Resistance of the Heart : Intermarriage and the Rosenstrasse Protest in Nazi Germany by Nathan Stoltzfus is a well written book about the unsuccessful attempt by the Nazi's to exterminate Jews who married Germans of the Christian faith. The fact that the attempt was unsuccessful and that the overwhelming majority of the intermarried Jews were never sent to the death camps and survived the war leaves one with a withering feeling of "what if."

The central thesis of the book is that Hitler and Goebbels worry about the reaction of the Christian spouses led them to refuse to forcibly remove the Jewish spouse. They instead resorted to social pressure to force a divorce, so that the Jewish spouse could then easily be sent to the death camps. The social pressure was unsuccessful not because it was not intense, but because the Nazi's failed to give sufficient consideration to the bond between the spouses and the German antipathy toward divorce.

A central part of the story focuses on the attempt to round up the intermarried Jews in Berlin for transport to the camps. After the round up, but before their transport, they were housed in a building on Rosenstrasse. When word of this got back to the Christian spouses they surrounded the building and refused to leave until their husband or wife was freed. Amazingly, the Nazi's who murdered millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsies and others let thier prisoners go free. Goebbels reasoned that it was better to not force a confrontation with Christian Germans.

What is clear is that the Nazis were extremely concerned about German public opinion and were willing even to ignore their plans for the final solution where it ran counter to the public opinion of even a small part of Germany's populace. The "what if" relates to what would have happened if the greater part of Germany populace had taken the lessons of the Rosenstrasse Protest and attempted to stop the final solution. Certainly the conventional wisdom that they would have been ignored, or worse, must be rethought. In fact, the Rosenstrasse Protest was not an isolated incident, and numerous successful protests altered Nazi behavior. If more Germans, or the Vatican, had learned this simple lesson maybe millions of person would not have perished in the gas chambers of the death camps. It certainly puts to rest the excuse that there was nothing that cold have been done.

The book is very well researched and written. It is well worth reading.

An account of the protest wages by the Protestant spouses of German Jews. Because of the tumultuous emotions of my surviving relatives, so much of this history was never discussed in my home. Now I know that the reason for my grandfather's survival was the protest in which my grandmother participated. This book created a starting point to open discussion with my mother on this part of her life. I found the book so powerful that I am purchasing another as a gift.

This is a remarkable book on an even more remarkable event: the
public protest, in Berlin, in 1943, of the German ("Aryan") women married with Jews against their deportation to the East. A notable history of resistance and courage that saved the life of some seventeen hundred jews by preventing their deportation and by forcing the Nazi leadership to return to Germany a few that had been already deported to Auchwitz.

I had brought this book on my 16th birthday and it will be a present that I will always remember. I have been a Boyz II Men fan since Cooleyhigh and I can proudly say that they gave a lot to their fans by helping to make this book! Buy it!

If you are a serious Boyz II Men fan, this is the book for you!!! This book offers their thoughts and their lives on and off stage. This book gives a clear picture of who these four fabulous people are!!!

I loved this book..I think any one who is a Boyz II Men fan should get and read this book...for one thing, it had great pictures and it also had great information...It's also a great book to have Boyz II Men sign especially because Robert (Mike's brother) is in it...I had Rob and Mike sign my book..their personal driver signed it too..but I think if you like Boyz II Men, you should definately look into getting this book because you will Apsolutely LOVE it..

I have nearly every book written on Nathan Bedford Forrest. He was a complex man, a man that should stand out more amongst the 'peacocks'. Who, having had any knowledge about the War Between the States, does not know JEB Stuart? Forrest did not believe in plumbed hats, jackboots or riding around the Union army to prove a point to the Union troops and his Father-in-law. He believed war was fighting and fighting means killing, and his brilliant military tactics demonstrated this. I think by being raised on both sides of the pond, Forrest first fascinated me because I saw much the same 'force' in Forrest I admired in William Wallace. They were common men, men who were willing to give all in a cause they believed, men that were driven by fighting at 110% and never giving quarter. Many of Forrest's tactics of near guerrilla fighting came from Lighthorse Harry Lee's tactics against the British in the Revolutionary War (Robert E. Lee's daddy by the way!!), a character in himself and much in the vein of Mel Gibson's Patriot. The North despised Forrest - why?? Because he was SO EFFECTIVE. One wonders, what the outcome of the War Between the States would have been had Forrest commanded the Army of the Potomac instead of Lee. Grant and Sherman hated him - Grant giving him the label of 'that devil Forrest', while Sherman admired him - grudgingly - considering him "the most remarkable man our civil war produced on either side", and by Lee `the most extraordinary man the Civil War produced'. Historian Shelby Foote called him one of the two great geniuses of the period (Lincoln being the other). Sherman moaned in disgust that Forrest's men could travel 100 miles faster than his troops could 10. Forrest 'liberated' more guns, horses and supplies than any other single Confederate unit. He did not play at war. He rose from the rank of private to a Lieutenant General - the ONLY man to do that in the Confederate army, but he was just as a complex man before and after the war.

