My Three Years in the Marine Corps

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Through diary entries, letters home and personal remembrances, the author describes his adventures as a Marine Raider in the South Pacific during World War II.

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Lee's Review.......2004-02-03

This is a reaaly good read. A love story told during WWII. About a Marine that misses the family, friends and girl he left behind at a time in history that belongs to the greatest generation. A time when family values and morals acually meant something. The battles in the South Pacific with the Japanesse that where fought by the Marines and the Navy must be recognized as just important as the war in Europe and Germany. The Marine Raiders of WWII are the begining of what the Green Beret, Navy Seals, and Special Forces are today. Most people do not know that the Marines were on their way to invade Japan when the war ended. Thus turning an attack into the Occupation of Japan.

Very Good Reading.......2004-01-21

This was a wonderful depiction of the War and the time the author spent in the Marines and his love for his beloved Helen. I couldn't put the book down and read practically the entire book in one night. Very education to me also.

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Herman Mark was internationally known for his research on the synthesis, structure, characterization, reactions, and properties of natural and synthetic polymers. In this volume he describes not only his research contributions, but also his World War I adventures (he was the highest decorated Austrian officer, with fourteen medals for bravery), the nature of his survival and escape from the Nazis to the United States via Canada, and his various contributions to the Allied effort during World War II. The volume is rich with photographs covering Mark's nearly 100 years!

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Thats where you may want to start

Nice book for beginners

Coffee Table Homeopathy with Bite

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Complete Guide to Homeopathy: The Principles and Practice of Treatment
DK Publishing , Nicola Geddes M.D. , and Andrew Lockie M.D.
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A comprehensive range of self-help remedies.

Authoritative and accessible, this fully revised and updated consumer's guide to homeopathy explains all about how homeopathy works-and the best way to make it work for you. Complete Guide to Homeopathy reveals the key principles of homeopathy, including the system of categorizing people by "constitutional" types according to their physical and emotional traits. Other useful features include personal assessment, remedy profiles, and self-help guidelines. A carefully structured self-assessment questionnaire is based on what a homeopath would ask at a first consultation. It provides a unique insight into the link between health and personality, and helps you determine the constitutional type you resemble most. Based on the most advanced research, a photographic index profiles 150 remedies, with details of the historical background, medicinal uses, and corresponding constitutional type of each. Easy-to-use Practical Ailment Charts advise which remedies to take for everyday health problems, such as insomnia, anxiety, eczema, and toothache. It also features a quick-reference guide to homeopathic first aid. Accessible and information-packed, the Complete Guide to Homeopathy is the essential reference for improving health through this gentle approach to healing.

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Thats where you may want to start.......2007-03-08

This book is very useful. It provides a good view of the basic principles of homeopathy, homeopathic typologies and applications of homeopathy.
It helps you understand why your physician prescribes a treatment.
Pleasant and interesting to read. The quality of printing and the pictures make the reading even more agreeable.

Nice book for beginners.......2007-01-06

I bought this book after a few futile efforts at understanding homeopathy from a Materia Medica. This is a nice illustrated book for beginners(it may be good for folks experienced in homeopathy, but I wouldn't know). It covers the history, fundamentals and the major and minor remedies in a clear and concise manner. It helped me understand the basics and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn about homepathy.

Coffee Table Homeopathy with Bite.......2006-12-06

At first sight homeopathy appears to be absurd: it talks about a vital force; of like curing like and super-dilute remedies containing not one molecule of the original substance. All of these are enough to strain anyone's credulity. The trouble is that there is a small amount of empirical research indicating that it may actually work, as well as two centuries of clinical experience indicating that it is a good deal more than a placebo.

This is a very nice book: beautifully produced and with a surprising amount of detail. Many of the better known remedies are discussed and there are helpful photographs illustrating the physical appearance most often associated with particular medicines.

This is clearly intended to be an introduction to what can be a vast field of study. There are literally thousands of books on homeopathy and it takes years to master the topic. But it is possible to learn the basics from this book and to begin to use a few of the more common remedies. The other point is that the book will give you a very good idea of the kinds of questions asked by a homeopath. That in itself is valuable: people are often perturbed to be asked about the precise time of day when their symptoms occur, their favorite colors and whether they like or dislike certain foods.

If you have any interest in holistic heath care in general and homeopathy in particular this terrific place to start. The book is handsome, and though not comprehensive, it gives you enough to see if this therapy seems right for you.

Highly recommended.

