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 | Ethnicities | |
 | "great background" | 2005-05-09 |
| This collection of studies by Rumbaut and Portes presents a highly detailed study of immigrant's children in the US from Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean. The studies cover the children's stories at various times while they are growing up making it easy to see how they deal with adolsence and coming of age. It deals with such important issues as educational ambitions, levels of discrimination, language usage (both in English and their parent's language), and relationships with their parents and the larger community around them. | ||
 | Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race | |
| "great racial history" | 2005-01-03 |
| Jacobson provides a great deal of the formation of whiteness and how it has changed through time. It shows how the construction of a white race came about in America from Anglo Saxons to all Euroepans. It shows how legislation and attitudes about white ethnic groups and Jews have changed through time. It also takes a good look at how whiteness has been transformed by contacts with other races through non-European immigratin, civil rights and America's colonies such as the Phillipeans. | ||
 | Ethnic Americans | |
| "Really good concise history of immigration" | 2004-12-17 |
| Dinnerstein and Reimers provide an easy to read summyar of American immigration from the conolain immigration to the present. It covers important immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico such as public reaction, adjusment problems and immigration laws. It provides a great deal information about collective ethnic groups and their positions on domestic and international issues. | ||
 | Ethnic Americans | |
| "Really good concise history of immigration " | 2004-12-17 |
| Dinnerstein and Reimers provide an easy to read summyar of American immigration from the conolain immigration to the present. It covers important immigration from Europe, Asia and Mexico such as public reaction, adjusment problems and immigration laws.
It provides a great deal information about collective ethnic groups and their positions on domestic and international issues. | ||
 | R.E.M. - R.E.M. Singles Collected | |
| "good collection of REM early material" | 2003-10-24 |
| REM's Singles Collection provides a pretty good collection of REM material from their IRS days starting from early stuff such as radio free europe and south central rain to later material such as one i love and it's the end of the world as we know it. It's great to hear their early material but too many of the songs are edits like rockville and can't get there from here. I wish they had put the full length songs on the album. | ||
 | Islam and the West | |
 | "pretty good comparsion" | 2003-05-23 |
| In Islam and the West, Lewis takes a look at the relationship between Islam and the West. The have had conflict for since the early days of Islam. Lewis takes a look at conflicts such as the crusades, the three Muslim invasions of Europe-Moors in the Iberian Peninsula, Ottamans in Eastern Europe and the Tartars in Russia. He also looks at how the Muslim world in North Africa and the Middle East was one time more advanced then the Europe and how the two have reveresed positions. What Lewis spends a lot of time on is the perceptions of Islam had of the West and the perceptions that the West had on Islam. He looks at each side tried to discredit the other and how each perceivced themselves. Lewis also deals with the rise of political Islam in the 20th century after the end of WWI after the break up of the Ottaman empire. Overall, a pretty good comprision and hsitory like Lewis's other works. | ||
 | The Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present | |
| "Great Overview of Japanese Histor" | 2003-04-26 |
| Andrew Gordon covers the important aspects of Japanese history through time. He starts off by dealing with the Tokugawa and ends with the current political situation at the turn of the century. The appendixes provide a good account of Japanese government by listing the prime ministers and the country's election results since the end of WWII. Contemporary History of Japan focuses on important aspects of the Tokugawa regime such as its political, social and economic set up of Tokugaw Japan and focuses on its eventual downfall. The book continues with the Samurai revolution and the Meiji revolution that set the path for Japan to become a world power. Gordon then continues Japan in the early 20th centiru and how the countr began to change internallly as a result and how Japan dealt the Depressoin Crises in the 1930s, its wars with China and Russia and its eventual role in WWII and the American influence in the post WWII years. After the end of WWII, Japan becomes a dominant figure on the world stage with rapid economic growth unparalled else where in the world resulting in massive changes in society. Gordon does deal with Japanese economic troubles in the post WWII era such as the oil crises in the 1970s and the how Japanese bubble burst as well as other issues Japan is facing such as low-birth rates and changing gender roles. Great background to Japan overall. | ||
 | A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (2nd Edition) | |
| "Great Overview of Japanese Histor" | 2003-04-26 |
