Philippines Business Intelligence Report (World Business Intelligence Report Library)

Philippines Business Intelligence Report (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
Average customer rating:
Philippines Business Intelligence Report (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739725521

Book Description

This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

Book Description

Colorado's mountain landscape is home to several of nature's own "hot tubs"-idyllic geologic wonders people have treasured and enjoyed for centuries. This all new, up-to-date guide profiles more than 30 hot springs, providing descriptions, contact information, directions, maps, photographs, and historical notes.

Customer Reviews:

Best yet!.......2006-11-28

I've bought several hot springs books and this is the best yet! I do agree with the reviewer who said that most of what she says leans towards "over exuberant"; such as we might not rate say Hot Sulpher Springs as "one of Colorado's lovliest destination spas", the history and education is worth buying the book alone! Her separation into area of the state and the map in front locating each spring is very helpful! I would recommend buying this book!

Colorado's Hot Springs.......2006-11-10

This book was very useful on a recent trip to Colorado. The descriptions are accurate. It is also very helpful to have the clothing required/optional/none as part of the descriptions. The directions for reaching each of the hot springs is accurate and helpful.

Over Exuberance.......2002-12-05

Deborah George has written a fairly comprehensive guidebook detailing most of the hot springs of Colorado. She gives in-depth history of the springs and interesting facts. _Colorado hot springs_ Entries should be approached with care; George has fallen into a guidebook trap of only saying good things in her book. From her glowing descriptions of each spring, it is very hard to separate the great springs from the mediocre ones. The few negative things she has to say are vastly outweighed by the positive thus making the entries far from unbiased. Of course, everyone has favorites and is keen to embellish a bit, but every spring in Colorado is George's favorite.
George's book also lacks reliable directions and locations. While this isn't usually a problem for developed hot springs, the undeveloped springs have proved a bit harder to find. The entry for Penny Springs has quite good directions up until the last moment, advising Hot Springers to watch for a "well used turnout [with] a very small `C.R. 11' sign." Locating the `well used' turnout proved to be quite a challenge requiring three laps up and down the road and another guide book. Upon closer inspection, the C.R 11 sign appears to no longer exist. This type of experience is typical of George's directions.
Deborah George provides history, folklore and some interesting facts concerning Colorado's hot springs, but don't rely on her opinion of what is good because to her they're all great.

Average customer rating:

Colorado Hot Springs Guide
Rick Cahill
Manufacturer: Pruett Publishing Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Guidebooks | Reference & Tips | Travel | Subjects | Books

North America | Travel | Subjects | Books

Look Inside Travel Books | Trip | Specialty Stores | Books
ASIN: 0871086492

Great Hot Springs of the West: Arizona California Colorado Montana Idaho Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington Wyoming

Average customer rating:

Just what we need. RVs at wilderness hot springs
Horribly Outdated Information
Interesting especially for RVers who like hot tubbing
basic guide to commercial springs

Great Hot Springs of the West: Arizona California Colorado Montana Idaho Nevada New Mexico Oregon Utah Washington Wyoming
Bill Kaysing , and Ruth Kaysing
Manufacturer: Capra Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Travel | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

Touring Arizona Hot Springs
Touring California and Nevada Hot Springs, 2nd (Touring Guides)
Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Southwest: Jayson Loam's Original Guide
Hot Springs & Hot Pools of the Northwest: Jayson Loam's Original Guide
Hot Spring and Hot Pools of the Southwest: Jayson Loam's Original Guide

ASIN: 0884963829

Customer Reviews:

Just what we need. RVs at wilderness hot springs.......2001-08-09

The only useful thing about this writer's books on hot springs are the USGS maps and the latitude/longitudes. I bought a book of his nearly 20 years ago and was thoroughly dissatisfied, & was incensed when it seemed to me he was more interested in providing info for the land yacht crowd. I wonder if his book alleging that the lunar landings were hoaxes is any better. I doubt it. He probably denies the Holocaust took place, too. If you want a book on hot springs, check out Jayson Loam's books. They are much better. If you want info on faked lunar landings, get the movie "Capricorn One."

