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On Yom Kippur, Jews of antiquity would sacrifice two goats: one killed as an offering to a harsh and judging god, the other taken to the wilderness and turned loose, a carrier of the sins of the group. Throughout history, argues brilliant feminist critic Andrea Dworkin, women and Jews have been stigmatized as society's scapegoats.

In this stunning and provocative book, Dworkin brings her rigorous intellect to bear on the dynamics of scapegoating. Drawing upon history, philosophy, literature, and politics, she creates a terrifying picture of the workings of misogyny and anti-Semitism in the last millennium.

With examples that range from the Inquisition, when women were targeted as witches and Jews as heretics, to the terror of the Nazis, whose aggression was both race- and gender-motivated, Dworkin illustrates how and why women and Jews have been scapegoated and compares the civil inequality, prejudices, and stereotypes that have framed identity for both groups. Taking the state of Israel as a paradigm, Dworkin traces the growth of male dominance in societies both old and new -- resulting in the subordination of women and a racial or ethnic "other."

In Israel today, Palestinians and prostitutes are the new scapegoats: degraded, inferior, abject. Although the gentle Jewish martyrs of old have become modern Israeli warriors, women retain the stigmatized status of "weak Jews" who, when attacked, never fight back. This leads Dworkin to imagine a world in which women betray men of their own kind in order to develop and defend their own sovereignty. Ultimately, her book forces us to ask profound questions: Why do women continue to value their own lives less than those of the men they love? Where is the line between justifiable self-defense and violence? Both an impassioned plea for women to challenge and destroy the author- ity of the men in their own group and a startling work of history, Scapegoat will forever change how we think about the patterns of behavior and belief that give rise to domination and oppression.

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On Yom Kippur, Jews of antiquity would sacrifice two goats: one as an offering to a harsh and judging god, the other turned loose in the wilderness as a carrier of the group's sins. But throughout history, says Andrea Dworkin, women and Jews themselves have served as society's scapegoats. From the Inquisition, when women were targeted as witches and Jews as heretics, to the Nazi assault on Jewish and female bodies, these groups have been doomed to the twin fates of slaughter and exile.

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The power of the word speaks again.......2006-12-22

Andrea Dworkin first opened my eyes in 1978 in the pages of Woman Hating, and she can still stretch my mind until it hurts!

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel and Women's Liberation would have been better titled The Holocaust of the Jews and Violence Against Women: A Study of Comparisons.

There is no liberation for the women in this book, nor is women's liberation even defined - but violence against women certainly is, and nobody can put violence against women in context like Andrea Dworkin. The sad part is that her writing has become so academic that the very women who could benefit from this book couldn't possibly follow it - it's mind bending, as we used to say in the sixties. Poor, oppressed, exploited women don't have the time or the energy to untangle the philosophy and the logic Dworkin has taken such pains to evolve - only college professors do. They thrive on it.

Andrea Dworkin changed my life by showing me the nature of my own oppression, so that I could find my way out of it. The nature of oppression and exploitation is also known, in psychiatrist's terms, as projection. The perpetrator blames the victim for their own suffering even as he cracks the whip. So do survivors take on the role of perpetrator if they manage to avoid any effort at healing their own wounds. So does Israel take on the role of Fascist in the ever present PTSD of the history of their own suffering.

How do we end the violence? By breaking the cycle. How do we break the cycle? Certainly not by invasion, colonialization, and war. Dworkin names the violence no one dares to name, i.e. the use of prostitution in Nazi concentration camps by both Nazis and Jews alike. And yet, no matter how horrific the stories of suffering may be, only Dworkin had the courage to tell that one, which even the most articulate Jew would rather remained invisible, hidden in shame, those women and their courage and their suffering never counted.

This book should be mandatory reading in all upper level women's studies courses, with much food for thought, discussion and hopefully, action.

It appears Dworkin never learned about Project Monarch. One wonders what she would have said about that.

SUCH an important read!.......2006-03-20

This work took Dworkin NINE years to complete. And it really shows when one sits down to read it. It is incredibly well researched; indeed, most of the book is quotes from others and then Andrea's questions--tough questions--regarding them. Make no mistake however, you will not get the same information simply by reading the works of others; Andrea only picks the best of the best sources to quote, and the questions she asks are brilliant.

