Quilter's Computer Companion

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Excellent tutorials and overall advice.

An Excellent Resource for quilters

Outstanding Resource for Quilters

A must for all quilters who use computers!

A must buy, if you quilt and compute.

Quilter's Computer Companion
Judy Heim , and Gloria Hansen
Manufacturer: No Starch Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1886411158

Book Description

Creativity has no bounds when you know how to combine traditional quilting with modern technology. Whether you are just beginning with computers or a practiced old hand, The Quilter's Computer Companion will show you how to use your computer to design amazing quilts with ease, accuracy, and speed. Never before published techniques show you how to:

Use popular quilting and drawing software like Electric quilt, Quilt-Pro, CorelDraw, Canvas, SuperPaint, and others.
Employ special drawing tools (like slanting, stretching, mirror-imaging, and more) to transform ordinary blocks into extraordinary designs.
Experiment with different fabric combinations without sewing a stitch by using scans of actual fabric to fill quilt designs.
Incorporate photos, drawings, and other artwork into your designs to create stunning appliqu patterns.
Create stencils and negatives for fabric painting or sun and blueprinting-with a computer printer!
Calculate yardage, print templates, and paper piece patterns in minutes.
Formulate custom grids for fashioning unique designs.
Make perfect Bezier curves and use arcs to create hearts and tulips, roses and stars, and other free-flowing designs.

A 16-page, full-color quilt gallery showcases spectacular computer-designed quilts, and the "Quilter's Internet Yellow Pages" reveals where on the Internet to download free patterns, read free publications, get advice, view online quilt galleries, and more.

This is the book you've been waiting for. With The Quilter's Computer Companion in hand, your quilting will explode into the realm of the truly spectacular with a few clicks of the mouse!

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Excellent tutorials and overall advice........1998-09-05

I highly recommend this book to any quilter who has access to a computer. It's loaded with excellent tutorials, clear illustrations, helpful advice, tips, and gorgeous quilts. This book has kick-started my creative juices, and I find I'm referring to it over and over again. It's an amazing reference. Heim and Hansen are quite a team!

An Excellent Resource for quilters.......1998-01-01

As a beginner quilter and novice computer user, I found this book to be well worth sitting up late last night, eagerly devouring the wisdom that Heim and Hansen have compiled. Using simple, concise directions and "down to earth" discussion, they have covered all of the topics that formerly cowed me into believing that I should've lived 100 years ago! Now I'm eager to integrate my love of quilting with the new love of computers and the information superhighway! The yellow pages of web addresses are especially useful to someone located in the wilds of Northern Maine. Often, internet access is my only contact with the outside world! A simple comparision of the available software programs have helped me to narrow my search for the next acquisition - quilting software!

Outstanding Resource for Quilters.......1997-12-13

This is THE book to integrate the art of Quilting with the skill of the Computer. Judy and Gloria have brought the high tech words into the realm of the everyday person.

Hats OFF for a job Well Done. !!!

A must for all quilters who use computers!.......1997-11-26

Since I bought this book (just several days ago) I have learned more about my computer in general, quilting, drawing and paint programs, and what I want, what I need and where to find it all, oh yes, and how to use it all than in the 4 or so years I have had my computer. I highly recommend this book as a source for all quilters who own computers.

A must buy, if you quilt and compute........1997-11-09

I must commend Heim and Hansen for taking such a complex world as computers and reducing it to concepts the average quilter can easily understand and follow. It is also a nice feature that this book encompasses both the PC world and that of the Mac usuers. A goodly portion of the book is dedicated to walking the reader through the processes Gloria Hansen used to design her award winning quilts. This will inspire many who have been daunted by the process. The authors analyze many of the software programs available giving insight to their use in design as only seasoned quilters could. They also discuss so many aspects of printing, scanning and the internet with a wondeful section of Internet Yellow Pages chock full of exceptional web sights from quilters from traditional, through contemporary to art quilters.

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Supply chain management is a broader concept than logistics and extends beyond the company to all branches in the supply chain, including vendors, customers, carriers, facilitators, and channel intermediaries. An in-depth understanding of supply chain fundamentals is imperative to create real value for the customers. Bowon Kim’s Supply Chain Management examines the issues of effective SCM from the perspective of a dynamic organization, offering theoretical and empirical knowledge to effectively manage this interlocking series of transactions.

