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Fodor's Official Guide to America's National Parks, 12th Edition (Special-Interest Titles)
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Release Date: 2004-04-06

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Great Info.......2006-08-01

this book is great. I own the national parks passport and the national parks pass. This is a great companion. Basicly it has info on every place that the NPS owns and runs. Each park has about two pages. The sections are: overview, what to see and do, food lodging and supplies, fees, hours, and regulations, how to get there, and contacts. There isn't a whole lot of info on each park, but it covers the whole country( and US territories). For more info on the parks you can go to nps. and after the dot type gov or go to nationalparks. and after the dot type org , they are both very helpful and informative websites.

disappointing.......2005-10-09

Maybe I had invalid expectations. This book is a thumbnail - at most - of each National Park. Virtually no photos, no in depth discussions of what to do and see, just the very basic facts. If this is what you need this book delivers, but if you are needing more detail, descriptions, and illustrations, keep shopping.

A Great Travel Reference.......2004-06-23

I brought this book with me on a cross-country camping trip and it was extrememly useful. Each park has detailed information on Fees, What To Do, Lodging/Camping, and Hints and Tips. It was a great reference for basic knowledge about the National Parks. It doesn't have overly detailed information (each park has roughly a page to a page and a half), but it did help us decide whether or not we should check out each park. For more detailed information about each park, we simply asked the helpful rangers at each National Park.

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disgusting title.......2007-02-23

I would never purchase nor read a book entitled "This way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen". It upsets me to read the sentence let alone read such a book.

Given that it certainly gets your attention what other purpose except to upset the reader before he opens the first page...the author obviously has issues that he has yet to deal with.

TALES FROM THE DARK SIDE..........2005-11-26

In the annals of holocaust literature, this is one of the more unflinching collection of death camp stories, as it depicts the stark reality of the desperate situation of those ensconced in concentration camps, where the final solution was frantically put into play. The stories are of the unimaginable and the nearly unendurable, replete with the inherent pathos of the situation of the truly desperate. It is shows the desensitization that takes place in order for one to survive the horrors of a death camp. It is an unapologetic dissertation of what camp life was truly like for those for whom surviving was the bottom line. It also shows how the Jewish people were clearly singled out for mass extermination.

The author himself survived two death camps, Auschwitz and Dachau, where he had been imprisoned from 1943 to 1945, as a young man in his early twenties. Born in the Ukraine in 1922 to Polish parents who spent time in Siberian labor camps, the author was no stranger to hardship. Yet, he was little prepared for man's inhumanity to man. His time in the death camps was to form an indelible impression on him, resulting in this collection of stories, which chronicle man's inhumanity to man. It shows how camp culture made all those within its sphere participants in its reign of terror and in the final solution. In the end, having survived the unimaginable, the author committed suicide in 1951, choosing to gas himself to death. The irony inherent in his choice of death is not lost upon the discerning reader.

A remembrance of things past.......2005-06-14

Imre Kertesz, a concentration camp survivor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature often asks in his work: is there life after Auschwitz? Can one live with the ineffable guilt that accompanies survival against all odds? For Borowski the answer appears to be no. On July 1, 1951, at age 29, Tadeusz Borowski opened a gas valve, put his head in an oven and took his life. There is no small amount of irony in the fact that after escaping the gas of Auschwitz and Dachau Borowski would end his life in this manner.

Borowski was born in Soviet occupied Ukraine to Polish parents. His father was sent to a Soviet work camp, building the White Sea Canal, but was released in an exchange of prisoners with Poland. Upon his father's release, the family settled in Warsaw. Although not Jewish, Borowski was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 for subversive activities when he was caught surreptitiously printing his own poetry. He spent the rest of the war in Auschwitz and Dachau. The first piece of luck or fate that saved his life was the decision by the Nazis to stop exterminating non-Jewish prisoners two weeks before Borowski's arrival.