Horribly Outdated Information.......2001-04-06

This book does a great public disservice. The information in the book has not been updated in years and is terribly outdated. Quite a bit of the information is absolutely wrong. Send the publisher a message - don't buy the book until they update it. Save your money, there are much better, current books out there such as "Hot Springs and Hot Pools of the Southwest" & Northwest - which are updated ever two years

Interesting especially for RVers who like hot tubbing.......1999-05-19

We have tried one hot spring listing and enjoyed our hot soak, found one shut down, one remodeling and one a bit too pricey for us. Would like to see some reference to actual costs rather than than reasonable or free or deluxe. One place inacessible without 4 wheel drive but we will keep trying, the maps are good.

basic guide to commercial springs.......1999-04-14

depending on what your looking for you may not want this guide. it has a fairly well established list to many commercial hot springs, but little else. If your looking for hot springs where you can hook up your RV then this guide may work for you. If on the other hand your looking for real, natural hot springs off the beaten path, then this guide is worthless.

Principles of Cost Accounting: Student Study Guide
Average customer rating:
Principles of Cost Accounting: Student Study Guide
Edward J. Vanderbeck
Manufacturer: Thomson South-Western
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Financial | Accounting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0538873434

Book Description

Part One Of Two Parts

It is hard to imagine anything new about Churchill. But in this life of the young lion, William Manchester brings us fresh encounters and anecdotes. Alive with examples of Churchill's early powers, THE LAST LION entertains and instructs.

"Manchester is not only master of detail, but also of `the big picture.'...I daresay most Americans reading THE LAST LION will relish it immensely." (National Review)

Customer Reviews:

VERY GOOD!.......2007-09-27

This is a very good analysis of Churchill, a thorough and colorfull portrait of a man I consider to be the greatest man of the 20th century. I have only two complaints, first I would have liked to have known more about his life with his wife and children. I also would have liked to have known what he thought of the Lusitania sinking. Not only does Manchester say nothing about Churchill's role in this business but the word Lusitania is not mentioned at all in nearly 2000 pages. Very strange. The letters of Churchill point out the chivalrousness and romantic nature that the public has not seen. All in all - very good and well worth a good read.

What a great writer, writing about an even better man!.......2007-05-18

William Manchester is a tremendous writer. A man like Churchill deserved to have his biography writted by a writer as gifted as him.
I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting, not only to learn much about the great man Churchill, but also to have their mind expanded and stretched by excellent literature like this. There are not many people writing like this today, sadly enough.
This is not an easy read, in fact most people will do well to have a dictionary near by - but it is worth it. Drink deeply and you will learn so much more than you would have thought possible about the world from the late 19th century up through WWII.
Drink it up! 6 stars.

As Good as Biography Gets.......2005-11-08

This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, that Churchill was a Victorian who also lived in the twentieth century, is brilliantly made. Churchill himself is presented in all his perplexing, influriating splendor: an impetuous, charming, ambitious genius who all too often jumped out of the plane without a parachute. If you wish to know why he was rejected by the British people at the polls just after his greatest triumph (and job done) this fascinating volume of his early triumphs and memorable failures is indispensible (answer: they needed his boistrous energy in war but they didn't trust him in peace

Best Churchill biography.......2005-03-15

Best biography of the person who really should have been the " greatest person of the 20th century". He, more than anyone else, stood alone against Nazism, which, no matter how you feel about the present state of Western civilization, kept it from being completely unrecognizable today. He pushed Roosevelt into joining Britain against the Nazis, and was willing to push Britain to keep on fighting alone, down to the last person ; at suicidal odds for many months. He had vision, and was fearless. And, prior to WW2, his exploits in the Boer War and in WW1 make his entire life fascinating. The fact that he was very "aristocratic" in his background has probably made his image diminish in our time. That sort of reverse discrimination is very unfair, I feel. He was also witty, not the least bit warm and cuddly (!) and a pretty good painter.

