Recently received review items as of November 23, 2009. [all available items]
In the past 60 days, the following became available for review (in order received). If you would like to review an item, click the "request" link beside that item and complete our request form -- one request at a time please.
Ahmad, Irfan
2009 Islamism and Democracy in India: the Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Subject: Islam and politics - India; Islam and secularism - India; Democracy - Religious aspects - Islam; Jama`at-i Islami (India) - Political activity; India - Politics and government
Listed: 11/16/2009 »» Request this book
[3551]Metcalf, Barbara Daly
2009 Islam in South Asia In Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Subject: Islam - South Asia
Listed: 11/16/2009 »» Request this book
[3550]Salzman, Philip Carl & Donna Robinson Divine
2009 Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. London: Routledge.
Subject: CONTENTS: Introduction / Donna Robinson Divine -- Essentialism, consistency and Islam : a critique of Edward Said's Orientalism / Irfan Khawaja -- Postcolonialsim and the utopian imagination / Ronald Niezen -- Orientalism and the foreign sovereign : today I am a man of law / Ed Morgan -- Mistakenness and the nature of the 'post' : the ethics and the inevitability of error in theoretical work / Laurie Zoloth -- The influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on anthropology, or: Can the anthropologist speak? / Herbert S. Lewis -- Postcolonial theory and the ideology of peace studies / Gerald M. Steinberg -- The missing piece : Islamic imperialism / Efraim Karsh -- The Muslim man's burden : Muslim intellectuals confront their imperialist past / David Cook -- Negating the legacy of jihad in Palestine / Andrew G. Bostom -- Arab culture and postcolonial theory / Philip Carl Salzman -- Edward Said and the culture of honour and shame : Orientalism and our misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli conflict / Richard Landes -- Postcolonial theory and the history of Zionism / Gideon Shimoni -- De-Judaizing the homeland : academic politics in rewriting the history of Palestine / S. Ilan Troen -- The Middle East conflict and its postcolonial discontents / Donna Robinson Divine -- The political psychology of postcolonial ideology in the Arab world : an analysis of 'occupation' and the 'right of return' / Irwin J. Mansdorf.; Arab-Israeli conflict - Historiography; Postcolonialism
Listed: 11/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3548]Gregg, Andrew
2009 A Story Told in Stone: French Polynesia. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: The French Polynesian islands once housed thriving native populations that were tragically wiped out by European disease. The vines and trees of the jungles consumed huge stone cities that sprawled across the interiors of Tahiti, Raivavae and the Marquesas Islands. The structures remained forgotten until archeologist Edmundo Edwards rediscovered them. Now, with each swipe of his machete, Edmundo is bringing to light a world that no one has ever imagined existed.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3547]
2009 The Everlasting Oasis: Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: For 400,000 years, a remote Egyptian oasis has been inhabited by waves of people- from stone age man to modern-day Muslims. Egyptologist Tony Mills and his team are unearthing artifacts and examining skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," far away from the pyramids and the Nile. The sands surrounding the Dakhleh Oasis conceal mysteries of life dating back long before recorded history - back before the Sahara Desert even existed.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3546]
2009 The Last Nomads: The Penan of Borneo. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Linguist Ian Mackenzie has tracked the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth - the Penan of Borneo. Their way of life is quickly disappearing as aggressive logging interests swallow up their forest habitat. Mackenzie has spent years compiling the very first dictionary of the unique Penan language - a language that has words for every forest plant and creature, a language that is a window into an entirely different way of seeing the world. It is also a language on the edge of disappearing. A beautiful, but heartbreaking look at a very singular people on the brink of obliteration.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3545]
2009 The Lost People of the Baja: The Pericu of Baja California, Mexico. The Adventurers Series. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Canadian paleo-pathologist Eldon Molto is leading the search for clues of the mysterious Pericu people of Baja California, Mexico - a fierce, independent tribe that disappeared over a century ago, after being exposed to European disease. They left virtually nothing behind but their bones. But by using DNA, Molto is piecing together the story of the Pericu and along the way makes a surprising discovery that these vanished people have descendants very much alive.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3544]