Key decision dimensions are analyzed to better appreciate and manage the interrelationships between the critical elements of any SCM strategy: configuration, connection, inventory, and logistics. Each element is reviewed to understand its dynamics and how it interacts with other factors to influence the overall performance of the supply chain. All linkages are scrutinized, from the optimum characteristics of supply chain coordination to innovative collaboration; the evolution of a supply chain strategy is charted through the course of this unique reference book.

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Rare and violent events through geological time are the theme of this readable and thought-provoking view of the Earth's history. The evidence for episodes and rare "catastrophic" happenings have been gleaned from the geological record in the author's travels all over the world. Such events are shown to dominate over the gradual and continuous processes that we see in the record of the history of the Earth. From hurricanes to episodic evolution, from colliding continents to asteroid impacts--the importance of these events are presented with many illustrations, both pictorial and anecdotal.

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A difficult book to classify or direct.......2006-09-16

MMMmmm, I'm not sure about this. I think I tend to agree with the other reviewers. It's an interesting book but difficult to peg. One might give it a different number depending upon on what aspect one focused.

The book is delightful if you look at it as the musings of a very active geologist/paleontologist on the 20th century as he experienced it and on his life and work. This is certainly what the book amounts to, really, an autobiographical summary of a life spent doing something the author loved to do and in which he had some considerable success. The book was written at the end of the author's life, an end which he was fully aware was approaching at the time. It's a very nostalgic composition and at times a little sad. As a geology book, it's informative but not necessarily as a formal textbook.

The novice might find the volume a little frustrating, since the author uses geological terms and theories that he does not really define well enough for the beginner to grasp simply from context. Furthermore, some of his referents are historical in nature, the terminology, as the author admits in the text, coming without apology from a pre-1950s, pre-plate tectonics milieu. One would almost have to have studied the history of the field to know some of these terms and to what they referred. As far as modern terminology goes, the beginner might like to read the book with a dictionary of geologic terms at his or her side. Without that, I suspect they will have difficulty making sense of what the author describes. The more advanced beginner should have less trouble with this aspect of the author's style.

Certainly any US reader who has knowledge of the field might find the book enlightening, since it takes a more global perspective on geological formations and on paleontology. US books on geology tend to concentrate on US formations and paleontological type specimen, because we are fortunate to have nice examples of many in the country. US geology itself really tended to take off with works like Powell's in the Grand Canyon and Cope and Marsh on fossil forms. However the world is a big place, and it has abundant examples of exotic terrain and life forms, most of it unfamiliar to the US reader. The book definitely puts geology into perspective in useful ways by assuming a broader stance.

For one thing, the author makes it much more apparent that a vertical core sample can be very misleading, from both the perspective of evolution and that of changing climate. Particularly in the former, the concept of extinction and when it can be said to have occurred can be distorted by looking at a single core sample from a specific region rather than at several taken world wide. This has become apparent as new data come from the scientific world of a more open China, where evidence of later survival or earlier appearance of plants and animals, let alone varieties of unknown life forms, have added to our knowledge base. This information has changed much of how the geological sciences view the past. From this perspective, the author is very experienced and has much to say on what he has learned. He has worked on almost every continent and been to many different countries, giving him a much broader view of earth history than those who remain within a specific venue. Because of the author's world wide experience, the book is valuable as a compendium of knowledge and interpretation; as such it is fortunate that he took the time to record it. Often what we know of geologic information is taken from a formal report in a journal, which by reason of economy if nothing else, is limited to objective information and tells us nothing about the musings of the authors, the actual tasks in collecting data or what might also have been said about it but printed.

Useful too is the fact that the author makes it apparent that geologists do not all agree on all aspects of geology or on all interpretations of a specific site. The author states when he disagrees with mainstream thought and why and presents data to support his position. He also makes it apparent that it's "okay" to think outside the box, which I think is important knowledge for a beginner to have.

Those with an interest in biographies of various contributors to the geological sciences might well find this a valuable book, as the author was active both before and after the tectonic revolution in geology in the 20th century. As such he is representative of those who went through the major paradigm shift that occurred at mid century. From a sociological perspective he probably provides insight into how individuals deal with that kind of massive about turn in their world concepts and adjust to the change.

