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Perfect for new and seasoned early childhood educators and caregivers! Art is vital to learning experiences, and this book promotes the integration of art and children's literature. It helps improve student performance in other subject areas as well. It plays an important role in the curriculum .Often times talking with children about their ideas help to get them started on their own creative thought process. The activities in this book are directed which means that the activity is initiated by an adult, the materials are supplied and the topic is proposed. Each art lesson is combined with a children's book. The activities in this book guide children to a disciplined and discriminating approach to their art. Being exposed to art vocabulary will make it easier to find expression. The wide range of stimuli, materials and techniques presented will permit overall flexibility in a child's expressiveness. The primary goal is to focus on the process of creating. This book will aid in simplifying instruction and reducing the amount of preparation needed. Not only will it be extremely helpful to a new teacher, but it will also assist experienced teachers that are looking for novel approached to integrate art with other subjects.
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Writers who illustrate their articles or stories with photographs stand a better chance of having their work accepted for publication. Successful Photography for Writers shows how you can acquire an eye for seeing a good picture and take the sort of photographs editors require. Authors planning a non-fiction project or novelists who use a camera as a pictorial notebook will value the book's practical approach. Guidance on how to achieve creative results, pitfalls to avoid, and the importance of presenting your work in the most effective way, are just some of the essential topics covered.
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They’re back! Sloane Tanen treats us to a second installment of her hilarious chicken dioramas in this sequel to her immensely popular Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same.
Join these fluffy, yellow, surprisingly human protagonists as they face a new series of dilemmas in their exquisitely crafted, miniature settings. Whether playing the online dating game, trying couples therapy, dealing with uncooperative children, discovering the melancholy of middle age, dreaming of a better life, or finally grasping the golden (or at least bronze) ring, these chickens encounter everyday troubles and triumphs as painfully recognizable as they are hilarious. Clever, charming, and endlessly entertaining, Going for the Bronze is a brilliant follow-up to a wholly unique bestseller.
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hilarious!!!!!!!!!.......2007-08-24
These are the best books ever. I always look through it when I need a little pick me up and it always gives me a good laugh!!! Makes a great gift for somebody. I always order extras to have on hand..great last minute gift.
For ladies, young and old.......2007-06-02
A followup to Sloane Tanen's earlier "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same." This is also a hilarious look at the lives of adult females. Thanks to Sloane for these books!!! My college daughter and I laugh, laugh, laugh at these funny, situations and how Sloane has captured them perfectly with the help of some fuzzy little chicks!!!!
:-).......2007-01-10
Another great one from Sloane Tanen. Same chicks, different day! You'll love this one too!
Sad, but true!.......2007-01-05
The cartoons wouldn't be so funny (except the pictures are just adorable), if they weren't so true. Sloane translates human emotions into these cute chicks doing outrageous things. Buy one for yourself and 10 to give away.
So much fun!.......2005-12-30
This is the fun stuff: "Going for the Bronze: Still Bitter, More Baggage" by Sloane Tanen is a sequel to "Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same: The Life and Times of Some Chickens." This is a hilariously silly, irreverent little picture book of chicken peeps posed with miniature props in "human" settings.
Alongside the yellow chicks are tiny props such as food items, books, hats and cell phones. The brightly colored dioramas include cars, doll furniture and even a SWAT helicopter. Venues range from a coffee bar to the Grand Canyon. It's all a sort of bizarre cross between "Thomas the Tank Engine" and "Sex and the City."
This is NOT a children's book, as it features adult situations and language. The captions are just plain nutty. Some are subtle, some are outrageous, and at least one I didn't even understand. But they are so much fun!
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Like no other medium before it, the popular movie presents the potential of a new power for illuminating the depth of human experience. E-Motion Picture Magic employs that power as a tool to increase consciousness.
Cinema therapy offers more perspective on life, prompting the viewer to step back from his or her problems in order to feel less insecure, worried, or discontented. Using films for self-improvement allows a shift in perspective when viewed with conscious awareness.