I absolutely cannot say enough good things about this book. It was the first Andrea Dworkin book I completed. Now, I can't wait to get my hands (or rather, eyes) on another one. :-)

okay, but not too revealing.......2001-03-07

I've been a fan of Dworkin ever since I read her "Letters from a Warzone". She's a brilliant polemicist. "Scapegoat", though, was a little too bland. There is nothing truly radical or revelatory about it, unless the reader is an extremist already. She dealed a little with the issue of the Palestinian becoming the "new scapegoat", but didn't go as far as many other authors have. For someone that has critiqued the construction of gender, I find it odd that she hasn't critiqued the construction of race. Instead, she embraces the idea of race and, in my mind, just reinforces racial divisions.

All of this aside, it still had a number of enjoyable parts. It was not, however, as interesting and important as previous books she has written.

Her Kampf.......2001-02-15

Andrea Dworkin has been building to this book for quite some time and now, with Scapegoat, we finally get to see the depths of her dementia. Like Adolf Hitler, Ms. Dworkin scapegoats a hated group and blames everyone but herself for all the problems she has helped to perpetuate upon the world. There really isn't anything of value in this propagandist's nightmare, other than the fascinating use of Jews and Isreal to make her frightening point: Dworkin seems to think 'liberation' and 'seperation' are synonymous and essentially calls for a bloodbath to reason her private, petty delusions. I suspect the title of this book was almost the title of my review.

I give Scapegoat three stars because Dworkin finally seems to come into her own here, stating her long running point more eloquently, and more lucidly kicking off her gender war.

In a class with Tom Paine.......2000-10-01

Just as Orwell was roundly attacked by the liberal left for daring to suggest that Stalin was as bad as Hitler, so Dworkin seems to arouse the ire of the left as thoroughly as the right! I have never seen such vitriolic reviews as those she receives. Yet her analyses of social problems -- femininist or otherwise -- are breathtaking in that you find yourself constantly saying -- Of course! That's why -- And in this she has the same effect as Tom Paine when he wrote Common Sense and The Rights of Man. Yet we live in very different times, when any form of criticism of the status quo is repressed, minimalized or mocked and Dworkin has received a barrage of heavy duty artillery. Powerful people have said how much they hate her. Newspaper proprietors insist that their papers carry no mention of her unless it is to attack her. People are fired (I know this from experience) for daring to suggest her analysis of pornography, for instance, is about the most coherent understanding of the problem we all face, especially those of us who are parents of young children. She also provides a constitutional means of dealing with pornography, and that is why people find her so dangerous -- she doesn't moralise about 'filth' and violence. She suggests the deep causes and she proposes solutions. Apparently, this makes people very angry, especially, I suspect, those with vested interest in pornography. Dworkin supports the First Amendment and knows how to attack pornography. What's wrong with that ? This new book is almost light reading compared with Intercourse, say, or even the relentless Mercy, but it asks a question we should all be asking -- how does a gun culture develop from an idealistic republic overthrowing oppression and the power of the gun ? Her answer is weary in a way -- if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Just as dedicated internationalists supported Zionism, so does Dworkin the feminist suggest that women should take up the gun and fight for their own nation state. It's a visionary text, like many of her books, but it is extraordinarily stimulating in the questions it raises and the answers it proposes. A large percentage of this book is source reference and as usual Dworkin has quoted chapter and verse for every statement she makes. People were shocked of her reports of obscenities performed by Israeli soldiers before disgusted Palestinian women, to disperse a demonstration. Exactly the same tactics were described by the women of Greenham Common, England, when they were part of the Peace Camp trying to stop American nuclear missiles being sited in the UK. The British soldiers behaved identically. This has a lot to do with male confusion between aggression and sexuality and maybe that's why nobody wants to debate the issues Dworkin raises. Thank goodness for the internet, Amazon books, and a chance for ordinary readers to voice their enthusiasm and support for one of the grand, eloquent voices of our age. Mary Morris, Austin, Texas

Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation

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Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation
Andrea Dworkin
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In Scapegoat Dworkin draws on history, literature, philosophy, and politics to create a series of pairings -- homeland/home, pogrom/rape, Palestinians/prostitutes -- that elucidate the misogyny and anti-Semitism of the past millennium's atrocities. Sure to incite debate, Dworkin presents a startling new view of how Nazism waged war on the female body. She offers a profound indictment of Israel's "scapegoating" of the Palestinians and critiques the supremacy Israeli men exert over Israeli women. Most provocatively, she imagines a world in which women betray the men of their ethnic/racial groups to fight for their own rights. Dworkin's exploration of when and how scapegoats themselves use violence will shock and disturb -- and no reader will look at the world the same way again.

