"Telephones, taboo in homes, stand at the end of farm lanes. State-of-the-art calculators are permissible, but not computers. These perplexing puzzles, however, are quite reasonable when pieced together in the context of Amish history." Donald B. Kraybill, a sociologist, has provided a way to understand the Amish people's intentional way of living in a world far different from their own.