4 comments about European Menu Translator.

1. This is a terrific little book! EUROPEAN MENU TRANSLATOR has four languages in one small volume: French, German, Italian and Spanish. Menu items are easy to look up--it's in a dictionary style. The size is just right--I keep it in my moneybelt for quick access and full-time availability. I have food allergies and just plain avoid certain foods (eggplant--ick!). I also discovered some pleasant surprises that got me to try new things (did you know that Spanish moles are all based on chocolate?). This book allows me to enjoy the foods of the country without any unpleasant surprises! I highly recommend EUROPEAN MENU TRANSLATOR for any traveler.



2. This is an excellent travel book. Because it is small, it's easy to tuck in your purse, back pack or whatever. It's so thorough it makes the most of each meal on the road. It can bring a great new dimension to eating in countries with French, German, Spanish or Italian menus!

   It's so inexpensive, it's a great bon voyage gift for a friend or for yourself.
   We love ours!
   Julie & Peter Dawson.




3. Collaboratively written by Whitney and Anne Galbraith, European Menu Translator is a "user friendly" pocket-sized dictionary specifically designed for tourists and travelers seeking to understand the specialized cuisine terminology of France, Germany, Spain, and Italy. A brief introduction to the fine dining basics of each nation supplements the lists of alphabetically arranged terms, subdivided by language. European Menu Translator is an excellent and very highly recommended reference whether when dining abroad or simply eating at a European-style restaurant here at home.



4. I often travel to Europe. Hop the trains with my Eurail Pass and hit as many countries as I can in less than 10 days.

   On one trip I took about 6 different phrase books with me and wrapped them all up with a rubber band. Too bulky!

   What's better for European travelers are phrase books with multiple languages. The European Menu Translator fits perfectly in a backpack and even in your back pocket.

   Great reference for eating out all over Western Europe.

   If I had one criticism, it would be that they might want to include a couple more languages. Maybe expand it a bit and include some other important Euro languages, like Dutch, Czech, or even Russian. Certainly Greek should be added.

   But otherwise great job Galbraiths!

1 comments about Get Around in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland: The All-In-One Travel and Language Guide (Get Around in).

1. i bought the dictionary and i found it very useful and good.It help me a lot during my stay in Switzerland. i highly recommended it to everyone who want to master german faster. IT is a complete and useful guide for you to learn German. Trust me! i can speak good german and good writing too now. The book helps me a lot!

3 comments about Gypsy in Me:, The: From Germany to Romania in Search of Youth, Truth, and Dad.

1. I am an American student living in Vienna for four months and travelling throughout Central Europe. I've read many travel books during my trip and found Simon's to be one of the best. Simon's walk through Central Europe provides the reader with a better understanding of the region and its people while also challenging the individual to find more in his or her daily experiences.

   When travelling in Central Europe at the end of the millenium, you are bound to ask yourself questions about the changes that have taken place over the last decade and how those changes are effecting the people who live in these countries. The Gypsy in Me provides some answers and challenges the reader to stray from the big tourist sites and find some locals to just sit and talk.




2. I have read quite a few travel books, and this one is one of the best, by far. When you try to describe to someone a chapter you have just read, you realize that there is not much action to convey, but what he does leave you with is an amazing insight into his and other peoples emotions.

   This book reminds me of sitting around and listening to a favorite uncle tell tales of yesteryear. The images are first rate and the storyteller makes it very obvious he was often touched in ways that is almost beyond description. I highly recommend this book.




3. I love Ted Simon's writing for his honesty, integrity, his luminous descriptions of people and places, his empathy, revealing of his inner thoughts and his philosophy of life. He makes you wish you were half as good. I'd walk to the Arctic Circle with him tomorrow. Eagerly awaiting more.

5 comments about Into the Darkness.

1. What possible historical subject could get this exciting?

   When Stoddard the anthropologist visited wartime Germany Pearl Harbor had not yet happened, and so he was able to approach his subject--a social history of Nazi Germany at war.

   And being neutral Stoddard's work lacks the often-hysterical tone of professional "pro-" or "anti-Nazi" pieces of much of the period's genre.

   Having access as a scientist to a variety of German institutions Stoddard gives us a grounded look into how Germans of all station in life viewed such issues as social policy, foreign policy, Jews, and the German leadership. His chilling look into a "Eugenics Court" where "undesirables" were judged is worth the price of the book alone.

   Not to be missed.




2. Twentieth-century America's most perceptive, influential, and prophetic writer on race -- Lothrop Stoddard -- spent four months in late 1939-early 1940 covering National Socialist Germany, as its leaders and its people girded for total war. Stoddard criss-crossed the Third Reich to observe nearly every aspect of its political, social, economic, and military life, and he talked with men and women from all walks of life, from Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels to taxi drivers and chambermaids. The result -- Into the Darkness -- is not only a classic of World War II reportage, but a unique evaluation of Germany's National Socialist experiment. For Stoddard was no ordinary journalist. A Harvard Ph.D in history, the author of The Rising Tide of Color and other works that played a key role in the enactment of America's 1924 immigration act, fluent in German and deeply versed in European politics and culture, Stoddard brought to Into the Darkness a sophistication and a sympathy impossible for William Shirer and a myriad of other journalistic hacks. To be sure, the New England Yankee Stoddard was no supporter of the Hitler dictatorship, but he was deeply interested in National Socialist policies, above all in the social and the racial sphere. Reading Into the Darkness brings you to hearings before a German eugenics court, to an ancestral farm in Westphalia, to the headquarters of the National Labor Service, to German markets, factories, medical clinics, and welfare offices, as keenly observed and analyzed by Stoddard. You'll read, too, of Stoddard's conversations with German policy makers in all fields: Hans F. K. Guenther and Fritz Lenz on race and eugenics; Walther Darré on agriculture; Robert Ley on labor; Gertrud Scholz-Klink on women in the Third Reich; General Alexander Löhr on the Luftwaffe's Polish campaign, as well as Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and many other leaders. And you'll travel with Stoddard to Slovakia, where he interviews Monsignor Tiso, the national leader later put to death by the Communists, and to Hungary, where the Magyars, still at peace, gaze apprehensively at Soviet Russia. Into the Darkness (so named from the mandatory air-defense blackout that Stoddard found so vexing) shines a torch of sanity and truth against the vituperation of all things National Socialist that has been practically obligatory for the past sixty years. Knowledgeable, urbane, skeptical, and above all fair, Stoddard's book is a unique, an indispensable historical document, a time capsule for truth, and a stimulating page-turner for everyone interested in the Third Reich and the German people.



