There is great imagination and whimsy in this sweet piece of magic. I love reading this to the various children in my family and they love it too!

There is something so magical about this book. Not only are the illustrations lovely but the story is perfectly rhythmic and imaginative. I would highly recommend it -- your child will not be disappointed!

Originally nicknamed the "Widow Maker" and "The Flying Prostitute" (no visible means of support), the short, small winged Martin Aircraft Corporation's Marauder B-26 was able to record a very successful combat record during World War II. The 29th volume in the acclaimed Specialty Press "WarbirdTech" series, Frederick Johnsen's Martin B-26 Marauder features technical manual excerpts, factory photos and drawings, combat photos, and combat accounts, making it a very necessary addition to any personal, professional, academic, and community library aviation history and World War II military history collection.

The latest title in the Warbird Tech series fills a significant gap in the information available on the Martin B-26 Marauder. Although the book does have a brief operational history of the B-26, the best reason to purchase this book it for its emphasis on the technical aspects of the aircraft. The author makes good use of many aircraft technical manual drawings throughout the book, showing everything imaginable, from the location of armor plate to the various configurations of the tail gun mounts and fairings. Many previously unpublished photos reveal the countless nuances of the aircraft as it was subtly modified throughout its long wartime production run. The color photo section is another treat, as most of these photos will be new to even the die-hard Marauder enthusiast. Anyone with an interest in the B-26 Marauder will want this carefully planned and thoughtfully produced volume.

This is a book that I delight in reading over and over to my 6-year old. The rhymes and glorious illustrations keep my daughter engrossed while enjoying the story and learning life's lessons in a kind and subtle tone.

Your child will be riveted by the tales involving the most lovable bear in children's literature (and you will too!). This memorable character will remain in your hearts and minds for a lifetime. I am purchasing a copy for my friend's five-year-old so that they can experience the pearls of wisdom imparted by Martin Bear with inimitable humor and good nature. The book is modern yet provides moral depth and values. The paintings are sumptuous! Read it and be transported into the realm of Martin Bear and his fears, joys, and tremendous courage. The Penguin, Magic Raccoon, and Nasty Monster are terrific characters too! My children adore this book and I never tire of reading it with them.

Anticipating the defeat of the Third Reich, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann set up 750 corporations in neutral countries, primed as vehicles to receive the liquid wealth of Germany in addition to patents and other proprietary industrial information. An organizational genius and the real power behind Hitler, Bormann, known as the "Brown Eminence", successfully fled Europe for South America and administered a "Reich in Exile" in the years following the war. With remnants of the SS as an enforcement arm, former Gestapo chief General Heinrich Mueller as security director, the 750 corporations as a base of economic power and the willing silence and cooperation of the Western Allies, Bormann guided his organization to a position of consummate power. One banker quoted by Manning termed the Bormann Organization, the "world's most important accumulation of money power under one control in history". Controlling Germany's major corporations, the Federal Republic itself and much of Latin America, the Bormann Organization also maintained a formidable circle of influence in the United States. Paul Manning has written the definitive text on the Bormann Organization.

Manning worked with CBS radio during World War II in London as a member of the elite Edward R. Murrow/Walter Cronkite team. As part of his coverage duties, he was the only member actually allowed to fly on U.S. Air Force missions as a fully functional crew member. Having qualified as a gunner, his flights included B-17 missions with the 8th Air Force over Germany and several B-29 missions to Japan. On behalf of CBS, he broadcasted the surrenders of Japan and Germany. In 1948, along with fifteen other distinguished war correspondents, he was awarded a medal for his reporting of the unconditional surrender of the Germans at Rheims. After the war Manning continued his journalistic profession and also served as a speechwriter for Nelson Rockefeller.

Several decades after WWII, Manning stumbled across the U.S. military CSDIC (Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centers) interviews of members of German industrial and banking magnates in the US National Archives. Aghast at the findings, Manning set out to write a book about the secret machinations of Nazi money laundering. Unknown to Manning, the manuscript was a stake in the heart of former CIA director Allen Dulles (brother of Allan Dulles) who represented many German interests on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1930's and 40's through his law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell with offices in New York and Berlin. Upon the German surrender, Dulles was instrumental in quietly recruiting Hitler's chief intelligence officer General Reinhard Gehlen and many of his key operatives. They were brought to Fort Hunt, Virginia and folded into the American O.S.S. which was converted into the C.I.A. with enactment under Truman of NSC-68 in 1948. Gehlen remained covertly in full U.S. employ until returning to head the German BND in the fifties.

Concerned over public exposure of Manning's investigation, Dulles volunteered to "help" the unsuspecting Manning with his manuscript, and sent him on a carefully orchestrated wild goose chase, searching for Martin Bormann in South America. Without knowing that he had been deliberately sidetracked, Manning wrote a forward to his book personally thanking Allen Dulles for his assurance that "I was on the right track" and "should keep going." In actuality, Dulles' assistance was aimed at sending Manning and his manuscript into obscurity to avoid disclosure of the transfer and protection of Nazi money.