The series of stories contained in This Way for the Gas are all written in the voice of one prisoner, Tadeusz. Not unexpectedly the stories appear to be loosely autobiographical. Borowski's writing is not overloaded with emotion. It is descriptive and matter of fact. The day-to-day tone of the writing, writing that describes death and deprivation as normal events adds an emotional impact to the stories.

For example, in one scene the prisoner Tadeusz describes a football (soccer) match played by the prisoners. He served as goalkeeper and described his walk to retrieve a ball that was kicked way over the net. As he walks to the ball he sees through the barbed wire fence truckloads of prisoners being herded through the gas chambers. Later in the match he has to retrieve another ball. As he returns to the goal he matter-of-factly estimates that 5,000 prisoners have been gassed between his retrieving the two balls. It is powerful storytelling.

Equally compelling are stories that describe the numerous decisions Tadeusz and his fellow prisoners made every day in order to survive. Taking clothes from the luggage of prisoners destined for the gas in order to trade the clothes for bread. People fight for survival and despite a certain ethical code amongst prisoners (there are some things even the dying won't do) they all know that the steps they take to survive often means that someone else will perish. Borowski does not flinch from subjecting his alter ego and his fellow prisoners to a critical self-examination of these choices. Both Borowski and his narrator survived Auschwitz. But as you can see from these flawlessly executed stories the question of how much of one's humanity remains is a difficult question. The emaciated bodies of the survivors could often be repaired. But the sense of a moral inner flame extinguished by the acts required for survival is not so easily relit. The reader cannot help but wonder whether the lingering impact of those choices in Auschwitz somehow invariably led to the choice he made in July 1951.

Tadeusz Borowski's "This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentlemen" is a wonderful example of how fiction can portray the horrors of genocide with an emotional clarity that non-fiction sometimes lacks. This book ranks with Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales (the Gulag) as a monumental piece of remembrance presented in the form of short stories, vignettes of life in a place with little mercy and less humanity. They each stand as stark testimony, even though they are works of literature and not history, to the "evil that men do."

Upon finishing "This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentleman" I found myself wanting to repeat the words "never again" as a refrain. Yet upon reflection one looks at subsequent world events: Bosnia, Cambodia, Chechnya, Sudan, and Rwanda (among others) and asks whether humanity makes the phrase "never again" a futile gesture. It has been said that those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. Anyone who reads Borowski's testament will long remember the prose that, hopefully, will keep us from forgetting.
L. Fleisig

A lesson to learn.......2004-05-09

Will you enjoy reading this book? The answer is no. But if you were to ask me if you should read this book then I would have to say absolutely. Borowski wrote with an honesty that I found amazing. He gave me a small window to look through and see what my grandparents might have gone through. This book while often shocking and always disturbing allows a little understanding into what life was like inside the death camps. Not for enjoyment but education.

Shocking in its non-chalance.......2003-11-09

Borowski's account of life in Aushcwitz is a classic. The brutality, inhumanity, and gruesome daily life in the hell-on-earth that was the Holocaust is matter-of-factly, even non-chalantly described and recounted in _This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen_. Little wonder the author put his own head in a gas oven in the years following his experiences. The images are haunting. But what I found to be most disturbing was the simple language Borowski used in retelling his experiences.

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Excellent Book!.......2004-03-13

This story illustrates a remarkable story of the hurt and pain that a woman and so many others have suffered emotionally, and physically- how much we really can and do take our lives for granted. An emotional story will touch your heart and soul and show you how much you should really appreciate all that you have-even if it isn't much at all...

