Conferences Books

hello, I'm a big fan of certain classic arab philosophers.

but I think Mohammed was a little severe.

why? they have to say PBUH after every mention.

so I'm going to side with the Sufi instead.

I think a book like this is a little doctrinaire.

I mean, come on, fellas, is this heavy zionist jingo or what.

but hey, I think some Jewish comedians are funny and I haven't heard of many arabic comedians unless you count that Sahl character. oh wait a minute. that fella that plays Klinger on MASH. definitely Egyptian.

what a howl. well, wait till the pharoah hears about books like this.

he'll never let the people go.
that's all I have to say now.

salaam and shalom and all that nice stuff.

Intereesting to see Mr. Feith's true Zionist ideology revealed. FYI, Mr. Feith is the individual accused of personally falsifying the intelligence within the Department of Defense in order to make a case for war with Iraq (i.e., the whole WMD thing). Anyone who refuses to believe that the Iraq war is surrogate war for Israel should read this book by Mr. Feith to learn where his true fealty lies.

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Over 70,000 Mennonites emigrated from Russia in 1874 to seek religious freedom. The author focuses on 35 groups (churches) in Central Kansas from four major areas of Russia. But because of each groups' diversifications and specific differences between the groups themselves, the author was not able to make the information in, or the reading of, the book flow.

Not to be considered for "just a good read," or not useful for research or information as there is no index.

This should have been a much better book. The author is clearly a highly experienced and competent conference interpreter, but this written guide to her profession was sorely in need of some serious editing before it was put on sale to the public. _Conference Interpreting: Principles and Practice_ is full of typos and repetition (e.g. the same sentence twice on one page, a paragraph repeated verbatim in different chapters), and it's sometimes unnerving how Ms Taylor-Bouladon leaves us hanging with incomplete examples/anecdotes. For example, she stresses the importance of body language, illustrating it by the supposed difference in meaning between a Spaniard pointing to his eye and a Frenchman doing the same thing -- but then fails to tell us what that difference is!

Being an interpreter myself, I found some useful and entertaining information here, but the poor presentation would probably make this book not as interesting to people new to the subject (its main target market). I would recommend that students and beginning interpreters try James Nolan's _Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises_ instead.

In this article, Peniel Joseph discusses a conference that could have been a landmark in the struggle for human rights. And he begins by mentioning the Bandung conference, which was held in 1955. That conference included many people who were indeed fighting for their rights. And I think the folks at that conference made a big mistake to cancel their invitation to Israel to be there. Israel had won its freedom against some very cruel oppression by British colonialists. But some Arab racists convinced the people at the Bandung conference to withdraw that Israeli invitation.

In general, I think it is a big mistake for those who stand to profit from universal human rights to ally themselves (or even appear to ally themselves) with racist thugs. It isn't hard to think of an example. For centuries, the European Pagans had no rights. They were in danger of being arrested and killed on sight. Finally, in the 1930s, they seemed to get a break, when some nationalist governments in Europe chose to take on other enemies. But when the German National Socialists were defeated and discredited, so were many Pagans.

That sort of error can happen again. Peniel boasts about the NGO portion of the Durban racism conference in 2001. And the folks at that conference did discuss an issue he happens to like: reparations for slavery. On the other hand, it did so in a rather undiplomatic manner. And it also came up with some extremely racist anti-Israeli proposals. Once again, the potential exists for the same sort of discrediting of what could have been worthy opposition to racism.

We're faced with the prospect of yet another United Nations conference on racism. Will it be just as bad as Durban in 2001? If so, it will discredit the cause of anti-racism even more. Peniel does not even appear to notice the problem. But he should have.

My advice to Peniel is very simple: if you like human rights, support them and do not oppose them, and do not ally yourself with those who do oppose them.

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The contributors make a point of showing how little has been written on older gay men and lesbians in this country. Unfortunately, they don't have much to say either. The chapters here are incredibly short. This book was the result of a conference. This becomes obvious when reading so many of the entries that sound like speeches, rather than well-elaborated texts meant for reading.

Some articles are brilliant. For example, the narrative from an older transgendered person almost brought me to tears, and to action. The books last chapter on homeless, HIV-positive, older gay men was also eye-opening. Still, one article seemed like an advertisement for a visual clinic, that wasn't even gay-specific. In fact, much in this book would apply to all senior citizens, not just the gay ones. One chapter that seemed like it would talk about intergenerational couples in film went on to discuss this group in biography and real life. Why not put it in the title of the chapter then?

The book is written by a mix of men and women. However, the chapters are male-dominated, thought the editors' seem to have gender equality as a goal. This is shocking given that women live longer than men, regardless of sexual identity. Some chapters did not discuss people of color at all. However, others did so impressively, but you wouldn't know it from their chapter titles.

This was a nice book to get the conversation going. However, it has many rough edges.

I ordered the item from amazon and it was missing the CD-ROM in it. Then I made a replacement so that they can send me the book with CD. However the replacement was also missing the CD-ROM. SO this item doesnt include a CD-ROM !!! The book is fine though. I warned amazon.com so that they could change the title of the item but I see that noone cares about it. So if you just want to buy the book its fine. If you also need the CD-ROM, then dont bother yourself and look for a different store.

I read this as a required reading at high school and am interested in rereading it as I think futurologistists do not have their predictions tested.

Since I couldn't find a copy of this work for sale anyplace, I requested it from my library. It turns out that it's not a book, but a paper written for the "International Men's Studies and Gender Studies Conference" by a California State University history professor. It is 19 pages long, including 4 pages of footnotes, and was written for other professors, though the references are all to readily available popular works.

The paper begins with wistful mention of the collapse of the Soviet Union; apparently the author feels the 100 million people it killed during its near-century of existence just weren't enough. Then he proceeds to discuss the variations on the socialist-feminist alliance that have existed over the decades.

There are a few interesting historical footnotes here. For example, in the nineteenth century, a "family wage" was something most workers hoped unions or the law would give them, making it possible for a man to support his wife and children without them having to work outside the home, and this is something socialists and union organizers promised workers in order to win their support. It wasn't until decades later that they decided that women could only be happy if they were wage slaves too. Also, shortly after World War II, male bartenders tried to bar women from their profession because they saw bars as a male refuge, the poor man's version of the gentleman's club.

Whether you are a feminist or a patriarch, this paper won't shed any particular new light on the issue.