The use of movies for personal growth and healing carries forward a long-standing connection between storytelling and self-reflection that may date back to the beginnings of spoken language. The movie experience used in very specific ways can have significant benefits for those who are willing to apply themselves using E-Motion Picture Magic that can be both beneficial as well as enjoyable.
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Excellent!!.......2006-07-10
Clear and concise. Very useful for a professional and also for the average joe.
Enhances The Movie Experience As Well As Self-Exploration.......2005-06-06
I thought E-Motion Picture Magic was very straightforward and explained well. My movie watching experience has been enhanced tremendously thanks to the teaching in this book. Near the end of the book I had this urge to run and start a movie group.
I was very happy that Dr. Wolz did the detailed exercise using a movie I had actually seen. It helped me to follow the exercise better and experience the benefits. The movie index at the back of the book is very useful, especially if you are looking for movies that address specific issues you wish to explore.
Cinema Therapy Loved by Teens.......2005-05-17
As a psychotherapist I find Birgit Wolz's book to be helpful. I work mostly with teenagers and have found that both music and movies have been the most important ways to reach them. E-Motion Picture Magic offers not only a well written base of theory into the idea of cinema therapy, but provides the reader with a marvelous movie index that can be easily looked at based on the topic needs. Teenagers struggles often with the ability to express their inner selves, but quite easily talk about the plight of others. Movies and their characters provide a safe environment for teens to express their needs. The tools that Birgit Wolz provides in her book enable the therapist to more skillfully navigate with both groups and individuals. I fully intend on maintaining this book as a great guide in my practice.
E--Motion Picture Magic Gets Reel!.......2005-04-22
German-born Birgit Wolz has had a long-time love affair with movies. As a young girl in Germany, she fondly remembers going to a movie with her grandfather as her first big adventure. "I was absolutely fascinated. For the first time, I experienced being engrossed in a bigger-than-life experience, the colors, the sounds and the story of a big screen motion picture."
This passion for movies sustained Wolz throughout the ups and downs of her young life, eventually overflowing into her professional life as well. "My personal interest turned professional after I began my career as a psychotherapist and first learned about the technique of using movies as a tool for psychological healing and personal growth."
Later, Wolz faced several significant losses, including a serious, disabling illness. "After a time, it became clear that I would live, but the question still remained as to how I would live," she writes. "I learned through this shocking wake-up call that I could never take anything for granted. All possibility of reaching the goals to which I had previously aspired seemed to evaporate. Relationships changed dramatically. My future suddenly appeared a complete blank."
Again, Wolz turned to movies. "During this time, certain kinds of movies seemed amazingly helpful, even transformative. I noticed with surprise that I started crying uncontrollably whenever I saw films that showed characters in tragic experiences. I made a point of going to movie theaters by myself and sitting in the last row. In the protective darkness of this environment all the blocked up tears started flowing in response to watching the characters' pain."
The author presents several interesting theories as to why movies have the ability to heal and transform us, and why they can serve as catalysts for communicating where day-to-day words often fail. One such theory involves accessing what Swiss psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung coined the shadow.
The term `shadow' refers to those parts of ourselves that we learned to repress or deny. Over the years, our shadow becomes deeply buried in our subconscious mind, sometimes causing us to behave in ways we don't understand. But Jung also believed that the shadow contains a wellspring of strength, power and creative energy. He believed that if we could access our shadow, we could live more fully. Movies, with their inherent detachment, since we are observers only, can court the shadow, bringing it slowly and safely into the light, allowing us entry into those locked areas of our psyche.
E-Motion Picture Magic includes guidelines for watching a film with conscious awareness and an in-depth look at how the emotional distance movies provide can enable us to see how we relate and respond to various circumstances through identifying with a certain character. An extensive film index at the back of the book will help you find films that deal with specific questions or issues. Find movie recommendations for dealing with peer relationships, blended families, chronic illness, divorce, disability, depression, phobias, and more.
When the real world seems overwhelming, when answers or solutions seem out of reach, when you find yourself unable to move beyond your fear, or get in touch with your sadness, why not give the 'reel' world a try?
