Warren Books

Nach den Türkenkriegen war der südliche Teil des Habsburgerreiches verwüstet. Dessen Neubesiedlung durch deutsche Auswanderer führte zu einer der größten Kolonisationen der Neuzeit. Eines dieser Gebiete war die Batschka, dem Land zwischen Donau und Theiss. Die Vorfahren der Autorin wanderten großteils unter Joseph II. dorthin aus und wurden in der größten Gemeinde dieser Phase - Tscherwenka - angesiedelt. Deren Nachfahren lebten dort bis zum 8. Oktober 1944 als mitten im 2. Weltkrieg die Flucht/Vertreibung bedingt durch das Vordringen der Roten Armee und der Partisanen Titos ihren Anfang nahm. Anne Jung (später verehelichte Holden) beschreibt aus der Sicht eines kleinen Mädchens tagebuchähnlich in "In Search of a Warm Room" (Warren Publishing, Cornelius, NC, 2002) was sie danach alles erlebte. Am besagten Tag um 12 Uhr mittags verließ ihre Familie auf Pferdewagen Tscherwenka. Ihre Irrfahrt durch ein Europa im zu Ende gehenden 2.Weltkrieg beschreibt den Wahnsinn dieser Zeit. Auf der Suche nach einem Entkommen aus der Not emigriert die Familie mit Anne, dem Mädchen, in die USA, wo sie die Schule besucht, einen Bachelor und einen Master macht, heiratet und mittlerweile 3 Kinder und 6 Enkelkinder hat. Ihre Erlebnisse auf der Flucht/Vertreibung haben sie jedoch nicht losgelassen, sodaß sie beschloß, ihre Erinnerungen niederzuschreiben. "In Search of a Warm Room" ist das Ergebnis. Lesenswert!

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to know what life was like during WWII for the everyday ethnic German. Although not widely known, the everyday German suffered at the hands of Nazi Germany. This is a compelling read of suffering and triumph of the human spirit. It is a must read for all students of WWII.

I purchased Infostructor about a year ago. I was modeling data since 1982 and went into management a few years ago and decided to "get acquainted" with data modeling again.

I found most of the books I purchased to be less than helpful, boring, and redundant. So, when I purchased this product I kept everything so I could return it if I didn't like it.

Well, I kept it. I kept it because it's exciting, informative, practical, and effective. I learned more from this software in a few days than in months of reading modeling books.

I keep it with me on my notebook and reference it constantly. I do this because I sometimes get a little excited and model an area poorly. I then check what I did against what is suggested in Infostructor and I'm on the right course again.

I don't know if the author(s) of Infostructor will read this, but a hardy "WELL DONE"!!! Please let me know if you create other gems.

Mike Bingle
mbingle@osmc-web.com

I purchased Infostructor about a year ago. I was modeling data since 1982 and went into management a few years ago and decided to "get acquainted" with data modeling again.

I found most of the books I purchased to be less than helpful, boring, and redundant. So, when I purchased this product I kept everything so I could return it if I didn't like it.

Well, I kept it. I kept it because it's exciting, informative, practical, and effective. I learned more from this software in a few days than in months of reading modeling books.

I keep it with me on my notebook and reference it constantly. I do this because I sometimes get a little excited and model an area poorly. I then check what I did against what is suggested in Infostructor and I'm on the right course again.

I don't know if the author(s) of Infostructor will read this, but a hardy "WELL DONE"!!! Please let me know if you create other gems.

This is a truly fascinating book that gives invaluable insight into the author's amazing life. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a joyous outlook upon life, and to those who yearn to experience the past again.

I laughed, I cried, but I totally related to the adventures that were so perfectly penned by the author. Please urge the author to keep writing.

My daughter absolutley loves Junie B. Jones, so I thought these cassettes would be great for long car rides. The first thing that I got a kick out of is Lana Quintel's voice--she is just perfect as Junie. She's got a little-girlish, slightly nervous tone, which really fits. Some audio stories can really bore you to tears, which is bad for the adult driving the car, but these keep you listening and aware.
The story lines really fit for young kids (older 5's+), since Junie has to get through typical situations like loose teeth, "boyfriends", self-inflicted hair cuts, etc.
Some of the books show Junie's more obnoxious, negative self, so I just avoid them and go for the cuter stories.

