Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions For Adoptive and Foster Families

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Over 200,000 children live in foster homes in America today. 40-60% of these children have been severely and permanently damaged by their pasts, resulting in behavioral, psychiatric, emotional and neurological disorders. Large numbers of previously adopted children (both domestic and international) suffer from similar problems. In the past, these children would have been cared for in specialized facilities staffed 24 hours a day by professionals. Today they are placed in inadequately prepared adoptive or foster homes where they often become uncontrollable, and forcefully reject those who want only to love and help them. Yet, in the past when families sought understanding and help, they found that there was little or none available. Now there is.

Can This Child Be Saved? Solutions for Adoptive and Foster Families... Offers parents help and hope, encouragement and support. It examines what causes children to act and react the way they do, and why conventional strategies and approaches often fail to reach them. It explores and validates parents feelings and offers struggling families clearly detailed and easy to understand parenting techniques and therapeutic approaches that DO succeed with disturbed children.

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Nothing but advice on how to abuse your child!.......2006-10-17

Cline is the founder of a pop psychotherapy called today "Attachment Therapy" (aka Rage Reduction, Holding Therapy, Compression Therapy, etc.). This book promotes this "therapy" in which children are restrained, poked, threatened, and yelled at until they are exhausted from hours of struggle. Says Cline/Helding: "Simple holding sessions may last for an hour or two...Even simple holding can be seen as too intrusive by those who believe that a child should only be held with the child's permission." (pp. 266-267) "Sometimes the child will scream or sob in anger or sadness. It is helpful to remember that this is the child's way of working through unexpressed feelings." (p.265) "Older, bigger children are held by two or more people..." (pp. 262-263) This is NOT therapy. It's child abuse. And it's based on the outdated notion of catharsis.

The parenting methods Cline and Helding promote are also abusive, such as setting the child up for experiencing more trauma: "One parent purposely allowed a child to become lost in a mall, but kept an eye on her as her distress level increased before being 'found.'...a recreation of the early distress/relief bonding cycle." (p. 283)

Or advising the parent to even set a poor example for the child: "Joining the children in their misbehavior can be almost as much fun....'Oh, it's time to go to your soccer game? Oh dear! I know I told you that I'd take you. Sorry, I guess I lied about that...'" (pp. 239-242)

None of this is validated by research or common sense. The treatment even meets the definition of *torture.* I can't imagine how this book got any good reviews.

Cost of used book.......2005-11-02

This book can be purchased from the publisher for $24.95. It is put out through the Love and Logic Institute.

Good book, but not rare.......2004-01-09

This is a highly recommended book in the field of Foster Care and Adoption, and for dealing with the stresses and special needs of children who have lived with and seen things no child should. Reactive Attachment Disorder is a serious situation that is frequently surprising to the parents who expect a sweet child who only wants to be loved.

This book is available new and is not particularly expensive. I don't understand the ridiculously high prices being asked here for used copies. This is not a rare book.

A Real eye-opener.......2002-04-27

For anyone thinking about adopting an older child, this book is a must read but put it LAST on your list. If I had read it first, I probably would have dropped the idea altogether. It is full of frightenning examples of how adopting an older child can lead you and your family down a path to ruin. It does give techniques to deal with and hopefully change some of the disturbing behaviors you may encounter. Most important, it tells you what issues a child has that may lead him to these behaviors.

It will arm you with knowledge needed so when you're given a referral, you'll have a much better chance of choosing a child who will grow and thrive in your family instead of tear it apart. There are so many kids waiting for adoption that CANNOT be saved no matter how you try. You owe it to yourself and your family to read this book. It can help you make the right choice that could literally save your lives.

Can This Child Be Saved.......2000-09-30

This book is an excellent resource for both parents and direct care-givers. Although a lot of space is given to adoption and foster care concerns, it is helpful for anyone dealing with reactive attachment disorder or children who are not adopted but have attachment issues. Ann Kelley, LCSW, Tulsa Boys Home.

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With his exhaustive research, author Shelby Stanton pieced together the history of the development and distribution of U.S. Army clothing and equipment during the Korean War. The vast differences in temperature and climate in Korea presented Army quartermasters with a unique challenge. Complete with many previously unpublished photos and comprehensive coverage of both summer and winter uniforms as well as equipment and insignia, military history enthusiasts and collectors will find this authoritative book an invaluable resource.

