Arnold Books

This slim but lavishly illustrated volume offers a very perceptive analysis of the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth century re-examination of military matters that occured in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. It discusses the technological and tactical advances, in a more concise manner than similar works like David Eltis's, but it also integrates them into the renaissance of military philosophy, and indeed of all facets of society, that was occuring at the time. That analysis, combined with illuminating sidebars, several key case studies, and gorgeous artwork make this perhaps the top general reference for Renaissance military history.

First off, I knew nothing about war during the European Renaissance before reading this book, so I went in with pretty low expectations. I was pleasantly surprised- this book is fascinating. Thomas Arnold writes in a very clear style, that is easy to follow. His research is detailed, but he does not bog the reader down with too many minute details.

Also, this book is full of excellent graphics. It has many period prints, maps, tapestry images, and some well done battlefield graphics. I thought this illustrations really helped emphasize many of the author's key points.

This is the first book in the series that I have read, so now I have rather high expectations for the other volumes I purchased with this one. I highly recommend this book to any military history student, or anyone interested in learning more about how warfare changed in Europe during the Renaissance.

this book is part of the Cassell History of Warfare series that is currently being published and is, in my opinion, one of the best books in this collection (along with Hanson's Wars of the Ancient Greeks and Goldworthy's Roman Warfare). The first half of the book covers the developments on siegecraft, artillery, infantry tactics, and strategy of European armies in the 16th century; the second half covers the history of wars between the Ottoman empire and Europe and between Europeans themselves during the same period. The writing is succinct and informative. The illustrations are well chosen - both relevant and pleasing to the eye. Charts and maps are plentiful. You will enjoy this book.

Indeed a very nice book, with a lot of interesting information. The writer avoids the complicated style most historians dealing with the Renaissance prefer, and writes clearly, with regard of and respect to the ones who never have dealt with the complexities of the history of warfare, especially in a period such as this, when the wide use of gunpowder marked a turning point in the style of warfare and the perception of military tactics. Arnold covers every basic aspect of the Renaissance warfare, the decline of the Knight (in that old, medieval sense), the change in styles of fortifications, the change of the role of the general, the use of the artillery, etc, and does so while giving in the same time an accurate account of the main historical events (of military nature, obviously). Thus, the reader has an accurate, viewed from all sides, perspective of the matter. If there were more stars to give, I would definitely give them (!) although one must remember that this is an introductory study, and for particular details and a more in depth analysis there are other books to consider. In all this book is...a great place to start.

Thomas Arnold is a great writer, and having John Keegan as the editor of could only have helped the text. It is very easy to read and still extremely interesting, covering first the technical evolution of warfare from the 15th to the 17th centuries and then covering the major conflicts of the era.

Added to the strong writing and editing are many computer generated maps of individual battles and some great illustrations, many taken from period tapestries and paintings.

This book is probably the most clear, well-written book available on the subject, while still encompassing many lesser known facets of the Renaissance and even injecting some humor in a couple of passages.

Don't judge it by its textbook appearance and odd dimensions...it is anything but textbook-like and will undoubtedly lead you to buy more of the books in the series.

I liked this book because it is funny. It will make people laugh really hard probaly because it is so funny. It is a really good book for kids. This book is really interesting. Huggly goes to school is a good and fun book.

What I really like about this book is that it is not time sensitve, meaning when Huggly, Booter and Grubble go to school, school is already in session. The little monsters are recognized as students at the school. They get into a little mischief at the Nurse's office and the library. We absolutly loved the illustrations. My second grader can read this on his own so this is a perfect book for that school age.

My boys LOVE this book! It helps keeps the fear in the 'monster under the bed' down and more personable. :) I wish there were more books to this series. I love the circle time where the lil monsters were happy to be crushing down the buildings and the children stare in horror. HAHA

I saw the Huggly series of books at our local library and my granddaughter loved them. I've been purchasing them for our home library. These are stories that are fun to read over and over! Illustrations and color is great. Easy and fun! Great choice for reading time!

This is a great book! Huggly, Booter and Grubble are playing hide-and-go seek. Booter is it. Grubble and Huggly come up from under a bed in the nurse's office in a school. Huggly and Grubber are mistaken for children after they put on people clothes from the lost and found! They have to get back into the monster world but how?
This is a great book! You should read it!

