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When I read this book all I could feel is tears coming to my eyes as I read the book of a life time.I think the saddest part was the end when they were all talk ing about how much they were going to enjoy life.But while their thoughts were in heaven hell(The Nazies)Were donw stairs.

First of all, the author of this book, Hedda Rosner Kopf, is my aunt. And the "Other Holocaust Story" about Anna Gelbman is about my grandmother. Living in a jewish family which has grown with the realism of the holocaust I would have expected myself to know quite a bit about the events of the Holocaust. I am familar with The Diary of Anne Frank; the dairy itself, the play, etc. But, while reading this book I learned a lot about the holocaust that surprised me. Mostly, because I was not aware of it. The book is extremely well written, and a wonderful source of information about Anne Frank's life and the rest of the holocaust. It give facts and opinions, as well as allows you to question your own knowledge and beliefs about the Holocaust. It's a wonderful tool for anyone teaching the Diary of Anne Frank or a student doing a research project on the subject. I feel that it is a terrific book regardless of my relationship to the author. If you have an interest is the Holocaust, Anne Frank, or any other people in her situation like Zlata Filipovik who lived in Sarajevo (Zlata's Diary is an excellent book, too); you should definetly read this book. Thank you for your time.

This book was great it detailed every possible diagnostic test. I wouldn't reccomend this to a lay person due to the medical language, not to mention sometimes ignorance is bliss.
It could be overwelming reading some of the info. But if you were in or had any medical backround this is an excellent resource.

book arrived in great condition. book was as promised and service was prompt. very satisfied customer.

Anne Frye has once again earned the number one spot for authors of midwifery-related professional texts. In my opinion this book is one of the most important titles for caregivers of women in the childbearing year. Frey weaves together her incredible depth of wisdom with the latest science. She gives the art of midwifery a breath of fresh air by including the most common issues, their tests and treatments, and the most atypical, unusual issues and the various ways of approaching diagnosis and care. This book is extremely valuable for caregivers of the holistic approach but should be a required read for med students who are going to work with women and pregnancy. They would gather the sense of awe so beautifully injected to the text.

Despite what some may have heard about its size, this is one of the only books that I carry to all my prenatals. The format is easy to find your way through and nearly every subject is presented in clear non-threatening language. Not only is this book an informative "must have" for birth professionals but also it is a fascinating read. There are so many issues covered for anything and everything that a mother and newborn might be tested for or diagnosed with. I highly recommend this book.

If your after a book on the Capitol Building, then go no further than this beautifully photographed and well layed out book. Full of rich detail and architectual illustrations.

This building is the perfect imbodiment of the American Democracy, it is an iconic symbol of America the world over. This book does this great building justice, the images are crisp and vivid and the text is almost scholarly. Everytime i enter this building i get a shiver and feel the tingle of goose bumps, and am reminded of what a spectacularly beautiful building it is, and how the building seems to hold the most awesome power. The history in its halls and the majesty of its presence makes the most incredible impression, if you are not moved by this building then frankly you need to check your pulse. If you have any interest in this iconic building or just appreciate beautiful books then i cant imagine you being disappointed in this book.

This is a wonderful book for a number of reasons: its beautiful illustrations, its wealth of detail delivered in a reverent and infectiously enthusiastic narrative, and (most of all) its unabashed defense of classical architecture and passionate call for a return to the style in our great buildings. One has merely to open this book to thank his lucky stars that most of monumental Washington, DC was built before the Marxist-inspired so-called "International Style" and its degenerate stylistic descendants inexplicably washed away centuries (nay, millenia) of Western art tradition. It's appalling to read the sort of vindictives that were hurled against the last exponents of the classical style, men like Bacon, Russel, and Gilbert, by so-called "modernists" when they designed stunning masterpieces like the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, and the Supreme Court Building. And it's galling to see what "modernists" offered the nation as an alternative to classical design: can anyone look at the Museum of American History on the National Mall and not shake his head in sadness? The place looks like an annex to a New Jersey shopping mall.