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Isn't it about time you pried that Pokémon cartridge out of your GameBoy and tried a new game? Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for the GameBoy Color isn't really a new game, but it is a great new version of an all-time classic. With the help of Prima's guide, you'll find your way through all of the game's original 32 levels as well as the 32 "Lost Levels" that were originally only released in Japan. The Challenge levels are also covered, and each world is illustrated with strung-together screen shots that show you the whole picture. All of the game's secrets are pointed out in this book, and you'll even find out about all the cool bonus features, such as the GameBoy Printer options, the medals you can win, the calendar feature, and the Yoshi Egg Finder. --Michael Ryan

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Your favorite brothers are back–help them show Bowser who's boss!

• Find all secret levels and modes
• All Red Coins and Yoshi Eggs revealed
• In-depth info on the racing courses (including Boo and Vs. modes)
• Detailed multiplayer tactics for both Mario and Luigi
• Walkthroughs of all 72 vast worlds
• In-depth battle tactics–Bowser and the Koopas will wish they'd never met you
• Every warp zone, secret coin room, hidden vine, secret flower, free life, and breakable block revealed!

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Just great!.......2000-10-27

I thought this guide was really helpful. It tells you all the secrets and gives you a walkthrough for the 2 hidden games (Super mario Bros. for super players and Boo vs. You) and it helps get you through the game. I've had my disapointment with Prima guides in the past, but I like this one, prima can help out a lot when it comes to Gameboy. I just found it helpful. There level maps even pin point the enemy for you a great guide but you probably won't need it

You couldn't have gotten more info in here?.......1999-07-15

OK--I figure that there are two reasons one would want to shell out the money for this guide: 1) you're a collector, like me, or 2) you want to a convinient guide with maps showing you the locations of all the new "deluxe" secrets and items in the game. For the latter, it does a decent job, but so much more could have been included, in a much less amount of space. There is a very large introductory section that is nothing more than a rehash of the instruction booklet (going over gameplay, items, enemies, power-ups, etc.) with some color artwork in the background. Nothing noteworthy, except for the mere fact that the screenshots are more blurry than if you were to shake your Gameboy Color up and down as fast as you could! There's no excuse for this--you NEVER see blurry screenshots of Gameboy games in magazines. The [much better looking] maps that make up the rest of the guide cover each stage in very good detail, and are decorated with captions that point out the tricky areas in many of the stages. For those of you who are wondering, the Lost Levels, or "Super Mario Bros. for Experts" stages have been mapped out and captioned as well. Following those sections of the book is a repeat of the first 32 maps of the original game, this time showing them as they appear in the Challenge mode; finding the red coins, the Yoshi egg, and beating the target score are covered in detail. However, why this information couldn't have been printed on (or at least adjacent to) the same map that appears in the first section of the guide baffles me. Here's 30 or so more pages that could have been used for more info on the racing courses (which turned out to only spread over 4 pages, with no strategies for them mentioned WHATSOEVER, even though this is boasted on the back cover of the guide) or some extra Mario tidbits. The final section of the book points out the numerous secrets that are unlocked as you achieve things in the game, but alas is rather incomplete (don't think you're gonna find out how to unlock all of those secret pictures in the Options menu--those continue to remain a mystery). For an official strategy guide, I expected more. If it's just beating those challenge courses that you care about, spend 5 bucks and pick up the August 1999 issue of Expert Gamer magazine. But if you just like to have as much info as you possibly can about games, or are just a guide collector, go for it. You won't be TOO disappointed...

This book is really cool!.......1999-06-12

This book is awesome, buy it

Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
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Much better than the first in the series

Great book for all levels

An absolute must

5 stars if the shameless self promotions were left out.

Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices
Harry Brelsford
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This 1,075-page advanced SBS 2003 text was written by over a dozen leading SBSers, each with specific technical niche expertise.

