As with all our Kratt's creatures books, this one makes learning about chimps fun! We like to refer to Chris and Martin as the "crazy Kratt brothers" in our family. The kids are having so much fun enjoying their antics that they don't realize the are hard at work learning!

The Kratt Brothers have such a way of explaining animals that you get hooked immediately. In this book, they are hanging out with 3 orphaned chimpanzees and they explain everything you ever wanted to know about being a chimp. The text is easy to read, and young readers should have no trouble reading it themselves. Even younger kids will love the pictures and the story/facts. It's a real winner, and one of the best wildlife books for children that I've seen !!

One thing I have learnt from reading j.k. is that my searching is in fact escaping.. from no depths and from no hights will we recieve nor discover anything that can make us free. we already are as free as we see ourselves fit to be. escaping and compensating with new points of wiews under the false pretence that you have "matured" over time is wonderfull however, because it keeps you occupied, and tucks away the creeping feeling that you're missing something. and the doubts and the fears, the urge to become and overcome,- it keeps sticking to you, so you start wanting it. that is our balance-act. take it too seriously and you'll feel more dead than alive.

i have read almost all the books of j.k.His writings helped me to question myself and explore the complexity within myself. i'm still going on reading his books repeatedly to get self-knowledge and deep insight.

This is an extremely funny book about the Exagerated Life of Martin Romana, a student in Paris, who happens to have the most hilarious experiences. Exquisitly written, can't put it down.

Martin de Romana. Sus ocurrencias, tristezas, alegrias, desiluciones, ilusiones y aventuras en Paris y Europa hacen de este libro un exito. Sus amores, sus suenos....Ines, Octavia....Mayo del 68... No se lo pierdan.

"Land Development Calculations" provides an excellent and innovative strategy for working towards sustainable land use and development. The models for varying land development strategies can assist local government land use decision makers and planners as well as developers determine the carrying capacity of land within realistic thresholds. The accompanying spreadsheets for the development scenarios on the CD-ROM are extremely user friendly and do not place an undue burden on the user by requiring what may be hard to find or to collect data. All of the data required just is typical of what is necessary to make appropriate land development decisions. As a local government planner, I am working towards incorporating the information received from the models in to the zoning and development code as part of the approval process by using it to further assess suitability of the property for the purposes proposed (a zoning consideration required in accordance with the State of Georgia Zoning Procedures Act). I strongly encourage other land planners and developers to read "Land Development Calculations," because of its highly practical and very timely material.

This is a terrificaly valuable technical reference for practitioners who need an efficient method of performing land development calulations. The book and its companion set of spreadsheets enable users to answer two key questions: 1) how much can be built on a given piece of land; or 2) how much land is needed to accommodate a given use? The material is clearly written and well illustrated, especially a series of worksheets leading through the method. Another strength is its comprehensiveness and detail, including all major land-use and micro site conditions.

...this is an extraordinary book in any number of ways, and ought to be widely read....it's a book that almost anyone could read profitably, even many times. It's complexity is quite astonishing, but it's not the sort of complexity that is off-putting. In fact, it is so well written, so well organized, that it's complexity is almost unnoticeable. Still, it is a confession as well as an indictment, autobiography as well as analysis, cooly restrained and deeply moving often in the same paragraph. It is objective while being prfoundly personal. It wears it's Jewish spectacles (a phrase from the book) very lightly indeed.... More often it is wryly funny. It is its own evidence of the degree of assimilation (and blindness to the terror that was being prepared for them) of educated Jews in Germany prior to the rise of Nazism. It further substantiates, from a different angle, Arendt's famous insights into Nazi behavior. It contains in its preface an extraordinary statement of love, which, once read, informs the entire book. It is heartbreaking without once being sentimental. Indeed, it is heartbreaking in part because it resists the sentimental....

A professor recommended this book by Victor Klemperer to me several years ago, before his 1933-45 Tagebücher were translated into English by Martin Chalmers. At the time, my apprentice German was not equal to the work in the original language, and I read it in its French translation, ably translated by Elisabeth Guillot. I have since reread it in German, and, on publication, read this English edition. As far as I can tell, Martin Brady has done a masterful job of rendering Klemperer's informal and easily parsed style into addictably readable English. Before his career in the academy, Klemperer was a journalist, and in all of his writing, this tone prevailed.