Understand the most Remarkable Man of the 20th Century.......2004-01-14

This is an excellent book on the first half of the life of a truly exceptional man. Mr Manchester's book deals with Winston's early life and his rise to power and fame. I particularly liked the vignettes about life at the turn of the century; the social situation, the class struggle, the morals of the upper and the working classes.

Just reading it makes you feel somehow inadequate against the intellectual brilliance, courage and sheer energy of the subject.

It would have merited a full five star rating but for two faults. It should have been shorter. It as if every single little titbit of information had to be written out in full, rather than filtered through the critical intellect that Mr Manchester undoubtedly possesses. Instead, he quotes too many letters, reports and speeches in full when his job as a biographer was to summarise them.

The second fault was Mr Manchester's tendency to lionise his subject. Brilliant he may have been, but a bit more acknowledgement of Winston's faults would have made him more human and reachable.

But this is nitpicking. Overall the book is a good read on a subject well worth reading about.

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
Average customer rating:
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932
William Manchester
Manufacturer: Laurel Leaf
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NY1I1S

Winston Churchill: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932: The Last Lion
Average customer rating:
Winston Churchill: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory 1874-1932: The Last Lion
William Manchester
Manufacturer: Time Warner Books UK
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Churchill, Winston | U.K. Prime Ministers | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Churchill, Winston | ( C ) | People, A-Z | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
General | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0349104956

THE LAST LION - WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL - VISIONS OF GLORY 1874 - 1932
Average customer rating:
THE LAST LION - WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL - VISIONS OF GLORY 1874 - 1932
William Manchester
Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000RATVN0

The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
Average customer rating:
The Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
William Manchester
Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MYD3VC

THE LAST LION, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL - 2 volumes - VISIONS OF GLORY 1874-1932 and ALONE 1932-1940
Average customer rating:
THE LAST LION, WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL - 2 volumes - VISIONS OF GLORY 1874-1932 and ALONE 1932-1940
William Manchester
Manufacturer: Dell Trade paperback edition
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LYABCW

Escape from China : The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom
Average customer rating:

Better translation than original

Escape From China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom

A Gripping Story of Bravery and Determination Beyond Belief

telling truth or not

Cat-and-mouse game between government and dissident

Escape from China : The Long Journey From Tiananmen to Freedom
Zhang Boli
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Political | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Religious | Leaders & Notable People | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
Activism | Politics | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Similar Items:

The Tiananmen Papers

Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen Square (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)

Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants

The Search for Modern China

Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China

ASIN: 0743431618

Amazon.com

When the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations became a bloody massacre, Zhang Boli, a prominent student leader, was placed on China's most wanted list. Of the 21 listed, he is the only one to elude authorities. Escape from China is Zhang's first-person account of his perilous two-year flight from his pursuers, a flight that eventually brought him to America. Fleeing from a regime that had "lost rationality and humanity", he went north--crossing into Russia for a while--relying not only on the kindness of friends, relatives, and strangers, but also on his own ingenuity. He spent months living rough in the harsh, wild, Russian-Chinese border region east of Mongolia. Zhang's narrative is blunt, precise, and commendably modest. Especially compelling are the conversations he had during his odyssey. Much of their power derives from Zhang's rendering--unblinking, no matter how gruff and vulgar. Escape from China is at once an indictment of authoritarianism and a gripping story of hardship, bravery, and determination. --H. O'Billovich

Book Description

Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders, including Zhang Boli. After two years as a fugitive, Zhang -- the only leader to elude capture -- knew that he must bid his beloved country, as well as his wife and baby daughter, farewell. Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where peasants rescued him, and through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had only his extraordinary will to propel him toward freedom. As told in Escape from China -- a work of great historical resonance -- his story will renew your faith in the human spirit.

