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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Leon", sorted by average review score:

The Janowska Road
Published in Hardcover by Halo Pr (February, 1999)
Author: Leon Weliczker Wells
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It is available.
This book is available through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

I thought I knew a lot about the Holocaust, but the heinous scenes reported in this true account of someone who survived, escaped and beat death many times over, have brought a new clarity to the evil that was carried out, not only by Hitler and the SS, but by everyone who sat by and did nothing, or worse, turned their neighbor, friend, or relative over to the Nazis. Almost anything that I could say, "well-written, compelling, a must-read" ring hollow and trite in view of what Wells and his fellow Jews suffered, and the story he tells. Yet, I do feel that this book is a must-read, for we must never allow this to happen again. It's amazing to me that it did, that it could. But we must never underestimate man's capacity for evil, or for apathy--this book is a lesson and a guide for all of us.


Japanese Rage: Japanese Business and Its Assault on the West
Published in Hardcover by Four Walls Eight Windows (June, 1992)
Author: Leon Anderson
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Japanese Rage
This book is a response to Shintaro Ishihara, a government minister in Japan, who wrote "The Japan That Can Say No." It is a cogent appraisal of the predatory nature of Japanese trade practices. However, it doesn't stop there. Mr. Anderson also details the failures and short-sightedness of American business planning and trade policies. A worthwhile read!


Jean-Leon Gerome
Published in Hardcover by Art Books Intl Ltd (01 May, 2000)
Author: Gerald Ackerman
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Stunning
Two of my favoirte paintings in the Minneapolis Art Institute have always been the Rug Market and Young Greeks at the Mosque by Jerome. I have since seen other works in a similar style by other artists working in the Middle East and have become quite enamoured of the intensity of their works. Jerome's Middle East works have the vividness and in-your-face-reality of artists of our own American Southwest, like Reynolds and Remington. The character of the native people, the earthy reality of their lives, the heat and diffuse light of their environment are dipicted masterfully in "Arabs Crossing the Desert". What I found most informative in reading the volume, however, was the incredible variety of subjects, settings and styles chosen by the artist. Because of my own interest in the Middle East, his work there was familiar to me--I have postcard copies of some of his paintings of various buildings in Cairo--but his other work was less so. His animal studies, like "Lioness and her Cubs," and "Thirst" (depicting a male lion drinking the last of a dwindling source of water in a vast desert), and "Tiger and Cubs" are amazing in their detail. The more classical work "Pygmalion and Galatea" with its almost Vermeer like light, and "Venus Rising" a study much like that of Boticceli though derivative have their own unique spirit. The fierce ocean scene "Vision of the Captive of St Helena" has an intensity, a sense that one has happened into a drama just as it is occuring. Quintescentially representative of this awareness of the moment is my favorite of his works, "Duel After the Ball," depicting the death of Harlequin in a snowy mist shouded wood. Certainly a brilliant if not necessarily well known artist. This is probably one of my favorite art books.


John Diamond
Published in Hardcover by Farrar Straus & Giroux (April, 2001)
Author: Leon Garfield
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John Diamond is 100% carrot
This is a exciting tail of a young boy named Willium hows father had told him a deep and dark secrate on his death bed. Willium runs away from home to set his fathers wrongs write. Once again a griping tail by Leon Garfeild. You will not be abel to put it down.


The Johns Hopkins Atlas of Human Functional Anatomy
Published in Paperback by Johns Hopkins Univ Pr (15 January, 1997)
Authors: Leon Schlossberg, George D. Zuidema, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Goerge D. Zuidema
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Excellent anatomical pictures!
This book is a very good book for a beginning medical student. I bought it as a reference book for my medical transcription work because of the color plates (I hope Amazon prints a sample of one of the colored pages so buyers can appreciate how good the book is; they did print a list of the color plates). The illustrations are very good and very detailed, showing exactly where everything is inside the human body. What's more, the illustrations are meticulously and completely labelled in detail! This is what made me buy the book. It helps me visualize where the anatomical part is positioned while transcribing, which gives me a good idea of what to expect when a physician dictates a particular procedure on that part. There are write-ups by doctors prior to each illustration, so you can refer back to it every so often to understand how things work and tie up together. A sample of pictures are: the complete illustration of the anatomical man, fetal circulation (with amazing close-up details of the placenta), the skeletal system, muscular system (with muscles, ligaments, fasciae, tendons, bursae), shoulder and hip joints, inguinal regions, hernias, development of blood cells, lymphatics, a really big picture of the anatomical ear, mechanics of vision, and a composite anatomy of the vascular system based upon arteriograms and venograms.

This is by no means a definitive anatomy book (it is only 166 pages). For advanced med students this is not recommended. But for those without a medical background but who work in the associated fields of the medical profession (nurses and transcriptionists among others), this is a good summary-of-the-anatomy book.


Juan Ponce De Leon and the Spanish Discovery of Puerto Rico and Florida
Published in Hardcover by McDonald & Woodward Pub Co (July, 2000)
Author: Robert Henderson Fuson
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Great Book!!! A+++++++++
I had a history report on Ponce de Leon and this book covered every question and topic I had. The content is very detailed, but too complex for children under 11.


Kurgans on the Left Bank of the Ilek Excavations at Pokrovka 1990-1992: Excavations at Pokrovka, 1990-1992
Published in Paperback by Zinat Press (April, 1995)
Authors: Jeannine Davis-Kimball, Leon Yablonsky, L. T. Iablonskii, and V. A. Demkin
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Excavations at Pokrovka (Russia)
The excavation report covers the 1990 survey of cemetries in two different sites (Pokrovka and Troitsk), and provides maps of the kurgan cemeteries located in the southern Urals, south of Orenburg, Russia, and adjacent to the Kazakhstan border. In 1991, one kurgan with three burials was excavated; in1992 season, six kurgans with 48 burials. Data and drawings for each mound plus burial data including age, sex, associated artifacts, and cultural dating based upon typological comparison of materials. Line drawings and plates illustrate kurgans, burials, and artifacts.


La Bruja de Afkah o la Tercera Diosa
Published in Paperback by Plaza Y Janes Mexico (July, 2002)
Author: Leon R. Zahar
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Forecasting the future, feminine power
Political and religious fiction. In the year 2017 a full scale confrontation occurs among four fundamentalist leaders: an American president, the Pope, a Muslim leader and an Israeli Rabi. This novel seems to foretell the political and religious future of the world. An optimistic note at the end: feminine power emerges victorious. Book is in Spanish.
The author is an expert in Middle East affairs and historian. Wrote also Arquitectura imaginaria: el Palacio Azul (Artes de México, 1999).


The law on obligations and contracts
Published in Unknown Binding by Published & distributed by Rex Book Store ()
Author: Hector S. De Leon
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obligations and contracts
this is all about the regulation rules and specific obligations and contracts in the philippine law


Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence of the Modern Governor (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, V. 243)
Published in Hardcover by Amer Philosophical Society (September, 2001)
Author: Richard A. Hogarty
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Superbly researched & ably written
Leon Abbett's New Jersey: The Emergence Of The Modern Governor is an involving and informative biography of Leon Abbett, a Democrat who dutifully served the state of New Jersey as its governor during the late nineteenth century. Coping with the rifts spawned from the Civil War, strikes, heated political debates, and so much more, Governor Abbett left a mixed legacy for his state with repercussions lasting down to the modern times. Black-and-white photographs enrich this superbly researched, ably written, and very highly recommended study of a crucial phase in New Jersey state history.


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