"Self care'.......2006-08-22

A very informative book on one of the many forms of alternative health care medicine where you are in charge of your own health.

beautiful, accurate and detailed.......2004-03-27

I am a physician who has very recently developed an interest in homeopathy, after my 15-year long migraine responded dramatically to homeopathic treatment. I have been looking for a book that will help me understand this wonderful and exceedingly intricate art and science. Dr. Lockie's book is by far the best for someone who is not a homeopathic practitioner, but does want accurate and detailed information on the subject. This book has helped me understand homeopathic philosophy. I have been able to accurately identify constitutional remedies for friends and family using this book. I have also made good use of the section on common complaints and remedies for acute prescribing. The layout, color photographs and pictures are breathtakingly beautiful. I have bought multiple copies for friends and family. This book will prove to be a welcome addition to anyone's library - be they practitioners, beginners or novices to the art!

The Complete Guide to Homeopathy the Principles & Practices of Treatment

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The Complete Guide to Homeopathy the Principles & Practices of Treatment
Dr. Andrew Lockie , and Dr. Nicola Geddes
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Natural Health Complete Guide to Homeopathy: The Principles and Practice of Treatment

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Natural Health Complete Guide to Homeopathy: The Principles and Practice of Treatment
Andrew Lockie
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The Complete Guide to Homeopathy: The principles and practice of treatment with a comprehensive range of self-help remedies for common Ailments

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The Complete Guide to Homeopathy: The principles and practice of treatment with a comprehensive range of self-help remedies for common Ailments
Dr. Andrew & Geddes, Dr. Nicola Lockie
Manufacturer: RD Press
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Too brief instructions, best to refresh Austrian cooks.......2006-05-07

The "Best Austrian Cuisine" is not the best text for newcomers to Austrian cuisine to cook with.

It has the briefest instructions on most recipes that I've seen in a good while. While this is fine for one accustomed to cooking Austrian cooking, it is not helpful to others new to the cuisine.

One problem is that it doesn't tell the reader when one cooking step is completed, as it's easy to greatly undercook or overcook with these brief instructions.

For example, there are 6 sauerkraut recipes, however each starts with "put the sauerkraut in water" or another says "melt the butter and brown the sugar in it. Add the sauerkraut.." Yikes, nowhere does it tell how to make the sauerkraut.."Obviously" any (Austrian) cook should know that!

For cheese soup, it says to "fry the flour lightly in the fat." Most writers would give an endpoint, such as "till light yellow", or golden brown or till some distinct change, and perhaps tell what may happen when it's been fried too long...not ging to find such assistance in this book.

For making dumplings, "roast white bread or rolls in about one ounce of fat. Mix the eggs with the milk and and pour over dumplings and leave for half an hour" Roast how long? Roast until what desired change happens? How exactly does one "roast" in this cuisine, anyhow?

This is a "reminder" type of a cookbook aimed at experienced Austrian cooks, and of little use to a newcomer to Austrian cuisine. A shame. It also lacks photographs, so best of luck trying to make an authentic presentation, if you are a newcomer to the cuisine.

Thus, it is clear, as the jacket says, that this was "originally published in Austria", for Austrians, and is ill suited to those not well acquainted with the techniques of proper Austrian cooking.

But it's pretty good.......2005-01-19

Some photos would have been nice, but then I'm sure the book would have cost much much more, and the price is one nice thing about it. I also didn't have any of the problems of the first reviewer- it was all clear in my edition. I found some Austrian wines to go with the dishes at www.winemonger.com and had a great party!

Could be the best book of its kind.......2004-10-06

Hmmm... My copy of this book doesn't have the problems mentioned below, but then it's a 2001 reprinting and is perhaps corrected.

In the late 1990s I rented a room in Vienna from an 80-year woman who cooked for me every Saturday. Since then, I've longed to replicate the delicious, savory, and often quite filling meals that we ate together. I've read dozens of Austrian cookbooks, and this is the best by far. Most others are either hopelessly out of date, written for non-American audiences (like Gretel Beer's famous but useless volume), or concentrate on what I'd call "restaurant food"--special, elaborate, time-consuming dishes that don't exemplify what a typical home-cooked Austrian meal is like. This book takes Austrian "Hausmannskost"--everyday food, the sort of thing you'd eat for Tuesday dinner--and translates it to the American kitchen. The recipes are perhaps a little vague here and there and assume previous experience in the kitchen, but the author's point usually is clear. And is it ever authentic; the kohlrabi recipe on pg. 79 is *exactly* my landlady's, and it's delicious.