I have been reading the Junie B. Jones collection to my kindergarten class from the beginning of the school year. They absolutely love the collection. At times I have found the language inappropriate for kindergarten. I have chosen to change some of the words as I read. The children do not realize and the books still remain enjoyable and fun. Barbara Park is a great author and has truley captured the uniqueness of a child's kindergarten career. All books are HIghly remcommended. I tried to keep this book until the last day of school when my students would have officially been first graders. They wouldn't let me. One of my students brought the book from home and we finished it in two sittings. Junie B. Jones First Grader at Last is a great book to read to the child who is anxious about first grade and the changes that my come with growing up.

Though I have not read this book about Radek, I wish to add this information as a follow-up to the previous review. It has been substantiated that both Radek and Sokolnikov were killed by fellow inmates in prison in 1939. See for reference "The Road To Terror: Stalin and the self-destruction of the bolsheviks, 1932-1939" by Getty and Naumov.

'Karl Radek: The Last Internationalist', seems to be a very pretensious title, considering the fact that Trotsky, Che, and even Fidel lived after Radek's "alleged" death (much like Jim Morrison and Tupaq Shukur, there are a remarkable amount of "Radek still lives" types of theories), but after reading a few pages, the title is of absolutely no importance. Because Radek, much like every other revolutionary emigre during the early twentieth century, was a captivating figure, personally, and ideologically.

Karl Radek, born in Poland, essentialy raised in a German area, was an associate to perhaps the most famous Socialists of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Liebknecht, Karl Kautsky, and the psuedo-Bolshevik, Joseph Stalin (does expropriating money from banks, and having a National Socialist ideology make a person a genuine Bolshevik?), which obviously means that a bio of him will be of a high caliber. The author's life of Radek is very revealing. Studying the works of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin, a person inevitably stumbles upon Radek's zig-zags from Trotskyism, Leninism, and Stalinism, but nobody really understands his motive for such actions. This brief book (176 pgs.), outlines most of the "gaps" in a person's knowledge. Radek, who was a grubby type of character (much like Che Guevara, Radek cared little for personal hygiene, and apperance), was a polemicist and journalist of the first rank, and usually had his own agenda. Unfortunately, his personal opinions rubbed most of the people he came into contact with the wrong way; which is why an intellectual as prominent as Radek never became a member of the Soviet politbureau. He was opposed to the 1923-24 putsch, in Germany, which resulted in a disastrous set back for the German Communist Party, yet, because of the animosity between he and the President of the Comintern, Grigory Zinoviev, he recieved most of the blame anyway (he was stripped of his Central Comitee Membership, and his prominence in Comintern was eliminated). Conversely, his sheepish betrayal of Trotsky while in exile in Siberia during the late 1920's is described with some amount of accuracy; such as his motives for doing such a despicable thing.

The last chapter, which is the same as the title of the book, mentions many of the "Radek still lives" theories. Such as Radek possibly writing Khrushchev's secret speech in 1956, and Radek possibly writing for pravda and izvestia under a different penname. I am compelled, to some extent, into believing that Radek lived longer than his supposed death in 1939. Radek, much like Trotsky, was a very resilient individual (with the mortality rate in eastern Europe during the nineteenth century, it's really a miracle Radek lived long enough to experience the Russian Revolution in the first place!), and is gossip and hearsay from "stoolies" in GULAG enough to place a concrete statistic on Radek's date of death? 'Karl Radek: The last internationalist', is a captivating work, and needs to be read by anyone that has a brain, or thinks they have a brain (by this, I mean haughty psuedo-intellectuals).

First of all I want to express my deepest gratitude to Ron Warren for the exhaustive analysis presented in this book. It is a breath of fresh air to read a book that the author performs in-depth exegesis without confusing the reader with technicalities. In addition, the author does not try to force the Holy Scriptures to conform to a doctrine or an author's point of view. The author clearly is an individual that is seeking to find the truth about God and his relationship with us through our Messiah Yeshua. It is my humble opinion that this book is destined to be a classic along books such as the Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life by John Calvin.

WOW!Reading this book,was like taking in a breath of fresh air! It's alive and informative. The author does not belittle or put down, instead he uses the word of G-d to build up and strengthen. No one could write a book like this, unless G-d Himself wanted it written!The authors knowledge and wisdom is apparent throughout the book, as he keeps the reader both intrigued and interested. We strongly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand their Jewish roots, while strengthening and deepening their walk with the Lord. Either used as a daily devotional or weekly Bible study, this book will help light the way. Praise G-d for this Author and those who encouraged him to write this. Thanks Ron, we needed this! Sincerely Gordon and KathyThe Ladder Of Trust

Though I've been a fan of Patricia Nell Warren ever since I read _The Front Runner_ back in 1974, this book was even better than I expected. It consists of a dozen and a half chapters, each on a particular sport and the gay men and lesbians who excelled in it. The subject of athletics is dear to the heart of Warren, who grew up in a family of jocks, on a large ranch in Montana. She herself became a long-distance runner, who helped open up the longer races to women.