Customer Reviews:

Better translation than original.......2006-03-08

Just a simple response to Mrs. G's review. Firstly, I wanted to ask Mrs. G, Could you read Chinese to decide whether the English version is good or bad? I found the translation a lot better than the original Chinese version. That is, the original Chinese is even more vulgar in many contexts, and I appreciated the translator's job, with some British taste indeed. A translator can only do so much to improve on a text that was not brilliantly written to begin with. If the translator's English is not refined enough, then it should be the editor's job to edit and revise it. Since you think the English version is exciting, what flaws is there that made you blame the translator? Indeed, I am glad that the translator has beautifully REwritten some content in a way that is acceptable to the American readers, and that shows that the translator is actually a good English writer and also well learned in Chinese studies. Maybe it does not occur to Mrs. G that even a pastor can be biased. It's regrettable if Mr. Zhang, who has apparently converted many Chinese, still cannot acknowledge the translator's efforts and achievement.

Escape From China: The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom.......2005-08-20

This book provides a great view into the life of Zhang Boli, the Chinese culture, and the powerful hand of a sovereign God. Yes, the book contained explicit language; however, after visiting with Pastor Zhang Boli, I came to understand that the translating was done by a foreign writer who used lude American language. Pastor Boli, with his very limited English, was not able to read the final production so was unable to even identify the kind of language used in his story's English version. This is an exciting story that is even more awe-inspiring when one realizes that Zhang Boli is still alive and well, pointing many Chinese to Christ in America as well as abroad.

A Gripping Story of Bravery and Determination Beyond Belief.......2004-09-21

First, a short response to the review "telling truth or not" by "a reader". Shortly after the June 4th massacre the Chinese government broadcasted on television a video (apparently taken by the secret police) mockingly claiming that "while the 'poor worms' were on hunger strike, the leading 'turmoil elements' were eating in local restaurants using the donations intended for the movement." Almost immediately after the broadcast a university student in Hong Kong (a student of Chinese Universtiy of HK, if I remember correctly), whose face also appeared on the video, came out and clarifed that the dinner took place AFTER the hunger struck (the hunger strike ended at 10:00p.m. May 16). He was a representative of the universtiy students from HK, and he invited the leaders for dinner and he paid the bill -- no money was used from donations. When the video was replayed in slow motion, one could see what they were eating and would appreciate that it was indeed a very, very simple meal.

One may find that the way the officers conduct their business and the way the commoners response are somewhat beyond believe. I know that the author is genuinely telling the truth, for I was detained in China twice, once for a month and once for 3 days.

I have read the original Chinese version of the book and also some background material about the author. Within three months after he arrived at US he was diagnosed to have final stage liver cancer. The auther immediately started writing his memoir in the hospital bed hoping that he would leave something valuable for his daughter Little Snow. Miraculously his cancer was gone when he finished writing his book!

telling truth or not.......2003-05-21

I was a strong supporter of the Tiananmen movement for freedom and democracy, and those leaders were once a time my heros and heroines. But now I began to question the truth of their statements. They were not respectable as they claimed, and they did something actually not decent during the movement. When the others were on hunger strike, some of them were eating in local restaurants using the donations from those poor students, which were intended to fund the movement. What they have done later in the US is also disappointing. During my years in Beijing University, I secretly contacted some classmates of the former leaders, who I believe are honest people. They gave a totally different description of the deeds of those former heros. The Communists did kill the students, but the roles of these leaders in this movement should be studied more carefully before I believe them. I highly respect those died at the Square for the freedom and democracy of China, but those leaders are not my heroes any more, and began to question their doings in the horrible summer of 1989.

Cat-and-mouse game between government and dissident.......2003-04-29

Escape from China is a memoir of a Tienanmen demonstration student leader's 2-year harrowing dodge and escape from Communist China. The original Chinese edition postponed its publication until 1998 (almost 10 years after the massacre) for fear of the government's purge of those who helped Zhang Boli flee the country. Zhang Boli, 26 years of age in 1989, was a graduate student of the Writers' Class in Beijing University, the most prestigious institution of the country. Along with Chai Ling, Wuer Kaixi, Li Lu and other university students, Zhang organized a pro-democracy campaign that sent some one hundred thousand students from all over the country to Tienanmen Square in Beijing. The demonstration and hunger strike, the largest and the most overt of its kind since the 1976 April Fifth Campaign, resonated throughout the country and won support from workers and Beijing civilians.