A fun book to read, but a difficult one to classify or direct.

Refer to Ager's important, earlier works.......2001-12-30

Derek Ager long ago and famously analogized sedimentation to the life of a soldier with the phrase "long periods of boredom separated by short periods of terror." It was in his first book, "The Nature of the Stratigraphical Record," that he forcefully promulgated this view. I unfortunately must suggest that the interested reader refer to this original incarnation rather than Ager's 1993 book, "The New Catastrophism," in which the author attempts to extend the soldier's perspective to the entirety of Earth history and virtually all Earth processes.
Ager at the beginning warns the reader that the work is wide-ranging, drawing not only on his science (geology) but also on works of literature and poetry where illustrative. Alas, it is the latter material and the abundant asides that largely recommend the book--for the science is somewhat lacking in a book clearly intended for earth-science initiates.
Because Ager ranges so widely, he cannot adequately cover the issues in a 200-page book. Even so, he comes across as inconsistent and sometimes conveys a lack of understanding of particular topics; the word "presumably" is used a couple of hundred times. He cites other work sparsely, making the book poor as reference. It is only infused with minimal historical context that could otherwise make it so rich.
"The New Catastrophism" is replete with interesting stories, asides, and literary digressions: Ager had a great store of life experience (he died while the book was being published). However, if you're interested in his important scientific contributions, I would suggest referring to his earlier work.

A good overview on sedimentology environments.......1998-04-03

Reading this book is real fun. Mr Ager is able to make modern sedimentology views easy to understand, not only to the professionals. I strongly recommend his book to anyone who is interested in earth sciences.

New Catastrophism,The: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History

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New Catastrophism,The: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History
Derek Ager
Manufacturer: Cambridge Univ Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P0KFLE

The New Catastrophism: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History.(Brief Article): An article from: American Scientist

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The New Catastrophism: The Importance of the Rare Event in Geological History.(Brief Article): An article from: American Scientist

Manufacturer: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
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The New Catastrophism : The Rare Event in Geological History

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The New Catastrophism : The Rare Event in Geological History
Derek Ager
Manufacturer: NY
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MUDH44

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Not the Prized Ham!

Pirates!!!!

Childish and brilliant

The Pirates! In an Adventure with a Review

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab: A novel
Gideon Defoe
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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ASIN: 0375423850
Release Date: 2005-10-04

Book Description

They’re back!!! The Pirate Captain and his irascible crew of scoundrels return in their soggiest saga yet.

Fresh from their mishaps with Charles Darwin and the evil Bishop of Oxford, the Pirates set sail in a bouncy new vessel——purchased on credit. In order to repay his debts, the Pirate Captain is determined to capture the enigmatic White Whale, hunted by the notoriously moody Ahab, who has promised a reward.

Chaos ensues, featuring the lascivious Cutlass Liz, the world’s most dangerous mosquito, an excerpt from the Pirate Captain’s novel in progress (a bodice ripper, of course), whale ventriloquism, practical lessons in whale painting, a shanty-singing contest in a Las Vegas casino, and a dra-matic climax in which the Pirate Captain’s prize ham saves the day!

Move over, Herman Melville.

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book review by:matt kelly mod:1.......2007-04-25

The book "pirates and the adventures of ahab" is a book about a group of pirates and there captians name ia ahab and he is a real nut case.There boat is falling apart so the are tryen to get this new boat.The book manly talks about that one adventure.
My favorite part of this book was really funny.So, the pirates Ahab and some other salars were sitting down to eat.Then one of the salars was telling ahab how a whale bite made him get a fake leg.Then ahab starts talken about how he a a bug bite that lasted a while.I thlought it was funny because one guy talks about a missing leg and the other guy talks about a bump on his skin.
I would recomend this book to someone who would like a good laugh.It's a easy read for people who wait till the last minute.This book was recomended to me,I wilol recomend it to you.The book keeps you interested.THe book i s could and i give it 4 stars out of 5 stars. You will always want to know what ahab does next.All and all read this book.

Not the Prized Ham!.......2006-09-04

Very enjoyable book, light read with amusing footnotes (I'm still ltrying to figure out if all of them are real or not). I'm going to have to read the first one just to see what it is like, I was rather dissapointed to find out all the books in the back are fake.

