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Revising Culture, Reinventing Peace: The Influence of Edward W. Said
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Throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century, Columbia University professor Edward W. Said's work has been recognized as a major influence on literature, cultural studies, and Palestinian nationalism. President of the Modern Language Association, pianist, and confidant to world leaders, he is the author of seventeen books, including the seminal Orientalism, which has shaped and reshaped academic disciplines and political movements, spanning continents and linking formerly disparate intellectual pursuits.
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Nauseating.......2005-12-09
Well, I read the first six Harry Potter books. And Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters sure do seem scary. So do, as Ibn Warraq characterizes them, Edward Said and the Saidists. But there is a difference. Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are fictional characters. Ed Said was real, and the Saidists are real people. What they write is typically fiction. But they are real people with real motives for what they do.
I'm not sure why the Saidists who contributed to this book perpetrated these articles. It would be nice to know, of course. After all, I want to be sure that I never do anything remotely resembling this, and so it would be good to know just what these folks were thinking.
Most people would agree that human beings ought to have a right to buy land and live on it. Obviously, those who applaud Said can't really agree, given their implict approval of Said's racist opposition to human rights for Levantine Jews. But I found nothing in this book that was useful in explaining what it was they really wanted or why.
The book starts out with Richard Falk who says that Ed Said made "indispensable contributions" to the life of independent inquiry. And he insists on honoring Said. Well, I think that of all the people who have ever had anything to do with academia, Ed Said is the least worthy of being honored. In my opinion, not even Trofim Lysenko did as much damage to the academic community as did Said.
As Ibn Warraq has shown in his article, "Edward Said and the Saidists," while "Orientalism" (an infamous book by Said) "is worthless as intellectual history," it has inhibited research on the Orient by Western scholars. I agree with Warraq that Said's work "has made the goal of modernization of the Middle Eastern societies that much more difficult." In my opinion, Said's works are riddled with outrageous ad hoc untruths. In fact, I suspect that Said has more copies of untruths in print than any other human in history. These untruths are there to support otherwise hopeless arguments for denying Levantine Jews the rights of life, liberty, property, and refuge.
Later in the book, Marc Ellis has a thirty-five page article. Typical of the way he misrepresents reality is his straw-man claim that folks such as Elie Wiesel believe that Jews "are incapable of hate." However, that's absurd. Wiesel has indeed discussed the fact that Jews have rarely resorted to cruelty. But that in no way means that Jews are incapable of hate, or that Wiesel believes them to be so. Most humans, including most Jews, are capable of hate. One example is in Yaacov Lozowick's book, "Right to Exist." Lozowick cites a young Jewish girl who managed to write in her diary in 1941 that she knew "there are also good Germans. They should be killed last." Now, that was truly nasty of her. Still, hate alone does not translate into evil acts. Such acts require both motive and opportunity. Lozowick points out that there were some opportunities after World War Two, but these were rarely taken advantage of. And that supports what Wiesel says, not what Ellis wants us to believe. I would add that Jews have had a long history and tradition of avoiding violence, in part because for centuries, there were no Jewish armies (often, Jews were even denied the right to possess weapons). And that even in modern times, Jews have been strongly motivated to avoid unnecessary violence. Yes, Jews have defended themselves when attacked. But that is very different from gratuitous oppression of one's neighbors.
Naseer Aruri has an article in which he asks whether "Zionism is a movement of national plundering or a movement of a persecuted people acting according to a humane ethic, seeking compromise and peace." Obviously it is the latter, and it is sickening to see him imply that it is the former.
John Sigler also has an article, where he quotes Said as saying that "a national movement whose provenance and ideas were European took a land away from a non-European people settled there for centuries." This is a major assault on both facts and logic. The national movement was of the Jewish people. The capital of these people was already in Jerusalem. There were very few Jews in the lightly-populated Levant when modern Zionism began, because of the discrimination against them. But once Jews became emancipated, they did start moving to the Levant in larger numbers. Yes, many came from Europe. But they did not take land away from a non-European people. They bought land at high prices, and by doing so attracted more non-Jews to the region, and improved human rights there to boot!
Justus Reid Weiner wrote a relatively mild article about Said in Commentary in 1999, in which he exposed a few of Said's lies about his personal history. I think this article may have given some people the false impression that the worst that can be said about Said is that he is alleged to have falsified a few minor things. And sure enough, there is a disgusting article by Muhammed Shuraydi that tries to defend Said even on this!
