Ann Hamilton: Present-Past 1984-1997

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80 illustrations

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From the worlds biggest mens magazine comes FHMs first hardcover, containing the best of the publications renowned photography of the planets sexiest women. Jam-packed with striking imagery and never-before-seen content from FHMs 28 international editions, subjects featured in the book run the gamut from A-list TV, music and movie stars to the worlds hottest up-and-comers. This premiere collectible edition is an absolute must for fans of the magazine and its trademark photography.

Customer Reviews:

Solid release.......2007-03-10

If you like the magazine you'll enjoy this collection. The pictures are well done, not great and not bad. Just a good collection with celebrities. I too think the cover was the best photo.

Fluff.......2007-03-02

Possibly the best picture is the cover. Inside, the photo quality is pretty damn poor and some of the subjects not very attractive to the camera. All in all, a disappointment. I have thrown this in the trash like the bad magazine the pictures come from.

Beautiful, just beautiful........2007-01-06

I know what you're thinking... Anyone reviewing this is just a pervert who wants to gawk at scantilly clad women. I beg to differ. I purchased this book as a reference for figure drawing and I'm very pleased with it. The photographers are very skilled at creating a beautiful setting, creative lighting, and solid composition.

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Botan Yamada, a famous BL artist, takes the reader step-by-step through the process of drawing yaoi manga.

Customer Reviews:

MUST BUY FOR YAOI FANS!! .......2007-08-07

THIS IS A VERY VERY USEFUL BOOK!! i like it sense it gives the adult and young boy body types, something that was lacking in How To's Male Character book. Yamada-sama's art style is beautiful and she gives great references. Even Helpful references for Kissing and Hugging. I Bought it with the How to Couples book but i am using this one a lot more! It's a great reference boy how to draw guys if you don't mind the kissing. It doesn't go into the finer details of lovemaking like How To's couple does. I am wondering whether i should bother buying How To's Yaoi guide now.

Helpful book.......2007-07-16

I got this for a friend who is trying to learn how to write mangas. It has been helpful to her.

DISAPPOINTING.......2007-07-03

I wanted to get :How To Draw Manga Volume 42: Drawing Yaoi (How to Draw Manga) but got this by mistake.

Nothing here unique to yaoi; instead we get sections on how to draw male anatomy and male clothing, a teeny section on how to kiss, guy hairstyles, how to make a comic story, etc.- stuff that's been covered by other, better books. Instead in this book we have a) no sex scenes b) no comics/manga c) no mention of the history or styles of yaoi. It's a collection of drawings of guy characters cuddling up to each other. If the artists's art style doesn't appeal to you, don't buy this book, because there's nothing else worth looking at.

Let's Draw Manga: Fantasy (Let's Draw Manga)

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Good for the imaginaton....
Excellent Drawing Aid - Worth the Purchase

Let's Draw Manga: Fantasy (Let's Draw Manga)
Noriko Tsubota , and Big Mouth Factory
Manufacturer: Digital Manga Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Cartooning | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comic Strips | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Graphic Novels | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Manga | Comics & Graphic Novels | Subjects | Books

General | Drawing | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

Drawing | Instructional & How-To | Arts & Photography | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 1569709688

Book Description

Fantasy fans all over the world will absolutely fall in love with this one of a kind how-to draw book divided into three detailed sections covering the medieval, oriental, and near future settings. In addition to offering instruction such as coloring advice, this book will also serve as the perfect visual reference book that provides a rich variety of characters and design.

Customer Reviews:

Good for the imaginaton...........2007-02-06

This book is wonderful in so many ways. I was a bit skeptical when I was about to buy this book. Not because of the cover, which is cute by the way, but because I have at least 2 books from let's draw manga, and the books are ok, but nothing to fascinating. I was totally wrong about this book! I love everything in this book. This book is a good foundation for those growing imaginations, as well as expanding imaginations to help feed your ideas and make you manga even better. This books contents includes:

Chapter one: Let's create some characters!...