Reed is a wonderfully able partisan of the classical style, and dismisses so-called "modern" architecture as the "Anorexic" style for its lack of decoration. That may be overly harsh; great architects can indeed produce great buildings even in non-classical styles - the Kennedy Center in Washington is a fine example of non-classical yet non-Anorexic design. But Reed has one undeniably true point: we as a civilization have allowed ourselves to be cheated our of our millenia old Western art tradition by so-called "artists" that have translated their lunatic fringe political views (the International Style was nothing but applied Marxism, designed to reflect the "means of production" to quote standard leftist gibberish) into drab design originally meant for "worker housing" and now applied (ironically) to US government and corporate structures. This "artistic" rabble still to a large degree indulges its proclivities towards lunatic fringe politics, and continues to so savagely attack the classical style (because they in fact hate Western culture and all it stands for) that it has become unthinkable to build a classical structure in the US today. Some are ignorant enough to claim that the classical style makes them "want to throw up," but the best they can come up with is the travesty of soulless design that is present day Houston or any number of Asian cities like Seoul.

The closest we are allowed to claiming our Western heritage anymore is the so-called "Stripped Classical" applied to the new WW2 Memorial in Washington. I suppose we should thank our lucky stars that that we at least got "Stripped Classical" instead of some appalling metal and glass gimmick that - like most "modern" structures - would rapidly deteriorate into a shabby pile of rusty metal, stained concrete, and peeling paint. But like Reed points out, "A building without decoration is like the heavens without stars." Why is "stripped" all we are allowed to enjoy anymore? Because leftist "artists" that can't stand the West, can't stand America, and most of all can't stand the culture from which it sprang browbeat us into standing glumly in "modern" museums looking at unintelligible and ugly "art" (a melting toilet at the Whitney comes to mind) and won't allow us to erect magnificent Corinthian or Ionic columns anymore. Really, it is sad. This magnificent book, at least, shows us what we once had, and what might have been. Let's hope future generations of Western civilization have more courage than we do, and spend their days recovering their own cultural heritage. Perhaps they will once more build for the sake of beauty rather than that of Marxist anti-Western hatred.

"This is a love story," Karen Anne Mitchell warns in her foreword to The Usahar, "but be advised that sex and love are not always synonymous." In other words, readers who desire the conventions of romance should really look elsewhere. Readers who like a little subversion with their science fiction, however, will find much to recommend this book. In her first novel, Mitchell has taken the most tawdry tropes of space opera -- women of Earth abducted to serve strange alien masters! beautiful hypersexual slave girls! robots with souls! -- and transformed them into a story whose value is far more than simple erotica.

The cover tells you everything and nothing: a world whose sky might always be that sunset moment when the clouds have just caught fire, the streets and spires of an unfamiliar city, and the woman who runs. This is Elizabeth, and the city is Iyakk. The world is Vandhaqa, and Elizabeth is Taiyiha, human, female, enslaved to the enigmatic Adhal and their obedient automata, the Usahar. Like the other Taiyiha, she knows by heart both the epics of the Adhal and the Taiyiha's own laments; like them, she prays for the night when she will see Earth's moon rise and know that she is home; like them, she lives in shame and desire of what she has become. But unlike them, she has fallen in love: with a man who is no man, the Usahar XL176092, and their love will become the stuff of epic.

Far from a simplistic love-conquers-all fairytale, Mitchell has created a skillful exploration of myth, truth, and fantasy. The Usahar opens on the premise that the reader already knows this tale -- or at least the one moment that has been alchemized into myth and common knowledge, Elizabeth's legendary run through the streets of shining Iyakk. Pay close attention to the narrative voice. By the novel's close, the oral tradition that has assimilated Elizabeth and XL176092 may be as crucial to the story as Elizabeth and XL176092 themselves. Life on Vandhaqa, meanwhile, is deconstructed from its initial appearance as a bondage fantasy into something much subtler and harder-edged. Sex on Vandhaqa may be free from the normal concerns of pregnancy and infection, but that does not mean it carries no consequences. "If I were destroyed," Elizabeth thinks at one point, "it would be so much easier. If they would just make me nothing but sex . . . this wouldn't matter." Mitchell's genius is that she knows: it still matters.

Karen Anne Mitchell's work may evoke such disparate classics as Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover (Silver and XL176092 would have a lot to talk about) and the short fiction of Cordwainer Smith (see in particular "The Ballad of Lost C'mell" and "The Dead Lady of Clown Town"), but she has created a world entirely her own in Vandhaqa. It's not a place I'd like to live. I'm not even sure it's a place I'd like to visit. But I would certainly like to read more of its story: and The Usahar seems an ideal place to start.

