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I am a retired social worker,a former early childhood teacher and day care director. I am past President of the Staten Island Domocratic Association and President of the Staten Island Welfare Advocacy Network. I'm a member of the Staten Island Archaeology Society , the Staten Island Women's Political Caucus and the Coalition of Staten Island Women's Organizations. I like to travel to see my three … Read moreI am a retired social worker,a former early childhood teacher and day care director. I am past President of the Staten Island Domocratic Association and President of the Staten Island Welfare Advocacy Network. I'm a member of the Staten Island Archaeology Society , the Staten Island Women's Political Caucus and the Coalition of Staten Island Women's Organizations. I like to travel to see my three daughters, four step children and three grand children.
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If you can read only one of the current flood of political books, read this one. An honest and hard-hitting journalist, Amy Goodman is a truly rare American hero. She brings us breathless through her narrow escape from a massacre in East Timor and makes us smile at the taping of a Sally Jessy Raphael show.
She speaks truth to power from the FCC to the WTO to the corporate media. She asks the hard questions and holds the bar high, regardless of party or office. She is critical of Clinton as well as Bush. Being critical is her job and she does it well. Mostly, she is a Jimmy Stewart idealist, a "small d" democrat who fights tirelessly, demanding that our country fulfill its promise.
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I was attracted to this book because I am an armchair archaeology buff. I managed to read it,however it was tough going. It is not readably written and is clearly aimed at professionals in the field. It focuses narrowly on the archaeological finds from the Bronze age which are primarily weapons. There is little attempt to flesh out the everyday lives of the people of the time. The author is more concerned with documenting every forth word. He doesn't correlate with any of the recent work in other fields such as linquistics or genetics. I was attracted to the cover picture. He eventually reveals that it is a drinking scene.Unfortunately it is cropped so that the steins are obscured.I was… Read more
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After reading "Cannibals and Kings", I couldn't wait to read Harris' earlier "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches". I was not disappointed. Both books are exciting and stimulating reading. The clarity and logic propel you forward until you must accept the premises. Harris shows that what seem like strange, even repugnant cultural adaptations are very logical, once you understand the circumstances that gave rise to them. More important, he contends that while things like war do show up in most human societies, they are part of culture rather than of human nature. He points out that war, in valuing the warrior, encourages the whole complex of male supremicist behaviors, including… Read more
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