1. Drawing human bodies
practice corner
planning page

2. Illustrating human sized characters
Western style-medival characters
planning page/ let's draw western-style
medival characters
sci-fi style
science fantasy character illustration
asain-style characters
Planning page/let's draw asian-style characters

Chapter 2: Let's establish our world!

1. Creating a western medival world
Let's illustrate our western
medieval world in color

2. The world of science fantasy
Let's draw a picture board

3. Creating an asian-style world
Let's illustrate our asian-style world in color

Chapter 3: Enemy and supporting characters!

1. New relationships
Planning page

2. Let's create enemy monsters
Sample drawing/ color process

3. let's create friendly monsters
planning page
drawing process: digital color illustration

Fantasy variations
drawing process: black and white illustration

Chapter four: Magic and eguipment

1. Weapons and armor

costumes
weapons
accessories
2. Magic and magical equpiment
medival
science fantasy
asian
let's digitally illustrate a magical scene

Chapter five: Let's draw fantsy manga!

steps:
1. Ideas
2.Ecstablishing the plot
3. story boarding
4. drawing and inking a draft

Manga " the spring seekers"

Chapter six: Author illustrations

All in all, I think this is a fun and interesting book. It is a good foundation to start you off in your manga processes. I difintely recommend this book! It is a total steal. Plus there is no nudity at all in this book, so those of you who are offended by nudity, this book is right up your alley!

Excellent Drawing Aid - Worth the Purchase.......2006-12-13

I have a collection of How to Draw Manga books, but this was my first Let's Draw Manga and I love it. Simply put: The book is extremely well done - no skimping on the art quality (what you see on the cover resembles the inside art, if not better) and excellent color graphics. It is probably for upper-level beginners and up as far as details in how to draw.
There are six chapters, each with about two subsections. The chapters are:
Let's create some characters
Let's establish our world
Enemy and Supporting characters
Magic and equipment
Let's draw fantasy manga
Author illustrations.

There are body shapes that you can photocopy (intelligent move by the authors), very detailed descriptions, CG instructions(which are great), background development and explanations, character designs and costumes, and finally a book with a good proportion of male character information (which I find hard to get out of the How to Draw Manga book series). It is almost like a compilation of the many of the How to Draw Manga books. Well worth the purchase. Useful. Great addition to collection.

Customer Reviews:

Very, very funny and very, very pointless.......2005-12-16

This is the type of book that appeals to those who like an eccentric element to their reading. The wuthor writes a geniunely funny book and it makes for an ideal gift for somebody with a quirky sense of humour,
Highly recommended,
David

Book Description

The Barrymores are a part of American culture: we have Drew Barrymore dolls and screensavers, and vintage John, Ethel, and Lionel Barrymore film and stage memorabilia is prized throughout the world. Their complex family tree contains branches of actors that stretch from Elizabethan England to the big-screen debut of Charlie's Angels.

John Barrymore is recognized as one of the last matinee idols as well as “the Great Profile.” He had the most notoriety of the Barrymore dynasty, all of whom were recognized for their brilliance on stage and screen. He was best known for his interpretations of Shakespeare's works on stage and the debonair characters he created on film, as well as for his grotesque, deformed characterizations of the hypnotist Svengali and Mr. Hyde.

In 1928 John married actress Dolores Costello, the love of his life, a smoky-eyed beauty half his age whose father, Maurice Costello, was the first star of motion pictures with The Vitagraph Company. The couple documented their honeymoon voyage with a unique album of photos and kept a personal journal about the Galapagos Islands and other exotic locations they visited. In The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family, these materials are reproduced for the first time, along with private correspondence, rare family photographs, materials collected by the family, and stills from well-known films that illuminate the family's triumphs and tragedies.

John and Dolores' son, John Drew Barrymore, inherited ability, looks, and the family curse. He married three actresses and has three children, among them Drew Barrymore, the child actress who has grown into a true Hollywood player.

Many believe that for talent and charm, the Barrymores have never been eclipsed—and never will be. The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family tells their remarkable story.

