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1. The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories | |
Hardcover: 446
Pages
(2007-12-30)
list price: US$34.95 -- used & new: US$23.06 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0253349613 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description "The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society." - Wendy Lower, author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine "A unique source for a fuller understanding of the tragic events during these dark years." - Walter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia "The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle...Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. The Unknown Black Book captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial." - Richard Overy, author of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia Customer Reviews (6)
The Unkown Black Book
great book
Weeping in Babylon
Brilliant part of history
Compelling |
2. The Unknown Terrorist: A Novel by Richard Flanagan | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2008-01-21)
list price: US$14.00 -- used & new: US$8.20 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0802143547 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (22)
Ohhhhhh--I get it!
Disappointing
the most exciting novel I've read in a year -- and the most disturbing
Boring and disappointing
Too Stupid to Believe |
3. Unknown Quantity: A Real and Imaginary History of Algebra by John Derbyshire | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(2007-05-29)
list price: US$16.00 -- used & new: US$2.24 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0452288533 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (23)
Worthy attempt at a difficult task
Great book
Where is algebra going?
History of algebra
Really well done |
4. Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work As a Pilgrimage of Identity by David Whyte | |
Hardcover: 257
Pages
(2001-03-15)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$34.15 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: B00066R4ZM Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (1)
A practical, beautiful, insightful and soul-stretching work of art. |
5. Journal of the Unknown Prophet by Wendy Alec | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2005-10-20)
list price: US$18.00 -- used & new: US$11.34 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0955237718 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Product Description Customer Reviews (25)
Great Book
Right on the mark
tremendous work
I am on page 55, I am already blast ! MUST READ, If you seeking real life.
Wake up church! |
6. Unknown Means by Elizabeth Becka | |
Hardcover: 528
Pages
(2008-05-02)
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Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (3)
Discover The Unknown Means
A Locked Room Thriller
strong police procedural |
7. The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty by Soetsu Yanagi | |
Paperback: 232
Pages
(1990-01-15)
list price: US$35.00 -- used & new: US$19.10 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0870119486 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (6)
A beautiful set of fine essays
great for the study of craft in Japan
A book you HAVE to read, and you'll CRAVE to own...
Humble pie never tasted so good "A beautiful work of art...is the work of a man who is not (bound to) either beauty and ugliness or even to himself." Yanagi was talking about the craftsman of Japan's past who, working with "total disengagement", created some of the most beautiful art objects the world has ever seen. This work was never signed because these were the products of craftsman who "made no effort to express their individuality through the medium of things; (instead) they produced things through the medium of man". As my understanding of Buddhism deepened, so didn't the import of these words. The bottom line was that I relaxed, I let myselfenjoy the process and I let the objects I made speak for themselves. Humble pie never tasted so good.
More photos! More essays! For those unfamiliar with Yanagi Soetsu, he and other artists and thinkers of his time developed a philosophy called "Mingei" (folk-craft) in Japan. Similar to the arts and crafts movement in England and Europe, Mingei focuses on exploring the dimentions of beauty before something becomes "beautiful". A great deal of influence from people such as Bernard Leech and Suzuki Daisetsu went in to the creation of this "old yet new" way of looking at art and objects. His way of looking at the "unknown craftsman", in other words the artist who merely makes to make and sell his works, but does not comprimise because he wishes only to sell and sell quickly, will appear new to many, but there are many patronizing overtones in Yanagi's arguments. This comes close to devolving into a sort of "noble-savage" way of looking at crafts made in traditional ways, and is sometimes criticized as being arrogant if not contradictory. This book only scratched the surface of the world of Mingei, however, and an actual study would no doubt involve learning the Japanese language in order to follow not only Yanagi's essays, but also to be able to go and "experience" the art Yanagi devoted himself to inside of Japan. Yanagi's ideas, however, span much further than any one culture and many connected with Yanagi, particularly Hamada Shoji, came in contact with similar movements and ideas in their travels to mainland Asia, Europe, and North America. This book can be read, therefore, comfortably by most anyone interested in art and aesthetics. ... Read more |
8. Portrait of an Unknown Woman: A Novel by Vanora Bennett | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(2008-04-01)
list price: US$14.95 -- used & new: US$9.92 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0061252565 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description In the year 1527, the great portraitist Hans Holbein, fleeing the Protestant Reformation, comes to England under commission to Sir Thomas More. Over the course of the next six years, Holbein paints two nearly identical portraits of the More family, his dear and loyal friends. But closer examination of the second painting reveals several mysteries. . . . Set against the turmoil and tragedy of Henry VIII's court, Portrait of an Unknown Woman vividly evokes sixteenth-century England on the verge of enormous change—as viewed through the eyes of Meg Giggs, More's intelligent, tenderhearted, headstrong adopted daughter, who stands at the center of this sweeping, extraordinary epic. It is a tale of sin and religion, desire and deception—the story of a young woman on the brink of sensual awakening and a country on the edge of mayhem. Customer Reviews (9)
Just No Very Good
Hurrah! Historical fiction lives!
