Making People Respond, Design for Marketing & Communication
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    Making People Respond: Design for Marketing & Communication
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      Making People Respond : Design for Marketing and Communication
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        Fashion, Food and Forget-Me-Nots
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          Donald Duck Adventures Volume 15 (Donald Duck Adventures)
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            Marx's Kapital for Beginners
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              David Smith , and Phil Evans
              Manufacturer: Pantheon
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              Release Date: 1982-11-12
              The Marxian economic handbook and glossary;: With numerous corrections, explanations and emendations of the English version of vol. I of "Capital," for the use of advanced students and beginners,
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                The Marxian economic handbook and glossary;: With numerous corrections, explanations and emendations of the English version of vol. I of "Capital," for the use of advanced students and beginners,
                William Henry Emmett
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                Island On The Edge: Taiwan New Cinema And After
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                  Manufacturer: Hong Kong University Press
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                  This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. It gathers a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan New Cinema in the early 1980s..

                  "As the first English-language anthology on Taiwan New Cinema, this is truly a groundbreaking work. The editors have assembled a collection of insightful essays by a group of well-informed and critically astute scholars. The book is essential reading for anyone who wishes to acquire an in-depth understanding of Taiwanese cinema, or more broadly, transnational Chinese-language cinema." - Sheldon H. Lu, University of California at Davis

                  It's Easy To Play Chopin (It's Easy to Play)
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                    Daniel Scott
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                    Easy-to-read, simplified arrangements of some of the best-loved music of this great composer. Twenty-three pieces, including four preludes, five waltzes, and four nocturnes.

                    Little Spanish Girl Paper Doll (Dover Little Activity Books)
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                      The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked
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                      The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked
                      Peter Veruki
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                      ASIN: 1580621171

                      Book Description

                      Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job?

                      Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career planning and human resource expert Peter Veruki, you'll know you have the right answers at your job interview.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      5 out of 5 stars Pretty useful book that prepares well for job interview.......2006-12-09

                      This is actually an excellent book that acts as a starting point to prepare your interviews.

                      The early sections are a good framework to prepare a solid speech on why you're out there looking for a job, what your motivations are, what value you can bring etc.

                      The list of questions may seem boring but it's clearly an invitation to do your homework. Sit down and practice, practice and practice. This type of work isn't the kind of involvement your hear very frequently and I know very few people who have enough to actually do it.

                      This book will help you be prepared for pretty much any type of questions, as long as you put down the required practice hours. Just zipping through it once or twice will do you no good. It'll give you the feeling that you're prepared when in fact your not. The only way to make the most of this very good book is to actually practice every question aloud, in front of someone else if you have to.

                      This is an excellent preparation tool, that you should acquire early in your job search quest, as glancing over it won't unleash the power it contains.

                      3 out of 5 stars Helped get me a new job........2005-10-16

                      Some of the answers they give are so full of @#%& that no one would believe them but just listening to potential questions gave me a chance to formulate my own answers to interview questions which landed me a job as a Deputy Program Manager with a 20% salary increase. This CD easily paid for itself.

                      3 out of 5 stars Very Useful.......2005-05-19

                      As an Executive Recruiter, I found this book to be quite helpful. I was able to see the potential in all the questions and not only from an interviewers point of view, but as a candidate. I made a list of "tough" and "my favorite" interview questions and email them to my candidates and clients. This way they are prepared. I also suggest to my candidates that they use the questions as a guideline to formulate thier own questions for the company. An interview works both ways.
                      I recommend this book as a staple for recruiters, HR Managers, and candidates. It's best to over prepare, than under prepare.

                      2 out of 5 stars I did not find this book to be very helpful........2003-07-08

                      As the title suggests, the book lists the most common interview questions. If you have no idea what those questions are, then you might find the book somewhat helpful.
                      Along with each question there is an example answer which usually does not apply to the reader. After each example answer there is a brief snippet about how you should try to to answer that type of question. Unfortunately, these snippets are far too brief to be of much help to the reader (some are a single sentence). If there were more emphasis put on how to answer the question, and less space given to the example answers, I think it would have been a more useful book.
                      I suggest "the Unofficial Guide to Acing the Interview" by Michelle Tullier, published by Hungry Minds. This book will help you get into the proper frame of mind for your interview. It will also help you understand the employer's underlying concerns behind those tough interview questions. When you know why the employer is asking a question, you can form your best answer.
                      Good luck!