You realize as you read the Preface to Karen Anne Mitchell's novel, Usahar, that this writer is head and shoulders above the ordinary.

Beginning with an explanation and then a rebuttal of the `Damsel in Distress' motif in contemporary works of fiction; Ms. Mitchell sets forth with a quiet, but subtle and powerful recollection of events to bring the reader into her story.

There is an ineffable tone or flavor to the style of writing that reminds one of Science Fiction Classics of the past; of Asimov and Arthur Clark, a detached but intimate presentation of detail and shade.

Science Fiction readers with a cultured aesthetic palate for excellence will find this novel a joy to read.

A pleasure to read. The story of a slave girl and her android lover, "The Usahar" tells of their struggle against a race of aliens who view humans as animals to harvest for their emotions. Openly and tastefully erotic even in its kinkier scenes, the writing is fluid and poetic, drawing you into the story and into the strange world of "Vandhaqa" where the action takes place. While the story does not cover every aspect of Vandhaqa in great detail, enough is there to picture it clearly as Mitchell focuses on the feelings and thoughts of her characters. You can't help but yearn for Elizabeth and John's freedom just as they do. The ending is powerful and stays with you.

The world of "The Usahar" is not unlike that of Jacqueline Carey's "Kushiel's Dart" or John Norman's "Slave Girl of Gor" in that the heroine is betrayed by the erotic demands of her own body, but as with the heroine of "Kushiel's Dart" (and unlike the slave girls in the "Gor" books) this does not extinguish her desire for control over her own destiny. In short, this is not a traditional romance, is not traditional science fiction, and is not traditional erotica. It's a little of all three wonderfully brought together with a special quality all its own.

I recommend this book for anyone having a baby and have other young children. It is realistic, with great pictures, and is simple, easy to understand for a young child. It shows all the things that will happen and things that mommy will have to do with a new baby, even breast feeding, and all the things that a young child can help with. It's great for later conversation with the child. Enjoy!

We've purchased a few books on this subject to prepare our two-year-old for our new baby, and this is the favorite.

The text is very simple and straightforward, keeping mostly clear of emotional descriptions and dialogue. I appreciate this because I don't want to give my son ideas regarding how he should or shouldn't feel about having a new baby in our family. I just wanted something to help prepare him for all of the changes we were going to be experiencing, and this book did exactly that. For example, the story talks about all of the changes in the house, like getting the baby's room ready and getting out all of the baby stuff to get it cleaned and ready, Papa and Granny coming over to visit for awhile to help with the kids, visiting Mommy and the new baby at the hospital, and Mommy and baby being very tired (and needing lots of extra help) when they come home.

The illustrations are darling, and even funny. I liked that it showed a picture of mommy nursing and daddy being tired from all the extra work he's had to do around the house - it made me chuckle a little.

I highly recommend this book to anyone with small children expecting another one. We love it!

This small book has a lot going for it. The storyline is straightforward, the illustrations are funny, and the book doesn't get bogged down in what kids might (or might not) feel toward their new sibling. It also shows mama nursing the baby, which can be difficult to find in children's books. Recommended, especially for families expecting a third child.

This is a great cookbook for kids. It has engaging illustrations and clearly-written instructions. Plus, the food is really good. My mentee made the guacamole recipe, and everyone wanted a copy of it. I highly recommend this book, and have bought extra copies for friends.

This book was cool. My favorite recipe was the All American Pancakes!They were my favorite! Try them!

The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook is a unique approach that incorporates Usborne-recommended, culinary oriented websites suitable for children, with forty simple, delicious recipes drawn from ethnic and regional cuisines from around the world, ranging from the floating markets in Thailand to Italian delicatessens. It should be stressed that access to a computer is not necessary to enjoy and utilize The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook as a wonderfully illustrated compendium of food facts and recipes. From Peanut Bread (Africa); Cauliflower in Cheese Sauce (Holland); Salade Nicoise (France); and Guacamole (Latin American; to Basmati Rice (India); Shish Kebabs (Turkey); Scones (England); and Fried Rice with Vegetables (China); The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook will take any young kitchen cook on a wonderful culinary adventure! Of special interest are the sections for "Hints and Tips"; "Fruit Around The World"; "Cheeses From Around The World"; "Breads From Around The World"; "Cakes and Pastries"; and, of course, the free, downloadable recipes available through the "Internet Links". The Usborne Internet-Linked Children's World Cookbook is very highly recommended!