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Definitive Developmental Study.......2000-10-07

This is a book that will stand forever as a developmental history. Having just reviewed the other three works in this set, I am surprised that no one has thought themselves competent to review this one. Competence or its lack does not seem to deter some reviewers. :) Mine comes from two sources, one I have been collecting and studying this materiel since I was a boy. Second, I was there in the fifties. Went in in 1956, just three years after the Korean War was over, so the ranks of NCOs and officers were full of vets. Much of the service slang of the time such as "Chogy" which means hustle, hustle, quick step, came from that conflict.
But this is not a combat history, it is an account of the US Army Quartermaster Corps reaction to the combat conditions in the Cold-Wet Climate and sub arctic conditions of Korea, first, and northern Europe secondly. Germany has a miserable winter climate.
It is much easier to maintain one's health in very cold dry conditions in the arctic and subarctic than to be in cold freeze thaw daily conditions with snow and mud mixed. In Korea when continental cold waves came in these cold dry conditions ocurred but the general effect of the sea surrounding moderated it from excruciating pain to just plain miserably nasty. And in the Korean Summer the continental climate baked you.
So all of this is thoroughly discussed herein. This is not a picture book of what the soldier looked like in the field. See the many by Johnathan Gawne and Philip J. Langelier for that sort of thing. I have reviewed most of them so look them up.
Stanton was a serving officer in Vietnam and when he did his research he had access to the working files at the Army's Natick Laboratory in Masachusetts. He has used all the specifications and drawings that were published. Plus many, many official and personal photographs. In combination with his other works he has covered everything from 1939 to 1975. His complete ouevre includes WW II, Korea, Cold War, and Vietnam. I wish he would continue with the Modern Volunteer Army from 1975 on.

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U.S. Army Uniforms of the Korean War
Shelby Stanton
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000QS3CC4

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Thomas K. Murphy explores the shifting history of European attitudes toward America, utilizing British and French writing from the late eighteenth through the middle of the nineteenth centuries. Murphy studies a rich collage of literary, philosophical, and political writing by Europeans during this era. The book covers four stages in the development of European attitudes: traditional theories and their modification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the influence of early American diplomacy on European attitudes, the cultural iconography of the French Revolution and of England during this same period, and the genre of the travel journal. Murphy has created an interesting historiography that augments our understanding of American history, but also illuminates the role that these imaginative texts about the New World played in the formation of significant social and political developments in modern European history.

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Teaching in Eden is about a teacher's rebellion against the paradigms of higher education as they are manifested in the trenches--the introductory classrooms of large, research-oriented universities--the rebellion against standardized lectures and multiple choice exams, against the increasingly web-driven, audio-visual environment in multi-media teaching auditoriums, and against an educational bureaucracy's definitions of success. The idealism that fuels this rebellion is a direct result of John Janovy, Jr.'s experience in field biology teaching a program known as the Cedar Point Biological Station in Nebraska, a place the students and teachers there have dubbed Camelot in recognition of its isolated beauty, its special instructional qualities, and its vulnerability.
This utterly unique book comes out of Janovy's quarter century of teaching science at Cedar Point. Any teacher who reads this book will immediately change the way he or she approaches any subject, no matter whether that subject is biology, history, literature, or art. And any concerned parent who reads it will immediately begin asking his or her children about teaching techniques being used in their university classes. Remarkable in their potential, the tools Janovy provides are simple instructional devices that require only a teacher's time and the courage to break out of the existing constraints to discover and assemble the elements of an ideal instructional environment.

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Thoughtful discussion of teaching and discovery.......2005-09-19

Dr. Janovy uses extensive experience in teaching in the field not only to share his insights into field teaching is done effectively, but also to explore teaching in general.

The Heritage of Experimental Embryology : Hans Spemann and the Organizer (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology)

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The Heritage of Experimental Embryology : Hans Spemann and the Organizer (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology)
VIKTOR HAMBURGER
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Here is a critical account of the experimental work of German biologist and Nobel laureate Hans Spemann, one of the founders of experimental embryology. The author, a distinguished developmental biologist, spent almost a decade in Spemann's laboratory. He examines Spemann's work and traces the different lines of investigation which emerged from his mentor's seminal research, and laid the foundation for modern cellular and developmental biology.