                      3 out of 5 stars some good questions.......2003-03-23

                      This book has some good questions to practice before interviews, but don't pay much attention to the answers given. If one tries to tailor his answers to sound like the ones given, he will sound too much like he's reading from a script. Read the explanations of how your answer should be and then practice responding to the particular questions in front of a mirror or with someone posing as an interviewer. Other than the interesting questions, the other information is very basic and can be found in any book on interviewing. The explanations of what a good answer should sound like are ok but a bit too overly simplistic. For example, in the question about getting fired the author says that one should be honest and say that you've corrected the problem. In answering questions about getting fired, one needs to know how to say this. Otherwise, you will be setting yourself up for disaster. Also, I believe that the sample answers given are a mostly a waste. The answers given are way too specialized.
                      250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked (Audiofy Digital Audiobook Chips)
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                        Manufacturer: Audiofy/Listen & Live
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                        ASIN: 1599129167

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                        This Audiofy audiobook chip packs Peter Veruki, Nona Pipes and Ken Kliban's full 3 hour reading of "250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked" on a tiny memory card. A single Audiofy audiobook chip, hardly larger than a stamp, holds a complete digital audiobook, and saves the last listening position automatically, unlike CDs. With an SD memory card slot or adapter - like those for digital cameras - this Audiofy audiobook chip can be played on Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh desktop computers or laptops (Microsoft Windows XP/2000/Me/98, or Apple Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above) or transferred to Apple iPod media players. Audiobook chips also move seamlessly to most Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld PDAs with SD expansion slots, as well as Treo and Windows Mobile "smartphones" (Palm OS 5.2 or Windows Mobile 2002 and above)... Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job? Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career and human resources expert Peter Veruki, Director of Career Planning and Placement at the Owen Graduate school of Management at Vanderbilt University, you'll know you have the right answers at your job interview! REVIEWS - School Library Journal: "A good investment for one's livelihood." Billboard: "This useful program advises job hunters to think long and hard about how they present themselves in interviews. Veruki's narration is clear and straightforward and fits the tape's informative tone. Although most people listen to audiobooks in the car, this program might best be listened to at home so that listeners can take notes and pause the tape repeatedly to jot down their own answers to Veruki's questions."

                        Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way--A Biography
                        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
                        • An Eye For Talent, by Drew Savage, Author and Swing Era Enthusiast
                        • Only one mistake
                        • A Good Biography
                        • TOOTIN' DORSEY'S HORN, GOOD AND BAD
                        • An American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people
                        Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way--A Biography
                        Peter J. Levinson
                        Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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                        To commemorate the centennial of the artist's birth, the definitive biography of the legendary jazz giant Tommy Dorsey

                        Swing has never gone out of style. It was the music the Greatest Generation danced to-and went to war to. And no musician evokes the Big Band era more strikingly than Tommy Dorsey, whose soaring trombone play and hit tunes influenced popular music for a generation. Tommy Dorsey (1905-1956) led a rich and complex life. Beginning with his childhood in the coal mining towns of Pennsylvania, we follow the young trombonist's journey to fame and fortune during the jazz age. Tommy, with his brother Jimmy, created one of the most popular bands of the era and played with such giants as Bing Crosby and Glenn Miller. They also launched the career of a skinny young singer named Frank Sinatra. But Tommy's volcanic personality eventually split the band and Tommy went off on his own.

                        Drawing on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with the musicians who knew him best, Levinson delves into Dorsey's famously eccentric lifestyle and his oversize appetite for drink, women, and perfection. The first biography on Dorsey in more than thirty years, Tommy Dorsey is a dazzling portrait of the Big Band era's brightest star-his tumultuous life, his turbulent times, and the unforgettable music that made him a legend.

                        Customer Reviews:

                        5 out of 5 stars An Eye For Talent, by Drew Savage, Author and Swing Era Enthusiast.......2007-05-31

                        This is a good book, well written and with excellent content. As an enthusiast of the Swing Era I appreciated the factual content, which gave me far more information than any other source I've read,providing a hitherto unavailable cross-reference to what has been published before.

                        As a presenter and author, I enjoyed the insights into the man, his music and the period in general, knowing they would enliven and enrich audience participation. I am too young to have been there 'first time around,' or even to have had the good fortune to see most of the performers, even those who enjoyed career longevity. Having facts avaulable from more than one source is therefore crucial to me, and this book does a great job in providing a primary source and information resource.

                        Finally, I must take issue with one of the comments made in an earlier review, that the R&B and Rock and Roll era passed Tommy Dorsey by. Au contraire, we have 'TD' to thank for first introducing Elvis Presley to the nation on TV, in the Jackie Gleason sponsored 'Stage Show', and weeks before Ed Sullivan apparently 'discovered' Mr. Presley.