Delve deeply into SBS-specific applications and technologies in these chapters:

1 Introduction and Planning
2 Hardware
3 Licensing
4 Advanced Setup and Deployment
5 Third-party Tools for Advanced SBS Administration
6 Exchange Server 2003: Advanced Topics
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11 Advanced SBS Security: Part 1: General
12 Advanced SBS Security: Part 2: ISA 2004
13 Advanced Monitoring
14 Disaster Recovery
15 Migration

This is the book that flies faster, further and higher than any other previous SBS book in product history. When you register your book using the handy sign-up form (back of book), you will receive the PDF-based e-book copy (registered owners only). Readers are already reporting that this book pays for its cover price many times over with saved time and effort!

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Outdated.......2007-08-27

This book was based on the very first release of Small Business Server 2003 that was released in 2003, and so is outdated. Despite its title, it is 'advanced' only when compared to its 'beginner' predecessor. There are no 'advanced' Small Business Server (SBS) books.

Typical of this publisher, the lack of editing is evident from the varying quality of the chapters on substance and spelling and grammar. It could have been published in half as many pages were it not for the redundant Notes boxes and poor page layout. Some authors were very detailed and comprehensive while others left much to be desired. A few chapters remain useful, but there are better and more current titles available today.

Much better than the first in the series.......2006-06-11

This book is much better than the first in the series. It contains much less tedious humour and much more substantive content. Partly this is because this book is a collaboration, with each chapter written by a different author, each experts in their own field. But also, even the couple of chapters written by Mr Brelsford himself are much more tightly written and focused than I was expecting. After being disappointed with the first book I was pleasantly surprised by this one.

Great book for all levels.......2006-03-27

This book is great for installing SBS in a real world environment. Most books I looked at gave you the step by step instructions but were no help in the real world. This book gives you advice on real world situation that I couldn't find in any other book. The most if not all of the authors have real world experience with SBS and help point out areas that need to be patched and other things to look for during your install and setup. The chapters are written so you can read the book from cover to cover, but best of all you can skip to the chapter that you really need. This book will give you examples and solutions that you will not find in most books. This book is a great resource to have in any library.

An absolute must.......2006-03-22

I'm not one to to get back online to specifically do a review, but in this case I just had to. I've always been a great believer in "googling" and in 99.9% of cases, I'm able to find solutions to problems or answers to issues that arise in the normal course of SBS management (thanks mostly to the contributions of the authors of this book in various newsgroups).

SBS2K3 is a new product to me, and I'm in the throes of upgrading from SBS2K.

I made a conscious effort to setup a test server and use the book as a guide towards an optimum installation. The amount of new information that I came across in the book was really quite amazing. And I'm only 30% of the way through the book!

An absolute must for budding SBSers.

5 stars if the shameless self promotions were left out........2006-02-03

This is a very good book on SBS2003 for experienced SBSers.
The only draw back are the built in advertisements for the author's other books and services. You'll come across plenty of paragraphs containing sentences like ....but that doesn't need to be covered here, it's covered in my other book yada yada yada...... Still this is a very good book and highly recommended.

Advanced Windows Small Business Server 2003 Best Practices

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The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light
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Couldn't put it down!

Amazing and inspirational story

Can't wait for the movie!

The Holy Thief: A Con Man's Journey from Darkness to Light
Mark Borovitz , and Alan Eisenstock
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Rabbi Mark Borovitz was a mobster, gangster, con man, gambler, thief, and drunk. He has seen it all. Now, in this inspiring memoir, he takes you on a journey from the streets to discovering his soul in a ten-by-twelve-foot prison cell.

When Mark was fourteen, his father died and his world came crashing down. Within months, he was selling stolen goods for the mob out of his high school locker, beginning a twenty-year life of crime that ran the gamut from bar hustles and con games to check-cashing scams.

Mark stole and gambled and drank, all the while trying to be the good son, the good brother, the good boy, but his life only spun more out of control until the mob put a hit out on him. From Cleveland he moved to Los Angeles, virgin territory, and amped up his hustles, schemes, and cons. Then came prison, but it only served to increase his legend, and he played every angle and then some in the prison yard.

After his release, the drinking and thieving continued unabated until, at the edge of oblivion, Mark experienced a moment of true divine intervention, a startling revelation that both saved his life and sent him back to prison, where he actually wanted to be. There he found the keys to saving his soul.

