I absolutely refuse to believe that I am the first person to review this book. It being one of the most innovative and (truly) groundbreaking collection of short stories in the German literary canon, and influencing massively such big shots (probably with lots more reviews) as Kafka and Deleuze, you will forgive a little cognitive dissonance on my part. So, that being noted, I'll just reiterate what all the other reviewers have already said:
Kleist balances on a fragile strand of (in)sanity that slides lengthwise throughout these stories, not a one of them failing to reinvent the wheel--not only formally but substantively, as it behooves us readers to admit on the double. Don't let the cover fool you either... I did, for a long time, and there should be a dead lady's freaked-out ghost surrounded by three brothers with empty eyes, chanting the 'gloria in excelsis,' all backed by a burning castle with mutilated horses. I'm referring specifically to three stories in this collection---and only three---but there are far more mind-benders, crude and massive explosions of language, and just ouright amazing plots to all of them, that my skimpy comments can do no sort of justice to them. But that's o.k., because you can look at all the other reviewers for more informative responses.
Truly disturbing, truly maddening, truly genius. Kleist notoriously blew his brains out in 1811, after shooting another woman in an altogether fitting (yes, fitting...read and see why) suicide pact formed by Kleist in order to stick one last finger up at the world that had robbed him of his "lifeplan" as a rational youth. The world, that is, responsible for his "madness" (yeah right) and these stories, which clearly many of us have taken great pleasure in absorbing. The world, responsible for his funked up play Penthilesia, which Goethe avoided like the plauge, and for which Kleist had to be physically restrained from challenging the man to a duel.
If so many people hadn't reviewed this already, I tell you, I may have agreed with him about this absurd world. Thank God he was wrong!

The book is vivid,detailed and clearly written,the book has touched many untouched areas of Medical Astrology(The book can very well be used as Medical Astrology research guide).For example,the book explains how to judge the Tonicity,& Planetary strength in a horoscope.Best for advanced study & research of Western Medical Astrology.Highly Recommended.(Dr.Parihar,Vedic Medical Astrologer)

Jung-Stilling (Johann Heinrich Jung) was a mystic and Christian visionary, a member of the German Pietist Brethren. He personally experienced the tragedies of war after the invasion of Germany by France in 1792, and the effects of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution on religion, morality and life in his homeland. Jung believed that Jesus Christ would come in the year 1836, convinced that the events of Europe during this era were the signs of the end of the age. Jung developed a plan to evangelize and prepare Germany for the return of Jesus Christ, which he expounds in Menace Eastern-Light, the Man in the Grey Suit, written 1795-1800. This book is a compilation of the mystical and evangelical concepts of Jung. This translation makes available to the English-reading public the valuable ideas and concepts of this unique and famous German mystic and Christian visionary.

The eminent modern story of a man who suffers injustice, and takes the law in his own hands to do himself justice, for the man who did him wrong, has friends in high places.
He seeks revenge by establishing a private army, gets the support of the population and becomes a threat for the whole establishment. The outcome is brutal.

The story develops as an unstoppable stream of first, verbal, then, violent clashes.
Kleist cleverly heightens the tension by using sophisticated legal advisers (Luther) and coincidences.

A compelling read about the theme 'justice/injustice'.

This is an official book that was published by MIPS and Joseph Heinrich was an employee of MIPS when he wrote the book. This one book teaches you everything necessary in order to program the MIPS series of processors. This is the definitive book on the 32-bit CPU instruction set, plus 64-bit extensions.

It's one of the best books on a microprocessor I've ever read. It includes everything - memory management, cpu exceptions, cache organization, etc., plus a full description of the instruction set, suitable as a reference for assembly-language programmers. I used this book while teaching a class on computer architecture at the University of Illinois.

You can get a free PDF copy fo this manual from the MIPS web site, however, I'd prefer to get the hardback or the paperback (it's grey - but out of print,). I don't even program the MIPS CPU any more but i lost my paperback and i want another since the MIPS chip is a very significant chip in the history of computer architecture.