Frontiers In Arterial Chemoreception (Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology)

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Frontiers In Arterial Chemoreception (Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology)
PATRICIO ZAPATA
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Philosophy of Experimental Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)

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Philosophy of Experimental Biology (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology)
Marcel Weber
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Exploring central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in modern experimental biology, this book clarifies the strategies, concepts, reasoning, approaches, tools, models and experimental systems deployed by researchers. It also integrates recent developments in historical scholarship, in particular, the New Experimentalism, making this work of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as to biological researchers.

Beyond a Western bioethics?: An article from: Theological Studies

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Beyond a Western bioethics?: An article from: Theological Studies
Maura A. Ryan
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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 8768 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: [Like theology and ethics generally, bioethics has increasingly developed a global consciousness. Controversies over AIDS research and access to affordable AIDS treatment have generated new awareness about the importance of international collaboration as well as the difficulty of achieving moral consensus across economic, political, and cultural divides. Advances in scientific and medical knowledge through initiatives such as the Human Genome Project invite new questions about the nature of health care as a common good. This budding global consciousness serves as a starting point for examining contemporary challenges to the secular, principle-based, Western bioethics that has dominated national and international debate for three decades.]

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Title: Beyond a Western bioethics?
Author: Maura A. Ryan
Publication: Theological Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2004
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Design for a man (theory-methods, finding, and applications);: Oriental psycho-analysis, experimental religions, philosophy, and sociology, psycho-cybernatics, biology of ego,

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Design for a man (theory-methods, finding, and applications);: Oriental psycho-analysis, experimental religions, philosophy, and sociology, psycho-cybernatics, biology of ego,
D Satya Nand
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Take a behind-the-scenes no-holds-barred tour of your neighborhood strip club in Confessions of a Stripper--Tales from the VIP Room. These adventures--both high and low--in the topless trade are culled from author Lacey Lane's seven years as an exotic dancer. This book takes you on an outlandish journey, from Lane's self-esteem issues, which provided the impetus for her entry into the skin biz, to the mysterious VIP Room, where anything and everything can happen. It's a parade through the screwy world of the strip club, where freaks, fetishists, scammers, high rollers, perverts, and even normal guys all congregate to partake in prurient fantasies of the flesh. Lane also provides a plethora of helpful hints for men--and women--who routinely frequent strip clubs, from tipping the bouncers and not getting suckered by roses and champagne to negotiating for services and yes, taking home a dancer.

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Funny Stories .......2007-07-28

If you're looking for the nitty gritty of the Dancers lives and activity this may not be the book for you - PG-13 at it's best. I was expecting at least an R rating if not more graphic based on the topic and nature of the book. Now that said, it is a wonderful and pleasureable read. Anyone who has visited a Adult Dance Club either as a Patron or Employee will find this a humorous quick read or walk down memory lane... Dancers/Strippers are hard working humans who are professionals and these stories depict the struggles one young lady faces as she struggles to make a living and have fun at the same time doing it... A nice insight to the life of a stripper, er dancer if you prefer. Worth the money spent but I'd suggest a used copy if I were to do it again.

She didn't tell it all.......2007-03-12

I read the book expecting some inside information, I did't get it. She didn't tell anything but the odd things and odd people. My ersonal experience over a long period of time and many establishments she wasn't telling what really goes on, at least part of the time with some of t he dancers. Iknkow htere is a lot of fooling around that happens eveywhere than she disclosed.

Too Tame and too boring!.......2006-10-17

This one is a fast read, but it's fast because it's boring! The author's issues with self-aggrandizement are really present in her writing...she is perfect and everyone else has the most horrific flaws! She never waivers to put someone down and yet,never makes any intention of trying to figure out why the person is acting/reacting in a certain way. I was bored with her tales of the VIP because none of it was really surprising to me. Actually, I came away wondering why she found it so amusing??

very entertaining.....good read.......2006-05-10

This author put together a well written book with some
great stories in it. I enjoyed reading the book and
read it in one night. Lap Dancers was another good book
about exotic dancers. Dance to Despair (memoirs of an
exotic dancer) is also a must read for anyone who is
interested in this topic.

LOVED THIS BOOK !!!!.......2006-01-20

I had Danced for 10 years ( Retired my Stipper Shoes a year ago ) and I thought this book was funny , well written , and (as crazy as some of the charactors ...) believable . I laughed out loud quite a few times ! I do not believe she put dancers down or judged them at all ... she simply had her set of boundries ( But was very honest about the things that push or altered her personal boundries and decisions , like money , alcohol , sympathy , ect.) Out of any of the books I'd read on this subject , This was one the best .I will recomend it to anyone whether they've worked in the industry or have not.