My advice is to avoid this book.
Perspectives on Orientalism.......2002-05-08
This is an interesting series of essays on the work of Edward Said, with many perspectives on the issues of Orientalism, and the reactions to it, both in the West and in the Arab world. The many distortions and attacks of Said's work are reviewed and clarified, as the question of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict looms in the background. Steady as she goes.
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- Realpolitik for the real world
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Reinventing Influence: How to Get Things Done in a World Without Authority (Future Skills Series)
Mary Bragg
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This is a practical book for the manager of the future which clearly shows the link between influencing skills and effective management.
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Realpolitik for the real world.......2001-04-04
Maybe you won't get that warm feeling like in John Maxwell's book, nor as academically rigorous as Richard Thaler's works, BUT you will learn how to get things done in the real world. Dale Carnegie this ain't, but if you're at all involved in the Byzantine corporate political environment of today (and who isn't?), this stuff helps. Nuff said. Not the most Machiavellian book on the subject, but adequate for the advertised purpose.
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This collection on the Zapatista uprising brings together contributors from Mexico, the United States and Britain. The editors examine the formation of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and discuss the key themes of the uprising - from the central issue of what it means to have a revolution that does not aim to take power to the meaning of identity and non-identity, the question of gender, race and class and the role of the Internet and electronic media. The significant contribution that the EZLN's spokesman, Subcomandante Marcos, has made to revolutionary literature is a theme that runs throughout the book.
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Excellent read on Zapatistas.......2001-05-14
This book provides a good introduction to the politics and organization of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. The book presents the Zapatistas in the context they have attempted to portray themselves: a movement for human dignity and for the upliftment of all peoples, not merely a movement for the rights of indigenous peoples, as the Zapatistas have been portrayed repeatedly by mainstream commentators and press.
This book does a good job of presenting the incisive social critique of the Zapatistas, dispels some of the myths of the organization of the uprising (like that Marcos is the "leader" of the Zapatistas), and shows some of the more interesting salient features of the Zapatista communities. It shows also the history and political development of the Zapatista movement, as well as a juxtaposition of the Zapatistas with the traditional Left. It emphasizes the resistence of the Zapatistas to the usual power-grabbing method of political change. In short, it does an excellent job of conveying the Zapatista philosophy in a short 200 pages.
zapatista.......2000-01-17
on jan 1st 1994 the zapatista liberation army took over 5 townsand 500 ranches in southern mexico. just like in other south american countries american backed death aquads are operating. this again a hidden war. read this book. as subcommandante Marcos said "in the mountains of the mexico souteast, Death is seen as an old acquaintance, someone you continuosly sit down at the table with"
review please!.......1999-02-04
I realy wish that I had read the book so I could write a real review. Instead am asking any one who has read this book to write a review about it. As for my opinion on government and politics, I believe that the current American government should be destroyed. This should be followed with the break up of american society into smaller, cooperative groups. These seperate societies would be a socialist pure democracy, eliminating class and positions of power in government, everyone would have their say.
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Title: Chaos and promise: Dominican theologian examines how the church can find its place in a postmodern world.(REINVENTING CHURCH)(Fr. Albert Nolan)(Cover story)
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Title: Making things last: reinventing our material culture.
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Reinventing business organisations: the information culture framework. : An article from: Singapore Management Review
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Title: Reinventing sex: new technologies and changing attitudes; New technologies will promote pleasure, simulate reality, improve performance, and thwart disease.
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Title: Reinventing the slate: what Silicon Valley giveth, schools taketh away. (speaking out).(Internet has reduced computers' educational potential)
Author: Gary Stager
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- An entertaining hodgepodge of recipes, hype, inside jokes, and pure BS
- Bull Cook is a treasure
- I can't believe it!
- The Cliff Claven of Cuisine
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Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices
George Leonard Herter , and
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An entertaining hodgepodge of recipes, hype, inside jokes, and pure BS.......2007-08-19
Due to it's unique layout, this book is not the sort that needs to be read in front to back order. It's basically a random hodgepodge of rough recipes (some real, some bogus, and plenty that blur the line) sorted into alphabetical order - you can jump around and read at random, which is exactly what I've been doing. There's no introduction, nor even any information about the author - it's just a crazy quilt grab-bag of humorous pseudo-recipes and screeds about food philosophy ... new outrageous assertions, inside jokes, and so-called `facts' are always lurking just around the next paragraph (the kind of jokes best appreciated by history and food buffs).
