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This book gives an excellent overview of the Tuareg Culture. It addresses the customs, history, Berber language and it's poetry, as well as the material culture of the Tuareg. The examples of the leather work and jewelry are superb. It was my pleasure to attend the sale of Tuareg jewelry at Fort Mason, CA, which is mentioned on page 67 of the book. This book is the catalogue for an exhibit which will visit the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, at Stanford University, in 2007. If you like things Tuareg, you will love this book.

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I have read most of Jonathan Kozol's books starting in 1991 with Savage Inequalities. Mr. Kozol writes about reality. He doesn't attempt to change it, by giving money. He doesn't try to change it by offering up solutions to the problems of impoverished children. He mere points out what is. I teach in an inner city school and know, that it doesn't matter how good I am, and the fact that I will reach and inspire many children, will not make a whole lot of difference in the rest of their lives. I keep trying for those children I do reach and maybe make a difference for.

"Awesome" is the only word I know to describe this book. The book I read is called Number the Stars.It is by Lois Lowry. In this book the main character, Annemarie is faced with several challenges. This story takes place in Denmark during times of war. The main point in this book is Annemaire willing to help her best friend. The events in this book are linked by the end of each chapter you are left with questions that make you want to keep reading. I enjoyed this book, now normally I hate reading, but when I started reading I couldn't put it down. I disliked this book because it left me to make up my own ending. I recommend this book to people who enjoy reading about suspence or friends.

Written shortly before Peter Camejo agreed to run as Ralph Nader's running mate in the 2004 U.S. presidential election, the Avocado Declaration is a vivid description of how the young Green Party should "adopt a firm and uncompromising identity if it was to promote its values and combat the opposition of the more powerful Democratic and Republican parties in the United States." 1

In it, Peter Camejo advised the Green Party (which was divided and uncertain about election year strategy) to win hearts and minds by standing firm to its principles and by building a reputation of being reliable and unshakable.

In coming to that conclusion, Camejo deconstructs the mythologies that the Democratic and Republican Two Party System rely on to enforce an unhealthy allegiance from the people. He further points out how historically almost all positive and healthy benefits that have accrued to the people are due to the stubbornness of independent movements and alternative political parties.

Even though the context of this article is focused on the immediacy of the Green Party's 2004 political situation, it is still mandatory reading for Americans concerned with understanding the true nature of how the two party system affects their lives. It is also fundamental to those who wish to best fulfill their civic obligations by being informed and knowledgeable voters and activists. It is crucial too for anyone trying to understand the history and ideas of the Green Party, and it sheds much light on the nature of politics and elections in the United States.

Because the ideas in this document are so clear, thoughtful, and enlightening, they should have a long life in the world of political science, and be beloved by those who desire true democracy and wish to uphold a productive humanistic tradition.

By the way, the title, Avocado Declaration, refers to the "ideal of party members being like the avocado: "Green on the inside; green on the outside." Avocados are very popular and highly valued in California, where Peter Camejo is running as the Green Party candidate for Governor this year, 2006.

1 Quotations taken from the eponymous article: Avocado Declaration, Wikipedia 10/11/06.

The book is a valuable source of information for the audience studying economics of the region, particularly as it relates to oil industry.

Claire Berlinski has written a very powerful essay. I was especially impressed with her review of "Babe in Arms" (by Judith Wrubel Levy).

As Berlinski explains, the Arab aggression against Israel not only failed to convince Wrubel Levy to flee Israel, it also "cemented her Zionism." Never before had she been so convinced of the necessity of Israel's existence. Sometimes when she heard European "statesmen" apologizing for Arab outrages against people exactly like her, she heard "not just the voices of benighted, distant nitwits talking out of their depth but old-school Europeans who feel, when Jews die, that all's right with the world." And after a bombing just 15 minutes away from her apartment, Wrubel Levy noticed the following juxtaposed headlines: "POOL HALL SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS AT LEAST 16 IN ISRAEL/ U.N. Assembly chastises Israel 74-4"

Berlinski includes a fine review of "Still Life with Bombers" by David Horovitz. And she notes some similarities between the two books. Both are depressing. Both show some heroism in the face of vicious aggression by arrogant enemies. And both use similar language "to describe the international condemnation of the alleged massacre in Jenin." Wrubel Levy asks "who else would wait for 23 suicide bombers from a single city to assault civilian populations for years on end before taking serious action?" I think that's a very good question.

Horovitz is quoted as saying (about Jenin) "Israel could, of course, have bombed the camp, or at least the core of the terrorists' hideouts, and spared all its dead soldiers" but it wanted to cause fewer Arab casualties. "The gunmen, of course, could have surrendered and saved everybody's spilled blood." Horovitz also mentions that the United Nations General Assembly voted 74-4 to condemn Israel just hours after an Arab suicide bomber killed 15 Israelis in a billiard parlor-cafe. And that the condemnation made no mention "of the two dozen suicide bombers dispatched from Jenin." Horowitz concludes that "Yes, the whole world can be wrong."

There are, of course, differences between the books. A major one is that Horovitz's book was published, while Wrubel Levy's was not. Berlinski congratulates Knopf for publishing Horovitz's book and wishes that Wrubel Levy's had been published as well. After reading Berlinski's essay, so do I.

When it comes to family and the B'nai Brith Northside Senior's Tennis Championship, Fanny Zindel is a fierce protector. With a spirit that belies her age, Fanny is also a keen observer of relationships and situations gone awry. When she leaves the States to represent her Jewish community at an interfaith conference in England and finds that her granddaughter has been wrongfully expelled from her snobbish private school, Fanny is there to defend the family honor.

Things should go so smoothly, right? When the young woman who accused Fanny's granddaughter, Susan, of wrongdoing is found dead, Fanny must do more than defend honor. She is compelled to sleuth on her own to keep Susan from prison. Between clashes with her sometime companion, Nathan, and the estranged husband of her conference roommate, it is clear Fanny's job will not be simple. There doesn't seem to be anything in her bottomless "everything bag" (where Fanny stores absolutely everything) to help remedy the situation.

Once available in print, Hard Shell Word Factory has re-released Bagels For Tea in e-book format, thereby doing a wonderful service for mystery readers. Fanny Zindel is a sharp, endearingly acerbic sleuth with an appetite for justice as great as her appetite for a good bagel.