Customer Reviews:

Feast for the eyes of Barrymore fans.......2002-01-02

You can never have enough photos of the Barrymores. Books like "Good Night Sweet Prince" are superb, but lack photos. This new coffee table book is almost entirely made up of photographs. It was made with the involvement of John Barrymore Jr, the spaced out hippy son of John Barrymore (and father of Drew.) There are lots of rare family photos, and a neat section on "Barrymoreabilia".

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More Songs of the 30's: The Decade Series

Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Songbooks | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
General | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
Country & Folk | Composers & Musicians | Arts & Literature | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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Songs of the 30s: The Decade Series

Songs Of The 40's: The Decade Series

ASIN: 079353092X

Book Description

Over 50 songs, including: All the Things You Are * A Fine Romance * In a Sentimental Mood * Just a Gigolo * The Most Beautiful Girl in the World * Stompin' at the Savoy * Stormy Weather * Thanks for the Memory * The Very Thought of You * and more.

More Songs of the 30's (More Songs of the Decades)

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More Songs of the 30's (More Songs of the Decades)
Elton John
Manufacturer: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Songbooks | Music | Entertainment | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0793530997

Book Description

Over 50 songs, including: All the Things You Are * Begin the Beguine * A Fine Romance * I Only Have Eyes for You * In a Sentimental Mood * Just a Gigolo * Let's Call the Whole Thing Off * The Most Beautiful Girl in the World * Mad Dogs and Englishmen * Stompin' at the Savoy * Stormy Weather * Thanks for the Memory * The Very Thought of You * and more.

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Deadly viruses. Mutant freaks. Bloody carnage. All in a day's work.

• Every dark secret uncovered
• Tactics for all weapons–from the machine gun to the electric pistol
• Walkthroughs and maps of all six Hiemdal decks
• Wily tactics for defeating every enemy
• Detailed weapon, monster, and item lists

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A keeper....

Dated Material

What a GREAT resource!

Great for startups or exisiting businesses!

Very useful cookbook

The Contract and Fee-Setting Guide for Consultants and Professionals
Howard L. Shenson
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Consulting | Industries & Professions | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
Management | Sales & Selling | Marketing & Sales | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
All Titles | Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007 | Stores | Books
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Complete Guide to Consulting Contracts

ASIN: 0471515388

Book Description

Expert advice on how to strike a fair deal and command a fair price… The Contract and Fee-Setting Guide for Consultants & Professionals No matter how knowledgeable you are in your field….No matter how great your track record….No matter how expert your advice or impressive your credentials … you jeopardize your client base if you do not instill every phase of your practice with a consummate professionalism. And for sharp clients, the first clear signs of such a savvy professionalism are the ability to set fees at a fair market price and offer neat, straightforward contracts with clearly delineated terms. This book teaches you, in a few days, what it traditionally took people half a lifetime to learn through trial and error. In writing it, the author drew on his more than twenty years as a business consultant, lecturer, and author to offer you tips on how to ask for and get the fees you deserve and to establish contract terms that are in the best interests of you and your clients. Throughout he shares his insider's expertise on:

Determining market value for your services
Establishing per diem or per-project rates and calculating overhead
Advantages and disadvantages of various systems of fee-setting and billing
Six major goals of every contract
Negotiating the contract and avoiding legal pitfalls

Customer Reviews:

A keeper...........2002-02-11

This book came just in time. My consulting practice took off suddenly and I literally dashed to amazon to search for a book with information I could apply right away. It was an invaluable aid. And after a couple of years, it is still a useful reference, always close at hand.

Dated Material.......2001-11-29

The items covered in the book are basic and need to be discussed. However, the sample items and some tables used show data from 1988. This info is not useful.

What a GREAT resource!.......2001-11-01

I first picked up this book at the library when starting my consulting agency. I found it so valuable as a second and third read and as a resource, that I ended up paying almost $20.00 in late fees. I should have just bought the book, as should you. I highly recommend it.

