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1820. Irish poet and friend of Lord Byron and P.B. Shelley, Moore's works range from lyric to satire, from prose romance to history and biography. Moore was also a good musician and skillful writer of songs, which he set to Irish tunes, mainly of the 18th century. Moore's bestselling epic poem, Lalla Rookh, is a kind of miniature Arabian Nights in subject matter, setting and form. The story relates the journey of the princess Lalla Rookh from Delhi to Kashmir, where she is to marry the young King of Bucharia whom she has never met. From its first appearance Lalla Rookh inspired the romantic imaginations of artists, dramatists and composers alike with its heady combination of drama, poetry, romance, pathos, fantasy, horror and exoticism. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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According to Islamic tradition, men dominate the public sphere and women are expected to remain indoors at most times. In photographer Lalla Essaydi’s native Morocco this confinement has been further used as a punishment for those who transgress the rules of gender conduct. A practice only recently abandoned, women were at times even required to spend periods as long as a month inside otherwise uninhabited homes. In an exploration into her home country and her childhood Essaydi reverses the meaning of these spaces in Converging Territories, using them as a place where women are seen, not hidden. Essaydi’s subjects are given a voice not only through their actions, but also through the written word. The women pose after long sessions during which Essaydi covers their clothing and few areas of exposed skin, as well as the rooms themselves, with Islamic calligraphy. The rebelliousness of this act is added to by the fact that the words are drawn with henna—a form of adornment considered "women’s work." In a seeming contrast, the calligraphy used is a sacred Islamic art form that was once inaccessible to women. As an artist living and educated in the West, Essaydi explores her past and family with this highly personal work. Meanwhile, her images reflect the complex female identities found in Morocco and other Muslim societies—and give women the opportunity to engage in the emerging culture of Islamic feminism. ... Read more

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Melodious poetry that really speaks to you.This is a little book but packed with great poems that are so clear and so deep.Here's a stanza from one poem that keeps rattling thhrough my head:"Enlighten your desires.Meditate on who you are.Quit imagining."It goes on but its sttanzas like that that can give you a kick in the pants to contemplate some things. Its just aterrific collection of poems.Glad I bought the book!

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What would the founding fathers have thought of George W. Bush?
Founders v. Bush is a comparison in quotations of the policies and politics of the Founding Fathers and the administration of George W. Bush.See what the Founders really thought about the Constitution, Liberty, Patriotism, Religion, War, Truth, Lies, Wealth, and more...in their own words.
GEORGE WASHINGTON"Beware of pretend patriotism." -1796
JOHN ADAMS"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God s service when it is violating all His laws."-1816
THOMAS JEFFERSON"By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves."-1813
JAMES MADISON"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."-1798
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Write the same type of book for the current President
I would like to see the authors compare the current President and Congress to the Founding Fathers.This President believes that the Constitution to be "fundamentally flawed".

Here's what John Adams said, "But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."Also from John Adams, "In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

How about turning the microscope on the other side for a change?

We the People
In Founders v. Bush I was hoping to find more than just a comparison of quotes between our Founders and the president. I was looking for intense discussion about the comparisons. With the exception of the start of the chapters, there was little to read or digest.

Steve Coffman catalogues a great many memorable quotes from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and what other Founders wrote or said in their speeches, the Federalist Papers, their personal correspondence, or what people overheard and recorded. These quotes were placed in comparison to those of George Bush under such chapter titles as The Bill of Rights, Liberty, Religion, War, PNAC, Cheney & Yoo, Lies Dishonesty & Disinformation, and other topics. Also included were statements from John Yoo, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and others that are bound to depress for their blatant fabrications that took us to war.

Besides a lack of discussion there was a problem with reading one quote after another. It's a little like what might happen to your attention span as your focus on the movement of wipers removing the rain from your windshield. You end up missing the road, or message of the quotes because of their sheer repetition. It's disappointing to lose the thread of so many profound statements and know that you have to go back.

It is a good source of quotes, (many I have never read before), and the comparison of statements between our Founders and Bush. These will jar you with the difference in depth, selflessness vs. selfishness, self-interest vs. national interest.

Yet, even the most attention-challenged reader cannot help but find the difference in insight, wisdom, temperament and sheer stature between the Founders and George W. Bush. It is crushing to learn what has replaced what once was.

The most common theme that separates the Founders from Bush is that they speak in terms of the people. Bush speaks in terms of himself, what he wants, and that he is the one who decides. He shouldn't. We should.

We the People.