| Andrew Gordon covers the important aspects of Japanese history through time. He starts off by dealing with the Tokugawa and ends with the current political situation at the turn of the century. The appendixes provide a good account of Japanese government by listing the prime ministers and the country's election results since the end of WWII. Contemporary History of Japan focuses on important aspects of the Tokugawa regime such as its political, social and economic set up of Tokugaw Japan and focuses on its eventual downfall. The book continues with the Samurai revolution and the Meiji revolution that set the path for Japan to become a world power. Gordon then continues Japan in the early 20th centiru and how the countr began to change internallly as a result and how Japan dealt the Depressoin Crises in the 1930s, its wars with China and Russia and its eventual role in WWII and the American influence in the post WWII years. After the end of WWII, Japan becomes a dominant figure on the world stage with rapid economic growth unparalled else where in the world resulting in massive changes in society. Gordon does deal with Japanese economic troubles in the post WWII era such as the oil crises in the 1970s and the how Japanese bubble burst as well as other issues Japan is facing such as low-birth rates and changing gender roles. Great background to Japan overall. | ||
 | The Economics and Politics of Race | |
| "combination of two of Sowell's interasts" | 2003-02-12 |
| Thomas Sowell has written both about race and economics in other books so it was inteersting to see Sowell combine these tow areas like this. He looks at historical reaosn to look at why certain areas of the world wer bale to acquire wealth while others did not. He looks at how different group's migrations to different parts of the world were similar, similar to the race trilogy. He also looks at the first world and the third world now looking to explain their differences and histories | ||
![Soundgarden - Superunknown [Single]](product_images/1219000/1219015_thumb.jpg) | Soundgarden - Superunknown [Single] | |
| "great companion to superunknown" | 2002-12-04 |
| Soundgarden's superunknown stands out as one of the best albums of the 1990s. The Superunknown single is a great companion to superunknown mainly because it contains songs that should have been contained on superunkown such as she likes suprises available on the international version of superunkown and the acoustic version of like suicide. There is also the video version of fell on black days and jerry garcia's fingers which are also good. | ||
 | World Development Report: Building Institutions for Markets | |
| "Pretty good for providing information about development" | 2002-11-20 |
| World Development Report 2002 is a good source for understanding of the issues that need to be understand for third world development. It focuses on firms, government and society. It deals with specific facotros with each of these. With firms, it deals with farmers, financial systems and governance of firms. WIth government it deals with political institutions and governance, the judicial system, competition and regulation of infrastructure. WIth society, it deals with norms and net works as well as the media. Good source to better understand development in the third world. | ||
 | The Middle East (Congressional Quarterly; 9th Edition) | |
| "great background for the middle east after WWII" | 2002-11-19 |
| Congressional Quarterly has published a great source for the Middle East. Ir provies plenty of information to better understand the region and focuses on the main issues in it. The Arab-Israeli conflict is dealt with starting from the original British mandate for ISrael to the post-Oslo time. It also focuses on U.S. foriegn policy in the region looking how differetn presidential administrations and the U.S. congress have dealt with the region. Oil and gas interests are mentioned disucssing issues that relate to it such as OPEC, the oil embargo, the Persian Gulf War and the 1986 price crash. The influence of Islam is also talked about focusing on how it as unified and fractured the Middle East. The book also has country profiles to better understand how each individiual country operates as well as providing a timeline of the Middle East since the end of WWII and short biographies of the area's main leader. | ||
 | Incubus - Enjoy Incubus | |
| "Great intro to incubus" | 2002-10-14 |
| The Enjoy Incubus EP is the first offering from Incubus. It provides a short little introduction into incubus. The songs are homorous mainly such as you will be a hot dancer and take me to your leader. There is a great bonus track at the end of the CD, you just fave to wait 10 minutes for it but it's worth it. Enjoy Incubus provides a more complete understanding of what Incubus can do. Each time they come out wiht an album, it sounds a little bit different. SCIENCE has more of a rap/hip-hop flavoro to it while make yourself has more of a rock flavor while morning view has more of a mellow flavor. Enjoy Incubus provides some funny songs with elemants of rock, funk and rap/hip-hop. | ||
 | Iron Cages : Race and Culture in 19th-Century America | |
| "How America Grew" | 2002-07-05 |
| Iron Cages American History from the days after the revolutionary war to the Spanish American War during a time when the country grew in size, population, and importance. Takaki looks at these issues showing American philosophy of moving westard and expanding trade. He focuses on the race relatted issues of the period such as the roles of Native Ameiricans, Blacks and Chinese in this country. | ||
 | India | |
| "good introduction" | 2002-06-29 |
| having been to India before, Wolpert's book helped to give me a better prospective of the country. Wolpert gives information into the important aspects of the country like the environment, early history, religion and philosophy, society, arts/sciences, and polity/foreign policy. The book is easy to read and gives good information into aspects of india like the caste system, foreign policy after independence (its 5-year plans, Kashmir...) and India under British rule. | ||
 | Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora by Ronald Segal, ISBN 0374227748 | |
| "important book" | 2002-05-28 |
