the historical accounts, Dana has achieved a delicate balance in including complex historical, legal and economic issues in an easily comprehensible, yet thought-provoking style. A book of world economies, which invokes a sense of inspiration and enlightenment at the conclusion of each chapter is indeed rare. Hence, it's appeal is to a wide readership of those who are willing to ponder the realm of possibilities, with or without a background knowledge in either the Eastern Mediterranean or economics. The quality of this piece is by no means a let-down from the outstanding precedent set by Dana's first book of its kind, Entrepreneurship in Pacific Asia. Economies of the Eastern Mediterranean is a refreshing piece from an author who continues to think outside the square.

A visionary account of the developments in the world oil markets in the early 1970's that culminated in the formation of OPEC and the dramatic price increase of crude oil.

This book it's a really treat from a Master on the Piano Performer Authority.

This is the most complete compilation of the source documents about St. Francis of Assisi. Included are all of St. Francis' own writings and all of the early biographies, along with historical and critical analysis. The book is over 1900 pages. Yet, if one wishes to really come to know the Poor Man of Assisi, this is one work which must be read.