© 1999-2009 Shopping.com, Inc. This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-zhulin Recent reviews written by member zhulin en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_479880646276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - For the eighteenth book in the now well-established (in fact, declining sales-wise) Politically Incorrect Guide series, Regnery Publishing takes on the conventional wisdom of the 1960s as a decade of radicalism. Jonathan Leaf instead argues... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~479880646276 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:51:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_479880646276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469775322756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - In recent years, largely because of the fact that I have become more experienced with reading music criticism, there have been fewer records old or new that have seriously excited me. Realising as I do now from reading amateur as well as professional... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469775322756 Sat, 9 May 2009 04:18:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469775322756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_469680754308?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - It was the purest accident that I discovered Spires That in the Sunset Rise during one of my increasingly rare browsings of Amazon. I was merely curious at first especially after being unable to find any information, but after a listen to the three... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~469680754308 Fri, 8 May 2009 09:56:21 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_469680754308?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403392335492?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Although it is only very recently that I have become obsessed (as I am wont to do with anything I take a serious interest in) with the Politically Incorrect Guides series, I have recollections of The Politically Incorrect Guide to... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403392335492 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:22:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403392335492?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_403249467012?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - The Politically Incorrect Guides series, often abbreviated to P.I.G. and symbolised by a pig in a circle at the top of every book) is the reaction of the conservative Regnery Press to supposed extreme bias in American academia. The first... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~403249467012 Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:34:47 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_403249467012?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_319964548740?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Essra Mohawk (born Sandy Hurvitz) is best-known for writing Cyndi Lauper's 1987 hit single "Change of Heart". However, as with than the much better-known Laura Nyro, she has had a significant career with her own recordings. However, in the case of... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~319964548740 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:25:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_319964548740?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_319928307332?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Hejira was a hard act to follow. Its sparse sound managed to, even with little besides Mitchell's acoustic guitar, to move in a remarkable manner beyond the folk of her early albums and achieved an sound that literally moved in its own universe -... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~319928307332 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 09:56:08 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_319928307332?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_282887622276?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Having been interested in the Luddites and the struggle against the Industrial Revolution owing to my knowledge of the seemingly fatal contradictions in an industrial society (such as its dependence on extremely infertile land for basic resources), I... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~282887622276 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:19:40 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_282887622276?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_276687588996?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Having been recommended this book as a result of reading on amazon, I was curious to see really what a person who describes himself as a "reactionary radical" or "front porch anarchist" would mean. Whilst myself as a person prone both to romanticising... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~276687588996 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:22:32 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_276687588996?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_269115362948?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - After their unclassifiable but brilliant free-form folk-jazz album Third Ear Band (also known as Elements), the lineup of oboist Paul Minns, violin and viola player Richard Coff, cellist Ursula Smith and percussionist Glenn Sweeney turned... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~269115362948 Sun, 22 Oct 2006 10:46:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_269115362948?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_260595814020?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - First coming together in the late 1960s and united by a shared interest in jazz and Dylan lyrics, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker, as Steely Dan, made some of the most popular music of the 1970s, to reaction ranging from adoration to hatred from the music... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~260595814020 Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:36:31 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_260595814020?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250663308932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Although often classified as a progressive or even a psychedelic rock group, the Third Ear Band were only so classified because of their association with such groups as Pink Floyd and King Crimson who shared the same management. In fact, their music,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250663308932 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 22:32:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250663308932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250507792004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - For many years, the radical Anabaptist sects inhabiting various areas of North America as emigrants from a hostile society in Europe have held my fascination. Today, their ability to maintain traditional family and agricultural life at a time when... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250507792004 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:23:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250507792004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_250119097988?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - When I read Phillip Longman's impressive The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threated World Prosperity and What To Do About It, I was recommended Fewer: How the New Demography of Depopulation Will Shape Our Future, even though it had... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~250119097988 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:56:56 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_250119097988?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_244998573700?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Although ever since I have become aware of the problems that much of Europe, Asia and increasingly the Americas are facing in below replacement fertility rates, I knew of Barren States: The Population Implosion In Europe (indeed, I saw an... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~244998573700 Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:49:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_244998573700?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_227157905028?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - While in my earliest years of university, I found from my mother's book collection Elizabeth Gould Davis' 1971 book The First Sex. Given my assumption before reading the book that men had always been the leaders of society and never and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~227157905028 Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:15:19 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_227157905028?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_191922998916?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - The subject of transport policy and what governs it has been an (at times unhealthy because of my tendency to rant loudly with no thought for others) obsession with me ever since the Kennett Government wasted several billion dollars on freeways I had... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~191922998916 Wed, 3 Aug 2005 22:01:09 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_191922998916?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_190844341892?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - So many studies of women in native and traditional cultures are severely flawed by seemingly ideological attempts to portray these societies as illustrating either the absolute universality of patriarchy or the decline in the status of women since... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~190844341892 Fri, 29 Jul 2005 03:54:06 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_190844341892?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_181440908932?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - Cruel Sister was the fourth album by supposed "supergroup" Pentangle, who had formed in 1967 at the height of the folk revival. Their first three albums had shown the band, at times a little directionless at first, to develop a quite different... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~181440908932 Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:18:39 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_181440908932?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_172642373252?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - In the past, settlers aiming to farm previously unplowed land for the first time have believed that they can make the climate more favourable for agricultural development through planting trees or exposing moisture to the atmosphere through plowing the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~172642373252 Tue, 8 Feb 2005 00:11:17 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_172642373252?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_172541185668?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - In The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity And What to Do About It economist Philip Longman offers an argument that is bound to be controversial: that the existence of a prosperous society is likely to be threatened in... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~172541185668 Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:48:25 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_172541185668?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_168529268356?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - A River No More: The Colorado River and the West aims to show how the Colorado River has been turned from a wild, temptuous river to the most regulated and overused stream the world has ever known. Philip L. Fradkin writes the whole story from... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~168529268356 Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:35:30 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_168529268356?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161283608196?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - [I had, in my flirting through the web (basically playing) seen this book several months ago, and was just curious as to what it really said even though I have no inclination to believe the religious right on any issue. It was only when I saw Killer... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161283608196 Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:28:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161283608196?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_160153243268?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - The Iroquois Indians of the northeast of North America have been for many years a cherished subject for many feminists owing to their unusual social structure, first analysed by Henry Lewis Morgan in the 1850s and 1860s. Despite considerable evidence... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~160153243268 Mon, 1 Nov 2004 02:50:59 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_160153243268?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_155407388292?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author zhulin - In a period when there have been a great many conflicts over gender roles in human society, with views ranging a full spectrum from the "matriarchal paradise" of Elizabeth Gould Davis' The First Sex and Marija Gimbutas' Age Of The Great... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~155407388292 Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:03:18 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_155407388292?linkin_id=8003929