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For King and Country is the first in a series of in-depth studies which will cover the uniforms, equipment, insignia, weapons, vehicles, and personal items of the British and Commonwealth soldier of World War II. This initial volume covers the British Airborne soldier of the 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions, and the 1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade. With over 540 color recreation, and detail photos and over 65 unpublished war era black and white photographs, the complete airborne rig is covered in great detail. For King and Country brings to life the British Airborne soldier as never before. Each branch of the Airborne is covered: included are the paratroops, glider troops, divisional and administrative departments, and the glider pilots, as well as those liaison and attached troops. For King and Country is an essential reference for any military enthusiast, collector, reenactor, modeler, and veteran. , over 600 color and b/w photographs, 9" x 12", 192 pages

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Probably not worth the money.......2004-01-10

Many of the recreated photographs are very nice and the color is excellent. However, many of the staged shots were done poorly and the actual text is even worse. In some instances, there are photographs of modern equipment that is "unknown" to the author. Might it be the military continued to produce things after WWII? Better research on the subject might have made this a better book. There are much better books that cover the airborne for a lot less money while being more accurate and more complete.

"King and Country" a winner.......2000-04-18

Harlan Glenn has obviously spent a great deal of time researching the uniforms and equipment that are shown in the book. If you are a collector, re-enactor, historian, or simply a fan of World War 2 British Airborne units, this book is a must have. Glenn attmepts to portray his subjects as accurately and realistically as possible, capturing them in scenes that take you back 55 years. The quality and clarity of the color photographs is excellent and helps bring the subjects to life. A minor complaint in format is where text wraps around photos, making reading difficult, but that is the only significant flaw that I encountered. The first person accounts add to the realism and give a nostalgic flavor. I would give this book five stars if not for the price. For content it qualifies for 10 stars! However, the price is a little much. Is it worth it? Yes, but it may scare off some potential buyers.

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On campuses throughout the United States, thousands of professors study and teach the Middle East. They fill the pages of journals, the shelves of libraries, and the minds of students with their paradigms, theories, and predictions. In Middle East crises, the media seek their opinions. Their enterprise is deemed a national resource: the federal government subsidizes over a dozen academic centers devoted to the Middle East.

Yet for the past twenty years, Middle Eastern studies in America have been factories of error. The academics, blinded by their own prejudices and enslaved to the fashions of the disciplines, have failed to anticipate or explain any of the major developments in the Middle East. Within the field, hardly a voice dares to protest, but beyond it, each debacle chips away at academic's credibility. Middle Eastern studies have failed--at a time when understanding the Middle East has become crucial to America.

In this iconoclastic exposé, Martin Kramer surveys the ruins of Middle Eastern studies, to ask how and why they went wrong. Ivory Towers on Sand is the most thorough critique of Middle Eastern studies ever published in the United States--and a necessary step toward their reconstruction.

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It seems Kramer also has his personal agenda.......2006-03-11

It seems Kramer also has his personal agenda. For a more balanced and better evaluation you should turn to Contending Visions of the Middle East : The History and Politics of Orientalism by Zachary Lockman.