There are MANY of these types of books out there, but this is definitely in the 'Gotta have it' section. I bought it and continually use it as a resource.

The greatest part is that it covers some VERY difficult material well. I found fee setting and the interim and final reports extremely difficult to do before I bought this book.

It is important to note that this book is not just for independent consultants, but for anyone selling consulting services and other professional services.

If you are not sure whether you want it, get it at the library and take a look. Just remember to take it back!

Great for startups or exisiting businesses!.......2001-05-03

As an experienced consultant I've found this book to be extremely useful when I stumbled across it. I've recently started my own consulting practice and have found this book to contain some really useful information and steps on setting up your fees along with developing contracts. It reads very easily and walks you through the process step-by-step. Wish I had found this book while I worked for a larger consulting company, it would have helped out a number of times when trying to walk through the process, or as an education for anyone developing proposales, fees, and contracts. Highly recommend it for anyone in the consulting field (either solos or working for one of the big boys).

Very useful cookbook.......2001-02-03

My company does software development for Web sites. Making a proposal that sells and setting fees correctly has been a daunting task. This book has step-by-step flow charts for determining the proper price and creating proposals that sell. I have a number of books in the general area, but this one is our bible.

The Contract And Fee-Setting Guide For Consultants & Professionals -

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The Contract And Fee-Setting Guide For Consultants & Professionals -
Howard L. Shenson -
Manufacturer: John Wiley Publishing -
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000P10Q4E

The Contract and Fee-setting Guide for Consultants and Professionals

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The Contract and Fee-setting Guide for Consultants and Professionals
Howard L. Shenson
Manufacturer: Wiley
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N6CSR4

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A Journey of Spirit and Determination

Like no other-triple wow!

An Inspiring Tale by a Remarkable Woman

WOW

Mountain Memoir

Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
Arlene Blum
Manufacturer: Harvest Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

General | Biographies & Memoirs | Subjects | Books
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks

ASIN: 0156031167

Book Description

A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the first all-female teams on successful ascents of Mount McKinley and Annapurna and by being the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest. At the same time, her groundbreaking scientific work challenged gender stereotypes in the academic community and led to important legislation banning carcinogens in children’s sleepwear. With candor and humor, Breaking Trail recounts Blum’s journey from an overprotected childhood in Chicago to the tops of some of the highest peaks on earth, and to a life lived on her own terms. Now with an index, additional photos, and a new afterword, this book is a moving testament to the power of taking risks and pursuing dreams.

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"Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a leading role in more than twenty expeditions and forged a place for women in the perilous arena of high-altitude mountaineering. Breaking Trail is the story of Blum's journey from her overprotected youth in Chicago to the tops of some of the highest peaks on Earth. Chronicling a life of extraordinary personal and professional achievement, Blum's intimate and inspiring memoir explores how her childhood fueled her need to climb -- and how, in turn, her climbing liberated her from her childhood. Each chapter in Breaking Trail begins with a poignant vignette from Blum's early life. Using these as starting points, she traces her evolution as a climber, from a hilariously incompetent beginner to an aspiring mountaineer to a successful, confident, and world-renowned expedition leader. Along the way, she takes us to some of the most extreme and exquisite places on the planet, sharing the exhilaration, toil, and danger of climbing high. Blum also relates the story of her scientific career, which, like her mountaineering, challenged gender stereotypes and was filled with singular accomplishments, including the banning of two cancer-causing chemicals and the initiation of an important area of biophysical research. Writing with remarkable candor and introspection, Blum recounts her triumphs and tragedies, and provides a probing look at what drove her to endure extreme physical discomfort -- and even to risk her life -- attempting high, remote summits around the world. In her story, she shares intimate insights into how and why climbers persevere under the harshest circumstances, cope with the deaths of their comrades, and balance their desire for adventure with their personal lives. Complemented with breathtaking personal photos and detailed maps, Breaking Trail is a deeply moving account of how one woman overcame adversity to become one of the world's most famous climbers, and a testament to the power of taking risks and pursuing dreams. "

