El Presidente Y Sus Amadas / The President and His Lovers (Dedo en la Llaga)

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Great story!.......2001-07-12

This is a simply told, fascinating story (and a very quick read). Masao Maki, a successful restauranteur, has tried many different alternative therapies and religious practices, and traveled around the world in search of himself. I can't forget his impressions of every place he described. For the reviewer who thought it lacked substance, for me there was no need for such a short book to go deeper, because (it seemed to me) he wrote this book to simply present the facts about certain places/gurus (exposing a major hoax in the process!) and it's probably appropriate for him to keep the rest to himself. I have great respect for him and for his journey, and for the people he met on his way.

sushi chef goes New Age.......2000-03-13

I enjoyed this book very much, but like eating Sushi, in a few hours, I was hungry for more. The author gave an honest, if not simple, account of his mystical experiences in India and Peru, not to mention his endless seekings of advice from astrologers, psychics, and the like. I appreciated the style of his writing, but I would have like to see more SUBSTANCE to the narrative.

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This new concept in financial training guides novices through the often complex and challenging world of derivatives. Full of definitions, concise descriptions, quizzes, and examples, it is primarily a study of financial instruments. Topics covered include futures, options, and swaps from the very basic to the applications in trading, hedging, and arbitrage. This book will be of particular interest to novice traders, investors, and trainers in financial institutions looking for a key introductory text.

Este libro constituye un nuevo concepto para el aprendizaje de los derivados. Para ello, parte de los conceptos más básicos y llega a las aplicaciones de futuros, opciones y swaps relacionadas con la contratación, cobertura de riesgos y arbitraje. Con el fin de que cada contenido quede más claro, se incluyen definiciones, cuestionarios, y ejemplos. Se trata de una obra de gran utilidad para los que desean comprender cómo funcionan los mercados de derivados (contratos a plazo, futuros, opciones swaps).

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BEWARE!!! MISSING 20 PAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wonderful, one of the best books out there

A good starting place

Tea Cup Collectors Joy!

Collectible Cups and Saucers: Identification and Values (Book 3, Collectible Cups and Saucers)
Jim Harran , and Susan Harran
Manufacturer: Collector Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Kovels' New Dictionary of Marks: Pottery and Porcelain 1850 to Present (Kovel's Dictionary of Marks)

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Dresden Porcelain Studios: Identification & Value Guide

Pictorial Guide to Pottery & Porcelain Marks

ASIN: 1574323520

Book Description

Book III in Jim Susan Harran's series is all-new, with no repeats from their first two books. Over 1,000 color photographs are included this time, and the book concentrates on cups and saucers that are readily available to collectors. An expanded section on cabinet cups and saucers is provided, and some of the categories from books I and II are again covered: late nineteenth and twentieth century European and American dinnerware, English bone china and earthenware cups and saucers, miniatures, and mustache cups. There are also two brand new categories in the book, Japanese cups and saucers and art glass cups and saucers made by the leading glass factories in Europe and the United States. A marks section, helpful appendix, and bibliography are once again included, as well as useful tips for dealers and collectors. AUTHORBIO: Jim and Susan Harran, antique dealers for 18 years, specialize in English and Continental porcelains and antique cups and saucers. They write feature articles for various antique publications and have a monthly column in AntiqueWeek, entitled "The World of Ceramics." Susan is also a member of the Antique Appraisal Association of American, Inc. REVIEW: This book is the third in a three-volume series by authors Jim Susan Harran, and is filled with hundreds of beautiful color photographs. A history of cups and saucers is also provided.

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Kay's viewpoint.......2006-08-23

The layoutis fantastic. A person is able to find and see the information they are looking for. Being in color is an absolute necessity. I have read thru the book several times. It is a valuable tool in collection. Thank you very much. Kay Brashers.

BEWARE!!! MISSING 20 PAGES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-08-28

Too bad someone didn't bother to edit this book - especially as it is a SECOND EDITION! It not only is missing 20 pgs (in the early 100s from what I recall - I sent book back and hope for a refund), it also had 20 duplicate pages! I can't believe NO ONE here who raved about this book noticed this! It's one thing to buy it and get pleaure looking at pictures of someone's pretty cups, but quite another when you are doing research and spending money on books! Checking for brands in the index and not finding a page listed is how I found this gross error! A lot of cups would have been covered on those 20 missing pages. The seller I purchased book from said "it was publishing error and not picked up on reprint" and had the nerve to ask ME to "let him know if I find one that was corrected" as he said all books are like this. Unless the seller is misrepresenting...I say "BOO" to the editors/publishers - no excuse on 2nd edition!)

