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Why Didn't the Press Shout: American & International Journalism During the Holocaust
Published in Hardcover by KTAV Publishing House (2003)
Authors: Robert Moses Shapiro and Aristeides Moses Papadakis
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A thought-provoking critique of the power of the press
Why Didn't The Press Shout: American & International Journalism During The Holocaust is an in-depth survey of American and international journalism during the Holocaust and offers essays and scholarly analysis by over thirty scholars of journalism and history, who consider what was reported about the Holocaust in over a dozen countries and languages. Studies of such reporting in countries from the Soviet Union to the Vatican and Romania make for a thought-provoking analysis of how the media neglected the story or, in the case of Nazi countries, twisted it to their own political interests. A thought-provoking critique of the power of the press.


The Children Bob Moses Led
Published in Paperback by Milkweed Editions (1997)
Author: William Heath
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Disappointing
I am an ardent admirer of Bob Moses, and was hoping to read a book which provides a textured glimpse of him; this came nowhere close. Perhaps the trouble is that Moses was an enigmatic figure, difficult for anyone but his close friends and associates to understand. That being the case, repeating this observation--as the book does implicitly and explicitly--hardly illuminateds his character, nor does it make for fascinating reading.

Bob Moses comes alive in this book!
Readers searching for a role model during Black History Month need look no further than this novel by William Heath. Bob Moses kept his cool when things got hot down South in the 1960s. A must read for anyone interested in the civil rights movement.

Excellent novel
I enjoyed reading this novel. It taught me a lot about a time in America's history I knew little about. William Heath is an amazing writer.


You Stand There: Making Music Video
Published in Paperback by Random House Trade Paperbacks (1997)
Authors: David Jr. Kleiler and Robert Moses
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Useful but dry.
I realise that this book has a lot of very useful information but a lot of it seems pretty obvious and it is quite a dull read. Still, I commend the author on embarking on such a task and trying to promote indepenent film-making, even if his own videos stink for the most part... which they do.

Short, Inspiring and Do-it-yourself--Definately worthwhile
This book I found to be a great guide on the how-to of making your own Music Videos.

Being in a band, myself, I was inspired by the processes they describe and outright guerilla rock video production.

A must have if you are interested in producing your own rock video!

Definitly worth the money !
I bought this book while preparing for the shooting of my first music video. How often do you read a book and find yourself going like: yes, that happened to me too, I recognize the frustation, the excitement, etc. etc. Although written from a definite USA/MTV experience, it was very useful for me in Portugal. No doubt, a great book !


And Gently He Shall Lead Them: Robert Parris Moses and Civil Rights in Mississippi
Published in Paperback by New York University Press (1996)
Author: Eric R. Burner
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An unsung hero, Bob Moses
This book gives Bob Moses the attention his life deserves. You should also check out The Children Bob Moses Led by William Heath. It's a novel that blends fact with fiction to tell the story of Moses and Freedom Summer.

A TRUE AMERICAN HERO
IN this time of increased jingosim and nationalism,when dissent is called dishonor and treason[by the current Attorney General of the United States}, this book is like a balm. Robert Parris Moses is a certifiable HERO,and is a character drawn almost by his philosophical champion, the great Algerian exixtentialist and Noble Laurete, Albert Camus. Moses went to Mississippi in the early 1960's, in Mccomb county and began the torturous process of registering people to vote.Slight, in his horn rimmed glasses, with white T shirt under his bib overalls, Moses tirelessly and fearlessly went up against crooked judges, Klukers and corrupt and racist law enforcement, and slowly[with the eventual aid of the Justice department and John Doar, who ,though a republican, was also the justice dept. lead lawyer in the impeachment proceedings against President Richard m. Nixon}, registered voters, and changed the shape of american history. With his backround in philosophy}[from Harvard} and a steely determination to do the right thing, Moses at times singlehandely carried on, living with local balck families in Hamlets throught Mississippi.One of the few memebers of the civil rights movement was was not in the least bit awed by Martin Luther King,jr.[perhaps beacuse he knew himself to be the equal of any man} he sallied forth under pressure and fear that I literally cannot comprehend. this is a fine book about a period of american history that should be celebrated,not consigned to february alone. It was a tuime when politicians thought they could "possibly" cahnge things, and far more importantly, when people such as Mr. Moses felt it was imperative for they themselves to change things. My Admiration for Mr.Moses is second to no one. He, along with John Lewis, are certifiable living heroes,men who make me proud to be american. This book, then is one way to get to know this great, yes,great man. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Classic Movie Companion
Published in Paperback by Hyperion (Adult Trd Pap) (1999)
Authors: Robert Moses and American Movie Classics Company
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classic indeed
This is quite possibly the best smelling book about movies with which I have ever had the pleasure of spending an afternoon. Tons of great info, too.