Mark Borovitz proves that you can change your life -- profoundly. He is now the rabbi at Beit T'Shuvah in Los Angeles, the House of Return, a rehabilitation facility for addicts of all kinds. Mark knows what these people feel and who they are because he was one of them. He is now, as he says, an advocate for the soul.

The Holy Thief is the remarkable memoir of an amazing man. It is a true-life gangster story, a passionate love story, and a case study in redemption. Regardless of your faith, you will find Mark's story tragic, funny, uplifting, and inspirational.

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Jewish Spirituality Works its Wonders .......2007-09-16

One of the most remarkable stories I have read, as the other reviewers have noted, it is truly inspirational.
Borovitz grew up in a warm family, but when his Dad died, his world fell apart. Unfortunately, he was also somewhat influenced by an Uncle who was, in reality, a Jewish mobster. Rootless, Borovitz quickly gravitated to a criminal lifestyle, undertaking increasingly more serious criminal acts. Eventually, he is forced to move from Cleveland, his birthplace, to Los Angeles. Once there, he continues his cons, and eventually lands in prison.
This memoir is well-written. In particular, it describes that one important constant that Borovitz had in his life while growing up was Judaism. His going to Synagogue, the family holiday gatherings - all are described so that the reader feels the deep reverance that Borovitz had, despite his criminal life, for his religion.
He also writes so well concerning his Change - when he began to turn away from his life of crime, and toward something far more worthy of his abilities - that of Jewish spirituality. I especially commend his description of how this took place; other authors who have undergone similar "revelations" often depict it as sudden and earth-shaking, and that from that 'moment on' each was immediately transfored from a
low-life loser to a 'saint'! Thankfully, and far more realistically, in my opinion, Borovitz explains that he was changing, but that it was gradual.
After his transformation, Borovitz completed college and then Rabbinical School. Realistically he hesitated even applying, declaring that they would not accept an ex-con gonif (thief) into their program. However, with the support of his friends, and the fact that G-d often works in mysterious ways, he was accepted with open arms.
Today he is a Rabbi for a community of people who were like him once, but also like him, are committing to changing their lives.
If you ever feel like cons, addicts, etc., can't transform their lives - just pick up this book. You will be amazed.

I'm Already Imagining Myself Crying Watching the Movie.......2005-06-27

Next to the word inspiration in the dictionary should be a picture of Rabbi Mark Borovitz. This is the story of a man whom God chose to send to the deep valley of dispair and addiction so that he would have the experience and wisdom to encourage others to turn their lives around.
Anyone in trouble or who knows someone in trouble should read(no-devour) this book.

Couldn't put it down!.......2005-01-30

Like another reviewer, I don't typically take the time to write a review of books I read. As the wife of an inmate who is changing his life for the better while incarcerated, I seek out inspirational stories of people who have hit rock bottom and have used that experience to reach out to others. I read a short review of this story in Reader's Digest and decided to seek it out.
I read it cover to cover in a Saturday afternoon. The author is so frank, honest, and REAL. His story gives me hope for my husband's future, and proves that good can come after a life of mistakes.

Amazing and inspirational story.......2004-10-26

I never take time to post reviews about books, but I had to comment on this one. I couldn't put this book down. I was especially moved by Rabbi Borovitz's definition of love, which you'll have to wait until near the end to discover. But it's so worth the wait. What an amazing story!

Can't wait for the movie!.......2004-08-25

As a film producer, I get to read many books in galley form. This was one of the most enjoyable reads I've had in years. The story continues to surprise throughout the book. I loved it.

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Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
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It's the Population!

different but very interesting angle on the zapatistas

Most in depth, gives the most background info of chiapas

Most objective examination of the 1994 Chiapas peasant revol

Basta!: Land And The Zapatista Rebellion In Chiapas
George A. Collier , and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello
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¡Hoy decimos basta! Today we say, enough!

On January 1, 1994, in the impoverished state of Chiapas in southern Mexico, the Zapatista rebellion shot into the international spotlight. In this fully revised third edition of their classic study of the rebellion's roots, George Collier and Elizabeth Lowery Quaratiello paint a vivid picture of the historical struggle for land faced by the Maya Indians, who are among Mexico's poorest people. Examining the roles played by Catholic and Protestant clergy, revolutionary and peasant movements, the oil boom and the debt crisis, NAFTA and the free trade era, and finally the growing global justice movement, the authors provide a rich context for understanding the uprising and the subsequent history of the Zapatistas and rural Chiapas, up to the present day.

