Levin and Weiner cover all the issues in this book, from food to soils to land use to participatory land reform. A critical and uncompromising look at the land reform process in South Africa. Up to date, precise, well written - without question it will become one of the key documents on the land reform process. Participatory research at its best. Bravo!

Daniel Touro Linger does an excellent job at examining the Japanese-Brazilian population in and around Aichi Prefecture, Japan. I do think, however, that the book contains too many full interviews of Japanese-Brazilians that basically state the same thing: That they, the Japanese-Brazilians, are Brazilian and not Japanese. (Japanese is only their ethnicity, not their nationality or cultural affiliation).
However, I did enjoy the book because of its original ideas and found it to be helpful in my understanding and current research of the dekasegi phenomenon in Japan.

Mindblowing! There's so much here it's hard to know where to begin. Suffice it to say that this book provides full information about all the places and ways to find jobs with nonprofits and in education. It's easy to use and actually fun (the cartoons are great!). You could spend hours with it -- but the best thing is, it helped me and several friends find jobs really quickly. Thanks.

This book presents moral theory and the factors involved in an excellent format, without the distraction of constant references to other philosophers. Kagan's writing is easily accessible and explains ethics in a logical fashion. Terms are clearly defined and explained, and there is a complete index of references in the back once you're ready to move on to primary source philosophy. A must read for any LD debater, especially when debating resolutions concerning morality.

For elk researchers, this is an essential summary of the expansive research on elk.

Everyone who uses this gets caught up in it and forgets time, spending hours exploring. This approach to learning is the most exciting change in the field of music. The materials give you background about each piece, but the most exciting aspect is the ability to click and hear immediately the exact thing that is being discussed. The listening guides show you important features as you listen. Beginners will learn basic features, more advanced listeners and students can deepen their understanding of the structure of the music.

Dombrowski effectively presents a coherent and illuminative picture of the philosophy of Stephen R. L. Clark. I read this book without having had any prior experience of Clark's philosophy and have come away with a treasure of thought-provoking insights. While I must agree with Clark's critics that his style is not as systematic as one would like, his prosaic writing (numerous passages are quoted by Dombrowski) is itself an enjoyable experience. I agree with Dombrowski against those critics who find no coherency in Clark's treatment of the various areas of religion, duties toward animals and politics. His vision of the world and humanity's place in it, which Dombrowski presents in the last chapter, is philosophically interesting (rooted in neo-Platonism) and effectively demonstrates the coherency of Clark's philosophy in terms of his main project to avoid both extremism and anthropocentrism while preserving traditional religious ideals.

This book gently draws us into the life of Thea Woolf and into the world of this Jewish nurse who lived and worked in Alexandria, Egypt during World War II. She was born in Germany and trained to be a nurse there. She then served as a nurse in the Jewish hospital in Alexandria for many years. Being in Egypt before and during the war years not only saved her life but also thrust her into a leading role of helping Jewish refugees who came to or through Egypt in their attempt to escape the holocaust.

She relates several stories of people who took part in this fight to save so many lives. These stories are both tragic and uplifting. We discover that Muslims as well as Jews worked together for this cause, that for these caring people human life was more important to them than any religious differences.

If Ernst Bloch was with us today he'd be quite honored that his work seems to have such a durable power,an edifice of ideologic thought where marketplace schemes of fashionable thinking refuse to erode it away. His utopian thought reminds me of the equally durable, enormous black-iron abstractions of sculptor Richard Serra. This is a great introduction to Bloch. As a musician myself I can only say that, I have always welcomed a formidable thinker whose thought includes the art of music within the spectrum of their thinking. Leonard Bernstein also was quite fascinated with Bloch,as well as composer Alexander Goehr. This is a comprehensive collection of essays dealing with Bloch's thought. Simultaneously it profiles and presents important questions at us reflecting Bloch's thought. One powerful idea of Bloch is his concept of temporality,that we all inhabit different times,and that our horizons are different,not ascending or progressing in a straight line irresprective if (on the surface) we seem to all desire identical objects and spiritual values . The essay on educator Paolo Freire, I found perhaps the most important, because it represents Bloch's work in the real world. Simply incessant interpretations of Marxist thought,which is what frequently occurs in thinkers such as Adorno,Benjamin,Lukacs is not what it is intended to be. Bloch's magnum opus "Das Prinzip Hoffnung" (Hope The Principle) is well traversed by editor Tom Moylan. In that work Bloch seized the whole of world culture to locate his concept of utopia as within the crevices of the various religions of the world,dime-novels of the Thirties,the symphony,rituals and dreams. Bloch has always had a special place within the spectrum of Marxist thinking continues to be true today. His thought represents for some the more dangerous aspects of Marx, the spiritual. How has this mainifested itself? has only been traversed simple-mindedly as in the search for "quasi-religious" icons of the Left, hammers and sickles,red flags,co! llectives,Bob Dylan songs,and portraits of revered leaders. Although Bloch supported the Soviet Union, the implications of his thought was light years away from that tyrannical cathechism of Georgian nationalism. The negative side of Bloch's thought was not an actively political one. In fact those who have been placed under the banner of Western Marxism as Adorno,Bloch,Lukacs,Colletti,and Benjamin were not political activist thinkers. Their thought rarely found a profound sequence of cause and effect,of consequences, as an appraisal of the correlation of power within the burdens of daily politics. That was the diluted side of their thought, And so with Bloch. His primary value was in his appraisal of the spirit,of the "Not Yet" within human existence within the dimensions of Marxism. His work today has relevance in that since we are in a process of redefining political involvement,in formulating issues, Bloch's work seems a profound source of thought as the world seems to becoming less predictable with globalization schemes.

Sometimes is the truth is stranger than fiction! This is certainly the case with Notorious Woman: The Celebrated Case of Myra Clark Gaines. This book had everything I wanted -- scandalous family secrets, an heir fighting for legitimacy, a struggle through the courts, even a murder -- AND, it's all true! The author re-tells the drama as it unfolded in the courtroom and lets you come to your own conclusion: Was Myra Clark Gaines the true heir to a New Orleans real estate fortune worth millions? You decide.