Secrets within secrets
Art History and History Unite
More fiction than history, but oh what a story ... |
9. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(1986-07-15)
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Customer Reviews (110)
Rand at her best
Capitalism is wrong
The moral case for the free market
AMAZON! PLEASE READ THIS
Very well written book about capitalism and democracy |
10. The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (Yale Library of Military History) by Alvin Kernan | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2007-05-28)
list price: US$15.00 -- used & new: US$7.95 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0300122640 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Customer Reviews (20)
making an unknown unknown known
Starts great but falls apart at the end
on a superficial level it's eye-opening; beyond that, it's dreck
Another perspective
Filled with substantive and interpretive errors - Kernan gets it all wrong |
11. Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(1993-06)
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Customer Reviews (22)
Exceptional!
How To Win Wars And Influence History
Outstanding!
"TOREADTHISISTOLOVEHIM "
the unkown hero |
12. To a God Unknown (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1995-08-01)
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Editorial Review Book Description Joseph's brothers and their wives join him, and their farms prosper. Then one of the brothers, repelled by Joseph's reverence for the tree, cuts it down. Consequences follow -- harsh and severe. In TO A GOD UNKNOWN, one of his earliest novels, Steinbeck uses the Western American experience as a way of exploring man's relationships to his environment -- a theme that would come to characterize much of his later work. Customer Reviews (30)
Do not fear Steinbeck!An easy, enjoyable read.
Not Steinbeck's greatest, but still worth your time
To the great unknown
Steinbeck Finding his Chops
The Life of the Land |
13. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday | |
Paperback: 864
Pages
(2006-11-14)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Using exhaustive research in archives all over the world, Chang and Halliday recast Mao's ascent to power and subsequent grip on China in the context of global events. Sino-Soviet relations, the strengths and weakness of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese invasion of China, World War II, the Korean War, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, the vicious Cultural Revolution, the Vietnam War, Nixon's visit, and the constant, unending purges all, understandably, provide the backdrop for Mao's unscrupulous but invincible political maneuverings and betrayals. No one escaped unharmed. Rivals, families, peasants, city dwellers, soldiers, and lifelong allies such as Chou En-lai were all sacrificed to Mao's ambition and paranoia. Appropriately, the authors' consciences are appalled. Their biggest fear is that Mao will escape the global condemnation and infamy he deserves. Their astonishing book will go a long way to ensure that the pendulum of history will adjust itself accordingly. --Silvana Tropea 1. Mao became a Communist at the age of 27 for purely pragmatic reasons: a job and income from the Russians. Customer Reviews (240)
Shadows of Mao
Scary
This is not History! Intellectually Bankrupt!
Apologists can excuse anything
Required Reading |
14. Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor | |
Paperback: 64
Pages
(2001-04-01)
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Editorial Review Book Description and now an international bestseller. Address Unknown When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and literary sensation. Published in book form a year later and banned in Nazi Germany, it garnered high praise in the United States and much of Europe. A series of fictional letters between a Jewish art dealer living in San Francisco and his former business partner, who has returned to Germany, Address Unknown is a haunting tale of enormous and enduring impact. Customer Reviews (21)
Sweet Revenge
This should be required reading
Best short story ever written and still relevant
Chilling Story of Nazis and Revenge
Must read classic! |
15. Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) by Alfred S McLaren | |
Hardcover: 242
Pages
(2008-01-25)
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16. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Philip Dray | |
Paperback: 544
Pages
(2003-01-07)
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Editorial Review Amazon.com Customer Reviews (20)
A Very Difficult Book To Read But Essential!