The road to Tienanmen originated from the death of Hu Yaobang on April 15. The national mourning of the former secretary lent it a premonition to a horrible historical event that will be seared into memory of Chinese people. Zhang, in taut manner and rabid details, chronicled the events that led to what the Western world claimed to be the darkest and bloodiest day of modern China-June 4,1989, when the Communist Party ordered troops to pull into Beijing and enforced martial law. From the evening of June 3 to dawn June 4, blood splashed all over the capital and mingled with smoke wafting from vehicles ablaze. Party Secretary Zhao Ziying was forced out of office for his open support for the student demonstrators. While the National People's Congress opposed sending troops into the capital, the Party seized to disperse the students and end the movement by all means. The students and civilians simply underestimated the Army's brutality and were blinded by their naivete.

Nobody who has not lived through (and witnessed) the massacre can imagine the terrible burdens imposed on ordinary citizens who live under a totalitarian regime. For two years, Zhang lived the life of a fugitive-he was among the 21 most wanted insurgents who would most likely to be sentenced to death. An executive member of the Preparatory Committee in Beijing University, the editor-in-chief of the News Herald, the deputy commander of hunger strikes, and the President of the Tienanmen Democracy University (a term that refers to the new regime resulted upon the fall of Communist Power, in which people from all over the country can enjoy freedom of speech and rights), Zhang Boli bore the most severe accusations from the Communist Party and was deemed an immediate threat to national security. Zhang fled to Soviet Union and was brought back to the China. He hid in huts along the river banks in Heilongjiang (the northernmost province of China) with the help of friends, distant family relatives and policemen who disapproved of the Party, Zhang settled down as a farmer and lived under a fake identity. His little daughter and his wife Li Yan became his only solace during the struggles. He was determined to live on, to survive as a strong man, struggling against suffering and the Communist dictatorship that had ruined so many lives. When Zhang finally secured a connection in Hong Kong that will help him flee the country, he met his fate that was not only cruel but also excruciating and unexpected.

This book is by far the most gripping account of the Tienanmen massacre in 1989. It contains first-hand information from one of the 21 brave souls who stood up and challenged the Communist Party. While many of his dissident comrades were arrested and imprisoned (some were executed), Zhang managed to seek political asylum from the United States and reunited with his daughter Little Snow 10 years after he left the country. Was not for his account of the tragic events, many will not see the true faces of the Communist Party which ruled over 1.6 billion people in a totalitarian dictatorship. Was not for the souls lost in bloodshed, Chinese people will never see the vileness and the deceit of the leaders. Nothing published so far manages to achieve the same caliber as this memoir has conveyed the excruciating pain of a common civilian under such dictatorship. 4.0 stars.

Book Description

John J. Weinzweig (b. 1913) has been considered the dean of Canadian music for over thirty years.

John Weinzweig and His Music: The Radical Romantic of Canada.: An article from: Notes

Average customer rating:

John Weinzweig and His Music: The Radical Romantic of Canada.: An article from: Notes
Brian Cherney
Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Online Books | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books

General | Science | Subjects | Books

Science & Technology | Subjects | e-Docs | Formats | Books

Book Description

This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1392 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: John Weinzweig and His Music: The Radical Romantic of Canada.
Author: Brian Cherney
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1995
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v52 Issue: n2 Page: p496(3)

Article Type: Book Review

Distributed by Thomson Gale

Book Description

A half-Jewish girl grows up in Berlin, Germany during World War II. Separated from her father, who manages to escape to the U.S through Holland, she and her mother live with her grandparents. She is neither hidden nor not hidden, but manages to live in the in-between shielded by the protection of the Berliners who know her roots but keep quiet. Written from a child's point of view, this book takes the reader through the bombings and endfights to the author's successful life in the U.S. with many excursions to the Berlin zoo, to her family life, and the life of the spirit and the imagination that helped her survive.

