Memoirs of a Combat Infantryman by an Enemy Alien

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An autobiography by the chemist best known for total steroid synthesis and biogenetic-like cyclizations.

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The Solution: For Safe, Healthy, and Permanent Weight Loss by Laurel Mellin

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The Solution: For Safe, Healthy, and Permanent Weight Loss
Laurel Mellin , and (none)
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These days, it's fashionable to look at the problems of overweight people and write them off as too much food and too little exercise. But for many it's more complicated than that, and Laurel Mellin has identified six root causes of the behaviors that lead to obesity. She believes it's never too late to develop the skills to overcome these problems, whether the root is an inability to set limits or a life lived out of balance.

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You've tried everything : the pills, the shakes, the diets, even the surgery, and it's been a losing battle. But permanent weight loss isn't impossible. Not anymore . . .

Now dietary expert Laurel Mellin offers a scientifically proven, agony–free, breakthrough program for weight loss that doesn't require deprivation or superhuman willpower. The Diet–Free Solution presents a practical six–step plan that succeeds where other diets fail because it identifies the psychological, physical, and lifestyle causes of weight problems : the powerful mind and body drives that lead to overeating and inactivity栮d offers the cure for each. You can change your body, and ultimately your whole life 執ith:

The Nurturing Cure: How to become aware of your feelings and meet your own needs
The Limits Cure: How to control your actions and set appropriate, realistic expectations
The Body Pride Cure: How to turn off negative stereotypes about fat
The Good Health Cure: How to become aware of body health and stay healthy
The Eating Cure: How to eat regular meals and maintain a healthy diet
The Activity Cure: How to maintain an exercise program and find personal time

Until you understand the whole truth about your weight problem, you can't solve it. Whether you're trying to lose those last five pounds, end a compulsive eating problem, or shed more weight than you ever thought you'd carry, let The Diet–Free Solution work for you now and for the rest of your life!

The ability to self–nurture and set effective limits is the root of human maturity, and the foundation for emotional, behavioural, and spiritual balance. Fortunately, the skills to self–nurture and set effective limits can be fine–tuned and readers will learn them via a wealth of practical examples, colourful case histories, and scientific findings that are both fascinating and easy to understand. These skills are effective for a wide range of psychological and addictive problems––from alcoholism and other addictions to overeating, overworking, overspending, and perfectionism.

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I will never get rid of this book.......2007-10-10

I absolutely loved this book. I got so much unexpected help from it. The title sounds like it's just an average diet book but it is so much more than that. In fact the book isn't about dieting at all. What it's really about is getting down to the core of why you might eat the way you shouldn't based on emotional baggage. It tries to get you to sift through your emotional history and things that may be bothering you. I found out so much about myself and why I eat and I was so happy and relieved to be able to change my habits. I recommend this to anyone that might eat out of emotions.

Best Book Ever.......2007-04-12

This is the best book I've ever read. It has changed my life. It even helps with issues other than just weight loss.

The Solution: For Safe, Healthy, and Permanent Weight Loss by Laurel Mellin .......2007-01-03

Good information, short and to the point. That said I have to admit I had to think which book this was, as it apparently didn't have any outstanding qualities.

A Book Everyone Should Have.......2006-11-28

This is a very insightful book. Not only did it help me lose weight, but it is a book that can help anyone gain personal power. It teaches you easily how to manage your emotions well and how to manage/handle life as it is. Thank you Laurel for writing this book.

Doesn't deliver the goods.......2006-06-02

This book was hyped as a "simple" solution to weight loss. The concepts may be simple but don't confuse simple with easy. The concept of climbing mount Everest is simple too. Somehow this "simple" set of solutions leads to a seemingly endless trail of products and seminars that will eventually get you where you want to be. I have no patince for a book that is merely a tease and a marketing tool to get you deeper in debt to it's author. Whatever good ideas were in this book got lost in my anger of being shilled.

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In Serve It Forth, her first book, M. F. K. Fisher takes readers on an animated journey through culinary history, beginning with the honey-loving Greeks and the immoderate Romans. Fisher recalls a hunt for snails and truffles with one of the last adepts in that art and recounts how Catherine de Medici, lonely for home cooking, touched off a culinary revolution by bringing Italian chefs to France. Each essay makes clear the absolute firmness of Fisher's taste--contrarian and unique--and her skill at stirring memory and imagination into a potent brew.

