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 | Apple iPod 40GB MP3 Player - M9268LL/A | |
 | "Breaks like Clockwork means that it is Rubbish" | 2007-05-15 |
| I got mine for a Xmas present 2 years ago. Within 6 months it acted up, making me do the ridiculous R method of resetting it over and again. Itunes refuses to recognize it and now it tells me that I have a corrupted iPod--no kidding! At the moment, it is sitting on my desk like a dead bug on its back, frozen. Save yourself years of aggravation, listen to those of us who have had this for over a year...caveat emptor. | ||
 | Apple 40 GB iPod M9268LL/A | |
| "Breaks like Clockwork means that it is Rubbish" | 2007-05-15 |
| I got mine for a Xmas present 2 years ago. Within 6 months it acted up, making me do the ridiculous R method of resetting it over and again. Itunes refuses to recognize it and now it tells me that I have a corrupted iPod--no kidding! At the moment, it is sitting on my desk like a dead bug on its back, frozen. Save yourself years of aggravation, listen to those of us who have had this for over a year...caveat emptor. | ||
 | Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition | |
 | "A good but incomplete attempt" | 2007-02-15 |
| This is a good attempt at telling the story of women during partition. Though it is thin with regard to statistics, it does provide oral histories that bring to life the suffering of women who were both cast as prostitute (when they belonged to Other communities) and symbols of national honor (when belonging to "our" community). The only problem that this book suffers from is a serious bias against Pakistan. Being neither Indian nor Pakistani, it is obvious to me that the writers either share some of the "nationalistic" sentiments that they quote and describe or they do an inadequate job of interpreting and analyzing these positions. By taking such a stilted pro-India approach, they play into the very kinds of communal thinking that they purport to challenge. Following on this, there isn't much on Muslim women despite the fact that the official numbers suggest far more Muslim women were abducted than the other way around. I would suggest this book as an initial foray, but with the caveat that it has its own "national" bias (e.g., blaming Muslims alone for the very partition of India which is a gross simplification of history). I hope that someone will take it upon themselves to provide a more even-handed approach. | ||
 | Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition | |
| "A good but incomplete attempt" | 2007-02-15 |
| This is a good attempt at telling the story of women during partition. Though it is thin with regard to statistics, it does provide oral histories that bring to life the suffering of women who were both cast as prostitute (when they belonged to Other communities) and symbols of national honor (when belonging to "our" community). The only problem that this book suffers from is a serious bias against Pakistan. Being neither Indian nor Pakistani, it is obvious to me that the writers either share some of the "nationalistic" sentiments that they quote and describe or they do an inadequate job of interpreting and analyzing these positions.
By taking such a stilted pro-India approach, they play into the very kinds of communal thinking that they purport to challenge. Following on this, there isn't much on Muslim women despite the fact that the official numbers suggest far more Muslim women were abducted than the other way around. I would suggest this book as an initial foray, but with the caveat that it has its own "national" bias (e.g., blaming Muslims alone for the very partition of India which is a gross simplification of history). I hope that someone will take it upon themselves to provide a more even-handed approach. | ||
 | Crusades Through Arab Eyes | |
 | "Can't read about the crusades without this book" | 1997-12-02 |
| This book, while a novel, gives invaluable insights into what really might have happened during the Crusades. Malouf presents us with the fact that the Crusades were more about money than they were about God. In what is sometimes a gruesome account, he reveals that the crusaders killed not only Muslims but Jews and Christians of the Oriental denominations. Equally interesting is his unwillingness to let Muslims off the hook. He depicts them as fighting amongst themselves, unable to unite and facing the twilight of their great civilization just as the western star began to rise. In sum, for those who think that the Crusades were about a civilized Christian army beating back a barbarian horde, reading this book will offer you the notion that it was a civilized Muslim world sinking into decay whose contact with the Franks unified them to fight against an unprovoked attempt to colonize in the name of God but in reality for gold. | ||
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