| I've been aware of Islam's role in the black slave trade for a while now and figured that Islam's Black Slaves would be a good book to find out more on the subject. It provides a lot of useful information on the subject like looking at the begining of Islam and how it dealth with racism and slavery. It deals with how Muslims used black slaves and sold them in Africa, the Middle East and a little bit in India and China. It also deals with thier treatment with comparision to black slavery in the western hemisphere. It makes comparisions between different ways muslims treted and used slaves in differnt regions. It also deals with how slavery was dealth with under colonialism and the rise of islam in black muslims. | ||
 | Beastie Boys: Sabotage | |
| "beastie boys on film" | 2002-05-20 |
| Sabotage is a great short Beastie Boys video. It captures the uncensored video of their greatest video-Sabotage. The video also contains other videos from the band as well as outtakes. It helps to give a boarder representation of what the band can do. | ||
 | Beastie Boys | |
| "beastie boys on film" | 2002-05-20 |
| Sabotage is a great short Beastie Boys video. It captures the uncensored video of their greatest video-Sabotage. The video also contains other videos from the band as well as outtakes. It helps to give a boarder representation of what the band can do. | ||
 | R.E.M.: Parallel | |
| "great REM videos" | 2002-05-20 |
| REM is one of my favorite groups of all time and it's nice to have a collection of their videos. REM is one of those groups who put a lot of great thought behind their videos so the videos actually add to the depth of the songs. This collection covers their videos from automatic for the people and out of time which are the albums that really helped them to enter the mainstream. In the end, Parallel really shows why REM became as large as they did. | ||
 | Soundgarden - Ultramega OK | |
 | "not the band's best but still good" | 2002-05-09 |
| Compared to Soundgarden's later albums like louder than love, Ultramega OK doesn't really stand out. The songwriting isn't as great as badmoterfinger or superunknown. The sound quality of the album isn't perfect, probbaly due to the shoe string budget. However, the album does provide a usefeul introduction into what would become one of the greatest heavy metal bands ever. Defenitely worth listening to. | ||
 | The Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury | |
| "great single" | 2002-02-09 |
| Loops of fury is a great four song collection of the chemical brothers. It really shows how well the band can write music. It really helped me to become a fan. | ||
 | David Bowie - The Best Of David Bowie 1969-1974 | |
| "great history" | 2002-02-08 |
| This greatest hits collection from david bowie stands is a great collection of his early material such as ziggy stardust and velvet goldmine. It really is quite amazing to see how much David Bowie has done in his career. This CD really gives you a picture of what his earliest years were like. | ||
 | Broken English | |
| "pleased" | 2002-02-08 |
| I didn't really know what to expect with broken english but I was pleased at how well the movie was shot. The story line is definetely unique to say. A croat immigrant to new zealand with new zealand citizenship being paid by a chinese immigrant so he can stay in the country while falling in love with a maori man to her father's displeasure. The movie is intense with some really great acting in it. | ||
 | Black Flag - Wasted...Again | |
| "great punk rock" | 2002-02-06 |
| Wasted Again is a greatest album for black flag. The album really shows the band's career really well until the end. Songs like 6 pack, TV party, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie and I'm so wasted are punk rock classics. This is a perfect album for anyone interested in the history of punk | ||
 | Chris Rock - Bigger & Blacker | |
| "not his best work but still good" | 2002-02-05 |
| Bigger and Blacker isn't as good as other Chris Rock material like bring the pain but bigger and blacker is still definetely entertaining. From start to finish, he goes into his style of comedy mixing material from his personal life as well as social issues. I never get tired to this album becaue it never quite loses its effect. | ||
 | KMFDM - Agogo | |
| "not their best" | 2002-02-02 |
| I like KMFDM a lot but Agogo is not the best work I have seen the band do. Their other albums have a higher level of intensity and creativity then Agogo. It just seems that Agogo was but toghether by their record company knowing that it would be one the last times they would be able knowing that the band would break up soon. There are good songs on here like the cover of U2's mysterious ways and is defenetely good for the die-hard KMFDM fans | ||
 | KMFDM - Naïve/Hell to Go | |
| "pretty good" | 2002-02-02 |
| This album seems to really lack the same kind of feeling as other KMFDM albums. Naive/Hell to Go was not one of their high points. Despite this, there plenty of good songs worth buying the album for like like naive and achtung. | ||
 | R.E.M. - Best Of R.E.M. | |
| "Great Collection of early material" | 2002-01-30 |
| Best of REM is a great collection of material when REM was with IRS records covering the really stuff like radio free europe to the time when they were becoming popular with songs like it's the end of the world. Best of REM is good for those seeking to better understand REM before signing with warner brothers. | ||
| Soundgarden - Superunknown [Single] | |
| "good soundgarden rarities" | 2002-01-24 |
| The Superunkown single is good ebcause is provides some rarities from soundgarden like the acoustic version of Like Suicide and She likes suprises. It's a good comapanion disk to superunknowon. | ||
 | Nine Inch Nails - Broken | |
| "short and to the point" | 2002-01-23 |
| Broken is a fairly short, but still very strong and intense. It's tied with fragile as my favorite nine inch nails album. The bests songs are really wich and gave up. The two hidden songs (Tracks 98 and 99) are also a great suprise to hear. | ||
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