Wonderful, one of the best books out there.......2002-03-12

This book is fantastic, beautiful pictures. A pleasure to just look through. Very happy with this purchase!!

A good starting place.......2001-10-05

This book is great for finding different cup and saucer types.
I would like to have had more information on pottery markings included in the book. Wish the authors had a web-site for questions.

Tea Cup Collectors Joy!.......2001-05-29

The first book I've purchased on tea cup collecting. The gorgeous photos alone taught me a great deal about the art and fun of collecting tea cups. I've enjoyed every page. When the world is so frustrating during the day I can't quite concentrate on reading weightier matters, I pick up this book and lose myself in the gracious and lovely world of tea cup collecting. A big thanks to the authors!

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1001 Beads: Create and Embellish Using Beading and Wirework Technique
Irene Lassus , and Marie-Anne Voituriez
Manufacturer: David & Charles Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0715317938

Book Description

Adding a touch of style to clothes, home decor or gifts for family and friends couldn't be easier. 1,001 Ways with Beads teaches readers how to decorate their own clothes with beads and sequins as well how to make trendy accessories and jewelry.

* Step-by-step techniques include beading with glue, string and embroidery, as well as how to work with different types of beads, threads, metal rods and clasps

* Beginners and experts alike will be inspired by the original designs

* Projects include personalizing scarves, gloves, necklaces and bracelets

Lists of materials required are provided for each of the 34 projects, along with detailed step-by-step illustrations and a rating of level of difficulty and cost. With many hints and tips dotted throughout, this book will provide endless inspiration for those with a flair for beadwork!

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A comprehensive and practical guide to the important areas of development-biological, physical, emotional, intellectual, social, psychological, and sexual-taking place during the early adolescent years and what concerned parents can do to help their ten-to-fifteen year old get through this time of drastic upheaval.

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Early Adolescence.......2007-07-18

I am a mother of an 11 year old and a student seeking a teaching license for middle school students. I found the information in this book very practical. There was researched information on different domains of development during early adolescence as well as practical tips to use in managing a classroom of 10-15 year-olds. I will use this book as a reference for home and school. I was disappointed, however, that the book was published in the 90's. I would like to see an updated version of this book.

common sense.......2000-12-17

I bought this book after accepting a position where I would be working with teenagers. I didn't read anything I didn't already know from common sense. Very general and remedial.

A must have for parents and teachers of adolescents.......2000-02-08

This is a great book for parents and teachers of adolescents.After 10 years working with troubled kids, I find it one of the best family and educator resources on behavior. It is easy to read, funny, informative. It's an excellent guide to what makes adolescents tick. Most importantly, it helps adults learn how to deal with adolescent behavior without losing their minds (as much.. ;)

Early Adolescence: Understanding the 10 to 15 Year Old by Caissy, Gail A.

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Early Adolescence: Understanding the 10 to 15 Year Old by Caissy, Gail A.
Gail A. Caissy
Manufacturer: Insight Books Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSXNB6

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DREARY BEYOND BELIEF.......2007-01-23

OKAY, I GAVE THIS BOOK 5 STARS, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS A GOOD BOOK, IT WAS NOT, BUT BECAUSE I REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO READ IT. I GREW UP WITH PEOPLE LIKE "SIS" CUNNINGHAM AND GORDON FRIESEN AND WAS MYSELF ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN MANY OF THE SAME MOVEMENTS DISCUSSED. I AM AN OLD MAN AND CAN LOOK BACK WITH SOME AMOUNT OF OBJECTIVITY. YES, WE HIT UPON CAUSES THAT WERE JUST AND MADE COMPLETE SENSE. WHO WOULDN'T TRY TO STOP LYNCHINGS, RACISM, CORRUPTION IN POLITICS AND CORRUPTION IN BIG BUSINESS AND THE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR, ESPECIALLY IN RURAL AREAS. AT THE SAME TIME THESE PEOPLE WERE IN EFFECT ORGANIZERS FOR THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND THEIR AVOWED PURPOSE, WHICH IS HISTORICAL FACT, WAS THE OVERTHROW OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND IN EFFECT THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. THEY WERE PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKERS, NOT PARTICULARLY INTELLIGENT,OR HISTORICALLY CENTERED, WHO REALLY CARED MORE ABOUT THE "MOVEMENT" OR "REVOLUTION" THAN THE PEOPLE THEY PURPORTED TO BE HELPING. THEIR ETHICS WERE AT BEST AMORAL AND LYING OR CRIMINAL ACTS TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR ENDS WERE TOTALLY JUSTIFIED. I WAS THERE, I KNOW. IT IS A DREARY, BORING, DEPRESSING ACCOUNT OF SOCIAL MALCONTENTS AND MISFITS WHO PROJECTED THEIR OWN MISERY ON THE ENTIRE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. IMAGINE THESE PEOPLE BEING IN CONTROL AND IMAGINE HOW MUCH FUN IT WOULD BE TO LIVE IN A SOVIET STYLE STATE. READ THE BOOK, IT WILL SCARE YOU, OR AT LEAST IT SHOULD.

