![]() Sesame Street - What's the Name of That Song $12.93 I am slightly disappointed as there are not to many songs that kids can sing along too...Opera and blues are not kids friendly Its ok Something different to mix it up a bit ....Not very educational they dont focus on letters or numbers much ![]() In the Name of Honor: A Memoir $13.00 Pakistan has three different `legal' systems: a religious one (Muslim), a governmental one (in the cities and developed areas) and a tribal one (in the villages). The (remote) villages are still a kind of feudal society, controlled by mighty clans and upper castes with the help of the police and religious leaders. Their `legal' system can be summarized as `an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'. The fate of women in this society is not less than barbarous. Men want to keep their women in ignorance. There are no schools for girls, who cannot learn to read and to write. As Mukhtar Mai writes, `women are less important than goats, less important than slippers a man throws away.' Because her young brother (12 years of age) had spoken to a female member of a reigning clan (the accusation was later turned into `sexual relation without the sanctity of marriage'), Mukhtar Mai was sacrificed by her family and gang-raped in front of the whole village. While suicide would have been the normal outcome of this humiliation, Mukhtar Mai chose to fight against her assaulters and introduced a formal complaint in a district court. Her case became headline news all over Pakistan. Her courageous behavior triggered a revolution in her country against the repression of women. Fifty percent of all Pakistani women have been forced into marriage, violated, used as objects of exchange or raped. This book gives a terrible picture of a feudal society where we all come from. `Feudal power begins with land and ends with rape.' This book is a must read for all those who want to understand who we are and in which world we are living in. ![]() The Name of the Wind (Kingkiller Chronicles, Day 1) $16.00 I have read this book and decided that this is the most well written, thought out, put together, dramatic, easy to follow, interesting book I have read in a while. I was a great fan of the Night Angel Trilogy and I still am, yet this book takes precedence over that trilogy! Hand down the best book I have read, did I mention that already? Sorry... Pat Rothfuss has really done a service with this book! I met him at a book signing recently and he is a very interesting, somewhat eccetric person. He has a style all his own really! I cant wait for the next books to release! But good things come to those who wait, and I have absolute faith that the time taken to perfect his next novel will be a great treat for us all! In the meantime, I plan to just re read this book! :-) |
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