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This book covers a vast quantity of information regarding pediatric infectious diseases. It is the authority. It has application far beyond just pediatrics, also. The information is easy to find and is in a readable format.

This book is great to review fundamental concepts in finance. I would strongly recommend this book to anyone who wish to obtain the CFA.

As the title suggests, this book is a collection of children's stories suitable for bedtime reading--in Spanish, of course. It's really excellent for, say, an intermediate student of Spanish. The vocabulary is fairly elementary, but there are specific vocabulary items that a beginner would not know: words for "troll," or "wizard," for example. I find I must look up a few words before attempting to read a story translating as I go) to my children. The tales also use both the simple past and the imperfect tenses in Spanish, which might be beyond an absolute beginner's knowledge. I'm using the book to help polish my reading of Spanish, and to introduce my children to the sounds of spoken Spanish. The book is excellent for both tasks. I find that the format is very nice, with large type and color illustrations on every page. And the stories are amusing in a quiet, bed-time sort of way. I'm sure the book was designed for native speakers, but it still has much to offer an Anglo with an interest in Spanish language and culture.

This is a great book for elementary students, and there's a lot of fun vocabulary, so this is a good one for parents to read with their kids.

In the climax of this novel we are expected to believe that a forceful, cultivated, fearless woman (Adrienne Toner) will sacrifice happiness with a man who loves her because she still "loves" (she sees it as her duty) her husband who has left her and run off with another woman. It's very noble, perhaps, but also not very believable, even for 1922 when the book was published.

Adrienne is an explosive force to her in-laws, the upper-crust Chadwicks. Not only does she "steal" Barney Chadwick away from Nancy, whom everyone expected him to marry, but she supports Barney's brother Palgrave in his decision to become a conscientious objector and helps Barney's sister Meg run off with a married man openly rather than keep their affair hidden. No wonder the Chadwick's are down on her!

But the most difficult part to swallow is Adrienne helping Barney, after he's left her, get back together with Nancy again. Again, it's all very noble, but it makes you wonder if she has any feelings at all. And poor Roger Oldmeadow who is thrown over by Adrienne while she aids lughead Barney. Sedgwick is a good writer, though, and can't help but develop interesting characters.

This multi-faceted book, written by a Polish-Underground messenger, provides a wealth of information. Polish contacts had long been trying to inform the world about the German-Nazi extermination of Jews (p. 173, 274-276), but their warnings fell on deaf ears, even in western Jewish circles. Ignacy Szwarcbart (Szwarzbart), a Jewish member of the Polish government in exile, actually begged Jan Nowak not to use the figure of only a few hundred thousand survivors of 3 million Polish Jews, in discussions with the British, because Nowak would not be believed. Szmul Zygielbojm was driven to suicide by the fact that world-wide Jewish organizations would not heed his warnings. Adam Pragier, a Pole of Jewish origin, told Zygielbojm that accounts of even 700,000 Polish Jews killed was "propaganda which no one would believe", and that he should drop one zero to state a more-believable figure of 70,000 Jewish victims. Nowak's discussion of these events soundly refutes the charge that Poles were disinterested in the fate of their Jews or otherwise disinclined to inform the world about it. Moreover, the reaction of local Poles to the liquidation of the Jewish ghettos was an increasingly fearless resistance, combined with recognition of the fact that the Poles were next (p. 105).

Many other details of Polish Underground activity are given by Novak. This includes an almost-successful assassination of Hitler during his victory parade in Warsaw in 1939. Much information is given about the widely circulated Polish Underground bogus publications in German, designed to undermine German troop and civilian morale. (One wonders how many accounts of so-called German resistance to Hitler are actually the fabrications of this Polish Underground propaganda campaign).

Polish collaboration with the Germans was very uncommon, In fact, in locations where Poles of German extraction were rare, it was very difficult for the Germans to find enough informers to suppress the Polish Underground conspiracy to any significant extent (pp. 95, 98). In those parts of German-conquered Poland directly annexed to the Reich, some Poles did register as Volksdeutsche under duress, while remaining loyal Poles (p. 468). In some places (e. g. Gdynia), the local Poles were forced to sign the Volksliste, and were labeled "Angedeutsche" (Angehorige) by the Germans (p. 200).