Happy St. Patrick's Day
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Policy Perspective:Bush Trounced by Founders
Organized, quotable evidence that Bush neither understands nor values the elementary principles of democracy. Students of social and political thought will consider this no frills, quotes-only book invaluable.Chapters are organized accordingto critical topics such as war and peace, religion, economics, rule of law, education, etc.Each chapter first lists quotes from members of the Bush administration, then quotes on the same topic by the founders, all easily citable.

Although the author has limited his own commentary, I wish he had eliminated the commentary altogether.The book would then be a non-biased reference book - but it's a great addition to my personal library as it allows one to go straight to the quotes.If you want to give an easy-read gift to those who just don't get it, this is it! EXCELLENT!

Excellant!
This is an excellant book on the mistakes and abuses of the Bush administration.I recommend it highly.

Founders v. Bush: A Review
An insulted, but calm Thomas Jefferson looks out to the reader from the cover of Coffman's book and away from a petulant, pugnacious George W. Bush. I didn't have to open the book to know how the comparison would play out, but I'm glad I did. Coffman provides a good review of the first six years of the Bush Administration in their own words organized by topic: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, war, peace, religion, lies, honesty, and disinformation among others. Juxtaposed to these quotations are relevant words of some of America's founders.


When the founders' words do not directly contradict those of the Bush administration, they warn strongly against allowing such people as these to acquire power. Their words provide the reader with material for a more than adequate rebuttal to claims that this administration and other Republican federal officeholders are faithfully following the principles and intent of the founders. Many of the Republican claims come wrapped in intellectual dishonesty and falsehood which makes it vital that the rebuttal be carefully and accurately sourced . Consequently, I was disappointed to find Coffman's sourcing is the book's greatest weakness.


Contrary to the claims on the rear cover "fully sourced," and in the introduction, "In this book all of the quotes (sic) have been sourced, sources provided, and, as far as feasible, provided in ample context," the sourcing ranged from full, to frustrating to verify, to intellectually suspect.


The Jefferson quotations are not necessarily easily found using Coffman's sourcing. The "Online" sources at the end of the book include only The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Federal Edition. The Memorial Edition is not to be found in either the "Principle Sources" or "Online" sources, but some of the quotations in the text are sourced to the Memorial Edition. This wouldn't be a problem if one could safely assume that quotations not sourced specifically to the Memorial Edition, were from the Federal Edition. Unfortunately, that's not true. On page 53, for example, one quotation is sourced, "Letter to Moses Robinson, 1801." Searching the Federal Edition for either the exact quotation or "Moses Robinson" yields no hits. The quotation can be found in the Memorial Edition, Volume 10, Page 237 (ME 10:237). Too, some of the quotations not sourced to the Memorial Edition can be found in the Federal Edition.


Turning to the quotations ascribed to George W. Bush and members of his administration, I ran into more trouble. Many of the sources are simply dates (e.g. January 11, 2005 and September 18, 2001.) A source for a quotation from Paul O'Neill names only his book, *The Price of Loyalty*. There were also sources in which a third party, sometimes named, sometimes not, claimed something was said by someone else, but not in their presence. For example, on page 55, Coffman alleges Bush to have said, "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." The sourcing reads: "Said to a group of Old Order Amish, Lancaster New Era, July 16, 2004." The quotation appeared in a column by Jack Brubaker in the "Lancaster New Era" and what it actually said was, "At the end of the session, Bush reportedly told the group, 'I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn't do my job.' The person(s) who are indicated by "reportedly" are unnamed and apparently remain so as the initial stir caused by Bush's alleged blasphemy died quickly with no one to confirm it. As could be expected the White House denied the statement. They would have to deny it whether it was true or false as it has Bush claiming he speaks for God, a claim that might have upset many of his Christian supporters as well as those of other deistic religions.


While in many cases I can remember Bush and members of his administration making statements like those Coffman reports, I could not verify all that I tried to check. Several of those ascribed to Bush only by date could be found by thoughtfully searching at whitehouse.gov, but I doubt the next owner will leave these up.


At the end of the book are two listings: "Principal Sources" and "Online." The web-savvy reader will be immediately perplexed to see that the "Online" list contains no URLs, no web page identifiers to type into a browser in order to get directly to the source. By googling the item in the author's listing and searching through the first five or so candidates, I was able to confirm what I thought the author meant in most cases, though this sometimes meant deciding that one or all of the returned hits were meant. I could not find one of these sources no matter what I tried. As for the "Principal Sources," there are only two books in the list which have the members of the Bush Administration as subject matter: Bob Woodward's *Bush at War* and Ron Suskind's *One Percent Doctrine*. I'm certain that these are not the sources for the vast majority of the vaguely-sourced quotations.