When I first opened _The Lavender Locker Room_, I was tempted to read only the ones on sports I was interested in. But when I got into it, I found every single chapter so interesting -- and each of the chapters so different from the others -- that I didn't skip anything, and was sorry there weren't more when I came to the end of the book.

The _Iliad_, written about 22 centuries ago, is one of the supreme masterpieces of world literature. Warren demonstrates that the love between Achilles and Patroclus, both formidable warriors, is at the very heart of the _Iliad_. The _Iliad_ also has the first literary depiction of an athletic competition, the funeral games for Patroclus. To her chagrin (and mine) the recent movie, Troy (with Achilles played by a 40-year old Brad Pitt), blanked out male love and omitted the athletic games.

Her other "pre-modern times" chapters -- jousting, fencing, and horse racing -- have much new information. I never imagined, from either my _Boy's King Arthur_ or from Malory, that there were female jousters -- though, come to think of it, there are female warriors in Ariosto's 16th century epic poem, _Orlando Furioso_. Some of the sports are upper class, even aristocratic, and with reason; it takes wealth and status to have horse and armor, or a stable of race horses, or your own airplane. The long chapter on George Villiers tells the fascinating story of the love between King James I of England and a beautiful man, who through royal patronage became rich, powerful, and a pioneer breeder of race horses. The horses of Villiers were the ancestors of the top race horses of today. In Warren's words: "In their blood, they carry the enduring love between a young man and his King."

The "late 19th to early 20th century" section covers Alberto Santos-Dumont, an aerial sportsman and pioneering baloonist; Bill Tilden, the greatest tennis player of all; and Amelia Earhart, the pilot. Bill Tilden was twice sentenced to prison -- once for having sex with a teenaged hustler, and once for merely approaching a sixteen-year-old hitchhiker. Tilden's reputation fell, and he died in poverty, but he was forgiven by posterity. In 1959 he was placed in the Sports Hall of Fame. Tilden was so good, that if he were back in his prime, he could probably beat the best single tennis players of today.

Stories of the female athletes are just as fascinating. There was Babe Didrickson Zaharias, generally regarded as the greatest woman athlete of all time. Ana Maria Martinez Sagi, an outstanding athlete and close friend of the gay poet, Garcia Lorca. In the late 20th century, the great tennis player, Martina Navratilova, was completely open about her lesbianism -- it didn't hurt her popularity one bit, and she made a fortune.

Patricia Nell Warren writes very well, and with enthusiasm -- an easy, casual style, with no words wasted. This is a wonderful book.

Best known as the author of THE FRONT RUNNER, Patricia Nell Warren's work as a novelist has a distinctly muscular quality; THE LAVENDER LOCKER ROOM, however, shows her at her informal best and is more akin to sitting across the table from the lady as she ruminates on what it means to be both athlete and homosexual, contemplating past and present, shifting easily between mythology, rumor, and hard fact.

The result is as entertaining as it is informative--and, like most of Warren's writings, will no doubt light a fire under the backside of those who have never examined gender stereotypes. Warren opens with reflections on The Iliad's ancient tale of Achilles and Patroclus, indicating the nature of male sexuality in the ancient world (and taking a few swipes at such films as TROY, which go into over-drive to avoid the homo-eroticism involved.) More particularly, however, Warren offers the story to make a very interesting point: sports as we now think of them arose from the military.

Warren elaborates the thought in a series of reflections on such figures as the mysterious Joan of Arc, Roman gladiators, the legendary Amazons, and the equally legendary Sir Lancelot--and then introduces the first person in the text that we know beyond doubt was both real and really gay: Richard Coeur de Leon, who was not only a great swordsman but also rather notorious in his choice of bedmates. Having set the stage, she then runs the gamut from George Villers, lover of King James I and the man who helped lay the foundations of modern equestrian sport, to David Kopay, NFL running back, whose admission of homosexuality created a tremendous scandal in the mid-1970s.

Some of Warren's subjects remain widely celebrated to this day: "Big Bill" Tilden is still generally regarded as the single finest male tennis player to grace the game. Some are extremely obscure: Ana Maria Martinex Sagi was famous in pre-Franco Spain but is scarcely recalled today. Some, like boxer Norbert Grupe, largely concealed their sexuality; others, like tennis star Martina Navratilova, have been relatively frank. And then there is the inevitable "hot spot:" figures such as Amelia Earhart, who so successfully concealed their private lives that it is difficult to know their disposition in any hard-fact sense. But whether open, closeted, or simply rumored, the subjects share a common theme: each of them displaced the gender stereotypes of the sporting world and all of them emerge as fascinating figures in Warren's hands.