An appeal to the American taxpayer .......2005-01-10

This book is not so much about the blatant bias which most Middle Eastern Studies Departments display in regard to the various conflicts in the Middle East. It is rather about the errors which those in those departments have been consistently guilty of. The two major ones according to Kramer relate to Islamism and Middle Eastern civil society. In the seventies and eighties these faculties were filled with people publishing articles which suggested the Middle East was about to enter a new period of 'enlightened Islam'. There was not a hint in these departments about what was to happen in the United States on Sept.11, 2001. There was no real effort to understand the process of radical Islamicization which was taking place throughout the era.
The second major set of errors related to the character of the societies themselves. The experts were talking about a transformation to a new civil order in the Middle East. Instead what has occurred is an ever- deepening backwardness in which individual rights, the rights of women, free inquiry , democratic institutions are given no place.
Kramer shows how the in-built prejudice of the Middle Eastern Studies department made their batting average in seeing the future of the area, zero.
Beyond this Kramer takes a look at the way the US government has funded programs in these departments, and given free lunches and worse to investigators who are hostile or at best indifferent to the needs of American society. The Middle Eastern studies departments have not contributed in an adequate way to the education of scholars, students of Arabic, experts who could help in the worldwide US campaign against Terror which has a good part of its base in the Arab Middle East.
Kramer sees that the throwing of federal funds at these departments have led them to go in their own often Anti- American ways.
What he would like to see is Middle Eastern studies departments which have some sense of responsibility to the US society which they belong. He would like to see more diversity, true diversity in the kinds of scholars which are hired, and opinions debated. He sees one key to this in the Federal funding which provides the research money for graduate students and post- doctoral studies. He is not asking for a curtailing of academic freedom but rather suggesting that there be on the part of Middle East studies faculty an awareness that they live in American society and have obligation to its norms and standards. He understands that given the entrenched faculties of most of these institutions great change will not come overnight. But he believes the United States government and its citizens should not be content with a situation where ninety percent or more of the faculties opposed the 1991 Bush invasion of Iraq , and oppose US goals for the area.
This is a well- argued, clearly written piece of work, an overwhelming indictment of intellectual and moral corruption in the Middle East Studies departments of America.
Congress should take note, and when the next time comes for appropriating funds for ' Middle Eastern scholars' make certain that the present situation of corruption is not allowed to persist.

Partisan, but useful.......2003-03-02

Without exception, every reviewer here seems to think that the only way to respond to this book is to blindly react based on your partisan feelings - conservatives (the American sort, that is) love it, liberals hate it. How pathetically predictable. Admittedly, this book has an ideological axe of its own to grind, but pretty much every author has one of those, so you have to read this sort of work by looking for the positive contributions you can find for yourself. I mean, come on, people! The best way to be a smart Marxist sure as hell isn't to read the Manifesto over and over - you have to read what you _disagree_ with to find any useful information. Challenge yourselves a little!

Ok. I'm off the soapbox now, and I'll try to be more specific. Keep in mind that I haven't read Said's Orientalism, so my comments are less informed than they could be.

-The book falls into the same intellectual trickery that it accuses Said of - anyone can offer up an academic looking book with endnoted arguments and superscripted numbers. In this case, the title (and subtitle) of the book should be enough to convince anyone with a shred of academic honesty to reformat - this is NOT a journal article or a scholarly publication! It is an editorial work! This is not to say that I disagree with the thesis - but the book is clearly designed to look "scientific" and objective, when in fact it is not.
-Arguments about academia in general are out of place. Yes, in the 1970s, lot of women and minorities got hired at the expense of Yale-educated white men. Was this a good idea? Sometimes, sometimes not. But the fact that actual people who were from the Middle East took over many academic positions during this time doesn't contribute to the argument. Kramer makes special note that at least *50%* of the faculty of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies departments are now actual (or former) residents of these areas. Shocking! And I bet most African-American studies professors are black, too! Call the Cato Institute!
-Arguments about academic failures (especially of area studies in general - more on this would have been good) are convincing. It doesn't take much to argue that the political and academic intercept of Middle Eastern studies in the United States is less than suited to objective and professional scholarship. Kramer does a good job pointing out that the discipline (if indeed it should be one) has failed by most academic standards to contribute to understanding or prediction. Of course, the same could be said of political science or economics generally.

In short, a dishonest book with more than a kernel of truth. Flame on!

