Bøger af David Engel

This essay originated in an attempt to bring together the study of law and Thai history in a description of the transformation of Thailand during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as seen from a legal point of view.

At this writing, I am sixty years old, and the realization that I'm not getting any younger has prompted me to put some things from my life down on paper. I am writing this for my daughter Gina and son Todd, who one day, may want to know what their father did during his younger years in the military. All of my stories take place from late 1968 to mid-1970. From basic training to AIT, but mostly my lovely tour of Vietnam in Southeast Asia. Some of my stories, I hope you will find funny, and some I know you will find tragic, and others may get me in trouble. I hope there is a statute of limitations on some of the things I have done or seen. As I share my stories with you, I will also be using some slang terms that were used in Vietnam. I've created a glossary in the back of the book for these terms. Please refer to them if needed. I hope I touch the heart of my daughter and son and show you a small slice of my reality of what Vietnam was really like from a soldier's point of view.

Guido Visioni lived in an apartment building in The Bronx with his mother, his father, and their standard red poodle, Fredo. You could say that Guido was particular about the food that he ate. You might even say he was...picky.The one food that Guido loved to eat was macaroni. He ate macaroni for breakfast, he ate it for lunch, he ate it for dinner, and sometimes he even ate macaroni for dessert! With every new delicious and adventurous meal put before him, he would say to his parents, "Noooooo thank you. I like macaroni!" Guido would visit his friends throughout his apartment building, all having immigrated from nations all over the world. Each friend would offer Guido new and exciting cuisine from their family's cultural traditions. "Try it. You might like it," they would say. Guido would simply reply, "Noooooo thank you. I like macaroni!"Sashimi from Yumi's family? "Noooooo thank you!" Luis' enchiladas? "Noooooo thank you!" Priya's samosas? "Noooooo thank you!"Rami's baba-ganoush? "Noooooo thank you!"It seemed that no one could sway him away from his beloved macaroni.Until one day, Guido, Fredo and their friends walked to school. He remembered his backpack. He remembered his clarinet. He remembered to kiss his mother and father goodbye...but he forgot his lunchbox that was filled with macaroni.Eventually, Guido has the courage to try the foods of his friends and their families. And guess what? He liked them! Introduce your child to a story that will teach them the beauty of trying new and exciting foods. This book is the perfect gift for the picky eater, whether they are in preschool or elementary school. With songs and repetition that your child or student will love, you'll hear them reciting Guido's adventure for ages. 

The announcement in December 1942 by the Polish government-in-exile that the Germans were attempting to exterminate all Jews in Poland came after much information had reached the West through other sources. The Polish government's action and inaction in releasing the information was the result of the complex weighing by the government's concept of its obligations to the Jewish citizens of Poland.

This colorful portrait of law and society during a period of rapid social change reaches a counter-intuitive conclusion about the role of law in injury cases: globalization has led ordinary Thai people to turn away from courts and lawyers and to embrace a form of religious practice that leaves them without any remedy for harms they have suffered.

In this book, Engel asks why and how Jewish history and the Holocaust came to be viewed as separate areas of academic study.

"Engel's study will be the definitive statement on one dimension of a very complex problem: the relations between Jews and their countrymen in occupied Poland." - Central European History. "A superb piece of scholarship that is impeccably researched and most elegantly written as well." - Jan T. Gross, New York University

"This is a superb introduction to a crucial chapter in Jewish history for the uninitiated reader. In this engaging and highly accessible book, David Engel provides a concise, informative and lucid account of the history of the modern Zionist movement and its impact on both Israeli society and Israel's relations with Diaspora Jewry."Yael Zerubavel, Professor of Jewish Studies & History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and author of "Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition.""David Engel's book is a masterpiece of brevity and insight, offering a sweeping survey of political Zionism - from its 19th century inception, through its practical realization, to its standing in contemporary Israel. The debate on Zionism as the liberation movement for Jews everywhere is greatly enriched by this fascinating study." Ronald W. Zweig, Taub Professor of Israel Studies at New York University and author of "Britain and Palestine During the Second World War."