Berg Books

Everyone should read this book. Because identity, power, and the present are so wrapped up in how we interpret the past, the book is essential for understanding how there are multiple valid interpretations of history that can exist and be interwoven. Warning: some knowledge of Stonehenge is required to comprehend certain parts of the book.

I am reading this book now and enjoying it. The portrayals of both the black and white characters ring true to me. Well-developed characters and settings. Reading it really carries me back to a time and place that I want to know more about. Can't wait to read more.

I bought this book combined with THE SUPERMODERN WARDROBE, as it was recommended to me this way. These books are very similar in a lot of ways. Both books have almost the same pictures in them and talk about the same things. They are just divided differently.

This book has way more text in it then SUPERMODERN WARDROBE. It is all black and white as well, and the SUPERMODERN WARDROBE is in all color. This book is almost like reading a textbook on the designers who do Techno Fashion and what it is all about. If you want to skim the surface I would recommend THE SUPERMODERN WARDROBE, but definetly order this if you want to go more into detail about the subject. The pictures aren't as good and they are all in black and white, but it is way more detailed then SUPERMODERN.

How easy is it to use the Internet for conducting research with subjects, as compared to traditional real world in-person interviews? This is just one of the issues confronted by Hine. The Internet's pervasive sweep offers a glittering opportunity for researchers to scale up their efforts, without being constrained by geographical extent. So various research fields are struggling to adapt.

Hine points out many pitfalls that could tangle you up. Like the obvious one of how valid is an interview conducted on the net with one done in person? In both cases, you usually have to take some of the subject's background on trust. But with the Internet, you might not even know for sure the subject's gender or ethnicity. The virtual nature of the Internet gives rise to these and many more aspects.

In recent years, certain authors (e. g., Michael Steinlauf, Jan T. Gross) have attempted to make some kind of deep moral issue out of the fact that Poles looted Jews and acquired post-Jewish properties. But such acts were common in wartime, and certainly not limited to any nationality. When Mary Berg and her fellow Jews were on the move during the German-Soviet conquest of Poland, they came across a bullet-ridden house containing a dead Polish peasant. They looted him, as she describes (October 10, 1939): "The kettle which we `inherited' from this murdered peasant became our faithful companion on the long road to Warsaw." (p. 14)

Those readers familiar with chroniclers of the Warsaw ghetto (notably Ringelblum and Czerniakow) may find Berg's entries rather brief. She seems to have a left-wing bias, judging by her frequent positive references to "Polish revolutionaries", etc. (p. 146, 210, 229), to the virtual exclusion of non-leftist Poles who helped Jews. One exception is the following: "Only the nuns who are in this group protect them and condemn the anti-Semitic remarks of certain women. The nuns take care of the children without discriminating between the Jews and the Gentiles. They display true sisterly love and Christian charity; everyone respects them." (p. 196)

One aspect of the anti-Christian spirit among certain modern academics has been the implicit equation of the Nazi-built ghettos for Jews with earlier Christian ones. In his preface, Holocaust-survivor Shneiderman soundly repudiates any such insinuation: "The term `ghetto' itself is a Nazi lie, for there can be no comparison between the Warsaw ghetto and others created by the Nazis in Poland, and the medieval ghettos, whose walls occasionally served as protection to the Jews who lived within them. From the beginning, the modern ghettos served the enemy as deathtraps." (p. 7)

In several entries in her diary, Berg mentions the sufferings of Poles (e. g., p. 198, pp. 210-211) at the hands of the Germans. And, in common with many Polish authors, Berg refers to those Poles who would harm or betray Jews as hoodlums (p. 25), and hooligans (p. 111, 235). As for their Jewish counterparts, she contrasts Jewish criminals with those Jews who became informers as a result of being broken by Gestapo tortures: "However, there are a few underworld characters who are really dangerous because they take their services for the Gestapo seriously, just as they used to commit crimes in dead earnest." (p. 111).

Berg touches on the actions of the Polish Blue police (Policja Granatowa). During a German-sponsored execution of Jews, members of the Polish police refused to obey the order to shoot the Jews, and several of them wept (p. 154). The deportations of Warsaw's Jews to Treblinka, starting late July 1942, took place as follows, without the participation of the Polish Blue police: "The Lithuanians and Ukrainians displayed great zeal in their murderous work. They are tall young beasts of seventeen to twenty who were especially trained for their job by German instructors." (p. 169). Berg met a Polish prison guard who had tears in his eyes when he described the manner in which the Jews were being herded to the death trains (pp. 170-171). Ukrainian and Baltic collaborators were used by the Germans against Jews in many other contexts throughout German-occupied Poland (p. 175, 183-184, 228, 230, 233).

Mary Berg was the daughter of an American citizen. She and other non-European Jews were released by the Nazis, finally arriving in Spain in March 1944 (p. 251). It is obvious that, contrary to Holocaust-uniqueness arguments, the Nazis were not determined, as either a matter of obsession or a matter of policy, to kill every single possible Jew within their grasp.

Why Distance Learning? presents a comprehensive review of literature and other materials in several relevant topics around distance education and distance learning programs in higher education institutions: administration, pedagogy, institutional motivation for participation, and commercialization. Literature in these areas frames the results of Berg's qualitative and quantitative survey of distance learning administrators, which includes 176 surveys and 17 interviews conducted to describe the current distance learning practices and policies in various higher education settings.

This book, Bloom's Short Story Writers edition on William Faulkner, was exactly what I had been looking for. I needed to write a paper comparing criticisms on one author, and this book was perfect. It contains several different critical essays centered around three of Faulkner's works, and the essays provide drastically different types of criticisms. Some are favorable, some are not, but all of them are well written, and excellent for anyone looking for a greater insight into the works of William Faulkner.

Pink's book discusses the phenomenon of the female presence in the plazas of Spain. The author uses Cristina Sanchez as a case in point, both through material gleaned from interviews with the torera herself as well as a thorough analysis of the ways in which the Spanish media conveyed Sanchez to the public. Of particular interest are Pink's keen observations of the "consumption" of Sanchez by the photographic lens.

At a more theoretical level, early on in the book, Pink situates Sanchez within an extremely thorough and comprehendable delineation of the history of the bullfight and traces the ways in which anthropologists have tried, not only to understand the wider, more cultural meaning of the bullfight but to explain it. Their various theories are described in an eloquent and thought provoking manner.

"Women and Bullfighting" is the ideal book for readers who want a different angle of the bullfight but will not sacrifice accuracy of detail in the process. Although now retured from the ring, and a new mother, Sanchez has left the door open for other women to take her cape. The subject of Women in the bullring is a highly contentious one that has been in circulation long before Sanchez but, without a doubt, will continue for as long as the national fiesta itself does. This book is an important document within the continuing debate about women and gender in the most machistic and traditional spheres of Spanish culture.

This book is a collection of various article and essays on Islam, Muslim women and gender isssue. Discusses how Muslim women negotiate their public space within the Islamic framework with various strategies. The veil or Hijab is a symbolic piece of clothing that not only perpetuates women's resistence but also the ability to redefine gender roles order to claim their rightful place in society that had been denied them.

This is a fantastic book. A shame it has left print, a very concise account of the opera itself, an absolute must for scholars of the serialistic period. Some finer details are sketchy though this book is an absolute must