2009 Buried Stories: A Native American Preserves Her Heritage. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Buried Stories unearths the life story of a Native American (Ohlone/Esselen) woman named Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, still resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. After running away from the school and becoming ensnared in the juvenile justice system, she was forced into marriage by a parole officer at eighteen, then labored as a migrant worker. In the 1970s, when Ella was 44, she protested for weeks to stop the destruction of a Native American cemetery site and dedicated her life to preserving her heritage.; After two decades of working on endangered construction sites to oversee and protect Native American burial grounds, Ella obtained an informal but comprehensive education about her ancestors. Ella’s later years bridged her Native American past and modern archaeological research. A resilient and wisecracking woman in a hard hat, Ella fought to preserve her ancestors’ history. In the process, she connected with her painful personal past as she unearthed troubling official documents relating to her youth. Told through Ella’s charismatic and poignant lens, her story incites curiosity about the historical and cultural forces that shaped her destiny and identity
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3543]
2009 World of Witchcraft. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Belief in the power of witchcraft is pervasive and profoundly entrenched in many parts of Africa. In the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, these matters are taken an extraordinary step further. Thousands of men, women and children are arrested and tried for committing the crime of witchcraft every year. Witchcraft is an enshrined element of their legal system --- formally treated as a crime. The award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura investigates a nation that appears gripped by fear, where persecution for witchcraft is reminiscent of Medieval Europe.; Astonishingly, the state plays a key role by arresting and trying the supposed witches. In one neighborhood where witch-hysteria has been hitting fever pitch, Jeanne, an old woman, is accused of witchcraft because her nephew said she used witchcraft over his wife. She is sentenced to three years in prison without a trial. People are tortured to get them to confess, and then may be killed by mobs. Hundreds accused as witches are executed each year; The film goes inside a courtroom where a witch trial is taking place and also visits a prison where men, women and children are confined in insufferable space. An attorney argues that no modern country should include witchcraft as a crime, or mob justice will run rampant. Yet prisoners are often sentenced for five to ten years imprisonment as witches, or even receive the death penalty.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3542]Gibson, Shimon
2009 The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence. New York: HarperOne.
Subject: Jesus Christ - Biography - Passion Week; Jesus Christ - Historicity; Jerusalem - Antiquities; Bible. N.T. Gospels - Antiquities
Listed: 10/23/2009 »» Request this book
[3541]Widick, Richard
2009 Trouble in the Forest: California's Redwood Timber Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Environmentalism - Social aspects - California; Forest conservation - California - Citizen participation; Redwood industry - Social aspects - California; Logging - California; Ecoterrorism - California; Anti-environmentalism - California
Listed: 10/23/2009 »» Request this book
[3540]a film by Helga Reidemeister
2009 War and Love in Kabul. NY: Icarus Films.
Subject: Hossein and Shaima, who have known and loved each other since childhood, were separated as teenagers by war in Afghanistan. Today, reunited in Kabul, they remain deeply in love, but their relationship is socially and religiously prohibited.; Hossein, young and jobless in the late Nineties, was paid to fight with the Taliban and a war injury left his legs paralyzed. He is now handicapped, and unable to work. Shaima was sold in marriage to a man forty years her senior, by whom she had a child, but, since the dowry remained unpaid, her father brought her back home to live with her five-year-old child.WAR AND LOVE IN KABUL, a deliberately paced, observational documentary, reveals their dilemma through interviews with Hossein and Shaima, and members of their respective families, each representing a different ethnic group, who object to the relationship because of their loyalty to ancient tribal laws and family notions of honor and pride. Indeed, the lovers live under the threat of violent revenge by male members of both families. ;
Listed: 10/05/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3536]a film by Peter Woditsch
2008 Secret Museums. NY: Icarus Films.
Subject: Throughout the ages, erotic art has been created by some of the world's best-known artists, but it is rarely on public display. Whether it is held in private collections, or kept under lock and key in museums and libraries worldwide, erotic art and literature remains censored. But when graphic, even extreme sexual imagery is freely available on the Internet, why is erotic art considered so dangerous that it must be prohibited? Filmed in England, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.S., SECRET MUSEUMS explores the locked rooms, warehouses, museum cellars, bank safes and private homes where erotica is hidden, from the British Museum and the National Library of France to Munich's National Graphics Collection and the Vatican, home of the world's largest collection of pornography. Gaining access to carefully guarded collections with names such as "Secretum," "Gabinetto Segreto" and "L'Enfer," the film reveals books and images never before filmed or photographed.;
Listed: 10/05/2009 »» Request this film/video
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