Throughout the text Warren frequently references the Olympics, and as the book progresses she takes a very hard look at the IOC's folly of genetic gender-typing, a process that would seem simple enough but which under IOC policies evolved into a comedy of errors that was far from funny to those involved. She also gives considerable thought to the perception of certain sports--most specifically figure skating--as "sissy" and, in the wake of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, reflects on cowboys and rodeo. To my mind, however, the single most memorable portion of THE LAVENDER LOCKER ROOM occurs when Warren discusses legendary athlete Babe Didrikson Zaharias, whose memorable career fell within the scope of Warren's early memory: her descriptions of seeing Zaharias in news reels and on television broadcasts is both touching and powerful and no doubt reflects the hidden thoughts, dreams, and hungers of an entire generation of lesbians.

THE LAVENDER LOCKER ROOM makes no pretense of being a comprehensive survey of gay athletes and the additional challenges they face in the arena; it is instead a collage of insights on the figures and issues that swirl around sexuality, gender identity, gender stereotyping, and public perception as they pertain to sports, most particularly in the United States of America but also rising on occasion to a global level. Often provocative, never less than entertaining, and as much a window on the author herself as it is upon the complex subject she addresses. Recommended.

GFT, Amazon Reviewer

I use this book as a supplement to my Foundations of Education Class to show how basic issues in education[even in ND] have been around since statehood. In evaluation after evaluation, students say I need to keep this book as required reading. Many not only keep their own copy, but also buy an additional one for parents or grandparents who attended one-room schools. This book is rich with teacher narratives, copies of primary documents [ledgers, teacher's school day, exams], and words that still ring true today. I highly recommend this book ESPECIALLY for Midwest education teachers!

I purchased this book for my mother for Christmas. She grew up in North Dakota and went to a one room schoolhouse through the eighth grade. After the holidays she lent the book to a friend who enjoyed it so much that we needed another copy.

I bought the book and took the course and have a bag to prove it. I have walked out of 3 different immersion courses in different languages and different cities but this approach had me complete both the book and the course. The concept of power verbs, commonly used verbs and glue words make it possible to actually speak Spanish within a few days. The dialogue won't be great but you can get what you want and be understood. Get the flash cards and game cards from Warren Hardy site. Highly recommend it.

When I moved to Mexico, I knew absolutely NO Spanish. Within days of starting this course, I could form basic questions to ask for what I needed... in restaurants, in the market, with my maid and gardner. Warren's method is easy to use and fun!

Following publication of this book, Farrell was lauded as "The Gloria Steinem of Male Liberation" by media and popculture outlets.

This was not overly enthusiastic labeling because Farrell followed through on his words and was an active participant in the revitalizing feminist movement. He was an active member of NOW (becoming one of the first men elected to the National board) and did regular media appearances with other famous male feminists of the day such as Alan Alda and Phill Donahue to encourage equality.

This book is rightfully described as the male eqivalent of the "Feminine Mystique" because it both crtiiques gender roles using a mix of interviews and social statistics..and contains resources for action. This book maintains male chauvinism and anti-feminism also hurt men by constricting them into gender roles that are one-dimensional and narrow instead of allowing them to be multifaceted sensitive individuals.

Although Farrell has since sadly abandoned his own work, this tome remains an important text for feminist theory. Even if much of the social stats are now outdated, the concept of openly encouraging male feminism enmasse remains radical and inspiring to this day.

Following publication of this book, Farrell was lauded as "The Gloria Steinem of Male Liberation" by media and popculture outlets.

This was no mere enthusiastic labeling because Farrell followed through and was an active participant in the revitalizing feminist movement. He was an active member of NOW and did regular media appearances with other famous male feminists of the day such as Alan Alda and Phill Donahue to encourage equality.

This book is rightfully described as the male eqivalent of the "Feminine Mystique" because it both crtiiques gender roles using a mix of interviews and social statistics..and contains resources for action. Male Chauvinism also hurts men by constricting them into gender roles that are one-dimensional and narrow instead of allowing them to be multifaceted sensitive individuals.

Although Farrell has since sadly abandoned his own work, this tome remains an important text for feminist theory. Even if much of the social stats are now outdated, the concept of openly encouraging male feminism enmasse remains radical and inspiring to this day.