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One of the Great Writers of the 20th Century.......1999-07-01

This first book, a collection of essays by Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher, offers many examples of her brilliance. Especially wonderful are "The Standing and the Waiting" and "Cesar."

Serve It Forth: Cooking With Anne McCaffrey

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Like SF? Like cooking? Get this book!
A mediocre sidekick that proves that writers are not chefs

Serve It Forth: Cooking With Anne McCaffrey

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Like SF? Like cooking? Get this book!.......2002-07-27

I love reading and writing, especially science fiction. I also love eating, and cooking, although I'm not a chef.
This book is an interesting look into the non-literary creative works of a group of writers compiled by Pern mistress Anne McCaffrey. None of these writers will ever be confused with James Beard or even Emeril Lagasse, but the reader does get insight into the comfort foods that keep these writers going. A good book, also, for those who think they're too busy to eat.

A mediocre sidekick that proves that writers are not chefs.......2000-02-06

While my expectations for this book were never too high in the first place, I found that the "recipies" presented within are merely quick remakes of the already existing ones, sprinkled with outlandish names. If you are trying to gain insight into the nature of the writers whose recipies are compiled within, there are other ways to go about that goal.

Go forth and serve: early years and public life

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Go forth and serve: early years and public life
Martin Rosenbluth
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Make it now, bake it later!, #2: Make each dish in the morning, then gently set it aside, bring it forth that evening and serve your guests with pride!

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Make it now, bake it later!, #2: Make each dish in the morning, then gently set it aside, bring it forth that evening and serve your guests with pride!
Barbara Goodfellow
Manufacturer: Pocket Books
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Serve it Forth
MFK Fisher
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Go Forth to Serve
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THE ART OF EATING. Five complete books in one volume: How to cook a Wolf; Consider the Oyster; Serve it Forth; The Gastronomical Me; An alphabet for Gourmets

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THE ART OF EATING. Five complete books in one volume: How to cook a Wolf; Consider the Oyster; Serve it Forth; The Gastronomical Me; An alphabet for Gourmets
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Serve it forth,
Mary Frances Kennedy Parrish
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Fascinating True Story: Experimenting with Dolphins as possible Naval security partners........2007-02-14

I really enjoyed this book. It's about Dr. Ridgway's personal experience with dolphins as he and the team attempted to determine if the natural behaviors of the dolphins could be adopted for work with Naval security. The book is often funny, sometimes dramatic and always fascinating. He writes in such a way that I felt I was there working with them. It's hard to believe it was 40 - 50 years ago now. It'e easy to read and I think older children would enjoy it as well.

The doctors' case against the pill (A Dolphin book)

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a collection of anecdotes with no scientific basis
Barbara Tells You What Your Doctor Probably Won't
The BookThat Started It All
Historically important, and still relevant today

The doctors' case against the pill (A Dolphin book)
Barbara Seaman
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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a collection of anecdotes with no scientific basis.......2005-09-15

Recently I've been doing research on oral contraceptives and their hormonal basis and I picked up this book because I thought it might have something to tell me about how the pill worked. Of course the book has no such thing. The words "estriadol" and "progestin" the two main components of the pill are not even in the index. The book is a collection of anectodal complaints from women about their experiences with the pill without any basis in science or medicine. Seamen doesn't even talk about how the side effects reported could have been caused by the pill, she simply reports them as fact. There are interviews with laypeople, doctors, and psychologists but there are absolutely no references located in this book from peer reviewed scientific journals. She does describe some scientific studies but completely skews the results. Basically this book is unscientific, sensationalistic, and poorly written.

Barbara Tells You What Your Doctor Probably Won't.......2004-03-25

If you've read other books by Barbara Seaman (and you should take a look, if you haven't), you know that she is a crusader for the health of women. She will tell you the truth about what birth control and other hormones are doing to your health - and about the side effects of the pill that your doctor isn't likely to mention. Please, if you're going to take hormones, inform yourself as fully as possible about what you're really signing up to do. I came close to losing my life from side effects of the birth control pill and "natural" progesterone cream. Don't let it happen to you - Barbara Seaman is a great resource.

The BookThat Started It All.......2001-08-11

In the late'60s and early '70s sexual liberation was in the air. Many -- perhaps even most -- well-heeled Americans welcomed the loosening up of sexual restrictions that had been so oppressive during the postwar era. The sexual double standard was waning, young people were being told that they had the right to sensual experimentation before and outside of marriage,and making it all possible were the new miracle contraceptives: the iud and the pill. Times had changed for the better, and it was a new epoch of progress,right?