I just had the opportunity to read this beautiful little story. What a gem! The other reviews are spot-on right: it's a *great* book for any child who needs a tool to help with any kind of separation issues, but it certainly isn't only for them! The story's elements of using one's imagination to solve a problem, awareness of nature and one's surroundings, love for family, and family communication are elements EVERY child can appreciate and enjoy -- especially in the fantastic way they're all woven together in this little tale. It's absolutely precious.

I give this book top rating. I think the power of Hugs on the Wind is that it taps into a highly emotional human experience - loss of someone or something precious we wish were near - but it does so in such an uplifting way. I had the good fortune of attending author Vernise Elaine Pelzel's reading of this touching story, which is beautifully written and illustrated with a classic look. As I sat and listened, with my five year old triplets, I was impressed both as a mother and a teacher at how tenderly the issue of missing someone was portrayed. All three of my children enjoyed this book. One daughter said her favorite page was when the little rabbit told jokes to the river. She liked how Little Cottontail was able to help himself feel close to his grandfather, even though he was unable to see him. I anticipate reading HUGS, both as a bedtime story and as a "jump start," to help children deal with their feelings in a wide assortment of situations, like when we lost our beloved stuffed animal "Monkey" on a trip. Also, when I had to be away from home for a weekend and I was sorely missed. Now, sometime soon, they will be loosing their grandmother and Hugs will be very helpful. Hugs on the Wind is a wonderful addition to our family library. I highly recommend it!

Your grandchild, your son or daughter, and you will all enjoy the warm feelings that emerge from both the story and the pictures in this wonderful book, especially if your little one lives some distance away. The point of this book is absence and separation. When you give it, you will imagine your son or daughter reading it to your grandchild who just may be thinking about you as they hear it. The delightful illustrations richly reinforce this mood-- and give the young one some things to identify, like flowers, bunnies, and butterflies. This book is a perfect gift for any child who is apart from a loved one, regardless of why they are separated.

If you're looking for a children's picture book to help a little one accept the loss of
a loved one early in their life, you can't do better than "Hugs On The Wind."
The lovingly illustrated cover is a fitting prelude to a meaningful text. The meadow is the symbolic landscape where natural acts of affection are used as symbols of transmission;
such as sending a hug on the wind or a kiss to the moon to blow to the lost loved one.

The authors are to be congratulated on their idea to write a book that will help foster creative thinking in childen, as well as the notion that the dramas in life are best understood through the eye of the poet.

This book is a creative and beautiful way to deal with the universal theme of loss (in any and many forms) without using the words death, dying, or grief which often have negative or simply difficult connotations for children (and even adults!)
It is written beautifully by wonderful authors and the watercolor illustrations are soft and serene. Thank you for this beautiful work!
I'm buying it right now for my nephews, neices and most definitely for my very own children someday!

G.V. Gordon's book is an excellent introduction to the Old Norse Language. It explains the intricacies of Norse grammar lucidly, and is very easy to work with. The fact that one cannot obtain it here, is really unfortunate; however, on the positive side, I know for a fact that at least one other major internet site has it.

It seems like this book has been around forever. It was first published in 1927 and for many years was the only English language resource for learning Old Icelandic. But that didn't mean that Gordon made the process easy. There are no basic lessons of the "Helgi is a Viking. See Helgi loot" type that you normally expect to find in an introductory language text. On the contrary, Gordon provides the grammar and vocabulary all right--at the end of the book--but it's up to the user to apply them to the wide selection of classic Norse literature that he's included. It's not an impossible way to learn the language, but it can be confusing at first. Those who have a background in Old English will find it easier going because of the similarities between the two languages.

Gordon was the text my class used many years ago when I took Old Norse in grad school. I still remember my professor pointing out all its inaccuracies and criticizing the author. Nonetheless, between Gordon, Zoega's dictionary (now available online), and a xerox of "Gunnlaug's Saga," we muddled through. Learning a language by parsing each word is tedious, but it does give one a sense of accomplishment.

In addition to the grammar and literary selections, Gordon contains a lengthy historical introduction to Old Norse literature. It's out-of-date by now, but still a good place to start. As for the selections themselves, they provide a fairly broad overview. "Hrafnkel's Saga," a gem of a character study, is given in its entirety. There are selections from Snorri and from the Vinland sagas, among other pieces. The only complaint that I have is that Gordon is a little light on the poetry. The humorous "Thrymskvida" (sorry about the spelling) and "The Waking of Angantyr," an eerie little piece not included in the standard eddic canon, are the major poems.