Wasn't That a Time!.......2001-01-18

After 55 years of intense and rabid anti-communism, most people can be excused for accepting the old cliches about American Communists: dour, unfeeling and fanatical in their devotion to Moscow's orders. This joint autobiography of Agnes (Sis) Cunningham and Gordon Frieson shows us that, instead, Communists tended to be pretty much like all of us. Driven by a desire to create a better America and repelled by the "everything's for sale" attitude of the two main political parties, they labored through poverty, blacklisting, lynch mobs and government sabotage towards that better America. And they did it all with a song on their lips and in their hearts. An excellent book for those who want to know more about a period when only the very brave questioned the government and the system we live under.

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Eugene Pogany's father and uncle, identical twins, were born in Hungary of Jewish parents but raised by them as devout Catholic converts until World War II unraveled their family. Miklos, the author's father, was sent to Bergen-Belsen, a hell that led him to denounce Christian passivity in the face of the Holocaust and return to the Judaism of his birth. Gyorgy, a Catholic priest, was sheltered from the war in an Italian monastery by the renowned and saintly friar Padre Pio. Their mother, also interned as a Jew, walked into the Auschwitz gas chamber holding a crucifix to her breast.

In My Brother's Image eloquently portrays how the Holocaust destroyed these brothers' close childhood bond. Each believing the other a traitor to their family's faith, they remained estranged even after emigrating to America, where they lived and worked only miles from each other. Filled with extraordinary scenes such as Miklos's Passover celebration with fellow prisoners in the camp, this tragic memoir encapsulates the drama of a family torn apart by the historical rupture between Jews and Catholics--even as it trains a wider, impartial lens on its causes and on the history of Hungary's Jews.

Customer Reviews:

In My Brothers Image.......2006-02-22

This Book is for everybody to read, it is very interesting and powerful

In My Brother's Image.......2005-04-22

The book, In My Brother's Image, was a book that caught my attention and made me want to keep reading. This book showed this very well. You learn about Gyuri and Miklos', identical twin brothers, life before the war when they were best friends, during the war how religion had torn them apart and the events leading to it, and after how different they had become. Miklos' son Eugene wrote the book, not Gyuri or Miklos. He vicariously wrote it and he makes it seem as though he were right there. The accounts in this book are based upon his father, uncle, aunt, and printed documents from the time such as newspapers and books.
I, personally, am very into the Holocaust and what happened to families before, during, and after the war so if you are too I definitely think you should consider this book. If you like to see how people can change on a general level this is a good book. If you are like me, liking to learn about the Holocaust or history for that matter, this is an excellent book. Those on grade level 10, 11, and 12 (and on) will be able to understand book because of the language and words used. So once again read this book.

I've met the author!.......2005-01-05

I remember reading about this real-life story a number of years before this book was actually published; I still have the clipped article from the Boston Globe in one of my scrapbooks. Then, when I was a student at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Mr. Pogany came to our Hillel one Friday night and after services and dinner read from his book and spoke to us about the story behind it. Having met the author makes reading a book even better!