Perhaps, you will not come away liking Forrest, but you cannot doubt his sheer genius, his driven power and his ability to spur men to match his dedication and willingness to give all - just as Wallace did.

There are many books that give interesting views of Forrest, but I hold a special spot in my respect for this book, for unlike the others that were written with the distance of time and careful study, this was written by John Allan Wyeth - a surgeon who died in 1922. Wyeth served as a private in the Confederate army until his capture two weeks after Chickamauga. This was written by a man who lived through the war, not an arm chair historian. So his view is unique, more vivid than any other writer or biographer on Forrest. The text is base almost solely on accounts of military papers and records and the people who knew Forrest personally.

So if you have come searching for information on Nathan Bedford Forrest, you collection MUST have a copy of this work.

First published in 1899 as "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest", this renamed and updated account is not only full of facts, but the presentation of them is made most readable.

Motivational interest in this subject for me lies in the fact that a Great grandfather was a member of the Kentucky Brigade under service with Gen. Forrest in several of his most famous battles, i.e.- Tishomingo Creek (Brice's Cross Roads). This book was the first I'd read concerning Gen. Forrest's life and career. Since then I've read and studied much concerning Gen. Forrest, even travelling to some of the battlegrounds associated with his military campaigns. I think that Allen Wyeth treated the subject of Gen. Forrest with the respect and dignity due such a great man, without white-washing the controverial portions of his nature and career. He brings Gen. Forrest to life with startling clarity in this original account, full of subject material gleaned from actual eyewitnesses and other people from all walks of life who were acquainted with him. Enough time had gone by when the book was first published to gain an even better perspective on the life & career of this most remarkable soldier and man.

Truly the very nature of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest is emboided in this book by highlighting his well known theory put into practice that: "The time to whip the enemy is when they are running."

If you happen to be looking for a great book on the South during the Civil War, be sure to read this book. I myself am not a Civil War buff, but I sincerely enjoyed reading this. It gave me insight into the life of a Southern general who I had previously known only as "the man Forrest Gump was named after." I had a rather large bone to pick with the producers of the movie after having read this book. He was a man of unmatched military genius, and a man of character. He was never a part of the Ku Klux Klan as he was portrayed in the movie, and they had no right to claim that as the sole accomplishment of his life. The book is an impressive piece of work, whether you are a history buff, or if you are just looking for a good read. Check this one out!

you will be in heaven. the best writing on boxing. I'm delighted. You should buy this book.

Thoroughly enjoyable. The book presents some of the cleanest yet literary sports writing ever on a sport that is woefully under covered. Mr. Ward chose perfectly, marrying a historical overview of the sport with the beauty of it. I just hope this book will not be buried on the bottom shelf where too many great sports books are left to die.

An anthology needs to get the mixture right so it has something for everyone. This volume has been around since 1961 with only one new edition - in 1999. This is surprising because it is one of the better sports anthologies.

One reason is the comeback of Leonard Gardner, who went to ground after his 1969 classic of a small-town boxing stable in the unforgettable "Fat City". Gardner's insights about the first Duran-Leonard bout in 1980 (page 115) are not all about Duran and Leonard: "'Mickey Walker was a drunk,' said (trainer Ray) Arcel. 'Jack Kearns made a drunk out of him. Tunney was a terrible drunk, too, after he retired. Disgusting. Liquor is a terrible thing.'".