Whether or not you use Gordon as your primary grammar, its selection of litearture makes it a worthy companion for the student of Old Icelandic. My copy is now battered and missing its spine, but it still has a place on my bookshelf.

Man, this book was something I'd been searching for. I am one of the self taught speakers of Old Icelandic, and it's not like there is a whole lot of Runic inscriptions to be translated in Richmond Virginia. Rather then allowing my Old Icelandic skills to sit their and gather dust on a shelf in my skull, I now have something to read!

Please don't send away 30 dollars thinking that this book is going to teach you to read Old Norse / Old Icelandic. If you're hoping for a basic grammar, with graded lessons, you're going to be disappointed. This is an excellent work, an indispensable work, but it's a reader for those who have already learned the basics of Old Icelandic.

After a brief introduction to Scandinavian history, the Viking expansion, and saga literature, the author gives about 160 pages of West Norse, normalized into classical Icelandic. Most of the selections are from the sagas, and they are well annotated, and a full vocabulary is included in the back of the book. There is also a section on what he calls "East Norse" (the Old Norse particular to Denmark, Norway and Sweden), and a small section dealing with the language of the runic inscriptions.

There is a 40 or 50 page section where he presents the grammar, but it's more along the lines of an outline of the grammar. It's sufficient for someone who already has a good knowledge of Old English, OHG, or Gothic, but my hat's off to anyone with the determination to acquire a reading knowledge of the language from this grammatical sketch alone.

There's the rub: where DO you get the introduction to Old Icelandic that will enable you to use this book with benefit? The superb learning grammar "Old Icelandic: an Introductory Course" by Valfells and Cathey is out of print. Kenneth Chapman wrote "Graded Readings and Exercises in Old Icelandic" about 35 years ago, but that's disappeared as well. Until either of those works is reprinted, or a new introduction is written, it's going to be tough.

But none of this is meant to take anything away from Gordon's work; it's a wonderful, scholarly work. Problem is, you really do need to have something of a background before you use it.

This is a very nice book and the one we used in my Old Norse class at BYU, and the selections are all very good, very interesting. However, I agree with the reviewer that this is, despite the title, hardly the best introdruction to the language.

What I recommend is this: Get yourself Stefán Einarsson's fine book, "Icelandic: Grammar, Texts, Glossary", which is set up in lessons for the beginner and which you can get real cheap here at Amazon. That book is modern Icelandic, so the readings aren't about Egill Skallagrímsson or Snorri's Edda, but not only is the Old Norse spirit very much alive in modern Iceland (and all the people very familiar with the old stories), but the language has changed extraordinarily little in the last thousand years (very very minor things), so that if you learn modern Icelandic even reasonably well (which you will from Einarsson), you can easily pick up the sagas with no problem.

Then, when you've finished with his book, you can get Gordon, which will be much more enjoyable then. Alternatively, you can get the texts of lots of the sagas online from Icelandic sites and get hardcopy English versions here at Amazon to use as "ponies". (Hrafnkels saga is a good one to start with, or Snorra Edda.) Good luck!

This Audio book is life changing! When you hear and recieve the truth it shall set you free! We all have a purpose and this book makes us take a transforming look within ourselves to mature, fully examine our life choices, take responsibility and move into the destiny we are created for.

This very well thought out audio book is illuminating, insightful and provocative. It challenges readers to examine obstacles that may be hindering them from the pursuit of their life's dream.

It's Your Move! is goal oriented. It provides a unique perspective along with specific practical tools to help us to move forward. These principles can be applied in business or in relationships.

John Dean Williamsen, the primary narrator, has a smooth, strong voice that is easy to listen to. That's important for books on CD! I highly recommend this pensive metaphysical book.

Sigrid Macdonald, Author of Getting Hip and D'Amour Road

This is the FIRST, the ONLY, self-help program I have ever found to be motivational. The more I listen, the more I learn, the more motivated I am to transform my dreams into reality and to spread my spiritual wings and fly! I highly recommend this to anyone in pursuit of a dream and/or seeking spiritual growth. Thank you John Dean and Dannye Williamsen.