The Pirate Captain is fantasticly whimsical, and I loved how he makes fun of Ahab.

Just a fun sort of almost Wodehousian read (though the one reader who compared it to Series of Unfortunate Events wasn't far off the mark--its that sort of mock seriousness which it is narrated with)

Pirates!!!!.......2006-08-04

I loved both this book and Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists. Gideon Defoe is probably my new favorite author and had he written the book to impress me, it probably would have worked. But then, I'm a sucker for pirates and hilarity. :) I can't wait for the next book in the series. Keep em coming Gideon!

Childish and brilliant.......2006-06-25

Gideon Defoe's novels are brilliant because they work so well upon a bad idea- cartoonish pirates. The novels themselves flow like a seven year old's creative writing- full of historical anachronisms, childish metaphors and characteristics- genius. A weird idea, but genius. The Pirate Captain (none of the pirates are named) is as likely to cut one's belly as he is to eat a bowl of cocoa puffes. (He does both). The implausibility and juvenile surrealism of the plots make Gideon Defoe's work addictive. The picture of the author is pretty sexy, too.

The Pirates! In an Adventure with a Review.......2006-05-10

Gideon DeFoe brings us a return trip with the Pirate Captain, the pirate with a scarf, the albino pirate, the pirate with gout, the pirate in red,... you get the point. Another fun filled romp with the Pirates who actually attempt some real pirating. We get run ins with Ahab, Black Bellamy, Cutlass Liz, and then sail to Las Vegas. There's even a Pirate-to-Cowboy translation list! Time means nothing here and the humorous references to things yet to come are ... well... humorous. It's madcap shenanigans once again and some extremely light-hearted reading, it'll take you about 2-3 hours to read it at 140-some pages. I just wish these books were longer. None-the-less, I'm truly enjoying these stories, just beware where you read them, sudden outbursts if read in public will draw attention to you.

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During the bloodiest days of World War I, no soldiers served more valiantly than the 369th Infantrythe fabled Harlem Hellfightersand the legendary lost battalion composed of New York City immigrants drawn from the 77th Division. At separate times during the war, both units found themselves cut off behind enemy lines, lost, in fierce battles that claimed the lives of more than half the men from each unit. As Richard Slotkin follows the Negro soldiers of the 369th and the Jewish, Italian, and other immigrants of the 77th into combat, he depicts an America where these soldiers were viewed as lesser citizens. Even after they demonstrated their loyalty and bravery, nothing changed. They had lived up to their side of the bargain, earning the right to first-class citizenship. But the America to which they returned chose to maintain and even extend the laws and patterns of social behavior that had stigmatized these men. Denied benefits, further armed forces employment, and basic respect, these heroes were treated with utter indifference. But the soldiers sacrifices were not entirely in vain. Their struggle to create consensus in favor of ethnic and racial pluralism would finally prevail, the first engagement in a fight for equal rights that would last half a century. Both a riveting combat narrative and a brilliant social history, Lost Battalions delivers a stinging reminder of how unattainable the ideals of America often were for those who fought hardest to preserve them.

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Good, but should have been shorter.......2007-08-29

Nicely done story of two WWI units of "minorities," or racial others, and how they served in the Great War. Slotkin is a good writer (although anyone who has been forced to read his earlier book, Regeneration through Violence, may be surprised.) Unfort., he does not seem to have been willing to leave out anything he found, and as a result he has come forth with a massive tome the size of which may scare off many readers.