Through its connections with major American corporations, the Bormann group successfully pressured publisher after publisher to decline Manning's manuscript. Of particular significance in the suppression of Manning's book was the Thyssen family.(patriarch Fritz Thyssen was Hitler's earliest and most prominent backer among German industrialists) His grandson, Count Zichy-Thyssen, who controlled Thyssen Steel from his base in Argentina, let it be known it would be very much appreciated if American publishers "stayed away" from the Manning text.

Manning finally found a home for the book at the maverick publishing house Lyle Stuart. In retaliation, the head of the publishing house had his legs broken the week the book was released and reviews of the book were blocked in major newspaper markets and mainstream publications. In 1993, after another decade of intense research, Manning's son Jerry, was senselessly and inexplicably murdered. Based on information garnered from his contacts in the intelligence community, Manning concluded the killing was in retaliation for his continued work and intent to publish a follow-up book, "In Search of Martin Bormann". The death of his son devastated Manning and stymied completion of the 2nd book. He died shortly after in 1995.

In December 1998, California-based researcher and broadcaster Dave Emory conducted a live, on-air radio interview ... with Manning's surviving son, Peter, concerning the Bormann flight capital organization and his father's work in bringing its activities to light. Peter movingly recounted the difficulties his family experienced as a result of his father's work on the book. In addition to surveillance and harassment, the family experienced economic and mental hardship as a result of deliberate efforts by elements hostile to its message. For obvious reasons, copies of this book were assiduously removed from market and have, for some time, been unobtainable. This landmark work nonetheless remains the unvarnished truth regarding Germany's post-war economic rebirth and lays the groundwork for understanding its current bid for dominance in manufacturing, banking and most importantly, publishing. "Martin Bormann: Nazi in Exile" is without peer in detail, accuracy and courage in probing the most important and successfully concealed story of the twentieth century. Mandatory reading.

one of the most disturbing and truth filled books. read this and you will never backdown from the facists again.true grit.

At times the story of Frobisher borders on the ethereal. Fleets of Elizabethan sea-dogs sailing every year or so towards Labrador, searching for the (apocryphphal) NorthWest Passage to China, returning each time from an ice-bound continent with lumps of black granite and then funding another trip on the strength of completely bogus reports that there was gold inside the granite rocks. The expeditions serve as a parable of greed, curiousity and folly. For Frobisher, they were the high point of a chequerered naval career. A notorious privateer, Martin served in some of Drake's greatest raids on Spanish America. He also served with distinction against the Armada. The only downside to a biography of Frobisher was that he was almost totally illiterate and that therefore almost everything about him has to be reconstructed from official records or second-hand reports. This is a great life of a strange man.

A wonderful book written about one of England's first Maritime explorers. Frobisher usually is written with such notables of the time as Drake, Hawkins and Raleigh even if his famous voyage to the Northwest was a failure. He still managed to retain his dignity and eventually became one of England's greatest sailors. Mr. McDermott's book is a wonderful and complete picture of a quite-not-so-honest Yorkshire man who rose up to become a great explorer despite his past dealings with privateering and the law. Frobisher's last biography (AFAIK) was published in 1923 (William McFee) yet Mr. McDermotts excellent research and writing clearly rates above Mr. McFee's outline of a man whose history was written by happenstance and luck. I found this book to be invaluable research of a not-so-well-known man whom I portray at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire in California. Well researched and well written. A must for any 16th century maritime history fan or historian. Cheers!

MARTIN HEIDEGGER. By George Steiner. 173 pp. University of Chicago Press edition, 1987 (1978). ISBN 0-226-77232-2 (pbk.)

The presence of Heidegger is so insistent that sooner or later we want to find out more about this controversial figure. But where to start? His most famous work, 'Being and Time,' is notoriously unapproachable by the unprepared, but where can we find a really good Introduction to the man and his main ideas? After tackling several well-known Introductory studies, and quickly abandoning them as just too dry and boring, I finally discovered George Steiner's short study.

What a joy it was to read Steiner! I'm one of those compulsive scribblers who always read pencil in hand, ready to annotate significant and memorable passages to make sure I'll be able to find them when I want to return and re-read them, and after a single reading pretty well every page was marked.

Steiner has a beautifully lucid style, and he writes with real passion. After a 28-page Introduction, 'Heidegger: In 1991,' and an 'In Place of a Foreword,' three Chapters follow : 1. 'Some Basic Terms;' 2. 'Being and Time;' 3. 'The Presence of Heidegger.' The book is rounded out with a Biographical Note, a useful Short Bibliography, and an Index.

Steiner throughout shows great skill in actually making us feel the movements of Heidegger's thought as it flows along totally unexpected and amazing paths, and one is left wondering what heights Western thought might have risen to if it had stayed true to its original impulse. It would seem that, for Heidegger, thought was not mere ratiocination, but something more akin to devotion, a devotion we come to share.