Excellent for professionals and general public.......2004-12-27
I am a psychotherapist and use movies with individual clients as well as groups. E-Motion Picture Magic is well written and user friendly. Ms. Wolz does a nice job of offering both theory and practical information. I particularly like her sections on using movies to release negative beliefs and her exercises that help the reader increase self-awareness by noticing reactions to film characters. Last, but certainly not least, I really appreciate, and have already used, her thorough film index. I will refer to this book often.
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Jazz greats Jimmy Haslip and Barry Coates demonstrate how to play classic trio jazz using the most important great jazz standards. For Bass Guitar w/CD
Includes: My Funny Valentine, Night and Day, How High the Moon, Emily, Gentle Rain, Green Dolphin St., Secret Love, Softly as in a Morning Sunrise, Summertime
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Not a "Play Along" but a great "Listen To" book........2007-02-03
I'm a little confused as to the title of this book. This is more of a "ear training" manual as to what jazz guitar should sound like when played extremely well by a monster jazz guitarist. You're going to find that there's not much room here to improvise with a backing track, as the title of the book suggests.
I'm assuming what I'm hearing is guitarist Barry Coates, but may be Doug Munro at times. Coates (or Munro) along with rhythm section bassist Jimmy Haslip really lay down some nice grooves over favorite standards like Body and Soul, "Round Midnight, and other famous real book tunes. Doug Munro writes a little background information and a theoretical outline to each tune which I found helpful, but the theory is too brief to be of much benefit.
What this book does well is demonstrate how a jazz standard should be approached. The template is as follows: guitar introduction, comping the chords in the verses, improvising a solo, then coming back to comping with the rhythm section. I've got all 3 in this "Ultimate Play-Along" series and I like book 3 the best as its got a great sounding version of the Latin groove "Softly As A Morning Sunrise" played tastefully by either Coates or Munro. Munro has authored 3 other jazz instruction books published by Belwin called 21st Century Pro Method.
The guitarist on the recording has advanced improvisational skills so about 95% of buyers who purchase this product will find it too difficult to be immediately benefical to their playing. But you'll definately appreciate a jazz guitar player who has reached the mastery stage on their instrument. As such, those wanting to learn how to actually play jazz guitar may want to begin with a more accessible jazz method book. But for the study of the structure of a jazz standard - this is a great book. At least the author isn't snooty enough to exclude TAB like some jazz instructors who exude snootiness.
What I really found helpful was the inclusion of the original fakebook version of each song. You can then see how to interpret it. There is the chord melody version (in TAB). Then the chords used for comping. Then a well phrased and tastey solo. The recording is top notch and enjoyable to listen to on its own.
chord melody solo's.......2006-09-02
A great look into the art of reharmonization with some wonderful pieces.Beginners will need patience and cultivation of reading skills (pitch,rhythym ,counting, right and left hand identification skills) as these skills will make short order of any musical endeavor. great text! great price!
Good book, but not for beginners.......2004-05-29
If you're looking for books on "how to" play bass or read music then skip this one. There's almost no instruction in this book, but what you do get is GREAT tab and notation for some standard jazz pieces.
This book is good for learning the traditional bass lines and for practicing your timing/tempo when there's no one else around. I wish the CD had two versions of each song (one with and one without bass), but it doesn't. For the price, though, this is a pretty good way to learn some songs and practice without having a full band in your garage.
Nine standard jazz pieces are covered. Each song comes with the actual tune on CD, the printed song with bass clef and tab, and if that weren't enough you also get the bass solo and lead sheet.
Be careful, though, the lead sheet is not in tablature, so you should already know (or be willing to learn) how to read traditional music notation. Fortunately, since the book includes both the full version (notation and tablature) you can easily go back and forth as you progress. The lead sheet is great for taking on stage since it has all the essentials for the song on one easy to read sheet.