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It's the Population!.......2005-11-17

This book is Hamlet without the Prince. The first and most important thing to understand about Chiapas is the tremendous increase in population it has had in the last fifty years. Yet this book never comes to grips with the question of how people are to live today when they are many times more numerous than fifty years ago, and at that time they barely eked out a living. It's too bad that the INI didn't start out with birth control measures when it started work over 50 years ago. If Collier had had a co-author skilled in demography and economics to supplement his own first hand knowledge of the last fifty years in the Chiapas highlands, this could have been a very rewarding book. But as it stands, particularly in the later chapters, there is too much "anti-globalony".

different but very interesting angle on the zapatistas.......2003-02-15

The book has a very different focus on the Zapatista movement
than most others out there. It doesn't look at it from a present
time point of view and what do the Zapatistas mean, what do they
want, how do they work....

It looks simply at the history of the indigenous people of Chiapas
and their relationship with the mexican governement and tries to
make sense and explain why it is that the zapatista rebellion happened in Chiapas.

Very interesting and well written

Most in depth, gives the most background info of chiapas.......1998-10-03

This book is amazing, definetely one of the best out there. Dont be fooled by its cheap price, its well worth three times that amount if youre an avid chiapas rebel. For those of you looking for your first Chiapas book, this is definetely the one to choose.

Most objective examination of the 1994 Chiapas peasant revol.......1998-02-06

The Zapatista revolution has been the subject of many books, articles, and opinions, but this book covers the subject in the most objective and thorough journalistic manner.

The Zapatista War Against Oblivion.(Review): An article from: Multinational Monitor

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The Zapatista War Against Oblivion.(Review): An article from: Multinational Monitor
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For the first time in Extraordinary People, the psychiatrist who was a consultant to the movie Rain Man, collects the most fascinating cases of Savant Syndrome both in history and modern times.

Dr. Treffert documents the spectacular abilities—the islands of genius—in these remarkable persons, and describes as well the love, determination and dedication of their equally remarkable families, teachers and caretakers. He shares the observations of the far-reaching implications this astonishing condition has for understanding brain function and hidden potential in all of us.

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no more progress?.......2007-01-20

This book seems well-written and discusses a fascinating topic, however I'm puzzled that (at least at a cursory review) it seems identical to the 1989 edition save for the additional chapter on the movie Rain Man. Have there really been no further advances in understanding savant syndrome in the last seventeen years?

Wonderful Book.......2004-05-08

Very well written!!

I recommend this to anyone who wants to understand the complexities of savant behavior and autism. Treffert is one of the great writers and speakers on this topic. :)

Jeffrey McAndrew
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Extraordinary People: Understanding "Idiot Savants"
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A Sympathetic Book About a Fascinating Subject

Extraordinary People: Understanding "Idiot Savants"
Darold A. Treffert
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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A Sympathetic Book About a Fascinating Subject.......1998-09-23

FINALLY, someone wrote a book about "idiot savants", those paradoxical folks who are autistic, mentally retarded, yet profoundly gifted in one area such as art, mathematics, or music. Treffert has pulled together the isolated reports about the 100 or so people over the past century who have had this Savant Syndrome and engagingly discusses both their case histories and the theories about why they are who they are. Whether talking about Charles and George - who can tell you what day of the week Easter will fall on over an 80,000 year time span or what the weather was like every single day of their lives after age 4, despite the fact they are both retarded and cannot do simple arithmetic - to Leslie who is blind, mentally retarded, and has cerebral palsy, but who without any formal musical training can play a piece like Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 perfectly after only one hearing, these people are as fascinating as they are limited.

Darold A. Treffert, M.D. is a psychiatrist whose first hand dealings with several savants and interest in the matter have helped him produce a fine book. It is 291 pages long and if you are willing to patiently work your way through it (it's not the kind of book that lends itself to being read in one sitting), I hope you will feel as amply rewarded as I did by this book.

Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome
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Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome
Donald A. Md Treffert
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OVJ0GU

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Federally owned lands, which make up about one-third of the land area of the United States, are in constant danger of being plundered, thanks to governmental corruption and predatory economics--forces that endanger not only the public domain, but also society at large.