As is the case with the best lies having a healthy dose of the truth mixed in (to lend weight and believability), the author intersperses some real history into the massive quantities of horse hooey he shovels into the reader's lap ... seasoning it generously with humor, purple prose, and two-fisted food philosophy - all with a healthy undercurrent of the author sounding like an overeducated backwater hick running a roadside stand and hawking his "world's finest" recipes and opinions to all within earshot. It's a heady mix.
Just to give you an idea what to expect, here's a BS-laden Herter-esque recipe, that I just now improvised, to demonstrate the author's writing style:
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Mary Queen of Scots Head Cheese
Mary Stuart, queen of Scots, was born on 8 December 1542 at Linlithgow Palace in Scotland. As the Scots of that time were wont to do, Mary's parents packed her off to France when she was only six years old, to marry Francis II (a notorious pedophile who conveniently happened to be next in line for the throne of France), in return for Frances's return aid in helping the Scottish rid themselves of the pesky English.
Utterly bored with vapid court life, and disgusted by the doting affections of her pedophile husband, Mary sought comfort and distraction by immersing herself in the royal kitchens, where she spent 10 years of her life honing her increasingly prodigious culinary skills. In particular, she developed a special love of pork, and pork products - all of which are fine eating, and which laid the early groundwork for the modern American BBQ that we know and love today.
Suddenly, Mary's philandering French hubbie became king, and then 2 years later died under mysterious circumstances. Whispers around court claimed that Mary had grown tired, at long last, of her husband's gropings, and got her revenge by feeding him a tainted strew of pork cassoulet (in which she substituted pork pizzle for sausage), laced with poison. He ate it all, smacked his lips, patted his stomach, took a brief post-degustation nap, and woke up in hell, with Satan grinning and jiggling the unpaid tab.
Unfortunately, with the death of her husband, a political coup forced her to rethink her dreams of ruling France, and return instead to Scotland, where she soon met and married her second husband, Lord Henry Darnley, who was historically noteworthy for being hugely endowed and with an capacity for wine, women and song that beggared the imagination.
Unhappy with her new husband's drinking and womanizing, not to mention disgusted with her household chef (who every day served the same thing: porridge for breakfast, fried mars bars for lunch, and haggis with nips & taddies for dinner, and all the weak tea and skunky 70 shilling ale she could quaff) she one again returned to the kitchen for escape and distraction, and eventually developed the recipe that later made her famous: Mary Queen of Scots Head Cheese ... one of the most glorious and finest eating dishes ever known to humanity. I make it myself at least once a month, during hog season. Simply wonderful.
Now then. Fame of her culinary talents spread, and eventually made their way to the court of King Henry VIII, a notorious glutton who (like Mary) loved pork, and who also happened to be desperately in need of a male heir, and under considerable pressure to produce same. Hearing of her culinary prowess, and her beauty, as well as her political status as hereditary Queen of Scotland, Henry and Mary initiated romantic correspondence, in which the two wrote at length about their love of food, thoughts on Protestantism and Catholicism, Marriage, Divorce, and whether or not pork sausage was best served dry aged, or roasted with peppers and onions. Copies of these heart-warming letters are a very popular item, and can be had from the catalog of my general store.
Eventually, Henry (at Mary's request) had her good-for-nothing second husband conveniently knifed during a tavern brawl, and he brought her to England, and with her own loving hands she made him her famous head cheese ... and for a while, things were blissful.
However, after many moons with no male heir appearing, Henry began to get restless and his eye began to roam. Mary caught him one day with a serving girl, and administered a vicious two-handed beating to both of them with an undercooked turkey leg, wielded like a gravy-soaked maul. After the gravy-splattered and disheveled King recovered, he had Mary imprisoned in the Tower of London, and eventually had her beheaded, and ordered his cooks to use her head to make her world famous recipe one last time - with truly royal results. One lip-smacking diner was overheard to proclaim "Mary ... the best head in all of England !"