                        When you add to that Dorsey's promotion and nurturing of Frank Sinatra, he was responsible for bringing to the nation's attention two out of four of the most influential singers of the last century. (The other two being Al Jolson and Bing Crosby.)

                        When you add to this the roster of other great singers (Connie Haines, Jo Stafford, Dick Haymes for example), arrangers (Nelson Riddle, Sy Oliver) and musicians(just too many to list here!!) who passed through the ranks of his Orchestra, the title of 'Talent Spotter Extraordinaire' seems highly appropriate.

                        5 out of 5 stars Only one mistake.......2007-04-04

                        I read all nine reviews, & I totally agree that this was the most fascinating book I've ever read about the wonderful days of the "big bands". It seems interesting to learn that most of the successful big band leaders were not the easiest people to get along with. Perhaps being a strict disciplinarian with a short fuse just came with the territory. I read all nine reviews, & no one noticed the bit about Art Linkletter. On page 151, Levinson relates an incident involving Art, something that happened in 1942, saying that Art was a "very active" 93 year old at the time. When I saw & talked to Art at a dinner banquet in 1976, that would make him 127. I believe Art is still alive, though I'm not sure about this, & if so he's still lecturing about how to stay happy & fit as a senior citizen. Nonetheless, I loved this book. Jim O'Neil

                        5 out of 5 stars A Good Biography.......2006-12-04

                        Although an icon of the big band era, there hasn't been an updated biography of Tommy Dorsey written in many years. It is based largely on some 180 interviews conducted mostly in the coal country where Dorsey grew up. This is excellent timing, as the people who knew and worked with Dorsey are all now becoming aged. Writers in the future will have to work from sources more distant.

                        Mr. Levinson has been in the entertainment business as an agent, freelance, writer, personal manager, publicist and more. This is his third book, with the first two being biographies of Harry James and Nelson Riddle. He is an accomplished biographer.

                        Tommy Dorsey, like many big name entertainers was a tower of strength, developing new forms of music that changed the way people lived. He worked with the big name entertainers of the time including Sinatra, Elvis, and of course his brother Jimmy. At the same time he had serious problems with drinking, drugs, and women which led him to death at the very early age of 51.

                        Mr. Levinson has done an excellent job of presenting both aspects of Dorsey's life.

                        4 out of 5 stars TOOTIN' DORSEY'S HORN, GOOD AND BAD.......2006-11-06

                        Few musicians evoke the Big Band era more than Tommy Dorsey. With his soaring trombone playing and hit tunes, he left an indelible mark on American culture, yet few know that off stage, Dorsey's personal life was as fascinating as the music he created on stage. A man driven by his passion for women and drink as much as for music, Dorsey was a perfectionist who lived on overload. Peter Levinson's bio, drawn on exhaustive new research and scores of interviews with those who knew Dorsey best, takes us center stage and behind the scenes, toppling the swing era's icon sweet and mellow image and replacing it with a more truthful, multi-faceted portrait of a man of extreme excess. All the high and low notes Dorsey achieved are here. Play on!

                        5 out of 5 stars An American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people.......2006-04-12

                        One can have grown up loving Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra without having any idea of what was going on behind the scenes, what the fabled bandleader was really like. In Peter J. Levinson's illuminating and well-sourced book, "Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way," the subject emerges as a man both with and ahead of his time: an American idol, he was a musical Martha Stewart-like perfectionist who out-Trumped Donald when it came to firing people. Some of the greatest names in jazz and popular music were hired, fired and later re-hired by Dorsey. Levinson does full justice to him, covering his music (danceable was the goal), his movies (MGM quality). his marriages (several, sometimes stormy), and his moods (subject to change without notice) There would be frequent eruptions, most often with his brother, rival and sometimes co-bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, and most significantly with his singing discovery Frank Sinatra. It was Dorsey's amazing breath control as a trombonist that Sinatra modeled his vocal technique after; it was Dorsey's character that he, knowingly or not, emulated. "Livin' in a Great Big Way" tells an engaging, well-rounded story of a complex figure who played beautifully, nurtured careers and largely influenced pop culture for two decades.