Here are a few lines from the book : "We are trying "to listen to the voice of Being"" (p.32); "Art is not, as in Plato and Cartesian realism, an imitation of the real. It is the more real" (p.136); "Creation _should be_ custody; a human construction _should be_ the elicitation and housing of the great springs of being" (p.136); "Man has labored and thought not with but against the grain of things. He has not given lodging to the forces and creatures of the natural world but made them homeless" (p.136); "... the Heideggerian asker lays himself open to that which is being questioned and becomes ... the permeable space of its disclosure" (p.55); "The earth, says Heidegger, must once again be made a _Spielraum_, literally, a space in which to play" (p.149). These are truly luminous thoughts, and the book is full of them.

I'm not sure what specialists may think of this book, but as a non-specialist I found it a very exciting book to read, and one that left me eager to know more. Steiner's study strikes me as what must be one of the best possible introductions to Heidegger for the ordinary reader.

Prof. Steiner's beautiful and precise prose clarifies the fundamental aspects of Heidegger's philosophy. Compared with similar introductions to the philosopher, Steiner's is particularly insightful and a pleasure to read by itself: the work is full of "sentences that arrest the spirit".

To be published in English in paperback in November 2003 by Fordham University Press, this important book explores the central role of historical thought in the full range of Heidegger's thought, both the early writings leading up to "Being in Time", and after the "reversal" or Kehre that inaugurated his later work.

fIRST PUBLISHED IN 1989, THIS BOOK HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT FOR ONE YEAR AND THERE ARE NO PLANS FOR ITS REPUBLICATION IN ENGLISH. AN UPDATED GERMAN TRANSLATION WILL APPEAR IN THE FALL OF THIS YEAR THROUGH KOENIGSHAUSEN UND NEUMANN, WUERZBURG UNDER THE TITLE: HEIDEGGER UND DER HISTORISMUS. SINN DER GESCHICHTE UND GESCHICHTLICHKEIT DES SINNS

I ordered the Taschen Kippenberger book because of the 5 star review here on Amazon.The book contains just about all of Kippenberger's massive output of work from paintings and sculpture through to examples of his writings and multimedia projects.

The only slight drawback with this book is the unintelligiable essay. Translated from German, the essay is hard to follow and uses tortured English peppered with artspeak.

On the upside, this is probably the definitive Kippenberger book.

The volume and range of Martin Kippenberger's artistic activities are mind-boggling. His frequently hilarious work demands that the viewer get involved in an endless network of associations, anecdotes, and confusions of meaning. This presents a special challenge for non-Europeans (Kippenberger's work often satirizes his European contemporaries, as well as European assumptions about the social role of "the artist") but is well worth the struggle for anyone who cares about contemporary art.

Roberta Smith, writing in the New York Times, offered the opinion that Kippenberger was "one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period."

This colorful book is the best introduction to Kippenberger that I've seen, although the introductory essay isn't terribly illuminating (it seems to have been poorly translated).

This edition reprints and substantially expands the earlier (1991) Taschen book on Kippenberger. It is unusually inexpensive for an art book of this quality; the book seems to be the publisher's personal tribute to Kippenberger, who died at age 44 in 1997.

When I first began to read the first chapter of this book I was looking at the dates in the book and realized that they were from not that long ago it was recent that this happened. I felt sorr for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr when he had to repeat school because of his lack of knowledge. The parts that struck cords with me is that he was playing a major role in history and he could not be with his wife and cherish the moments of their child being born because he was always doing something with the civil roght movement. He wasw never at home to be with his kids and when he did come home it was not that much. He also was put in jail a lot for things that he felt was right and there were a lot of people who were trying to hold him down from doing his job. But this is a really great book and I encourage anyone to read it to see what we had to go through just to ride on the bus and to vote amd to get our right we were denied after slavery was abolished. But this is a really good book for a person to read if they are doing a report on him.

Franklin looks deep into the life of the late Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. His insightful looks on the full compass of his life makes for an extraordinary piece of work. Never before mentions of different aspects of King's life makes this biography a must read for all who have loved and adored King.

"Man before God," that sums up Luther's resultant reformation in theology. Brecht in this volume of three, takes us into the context of this change and the resultant history thereof.

It is marvelously rich in its scope and depth, and written fairly and with good style. Originially in German, here it is aptly translated by James L. Schaaf.

One will receive fine insights into Luther's theology in this volume from his days at Erfurt through to the Diet of Worms.

Excellent Luther reading for those so inclined. All three volumes highly commended for your persual.

Brecht's biography (3 volumes--this is volume one) was the first comprehensive biography in our century that fully explored the later Luther and is also the only Luther biography that tracks every single thing Luther ever wrote. If you are reading something by Luther and want to know the context, this is the place to look. It's readable and takes a conservative position on all of the major controversies. Beware, though: Brecht simply is not interested in source critique.