Original version published by Paul Fessler in H-Net Book Review for H-GAGCS listserv

An academic's recommendation of a book as a "good read", however, can often be regarded as suspect by undergraduates and general readers. Perhaps our overexposure to dissertations and monographs have perverted our sense of what constitutes an enjoyable and easy to read book. To counteract such biases and perversions, I asked my wife to read Hauser's book. This book passed my wife's test. If only all books published by academic presses could boast such accessibility.

Originally published in Germany in 1950, My Farm on the Mississippi was clearly written for a non-academic audience. In this brief, very accessible book, Heinrich Hauser, an opponent of the Nazi regime and wartime German refugee, turns his three years from 1945-1948 on a Missouri farm near the German-American community of Wittenberg into an engaging adventure story. This book caught the eye of Curt Poulton, a historical geographer and translator at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, who translated this work into English. Poulton argues that Hauser, as a German living among a German immigrant community in the wake of World War II, offers invaluable commentary upon this 1940s "postimmigrant America" where immigrants' native language and customs were still alive.

In 1939, Hauser, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction, escaped from Germany with his Jewish wife and two children. After unsuccessfully trying his hand at farming in upstate New York and then at city life in Chicago, Hauser and his wife yearned for the romantic fresh air of the proverbial American heartland. With no prospects or firm destination, Hauser set off for St. Louis and points southward in an old 1928 Packard in search of his dream farm. South of St. Louis and just north of Cape Girardeau, Hauser and his wife began passing signs to "Stuttgart", "Dresden", "Altenberg", and "Wittenberg". In Cape Girardeau, Hauser spotted a "Dr. Schultz" and paid this German-speaking physician a visit to inquire about the region and the German-sounding places. Working through the German-American subculture, Hauser soon bought a farmstead south of the town of Wittenberg, Missouri on the Mississippi floodplain.

Hauser recounts how his wife Rita and son Huc struggled to make the farm a working proposition for the next three years. Most of the profits, however, were used to provide care packages and other aid to their German friends and relatives back home. During the rest of the time, his family survives horrific floods, raging forest fires, and a comic shipwreck. During the summers, his son Huc devised plans and adventures such as making a boat with an outboard motor in ways reminiscent of a Little Rascals episode. By 1948, however, low crop prices and homesickness convinced the reluctant Hausers to return to Germany and abandon their Missouri farm.

Nevertheless, Hauser offers a useful window into this German-American society on the banks of the Mississippi. As Hauser notes, it is this region's rural isolation that permitted its German culture and language to survive both World War I and World War II and beyond. Hauser knew he was among his own kind when he saw women working the fields---a practice Americans generally avoided. In the local bars, these German-Americans would add salt to modify the sweet American beers like Falstaff and Budweiser. When the war in Europe was over, Hauser's family celebrated with a crowd of itinerant German-American lumber workers playing "schottiches" and singing songs such as "Am Brunnen vor dem Tore" and sea tunes like "In Hamburg da bin ich gewesen". Also particularly interesting (and useful for immigration and ethnicity courses) are Hauser's recollected interactions between these German-Americans and the nearby African-Americans.

Just as Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America offers an outsider's critique of early nineteenth-century America, Hauser's observations present a valuable perspective of postwar America, its rural traditions and ethnic relationships. Hauser is an "outsider/insider" within the postwar German-American community. Though an outsider as a recent German refugee, he can speak the language (both linguistically and theologically). This allowed him to enter into the culture and bring a unique perspective to bear upon it.

Because this book was originally written for a German audience unfamiliar with many aspects of American society and culture, Hauser's narrative is particularly instructive to an American audience today. For many undergraduate students in particular, Hauser's emphasis on the basics of everyday American life proves more fascinating to American readers today than when it was originally published. Approaching the daily life of the post-World War II America from the cultural distance of a foreigner is in many ways similar to the approach of today's readers and students separated from that cultural landscape by the passage of fifty years. Thus, Hauser's cultural observations, which may have seemed less interesting to an American reader in the 1950s when the work was first published are met with a much different perspective.