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The Lady with the Hat
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Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Theresa, like Yulek, is uncertain about her place in the postwar world. Together they struggle to rediscover the joy of living. Meanwhile, a mysterious English woman sets out on her own search for the long-lost nephew that she has spotted in a newspaper photo of Jewish refugees. Perhaps by finding him, she will also find some long-hidden part of herself.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustara: Two Novellas (Library of American Fiction)

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet and Weekend in Mustara: Two Novellas (Library of American Fiction)
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Filled with Curt Leviant's signature blend of humor and drama, these two enchanting and original novellas lure readers into a dazzling storybook world.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet" is set in Budapest during the Communist era. The story focuses on the tenuous seesaw between Dr. Isaac Gantz, a musicologist, and engineer Ferdinand Friedman, a Holocaust survivor who believes that he possesses one of the greatest manuscripts of the ages, a Rosetta Stone of Judaica. Friedman is willing to share it-but there is a "but." In pursuing this prize, Gantz enters a world of strange human relationships filled with doubts and surprises. A vibrant cast of characters adds dimension to this gripping story in which Jewish folklore, music, and history coalesce.

"Weekend in Mustara" unfolds on the fictional island of Mustara in southern Europe, a mountainous, totalitarian country that tolerates Judaism. Its few Jews cling to their heritage, embodied in their beautiful but sparsely attended synagogue and their museum, where a great memorial book is inscribed with the names of all Mustara Jews martyred during World War II. A scholar of medieval Hebrew manuscripts comes to the island, searching for traces of Yehuda Halevi, the great Hebrew poet of the Spanish Golden Age. He is soon enmeshed among elusive personalities and tangled loyalties, but only when he finds himself displaced in time-in a kind of theater of the absurd-are the purposes of his journey finally realized.

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More!.......2007-09-19

I agree completely with the other reviews. The only negative is that I would like the stories developed much further (a novel).

A Couple Entrancing Novellas.......2005-01-28

Curt Leviant, author of critically acclaimed novels that include "Partita in Venice" and "The Yemenite Girl," has written two engaging novellas. The main character, Dr. Isaac Gantz, a musicologist, suspensefully narrates the discovery of the music of the Hebrew alphabet in the first novella, "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Original Music of the Hebrew Alphabet." While traveling in Communist Budapest, the fledgling Doctor feeling the pressure of the college's publish or perish paradigm needs something worthy for publication. He meets Ferdinand Friedman, perhaps a madman, who holds the fabled Holy Grail of Jewish music history.

Leviant holds your attention without any apparent effort or unbelievable scenes to move the plot forward. There is no hyperbole present here despite the novella's fantastic theme of sacred music that dates from the first man, Adam. And the ending, although not tying loose ends, is satisfying.

Leviant's writing throughout is often poetic and bountiful with numerous crisp images and humor for such a slender book. The second novella, "Weekend in Mustara," begins "I found the craggy zigzag peaks, visible everywhere in the city, both awesome and disconcerting, a kind of pressure on the soul." The author is the protagonist as he searches the fictional island Mustara for the writings of 11th century Jewish poet Yehuda Halevi. A fast-paced tempo quickly entraps the reader in Leviant's obsessive thoughts to procure any material on the poet. He says, "My life's work. For years I've been studying his songs and poetry." Of course the island and its cast of offbeat characters becomes an obstacle for Leviant's search. Several plot twists keep the reader's attention, but the ending leaves one frustrated after the 80-page buildup.

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Highest praise.......2003-03-14

I am in awe of the incredible richness of this slender book -- of its artistry; its grand design; the breadth of its imaginings; the sometimes limpid,sometimes electric language; the hidden insights shing through twists of plot; the tricks, the jokes, the games.

Leviant is worthy of the inner circle -- the first ring of authors who need no first names. He's been compared,in his inventiveness, in his playfulness, in his freedom from the ordinary bonds of fiction, to Joyce, Kundera, Nabokov, Borges, Bellow.

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Title: Discourses of Mourning and Rebirth in Post-Holocaust Israeli Literature: Leah Goldberg's Lady Of The Castle and Shulamith Hareven's "The Witness"[*].(Critical Essay)
Author: Rachel Feldhay Brenner
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Date: January 1, 2002
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