Wrong.

Journalist Barbara Seaman had the courage and insight to peer behind the happy facade that characterized the first wave of American sexual liberation,at some troubling realities. She asked simple questions -- the kind that annoy everyone,because they're unanswerable. Why was so much research being done on female contraceptives that were potentially harmful,with none being done on male contraceptives? (The condom STILL remains the only male option.) Since sexual intercourse is generally more pleasurable for men than women,why didn't men introduce harsh chemicals and dangerous contraptions into their systems? If the pill was so safe,why was it making women feel so sick? Why were patients who reported their symptoms told that it was all in their heads? Why were the physicians and chemists behind all these products male?

_The Doctor's Case Against the Pill_ compresses many of Seaman's findings and inaugurated her career as a lifelong whistle blower and advocate of women's health. Like her later work, _Free and Female_,it is a pathfinding book that exposes the ideology behind the health industry and the self-interest of so many medical practitioners. It reminds us how easily retrograde assumptions are recycled into the most seemingly progressive and forward-looking social initiatives. Like most pioneering works,its results still brace and shock; the expanded edition incorporates Seaman's more recent research. This is a must-read for anyone interested in women's health and women's history.

As many people know, because of this book,there are now warning labels on packages of birth control pills. Thirty years ago,Barbara Seaman had the courage to play that most thankless role:the party-pooper. In the swinging '60s and '70s, her findings met with a cold reception. But because of her work,women today lead healthier and safer lives.

Historically important, and still relevant today.......1999-08-06

A mere thirty years ago, the Pill's dosage of estrogen was dangerously high, resulting in side effects such as strokes, depression, obesity, blood clots, and heart attacks. Yet gynecologists at the time brushed off women's concerns, telling them that they were nothing more than "psychological." Enter Barbara Seaman, whose 1969 book The Doctors' Case Against the Pill warned women about the health risks and held doctors and pharmaceutical companies to task for their sexism -- as well as for their greed and incompetence. Her book prompted the Senate to hold hearings investigating the safety of the Pill. As a result, the Pill today is much safer, and each packet comes with a warning about potential side effects and contraindications.

Well, that was thirty years ago... why buy the book today? First, because it is an important historical record of the way female patients have been mistreated. And second, because Seaman has updated it to include new information about the Pill's pitfalls over the years as well as an excellent chapter about Norplant, a contraceptive used widely around the globe even though it causes its own host of health problems. No wonder Gloria Steinem has called Seaman "the first prophet of the women's health movement."

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THE DOLPHIN DOCTOR
Sam Ridgway
Manufacturer: Yankee Books Dublin, NH 1987
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ASIN: B000R4SUCO

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Dolphin Doctor

Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian and Scientist Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin that Inspired His Career
Sam H Ridgway
Manufacturer: Dolphin Science Press
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ASIN: 0964271605

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Dolphin Doctor.......2006-06-09

It was almost finished. Wally pointed to the only dolphin left to examine - the skinny one with the crescent-shaped scar. First Mo grabbed the animal around the chest, just behind the flippers. Then Bill Sconce and Marty latched onto the tail behind the dorsal fin. Unexpectedly the dolphin recoiled. With his snout, he swatted Mo on the head, knocking him backward into the pool. With his tail flukes, the dolphin flailed Marty's shins and knocked him headlong into the water. Bill received several body blows in the melee and disappeared briefly under the murk.

About ten minutes of thrashing, spalshes, bites, and bruises followed. Finally, the skinny dolphin with the scar lay still on the rubber pad with four men draped across him. I hurriedly gave him his vitamin injection and inserted my thermometer.

Struck by the spectacle of our crew battered by a single dolphin, Wally began to laugh, "At least we have a name for the dolphin now," he said. "From now on, he's Tuf Guy."
--- from book's back cover

The Dolphin Doctor: A Pioneering Veterinarian Remembers the Extraordinary Dolphin That Inspired His Career

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Sam H. Ridgway
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The promise of animal language research ([Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics / University of Hawaii)

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The promise of animal language research ([Theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in linguistics / University of Hawaii)
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great info,but very limited use for the hobbyist.......2005-01-01

this is a great book, you will see several professional knife makers work their magic & turn out beautiful high end folders.
the book is well worth the price for that alone!
BUT ...
dont buy this book thinking it will help you make knives, it wont , unless you own or have use of a well equipted machine shop, and the skill to use a milling machine etc.
as a hobby i have been making decent quality working knives for 20 years, including a few simple folders. however i can not even begin to use the techniques in theis book or afford the machines it assumes you have on hand.
cmk-montana

It might have been a nice book........2003-01-14

Just got a copy of this for Christmas; latest printing I believe.