                        Guerrillas, Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Home Front
                        Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
                        • Guerrillas, Unionists...
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                        • An impressive contribution to Civil War studies.
                        Guerrillas, Unionists and Violence on the Confederate Home Front

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                        Customer Reviews:

                        3 out of 5 stars Guerrillas, Unionists..........2002-05-18

                        This anthology of thematic studies is a mixed bag. The scholarship represents one of the latest and most interesting trends in Civil War scholarship, local area studies. As such, some of the work here will be of interest only to scholars focusing on those regions.

                        Some of the articles are interesting and of value, but a few lack scholarly objectivity. I noticed that in several cases sources had been chosen strangely, with presumably honest and reliable Unionist primary sources contrasted to the silliest possible early 20th century Lost Cause historians; why not compare Unionist primary documents to Confederate ones? In general, as is common with articles of this sort, there's a lot of stating the theme and sometimes a dearth of actual conclusions. Particularly annoying was the study of the Unionist rhetoric of violence in West Virginia -- a fascinating topic if the author had thought to actually analyze the writings and speeches to which he refers, but he scarcely even quotes them.

                        Two studies of the East Tennessee region stood out as useful, and Fellman's article was intriguing although I'm not sure I understand his theory of subjective analysis.

                        Like most works of this type, this is useful if treated with a due amount of caution.

                        4 out of 5 stars Not the Usual Home-Front Tales.......2000-11-15

                        The essays in "Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front" run the gamut from the stodgy and academic to enlightening and exciting. For the most part, the various authors do a good job of uncovering dissent and pockets of Unionist sentiment throughout the South and examining the role such discontent played in the downfall of the Confederacy. They also note how home-front sentiment shifted over the course of the war.

                        Among the stronger essays are Noel C. Fisher's look at Unionism in East Tennessee before, during and after the Civil War and Victoria E. Bynum's look at the "Free State of Jones," a South Mississippi county that was a hotbed of Union sympathizers. Other essays cover dissent in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.

                        5 out of 5 stars An impressive contribution to Civil War studies........2000-04-07

                        What is not generally realized is that a great deal of Civil War violence occurred well behind the conventional battlefields and pitted some of the most intense and atrocious violence on the Confederate home front as families and neighbors engaged in bloody struggles with each other for control. In Guerrillas, Unionists, And Violence On The Confederate Home Front, Daniel Sutherland has gathered eleven essays by noted Civil War scholars and historians in exploration of the complexities of fratricidal conflict and how it impacted on communities, homes, and families. This is a seminal, ground breaking contribution that is a much needed, long overdue, impressive contribution to the growing body of Civil War studies and literature.

                        Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
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                        Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
                        Amira Hass
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                        In what is sure to be a controversial book, Israeli reporter Amira Hass offers a rare portrait of the Palestinians in Gaza. Very few journalists have lived in that troubled region; Jewish ones are rarer still. "To most Israelis," Hass writes, "my move seemed outlandish, even crazy, for they believed I was surely putting my life at risk." But Israelis desperately need to understand the plight of the Palestinian people, she writes, and few of them read the unvarnished truth in the Jerusalem press. This has made most of them ignorant of what goes on right next door, and inspired unduly "harsh" attitudes toward Gaza and its one million residents. Hass even quotes the late Yitzhak Rabin, who wished that Gaza "would just sink into the sea," shortly before he signed the Oslo Accords. Wishing away the problem, however, is no solution, and Hass delivers a detailed--and highly opinionated--diagnosis of what's wrong with Israeli policy toward Gaza. Strong supporters of Israeli will say that Hass is nothing but a mouthpiece for the Palestinians. Indeed, this book's subtitle could apply as much to Israel, surrounded by bitter enemies, as it does to Gaza. Yet it would be wrong to ignore Hass: the scene in Gaza is woefully unreported. The book is not likely to change many minds--this is one of those subjects where passions run deep and fierce. Those who already sympathize with Hass's pro-Palestinian views will find Drinking the Sea at Gaza an invigorating book. --John J. Miller

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                        In 1993, amira hass, a young Israeli reporter, drove to Gaza to cover a story-and stayed, the first journalist to live in the grim Palestinian enclave so feared and despised by most Israelis that, in the local idiom, "Go to Gaza" is another way to say "Go to hell." Now, in a work of calm power and painful clarity, Hass reflects on what she has seen in Gaza's gutted streets and destitute refugee camps.Drinking the Sea at Gaza maps the zones of ordinary Palestinian life. From her friends, Hass learns the secrets of slipping across sealed borders and stealing through night streets emptied by curfews. She shares Gaza's early euphoria over the peace process and its subsequent despair as hope gives way to unrelenting hardship. But even as Hass charts the griefs and humiliations of the Palestinians, she offers a remarkable portrait of a people not brutalized but eloquent, spiritually resilient, bleakly funny, and morally courageous.Full of testimonies and stories, facts and impressions, Drinking the Sea at Gaza makes an urgent claim on our humanity. Beautiful, haunting, and profound, it will stand with the great works of wartime reportage, from Michael Herr's Dispatches to Rian Malan's My Traitor's Heart.