Customer Reviews:

Does not Deliver.......2000-10-14

The author spends a lot of time talking about mundane things. If you are looking for a feel of Berlin during the war you will not get it here. I realize that these are the memories of a child, but the author is now an adult; I found it shameful that she had no bettter insight on why her jewish father had to leave Germany. The book seems to jump around in a random fashion with little information on what was happening in Germany, and too much information on her petty and selfish childhood thoughts.

A Must Read for All Ages.......2000-04-28

This brave and spirited Berlin child takes us through her years in that war-torn country. While living with her Aryan mother and grandparents, her Jewish father having fled with his life to America, she describes a gripping tale of survival, rich in historical detail. This is also a poignant story of the girl's family as well as her own coming of age. The author has obviously integrated her life , her psyche and times , and we, the readers, learn a great deal about the whole gamut of human experience from innocence and wounding to survival and healing. The words are painted on the page with bold, powerful strokes of honesty and emotion, colored in with soft hues of feminine similes and metaphors, sprinkled delightfully with her own astonishingly beautiful poetry, and etched golden with her deep reservoir of hope and spirituality. It has taken Eva Leveton 62 years to write this book, and we all bow to her strength, spiritedness, and talent.

A Holocaust story without hatred.......2000-04-27

Eva's Berlin is the story of a young, half-Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Germany during World War II. Eva's Jewish father escaped to the United States, while she and her mother had to remain in Berlin. She is always in danger of being found out. She suffers the shortages of war. Her life is endangered by Allied air raids. Yet she remains a child, tending her little garden and visiting the zoo. Eva's ability to make the best of a frightening situation is the most touching aspect of her account. She emerged from the war as someone who, despite many terrible hardships, managed to avoid feeling hatred toward anyone.

inside the whirlwind.......2000-04-27

Little Eva evokes in us childhood memories of things we don't fully comprehend, but experience at a gut level. We're inside the whirlwind with her getting through each day, trying to live in the child's world, which is constantly being interrupted by the adult world and adult goings on. We see through her eyes, almost as pure experience, without judgment or rancor. Ms. Leveton recounts the Berlin of her childhood with a humanity and a love that overcomes our suspicion of the Germans. These are people who are trying to find their way in a world beyond their control, much as we are. Eva takes us where few of us have stepped, and I feel very enriched by having had the opportunity to share this journey with her.

Mike Spring

A must read!.......2000-04-27

The world has discovered a brilliant new writer through the voice of this young girl living in Berlin during World War II. It is a compelling memoir, and the readers of all ages will have a hard time putting it down! This brave and spirited Berlin child, born in 1934, takes us through her years in that war-torn country. While living with her Aryan mother and grandparents, her Jewish father having fled with his life to America, she describes a gripping tale of survival, rich in historical detail. This is also a poignant story of the girl's family as well as her own coming of age. The author has obviously integrated her life, her psyche and times, and we, the readers, learn a great deal about the whole gamut of human experience from innocence and wounding to survival and healing. The words are painted on the page with bold, powerful strokes of honesty and emotion, colored in with soft hues of feminine similes and metaphors, sprinkled delightfully with her own astonishingly beautiful poetry, and etched golden with her deep reservoir of hope and spirituality. It has taken Eva Leveton 62 years to write this book, and we all bow to her strength, spiritedness, and talent. --Nancy Spring

Average customer rating:

Memories of a Berlin Childhood
Marianne Buchwalter
Manufacturer: Premiere Editions International
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

General | Historical | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Jewish | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Memoirs | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

Shrinking Circle: Memories of Nazi Berlin, 1933-39

Average customer rating:

Shrinking Circle: Memories of Nazi Berlin, 1933-39
Marion Freyer Wolff
Manufacturer: Urj Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Europe | History & Historical Fiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

Holocaust | History & Historical Fiction | Children's Books | Subjects | Books

Holocaust | History & Historical Fiction | Teens | Subjects | Books

Jewish | Ethnic & National | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books

All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
ASIN: 0807404195

Books:

Books Index

Books Home

Recommended Books