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With a touch of craft and a dash of style, throw-outs can become keepsakes. Using easy-to-follow techniques, a box of broken china turns into a gorgeous mosaic clock, milk cartons transform into gleaming Christmas ornaments, and a bunch of faded old blue jeans become a durable yet attractive rug. Trash to Treasure, Book 8 continues the traditions of its predecessors with more than 200 projects, all accompanied by clear, step-by-step instructions, and a full-color photo of each finished project.
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Children might enjoy.......2005-06-22
I wasn't blown away by this book, I looked through it when it arrived, the stuff it showed to make just wasn't my cup of tea. It did have nice pictures and detailed instructions. Would be more for kids to do.
A Disappointment For Mom & Me.......2003-12-13
My mom knows how much I enjoy bargain shopping & refinishing furniture, so she bought me a copy of this book through the mail, as well as a copy for herself. Well, before I received mine, she called me to apologize for how horrible the book was. She told me that she had received hers & was promptly returning it. In advance, she welcomed me to do the same. I received mine last week, & I have to say that I share in her disappointment! Here are the real questions: Do you like vests with doilies stitched on them? Do you like pencils holders made of soup cans with lace glued on them? Ok, if your answers were "yes," you'd love this book, but if your answers were "no," then don't waste your time or money on this book that shows you how to make lamp shades from used coffee cans & VESTS with fabric panels, lace & such. It really is an embarrassing book. Now, to give credit (& the only reason this book even deserves a "1"), there are a few cute ideas woven into their disasters of projects, but you have to have an eye to pick those things out. For example, their ivy made of pop cans & craft wire was cute, but you have to see that past the end table made of coffee cans, garden hoses, & swimming pool play toys. Their denim bolster was cute, too, but there is no excuse for filling a bolster with a 2 liter bottle! One could certainly afford a $1.50 bag of stuffing at Wal-Mart! Anyway, there are, like I said, a few notable ideas, but be ready to reinvent them with your own creativity; otherwise, people will smile at your projects through clinched teeth & say, "That's nice.""
Can't get enough!.......2003-01-20
As a beginning crafter I can't get enough of this book! I have purchased all seven editions (and waiting for #8 to come out)and love to save old bottles, cans, and boxes to prepare for my "next project". This book and all the other ones have simple instructions for the person that has no idea what "household cement" is and how to do a "running stitch". Awesome book for the "crafting impaired".
Fun projects for kids.......2000-06-22
This book is a great way to introduce kids to recycling. The crafts are easy and fun to do, but they are something for children. There are only a few that are really nice enough for adults to give to another adult. As I said though for children this book is one of the best I have used. It has plenty of cute ideas for used cans.
For the advanced to beginner.......1999-12-08
I loved this book! And even bought one for my best friend who wanted to get her feet wet in crafting. I have used the pop bottle idea for many gifts and the christmas ornamate wraped in netting you get from fruit turned out so pretty! Oh and of course the stepping stones,I have seen them in the stores for 20.00 or more andto think they can be made for a fraction of the price! I could go on and on. My friend is making the stepping stones, as well as the address plate for her house, just to name a few. We will both be buying many of the books by this author and look forward to each new one.
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In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother’s nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War.
A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and history–of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.
Caldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, A Strong West Wind is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
I knew her when..........2007-08-05
I grew up one street over from Gail in Amarillo. She was in my sister's car pool (at Tascosa High) for a while. My strongest recollection is when she would get in the car, although my presence was rare, she always had a big smile for me--as opposed to the usual grimace I got from my sister's other friends as they charmingly asked "what's your little brother doin' here?". Yes, I was a little smitten with Gail--albeit 40 years ago--so my review may carry a certain bias....
This book amazingly evokes the Amarillo of many years ago. Yes, the winds were/are horrific. Yes, the political climate was/is ultraconservative. I could not help but have an overwhelming feeling of nostalgia for many of the feelings, landmarks, and memories she, in my opinion, lovingly conveys. I was taken aback that some of the other reviewers appear somewhat offended by the author's rendition of the city. However, Amarillo is not for everyone. Because Gail chose not make it her permanent home, I viewed this as a testament to her desire and courage to outstandingly succeed (come on, people, we're talking the Pulitzer here) in a world and profession probably unavailable to her in the Texas Panhandle.