Customer Reviews:

A Journey of Spirit and Determination.......2007-08-22

Arlene Blum has not only written her own story, but bared her soul in doing so. Her honesty in describing relationships and feelings in her quest for equality on the mountaintop and in everyday life is unusual in a memoir. Her passion for climbing high summits, both physical and metaphorical, blends with a compassion for the well-being of all who share her journey. You may have to read between the lines of her modestly stated life to catch the far-reaching impact of her accomplishments, but we are all better off because of the trail she pioneered. Her book stands alone on the summit of personal memoirs.
- Doug Woodward, author of Wherever Waters Flow: A Lifelong Love Affair With Wild Rivers

Like no other-triple wow!.......2007-05-23

There are just a dozen or two books that I've read and treasured, not only for their excellence, but also because they're like no other. This is one of those rare reading experiences. Blum is a female mountain climber writing about her successes and failures, her highs and lows. You don't have to be a crusader for women's rights, nor do you need to know or care the first thing about mountaineering to be entranced by this magical book.

Blum has an amazing story to tell, and she tells it like Scheherezade--every episode leaving the reader impatient for the next chapter. In the end the book is about the triumph of the human spirit, and you don't need to be a climber to appreciate it. Buy it and open it--Blum will do the rest.

An Inspiring Tale by a Remarkable Woman.......2007-04-25

Arlene's life and accomplishments are as remarkable as the story in which she details them. Breaking Trail is a compelling read for many reasons. It is written with disarming honesty, giving us the opportunity to understand a complex woman whose determination and talent allowed her to succeed at passions that were atypical for women - mountain climbing and physical chemistry. Her journey included many obstacles, including the deaths of numerous close friends, sexist stereotypes from members of the climbing community and academia, as well as a childhood that was less than ideal. But her story not only inspires others to persevere in spite of hurdles, it also brings to life the beauty of exploring the mountains for both outdoor enthusiasts and armchair adventurers.

WOW.......2007-04-24

What a great book about one women's adventures in the alpine world! I don't know what makes a person attempt such dangerous activities, but clearly she was driven to follow her own course in life and battled the male dominated climbing establishment on her own terms. Well done!!

Mountain Memoir.......2007-04-12

This memoir about climbing some of the world's highest peaks is one part narrative and one part mystery. You'll be inspired and entertained.

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Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life
Arlene, and Bonington, Chris, Sir (Foreword by) Blum
Manufacturer: Scribner Book Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000VN4GVA

Book Description

In the last, triumphant months of World War II, young Americans won their nations greatest victoryor victories. For the war they won was a world war, a conflict fought on two very different fronts in two very different ways. In Europe, the battle-tested troops who had landed in Normandy on D-Day fought their way onto Adolf Hitlers doorstep, then crossed the Rhine and brought down the Nazis thousand-year Reich. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, sailors, Marines and airmen teamed up to invade a series of crucial islands Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawarolling back a tough Japanese enemy and paving the way for the surprising end of the war with the dropping of an atom bomb on Hiroshima. Every step of every day, these members of The Greatest Generation were shadowed by reporters and photographers from two great American magazines, Time and Life. Now, the editors of Time have returned to these archives to compile a memorable, visually stunning portrait of those stirring times, Americas Greatest Generation and Their World War II Triumph.

Customer Reviews:

great book.......2006-11-27

This book is wonderful for people who love WWII. It has great pictures and wonderful accuracy. This is the best World War Two book with pictures that I have read. If you like WWII, then you should get this book.

Book Description

"A valuable contribution to the contentious dialogue on an important issue. One cannot but feel great sadness and anger about what has become of the state of Israel after reading these important interviews."-Anthony Gronowicz, author of Race and Class Politics in New York City Before the Civil War

Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers consists of conversations with leading intellectuals and activists who believe it is their obligation to protest Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. Participants include Noam Chomsky; Joel Kovel; Norman Finkelstein, author; Ora Wise, activist in Jews Against the Occupation; Rabbi David Weiss; Adam Shapiro and Phyllis Bennis.