"That is not a modest set of complaints," writes Richard Behan, whose book traces the start-and-stop development of federal land ownership and management over the last two centuries. That system, he writes, borrows from the European tradition of "crown lands," created by fiat to reserve areas from general use; benefiting more than a handful of nobles, the system also incorporates elements of Native American beliefs about the common ownership and stewardship of land. This development of a common estate, Behan argues, was not articulated to protect lands from a resource-hungry, uncontrolled economy that turns public services into private goods, which is their condition today. The resultant degradation of public lands, he continues, points to the need for new methods and models of management that emphasize conservation and preservation, not resource use.

Behan's wide-ranging, sometimes even scattershot book is provocative, and it is likely to excite discussion among those on all sides of public-lands controversies. Given current efforts to develop resources on federal reserves, it is also timely, and of much interest to environmental activists and students of resource policy alike. --Gregory McNamee

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What has been done to our public lands? Irreplaceable forests harvested for lumber. Vast expanses of rangeland leased at rates far below market value. Mineral resources extracted with little or no royalties paid. These and other actions have brought unparalleled benefit to private interests-and massive costs to society at large. They are but the most visible signs of the fundamental flaws in the current system of federal lands management. In Plundered Promise, leading resource management scholar Richard W. Behan presents an engrossing history and analysis of public lands management in the United States, as he describes how we arrived at the current situation and examines what we can do to rectify it.

Behan begins by outlining his provocative thesis that American political and economic institutions have overshot their historic roles, and, rather than responding to public needs, have drawn society into their service. He then offers a detailed analysis of the development of the federal resource management agencies from the nation's founding through successive legislative eras, highlighting the human actors responsible for their growth and change, and showing their relationship to the evolving institutions of American politics and capitalism.

The author's analysis ultimately focuses on the power of federal "iron triangles," and in particular the influence of the one nonpublic institution-"the unfettered and immortal institution of the American corporation"-that he holds responsible for the ongoing devastation of the public lands. Behan stresses the urgent need for reform and presents a radical proposal for getting there: The devolution of authority over public lands to "localized constituencies," and the reining in of corporations.

Behan's unique combination of social criticism, institutional analysis, history, and political science is guided by a strong moral compass, with a palpable sense of outrage bolstered by rigorous scholarship. The book is must reading for anyone interested in the past or future of our public lands, or in the influence of contemporary politics and capitalism.

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Corporations and corrupt government degrade Federal Lands.......2002-05-20

Mr. Behan's main theme in PLUNDERED PROMISE is how political and economic overshoot has led to the increasing plunder of public lands for private profit. His deeper look at how the growth of corporations, hyperconsumerism, and centralized oligarchical government has led to the plundering and degradation of US Federal lands frames our present Bush administration problems and he directs the reader to authors such as Cobb-Daly, Kemmis, Prugh, Yaffee, etc. for workable, practical solutions.

After a synoptic opening chapter, there are chapters on the first century of public land management, the rise of corporate capitalism at the start of the 20th century, the rise of professional management and 'sustained yield' at mid-century and finally, "The Economics and Politics of License: Corruption and Predatation, 1976 to the Present.

Behan's development of the concept of economic and political overshoot and how it effected public lands is of key importance to environmentalists. The history of the development of governmental subsidization of private use of public lands and the momentum of the growth economy in degrading forests, overgrazing grasslands, overfishing the commons, etc. is crucial. Revoking corporate charters and devolving government out of Washington to local 'neighbourhoods' are revolutionary tactics advocated to get the philistines out of the temple.

Good as Korten, Greider and Klein. Well worth your while.

Intriguing insights to our governmental operations.......2002-05-07

Behan explains in fascinating detail many of the quirks -- mostly intentional -- that make our government behave today the way it does. The convoluted process that got George Bush elected is only a glimpse of the deep issues. He explains how it is virtually impossible, and has been since our foundation, to say we have rule by majority in our government. This is all explored from a foundation of federal land policy, but applies equally to the rest of our governmental operations. It was eye opening, and angering, to learn how we got where we are.