Gardner probably did not really stop writing but the only thing of his I had - until now - read since "Fat City" was a short story called "Christ has Returned to Earth" which had little to do with boxing: "The girl behind the glass, who passed the hamburgers through an opening as small as the ticket hole in a box office, refused to speak to them, as it was generally known that certain advertisements pencilled on local walls, involving her name and phone number and a very low sum of money, were the work of Harry Ames. Advertising ran in Ames family; his father was proprietor of Neon Signs."

This "Book of Boxing" reaches back to to Homer and Virgil. It includes more modern classic names: from the pen of John Masefield come some rhyming couplets. This excerpt is about frenetic cornerwork as the seconds try and revive their man (page 227):

"They drove (a dodge that never fails)/ A pin beneath my finger nails./ They poured what seemed a running beck/ Of cold spring water down my neck;/ Jim with a lancet quick as flies/ Lowered the swellings round my eyes..."

Boxing has never lacked depths and this book plumbs plenty of them. Pathos as well. British writer Hugh McIlvanney recalls the sight of a much mocked heavyweight, Jack Bodell, turning up in the dressing room of the man who had just beaten him, Henry Cooper, in a 1970 British title bout (page 236): "He (Bodell) had two bottles of beer and was obviously in a mood to be sociable... in that strange moment, the mindless mocking of him seemed to amount to real cruelty. All of us hesitated, sensing he should have company, but Cooper had a party to host and with a last mumble of inadequate pleasantries we filed out, leaving the loser sitting alone in the winner's dressing room."

From depths to heights: Oscar is the son of a seamstress from the barrio of East Los Angeles, Cecilia De La Hoya. Oscar (page 179) has made it up the ladder and has taken on and beaten the best at light- and welterweight. But he has problems. He fits into the the country club golf scene a little too easily for his Latino constituency. He hasn't exactly forgotten the barrio but he refuses to accept the Mexican notion that a smashed nose, ridges of scar tissue and slurred speech are essential for sainthood. He even sacked one trainer, Carlos Ortiz, because the old champion's flattened snout reminded Oscar of the place he does not want to go to: Palookaville. Mark Kriegel writes that when De La Hoya visited his old high school, pupils threw eggs at him. That hurt.

Kriegel's story, "The Great Almost White Hope", ends at the golf course: "Then he (Oscar) gets in the tinted cockpit of his six-figure ride, the black BMW, to indulge his secret solitary extravagance: speed. Pedal hits the metal as he heads down Sunset, past all those brown-faced kids selling maps to the stars, putting all the distance he can between himself and Palookaville."

And Palookaville is exactly where Al Laney found Langford. The Boston Tar Baby, aged 57 (probably), was alone and forgotten in a dingy bedroom on 139th Street in Harlem one winter's day in January 1944 (page 186). He told Laney: "You tell my friends... I got a geetar and a bottle of gin and money in my pocket to buy Christmas dinner... Tell all my friends all about it and tell 'em I said God bless 'em." Trouble is, Sam's friends couldn't see him because they did not visit him. And if they had, Sam would not have been able to see them. He was blind. Less than two years later he was dead.

An anthology cannot get everything right. Jimmy Cannon's piece on Joe Louis is hyped as "as fine a tribute that has ever been paid to any fighter by any writer". It might have been if it had not spilled over into a sort of adolescent hero-worship.

W.C. Heinz, one of the book's two editors, takes the reader through "The Day Of The Fight". "'Graziano said: 'If I win the title, I'm gonna get drunk. You know what I mean by that?' 'Yeah,' Whitey (Bimstein, trainer) said. 'I know what you mean. You remind me of another fighter I had. He said if he won the title he'd get drunk. He won the title and he had one beer and was drunk.'"

Rocky Graziano weighed in for this 1946 middleweight title bout against Tony Zale at "the New York State building". Is that the New York State Office Building in Baxter Street? Non New Yorkers do not know. To someone who saw "Somebody up There Likes Me", the 1956 film which glorified Rocky and put Paul Newman on the cinema map, this might be important because that building is near where Rocky grew up. Heinz ends his story with surgical precision, just like the bout itself ended.