One word - outstanding.
Very informative
A first rate history of an Americantragedy
I only THOUGHT I knew about lynchings... |
17. Unknown Armies (2nd Edition) by Greg Stolze, John Tynes | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2002-07)
list price: US$39.95 -- used & new: US$33.87 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 1589780132 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description The acclaimed RPG of modern occult intrigue returns in a stunning new hardcover edition. Completely reorganized, largely rewritten, and jam-packed with new art, the second edition of Unknown Armies isn't just better. It kicks metaphysical ass! We've remixed the book based on the level of campaign you want to play: Street, Global, or Cosmic. At street level, you're outsiders to the secret world of magick, ordinary people entering a land of mystery and peril. At global level, you're mojo-wielding cabalists in the occult underground, pursuing your arcane agendas and plotting against your rivals. At cosmic level, you're in tune with the cosmos itself, fighting to shape the next incarnation of reality. Background material is divided up as well, so new players in a street-level campaign only read what the GM wants them to know. But the beats don't stop there: Much more information for new players, to get them into the mindset of the game and help them make better characters and stronger campaigns. * New character-creation options, including Trigger Events, Paradigm Skills, and power levels scaled to match the level of campaign you're playing. * Numerous rules tweaks, including a new initiative system, Fuzzy Logic skill checks, player-directed combat modifiers, amped-up martial arts rules, a new experience system, and more, all dedicated to upgrading UA's innovative percentile system into a lean and precise tool for fast play and player empowerment. * More magick for non-adepts: Authentic Thaumaturgy, new rituals and artifacts, and revised versions of Proxy Magick and Tilts allow the freewheeling use of symbolic, sympathetic magick by anyone with the will to make it happen. * Twelve schools of magick (up from seven in UA1) for obsessed adepts, including revised versions of published schools (Bibliomancy, Personamancy, and Urbanomancy) and two new schools (Videomancy and Narcotic Alchemy). * Fourteen avatars (up from eight in UA1) for archetypalists, including revised versions of published avatars (The Messenger, The Mother, The Mystic Hermaphrodite, and the True King) and two new avatars (The MVP and The Warrior). * More resources for the GM, including specific guidance on combat, wounds, skill checks, campaign building, and other critical issues. * New cover art and design, new interior art and design, and a hardcover binding to keep this game in line. Customer Reviews (10)
Excellent RPG
The best modern RPG! (The best RPG in general?)
Very cool It's a very setting-specific game: It seems that the world we know is full of secrets, and when you start to learn of some of them, everything changes for you. That in itself isn't original, but the details often are. The "feel" of the game is that choices have consequences. The rules focus properly on role-playing over rolling dice. Character generation is fast and simple, with only 4 characteristics, and no definitive skill list (players can make up their own skills, subject to GM approval). Combat requires only two rolls per round: initiative and a single attack/damage roll--whether you hit and how much damage you do is resolved in the same roll. There are three different and fascinating systems of magic, all easy to use, believable within the context, and highly flexible. The "sanity" rules are an improvement over the already-good Call of Cthulhu rules. A comparison to Call of Cthulhu is apt--both Tynes and Stolze have written quite a lot of Call of Cthulhu material in the past, and it seems almost a cliche now that so many people who read this book immediately start to think of how to incorporate Call of Cthulhu into it. But while there are many correspondances, at their hearts, Unknown Armies and Call of Cthulhu are opposites, and merging them is a difficult (but worthy) task. CoC is about a nihilistic spiral into madness and death; Unkown Armies is about desire, hope, and what you'll do to get them--and the consequences of your actions. As dark as it can be, Unknown Armies is set in a human-centered world; CoC is set in an alien-centered world, in which human hopes are utterly irrelevant. Both are wonderful games.