Plundered Promise: A 21st Century Forest Policy Primer.......2002-01-11

This book is worthwhile reading for anyone who proclaims a political opinion, or perhaps simply draws a breath. It is not an unbiased book, and you are unlikely to agree with every argument. I don't, but, after teaching forest policy and economics to university students for 25 years, I regret not having had the advantage of this book as a text. It would ideally complement a standard text in an undergraduate policy course, and it would serve well as core reading in a graduate seminar, supplemented by books on related topics. Several good choices, in fact, are cited in "Plundered Promise."

Behan is an engaging, provocative writer so his description of the evolution of land use policy in the United States is entertaining as well as instructive. He makes clear the process by which we have moved from the capitalistic ideal of individual private property ownership of all lands to one of reserving some lands to be held in common, and provides a logical defense for why we did it. The rationale, he notes, for maintaining such a "public good" has grown stronger with time. These public lands are a collective national treasure like no other in the world.

Behan then makes the case that we are hell-bent to squander this "promise" of the book's title. The great evil in this story is our unwitting, and presumably unwilling collaboration with modern (huge) corporations in a senseless, wasteful social party of conspicuous consumption. Modern corporations, many with global reach and stunning political and financial command, attempt to create demand for their massive and efficient production by devising market strategies to convince us to over consume; to acquire material goods as a measure of our social success and prosperity. The below-cost, ready access these giants have to our public lands treasure in order to supply their raw material needs, and for air, land and water sinks, requires consumers (all of us) to bear costs disproportionate to gains from such enterprise.

How have we been duped into this distorted market? Behan provides a fascinating and fresh perspective on the way America's founders contrived a unique constitional government that precludes majoritarian democracy. Political, legal and economic power has been concentrated among elites in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he notes, corporations were legally granted unique constitutional privileges. This argument deserves careful consideration. It is not the stuff of high school civics courses, or an uncritical recitation of the wisdom of free enterprise. It ties together the facts and the thesis of the book, and because it challenges the standard assumptions most Americans hold about their individual rights, prerogatives and powers, this argument alone makes the book required reading.

The way out of the jam, according to Behan, is for citizens to moderate their consumptive behavior, to resist the importuning of corporate advertisers, to pursue legal redress of corporate license, and to seize control of the political process at the local level. He offers specific examples of local or community level politics in practice, with attendant successes in resolving land use issues while protecting public land values. This resolution, while appropriate for many issues, and promising as an idealistic framework, seems less reassuring when one considers the complexities of international politics and global environmental issues. What can we do for a national energy policy, for example, wherein the real costs of our consumptive behavior, at whatever level, must be assessed globally and then allocated equitably among all of us? What can we do locally about issues that transcend national boundaries?

One optimistic notion that Behan suggests as a partial solution seems practical, and likely to work, and that is the power of Internet communication. This could facilitate the formation of "communities of interest" to address problems in ways that transcend normal geographical limits. Much needs to be done, and too much has been done badly, but the necessary dialogue has begun. Richard Behan's book, "Plundered Promise," is an essential component of that dialogue.

A book for many.......2001-10-31

A lot of people might find Behan's book illuminating. Among them: anyone whose job moved overseas to a cheaper labor force; anyone who has looked from the window of a commercial airplane flying from Seattle to Los Angeles and marveled at the size of clearcuts on public forestland. Anyone who has wondered why the treasury doesn't receive fair value for the minerals extracted from publicly owned land, for the grazing rights, for the timber and for the water resource. Beyond the public land issues Behan addresses, the book is is an informative read for anyone who has wondered why there is no public agenda in the United States -- and, instead, a plethora of interest groups and PACs that shape the direction of legislation. As an aside, the book is a civics lesson for all of us who wonder why we find ourselves voting against the least-unappealing candidate in a two-way race instead of choosing enthusiastically from among outstanding candidates. Forestry professionals should read it in hopes of renewing the passion, optimism and zeal with which they began their careers. Behan is a scholar, and the work is carefully written and the cases he makes are well-documented. Yet there's sparkle in the prose. Even so the book isn't an easy read. The facts he presents are depressing, and the hopeful recommendations Behan makes at the end seem ever so far from being adopted. Or even considered in my lifetime.

This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West & Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands.(Review): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology

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This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West & Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands.(Review): An article from: Issues in Science and Technology
Martin W. Lewis
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Title: This Sovereign Land: A New Vision for Governing the West & Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands.(Review)
Author: Martin W. Lewis
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2001
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Volume: 17 Issue: 4 Page: 77

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