I haven't tried to make a folder yet, but I might give it a go soon. However, I'll be buying some other book before I try it.

OK These guys make knives and are the big names. I don't expect them to write well and I wasn't surprised. However, I was surprised on the print quality. Most of the pictures (which the authors rely on quite heavily) are nearly black. "In photo 14 you can see how to ...." In photo 14 you can't see squat.

Personally I think it's great that these guys are willing to share their methods. It's just a shame that the publisher is not doing them justice.

I also need to warn some readers that these 3 are professionals with professional equipment and professional methods. Some of us are garage knife makers and don't have milling machines. This makes their plans quite a bit harder to implement.

Overall if you want to know how these guys construct their knives, you will get a feel for it. If you already make folding knives, you might get some more ideas. If you want to use this book to learn how to do it, forget it.

Also, as another reviewer pointed out, this book is quite remiss in not covering linerlocks.

About par for the many books on this subject.......2002-11-24

I am a knife knut. There are three "make a knife" sections to this book. The authors - Lake, Centofante, and Clay are each well respected knifemakers. For a general idea of what goes into knifemaking this book is about average for the "let's write a book for our fans who aspire to make their own" book. It gives methods that each contributor goes through (learned after painstaking years of trial and error, hands on work). The text gives a pretty good description of each artists work, start to finish. As in most of the books in this price range and size, the pictures are not very helpful.
You will not become a knife maker reading this or any of the books like this one. It does show you how much talent and hardwork and knowledge you need to make just one knife though.

Excellent how - to. Lost my copy... buying another........1999-03-13

I believe that there are items in this book which are exactly what one is looking for if they would like to learn to make folders. I bought this book at a knife show a long time ago but misplacd it. Now I have enough room to set up a bench and think I will buy another copy and give it a go.

Detailed stuff, but buy only if you're a knifemaker.......1998-10-17

First off, I have to mention that I am a knife collector and enthusiast. The names of the authors would be instantly recognizable for their work and reputation. However, unlike the Loveless book it was intended to compliment, this work reads as a dry, mechanical, how-to of building folders. Sorry, Ron I love your knives and I dream of someday owning one, but this book won't convert many people into 'knife-nuts'

There is a lot of information here, but this book would probably be of interest to knifemakers. Also, not covering linerlocks, probably the most popular of the folder styles is a serious ommission.

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How To Make Folding Knives; A Step-By-Step How-To
Lake/Centofante/Clay
Manufacturer: Krause Publications
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How to plant a vegetable garden: Save $250 in food from a 15 x 25 ft. garden (Countryside books)
Derek Fell
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The Book of Nurturing : Nine Natural Laws for Enriching Your Family Life
Linda Eyre , and Richard Eyre
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"Communicating with your children is at the very heart of parenting. Linda and Richard Eyre continue to reach out to parents with sage advice on nurturing the family's value system. Make a conscious decision to plug into your kid's world. You may not be the only influence in your child's life, but you have to be the biggest."--Dr. Phil McGraw, #1 New York Times best-selling author and host of the TV show Dr. Phil

"The Eyres have created a beautiful new language of natural, nurturing symbols that allow parents and children to communicate in a new and effective way. A truly remarkable book which 'strikes at the root.'"--Stephen R. Covey, Author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families

"Nurturing is not just for parents. Aunts, uncles, grandparents, or anyone who loves a child needs to read this book."--Jane Clayson, ABC News Correspondent

"Mothers have traditionally been the key nurturers in their children's lives. The Eyres' 'natural' approach to principle-centered parenting opens exciting new ways for all of us to nurture family relationships."--Marcia Ford, President, American Mothers Association

The #1 bestselling authors of Teaching Your Children Values show parents how to develop a nurturing environment for their children

All parents want to teach their children good values. But beneath that desire lies a greater need--for a bond of love and trust that keeps children safe, and lets parents participate more fully in their children's lives.

Linda and Richard Eyre, hosts of a monthly segment on the "CBS Early Show," help parents accomplish this in The Book of Nurturing, presenting tools for developing family relationships and turning a house into a home.