Obviously the guy from AudioFile doesn't have a clue about metaphysics because this is incredible! It takes you outside your normal view of your day to day life and inspires you to look further on your own. The added bonus is that you will want to listen to it again and again. Every time I do, I have a new experience. In my humble opinion, if you are tired of living inside the "box", and you are ready to live out your dreams, this is a great place to start!

IT'S YOUR MOVE!
Transform Your Dreams
from Wishful Thinking to Reality
by John Dean and Dannye Williamsen

Do you understand the rules of the creative process---or do things happen to you by
chance, as a fluke? IT'S YOUR MOVE! enables the listener of this fine audio book to
initiate change and then channel that change to your benefit. We hear "Your conditioning
causes you to be unaware, not only of the beliefs that underlie your choices, but also of
the source of your beliefs. It causes you to be asleep most of the time, unaware of the
genesis of any of your experiences."

Husband and wife team John Dean and Dannye Williamsen have given us the tools, all
twelve of them, in this delightful, friendly, helpful and sincere 5 CD set. The result is a
pragmatic approach to self-transformation that integrates goal setting with esoteric
interpretations of the Creation story and the twelve disciples.

This culminates in your ability to become a Conscious Creator and attract success by
transforming your dreams from a state of wishful thinking into your experiences. If your
life is subject to "The Law of Fluke" (when you leave yourself open to whatever comes
your way), you can change it by understanding these rules of the creative process. We
learn that the creative process is always working. You can't decide to turn it on one
minute and off the next. It's fully operational every second of your life! John and Dannye
show us how to become aware of this process and then how to use it.

IT'S YOUR MOVE! takes beautiful fibers of truth and creates a blanket strong enough
to withstand the heat of change. Authors John Dean and Dannye Williamsen teach us how
to consume life, not be consumed by it! In this reviewer's opinion, this fine CD set
contains an awakening to self-satisfaction, power and happiness!

Richard Fuller
Senior Editor

This is one of the best series that I have ever read. It is a must see but beware, once you pick it up you will not want to put it down.

Very interesting book and brings to mind the hardships and heartache endured by those who opened up this country as they moved west, yet they endured.

There is much happiness and hope in this book. Ingeborg's marriage to Haakan is a wonderful blessing to her and her children. There are some new characters to add spice to the books and the discovery of Grace's deafness to add tears, but Kaaren and Ingeborg's faith continues to grown in the face of the difficulties that come from farming and joys of proving up their homesteads.

Those pioneers are sooo brave! I wish I could be like them. Lauraine is an excellent author. Keep it up!

Book 3 in Red River of the North opens with Penny writing to the absent Hjelmer who has fled the area to avoid a "shotgun wedding" trick. Even though he is young and immature, he is a hard worker with an eye for the future and inside information on the plans of the railroad. Kaaren delivers twins, nearly dying. One twin is not healthy and Lars cannot accept his deaf daughter. School is in full swing in the prairie schoolhouse, with Kaaren as teacher.

Ingeborg and Haaken travel a far distance by train to escort home the seriously injured younger sister of Kaaren. Solveig is a bitter, disappointed young woman who was on her way to join her sister, but whose future is crushed in a train wreck. Face scarred and barely walking, she goes home with Ingeborg and Haaken. Olaf, Kaaren's long lost uncle, mysteriously turns up after a long absence and his many talents make him useful and loved.

Penny has finally decided to travel to Fargo for work and further schooling. The farms continue to progress - a large wooden barn now graces the homestead of Ingeborg who gives birth to another baby, Haaken's first biological child. Metiz continues to weave in and out of the lives of the pioneer families. Her grandson, Baptiste, stays with his friend Thorliff to go to school and help with the farm work.

As much as she balks, Ingeborg gives up her plowing and hunting after teaching young Thorliff to take her place. As usual, tragedy does not pass over them without leaving scars. A tragic fire, blizzards and failing farms cause loss of life and dreams. Agnes give birth to a stillborn daugher. She harbors intensive anger toward Hjelmer for hurting her dear niece, Penny.

The railroad is coming and the time for proving up their land arrives. Both the Bjorkland widows are remarried with families. Extra people share both homes now. A large sack house stores their grain for direct loading on the train.

The book ends with their town becoming a water stop for the railroad, a real town with a real name, Blessing. In spite of the author's confusion with family relationships and forgetting Kaaren's married name, book 3 still deserves 4 stars.