The book includes chapters on meat dishes, 'Mehlspeisen,' organ meats (beloved in Austria if not in the US), fish, poultry, sauces, starches, vegetables (more varied than one might expect), and then of course the full range of desserts and "Süßigkeiten." The range is encyclopedic and varied. Special sections include menu planning, a description of Austrian wines, and a chapter on munchies for that afternoon 'Jause.'

A gourmet book this is not; if you want splash and glam, it will disappoint. But if, like me, you long to recover how your old Austrian host made cabbage taste so yummy, this book is the answer. Through it, you can recreate an Austrian kitchen in your home, which is a very nice thought!

Poorly edited.......1999-10-03

Although the list of recipes is varied, the actual recipes are poorly written, inaccurate in measurements, and confusing. Many sentences are cut-off and end abruptly. The book badly needs an editor who actually reads the contents of the work.

The Best of Viennese Cuisine, or The Home Book of Austrian Cookery

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The Best of Viennese Cuisine, or The Home Book of Austrian Cookery
Elisabeth Mayer-Browne
Manufacturer: Rand McNally
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000GPS4QQ

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If you liked Sound of Music..........2007-01-31

First Edition, also published under the name The Home Book of Austrian Cookery in the UK. Author specializes in this regional cooking. Great deal, recommended. 256 pages.

Recipe titles only are listed in both English and Austrian in the back, with suggestions for "everyday menus", and the "menu card of an Austrian restaurant"! Some of the inviting recipes: carp in aspic jelly, apricot foam, Austrian ravioli, semolina pudding, beef treated like venison (spare a deer), beef with pancakes, cottage cheese gateau (cake!), fried cheese noodles, and lots more. Covers are simple grey with nice turquoise lettering on the spine.

Imperial Austrian Cuisine The Best Recipes from the Austro-Hungarian Royal Kitchen

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Imperial Austrian Cuisine The Best Recipes from the Austro-Hungarian Royal Kitchen
Renate Wagner-Wittula
Manufacturer: Gorenjski Tisk
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Donna Kooler's Crocheted Afghans
Donna Kooler
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With more than 40 fabulous afghan patterns from master designer Donna Kooler, crocheters will grab their needles and stitch to their hearts' content. These incredible blankets come in a range of styles and colors, from sweet baby blues to bright hot pinks. Some are filled with country charm, others feature festive designs, still more are sophisticated, warm and cozy, and just right for masculine comfort. There's one for a wedding present, plus soft and gentle afghans to cuddle a child, a cool cotton throw to keep away the chill, a "take and make" design that's easily portable, and many more.

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This book enables the novice to understand the "whys" and "hows" of electrophoresis and to initiate and complete an electrophoretic investigation from beginning laboratory organization to publishing results.

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From preschool piggy banks to saving for college

Cash Cow Kids

Change your family's financial future.

Cents and Common Sense

Cute, but lacking.

CashCow Kids: The Guide to Financial Freedom At Any Age
Jordan Lisa
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The ultimate guide for parents to inspire them to help kids find the path to financial freedom. Through real-life examples and humorous tales, parents will discover innovative ways to give kids a sound financial foundation. From preschool through the college years, CashCow Kids is filled with practical ideas that actually work. This is an essential resource book for every parent.

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From preschool piggy banks to saving for college.......2003-09-12

Cashcow Kids: The Guide To Financial Freedom At Any Age! by Lisa Jordan and Sheri Provost is a straightforward and helpful guide for parents wanting to teach their children how to earn money, then save it judiciously, spend it wisely, and treat their personal finances responsibly. From preschool piggy banks, to saving for college and charitable giving, CashCow Kids covers the all of the financial management basics in a highly accessible and enjoyable manner suited for children of all ages and economic backgrounds. Very highly recommended reading and offering crucially important financial life lessons for parents and young folks everywhere, CashCow Kids is packed with tips, tricks, and techniques from cover to cover and will prove to be an invaluable guide to helping children to learn how their dreams can be translated into real-life experiences resulting in a lifetime of financial freedom, opportunity, and accomplishment.

Cash Cow Kids.......2003-07-31

I heard your book featured on the Dr. Laura radio show as the book of the week. I respect her opinion enough to purchase what she recommends as good reading, especially when it comes to what benefits children. I love it! Practical advice and encouraging stories (not to mention cute illustrations/graphics) make this good reading for any parent wanting to be inspired to help thier children get ahead in life.
Thank you!

