The book arouses many points of view to be expressed to the researcher. Would it be possible to get her e-mail adress!

"Mama and her two young daughters, Szerena and Gisella, never thought they would be without Papa for five long years. Ever since he left their small farm in Czechoslovakia for America. they have been waiting for him to send for them. In the meantime, with the help of family and neighbors, Mama and the girls work on the farm. Every day Szerena wishes for "a papa like everyone else," but Gisella can't remember their papa, and wishes he had not gone away without them. Finally the big day arrives and Mama and the girls leave for America. What will it be like to travel on a train, and a ship? And what will happen when at last they see Papa?" This is a brief synopsis of a wonderful book by Sydney Taylor, who is better known for her "All-of-a-Kind Family" series. "A Papa Like Everyone Else" seems to be almost a precursor to those books and focuses on "the old world" of Eastern Europe. Hungarian and Czechoslovakian traditions and customs are explored, along with daily Jewish life in a small farming community in the early part of the 20th century. I wish someone would put this and the rest of Sydney Taylor's books back into print!

Those interested in American political history and the founding of our constitutional government will find this book extremely helpful. Borden fills a unique niche in American history and the history of political parties by describing how American political parties developed in the early republic. While most knowledgeable people are aware that the founding fathers abhorred political parties as institutionalized factions that were destructive to democratic principles, Borden gracefully describes how the founding fathers nonetheless became drawn to parties as a means of gaining control. Indeed, without the founding of the Democratic-Republican Party the Alien and Sedition Acts may never have been repealed and our government may look very different. The impact of foreign policy (pro-British Federalists and pro-French Democratic-Republicans) is also discussed at length. A short read and a valuable resource, I recommend this book heartily.

This is history as it ought to be told: with exhaustive, detailed research, telling the known facts with a bright freshness and presenting fascinating new information and links, Hendrick Hooft has been able to credibly portray the enormous importance of the Dutch democratic movement. It is one of the ignored moments of history that nevertheless created our world: these young democrats, who preceded the French in pressing for a popular voice in government (and achieved it entirely bloodlessly), and were a source of intellectual inspiration for the American Founding Fathers. Hooft writes anecdotally, interspersing historical fact with lightfooted and elegant fiction. Truly a delightful read as well as being an important historical document. A definite recommendation.

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This book is very good, full of informations

Arno was a cartoonist for NEW YORKER magazine for his entire career which started in 1925 and only ended with his death in 1968. He came from a society family, and those he satirized in his cartoons were members of New York's social set. Family, so to speak.

Many of his cartoons seemed to be just simple line drawings. Looks, however, are often deceiving. He knew exactly what he wanted and he would often rework the same cartoon hundreds of times to achieve the exact effect he was looking for. He was known to work up to forty hours at a stretch in order to get just the right result.

His style was unique, and almost anyone who has seen even a few of his cartoons can identify his work on sight. His cartoons satirize the foibles of New York's upper crust, but never in a mean or cruel way. There's a touch of love and a touch of naivete in even his most risque cartoons.

PETER ARNO, after a short introduction lets the approximately 250 cartoons that comprise this book speak for themselves.

One cartoon really is worth a thousand words, so I won't try to describe individual cartoons here. In other words, in order to get the true impact out of these cartoons you've got to see them. If you're lucky enough to find a copy of PETER ARNO by Peter Arno, I'd recommend that you grab it up, sit back, and have a few good chuckles.

Peter Medawar was once asked by a Customs official when he landed in USA "Do you intend to overthrow the Constitution of the United States of America?". To which he replied that he did not intend to do so, and he hoped that he would not do so by accident.

This irreverent tone is apparent in several of the essays in this collection, notably in his review of Teilhard de Chardin's "The Phenomenon of Man" and Koestler's "The Act of Creation". He had a highly skeptical attitude to pretence of all kinds, and was not hesitant to speak out.

Medawar won a Nobel Prize for medicine and he took a broad view on science and its relation to society. Everyone with an interest in science, especially biological science, will find many items of interest in this collection.

One of the most substantial political sciense, geopilitical,and philosophical research in contemporary Ukraine. The book is a joint effort of Ukraine's independent intellectuals (Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY, Serhiy MAKEYEV, Oleksandr DERGACHOV) and leading scholars from the US (Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI, Sherman W. GARNETT, James E. MACE), Great Britain (Markian BILYNSKY), France (Georges MINK, Jean-Charles SZUREK), Canada (Anna MAKOLKIN), Germany (Aleksandr ZINOVIEV), and other countries.

The volume offered, as one of the first attempts at interdisciplinary research in this area, is but an attempt at achieving an intellectual breakthrough in the social sciences. It is an endeavor to find the theoretical linchpin, without which it would be impossible to discern the trends of political thought and critically examine the political realities and contradictions in postcommunism.

The most outstanding part is "The political philosophy of the postcommunist era" mainly by Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY. The author attempts to offer a new methodology for political philosophy of the postcommunist period.

As such it is an introduction to a new branch of scholarly inquiry, an attempt to analyze and understand the new world in which we live.

Politics in the Republic of Ireland is the most up-to-date and comprehensive text for both students and academics interested in Irish politics.

Now in its third edition, Gallagher and Coakley take the unusual step of adding substantially to their original text, bringing some of the most able commentators in the Irish field of political science together in the same volume.