An indispensable guide!
I'm in love with this book! It has incredibly concise and to-the-point reviews of all kinds of classic films. Sometimes I just like to rifle through it and pick a page to read. I'm sure I'll be using this book 20 years from now. It's a real find!


Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights
Published in Paperback by Beacon Press (2002)
Authors: Robert Moses and Charles E. Cobb
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Well-intentioned but overhyped and unconvincing
I've heard a lot about this book, and in fact I will be involved in a faculty summer discussion group about it. Some people I respect think very highly of it. I can't for the life of me understand why. Moses deserves nothing but credit for his history of activism and his obvious talents and commitment as an educator. But he is utterly unconvincing in his argument that math literacy is a central civil rights issue. His whole argument seems to be based on the increasingly discredited "new economy" thesis about jobs and calls for "economic access" as a "radical" change similar to those in the 1960s. I disagree heartily. His attempt to link math education with the civil rights movement is a stretch, and I think he trivializes his own experience. His discussion of cultural experience as the basis for education is nothing new. And I still don't know what the "Algebra Project" is! I found the description in the appendix to be even more alienating and incomprehensible than my high school calculus teacher, who flunked me. If Mr. Moses is getting kids to demand algebra classes, more power to him--he is doing something right. He is probably a far better teacher than I am. But this book leaves me cold and confused. I look forward to my discussion group--perhaps they will show me what I'm missing, but I doubt it.

An Important Civil Right - Math Literacy
Robert P. Moses, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's, has (correctly) reached the conclusion that Math literacy is, in these times and for the predictable future, a prerequisite for first-class citizenship, and since he still wants everyone to be a first-class citizen (and rightly so) he has embarked on a campaign to enable every child to be mathematically literate, and he has enjoyed a considerable degree of success. There is still a long way to go; his program (or more accurately, the program developed by Moses and his associates and the children, parents, and teachers they have worked with) has so far been adopted only by a small minority of the schools, but in those schools where it is in place, math achievement has increased significantly, and (SURPRISE!) reading scores have also improved significantly.

THIS IS A RESULT THAT EVERY TEACHER AND EVERY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT! THIS BOOK SHOULD BE IN EVERY SCHOOL LIBRARY!

I have only one small carp with this book. On page 7 is the statement: "The result was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world's first programmable computer. I asked three Afro-American students, ages 15-21, what was the world's first programmable computer, and not one of them mentioned ENIAC. Rather, they all replied that the first programmable computer was the Zuse Z3. They were all correct. The Z3, disigned and built by Konrad Zuse in Germany, and operational in 1939, approximately 2 years before ENIAC, was the world's first programmable computer. Fortunately, the German High Command didn't take Zuse and his computer seriously.

However, the error is understandable. Most textbooks on the subject in America incorrectly credit ENIAC with being first (I would expect that few if any German texts fail to give credit where it belongs.) Moses was probably innocently repeating what he had been taught at Harvard. And in any case, this one minor error is but a very minor blemish on a very relevant and valuable book. If you are a parent of school-age children, you should get this book, and then get together with other parents and with your children to demand that your school adopt the Algebra Project curriculum. Your children deserve the best education possible, and that means using the Algebra Project curriculum. Also, buy and read "Victory in Our Schools," by John Stanford. The two books complement each other.

If you are a parent of school-age children, you owe it to your children to buy and read this book and also "Victory in Our Schools, by John Stanford (the two complement each other).

Good argument that math literacy is the next civil right
This is a very good book on how math literacy is the next civil right. The book discusses the Algebra Project, an organization founded by 1960's civil rights leader Bob Moses, to teach algebra to kids in inner-cities and rural communities.

The beginning of the book reads like Moses' autobiography about his years organizing in Mississippi. He then discusses how groups like the Jews, Koreans, and Chinese relied on math as the basis for their upward mobility. Moses' theory is that as the world becomes more and more focused on technology and innovation, math will have an even greater importance.

Summation: Read this book -- it is very eye-opening.


Some Mistakes of Moses
Published in Paperback by Prometheus Books (1986)
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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Powerful Bible criticism from The Great Agnostic
This book is based on a series of lectures Ingersoll gave 120 years ago, pointing out the absurdities, contradictions and downright wickedness contained in the five books of the Bible attributed to Moses. It is interesting to note that at the time one of the most frequent allegations made by his critics was that he was attacking a man of straw. Priests of the time complained that no serious Christians believed this colection of fables and allegories to be literally true. With the resurgence of fundamentalism, and the strange notion that the Bible is final and infallable, books such as this are perhaps more relevent now than at any time since the 18th Century.

Ingersoll was a populariser rather than a philosopher, and never pretended to be anything else. Few of the points made are original, and the style of the book is popular rather than scholarly. He does, however, have a great talent for provocative writing. The book is easy to read, and his points are clear and well made.