MARY'S AUTHENTIC HISTORICAL RECIPE: Take 1 pig's head, freshly bled, and put it in a large pot of water. Add a few coarsely chopped onions, celery, a splash of white wine vinegar, and a small palmful of peppercorns, allspice, a cayenne pepper, 2 bay leaves, and a dash Paul Prudhomme's pork seasoning mix. Boil about 3 hours, then remove the head, let par cool, pick off all the edible meat (reserve) and return all the bones and other scraps back to the pot and boil the #@$% out of it for another 6-12 hours (adding more water as necessary to keep the bones covered) until the bones drop clean. Strain and discard all solids, and clarify the stock with egg whites and crushed chicken shells. Then reduce the liquid to one quarter it's original volume (reduce further if needed), or until thick and rich, and beginning to gel firmly when cooled. Salt to taste, and par-chill until beginning to thicken, but not quite set. Next, fill a mold with the cold flaked meat, cold diced lard, and cold diced cheese, and pour the reduced stock over it. Refrigerate over night, then slice when hard. Makes for truly fine eating. Simply wonderful in sandwiches, or eaten plain, out of hand. Children love it, because if made properly, it has a slight wiggle, and will bounce if dropped - making it not only fun, but economical if your children are klutzy and always dropping their food. No waste ! Guaranteed to be the best head you've ever had.
Bull Cook is a treasure.......2005-07-18
The other reviews all capture the essence of Herter's cookbook. Laced with an ample portion of Herter's blustery wit, it's an enjoyable read, full of nuggets of subjective wisdom of the ages. I grew up having Herter's Professional Guides Manual and How to get out of the rat race, etc around the house and at an early age found my BS detector working well. My Dad gave How to get out of the rat race to his Dad, who was raised in turn-of-the-century Texas, and inscribed it: "Having actually done this, I thought you'd like to know how you SHOULD have done it!". True classics, which I've recently found and purchaed at [...].
I can't believe it!.......2005-01-27
I'm amazed this book is still in print! I found this book in a used book store in New Orleans and thought it was a bizarre regional oddity from up north - what a great read, especially if you're a big foodie.
The Cliff Claven of Cuisine.......2005-01-24
Remember Cliff, the postman in "Cheers"? You know, the John Ratzenberger character who was the know-it-all barfly who, even if he DID know something about a subject, managed to mangle it into unwittingly hilarious non-sequiturs?
Cross that character with an travel & food writer of great enthusiasm and woefully limited skills, and you might end up with something like this.
Part cookbook, part very dubious history, part polemic and 100% personal. It is refreshingly blunt and opinionated, even if his opinions are howlingly off base sometimes. Look at it this way, to use another TV analogy: which would be more interesting, a beer with Archie Bunker or a sherry with Felix Unger? This book is definitely not the latter.
I gotta confess I have a soft spot for Herter. I was born in 1951, and during my formative preadolescent years one of the finest pieces of literature I consumed ravenously was the Herter's sporting goods catalog. GL Herter wrote the same purple prose and with the same hyperbolic certitude whether the subject was Oysters Rockefeller or fly-tying supplies or worm bedding. Nothing was ever simple: it was always "World Famous Herter's Snelled Hooks" or whatever. Even as a kid I recognized this as over the top, before I even knew what 'over the top' meant.
Highly recommended. A terrifically crazy read. Where is the justice in a world which lets this go out of print while Danielle Steele continues to cause thousands of trees to be killed???
He was un-pc before un-pc was cool..........2003-10-03
First of all, be advised: You will never get this (or any out of print book) from Amazon. Go to [Marketplace] instead. My copy - in very nice condition, for only $...- arrived earlier this week.
I've been aware of this book for some years now, and it's a scream. From the Virgin Mary's favorite dish; to Church Chicken, and beyond (the Church Chicken, by the way, "has done more good, I believe, than any other recipe in the world.").
As an enthusiastic cook, there is quite an array of interesting recipes that I'm sure I'll get around to trying. But the recipes are really secondary to Herter The Blowhard waxing rhapsodic on everything from the "fine Italian people" in Minneapolis & St. Paul; to the impact a nuclear war would have on the availability of soap.
I was just thumbing through my recently-arrived copy, and came across this gem, from Herter's mayonnaise recipe (and I swear I'm NOT making it up!): "Using this famous recipe, mayonnaise is very easy to make and you will never have a failure with one exception. If you are a woman do not attempt to make mayonnaise during menstruating time as the mayonnaise will simply not blend together at all well. This is not superstition but a well established fact well known to all women cooks."
Go ye, and read of it.
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