They have crafted nine powerful lessons based on stories and parables that can preserve family values and give children a sense of worth and self-esteem, based on:

Commitment
Praise, support, and positive affirmation
Responsibility
Awareness
Communication
Discipline (tough love)
Consistency
Security and identity
Freedom and empowerment

Parents will recognize the wisdom of the nine natural laws and will appreciate the workability of the ideas and application methods. Children will love the images of animals and nature and will feel included and responsive to their parents' initiatives. In a sense, this is a whole new genre of parenting book--written both for parents and for children, giving them a common language of symbols that they can share and use together to build their relationships and strengthen their family.

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If "I" like it.... Just get this book-.......2003-07-24

...you won't regret it. I don't usually bother with these kinds of things- my wife bought this one- but this book I can highly recommend. The stories, the lessons the drawings...they are all wonderful. It's a self-help/parenting book for people who don't like self-help/parenting books.
I like the whole nature and animal twist-it "speaks" much better to me than most of these kinds of books (and I'll be honest- I like books with pictures- and so do my two kids!) It's a good book.

Worth Reading Every Year.......2003-06-23

I found "The Book of Nurturing" to be perfectly written and full of wisdom and common sense. Each chapter was profound enough to transform a troubled family, yet simple enough to be adopted with ease. It was delightful to read, yet very clear and concise in its guidance. I plan to read it each year as it will remind me of what is most important in my family.

The Book of Nurturing : Nine Natural Laws for Enriching Your Family Life

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The Book of Nurturing : Nine Natural Laws for Enriching Your Family Life
Linda Eyre Richard M. Eyre
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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The life of an extraordinary New Zealander told for the first time. A charismatic personality Lye was a major New Zealand artist and a leading figure in international modernism who lived in London and New York but always retained a South Pacific energy and informality. There is a growing interest in his work and it is well illustrated in this book.

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Len Lye: A Biograpghy by Roger Horrocks.......2001-12-14

Roger Horrock's biography of Len Lye presentts an unusual take on Twentieth Century art. LEN LYE: A Biography tells the life story of an artist who was able to transcend the typical neuroses that afflicted modernist artists to pproduce a diverse body of paintings, films, sculpture and writing.
Lye was bormn in New Zealand in 1901. Early in life he was presented with a great abyss to cross, the death of his father. The childhood that followed was one of movement, insecurity and foster homes. These experiences, which so easily could hhave crushed a developing personality, worked to give Lye a tough, self-sufficient interior life. Inspired by nature, light annd movement, Lye taught himself how to draw and became interested in the processes of mmemory.
After leaving school with minimal qualifications Lye worked in a variety of jobs throughout New Zealand. These jobs included hop picking, labouring and advertising. In his spare time Lye continued his study of painting and drawing and became aware of the modernist movement in European art.
At the age of 22, feeling that he had exhauusted the possibilities of the New Zealand art scene, Lye moved to Sydney, Australia and immersed himself in the bohemian circles of that city. Continuing to pursue his personal study of art, Lye also discovered psychoanalysis and film animation.
In 1924 Lye returned to New Zealand then decided to undertake a first-hand study of tribal art. Lye traveled to the South Pacific Islands of Fiji, Rarotonga, Tonga and Samoa, where he stayed for several months. Following his sojourn in the South Pacific, Lye returned to Sydney where his increasing desire for knowledge fed his restless yearning for a direct connection with European modernism. In late 1926, Lye worked his way to England as a stoker on a steamship.
Once in London, Lye quickly established himself within the vanguard art movements of that city and, in 1927, drawing on his knowledge of Australian aboriginal and Polynesian art, commenced making images for his animated film TUSALAVA.
TUSALAVA, a 9 minute long, black and white film, depicts the transformation of simple life forms into complex forms that grow, evolve and then consume themselves. TUSALAVA established Lye's reputation as a film artiist.
Over the next few years Lye revelled in London's cosmopolitan artistic community, explored associative writing and drawing techniques, produced a series of original book covers for writers as diverse as Gertruude Stein and Robert Graves then, in 1931, published NO TROOUBLE, a book of his own letters.
In 1935 Lye made a colourful, semi-abstract film, A COLOUR BOX, on commission for the GPO Film Unit in London. Over the next few years Lye continued to produce a series of bright, energetiic, semi-abstract films.
In 1941 Lye was employed by Britain''s Realist Film Unit to produce wartime information films. On the basis of his work for Realist, Lye was later offered six months work for the March oof Time newsreel in New York.
Lye soon became enraptured with the liveliness and openness of New York and resolved to stay in the United States, eventually becoming an American citizen.
In 1953, Lye produced the astounding COLOR CRY, a 16mm abstract film featuring a searing soundtrack by Sonny Terry.
Lye's film of 1958, FREE RADICALS, won Second Prize at the International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium.
After years of living in poverty, the dire state of funding for experimental films and the widespread indifference to his work, Lye went on strike, refusing to make any more films. From that time on, Lye devoted his energies to creating kinetic sculptures and developing theories that would help him to understand the basic impetus for his work.
Through the 1960s, Lye's steel, kinetic sculptures were exhibited in art museums across Europe and the United States.
Today, most of Lye's films, paintings, scupltures and other works are housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Zealand, where they arre exhibited annually.
Horrock's biography is a remarkablle achievemment. It is inspiring to see Lye's life and work laid out in this engaging book and learning how Lye persisted through enormous difficulties to produce a small body of great work in diverse media over a 50-year period. In the very best of his works, such as the film FREE RADICALS and the sculpture TRILOGY, Lye managed to transcend and surpass the formal limitations in the work of most of his peers and sucessors.
Bothe the book LEN LYE: A Biography and the artist Len LLye are well worth checking out by anyone interested in film, painting, drawing, sculpture and writing.
A more complete version of this review appears in ILLUSIONS Magazine, PO Box 6476, Marion Square, Wellinton, New Zealand.