Customer Reviews:

Jewish self-haters all?.......2007-06-16

Criticism of Israel and its policies is verboten in polite company in the US. Those who doubt this need only look to the reception accorded President Jimmy Carter's tepid book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Carter makes no controversial claims. Yet we are repeatedly told that Carter is an anti-Semite and wants to destroy the state of Israel! Or consider the shameful attacks on Prof. Norman G. Finkelstein for daring to document that the Nazi genocide was being exploited, and not for the benefit of survivors, in his book The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition: we are to believe he is a minimizer of the Nazi genocide, even though it is well known that both his parents were survivors of the concentration camps. All this even as toasts are raised to the plagiarist, torture-condoner, arch-Israeli-apologist Dershowitz.

An enlightening book .......2005-09-13

I am appalled at what Saul Freidman said about this book. Clearly he did not read the book. Norman Finkelstein has not been tormenting holocaust survivors.This is a cruel thing to say as both of Professor Finkelstein's parents were themselves Holocaust survivors. Both were in the Warsaw Ghetto and his mother was in Auschwitz. His parents lost all their surviving relatives in the holocaust. Dr Finkelstein was angry because although many Jewish organizations got rich from reparations from the holocaust, virtually none of the survivors got one penny, including Finkelstein's parents. If Freidman had read the interview with Professor Finkelstein he would know this.Instead he accuses this poor man, who has only tried to honor the memory of his parents, of tormenting Holocaust survivors. Shame on you, Saul Freidman! That is no way to treat a fellow Jew- just because he does not agree with you about Israeli policies. Friedman also lies--or has not read any of the book--on the issue of "suicide bombers." Not one of the people interviewed defends suicide bombing. Farber, Shapiro, Finkelstein, Quester and others specifically condemn the suicide bombing conducted by groups like Hamas. But they also condemn the murder of defenseless Palestinian women and children by the Israel Army--5 times as many as Israelis murdered. Steve Quester, a Jew who lived with a Palestinian family, witnessed Israeli soldiers shooting at little Palestinian children. As Jews we have to be honor our greeat ethical and religious tradition. This means we must condemn injustice even when it comes from our side. This means we must face the fact that the Israeli government has treated the Palestinians like dogs. The Jews in this book are brave enough to demand justice for all people. Dr Farber has done a great service by putting this book together. He did this out of love for the Jewish people--he wants them to live up to the high standards of justice upon which our religious tradition is based. And this book convinced me that we Jews can do that. But we must first start treating the Palestinians as our brothers and sisters. We must demand that Israel withdraw from the West Bank and remove the Jewish settlements, so that the Palestinians can have a decent amount of land to create their own state. As Americans we must tell our own government that it must say to Israel that it will reduce the billions of dollars of grants given to it every year unless it ends the Occupation. If you read this book with an open mind it will completely change the way you look at the situation in the middle east.It changed my mind. It made me realize that the Palestinians are human, it made me ashamed of what Israel has done--and it made me feel that in the name of the great tradition of Judaism (which believes that all human beings are equal--see Isaiah)I must work to help end the occupation of Palestinian land. Dr Farber's has his own perspective which he explains in the last chapter. He believes strongly in the teachings of the Biblical Jewish prophets. As Micah said in the Bible: "Act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God." Farber has done that.Kudoos. He has put together an important book. Every Jew, every American, should read it.

Israel bashing by anti- Semitic Jews .......2005-09-02

This is a collection of the worse writing on Israel imaginable by the most immoral people imaginable. They are the people who defend the suicide- bombers, defend those who have for years attacked defenseless civilians. They include the chief ingrate of the Western world Noam Chomsky who has for years exploited American democracy and freedom while defending America's worse totalitarian enemies. It also includes the cruel Norman Finklestein who has for years been tormenting Holocaust survivors with his insane charges that they profit from the disaster which brought many of them loss of whole families.
I do not know who the shameless editor is but Mr. Farber has self- promoted by reviewing his own book on this site.
Pliny said that there is no book so bad that there is not something good about it. This book is one of the few I know which proves him wrong.