A great work of social and military history.......2006-01-25

Richard Slotkin is the author of one of my favorite works of historical fiction "Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln" now he has produced one of the finest works of American history I've had the pleasure of reading with "Lost Battalions."
Slotkin tells the story of two U.S. battalions made famous in battle during World War I -- the African-American 369th Infantry and the 77th Division famed as a broad mixture of recent immigrant cultures.
But Slotkin's is more than just a tale of men in battle. This is look at American society in the early 20th century. Many will be shocked at the virulent racism that was as much a part of our popular culture as our political reality. It was in this context that African-Americans (patriotic to the core never mind their second tier place in society) along with Jews, Italians and other immigrants, sought to prove their mettle in the Armed Forces. With a war requiring so many soldiers, they would get their chance.
Along with them we meet some of the Teddy Roosevelt disciples, those young educated men of the privileged class whose belief in the vigorous life and pre war training led to their comprising a significant portion of the officer corps.
Slotkin provides the political backdrop to events as we meet such notables as TR, President Wilson, W.E.B. DuBois and others and how they shaped American response and entry into the war and the manner in which it was executed.
The battle portion of the story is appropriately gut wrenching featuring as it must the inevitable deaths and maiming that are a sad reality of warfare. At the heart of the book is the horrific battle in the Argonne that earned the 369th the nickname, Lost Battalion. The surrounded men of the battalion held of the Germans for days at a terrible and grisly loss of life. Their story forged the seminal American myth of the war and a true blue hero, the battalion's commander, Charles Whittlesey.
Slotkin also follows some of the soldiers upon their to return to America after the war. Most notable here are the sad stories of Whittlesey and the African American battle hero, Henry Johnson.
"Lost Battalions" is an important book in capturing a crucial time in American history and how it was emblamatic of the struggles for equality and justice that are so integral to American history.
Slotkin is an excellent writer providing mountains of information and thought-provoking insights at a brisk and readable pace.
My only possible quibble is the mysterious lack of photographs. Weighed against the impressive achievement that this fantastic book represents, that is indeed a minor detail.

I'll take the Reader's Digest Edition, Please!.......2005-12-14

This is the memorable true story of two unigue American Combat units, one all Black and the other made up of immigrants some thought were to dumb to deserve citizenship, and their extraordinary contributions to the war effort on The Western Front during WWI. In hard combat each battalion was caught behind enemy lines in the 1918 Allied offensive. After the war each of the units sterling record of service and sacrifice were again lost, this time in America. There's a great story here but its too often buried under a suffocating mountain of textbook prose.

Lost Battalions: the Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality

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Lost Battalions: the Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
Richard Slotkin
Manufacturer: Owl Books (NY)
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N766ZS

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The truth is never simple

A Welcome Respite From the Usual Anti-Polish Bias

detailed, unbiased analysis of complex subject

Deeply moving and personal look

Wonderful review of lost family and cultural history

Shtetl: The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews
Eva Hoffman
Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Relations between Jews and Poles were troubled even before World War II began, writes Eva Hoffman in this powerful memoir of life under Nazi occupation. Dealings between the groups were no easier with the arrival of a common enemy, who exploited longstanding anti-Semitism to destroy the inhabitants of both city and shtetl, the rural Eastern European small town that stood as "the site of the Jewish soul." This extraordinary account of cultures in conflict has led to much discussion--even controversy--in Europe. Hoffman's vigorously defended view of Poland's role in the Holocaust will doubtless generate debate elsewhere.

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An unforgettable evocation of the lost world of Polish Jewry, Shtetl is a "beautifully written" (Village Voice) mining of the deep rifts in Polish-Jewish relations in the small town of Bransk. With understanding and sensitivity, Shtetl limns the culture that influenced Christian villagers' decisions to conceal or betray Jewish neighbors when the Nazis invaded. A New York Times Notable Book.

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The truth is never simple.......2003-08-16

Shtetl is an excellent work of social history, although it is also a good outline of Polish history at the political level over the 8 centuries it covers. It is well written and an easy read.

The author has a clear agenda, which is to be more balanced in her treatment of Poles than Jewish writers have usuually been and to be more balanced in her treatment of Jews than Poles have been. The book digs deeply into the sources of Polish perceptions of Jews and vice versa. It gives a deep feel for what life was like in Jewish communities in Poland. The chapter on the period between World Wars I and II is particularly good for showing the political, cultural and economic vibrancy that had come even to the rural shtetls. It must be one of the most "objective" books written about the historical relationship between Jews and Poles. A sympathetic portrait of both peoples that celebrates their virtues and describes their shortcomings as perceived by the other.