Polish Underground sabotage activity was carefully planned for maximum military effect for the cost in German reprisals against the nearby civilian population. In contrast, the Communist bands (e. g. AL, the so-called People's Army), sponsored by the Soviet Union, regularly (and purposely) engaged in actions designed to provoke draconian German terror against the local Poles (p. 170). The Communists knew that they had almost no support among the Polish population, thus they encouraged (and themselves resorted to) terror (later increased by the invading Red Army and NKVD) to force their will upon the prostrate Polish nation.

Much of the latter part of Novak's book discusses the British betrayal of Poland and shameless sellout to the Soviet Union. Novak points out that the British were already giving away Poland's eastern territories back in 1941, when the Soviet Union was still on the ropes and in no bargaining position. Novak deftly punctures the many British excuses given to justify the subsequent withdrawal of their treaty obligations to their first ally Poland. For instance, rationalizations of technical difficulties for the stoppage of airdrops of ammunition to the Polish Underground by the British (in fall 1943) are exposed by the fact that British fliers had no "technical difficulties" with long-distance flights to other locations. The refusal of the British and Americans to set up underground military missions in Poland was stated to be caused by the lack of a mountainous terrain (such as in Yugoslavia) necessary to insure their safety. Novak (p. 259) explodes this canard by pointing out the fact that fugitive British POWs, most of them who could not speak a word of Polish, were successfully hidden by the Polish Underground for as much as three years in Warsaw alone. There is no reason why members of a secret British military mission could not be hidden also, mountains or not. The British moralized about the injustice of Poland wanting her eastern territories back in view of the fact that they had opposed these territories going to Poland in 1919. But, as Novak points out, successive British government recognized these territories as part of Poland throughout the interwar era (p. 268). So why did 1919-era thinking suddenly matter now? Finally, Novak (p. 298) points out that the Soviets had been strongly dependent upon western shipments of trucks (and ammunition) throughout the war. This refutes the oft-repeated claim that the West never had any significant bargaining position against Stalin.

Poland's freedom was not to be. Novak cites documents which show that Poland's fate had been sealed by January 1944 at the latest. The British had secretly given away Poland's eastern territories and had not even set any conditions or accountability for the Soviets' occupation of Poland (and Germany up to the River Elbe). Novak states that he would not have believed this himself had he not seen the documents. Reflecting upon the Warsaw Uprising over 30 years after the event, Novak believes that it was not futile because it cemented the Poles desire to regain their freedom, regardless of how long it took.

It was a long search before I could find a book which gives me meanings of all the puristic Hindi terms like 'ABHILEKH', 'ADHIYUKT'. But after having found this I say it's a great book to improve your hindi vocabulary. I am benefitting from this.

The thing it lacks is various number forms of a verb, i.e., 'Bahuvachan' usage of a verb. I think if the authors include that it will be complete in most of the senses.

Endless information. Very interesting but hard to understand the first time through. I have always loved religion and questioning the roots of them. I found this book challenging but I should have bounced around the chapters first. Great book.

We use it as a reference for our Gallery and it is very useful.

For anyone interested in Mother Meera this is a must-read. Meera answers questions on 23 topics in the area of spirituality as well as about living in the world. Some topics are God, avatars, rituals, astrology, health, death, family life and food. Her answers are as always short, to the point and in my view, bold and charming. You will probably be just as surprised as I was to find that Meera disagrees with one of the basic thoughts in Hinduism. (I won't tell you which though)

I would have given the book five stars if it had not been for some typos and also because I would have liked to see even more pictures. More photographs of Meera and why not some of the interior and exterior of the new darshan hall with surroundings. Still I think anyone interested in Mother Meera will find this book interesting. Meera's devotees will probably, just like me, read it again and again and again.