conversing palestinian experimental surveillance

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82 reviews
Jacquelyn Mitchard

Grand Central Publishing, 2007

Wonderfully written....
If the rating system was based on tears I cried while reading this novel, I would have to give it a thousand stars.... This is the first book I have read by Ms. Mitchard, and I was captivated from the first paragraph; as one reviewer observed, this book practically begs to be read. It is a story of redemption, vengeance, questioning one's belief system, forgiveness, love, hate, life, death and ...

Girl in a Cage

15 reviews
Jane Yolen, Robert Harris

Puffin, 2004

Middle School Teacher's Review
This book is awesome. I taught it last year to a group of 7th graders and I will teach it again this year. Jane Yolen is a wonderful writer and with her help, I was able to understand this book more. In order to help my student's understand the history highlighted thorughout the book, we did a webquest of different families, wars, and places mentioned. This book was taught as part of our ...

The Lizard Cage

7 reviews
Karen Connelly

Spiegel & Grau, 2008

Compelling and memorable
This is one of the most compelling and haunting stories I've ever read, and I've read a LOT! I would say that this is in my top 20 all time favorites. If you have ever read Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, then you will understand what this book is about. No matter how desperate, how demeaning, how hopeless the situation, you are always free to choose your attitude. The author, Karen ...

Sugar Cage

7 reviews
Connie May Fowler

Washington Square Press, 1993

Sugar Cage
Connie May Fowler creates intimacy for the reader and all of the books characters. By bringing first person to all the characters we get to know more about how people choose the decisions they made and what motivates each one towards the life they choose. I really enjoyed the way she was able to keep the story progressing thorugh time but also using other's perspective on what occured or is ...

Life Inside the "Thin" Cage: A Personal Look into the Hidden World of the Chronic Dieter

8 reviews
Constance Rhodes

Shaw Books, 2003

The Key to the Cage
We can draw on the stories of others to find our way out. Constance manages to talk openly about her struggle with a sub clinical ED which allows the reader to find shelter and acceptance. Fellow sub ED journeymen will realize they are not alone and there is light at the end of the tunnel. I believe her willingness to be vulnerable and create a public medium for sub clinical ED materialwill ...

Silence: Lectures and Writings

9 reviews
John Cage

Wesleyan, 1961

Essential
Not just for musicians, but for anybody who is interested in music or philosophy. Cage's ideas presented in the work are fascinating in and of themselves, but even the manner in which he physically notates his thoughts on paper is amazing to see. There's a common argument that his ideas (and this book) are overrated. I find this difficult to digest, especially when one considers the enormous ...

The Cage

99 reviews
Ruth Minsky Sender

Simon Pulse, 1997

an amazing story of survival
a well written book which has all the necessary elements to keep readers engaged from cover to cover. this book tugged at my emotions all the way through; i was horrified and saddened by the losses within the author's family unit, yet also inspired by her fight for survival and how she used her poetry to keep others fighting as well. a truly inspirational and quick read. highly recommended.

They Cage the Animals at Night (Signet)

185 reviews
Jennings Michael Burch

Signet, 1985

Wonderful book
I could not put this book down! It made my cry a couple of times but it does have a happy ending.

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

19 reviews
Rashid Khalidi

Beacon Press, 2007

Outstanding book which reveals the truth regarding Palestinians & the nightmare called "Israel"
I am Jewish and the "state" of "Israel" is an embarrassment to worldwide Jewry. More and more Jews are waking up to this fact. This book does an excellent job of exposing the cruelty which Jews inflicted (and continue to inflict) on the indiginous Palestinians after Jews stole their land in 1948.

The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, with a New Foreword by Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D.

3 reviews
Hilde Bruch

Harvard University Press, 2001

A must read for any parent with a mentally ill daughter
A remarkable description of the basic personality and family mechanisms involved in teenage mental disorders and their anorectic expression.