Broad strokes rather than brass tacks. For those unacquainted with the northern plains of Texas, the prose is beautifully evocative. I was fascinated with the successful combination of lyricism, southern "down hominess", and, yet, the in-your-face bravado of a Texas Panhandle native. It was very telling to see how her world of books/reading shaped her life/outlook in tandem with the Caldwell family dynamics. Viewing one's youthful world more through a parent's eyes is hardly specific to the South, even if it is, perhaps, more of a mainstay. The fierce independence attributed to most Texas natives comes later in life--bent and shaped by a tribal sense of--if not "us against them", at least "we are unique"--as one begins to formulate views of his/her relationship to the rest of the country and world.
Bravo, Gail. I look forward to another book. Congratulations on your many achievements.
Not a Very Good Person to Write a Memoir.......2007-05-16
We read this book for out family book club, and we were all disappointed. The writer seemed bratty, shallow, self-centered and very full of her ability to choose a really obtuse word when a clearer one would do. We didn't like her and couldn't figure out why she was so depressed and depressing, other than perhaps her family history. I couldn't figure out how she was rebelling against her father, who seemed, as did her mohter, to support her in her every endeavor. She had a wonderful childhood and seemed to resent it. I would not recommend this book to anyone, and the only reason I did not burn it is that I think it is sacreligious to burn books. This one deserved it, though.
Sometimes I felt I was reading my life.......2007-04-09
Growing up in West Texas, I was drawn to this book. In certain sections of the book, (primarily the early sections), I felt as if I were reading my own life, but in the most beautiful prose imaginable. Each sentence is to be savored. Once the story moved to Austin, TX, it was again captivating. And the book leaves you with such awe of her writing and ability to put the reader into the times and the place of Texas in the 60's and 70's. It's obvious why Ms Caldwell is a Pulitzer winner!! For anyone who grew up in small town America in this time era, this is a must-read.
A moving story brilliantly written.......2007-03-28
This memoir is so much more than just a how-I-grew-up story. It's worth reading just for its emotionally riveting narrative of Caldwell's youth in Texas, but what made it leap to my Top Ten list were two things: the way Caldwell lassoes and corrals the bright, dangerous zeitgist of the Vietnam era, and the lyrical originality with which she writes. Caldwell's sentences are themselves works of art, full of careful but exuberant diction, a subtle rhythm she calls "the necessary meters of the heart," and metaphors so perfect you have to stop in the road and pick them up and turn them over in your hand. She takes us from the happy childhood of a girl who loved books, through the fire of adolescent rebellion in the 60s and the shaky but determined departure for parts unknown, to the grace of a mature woman making sense of the past she fled and the people who both defined home and forced her to leave it. Caldwell even made me want to visit Texas, and nothing literary or real has even done that before.
Gene Hull's "gene scene book reviews".......2007-03-14
If you are a writer or a discerning reader, you really should read this book! If you appreciate inspiring, non-cliche prose, GAIL CALDWELL'S A STRONG WEST WIND is a must-read. In fact, it is a must-read twice. Her story fascinates. But it is the richness and density of her writing that makes it live and captivates the reader.
This is a flat-out outstanding work of high prose and perception, rendered with down-to-earth honesty that isn't always what you want to hear. Peppered with multi-demensional imagery, the sheer beauty of her gutsy account inspires awe. The saga of a brilliant, willful, yet sensitive child-of-the-50s-and-60s and her uneasy oddysey to find her true calling captures the essence of the times better than anything I know.
Caldwell's skill with language is deceptively simple. Words are her instrument. The thoughts sound. The cadences flow like a fine jazz musician improvises. And like a musician, a coarse grittiness takes hold at times and shakes you from your reverie.
Love good writing? Read it. Highly recomended. However, if you're a 'good ole boy', don't bother. You might be tone deaf or too set in your ways to appreciate what's happening here.