The little Green Handbook is packed full of data covering our environment. From facts on environmental degradation, population data, energy use plus more. Each topic is thoroughly covered with a multitude of up to date facts and figures. These facts and figures are easily understood and well explained by the author. This book has been written so that the average person can easily read and understand the subject. It is not a book by a scientist for scientists. The only thing overwhelming about this book is the state our life giving planet finds itself in.

In this book the author also tackles the issue of over population that few environmentalists dare to discuss. The chapter about population succinctly explains the relation ship between the global population and the state of our planet and how this is the core problem to it's ills. An example from the book; the author predicts that the population level in 15 years from now will be 7.6 billion people and in 25 years it will be 8.4 billion from our current levels of 6.2 billion and that's his medium growth forecast

This book is a wake up call. Ron Nielson says it is not too late yet but time is short to reverse of perhaps ameliorate the problems about to occur. I believe this book is a must read for anyone concerned for the fate of the planet. It brings to a startling reality the facts of what is happening and what is predicted to happen to our precious home, Earth

If you want to provide the best possible future for your children then you should read this book. Why?

In eight chapters, the book describes the state of the world, carefully summarising a massive amount of factual research on environment, population, land, water, atmosphere, energy, society and conflict. It is easy to read and quite complex issues are described simply and clearly.

There is a vast collection of very interesting facts in the text and more in many easily understood tables. For example, did you know that

-- oxidation of sulphides in wastes from most mining operations produces land, water and air pollution for several generations?

-- more than four babies are added to global population each second?

-- in Australia, over 4.7 million hectares of agricultural land have been degraded by dryland salinity?

-- underground water reserves are defined as non-renewable as they take about 1400 years to recharge?

-- average temperatures in some regions of Australia increased by 2ºC over the last century?

-- worldwide, around 14% of natural gas is lost in transmission?

-- there are around one billion obese people in the world, 300 million critically obese and 170 million underweight children?

-- the assets of the world's 200 richest people grew by $2 million per person per day from 1994 to 1998?

-- the US spends about 50% of its discretionary budget on military activities?

Chapter 9 provides a summary of the previous eight chapters, and in Chapter 10 - Landmarks of Progress - the author extracts answers to some critical questions, based on the information provided in the earlier chapters. Most provocative are his projections, based on careful - and very conservative - trend analyses based on published facts.

Take just one example: oil. Around 95% of global transport depends on oil. Many other industries depend on oil, too. We have used up about half of the known reserves. The demand will very soon exceed supply and that gap will widen very rapidly. In our market-based economy, this will lead to very significant price increases (already oil has tripled in price from $US25 to $US75 per barrel in the last five years). What will we do when we cannot afford to fill up the tank? What will be the consequences for food distribution?

Besides these 10 chapters, there are nearly 100 pages of appendices, notes, references and two indexes (one by subject and the other by country and region).

The author, a nuclear physicist, is very careful to refrain from 'doom and gloom', focusing most on facts and a little on probabilities for the future. And he asks a lot of hard questions.

If we needed a wake-up call, this book is it -- and a deafeningly loud one at that. I read a lot of books and this one is, in my view, the most important book published in Australia in more than 10 years. It ranks with Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring'. In the Australian publisher's opinion, it is the most important book they have ever published, in 15 years.

If the trends described in The Little Green Handbook are even close to being accurate, then the lives of our children will be very, very, very different from ours, unless we change our behaviour very quickly, across almost all areas of our lives.

Read this book--for the sake of your children.

What riveted me to my chair whilst reading Ron Nielson's book, was no so much the shear volume of facts that he has assembled, but the compassion of the man for this planet. What else could drive him to assemble the massive compendium of frightening facts about our impact on it. Ron lives the credo espoused by Einstein and even though I have not yet met the man, I admire him for it. Ron has helped me understand who I am and why I struggle so hard to change the way we impact on earth.

The Little Green Handbook puts into print the evidence about global trends we all fear are true but avoid as they spell the end of our dominance of the planet. As Ron states in his Epilogue on page 263, "We have entered a unique century, in which questions about our survival will be answered and our future decided. This century will mark the conclusion of the first ever population explosion, with all its damaging and ominous consequences. For the first time in human history, we are approaching and crossing the ecological limits of our planet. Never before has the survival of the human race been so threatened. Never before has there been a convergence of so many critical global trends"

This is a must read

The Little Green Handbook is must know information for us all. Dr Nielsen cuts through the hype and misinformation and delivers the facts on the state of our planet. This stunning book is superbly written delivering its impeccably researched material in a cleverly structured format. The layered format of the book allows the reader to choose the level of detail they want. If you want a comprehensive overview of a given topic it's provided. If you want very detailed information in support of that overview it's also provided. To say the book is comprehensive is an understatement.

