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Ashley Thorfinnson sahar_ghaheri — When thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Tilley and her parents board the Mayflower in 1620, they have high hopes for a better life in the New World. Although they are not Puritan Separatists like many of the passengers, the Tilleys have few economic opportunities in England. But after a long and difficult sea voyage, the Mayflower arrives in Cape Cod in the dead of winter. On deck one night, Elizabeth sees Dorothy Bradford, one of the other passengers, standing by the railing, but tells no one. The next morning, Dorothy has disappeared, presumed drowned. Elizabeth feels terrible guilt and is determined to hide her secret, fearing blame. Soon after, both of Elizabeth's parents die from disease. Elizabeth feels all alone, without family and with few friends, and burdened by the terrible secret she hides. This was a good historical novel about the voyage on the Mayflower and the settling of Plymouth colony. Elizabeth Tilley was a real passenger on the Mayflower, and the authors did a good job at imagining what her life might have been like in the first years of the colony. I would recommend this book to young readers who enjoy stories about Colonial America and the Pilgrims.

нямхүү баатарчулуун _inie_ne — This was one of the 2005 RUSA Notable Books winners. For the complete list, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/rus...

David Anjichi anjichi — I'm hesitant to recommend Mark Duffield's book because it is fairly dense and slow-going. But if you have the willpower and the time, it's undoubtedly worth it, especially the first half (and if you're interested in goings-on in Sudan, also the last half). Duffield takes on the project of attempting to articulate and critique the new configurations and apparatuses of power being brought together by NGOs, IGOs (inter-governmental organizations), corporations, states, and new forms of 'legitimate' force and authority, including paramilitaries and for-hire military contractors. All these come together to form what Duffield calls 'the complex of global liberal governance,' aiming to create 'liberal peace,' by which he means a certain level of 'stability' and 'development' as outlined by U.S. and European government/aid agency policy. Some of the main results of liberal peace include the blurring of traditional government, military, and civilian lines, as well as of the distinction between times of war and times of 'peace'. Duffield certainly levels criticism at all of this, but he focuses his critique on the policy of aid agencies, for numerous reasons: their inability to see themselves as part of a political complex, both in their home country and in the country of operation, rather than as some entity merely in-putting economic wealth; their movement to a consequentialist ethics, focused on outcomes rather than actions, effectively approving and normalising violence, if a greater gain can be had from it; and a general inability to divorce themselves from military discourse, evidenced by facts such as that 'development' agencies now speak in terms of 'security,' and aim not so much to help people as to create a certain level of economic stability to prevent 'outright' war, ignoring other social needs and injustices. He demonstrates some of how this happens through a case study of Sudan (he was a lead director for an NGO working in Sudan for a number of years before beginning his research), showing the inability of aid agencies through nearly 20 years of work to actually effectively help the Dinka people. I'm still trying to sort out the sheer amount of information that I received from this book; I can sort of feel it altering my conception of the world, a drop at a time, as it seeps through. It's a little sad that I have absolutely no will to re-read it because it took me so long to slog through it the first time. Maybe some day...

Charles Charles charleschaneco — My cousin- he's amazing.