Butler Books

This book was the source for much of what Hayek had to say about the philosophical roots of National Socialism in The Road to Serfdom. Butler details the philosophic history in Germany that produced various offshoots including Romanticism, Marxism, Existentialism, and pan-Germanism. All of them may be found in Mein Kampf, though Hitler was probably unaware of their origins. He also notes the gradual incorporation of anti-semitism into the mainstream of German philosophy.

An important theme taken up here is the fact that early 19th century German attempts to obtain Republican government became enmeshed and conflated with a desire to create a unified Germany. They looked to Prussia to lead the way in the former, with the result of exalting Prussian militarism and (!) monarchy. This influenced both the pan-German movement and Hitler's Fuhrerprinzip (leader principal), the idea that strong leadership and hierarchy is required to unify a group or nation. It has been a while since I read it, so I don't have the exact details straight anymore, but I do recall that this was a surprising and highly explanatory theme.

I am new to Yeats's poetry and have been searching for a guide to help me on the journey. I bought Rosenthal's book because the review by Library Journal (cited on Amazon's website) said it is "especially valuable for those less familiar with the poet."

Rosenthal's book gives a close reading of Yeats's poems and plays, illuminating individual poems, revealing the connective tissue between poems, and the ways Yeats's poems and plays enrich each other.

This book is exciting and accessible. Yeats's humanity shines through and makes me feel his words illuminate things about the world and my place in it.

Running to Paradise has won accolades from many sources, including an award from the Yeats Society. On the back cover are these reviews:

From the Boston Globe: "M.L. Rosenthal's deeply rewarding consideration of Yeats's lyric poetry and poetic drama emphasizes the interdependence of his artistic and intellectual growth....Rosenthal's stress on group linkages and sequences [allows] the reader to experience the poetry in terms of a total organic design....[Yeats's] soaring achievement has been rendered here in prose that is clear, eloquent, and accessible."

From Louis Simpson (Pulitzer prize-winning poet): "[Rosenthal] shows how the poet's ideas are developed from one stage to another, and that over Yeats's lifetime his poems and plays form a coherent and massive whole -- a twentieth-century Divine Comedy....An indispensable study of a great poet."

From Joel Conarroe (author of Six American Poets): "This brilliant study of a towering figure could only have been written by a passionate reader who is himself a gifted poet."

From Richard J. Finneran (Editor, The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Vol. 1: The Poems): "Running to Paradise, the fruit of a lifetime studying and teaching Yeats...is an essential companion to Yeats's poems and plays."

Thank you Dr. Rosenthal. I am grateful for your guidance and companionship on my journey.

Needed book for college class....new book at great price. Great delivery.

W. E. Butler
Professor of International and Comparative Law and
Dean of the Faculty of Law, Moscow School of Social
and Economic Sciences, Professor of Comparative
Law, University of London, Director, The Vinogradoff
Institute, University College London Academician,
RAEN and AN Ukraine Partner, White & Case
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PREFACE
This Dictionary contains more than 15,000 words and phrases drawn from Russian legislative acts, international treaties of the Russian Federation, and doctrinal writings. The intention is to produce a Russian/English legal dictionary, that is, one in which the Russian terminological base is founded on Russian legal practice and usage rather than on foreign terminology, as the great majority of available legal dictionaries are.
The English-language equivalents are drawn from the author's more than thirty years of experience in producing scholarly translations of Russian legal materials in the English language, including as Editor of the quarterly journal Soviet Statutes and Decisions and of several looseleaf services of Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Estonian, Uzbek, and other legislation, as well as major legal_ treatises by Russian legal scholars. Insofar as possible, those equivalents are intended to convey the literal meaning of the Russian term into English and to minimise confusion by ascribing, also insofar as possible, a sole or principal English term to each Russian one.
At the moment Russian legal terminology is in the process of transition, accommodating the terminology of a market-based legal system, sometimes inventing new Russian terms and sometimes borrowing them from foreign tongues. At the same time, it is essential to be able to consult the legislation of times past, legislation which in some CIS countries continues to be in force. Consequently, the dictionary contains legal terms of both the Soviet and the post-Soviet eras, and indeed of prerevolutionary Russian Law.

William E. Butler London/Moscow September 1995

This book offers a lively and detailed reading of Homer's "The Odyssey", episode by episode, with particular attention paid to the manipulative power of its language and homer's skill in using that power. The author explores how myth is shaped for specific, rhetorical reasons and suggest ways in which the epic uses its audience's awareness of the varied pool of mythic traditions to give "The Odyssey" remarkable and subtle resonances that have profound power. This book is a perfect introduction for non-specialist general readers, as well as very pertinent for the serious student of Hellenic literature

Fair review of the Santa Cruz unit in Civil war. Ample sources of documentation.

It is spring here in Norway, and the perfect time for gardening. We moved last fall to a 25 years old house with a huge garden, and now we are looking for new inspirations everywhere.

Many of the garden books I find are from a climate much warmer than the one here in the middle of Norway, so reading about grapes, olive treas, huge flowering plants in huge terracotta pots only makes me dream about Italy France and Spain. But then I found the fantastic book about Scandinavian Gardens by Karl-Dietrich Bühler.

Bühler has travelled in the Scandinavian countries and is writing about special and remarcable gardens he has met on his travellings.

The book start with a story of a little boy, actually Bühler's own son, chasing wild gooses, and this reminds Bühler of Niels Holgerson's fantastic travels written by the Swedish Selma Lagerløf. And then Bühler takes us on a travel almost as fantastic as Niels Holgerson's one.

The gardens we meet through the book all has their own charm. Very often when you find a book trying to describe the best gardens, you are taken to the big, public ones, but in this book, together with some of the public garden we also visit some of the quite small, private gardens. We meet the owners and can read about their work of planning and maintaining the gardens.

The book has lots and lots of charming and outstanding pictures. A joy to own, a joy to have on a coffee table, or the garden table. Not as a decoration only, but as a book to look through and get inspiration from when you have washed your hands after hours of garden work.

Britt Arnhild Lindland

Must be the definitive book on traditional crafts in Scotland today - well written and insightful essays and fabulous photography. Made me really want to go and see the places and the people who make these objects - also made me realise that some of the crafts are becoming endangered species. I hope this book will revive interest - even as a travel book it's great!

"I lost a marriage and found a home./I lost a father and found a heritage./I lost a job and found a life purpose./I lost a Son, but found myself and eternity." With the assistance of Pailsey Woodside, Deb Butler has compiled a small 125-page pocket book of personal observations, journal commentaries, and poetry that helped her to deal with the tragic loss of her son. "The Seasons of Grief: What Nature Can Teach Us About Loss" is nicely illustrated throughout with the color photography of Jane Winkler, whose images are drawn from the beauty and tranquility of the outdoors. Living in Minocqua, Wisconsin, Deb provides life coaching, counseling and transformational guidance augmented by her expertise in Transpersonal Psychology. Of special note is Deb's 'Fall Visualizations: A Daily Practice', a step-by-step example of cultivating a coping mechanism for experiencing and resolving deeply felt emotions. "The Seasons Of Grief" is an ideal gift for anyone having to deal with the loss of a loved one and in need of the healing properties of nature in appreciating that life is 'cyclical and unpredictable, full and possible'.

This is a wonderful overview of the ways we try to communicate in secret. You don't have to be a PhD to understand the methodology of the communication styles featured in the book. Recommended for anyone with a beginning interest in our "secret" history.