Professor Anne Morrell, formerly Anne Butler, has chosen twenty of the most popular embroidery stitches, and her aim is to show not only how to work them, but also how to USE them effectively in finished pieces of embroidery, either on their own or in combination with other stitches. For each stitch there is a working diagram, an explanatory text and a photograph of the stitch in progress. This introductory page is followed by a series of photographs showing examples of the stitch in use, some historical, others from the work of contemporary embroiderers; all serve to illustrate the rich variety of effects which can be obtained with one stitch. The basic techniques and materials necessary for embroidery are explained in an introduction, together with some hints for the student on how to work with a wide range of stitches.

Wonderful stitch examples, beautiful book to look at- overall a great purchase

I found this book really useful to teach myself different kinds of stitches. Even hard-looking stitches are made easy to reproduce, as there are clear, step-by-step diagrams and examples to help you

Several junior high and high school teachers have written to me because of my review of Into the Widening World, edited by John Loughery and published by Persea Boos. I mentioned in my review that I use that book for my university course in International Short Stories. I am not sure that is the best choice for younger readers, or for schools with strong guidance from the PTA and the school board. Those stories are live and startling because they often challenge taboos. This book, on the other hand, provides a group of stories by some of the same excellent writers, all of them of a high artistic achievement, that might be more age appropriate for junior high and high school students.

Make no mistake, they are not kid's stories--they're about children. But they pick up a rhythm and simplicity of execution from the generally accepted nature of children's stories. You won't find a bad one among them. And what a wonderful exposure to international writing. I used this one in my college class to kick off a semester's study of fiction from around the world, and my students really loved it. So do I. That story "Hands" is as good as anything you could find in any collection, as is "The French Lesson." If you want a quick glimpse into this book, start with these. You'll read the rest.

The author of the SLJ review is wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong. A cretin, really. This collection is remarkably consistent. The writing is quite fine and the stories, often relatively obscure, offer a huge breadth of theme, tone and subject matter. I've read many collections of this sort with an eye towards teaching them. This is by far the best. Both weak and strong readers can find much to enjoy. All of these writers are top drawer, and these stories selected carefully to fall within the understanding of young adults. This should be a standard text in all schools, libraries, etc.

A Walk in My World provides teens with a starting point for understanding other cultures, with a series of short stories by contemporary authors addressing the issues and concerns of teens around the world. From a Chilean boy's writings about his parents' politics to a headstrong girl's alienation from her mother, these are moving stories packing in social as well as cultural revelations.

I picked up this book because I loved the illustrations and the author lives in Bucks Co., Pa (as do I). Well, my four year old son and I just loved it. And it made for good conversation after. The author addresses in such a nice, comfortable way what happens to flowers, fish, deer, birds and caterpillars in the winter. The illustrations are just beautiful and cozy. A wonderful winter book--or any time really.

I saw this book in my child's school book order and just had to have it. My son was not so convinced, but reluctantly agreed to order it. Now he loves it! The author has put into words a story that I can share with my son the world that I grew up in. The poetry and pictures just completely draw us in.

I have been reading this book to my daughter for quite some time now and she loves it. So do I. I also read it to a local kindergarten class last year and they too loved it. It is simple,pretty and classic. Great book!!

Anyone who is familiar with the Who Was Series would sincerely appreciate this text. This series provides biographies on dozens of famous people, but it is written for children ages 9-12. The pages include a short amount of text and usually a sketch to accompany it. This is a quick read and provides accurate information; however, it is appropriate for the age group. The author definitely took into account the maturity level of the reader, which is appreciated. The character of Anne Frank is written so that the reader feels as though they would know her and can easily relate to some of her life's struggles. I am anxious for the next addition to this phenomenal series. A must for any classroom teacher!

Great subject for a children book. I got this series of books for my daughter and she really enjoyes reading them. Great read and educational too.

I highly recommend this series as a wonderful way of introducing your 3rd or 4th grade child to the world of biographies. There are many personal elements shared that go beyond what the person is primarily remembered for. A must for any upper elementary teacher's classroom library!