Change your family's financial future........2003-07-30

This book is a must-read for every parent. It is amazingly easy to read - a surprise since I expected another book full of financial theory with no practical advice. Not this book - the authors have filled this creative book with practical information and tips to help parents educate kids about handling money.
Yet, to me the book's highlights are the real-life success stories in almost every chapter. I have read many of them to my kids and have found them helpful and inspiring to us all.

Cents and Common Sense.......2003-07-28

Tickling your funny bone, satisfying your hunger for interesting and historical information and just plain old making sense out of a perplexing subject matter, Ms. Jordan and Ms. Provost have put their finger on the pulse of what common everyday folks need to remember - actively and consciously involving their children at all stages of their growth, in the economy of the times. It's a complex subject and task, yet this readable and accessible text makes it comprehensible and enjoyable. Once I started reading, I wanted to finish it without interruption. I don't have that luxury usually but this is one of the rare occasions where I could. Having reread it now a couple of times, I was able to incorporate many of the ideas into my daily routine with my children. This is what a great guidebook is all about.

Cute, but lacking........2003-07-24

I'm the perfect candidate for this book. I was never taught by my parents anything substantial about finance or economics, yet I want to teach my kids how to correctly handling of money. I bought "Cashcow Kids" to help fill in the any points I might be missing, I am disappointed in the purchase.

Jordan & Provost keep a nice, light manner throughout the book. There are interesting and inspirational anecdotal stories. The authors stress the importance of communicating with your kids about money; how to earn it, spend it, save it and donate it.

Unfortunately, this is where the financial education begins and ends; only in generalities. Yes, there are cute ideas kid jobs but those are probably jobs you did as a kid or have your kids doing already! Nothing new here.

Example 1: Allowances: "We are not here to tell you what you should do about the allowance issue. You must decide what is right for your situation." WHAT!? Well, how do I decide? Alas, there's no information in this book to help. (My kids aren't given an allowance; they earn money by doing such things as chores, doing well in school and demonstrating good character.)

Example 2: Savings: "The concept of saving is important for kids to learn at a young age. Many adults are late savings bloomers and know firsthand how hard it is to change old habits one they are established for thirty or forty years. There are many great habits kids can learn at a young age. The habit of consistently saving is one of them." OK, how much should a kid consistently save? There's no answer in this book. Only, kids should save. (The answer is 10%-15%, now I gave you the type of concrete information that's lacking in this book!)

The authors favor financial gurus as Robert G. Allen, Dolf de Roos, and Robert Kiyosaki. I find these authors lacking in good financial advice. I view them as salesmen for their seminars and studies.

Instead of this book, read "The Millionaire Next Door" and "Richest Man in Babylon." These two offer real-world, practical advice on finances. Both books can be easily applied to educate your kids in the world of money.

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People identify with the spaces they helped to determine, and naturally appropriate them. As a producer of such anarchic work, it is perhaps surprising to discover that Hubner has also long been at the forefront of CAD, but this is a natural development of systematization, for if computers can calculate all the variants and regularities, we need no longer conform to Ford's production line. Hubner uses three-dimensional programs which connect design directly with production. His work also responds to Green concerns, not only through the use of recycled and low-energy materials and in avoiding toxicity, but also in passive energy collection. All these issues are explored in the book.

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That a Jew living in Nazi Berlin survived the Holocaust at all is surprising. That he was a homosexual and a teenage leader in the resistance and yet survived is amazing. But that he endured the ongoing horror with an open heart, with love and without vitriol, and has written about it so beautifully is truly miraculous. This is Gad Beck’s story.

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could have been better, but still a basically interesting story .......2007-08-12

Here's the story: gay Jew (really a half-Jew under Nazi racial law) survives Holocaust in Berlin, despite spending lots of time risking his life by helping ferry other Jews to safety in Switzerland. I didn't find this book as enthralling as I had hoped; either the writing style or the translation left something to be desired. In particular, the last half of the book read like a laundry list of lovers and rescued friends. (Unlike another reviewer, I actually liked the pre-Holocaust half of the book better).

Having said that, I still learned something from this book; I got a real sense of the differences between "full Jews" and persons of mixed blood. Full Jews typically got deported to concentration camps, no ifs, ands or buts. But if the experience of Beck and his family is any guide, half-Jews stood a pretty good chance of survival if they kept their noses clean. Because Beck's mother was born Christian (though she converted to Judaism) his parents were never deported (despite numerous close calls), and Beck got in trouble with the Gestapo only because of his rescue activities.

Another interesting fact: throughout the book, Beck mentions various hunchbacks he ran into. What is it about early 20th-century Germany that produced so many hunchbacks?