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1924. This work contains the sayings of Lal Ded or Lal Diddi of Kashmir (Granny Lal), known also as Laleshwari, Lalla Yogishwari and Lalishri, between 1300 and 1400 AD. They are done into English verse from the Lalla-Vakyani or Lal-Wakhi and annotated. The authoress of the sayings, as a wandering ascetic and devoted follower of the Shaiva Yoga form of the religion of the Hindus, obtained such a hold on the people of the country that her verses have become a household word. Her songs illustrate her religion on its popular side, though they are not a systematic exposition of Shaivism on the lines laid down by the theologians who preceded her. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1920. Author: Sir George Grierson, K.C.I.E Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Kashmir Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker. The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. How could such an intricate object have come about by chance? Tackling this subject--in writing that the New York Times called "a masterpiece"--Richard Dawkins builds a carefully reasoned and lovingly illustrated argument for evolutionary adaptation as the mechanism for life on earth. The metaphor of Mount Improbable represents the combination of perfection and improbability that is epitomized in the seemingly "designed" complexity of living things. Dawkins skillfully guides the reader on a breathtaking journey through the mountain's passes and up its many peaks to demonstrate that following the improbable path to perfection takes time. Evocative illustrations accompany Dawkins's eloquent descriptions of extraordinary adaptations such as the teeming populations of figs, the intricate silken world of spiders, and the evolution of wings on the bodies of flightless animals. And through it all runs the thread of DNA, the molecule of life, responsible for its own destiny on an unending pilgrimage through time.Climbing Mount Improbable is a book of great impact and skill, written by the most prominent Darwinian of our age.Amazon.com Review
How do species evolve? Richard Dawkins, one of the world'smost eminent zoologists, likens the process to scaling a huge,Himalaya-size peak, the Mount Improbable of his title. An alpinistdoes not leap from sea level to the summit; neither does a speciesutterly change forms overnight, but instead follows a course of"slow, cumulative, one-step-at-a-time, non-random survival ofrandom variants"--a course that Charles Darwin, Dawkins's greathero, called natural selection. Illustrating his arguments with casestudies from the natural world, such as the evolution of the eye andthe lung, and the coevolution of certain kinds of figs and wasps,Dawkins provides a vigorous, entertaining defense of key Darwinianideas. ... Read more

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Climbing Mount Improbable
Like most of Dawkins' books, this one just rambles on and on. It's like sitting through a long and boring lecture. He makes his point and then goes over it again and again until you start wondering why you started it in the first place. I love his thoughts and ideas, but reading his text books is a real chore.

Classic unproven assumptions
So many unproven assumptions and wild speculations, along with a misuse of "possible," which can only be used correctly if non-zero probability has been demonstrated using known science.Book should be titled "Sliding Down the Slippery Slope of Mount Impossible."

Very Improbable
I climbed a lot of mountains, but the wishing well must in serious cases always be controlled by good reason. I can not see that D. gave me convincing arguments to climb that mountain.
D. is nothing more than an eloquent protagonist of the atheists of our times. The polemics can be interpreted as a reflex of the fact, that secularisation is on the retreat, as the Bitish Philosopher John Gray announced it lately. He himself is not a Christian believer, but he found that the present enmity towards religion is partly a reaction of the retreat of secularisation.
I also find the argumentation of such people like D. Sam Harris, Philip Pillman, Christopher Hitchens and others not serious or respectable from a scientific view, rather zelous. I think they have to learn to accept that it is the Christian fundament that enables the free discussion of our times at all. There is no way out, if you read the New Testament that it stands for freedom of thought and belief.
Our western society is based on Christian history and Christian principles, at least since we had the reformation, like it or not!. So far critics that make Christianity responsible for lack of freedom, intolerance and wars go far away of what is the question. It must also be remembered that the most central point of departure of atheism critics is the free will of very biblical origin. The free will of man is already of central meaning in the Genesis.
I think that D. makes the same mistake as so many before him. He blames the Christian belief instead the (so-called-) Christians. The Christians deserve all critics. But atheists do stand in the glass house. Sometimes scientific knowledge is taken erroneously for "truth". This is dangerous.
This creates "scientific" fundamentalists and fanatics. Hitler was a big friend of science and Darwinism. And both served his racism! The Holocaust would have been possible without Atheism, but it would not have been possible with true Christianity. The cult about Mao or Lenin is not in opposition to atheism or communism! Atheism as political project was ruled out there. The result is always a substitute for a religion, a religion itself, which can only be hold with tyrannical means. I am no prophet to say that with people like D. in the government who make their credo their political will, we would face nothing more than another dictatorship.
D. has nothing except his failing good reason to hinder his own falling into the trap of conceit. Science and moral do not fit in the same melting pot, you can build the nuclear bomb, and you can throw it, you do not need morale for it. Science can say that the fittest survive and some racists know the method to wipe out those who are useless eaters. It is apparent that those who adore secularism are believing in scientific development. But it is of no benefit if you do not have the right moral for it. From where do You get it? From atheism?