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                        5 out of 5 stars What it is really like.......2007-01-09

                        A very moving account of daily life without the politics, written with care and compassion.

                        5 out of 5 stars absolutely essential........2006-08-22

                        I have spent the last summer reading numerous books on the Palestinian perspective of the MidEast crisis, and Hass' 'Drinking The Sea At Gaza' is perhaps the finest and most comprehensive account I have come across to date. Mixing the intellectual depth of Edward Said with the readability of Wendy Pearlman (of 'Occupied Voices'), Hass, in painstaking detail, recounts the daily struggle for Palestinian self-determination within the occupied territories, specifially Gaza, and reveals an intensely human drama not often revealed in the world press. This book is a must read, as are all of Hass' Ha'aretz (Israeli daily newspaper) articles on the conflict.

                        5 out of 5 stars One of the Most Important Books You'll Ever Read about the Middle East!.......2006-07-14

                        Amira Hass is an Israeli Jewish reporter living in Gaza with the Palestinians. When I first read this book about a few years ago, I became fascinated by this woman not only an Israeli Jew but the daughter of Holocaust survivors and her life in Gaza of all places by her choice. Amira Hass helps us to understand the life in Gaza even as an outsider. She helps us to understand the Palestinians' life better than any other reporter or author. Of course, there is always politics and the war between Israel and Palestinans. But as of today where Gaza is under seige. You begin to feel compassion for both sides and wonder when will there ever be peace. It's interesting that the author is an atheist or agnostic. Believe me, the book is the worth the read and the price. For all it's worth, the book is probably important to read more than ever.

                        5 out of 5 stars Read this book first.......2004-08-23

                        This book is as extraordinary and inspiring as its author. Hass is an Israeli, a Jew, a woman and an atheist who, uniquely in Israel, has chosen to live among the Palestinian people she writes about. To most people this would be as fatal a combination of attributes as could be imagined. Yet throughout her book she tells only of the warmth, generosity and acceptance she is offered, in a region regularly described as among the most dangerous on the planet.

                        Many of the best, most relentless and devastating critiques of Israel's colonialism come from Israelis, and none more so than Hass. The most powerful passages are where she likens the lot of the dispossessed in Gaza to the experiences of her own family, Holocaust victims and survivors, in being uprooted by the Nazis from their ancestral homes in Romania. It was her mother's account of the indifference on the faces of the German women who watched as she and the rest of the human cargo were herded from the cattle train en route to Bergen-Belsen that convinced Hass that "my place was not with the bystanders".

                        This book is no hagiography. She savages the Palestinian Authority leadership for their corruption and brutality (while giving it the necessary context of "a land under siege"). She meticulously documents the inferior position of women in Gaza - their exclusion from the few positions of authority, their lives of domestic drudgery while their unemployed husbands and brothers sit idly by.

                        Hass gives voice, humanity and a history to a people who live wretchedly on the doorstep of the homes and the lands from which they were expelled barely fifty years ago; who must now accept that neither their own leadership nor the world at large any longer insists on their right of return.

                        If you are thinking of buying Joan Peters's preposterous From Time Immemorial - a systematic denial of the Palestinians' history and identity, built on misused statistics and fraudulent records - read Drinking the Sea at Gaza first. Then save yourself the money.

                        1 out of 5 stars Venomous.......2004-08-19

                        Amira Hass is to be commended for bravely moving to Gaza and writing a book about the people there.

                        However, this book isn't going to help people of Gaza.

                        One of the problems in Gaza is the Arab war against Jewish rights. This has poisoned relations among Jews and Arabs. Blaming all this on the Israel and thus promoting more of the same, as Hass does, is not good for anyone. Instead, it sabotages what could have been an effort to promote human rights for everyone in the region. Meanwhile, the author's bias against Israel makes the book unreliable.
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                          Al J. Venter
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                          Release Date: 2005-07-28

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                          Title: Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege.(Review) (book review)
                          Author: Al J. Venter
                          Publication: Middle East Policy (Refereed)
                          Date: June 1, 2000
                          Publisher: Middle East Policy Council
                          Volume: 7 Issue: 3 Page: 191

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