Klemperer wrote his "LTI: Notizbuch eines Philologen" in 1945 and 1946, mostly from notes he kept in the diaries that later became the wildly successful "Ich will zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten" (I Will Bear Witness). He carried on his work despite the danger, and with an impressive amount of conscious objectivity. The work is an excellent, if impressionistic, study of the modes of Nazi language and their development in popular speech and culture. I would emphasize the _impressionism_ that colors this work, because Klemperer was only able to study a limited amount of presently accessible material; most of his work is based on the editions of newspapers, leaflets, and books that fell into his hands in Dresden during the war. He was a Jew in the Third Reich, and banned from possessing books written by "Aryan" authors. As well, over the course of the war the restrictions on Jews listening to radios, reading newspapers, and even talking in public became too great for Klemperer to realize any truly comprehensive study.

I do not wish to seem like I am condemning the man with faint praise: Klemperer wrote the first postwar study of Nazi language and linked it directly with the operation of the regime. Subsequent researchers have borne out Klemperer's thesis: the euphemisms and barbarisms in the Nazi tongue exerted a considerable influence on popular culture and personal expression. It is not necessary to go back to the Forties to find this influence - it exists today in modern German. The contemporary quibbles over such words as "ausrotten" or "endlösung" mask the considerable reformation of German that occurred during the Third Reich.

Students of twentieth century history cannot ignore this book. It is a must read.

There is something addictive about this little book, filled with seemingly dull, commercial postcards from Germany. The heft and compact size of it make you want to pick it up again and again and dream about the modern Europe of the 60's and 70's. No words get in the way. The images are of autobahns, health spas, restaurants, apartment buildings...and the overall effect of seeing these tidy, newly built spaces--without people--is somehow poignant, hopeful, serene and surreal. Often, geometric shapes dominate a landscape or visual field, and the postcard becomes a reduced, abstract scene which may or may not have been photographed on earth. "Boring" postcards is strangely fascinating!

Yes, this is the best book I have ever read.

This is the only translation I have read of the Tao Te Ching. I have enjoyed Mr. Freke's writing style in his other books. He didn't disappoint me with this book. I felt he captured the essence of the Tao Te Ching. His rendering was down-to-earth so the modern general reader could comprehend the substance of the teachings.

the best translation i've read. Freke does well at conveying the uncapturable. "It feels wonderful." -Ram Dass

As a renowned heathen studying different faiths and spiritual quests, I have found this book to be unparalleled in logically laying out reasons for belief in God. Of course, it also lays out reasons for lack of belief in God, and that is perhaps it's greatest charm. I did not feel coerced to make a decision of agreement with the author, but rather I felt that logically, that course was the one to take. Thanks for opening my eyes.

This book is the most successful addition to the canon of modern apologetics, as well as the most easily accessible. I am a student at a Christian college, and I found this volume to be one of the most entertaining, thought-provoking and important texts that I have ever studied. Bravo to the author and thank you for reminding me time and again why it is that I call myself a Christian.

In a scenary of suffering and destruction, Léa Delmas, young and beautiful, discovers the cowardness and dangerness of collaborationship with the enemies between her family and friends. Some, however, prefered to fight, even if they'd had to put their friends in risk. That was the way chosen by Léa, who becomes engaged into the resistance in order to fight back the deutchs and to try to save people who she loves and her country. It's a wonderful book...you wont regreat

In a scenary os suffering and destruction, Léa Delmas, young and beaultifull, discovers the cowardness and dangerness of collaborationship with the enemies between her parents and friends.Some, however, prefered to fight, even if they'd had to put their friends in risk..This was the way choosen by Lea, who becomes engaged into the resistance in order to fight back the deutchs and to try to save it's cared people and it's loved country.

This book will be an excellent read for both the experienced lean warrior and those new to the subject. Henderson has clearly been through many lean implementations, for his words of caution in Part I of this book could not be more accurate. Also of specific interest is a section near the end of the book on financial measurements for lean - very interesting. This would be a great book for a lean champion in any company to put on the required reading list.

Lean Transformation is an informative yet easy-to-read guide for companies wishing to transform themselves into lean manufacturers. Authored by Bruce Henderson, CEO Invensys Controls and Jorge Larco, a leading manufacturing consultant, the book addresses topics ranging from cultural issues to mapping for continuous flow, to right-sizing machinery and quick set-up, to kanban and material handling to spreading the transformation from final assembly throughout the entire organization. Readers will learn from the experiences of Toyota, Dell Computers and others, while benefiting from the charts, diagrams and step-by-step instructions provided in the book. A must-read for any and all companies wanting to lead in the next millennium.