A Welcome Respite From the Usual Anti-Polish Bias.......2001-08-30

In stark contrast to Marzynski's film Shtetl, and even more so Yaffa Eliach's book, There Was Once a World, Eva Hoffman has a remarkably balanced view of the relationships between Polish Jews and Polish gentiles. She candidly informs the reader how prejudices worked both ways. Polish gentiles might look at Jews as crafty, while Jews would often display a condenscending attitude towards Christians. She also discusses the tensions created by the fact that only some Jews saw their loyalty being to Poland, whereas other Jews shifted their loyalties to whatever foreign power was ruling over Poland at the time. Of course, the Russians, following a divide at emperia policy, encouraged polarization between Polish Jews and Polish gentiles by their policies. And this became worse during WWII. Hoffman acknowledges the fact that many Jews who collaborated with the Soviet Communists against the Poles, and the inevitable anti-Semitic backlash this created. However, Hoffman is careful to point out that, contrary to the impressions created by many Holocaust films, Poles did not (with rare and individual exceptions) participate in the German Nazi-sponsored murder of Jews. In fact, the roundups of Jews in the Bransk ghetto were performed by Lithuanian and Ukrainian collaborator police forces, not Poles. And, when it comes to individual instances where Poles did betray hiding Jews to the Germans, Hoffman is also fair enough to the reader to point out the unfortunate fact that Jews also searched for and betrayed other Jews. Finally, she addresses the accusation that the mainstream Polish underground (AK) murdered Jews who hid in the forests. She notes that there were various criminally-oriented bands which roamed the countryside, and it is these, and NOT the AK, which may have been responsible for the murder of fugitive Jews, who, owing to their obvious vulnerability, were a perfect target for such crimes. However, Hoffman is apparently unaware of the fact that, according to a Soviet document, there were also "phony AK" commandos sent inside German-occupied Poland by the Soviet Union. The job of these commandos was to commit various crimes against the civilian population (including Jews) and then to create the impression that the AK was responsible for them, all as part of an overall strategy to discredit anti-Communist forces in the eyes of the population. However, all in all, despite this shortcoming, Hoffman is remarkably objective in her treatment of Polish-Jewish relations. It is sad that her work is the exception, and not the rule, in this regard.

detailed, unbiased analysis of complex subject.......2000-10-02

I give this book 5 stars. The author has rejected myths, generalizations, and prejudiced thinking to give a fascinating history of Polish Christians and Polish Jews. She is careful to give the viewpoints of both groups, beginning in the Middle Ages and continuing to the present. When she quotes a source, she reminds us that this is that person's opinion, not necessarily a universal truth. She cites to references in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew. She does not condemn or defend either group, and realistically argues that neither was right or wrong; some people helped each other, some people harmed each other. She gives a detailed account of the history of Poland that is not widely available in this country. The author is both Polish and Jewish, and grew up in Poland. Her ability to abjectively at her subject is convincing and admirable.

Deeply moving and personal look.......1999-09-20

This book filled me with hope, despair, joy, sorrow and finally, at the end, a disquieting and lingering sadness. Though not always complete in itstelling of political events, I strongly recommend this to anyone interested in learning about his Polish Jewish past. A good first look.

Wonderful review of lost family and cultural history.......1998-12-13

Both my mother's parents came to the United States from Poland as children, sent alone on the boat with relatives' addresses in New York City pinned to their coats. Once here, they successfully assimilated, raised families, and bought homes. Family history and the effects of the holocaust erased the stories from the old country that could be handed down to future generations, including me. Ms. Hoffman's book recreates the socio-political history of Poland, and allows me to piece together various snippets of family history and attitudes and culture. I am sharing this with my family, as there were many "ah-ha's" of recognition for me in reading this work. While dry and more scholarly than I expected in some spots, this book was a gift to read. Thank you Ms. Hoffman.

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This new ADVANTAGE SERIES of C. L. Johnston, Alden T. Willis, and Jeanne Lazaris' ESSENTIAL ARITHMETIC is a traditional, straight-forward, extremely popular book which is noted for its one-step, one-concept-at-a-time approach. All major topics are divided into small sections, each with its own examples and often with its own exercises--an approach that helps students master each section before proceeding to the next one. As part of the ADVANTAGE SERIES, this version will offer all the quality content you've come to expect from Johnston, Willis, and Hughes sold to your students at a significantly lower price.

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Generally good, but has a few errors and bad sections........2000-01-05

It is like most math text books, meaning that everything in it is explained sounding harder than it is, but, as far as math books go, it's not bad. It has some mistakes and some really bad sections, bu all in all its pretty good. Not worth the price, though.

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