Lewis M. Weinstein's Blog, page 46

* Lew’s review (ongoing) of “Backing Hitler” by Robert Gellately … It is getting harder for me to reconcile the horrors of the totalitarian state graphically described by Gellately with his contention that “a huge majority of Germans supported Hitler’s pol

In his introduction, Gellately sets the premise that Hitler was well received in 1933 by most Germans who applauded his goals of “restoring the grandeur of the Reich” and “cleaning out undesirable aliens.” He argues that this widespread support for Hitler did not waver substantially until more than a decade later when it was obvious [...]

In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel

I took a course at Oxford this summer on “The Brain and the Senses.” So this is a little extra homework. The idea of memory, where thoughts come from, etc., is fascinating to me.

And, many years ago, before I was there, Eric Kandel had his laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, of which I was later CEO. Unfortunately for me, we have never met.

see the entire review at ...
http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...

* Lew’s review of Eric Kandel’s “In Search of Memory”

****** I’m taking a course at Oxford this summer on “The Brain and the Senses.” So this is a little extra homework. The idea of memory, where thoughts come from, etc., is fascinating to me. And, many years ago, before I was there, Eric Kandel had his laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute, of which [...]

* Lew’s Review … All Our Yesterdays by Robert Parker

****** This is really an extraordinary book. I expected a typical non-memorable crime/thriller story, of which I read many. Instead, here is a brilliantly constructed multi-generational exploration of the very interesting lives of some very flawed people. And does Parker ever make me care about these people! There was something unusual and very powerful about [...]

* Lew’s Review … Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter

****** I am taking a one week course at Oxford (July 2012) … The Brain and the Senses. This is one of the books to read in advance. It is a fascinating journey through what is currently known (2010) about the way the brain receives information from the outside world, and how this information is [...]

Books are in danger of being the road kill in a larger war.”

A huge fight has been going on between Amazon and the book publishers for years. This fight could have profound repercussions for publishers, bookstores and authors. Yet to Amazon, this fight is the “undercard.” The “main event” is a free for all among the 5 U.S. digital giants: Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. In this fight, books are not the major battleground.

read more from a post extracted and paraphrased from … Paper Trail, an article by Ken Auletta in New Yorker 6/25/12 … at ... http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...

* It’s an uncertain time for books and authors … in a confusing battle of corporate giants, “books are in danger of becoming road kill in a larger war”

****** extracted and paraphrased from … Paper Trail, an article by Ken Auletta in New Yorker 6/25/12 … A huge fight has been going on between Amazon and the book publishers for years … Amazon was selling books at a loss: while publishers typically sold e-books to Amazon for about fifteen dollars apiece, Amazon was [...]

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We visited the Jewish Historical institute in Warsaw ... no words are needed ... see
http://patandlewtravel.wordpress.com/...

* sights in Munich

The primary purpose of our recent trip to Munich was to see some of the locations that will appear in my novel-in-progress. Some that will, and one that won't, can be found on our travel blog at ... http://patandlewtravel.wordpress.com/...

mass murder of Jews at Tykocin in August 1941

2,500 Jews comprised 50% of the population of the Polish village Tykocin on August 25, 1941. Until that day they were a vibrant shtetl community full of the unique joy and learning of Polish Jewry. Two days later they were gone.

Read the entire post and the questions this raises for my novel-in-progress at my author blog ...

http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...