Introduction--The Return of the Jewish Prophetic-- The Palestinians Plight.......2005-06-30

The Israeli scholar Tanya Reinhart captured succinctly both the diversity and unity of the different voices in this book. She wrote:
"This is an important book....In these shameful days, when black turns white, when the most brutal leader Israeli militarism has produced is hailed as a man of peace and when standing for justice is silenced as anti-Semitism, this book is a breath of fresh air. The many voices in this book, each different, but all taking basic human values as their point of departure, reminds us that being a Jew today can mean adhering to higher principles than those dictated by the Israeli generals."
-Tanya Reinhart, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Author of Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948
>>> The brilliant Pakistani scholar and Muslim M. Shahid Alam wrote:
"Now thanks to Seth Farber, we can listen to some of the leading Jewish American critics of Israel as they make the moral, legal and political case against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine and propose solutions that will allow the Jews and Palestinians to live in peace in two separate states or a single bi-national state. I can hope that his book will be read widely, and that it will persuade more Americans-Jews and non-Jews alike-to recognize the just demands of the Palestinians for an honorable existence in their own country."
-M. Shahid Alam, Professor of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston, Author of Is There An Islamic Problem
My own EMPHASIS is expressed succinctly in my Introduction and concluding essay--that Israel's treatment of the Palestinians conflicts both with international law and with the teachings of prophetic Judaism. Thus this book is also a strong affirmation of Judaism at its best. My conviction that the Jewish prophetic perspective represents the spiritual height of Judaism was shared by Reform Judaism when it was first established in Germany and the US in early 19th Century. The priority given by the prophets to universal historical justice is recognized also by Abraham Heschel in his book The Prophets. For well over a century Reform Judaism affirmed a universal messianic vision (Isaiah, Jeremiah), repudiated the idea of returning to Palestine, and reiterated the prophets' conviction that Jews had a divine mission to be a "light unto the nations." Thus prophetic Judaism testifies to a God whose essential characteristic is righteousness and who desires above all that human beings create a society based upon universal justice. Worship of the God of justice is not compatible with the idolatrous worship of a militaristic nation-state, whether that state be Israel or America--or the worship of the Roman Empire by Christians in another era. Not until after WW11 did the Reform movement affirm Zionism-- and not until after 1967 did its worship of Israel grow more numinous (more intense)than its worship of God. Thus Reform Judaism repudiated its own founding theology--beautifully codified in the 1885 Pittsburg Platform. The contributors to this book have diverse theological perspectives--many, like Noam Chomsky,are atheists or agnostics, two are Orthodox Jews. Yet almost all consider themselves Jewish in some sense.Almost all believe they have a moral obligation to protest the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel--and its support by the US government (which gives Israel $3 billion a year). (Contrary to their detractors, not one supports suicide bombings.) Each in his/her own way renounces the Biblical sin of idolatry--the worship of the State and military might;I would add,as does Marc Ellis,in place of God.

