I recommend that anyone looking to have some mischievous fun at chess should take up the the Budapest as an occasional surprise weapon. I found this book at a used book store for $5 a few years back and my investment has been paid back a 100-fold. The Budapest is great for quick kills versus weaker or similar strength players. A gross example: White N.N. (1600) - Me (2000), 1998; 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 Bc5 4. Bg5?? Ne4! and white resigned after a few more moves and I was soon relaxing at Hardees while my competition was grinding out four-hour games. Of course 5. Bxd8 loses instantly to ...Bxf2#. Boryk's book is much more easily absorbed than Tseitlin & Glaskov's, Budapest for the Tournament Player, with its head-spinning variations and transpositions. Instead, Boryk offers numerous games with ideas and strategies for Black. Nevermind that this opening is not popular with the GM set where they have everything memorized out to 20-25 moves. This is a great opening for chess improvisors and tacticians out here in sub-master land that like to mix it up. If you can get this book at a bargain price -- pick it up!

There aren't many people who can definitively say they've started an urban legend, but Walace Reyburn, author of Bust-Up, is one. It's because of this book that many people erroneously believe the inventor of the bra was a man by the name of Otto Titzling (if you don't get it, say it aloud).

Bust-Up is a nice, light, comical read that might make you titter a few times. The book is overflowing with numerous puns and plays on words. For example, Otto's assistant was a man named Hans Delving, and his main competition was Philippe de Brassiere. Go figure.

I'm not sure where fantastical conjecture ends and historical facts begin in this little book, but there are more than a few veiled references to actual people and events. For example, the tale of Helga Lemurr seems inextricably related to Greta Garbo's early career.

The book has plenty of interesting line drawings, including some which really set my brain a-whir. The most interesting drawing, in my opinion, is of a bra designed for trapeze artists. The support is needed on the top of the bra. I'd never really thought of that before.

I enjoyed reading about the reasons for the relative unpopularity of a front-clasping bra and also the gender differences in names for this piece of apparel. Women call it a front-clasping bra whereas men call it a front-opening bra. It all depends on your point of view and what is important for you.

This is an interesting criticism of art and culture in the 1980's. O.K. Werckmeister explores how such things as Reagan's presidency, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and increased reliance on computer affect popular culture and high art. Werckmeister interestingly compares artists such as the painter Robert Morris with the Star Wars movies or the composer Pierre Boulez with the music group Kraftwerk. At times, his arguements are very ambiguous and the subjects may be a bit dated by now, but in all, it is a worthwhile read.

As a avid WWII reader I was glad to find this book again at Amazon (key, never lend hard to find titles like this one out). With so few titles on German units which fought in WWII this book will rank just under Snydor's Soldiers of Destruction, and Sajer's Forgotten Soldier. Rich in detail and story telling a worthy read for a steady WWII reader.

I bought the Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa for my High Middle Ages class, and the text offers an interesting slice of history of the reign of Frederick Barbarossa. Begun by FB's uncle, Bishop Otto of Freising, it was completed by Otto's assistant, who arguably offers a more solid history than his more skilled and sophisticated predecessor.

My copy is full of highlighted quotes and passages. I have shared those quotes with my fellow media specialists at a meeting and they all wanted to know where to get a copy. The book well illustrates that the love of reading and literature has no bounds of time or space. To whatever format books may evolve, "we should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate", Henry Miller.

Regardless of the title, this is hardly a book of hype and paranoia. Its a book mostly about Christianity and events that have been judged to herald in second coming of Christ. It starts with the sack of Rome, moves on to the inquisition, the black plague, the reformation, the earthquake of Lisbon, the Russian revolution and ends at Auschwitz.

Rather than being a history of the events, it explores the social implications of these great tragedies (all the events are gruesome tragedies) and also talks how these tragedies have been used by artists, from Bach to Camus, in their works. Its about people that history has forgotten and the little events that led to the monumentous ones we remember.

Sometime the book drags but overall, you come out with a great appreciation of what horrors the people went through and what a hypocritical society we still live in. Its a must read if you like history but don't like the traditional way in which history is presented.

Cronologicamente caotico... pero nunca carente del orden del reccorrido en la espiral que surge al buscar la verdad...
fuera de este mundo... material... Bastante inteligente.

leelo y vivelo... buen recorrido para la mente... que si se logra traer al cuerpo seguro te iluminas, o acabas en casa de la risa... suerte.

quizá y si comprendes a los dioses del México escondido te paresca una simple fotografia de El recorrido...

there is a very good overview of fiber optical sensors in it

The Forest Warden By E.T.A. Hoffman
One dark and stormy night, the Forest Warden, his child and ill wife are visited by a strange and powerful man. The strange man restores the woman to health with his magic potion and promises to return. Many years later, after visiting town to collect an inheritance, the Forest Warden is horrified to find the strange visitor drinking blood of his son from a golden cup. The police arrive and arrest the Forest Warden on charges of murder and treason, with his alibi nowhere to be found. What is the real relationship between the Forest Warden's family and the strange visitor.
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Champagne Safari
By Otto Lowy
A bizarre mountain climbing expedition that set out from cold Edmonton in 1934. Some who remember say it was the folly of a millionaire French Count. Others say there was more to it than that....something strange, even sinister.