Without Poulton's sparkling translation, however, these observations would have lost much of their power to English readers. Poulton's work arouses comparisons to other recent and notable translations such as W.C. Kuniczak's translation of Heinrich Sienkiewicz's monumental Trilogy beginning with the novel "With Fire and Sword" (popular Polish nationalist fiction written during the late 19th century-a useful assignment for courses dealing with 19th century European nationalism, by the way). Poulton remains faithful to Hauser's intent to provide his readers with an adventure story. So dependent upon narrative flow and colorful description, this value and attraction of this work would have been irreparably harmed by a poor translation.

Readers interested in this approach should also see the superb collection of immigrant letters in News from the Land of Freedom by Kamphoefner, Helbich, and Sommer (Cornell University Press, 1991).

A best book on neem presently available in the markets. Neem biology, ecology, pesticide, medicines and sociocultural aspects are focussed in this Book. An indespensible book for the researchers and growers. I congratualte Prof. Schmutterer for his brilliant contribution. My best regards to him and the other contributors.

This is a book that really should be read by the layman, specially parents. Pestalozzi was one among many human beings who came to this Planet and did his best in order to help mankind to move ahead in terms of social and moral progress. For him education is the main tool that will drive one to be fully integrated as well as an active participant of his own community. Many scholars and educational expertise throughout the world have written so much about his ideas and teachings. Nevertheless, it sounds like most of them give too much importance to the technical aspects of a structured method, and forget about the simplicity and the essential point in his teachings. According to his ideas the family is an undeniable path to acquire education in a wide sense. A healthy family will enable one to reach "the satisfaction of natural wants that creates inner peace" and as the author of this book enphasizes "develops unconsciously the child's capacities for love, confidence, gratitude, even before the notions of obligation and duty are understood." His method actually relies basically on family values under a perception of a true relationship among its members, all guided by a true sense of love. His precept "Love is the eternal basis of education" gives the direction to be followed on the parents' effort to help the child on his moral development. "The child must be educated to be not only a skilled laborer, or an artisan, or a scholar, but a satisfactory husband to his wife, father to his son, citizen of his country. He must be able in his particular place in the community to be self-reliant and to help the others", reinforces the author. Pestalozzi also understood the profound influence and the very important role that religion plays in the educational process, although he did not take any formal religion for grant but acknowledged the importance of a true Christianity, undrstanding this to be "not only a doctrine but also a way of life". In his thinkings the relationship which exists between mother and child will develop in the latters's soul the idea of God. From that perspective Pestalozzi believed that "the feelings of love, trust, gratitude and the readiness to obey must be developed im me before I can apply them to God. I must love men, trust men, thank men, and obey men before I can aspire to love, trust, thank, and obey God. Although the author struggles to fully interpret Pestalozzi's method and often points to some incorrectness perpetrated by the schoolmaster, which makes the reading a little tough, this book allow us to take our own trip through a moving story and make our own interpretation and decision about guiding our sons. The Pestalozzi's ideas on education matter, undoubtedly is an ifficient remedy for the societies' illness that still reigns in our days. Unfortulately this is an out of print book and one has to struggle to death in order to buy it. Anyhow, it is worth trying.

I just wonder that no review has been forwarded yet. This is a remarkable work intended for the scolar more than for the practical use at the seder table. The comments by Guggenheimer are excellent. I used his edition for preparing the seder with the intent to draw the attention of the attendants to the variety of customs and to show the differences in lithurgy. The presentation by Guggenheimer makes this easy by using different letter types for each version. The comparison of these versions was very stimulating for my guests and the following discussion went on and on....

I have an obession with this moment in cultural history. Unfortunately, I do not speak German, so a lot of the goodies I crave can be hard to come by... As for this little book, the Kleist stories are pretty available, and Hoffmann isn't too too difficult to find, although I, for one, hadn't read these particular stories. It was the Tieck that attracted me to this book, and boy, they are goodies. Anyway, if you are curious about this sort of lore, this is a great place to start, it's diverse and still gives you a general idea of what these kooks were up to. The intro is helpful for the uninitiated, as well. And for advanced players, you get Tieck, who is rarely translated into English for those of us who are too lazy to learn German. If you like moody-gloom 19th Century cheeze, you'll love this stuff, trust me.