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Acclaimed in Germany and England, this tragic and remarkable real-life love story won a Lambda Literary Award when it was first published in America in 1995. Lilly Wust ("Aimée") was a conventional middle-class mother of four, estranged from her philandering husband, when she met Felice Schragenheim ("Jaguar") in 1941. Their passionate affair unfolded against the backdrop of the deportation of Jews from Berlin, but several months passed before Felice could even bring herself to tell Lilly that she was Jewish and living illegally on the streets. "I knew, of course, what it meant," Lilly recalled in old age. "Not for a moment did I think that I too could be in danger. On the contrary, all I wanted to do now was to save her." Lilly's heroic efforts to conceal and protect Felice through the next two years make for painful and inspiring reading. Felice was arrested in August 1944 and sent her last letter to Lilly four months later. In 1981 Lilly was awarded the German Federal Service Cross, though no one could read this as a happy ending. --Regina Marler

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A letter from Lilly to Felice, March 31st, 1943

Felice, I love you! What a feeling it is to be able to say that! Oh, Felice, the nicest fate I could hope for is that of lasting happiness. I want to live with you for a long, a very long time, do you hear? And life is so beautiful, so wonderful. Felice, do you belong to me - without limit? To me only? Please say you do, at least for a very long time to come, please! Do you love me? I'm acting like a seventeen-year-old, arent't I?

Be good to me, Felice, please? And yet please don't hold back. I wanted to lure you out of your hiding place. I am like a child playing with fire; will I get burned? A little? Totally? Felice, stop me! Isn't it just a little bit your fault that I'm so crazy, so totally crazy?

A poem from Felice to Lilly, Christmas 1943

That there was a time before you - I can't believe!
To me, we've forever been this way,
Together, side by side in life and in dreams,
Surrounded both by darkness and the light of day.

You belong to me! Since you arrived,
And slowly at first, then full of trust,
Placed your heart in my hands, I have strived
For the strength to build a life for us.

So I have hope for days yet to come,
As this year nods and slips into air,
Because before me, like some emblem,
I carry the copper gleam of your hair.

Extract: "The Vow"

January 30th, 1943, the tenth anniversary of Hitler's seizure of power, Hermann Goring's speech to Berliners was delayed for two hours because British scout planes were flying over the city in broad daylight for the first time. Four days after Goring declared his certainty of victory, the remaining German troops trapped in Stalingrad capitulated. Accompanied by funereal music, the defeat was announced on the radio. On February 18th Reichspropaganda minister Goebbels spurred the German people to make a greater effort. In a "Declaration of fanatical Will" at the Berlin Sportpalast he announced the "Salvation of Germany and the whole of civilisation" through "total war". In memory of the victims of the Russian campaign, a three minute traffic stoppage was declared. At the Zoo station, people stood stock

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An excellent read.......2007-09-25

This book is the very first book to ever make me cry, and I'm one of those people who've read all types of genres. It was captivating and compelling. Like many, I saw the movie first, but when I saw it was a true story, I simply had to have the book as well. I am glad I did. The book provided the background and meaning that the movie left out. Because of the book, I will probably have to rewatch the movie again.