With the release of the Little Green Handbook we can no longer claim ignorance as an excuse for not taking action to address the environmental devastation we are inflicting upon our planet. The Little Green Handbook should be compulsory reading for every politician on the planet. It should also be studied in schools across the globe because our children have a right to know about the environmental legacies we are leaving them.
Ken Davey
Tamworth Australia

The Little Green Handbook gives a broad outline of the worldwide trends that have impacted on the global environment and will continue to do so. They are presented under the chapter headings of population explosion; diminishing land resources and water resources; the destruction of the atmosphere; the approaching energy crisis; social decline and conflicts and increasing killing power.
As someone who earns a living from words, it was with trepidation I approached a book filled with figures. But within hours of starting the book I realised the enormous power and impact of seeing this data laid out in tables. The figures really do speak for themselves, with some help from Dr Nielsen. Under each table he gives an example of what the data is telling the reader and allows you to confirm that you are reading the information correctly.
Dr Nielsen's message is not only that humans are reaching the ecological limits in many of these areas but that in some we may have already surpassed them.
For example, the concept of the ecological footprint has gained widespread uses as an indicator of how much land it takes to produce the resources to maintain a person's basic needs and lifestyle choices. Dr Nielsen says the current global footprint is 2.3ha per person, but global capacity is 1.8ha per person - that means the world's current consumption is at rates 28 per cent higher than global ecological capacity.
The handbook is full of facts and figures that are presented in a way that is never cumbersome or less than an absorbing read.
It is a great reference for anyone with an interest in the environment.
This review first appeared in Government News magazine, Volume 25, Issue 2, March 2005.

I am very satisfied with this book. I always have a hard time following a good diet and wondering whats going on with my body while on some diets. But with this diet it is so easy to follow and adjust to. I started reading this book just last month and I combined exercise with it and I have lost 10 pounds. I really recomend this book. Simple easy to understand method for better health

Fact based book that has helped me understand the Glycemic Index and how to eat so that I am not hungry within 15 minutes after eating.

What recommended this book to me was that the authors were pioneers in the concept of the glycemic index. I knew intuitively that this concept mattered, but till recently all I knew was too many carbs were bad. But this is one of the books that corrects that notion to say that what matters is how directly a carbohydrate enters the bloodstream. Too directly means a load on the pancreas, perhaps an overreaction, perhaps hypoglycemia, and over time insulin resistance. The book not only explains that lucidly but then it moves on to explain how a person can revise his diet so that there is a healthy percentage of carbs without these adverse results. I can't say if the book is superior to others, but I can say that it contains useful information expressed in understandable terms.

IFound this book very helpful. for I am a personal trainer and I have also beleive in the GI and My clients have enjoyed it too.

I found it easy to understand and easy to follow the 12 week Plan .
I have seen the results and it has only been about six weeks

Thanking you Gae Price (New Zealand)

This book is an excellent one for understanding how and what to eat. For those of us who may have grown up in families where it was always meat and potatoes until full, with an occasional soggy veg thrown in, this book is great at helping you learn what it means to eat in a healthy way that allows you to be full and lose weight if you need to. It even addresses exercise in ways that most people can do easily at home.

This is the first book on eating (or dieting) that I've really understood because it makes sense. No alarm bells went off in my head about eating this way, no doubt that I could sustain this way of eating for life, and no worrying about how much this was going to cost in specially purchased foods or gym memberships.

The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that the recipes are pretty far out there and contain a lot of ingredients not readily available in the average kitchen. Plus, the cooking involved is probably something that would reduce the chance of anyone trying too many of these recipes.

It's entirely possible though to use types of foods that are low GI and imaginatively combine them in ways you're familiar with cooking and eating.

I would strongly recommend this book despite the difficult recipes at the end. The remainder of the book is excellent and will be one which makes sense to anyone who reads it. May we all achieve / maintain our desired weight and be healthier in the process!