I've very interested in what befell Hungarian Jewry during WWII, possibly because it's so painful and haunting to realise that they were the last nation to be invaded by the Nazis, the final Jewish community in Europe still pretty much fully intact, but for the men who had been drafted into labour battalions or sent off to work camps several years earlier. It's an even more interesting and unique story because the family became Catholics shortly after WWI ended, and they were very devout, so much so that the author's uncle Gyuri eventually became a priest, and his father, Miklós, had seriously contemplated becoming one too. Because of a painful health condition, Gyuri got permission to recover his health in Italy, which was a stroke of luck, since he got out before things really began getting worse and worse, even before the arrival of the Nazis. Though the twins' mother was deported and murdered, the rest of the family did not live in the small town she did, and because they were in Budapest did not suffer the fate of the other Hungarian Jews in smaller towns and cities, who were packed into ghettos and then deported. The Budapest Ghetto wasn't erected until very late in the War, and when Miklós and his wife Muci (also a distant cousin of his) were finally deported, they were "only" taken to Bergen-Belsen as opposed to one of the death camps in Poland like the majority of their Hungarian co-religionists had been.

Because he was tucked away safely in Italy, a place which only lost about 19% of its prewar Jewish population, in the care of the holy mystic Padre Pio, Gyuri was not subject to anything like his twin brother and the rest of their family were. He could never understand why his beloved twin had lost faith in Catholicism and Christianity, how he could go back to Judaism, the religion they'd left as small boys and had never even really been very much of a part of in their early years before they all converted. Many people both then and now have made apologies for the collaboration, either active or through silent complicity, of ordinary citizens in allowing the Shoah to take place, much like Gyuri did, but Miklós and Muci had seen firsthand what had happened to them. Despite nearly thirty years of being a good Catholic, he was not protected from even the "good" labour brigade for converts. In the eyes of the Nazis and ordinary Hungarians, his family were still Jewish. The local parish priest arranged for their mother Gabriella to be taken from the ghetto to his church every day to hear Mass before she was deported, but he still didn't try to hide her or protect her from deportation. This book explores the complex relationship between not only the brothers who were separated by faith but also how the Church failed to protect its members, all members, and to speak out against what was going on, and how something of such a large scale could never have happened without the kind of hatred and collaboration from the common folk that the Poganies saw breaking through the surface after the Nazis and Hungarian fascists came to power.

Quick read, hits on many themes with us today........2004-03-17

I thought this was a good book and could not put it down. It explores the issues of assimilation among Budapest's Jews, conversion issues, Jewish and Catholic relations, Jesiwh security or lack thereof, Catholic complicity in the Holocaust and the Catholic church setting the stage for millenia that made the Holocaust possible. It also talks of family love and connectedness despite serious philosophical differences. We're discussing this in my book club and it should be very interesting.

A compelling book indeed.......2002-08-29

As the child of parents who came from the strictly Orthodox Jewish community of Hungary, and as one raised within that Orthodoxy, albeit transplanted to America, this book exposed me to a portion of Hungarian Jewish history I never really knew. This book speaks of the tragedy of so many Hungarian Jews. Jews who were totally estranged from their ancestral faith, who had no attachment to their heritage. For those people, Judaism was an undesirabe yoke to be cast aside or at best ignored. This book tells the reader however that one cannot truly escape his true identity. The true hero of the book, the author's father, discovers this in the hell of Bergen-Belsen. His uncle, the priest, spends the war in relative safety, but always in fear that he would be denounced. That uncle also has to contend with the very real possiblity that his Hungarian coreligionists "allowed" him to escape to Italy into the warm embrace of Padre Pio and the Capuchin monks not out of dedication to him in the spirit of Christian fellowship, but rather out of a desire to be rid of another Jew.
The emotions that pervade this book are powerful. The characters are real. The dialogue, while made up, displays the pathos of the characters and speaks to the reader's soul.
This book is about many things: religion, families and their dysfunctions, theodicy, Catholic-Jewish relations, and overding all of those, this book is about the complexity of life. Like all great works, the message of this book will be shaped by the reader and his/her weltanschaung.

IN MY BROTHER'S IMAGE : TWIN BROTHERS SEPARATED BY FAITH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

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IN MY BROTHER'S IMAGE : TWIN BROTHERS SEPARATED BY FAITH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
EUGENE POGANY
Manufacturer: PENGUIN
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KULN38

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IN MY BROTHER'S IMAGE: TWIN BROTHERS SEPARATED BY FAITH AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
EUGENE L. POGANY
Manufacturer: VIKING
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000X1CRUW

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In My Brother's Image: Twin Brothers Separated by Faith after the Holocaust
Eugene L. Pogany
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OJ45U8

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