3. Finally a great book on 3rd Reich from an unbiased observer. Some of the chapters provided excellent insight into everyday life in Germany. Reminds us that Americans would never wish to live in that manner, but given the circumstances the Germans did their best to rebuild a society shattered by war, revolution, and economic disaster. It raises the question of what might have happened if the National Socialist experiment in Germany could've continued.



4. This book has been debunked and exposed to be a complete lie. Funny how people see what they want in writings yet completely deny the facts when presented with them. It sounds all well and good but researching the material for oneself will reveal that this is just another bunch of propaganda in the overflowing world of 'holocaust' suffering.



5. I'm an agronomist and I live in Brazil.I like to read books.I tried to read this book, here in Brazil.This book is available, for free reading on internet.
   This book has some parts with a little use.
   The core of this book is pure trash.The author, an once respected american eugenicist tells, about nazi Germany under war.There's even an entire chapter about the author's interview, with Adolf Hitler himself.
   The only value of this book is to see, how was Germany at the beggining of World War II.Even about this subject, this book is weak.
   To be an eugenicist was to be a respectable person,in USA, at least before Third Reich.Many famous americans such as Dr. Morris Fishbein ( Jew and A.M.A.'s president), Alexander Graham Bell (Jew), Wilbur and Orville Wrigh(The Wright Brothers) were famous and very proundly and respectable eugenicists.In 1935, Dr. Morris Fishbein (a jew) said "[NAZI] Germay is perhaps, the most PROGRESSIVE nation about genetic problems".
   
   Writen in a time, when eugenics becaming to be(as ever was), a despicable godless religion or a pseudo-science and the american eugenicists themselves changing his titles to neo-malthusianists or ecologists, this book is almost pure garbage.

No comments about Juergen Teller: Nurnberg.

2 comments about Christian Travelers Guide to Germany, The.

1. This is a really excellent book. I took it with me to Germany last summer and found that it was amazingly helpful and full of great information.



2. I would highly recommend this series to anyone who is interested in the world around them. Irving is very knowledgeable and his insights are fascinating. You'll want to jump on a plane and visit Germany immediately!

No comments about Germany (Charming Small Hotel Guides).

No comments about Nights in the Big City: Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930 (Reaktion Books - Topographics).

2 comments about Just Enough German, 2nd Ed. (Just Enough).

1. This is a compact book that provides a big service to the traveler. It is easy to carry, which is no small matter when travelling. The book's sections are divided by types of conversations and/or day-to-day scenarios in which a traveler would likely find him/herself. Examples of sections include: transportation, shopping, accomodations, dining. It is easy to read and has all the basics to get you through your travels in Germany. The only downside is that it lacks a dictionary section, making it difficult to look up an unknown word quickly. As the title implies, this is not a comprehensive guide, but it will get you through most travel situations.



2. I had previously bought the "Just Enough Dutch" book, which was great because I haven't heard enough Dutch spoken to truly get the distinct sounds down pat - as you know, there are certain nuances in every language that you really have to hear to really get the language - and the phonetics used were fantastic. Well, I HAVE heard German spoken, so I have quite an idea as to how it's supposed to sound; when I was at a local bookstore, I browsed this "Just Enough German" book - and was pleased at how closely it captures the true German sound.

   For instance, in most "teach yourself German" books, you'll read some rather vague (if well-intentioned) explanation as to how the "ch" sound is supposed to sound. Well, it's not easy for most English speakers to really get unless you hear it; it's not exactly a "sh" sound, but it sounds closer to "sh" than most other sounds we use. And THAT is how you'll see words like "Ich" or "mochte" (forgive the lack of umlaut dots over the o) represented phonetically in this book. So, while you won't EXACTLY capture the sound of Standard German used officially in Germany today, you'll get the sound closely enough to be well understood (and, by the way, I once spoke to a fellow who had resided in Germany for several years; he informed me that, in certain dialects in German, the exact "sh" sound IS used!)

   Well, in any event, I'd recommend the "Just Enough" series for anyone who wants to learn a language that they're interested in but not all that familiar with. These folks really get the sounds and grammar down on paper in a way that you can easily grasp.

1 comments about Live & Work in Germany, 3rd (Live & Work - Vacation Work Publications).

1. The book seems to have lots of information for UK citizens but little for US citizens. Caveat emptor, I guess, but I would've appreciated more than just token references to the particular difficulties of non-EU citizens trying to live in and/or find work in Germany. I think for UK citizens it's probably quite useful.

   The content is otherwise fairly interesting and potentially useful, though grammatical errors and typos pervade the book (comma splices galore!).