The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror

5 reviews
Christian Parenti

Basic Books, 2004

superbly crafted... the real deal
This is a really great book. Parenti covers a wide sweep of history in a compelling and eloquent way. Most books on this subject are rather dry, but The Soft Cage is full of characters, real people and dramatic political struggles. The books' treatment of our current situation in the age of almost constant surveillance is chilling but level-headed. For anyone who wants a fascinating overview of ...

The Princes Of The Golden Cage

9 reviews
Nathalie Mallet

Night Shade Books, 2007

Great Fantasy/Mystery
Mallet has created a medieval Arabian setting reminiscent of the tales of Scherezade in the 1001 Arabian Nights. In fact, as the story is written, it could have been one. Amir relates the events from his own perspective, and the reader almost gets a sense of him relating the story of these events to us over a campfire years later. Mallet has a conversational style of writing that leads the reader ...

How to (Un)cage a Girl
Francesca Lia Block

Joanna Cotler, 2008

A celebration of girls and women in a three part poetry collection that is powerful, hopeful, authentic, and universal.

The Skull Cage Key: A Novel

1 review
Michel Marriott

Agate Bolden, 2008

The Pursuit of Joy...
I was thoroughly pleased when offered a copy of The Skull Cage Key as a review book because I had recently read a glowing endorsement in Essence magazine for the debut novel by Michael Marriott. I am a fan of the Sci-Fi/Paranormal genre and have enjoyed Patrik's Picks tremendously in the past, so I anxiously settled in with this latest recommendation. Unfortunately, after reading the last page, ...

The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Society

1 review
Alexandra Maryanski, Jonathan Turner

Stanford University Press, 1993

Half-way there
This book accomplishes half of what it intends. The authors try to show through evolutionary studies that man is by biological nature only a loosely social animal. Hunter-gather societies represent the maximum of social organization that fits our biology. The authors do a good job demonstrating this. They authors then try to show how over the past 10,000 years culture has developed to cage humans ...

Nicolas Cage: Hollywood's Wild Talent

8 reviews
Brian J. Robb

Plexus Publishing, 1998

Nicolas Cage - An Aussies view
As a new admirer of N. Cage (Coppola)I found the book a great read. I was, however, disappointed by the lack of personal details. It also seems apparent that the author has not yet met with Nicolas to gain some true insight into the man and his thoughts. A good start for anyone like me wanting to know the basics.

Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century)

6 reviews
Michael Nyman

Cambridge University Press, 1999

processes and fields of sound, not time-objects...
Nyman's 1974 classic is here reprinted sans revisions. Brilliant! It captures a moment -- as Nyman concludes his preface, "Thank goodness I wrote it when I did." EM is not a survey of 20th century avant-garde music. It focuses on one trend, inaugurated by Cage, Wolff, Feldman and Brown in the 1950s, a trend which explicitly attempted to overturn the traditional avant-garde then marching under ...

Conversing with Cage

2 reviews
Ric Kostelanetz

Routledge, 2002

excellent book for those wanting to know about Cage's ideas
This book is a collection of interviews with John Cage, the late avant garde composer who was one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. The interviews span nearly a half century and give a cogent idea of Cage's thought on music, art, education, politics, and social revision. If you are curious about why a composer would write music that is "silent", why he would use chance, ...

Gentle Cage (Yaoi Novel)
You Shizaki, Kamiko Sasaki

Digital Manga Publishing, 2008

Private Secretary to a high-powered businessman, Itsuki is surprised to hear that his employer has named the temperamental sculptor Hitachi as the successor to his business. But does that include Itsuki himself? Hitachi seems to think so!

Essential Luke Cage/Power Man Vol. 1 (Marvel Essentials)

5 reviews
Roy Thomas, John Romita, ...

Marvel Comics, 2005

I'm talkin' 'bout Cage! LUKE Cage!
Let me get one thing out of the way first. I am a twenty year-old white guy living in the middle of the Appalachian Mountains. I am among the least likely Americans who could actually get the point (ironic or otherwise) about the Blaxploitation era of the '70's. I mean I tried to watch Superfly once about a year ago (it was on AMC, I think), but I turned it off after about 40 minutes, feeling ...

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