Like a music box that keeps on playing the same tune
The beginning of this book is wonderful: astonishing examples of animal mimicry, convergence and divergence, and the marvels of spiders' web construction. This is the sort of biology I love, and Dawkins is one of the best writers of it.

But he can't keep it up for long. Almost at the beginning we start to see little hints that this is not just a book of biological wonders - well, the title really gives it away, but then there are things like that word "designoid", and soon we have another lesson on the biomorphs from The Blind Watchmaker. Finally he can restrain himself no longer, and we find ourselves among the usual Dawkinsian obsessions: natural selection is the solution to all problems, everything is possible if we divide into a sufficiently large number of steps, evolution is not random, design is an illusion, God would have to be impossibly complex, and so on.

He is really writing the same book over and over, changing the title and the details, but the message remains the same. The fascinating thing is that you could swap whole paragraphs from one Dawkins book to another and no one would notice. And yet each book is apparently written as if the reader has not read any of the others.

To use an evolutionary metaphor, Dawkins' books are like a virus which keeps mutating, changing its coat so we don't recognise it, while it keeps trying to inject the same essential message into our minds.

STILL AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT IMPROBABLE

I read CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE many years ago.I consider it Dawkins's best work.Since I accept the fact of evolution no less than he does, I have no argument with his explanation of the mechanisms by which improbable evolutionary structures evolved.It is his understanding of the nature of these mechanisms as blind and random that I find completely unconvincing.This review is an elaboration of why.
Among people who disagree with Dawkins's opinions it is common to point out that his views are no less fundamentalist than that of the Creationists he opposes.I am aware that he and his allies do not seem to understand what we mean by this.I shall clarify.In THE SELFISH GENE Dawkins writes that if mankind ever faces an alien race of superior technological development, the most important gauge that mankind has advanced beyond mere savagery will be the theory of evolution.He means by this, of course, the blind and random evolution he champions in his work.To be absolutely certain that thousands of years from now mankind will still believe in Dawkins's selfish gene theory signifies a dogmatic mindset.I think that Dawkins would agree that there was really nothing in THE SELFISH GENE, or in CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE, that was not already implicit Darwin's original version of the theory.In Kuhn's terminology, he was not trying to establish a new paradigm, just polish the one already in existence.In the interest of not being dogmatic myself, I try to be open-minded to the possibility that Dawkins might be right.But my conviction nonetheless is that he is wrong, and the evidence is really not with him.
Whenever somebody opposes the selfish-gene theory of evolution, there are always people who start ranting about how opposed true science is to the pseudo-scientific theory of Intelligent Design, as if these were the only two conceivable possibilities.It is true, as the ID people insist, that evolution is merely a theory; but gravity is merely a theory also.A theory is the best explanation scientists have for an observable fact, and evolution is just as observably factual as gravity.On the other hand, there have been several theories of gravity, which were all the best explanation thinkers had in their times for the fact of gravity.Physicists are quite confident that the current theory of gravity is unlikely to be replaced by a radically different explanation, but not many of them would dogmatically insist that this could not possibly happen.This is true because science and dogmatism are inherently antithetical.
In a brief review of THE SELFISH GENE I pointed out that Dawkins's theory implies intelligent design.I was being deliberately provocative but not facetious.Explicit in the idea of selfish genes is the idea of determinism.Given the properties of subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules, and their original state of motion instigated by the Big Bang, determinism insists that nothing in the universe could have happened differently than it did.Although the indeterminism of quantum mechanics frees the universe from the clock-work determinism envisioned by nineteenth century physicists such as Laplace, since indeterministic events are blind and random, they would mostly just cancel out.A critic of this review pointed out that determinism does not mean predeterminism.What I am sure he meant by that is that it does not imply INTENTIONAL predeterminism.However, determinism clearly does mean that the events of the universe are predetermined by its initial state. Since consciousness is not an intrinsic part of the universe, the fact that the development of life intelligent enough to reflect upon its origins was a necessary consequence of these initial conditions is mere happenstance.That our existence is merely a fluke is so obviously true that to think otherwise is evidence of foggy-brained superstition.