The restaurant Abigael's is wonderful and now to have a cook book by the Chef is great. I've had the opportunity to attend a cooking class given by Chef Nathan and tried the recipes from the class with complete success. The recipes in the book are easily done at home. I tried the roasted lemon-rosemary chicken and it came out exactly as pictured in the book !!! My kids, ranging in age 6 - 11 devoured the chicken, normally I need to beg them to try something new. Not this time. The Creole Chicken is the best and so easy to make !!! The recipes are klutz proof and easily reproduced in a non-gourmet kitchen. This is a worthwhile investment or terrific gift. You don't have to be kosher to love the food.

I have really enjoyed cooking from this new book. I am the designated cook for family gatherings and I am always looking for new and different ways to prepare traditional recipes. I found the book easy to follow, and the results as good as the pictures. I loved that Jeffrey gave resource for some of the more unusual ingredients found in the book. I reccommend this book highly to kosher and non-kosher cooks.

After having, accidentally discovered Jeffrey Nathan's show on television (New Jewish Cusine), about 8 months age and became an avid viewer and an occational diner in his restaurant, "Abigael's on Broadway", I eagerly awaited his cookbook. The waiting was worth it. I've already made and enjoyed the ruggelah and various other desserts and am now starting on main dishes. The instructions are letter perfect and the results show that. ...I recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about cooking.

I've read this book and consider it to be a great help in my lifestyle.yet always one question,no one ever speaks of the effect of alcohol on the body.I mean every one always says its bad for attitude traits,but my question is more along the lines of is it toxic to the substances we put in our blood.Please if any one has some real knowledge on this send me some info on it,it would be much appreciated...Thanks

This is a "must read" book for anyone who has questions re: anabolic supplementation. Easy to comprehend and very informative.

Bill tells it like it is, I would be interested in a updated copy. This one is the 6th issue dated 1991. Buy this book, if you can find it. Any questions about steroids you may have, will be answered here. Bill knows his stuff.

I do read the reader reviews on Amazon but never thought I would be writing one of my own. This book was so good I thought it needed some more help reaching book buyers, so here goes:

Joe Portugal is a 40 something actor in commercials in Los Angeles who belongs to a club devoted to cacti and succulents. He has the good fortune to be somewhat successful in his career, live in a paid-for house courtesy of his father, and have a best friend (who happens to be female). He has the bad fortune to be be house, plant and bird sitting for the club president when he discovers her dead in the shower with a broken euphorbia stuffed down her throat. Police detective Casillas seems to think Joe knows a bit too much about the victim and type of murder weapon (the euphorbia sap is quite poisonous) and follows Joe about as more murders are committed. It doesn't help Joe's case that the rest of the euphorbia shows up in his greenhouse while the detective is interviewing him the next day.

What I liked most about the book was that no one was phony- even in Los Angeles, people can be normal. Joe wasn't a caricature, neither was Gina (the female friend), nor the police. They weren't supermen- able to take a pounding and then pop up fresh as a daisy ready to run up Mt Everest. Joe's dad is a retired (due to prison time) enforcer who worries about Joe and asks a friend to "watch over" him as Joe continues to investigate the killings. The interactions between characters was lively, funny and true. The situations that develop aren't forced- the coincidences aren't too far out. Maybe it's because I've been suffering thru some really bad fiction recently, I don't know; but this book is a prime example of really good writing, fascinating real characters you get to care about (oh that phrase!) and a story that plain sucks you in until you *have* to know what happens next and who did it. And, for the record, I didn't guess who did it before it was revealed. My guess died second in the book

You will learn a great deal about cacti, euphorbias and poinsettias while reading the book. A wonderful botanical guide to the plants mentioned is included in the back of the book.

Is this a cozy? hmmm, maybe. No animals die in the book- unless you include some wasps.

I heartily recommend this book to anyone whoever tried to get a cactus to grow and hates wasps; and to anyone looking for a great read period!

Not your garden-variety mystery. A succulent little book, with a down-to-earth detective, a thorny problem, good plot, and very good and believable characters. I've written a longer review for our website and am posting this one as a personal favor to Nathan; however, I am recommending this book, not as a personal favor to him but to mystery lovers everywhere, whether you like plants or not. Don't waste thyme. Buy this book now!

I was a bit hesitant to buy this book, since I'm not really a "plant person". However, I'm certainly not a "horse person", but I always enjoy Dick Francis. Knowledge or enjoyment of succulents is not necessary to enjoy Nathan Walpow's first mystery novel featuring commercial actor Joe Portugal.