The courage, bravery, and love shown in this novel is beyond compare. It's a read worth reading slowly.

an unorthodox but gripping book.......2007-08-14

I enjoyed the film version of "Aimee & Jaguar", but I think the book tells a much deeper story. We get to know the characters on a more profound level: I was especially charmed by the poems both women wrote, especially Jaguar's rhymed comments on her everyday life experiences. The book provides astonishing details about life for Jews who went "underground" in Berlin; somehow, the picture of the slow tightening of the Nazi noose was clearer to me from this book than from the many other works I've read on the period. And Aimee's fate after the war was unexpected--messy, frustrating, and human. A more timid author might have left some of this information out.

I do have a few complaints about Fischer's approach to writing history: I agree with some other reviewers that the story tended to get muddled in the constant mention of unimportant names and dates, and it's difficult to keep track of the minor characters. An index would have helped with this. The author included loads of love letters, which get a little repetitive. I also would have liked to see more photos of Aimee & Jaguar's friends, rather than so many pictures of just the two of them.

I don't have the knowledge to assess how successful Fischer was at capturing lesbian feelings: the love between the characters seemed believable to me, and there was one fairly explicit scene that many historians would not have dared to write, but which I think added to the emotion of the story. I did think it was odd--bordering on irresponsible, for a historian--that Fischer stated in an epilogue that she thought Jaguar would have left Aimee if they had been together longer. This is pure speculation. Though I appreciated Fischer's honest confession of her feelings about Aimee, it might have been fairer to the reader if the author had put this at the beginning of the book. After reading the epilogue, I remembered a number of incidents in the story that portrayed Aimee in a negative light, and I couldn't help but think that Fischer's personal attitude may have colored her telling of those events. For example, when Jaguar is sent to a concentration camp, Aimee tries unsuccessfully to demand her release from the camp authorities. This action is described as "irrational", and one onlooker comments that it may have even harmed Jaguar. But no evidence for this is given--letters from Jaguar after Aimee's visit say nothing about it. Aimee's attempt might just as easily have been described as a sign of her great love for Jaguar, or of her bravery in confronting the Nazis, but instead, a picture is painted of a woman behaving irrationally, a standard sexist stereotype.

I can understand why Fischer was offended that Aimee appropriated Jaguar's Jewish background after the war. I think some of Aimee's attitude might have come from the role of German women in the time that she lived: she would have expected to take on some of the attributes and beliefs of her "husband." Plus, she was disgusted at the system that had robbed her of her lover. And her action can also be looked at in a positive way: one of Aimee's sons became very interested in the Hebrew language, and ended up emigrating to Israel. Is that a bad thing? I thought it was strange that Fischer gave so little credit to Aimee for the risks she took to try and help Jaguar and a number of other Jews. It is true that Aimee was not always on "the good side", and Fischer did some hard work investigating her background. But shouldn't people who learn and change be given some respect?

Fischer closes the book with a description of her own husband's work, which will probably make every reader feel immensely guilty. Again, not something most historians would do, but it is another sign of Fischer's brave, though not always successful, attempts to get to the heart of humanity's struggle with its own dark side.

A great book!.......2005-11-20

It is a great book about a love affair during the war. I love how it tells about how the continued writing to eachother even when apart. This story will make you cry but is very beautiful in many ways.

Flawed real females makes compelling reading.......2005-09-24

I liked this book. Some of the pictures, I really wish I could blow up and have as prints in my room. The story gives a lot of insight into that era. The Amazon criticism is that the author really doesn't focus much on the lesbian aspect, instead focusing more on the era, the World War II Jewish persecution, etc. Given the setting and the individuals involved, this seems understandable. I really, really enjoyed this story. The problems and personality flaws of the women aren't glossed over either which is nice.

A facsinating book about that time.......2004-01-27

I am responding to previous reviews - I do not think this book is about romance, and I did not feel lack of personal "data".
This is an incredible documentry book that document a time (1943) and place (Berlin). Yes, it is about love story. More so, it is about the human tendency to except the current situation and ignore warning bells, the systematic Nazi optression etc.

Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943

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Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
Erica Fischer
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Erica Fischer
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