Triumph of Will.......2007-05-02

Beck, Gad. "An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Germany, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999.

Triumph of Will

Amos Lassen and Literary Pride

We all have a great deal of trouble understanding the Holocaust and what it did to so many people. We have been slowly getting the stories of the Nazi persecution if gays and if one was both gay and Jewish, he had real troubles. Gad Beck was a man like that but he survived and was able to tell his story as he does so eloquently in "An Underground Life". Even though his book begins slowly, it picks up pace quickly and as you read your mouth falls open to see stories about man's inhumanity to man. When the Nazis began their reign of terror he was living underground and was sought by the Gestapo. Beck was an organizer and helped many who lived illegally by finding them shelter and food as well as providing a listening ear and support in any way that he could. The fact that he was gay was secondary to the fact that he was Jewish.
In this memoir Beck brings to life both the cruelty to the Jews but the cruelty to the gays as well. This is a shocking and horrifying account as he writes about a gay man's coming of age in Nazi Germany. It is an erotic tale but also shows how love should be considered. This was probably the first time in the modern age that the gay spirit managed to triumph over intolerance and bigotry--even against the greatest crime ever against humanity.
The fact that Beck survived in itself is miraculous but even more amazing is that he was able to write about what he endured. When Robert Plant published "The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War against Homosexuals" in 1986, the door was opened to a new aspect of the Holocaust. Several personal accounts followed, but few have been published that talk about the Nazi treatment of gays ad I imagine that this is because so few survived and those that did could not think about what they had endured. This makes this book that much more valuable.
Beck's own story is unique in that he was born of a mixed marriage in 1923 to a Jewish father and a Christian mother thereby not Jewish according to strict Orthodox law. Nonetheless, the Nazis did not care--if he had a drop of Jewish blood, as far as they were concerned, he was Jewish. As the Nazi party rose to power and began their housing relocation plan, forced labor and transport to death camps, Beck organized a resistance movement to hide others and to smuggle food and drugs to them, He even once wore a Nazi uniform to rescue a doomed gay man from the camps. He does not in any way disguise his sexuality and he gives details of his own sexual liaisons. He gives us an amazing picture of the horror of Nazi rule. He was one of the fortunate gay men whom his parents loved and accepted his sexuality and was very lucky that the Christian side of his family felt the same. In 1933, when Hitler came to power, he was forced to attend a Jewish school to reinforce his identity and to be visible to the ruling party and he immersed himself in Judaism and embraced the idea of the Zionist movement. He also embraced a great many men and he hides nothing about his sex life (except for actual sexual descriptions) as well as writes openly about his secret political activities. He rose in power in the Zionist movement and became a central character in working to establish a Jewish homeland. He survived the Nazis by living illegally in Berlin. Because of that he was able to write this wonderful memoir.
This is a book that holds you from the beginning to the end, so much so that you want a sequel. He embraced his gayness at the same time that he embraced his Jewish--at a time when it meant death to be either. There are stories of betrayals and back stabbings and secret meetings and the memoir reads like a combination thriller/spy novel. That he survived s incredible and even more incredible is that he endured all that he did.

Breathtaking.......2005-05-31

Here is a memoire of life in Berlin during the Nazi regime from the perspective of a gay Jew. Gad Beck was an organizer and friend to many who lived illegally during that period, finding shelter and food and providing friendship and support. That he was openly gay was not important during that period - there were more important thiongs to worry about.

I found this book at the bookstore of National Haulocost Museum in Washington DC on a recent visit. It fits in perfectly with that museum, in that it fleshes out the life in hiding. If you have an interest in the struggle for human rights and length to which people will go to survive, this is an excellent read.

One fact that is underemphasized in the book is Beck's youth during this period. By the end of the war he was in his younger 20s. Yet he had accomplished so much and had the strength of one much older. Bravo!

It captured me the first few pages.......2002-08-14

Gad Beck brought to life not only the cruelty to the jews but also the cruelty of the gay and lesbian people of the Nazi Era. I had to do a research paper for a Holocaust in Literature class I took my junior year in high school...and I was entralled the whole time I read this book. It shocked me, it horrified me...and I loved it.

A Triumph of the Gay Spirit.......2000-05-19

Beck gives us a glimpse of a gay man's coming of age in Nazi Berlin. It is not only erotic but holds up a light by which all aspects of love should be measured. Once again, the Gay Spirit has triumphed over bigotry, intolerance, and in this case even the holocaust.

An Underground Life; The Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

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Gad with Frank Heibert BECK
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An Underground Life; Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin

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