Parts of this book are read-bits-out-to-strangers funny. For example, after pointing out that having created the whole universe out of nothing, God had apparently run out of nothing and had to create Eve from one of Adam's ribs, Ingersoll asks us to consider God holding a piece of bone, about to create the first woman, and wondering whether to make her a blonde or a brunette.

Ingersoll also devotes much time to showing how the myths described in the Pentateuch reflect the ignorance of the people who wrote them. For example, we are told that it took God six days to make the Earth, but "he made the stars also" almost as an afterthought on the fourth day. Did the man who wrote that know that each star is millions of times larger than the Earth and that there are 100 billion of them in this galaxy alone? Or did he think that thy were just small points of light a few miles above the Earth? Did kangaroos hop and swim all the way from Australia to the Ark, and then hop all the way back rather than stay and breed on Mt Ararat? Or did Moses think the world was a small place, and that the same species of animals lived everywhere?

More to the point, and humour aside, would a loving and merciful God drown the entire world, including countless children, in the first place? Or kill every firstborn child in Egypt for the crimes of the Pharoah? Why not just kill the Pharoah?

Ingersoll also efficiently disposes of the notion that these books can be used as a basis for morality. Some of the Ten Commandments are simply absurd (the worship of Jehovah cannot be more moral than the worship of any other god, and one day of the week cannot be more holy than the others), while those commandments which are good were unnecessary. Murder, lying and stealing have been frowned on in all societies, and it surely needed no revelation to tell the Isrealites that such things were wrong. Had God issued commandments against slavery, wars of extermination, religious persecution or the subjugation of women the Isrealites might have learned something useful from them. But from the rest of the Pentateuch it appears that God actively approves of such things.

Ingersoll ends with a plea that we should discard these books completely. They are not allegories or fables; still less are they the inspired word of God. They are simply Some Mistakes of Moses.

It is worth pointing out that the complete works of Robert Ingersoll (12 volumes in print) are available on CD-ROM....

Properly Chastises Inerrantists for Insulting the Almighty
Robert Ingersoll wrote for the common person, using common language and common sense. In fact, he appeals to the same simplicity that people invoke when declaring that there must be a God vis-à-vis the "design of creation." As one reads this book, it is easy to feel guilt for attributing the words of the Bible to the Creator of the Universe. And by the end of the book, one is left with the choice of (a) using common sense and common decency to absolve the Almighty from the barbarism that is contained in the Bible; or (b) continue to practice intellectual acrobatics in order to hold the Almighty responsible for every barbaric word of the Bible. Indeed, Ingersoll ensures that inerrantists are properly chastised for their continued insistence of an "inspired book." Such a position is unjustified and insulting to the Almighty. Perhaps it is too idealistic to expect inerrantists to recognize Ingersoll's simple arguments in defense of the Almighty and for that they will perhaps one day be held accountable for insisting that God did and said all of the awful acts found in the Bible.

Simply wonderful!
This book is joy to read, even if but for the literary style of Mr. Ingersoll. Though not a trained philosopher, Ingersoll points out much of the errancy and contradiction in the first books of the Bible.

Better yet, he does it with a style and flair that is only comparable to Mark Twain! Most theists (especially Christians) will certainly STILL object to this book. Of course, Mr. Ingersoll used to get death threats in his day so I suspect the criticism by and large, is nothing new.

Regardless, if you're a non-theist or have an open mind and appreciation for a well crafted and written book, this one is for you!


Moses and the Deuteronomist: A Literary Study of the Deuteronomic History: Part 1: Deuteronomy/Joshua/Judges (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literatu)
Published in Paperback by Indiana University Press (1993)
Author: Robert Polzin
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Literary-Structural Analysis on Deuteronomy
Polzin's book, Moses and the Deuteronomist, is an excellent example text for utilizing the literary-structural approach based heavily on the structural-formalists, Mikhail Bakhtin and V. N. Voloshinov, outside biblical scholarship. Polzin's observation on two voices (reporting and reported speeches) in Deuteronomy provides two different perspectives, i.e., "critical traditionalism - reporting speech" and "authoritative dogmatism - reported speech." These voices enable the reader to understand a conflict between two different ideologies and covenants throughout the entire texts. In spite of one of weaknesses, inconsistencies of the relationship among the authoritative figures(God, the omniscient narrator, and the implied author), his approach is good for those who specialize in serious literary-structural study on Deuteronomy.


Requiem for Moses
Published in Hardcover by Andrews McMeel Publishing (1996)
Author: William X. Kienzle
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Slow moving and predictable.
Some of Kienzle's earlier books were quite exciting and made the reader reluctant to put the book down. Requiem for Moses, unfortunately, is not from this mold. There is little action, a good bit of boring church politics, at best understood only by Catholics, and a very predictable outcome


Manual of Natural Therapy: A Practical Guide to Alternative Medicine
Published in Paperback by Citadel Pr (1990)
Authors: Moshe Olshevsky, Shlomo Noy, Moses Zwang, and Robert Burger
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