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Until the events of September 11 and the anthrax attacks of 2001, biological weapons had never been a major public concern in the United States. Today, the possibility of their use by terrorists against Western states looms large as an international security concern. In Biological Weapons, Jeanne Guillemin provides a highly accessible and compelling account of the circumstances under which scientists, soldiers, and statesmen were able to mobilize resources for extensive biological weapons programs and also analyzes why such weapons, targeted against civilians, were never used in a major conflict.
This book is essential for understanding the relevance of the historical restraints placed on the use of biological weapons for today's world. It serves as an excellent introduction to the problems biological weapons pose for contemporary policymakers and public officials, particularly in the United States. How can we best deter the use of such weapons? What are the resulting policies of the Department of Homeland Security? How can we constrain proliferation? Jeanne Guillemin wisely points out that these are vitally important questions for all Americans to consider and investigate -- all the more so because the development of these weapons has been carried out under a veil of secrecy, with their frightening potential open to exploitation by the media and government. Public awareness through education can help calm fears in today's tension-filled climate and promote constructive political action to reduce the risks of a biological weapons catastrophe.
Biological Weapons is required reading for every concerned citizen, government policymaker, public health official, and national security analyst who wants to understand this complex and timely issue.
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Policies of use, deterrence, and proliferation.......2005-05-12
Biological weapons and their potentials has received public attention relatively recently in this country, and for a basic primer on the topic, don't miss Jeanne Guillemin's Biological Weapons, designed to help readers understand the relevance of these weapons and their use. Chapters examine policies of use, deterrence, and proliferation, considering conflicts between media rights and secrecy in development, public awareness issues and rights, and preventative measures against attack.
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Saudi Arabia is an enigma to most Americans. The country is home to Islam's holiest sites and the world's largest proven oil reserves. A strategic partner to the U.S. in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is also the homeland of Osama bin Laden, and -fifteen of the nineteen hijackers who attacked the United States on Septem-ber 11, 2001. Although officially considered a "moderate" Islamic state by the U.S., Saudia Arabia enforces the same state religious ideology as did the Taliban.
In Saudi Arabia & the U.S., Arab American scholar As`ad AbuKhalil examines Saudi society, its history, religion, and ethnic tribalism, and the shared interests, tensions, and con-tradictions inherent in U.S.-Saudi relations.
As`ad AbuKhalil is the author of Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism."
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Smart Book & Accurate Research.......2007-01-10
Other than the small form factor of the book this book has a multitude of information about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I personally agree strongly with the conclusions of the book and I'm convinced they are based in the strong reality that the Saudi economy is based solely on oil revenues.
I have lived in the kingdom for more than a year and fully comprehend the authors views and conclusions about what is transpiring there.
As woman CEO who has Advised since '81: BRILLIANT.......2006-08-30
This book is a brilliant and concise analysis of the Kingdom. As one who has consulted to the Royal Family (King Fahd was investor in a major wheat and dairy project for which my firm served as Strategists--based in the World Trade Center, how ironic now--not only did the Min of Ag and Water have to lie about the CEO being a woman but for years the joint venture itself (Irish and Saudi) often denied and minimized our Pan-Gulf Strategy success, our financial structuring (one of largest IPOs in 20 yrs), my very existence. This book reveals--and I have read 30 texts including historical analyses that get lost in the minutia of tribal rivalry--how flawed the very thinking of the powerful Saud family is: except for Khalid the SAud Family is not religious, not very Islamic (gambling, London cruising/procuring of prostitutes, etc), and certainly never subsribers to Wahhabi fundamentalism themselves--has co-opted the religious powers for money such that the mullas export the fundatmentalist furry rather than focus on the family itself.
AbuKhalil's book is among the very best I had read on Saudi.
Tediously Familiar Leftist Intellectual Litany.......2006-06-15
As Stephen Schwartz has said before, AbuKhalil, a representative of the American academic Left and a Lebanese-born academic who teaches at California State University/Stanislaus, attempts in this small volume to explain to his ideological constituency such matters as the history of Wahhabism, the relationship of the Saudi state to Al-Qaeda, the current crisis of the Saudi kingdom, and the resulting challenges to regional and global peace and order.