-Walt

This Book Is Part of the Problem.......2003-01-18

I have studied the Muslim world for most of two decades and lived in it for more than a decade and am sad to see this type of work masquerading as objective scholarship. Kramer's book can be counted as part of the smear ongoing campaign to discredit thousands of hardworking scholars with vast and diverse knowlege of the Middle East in dozens of disciplines spanning centuries of history with a broad demagogic brush. Hundreds of books on Islamic fundamentalism published in the 1990's with a wide variety of perspectives are clear evidence that scholars were sincerely engaged with the phenomenon and its dangers. The fact that they didn't "predict" 9/11 seems to bother a lot of folks, but that is not their job, but the job of the intelligence services who have long been sceptical of academia anyway in part from an anti-intellectual bias that informs a lot of the criticism. The role of social scientists has never been and shouldn't be to predict the future, whether it be the Iranian revolution, the fall of the Soviet Union, or 9/11. It should be to help us understand the origins of these events before and after they happen, and frankly, there was plenty of excellent work out there prior to 9/11, as opposed to most of what has come out after 9/11. Further, in the 1990's scholars were more concerned about fundamentialism than anyone else in government, business, or journalism. Savage wars such as those in Sudan and Algeria were faithfully covered by members of MESA while virtually no one else did. In fact, MESA conferences were one of the few places in the nation you could hear hundreds of speeches every year on topics that related directly to 9/11 about which no one seemed interested in hearing prior to 9/11. Scapegoating these intellectuals with many shades of grey of "rightness" and "wrongness" by constructing these fictitious "towers" of Middle East studies consensus only to knock them down in my opinion is a colossal waste of time. There is no one line in Middle East studies. Not even on Israel. And it has never existed. If most MESA members are sympathetic to Arabs does not diminish the vitality and importance of their wide-rangning debates before and after 9/11. And it is also due in part to the great lack of sympathy to hundreds of millions of Arabs and 1.2 billion Muslims that anyone that studies this region has to deal with. Every scholar of the region has to constantly plow through constantly reconstructed stereotypes and smear campaigns such as that created by this work to find the truth. And why lament that most sholars of these regions are from these regions. No one in Middle East Studies lamented for decades that, for example, most scholars of the Jewish, or Armenian, or African diasporas were Jewish, Armenian, or African. What's wrong with that? And the academic trends he decries are no different than those confronted by scholars in any other social scientific endeavor. The worst of it is that this book is now being used by a powerful campaign to defund Middle East studies across the nation's 3000 colleges and universities now that we need it most. This anti-Middle East studies campaign is just as sinister as the any kind of "smear" campaing, whether it be anti-semitism, or anti-Islamic invectives, or McCarthyism. It ends up making us all more polarized in our thinking and less informed. For this reason, not only did I gain nothing from this book, but this book is part of the problem. By seeking to smear and put Arab and Muslim intellectuals on the defensive, it can only serve to worsen the terms of the debate and set us back even further into ignorance. Fortunately, most serious scholars are ignoring it. Unfortunately, they just might succeed in their Washington campaign in the current increasingly fearful and increasingly ignorant environment of hunting for scapegoats, Manichean thinking, and bad policy making (such as the Charlotte Beer's marketing campaign at the State Department--one of many current initiatives that just make things worse) in the hasty search for easy answers and quick fixes. How can alienating and margnalizing thousands of dedicated scholars with a great variety of opinions help us in any way? Even their own debates mirror those of the Middle East and can be very instructive, but instead we are telling them that they are all biased, faddish, and monolithic in their views. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The truth is a hard pill to swallow........2003-01-13

A much needed declaration on the failures of Middle East scholarship. Academia has continued on its liberal path to build a Middle East paradigm rooted in hegemony and keeping up with the most modern intellectual jargin while ignoring the real situation in the Middle East. If the professors of Middle East Studies and MESA were more competant their opinions would be heralded througout America. However, MESA and academia aim at subverting those that do not buy into the dominant paradigm that America is imperalistic. Kramer dismantles this innaccurate paradigm in an accurate and revolutionary way.

Middle East Academia on college campuses has become a uniform mass saying in unison that imperialistic America's foreign policy has created this "Oriental" attitude that patronizes the Middle East. The academics reply they are simply telling the truth. I have yet to see a Middle East country not accept American aid. Middle East scholars have missed the reality boat on the Middle East. Where is the scholarship on Middle East terrorism? Fundamentalist Islam? Kramer is brutal, but honest in this assault and anyone thinking about Middle East Studies as an academic discipline must read this first!

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Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. (book review): An article from: Middle East Policy
Lawrence Davidson
Manufacturer: Middle East Policy Council
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Title: Ivory Towers On Sand: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. (book review)
Author: Lawrence Davidson
Publication: Middle East Policy (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: Middle East Policy Council
Volume: 9 Issue: 3 Page: 148(5)

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Ivory Towers on Sand: the Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. (Middle East Experts and September 11th). (book review): An article from: Midstream
Edward Alexander
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Explore Colorado.......2001-03-19

Excellent book for those who really want to know about the State of Colorado from a Naturalist's viewpoint. This has helped us really understand the unique qualities of this state we have grown to love.

Explore Colorado: A Naturalist's Notebook

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Explore Colorado: A Naturalist's Notebook
Frances Alley; Fielder, John; Meaney, Carr Kruger
Manufacturer: Westcliffe Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NY86O0

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