The book doesn't really fit into either the hard-boiled or cozy category: Joe Portugal may be an amateur sleuth, but there's lots of action to keep things moving. Wait until you have some spare time, because you won't want to stop reading until you find out whodunit.

Nathan and Wilson score on this collaboration! Great for pastors and church leaders looking for guidance in how to have a church that is both strong in Word and strong in Spirit. This book, along with Doug Banister's Word and Power Church, argues convincingly that the best of the Evangelical and Charismatic worlds can be mutually embraced. The authors write carefully and thoughtfully as they strike a balance between the often characterized two extremes: mind and emotion.

The only weakness of this book is that it is difficult to keep up with who wrote what. I frequently found myself thumbing back several pages to try to place who exactly was sharing a personal story (Nathan or Wilson?).

If you are extremely Pentecostal or extremely anti-charismatic, you will probably disagree with the conclusions drawn in this book, but if you have an open mind, "Take up and read!"

Empowered Evangelicals serves as an excellent resource to help dispell fear in seeking MORE of God's presence and power in a more experiential way in church life. Coming from a conservative evangelical background, the book helped me feel more comfortable with the new wave of renewal and the resulting manifestations. A satisfying discussion of two worlds that need not clash but merge to be one burning church on fire to reach the lost and heal wounded people.

I enjoyed the thoughts of both Nathan and Wilson. I was a member of the church that R. Nathan pastors at, when I left it was to take a staff position at the church I currently am at. When at Nathan's church, I became very trusting of him because of his preaching the Truth in humility. Therefore, as a result of my deep appreciation for Nathan's faith in Christ, I may be a bit bias in my review. The book gives sincere examination of both classes, Evangelicals, and Charismatics. The examination is performed with the purpose of unifying the body of Christ. A kind of "best of both worlds" approach. My friends, Jesus desires much more unity among believers, and this book is a service to that desire. I reccomend this book to all. Peace.

In David H. Nathan's fascinating novel, The McFarland Baseball Quotations Dictionary, a true writer, whose abilities rival those of Stephen King and "the guy who wrote that book that I really liked that had that guy who was cool in it." It's David Nathan! You may remember him from other baseball books as Baseball Quotations: The Wisdom and Wisecracks of Players, Managers, Owners, Umpires, Announcements, Writers and Fans of the Great American Pastime and...I think that's it. Now maybe it's because he's my english teacher, or maybe because I haven't read the book, but this book is amazing! Read it!

In David Nathan's unbelievable novel, The McFarland Baseball Quotations Dictionary, one of modern-day's greatest writers, who rivals Stephen King and Tom Clancy, has written a book that will never be forgotten. As you can see, I love the book. Now maybe it's because the author is my english teacher, or maybe because I haven't read the book, but it gets 5 stars from me.

I know the author personally; he was my senior english teacher. This is a great book by a great guy. The quotes and tidbits are funny and interesting. If you love baseball or just love reading quotes, I suggest this book!! Mr. Nathan you rock, even though you teach at St. John's now.

Look, if you happen to come across this book don't let the version of Visual Basic (5) fool you. This book actually kept me from giving up on programming altogether. I first picked up another Sams Teach Yourself Vb in 21 days and wanted to throw it away, someone recommended this one and I truly am thankful to the Gurewich brothers for writing it. Do yourself a favor and begin your journey in Visual Basic with this book.

I HAVE NEVER HAD ANY PROGRAMMING EXPERIANCE BEFORE THIS BOOK AND WITHIN 2-3 DAYS I COULD WRIGHT MY OWN SMALL PROGRAMMS, THE WAY ITS SET UP YOU CANT GET LOST ITS SO STRAIGHT FORWARD NON OF THIS MUMBO JUMBO THAT YOU NEED A DEGREE JUST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THERE SAYING NO I RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY ONE WHO WANTS TO LEARN VISUAL BASIC AND BELIEVE ME IT IS POSSIBLE TO LEARN A LOT IN 21 DAYS, I HAVE BEEN LEARNING VISUAL BASIC FOR A YEAR NOW AND I STILL GO BACK TO PICK UP THINGS.

I don't know how to program, and I want to know if this book will help me how to program. I have visual basic 5. if anyone can help me, if this book will teach me how to program from the beginning