I'm a historian who has done some research on the subject and I can say with confidence that this book is an excellent resource for scholars and for anyone else with an interest in history. For one thing, it is the definitive study on the experience of German POWs in America. Krammer is thorough, describing virtually every aspect of the issue and from multiple perspectives. For the layman, it is also very readable and enjoyable. It is filled with important details and fascinating anecdotes. As a former student of Prof. Krammer, I can honestly say without any exaggeration that he is a gentleman and a scholar. He knows how to write a book and this is a great example.

To say how interesting this book is at first I have to note how unknown this topic is. When I first began looking for the book, a person working at a book store asked me if it was fiction! Gimme a break! For instance, Santa Anita Racetrack in California was a huge POW camp during WWII. Who knew that? Anyone into American history should know about this, and if not, READ THIS BOOK. It is very easy to assume that there is no other book in existance that covers this topic any better.

I was lucky enough to be a student of Dr. Krammer's when I attended Texas A&M Univ. His grasp of the subject matter and readable style makes this book a must have for every history lover!

At age 55, I've finally learned something about an American experience that ended two years before I was born. About time, don't you think?

NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR IN AMERICA is a concise and (apparently) comprehensive overview, which describes the incarceration of the roughly 375,000 captured members of the German military in 500+ camps and branch camps thoughout the United States from May 1942 to July 1946. The book's eight chapters summarize the process from initial capture and dispatch westward across the Atlantic through repatriation and return to Europe. In between, author Arnold Krammer depicts the general layout of the camps, the life behind barbed wire, the work and re-education programs, the escapes, and the ideological tensions between the ardently Nazi minority and non-Nazi majority that generally resulted in internal control of a camp's inmate population by the former prisoner group. Each chapter has a 4 to 8 page photo section relevant to its topic. The 44 pages of notes, based on a 15-page bibliography, indicate a commendable and thorough level of research.

As an informative exercise about an interesting topic, I can't find fault with NAZI PRISONERS OF WAR IN AMERICA. As a work of popular history for one casually interested in the subject, it's completely satisfying in all respects.

At times, there's even humor of a sort. In the chapter "Escapes", the author relates the incident wherein three U-boat submariners fled into the hills of Tennessee, where one was subsequently shot dead by an old granny defending her water pump. When told by the local deputy sheriff whom she'd killed, she broke down saying she'd never have fired if she'd known the men were Germans. Asked who she thought the intruders were, she replied:

"I thought they wuz Yankees." Bobbie Lee would have been proud.

I found Nazi Prisoners of War to be a fascinating look into the little known (and explored) history of American POW camps. This book really put a human face on the soldiers of Germany who weren't always Nazi sympathizers. I felt the author presented quite a balanced view of both the anti-Nazi prisoners and the pro-Nazi officers and enlisted men.

Of particular interest was the discussion of how the camps were run, the photographs of the prisoners and the stories of their escapes. Also, some stories were quite humorous: the story where the Americans tell the Germans to clean their barracks/common rooms and the German POWS refuse. The Americans perform a trick by telling them a high-ranking German officer would be imprisoned there to get them to comply without the use of force. This was quite clever.On the flip-side I found it disturbing that the American army officials preferred to supervise hard-core nazis in prisons because they were easier to manage, rather than anti-nazis. At times these officials encouraged nazism!

I recommend this book for a different and balanced look into the past.

A wonderful book for people new to the Beagle breed. As a beagle owner, I found this book a must have and I give it a four paws up! ~Timothy Glass, author of the Sleepytown Beagle book series for children

This is a great book for anyone who has a new beagle or who is thinking about getting a beagle. Everything you need or want to know is right here. I definitely reccommend it.

As a prospective Beagle owner with many questions. I found this book the most informative of all I have bought and read. For every question that I had, it had the answer. It covers everything from selecting and houstraining, to training and showing. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to raise a Beagle

This book is an excellent manual of beagle care from breeding to health care to show preparation. The photographs are superb and the authors have really done their homework in presenting the information. The book is written in a plain, clear style that will not only sustain the readers' interest, but will also help keep readers informed about the care and temperament of this wonderful breed.

As the owner of a beagle, I am so glad this book exists. For people who are "prospective beagle owners," I would highly suggest that they do get a beagle and see what wonderful companions and loving pets beagles really are.

I love beagles and this is a terrific book. Beagles are my favorite dogs. They are the reason I'm involved in the animal rights movement. Beagles are a special dog, and David and Hazel know what they're talking about. God bless them both.