This commission could not have been a plum assignment. The oppression, corruption, and extremism of the Saudi monarchy are by now so notorious that to make the case that the United States and neoconservatives are prone to unjust interfering with the Riyadh rulers requires a real talent. It means detailing grotesque inhumanities but blaming them all on the United States and Israel, as well as on colonial rulers past and the fantastical specter of "Orientalism."
AbuKhalil does not disappoint. He derides Western authors (this one included), who have exposed the bloody past of Wahhabi Islam, as "Orientalists" (a flattering description, in my view). He recapitulates the Wahhabi historical time line but adds nothing to what is already known, except for occasional flings into the typical Western academic idiom, aimed at softening or explaining away Wahhabi extremism. Thus, the main Wahhabi-Saudi theologian in the second half of the twentieth century, Ibn Baz, "may not have been as principled in his hostility to Jews and Christians as his earlier edicts may have led us to believe." To identify the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian bigotry of Ibn Baz with a "principled" position might seem sycophantic but it fits the prevailing ethos on American campuses.
The author presents himself as the revealer of authentic Saudi reality, but his portrait of the country differs from that described by the most acute critics of the kingdom only in its ideological vocabulary. After enumerating the usual atrocities and undeniable instabilities, AbuKhalil has no solution to offer aside from condemning, yes, Washington neoconservatives for provoking "fanatical and radical forces" in Iraq, and thereby threatening the Saudi state.
The litany is tediously familiar: America was wrong to enable Saudi tyranny, just as it is wrong to try to end it. The Battle for Saudi Arabia is not of use to those hoping to learn about Saudi Arabia. Its only value is to provide insight into current leftist intellectual gymnastics.
Lots of flaws.......2006-04-20
This very small book is a quick, quite superficial overview of the Saudi royals -- material better covered in Murawiec's 'Princes of Darkness' and in Schwartz's 'Two faces of Islam' among other options. It is, for example, surprisingly generic and non-specific when alleging human rights violations,corruption, etc.
In addition, it is not particularly well written, or perhaps not well-edited -- occasionally one can get away with starting a sentence 'And...' but not constantly. Reads like a college term paper more than a professional work, at times.
I also have to say - having read more than a dozen books on aspects of the Middle East, I am still waiting for one author of Arab heritage to be anything other than virulently, belligerently anti-Israel. Jewish and Israeli authors seem to bend over backwards to give at least some small nod to the Arab, Muslim, or Palestinian point of view, even if they then try to discredit it. The shrill polemics of even educated, 'Westernized' Arabs inevitably casts doubt on their other observations. Although it is a very small note in this book, it was there in the usual strident neon.
Inside Saudi Arabia.......2005-12-03
AbuKhalil is a political science professor who writes the Angry Arab News Service. This book chronicles the history of Saudi Arabia and its ruling ideology, Wahabbi Islam, then continues as a stinging critique of the present day regime and the complete lack of human rights in the kingdom. He shows the complete moral bankruptcy of the kingdom, and its close relationship with the United States, who has consistently supported the House of Saud in its treatment of their own population, and as a proxy to further American interests in the Islamic world, often to the long term detriment to American interests. The stranglehold the royal family, especially the sons of the states founder, has on the country is essential to understanding the political dynamics within the country, and this is a focal point of AbuKhalil's critique. It is fascinating how inter-family politics plays such a powerful role in the county's political life. His only mistake seems to be that he believes the new King Abdullah (who was Crown Prince when the book was written), would not become king, since he is not a son of the first wife, unlike the so-called Sudayri Seven, the now deceased King Fahd and his six full brothers. However, these brothers still are the main power elites in the country, and they are getting really old. What happens when they're gone will truly be momentous for both Saudi Arabia and the world. A must read for those wanting a greater understanding of this very important country and close ally of the US, right now fighting what is close to be coming a civil war.
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