A fine modern horror RPG The system is a simple percentile system but the system is elegant, letting the player characters flip numbers under certain role-playing situations.It plays dramatic and fast. The combat chapter begins with ways to avoid a fight.Then it launches into the way combat works.Beautiful. Magick is brutal and extracts a price. The world is fun and has a captivating cosmology while still allowing the DM and the players to make some choices about how the world really works and the headlines of the paper are fine adventure fodder. I cannot stress enough how well written and fun this game is.I have both played and run it.Please pick it up and find out for yourself. The works of Tim Powers are where many of the metaphysical ideas of the game come from.Check out his novels if the game appeals to you.
A new direction,,,I LIKE IT!! The game's mechanics are simple whether you play street, global, or cosmic, and the fact that you're not limited by JUST what's in the book as far at character types makes it take your creativity to a whole new level; the only limits here are those of your imagination, and what your GM will allow. Over all, the game strikes me as a combo of Mage; the Ascension, Call of Cthulu, with a healthy dose Jung,(the man, not the game:) thrown in. The trick here is that the simple game mechanics may not work for game players who come from "traditional" statistic laden systems that simply require a dice roll to solve most problems; players must think originally, creativly, and the game indulges you to go places that some folks may fear to tread, so it may not be for everyone. It'll be a grand and enjoyable challenge for both GM's as well as players. Myself, I like it a lot, as it challenges more than just a few traditional ideas about life, the universe and everything; be prepared to be changed by this game, if ye dare!!! ... Read more |
18. Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition by Jack Uldrich | |
Hardcover: 256
Pages
(2004-04)
list price: US$24.95 -- used & new: US$7.66 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0814408168 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description May 2004 marks the beginning of a two-and-a-half year bicentennial celebration of their incredible journey and its significance to the history of America. Against staggering odds, these unique men inspired such absolute loyalty in each other and in their group that they are still widely regarded as the most successful leadership team in American history. Today's leadership adventures unfold in the rugged terrain of business, and who better than Lewis and Clark to lead us through its toughest challenges? Their story resonates with business leaders of our time because they had to: * Think strategically* Make tough and timely decisions * Surround themselves with good people * Manage resources * Motivate the team* Deal with different cultures * Assimilate information from many sources * Balance long-term goals against short-term realities * Learn from their mistakes* Try new approaches Most importantly, they had to persevere and change course in the face of adversity. Their lessons will inspire business leaders to take their teams to new adventures of great discovery. Customer Reviews (7)
Let the Corps of Discovery Guide You
Timeless Lessons
Time Well Spent
Timeless Leadership Lessons Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark discovered an endless land whose very existence foretold the country's future America. May, 2004 begins a bicentennial celebration of their incredible journey.Against staggering odds, these unique men inspired such absolute loyalty that they are regarded by many as the most successful leadership team in American history. Lewis and Clark lead their team into the unknown.They preserved through crises, course changes and insurmountable adversity.They persevered. Their lessons will inspire all of us to lead our teams on discovery adventures.
Lewis & Clark -- Still Relevant! |
19. Unknown Man #89 by Elmore Leonard | |
Mass Market Paperback: 368
Pages
(2002-06-01)
list price: US$7.99 -- used & new: US$3.99 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0060082216 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Editorial Review Book Description Detroit process server Jack Ryan has a reputation for being the best in the business at finding people who don't want to be found. Now he's looking for a missing stockholder known only as "Unknown Man No. 89." But his missing man isn't "unknown" to everyone: a pretty blonde hates his guts and a very nasty dude named Royal wants him dead in the worst way. Which is very unfortunate for Jack Ryan, who is suddenly caught in the crossfire of a lethal triple-cross and as much a target as his nameless prey. Customer Reviews (14)
Good old standard
Best I've ever read
A Safe Bet
First Leonard Read!
No One Does it Better than Leonard! |
20. Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and unknowns in the dazzling world of derivatives by Satyajit Das | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(2006-05-15)
list price: US$29.99 -- used & new: US$17.92 (price subject to change: see help) Asin: 0273704745 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
Customer Reviews (15)
Fantastic!
Bulls-eye
Traders Guns & Money
Interesting
Well Worth The Time, And Heed the Warning |
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