Life relies upon the perfect meshing of highly complex and specifically-shaped molecules.Protein polymers can consist of hundreds of amino acids that must in turn fold up in unique shapes if they are to function correctly.Even just one mistake in this specific sequence means that the protein will malfunction.These proteins are in turn formed by far more complicated DNA sequences that, of course, had no idea that they were forming proteins. For even the simplest life to have formed in the first place, hundreds of these molecules had to have preformed so and interlock perfectly together in order to self-assemble into an unimaginably complex "gene machine" capable of extracting energy from its environment and replicating itself.This is the process that Michael Behe refers to as `irreducible complexity."We do not have to agree with him that this is proof of Intelligent Design, but if I ID and sheer coincidence were the only two possible choices, I would have to go with ID.
The popular explanations for how these complex molecules could have developed in a blind and random manner are frankly so laughably inept that I can scarcely believe they are intended seriously.For instance, one of them informs us that if we looked at the birthdates of thirty randomly chosen people they would form a highly specific pattern that would be nearly impossible to form by mere coincidence, and yet there it is.Of course, this pattern is not required to mesh perfectly with a random selection of birthdays of a different group of thirty people to perform a specific function.Another argument assures us that although a million monkeys randomly typing at typewriters would require far more than fifteen billion years to write one of Shakespeare's sonnets, if each correct letter the monkey happened to type was maintained in its correct position, the sonnet could be written within a few months (or whatever).This experiment has been successfully performed with computers taking the place of monkeys.If this is really supposed to be a model of how complex molecules form, it is obviously a model for Intelligent Design rather than selfish genes.Another argument is that in many cases complexity is often more obviously the result of random forces than a far simpler construct.For instance, a stone cut into the shape of a cube is far simpler than a stone shaped randomly by the forces of nature.There are two things wrong with this.One, the randomly shaped stone is not required to function perfectly with other randomly shaped stones to perform a specific task.Two, the cube could only have been shaped by highly complex organism.Better arguments than these must exist, but these are the ones available on the Internet for the public; these are the arguments that I hear from the students in my philosophy class who are sufficiently intellectual to be interested in the issue.
While Dawkins's explanations of how improbable organic structures, such as eyes and wings, are clearly brilliant, he does ignore the enormous biochemical complexity inherent in these changes.An example I often like to use is that of the fluke worm. In one phase of its life cycle the fluke inhabits ants that must be eaten by cattle.Since ants are naturally stay on the ground they would not ordinarily be ingested by cattle.In order to be sure that they get eaten, the fluke interferes with the ants' nervous system in such a way as to cause it to climb to the top of grass blades that the cattle will eat.This suicidal behavioral change would require several highly specific alterations in the ants' nervous system that must have occurred more-or-less simultaneously.This example is certainly not evidence for Intelligent Design.I at least would hope that a Supreme Intelligence capable of designing such complexity would not be responsible for something so bizarre and ugly.In fact, there is no better argument against ID than the existence of such parasites as the malarial plasmodium -- unless the Intelligence is sadistic and malevolent.But it is at least reasonable to believe that some primordial awareness must have been involved.
A universe that had no awareness of its existence would be essentially indistinguishable from non-existence.The fact that consciousness exists proves that this self-awareness existed potentially from the very beginning.Dawkins insists that this potential was accidental, while I am convinced that it was intrinsic.The overwhelming majority of scientists disagree with the notion of the intrinsic existence of consciousness. However, their disagreement often seems to result from the repulsion inspired by "creation science," which is clearly dogmatic faith rather than science.On the other hand, the fact that science is only capable of exploring the physical universe does not logically lead to the conclusion that only the physical universe has real existence. If consciousness does have intrinsic existence, then it follows that evolution is not blind, but proceeds along lines leading to a level of complexity capable of self-reflection.If this is true, then evolution is at a stage where we are required to be active participants, since most people are more inclined to hide behind comforting dogmatic belief than to struggle to greater self-awareness.Dawkins is wonderfully proficient at pointing out the dogmatism of religion, but blind to the dogmatism of materialism.


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Window on Kashmir's Soul
Lalleshvari's verses are a window to Kashmir's soul, and Odin does a good job of placing them in historical and philosophical context.

An important re-examination of Lalla
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