Prophetic Judaism vs Israeli Policies.......2005-06-28

This is a brilliant book. Before I read it I thought both Jews and Palestinians were equally to blame for the quagmire in Israel. After reading Dr Farber, Noam Chomsky, Mezvinsky, Finkelstein and the account of his experiences by Steve Quester who spent 3 summers in the West Bank risking his life to protect Palestinians, I changed my mind. I realized that what the Jewish settlers did and are doing to the Palestinians in 1948 and today is exactly what Europeans settlers did in America to the Indians--dispossessing a native people of their land, rendering them homeless, herding them into the modern reservations. In Israel the reservations are rufugee camps in the West Bank and elsewhere. Finkelstein's account of Palestinians' expulsion and dispossession in 1948, laced by Farber with accounts by observers of the 1948 war, made me want to cry.What have we done to the poor Palestinians? What have we become as Jews? We were a moral spiritual people and now most of us spend our time trying to deny that we have done anything wrong, inventing rationalizations for Israel. We claim the Palestinians were always bad, Arabs are always bad, or that there were no Palestinians in Palestine! Finkelstein--whose parents were both Holocaust survivors--demolishes this last myth. The scholars in this book are top of the field.And the book is praised by first rate scholars, as well as by the great Daniel Berrigan. It is fascinatating to get a glimpse into the souls of those Farber interviews--because his questions are probing.
Marc Elis the theolgian says we should apologize to the Palestinians, we should confess our sins. They were expelled and not allowed to return--in violation of the UN and international law. In our greed for land we HAVE sinned. In our disregard for justice and God we have sinned. Nor,as Farber shows,can the conflict be blamed solely on the the Holocaust.Most of the holocaust survivors did not want to go to Israel but to America, but Ben-Gurion opposed that.American Jewish organizations refused to fight for the right of Jews to come here. Further as Chomsky and Farber show there were other Jews like Martin Buber and Judah Magnes who proposed solutions that would enable the Jews and Arabs to share the land but the hard core Zionists would have nothing of it
I was surprised to learn that Steve Quester, an American Jew, was welcomed with open arms by the Palestinians. Quester went to Palestine with the ISM, a movement that knee-jerk Zionists disparage as pro-terrorist but his dedication to non-violence could not be clearer. The reviewers who puts down the ISM probably did not read the interviews with Quester and Adam Shapiro. Or she read them with a hardened heart.
Why are the people Farber interviewed speaking out on behalf of the Palestinians when the Jewish community is trashing them for it?? One young woman in the book, Ora Wise, is the daughter of a conservative rabbi. Her entire family is furious at her for supporting Palestinians rights to self--determination.Her father won't talk to her. It cannot be easy for these people to take the positions they do. They do it out of a sense of moral obligation. The theologian Marc Ellis says in Farber's book that many Jews of conscience choose to take positions that lead to their ostracism by the organized Jewish community. This is a lonely position to be in--hated and despised by family and friends;Ellis says they are entering into a "new exile"--from the Jewish community in the diaspora. Why? Why do they risk their lives by going to Palestine where Israeli soldiers shoot bullets over their heads or beat them with sticks? (Several, like Rachel Corrie, were even murdered by the Israeli Army.) There can be only one reason. The call of conscience is so powerful among many Jews (albeit a minority) it overwhelms the lure of security. Marc Ellis a theologian says that by standing up for the Palestinians they are saving the Jewish covenant itself, Jews' covenant with God to serve all of humanity, to serve as a light unto the nations.They carry the covenant with them into exile. It is lonely but the lives of the Jewish prophets were lonely. Farber states that he worships the God of justice rather the idol of the Jewish state.
One reviewer claimed that Jews were a majority in the part of Palestine granted.Does she not understand that is irrelevant: Jews were a minority in Mandate Palestine. They were only 30% of the population and had purchased only 6% of the land. Not everything can be bought with money. These scholars show that the Palestinians were attached to their homes and their land. Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister and architect of the Jewish state, knew that a war was necessary in order to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its Arab inhabitants. He said so in 1937:"... we have to stick to compulsory transfer of the Arabs from the projected Jewish state.."
In the end Farber demonstrates that prophetic Judaism and Zionism are incompatible. Jews cannot worship power and serve the cause of justice, the God of justice. I think his last chapter is one of the most powerful statements in the book.It is a powerful affirmation of Judaism. In fact he argues that the hard-core Zionists are self-hating Jews because they have repudiated the heart of the Jewish tradition--its prophetic core. He srgues the only way to recover this tradition is to enter into solidarity with the Palestinians, and to divorce ourselves from our modern role of defending the crimes of the powerful Jewish nation-state. That is what Isaiah would have done. For it was Isaiah who exhorted all peoples to beat their swords into ploughshares---and foresaw a time of peace when the earth would be full of the knowledge of the Lord. Farber's book is a contribution to the goal of Isaiah.

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