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		<title>Man and Animals-Yuri Dmitriyev</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in Moscow by Raduga in 1984, translated from the Russian into English by Raissa Bobrova, &#8220;Man and Animals&#8221; is an out-of-print book on man&#8217;s relationship with animals through the ages. I recently spotted the unforgettable cover featuring a giraffe, a sea serpent or kraken, a mythical Arabian Nights type bird (Rukh) carrying an elephant, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=105&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Polemics and religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dinesh D&#039;Souza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr.Zakir Naik]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; I am sure there are innumerable zealots but I would like to focus on a Muslim gentleman called Dr.Zakir Naik and a Christian writer named Dinesh D&#8217;Souza; while both these men are more or less equally despicable for their religious dogma, the former has a more modest aim of altering current perceptions about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=88&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drain Pig And The Glow Boys In Critical Mess &#8211; Dan Pearce</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drain Pig is the first and most memorable graphic novel I have ever read and oddly, one nobody has even heard about. When my father delivered it into my hands after chancing upon it in a used book stall in Fountain, Bombay, the black and white cover of the squint eyed porker jutting out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=71&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth</title>
		<link>http://saintelmosfire.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/sacred-hunger-by-barry-unsworth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Barry Unsworth’s epic tale of greed and suffering centers around two men in the eighteenth century- Matthew Paris, a doctor aboard The Liverpool Merchant- a slave ship bound for America and his cousin, Erasmus Kemp, landlocked in a Victorian romance that eventually leads to the latter’s emotional downfall. Through The Merchant, the author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=55&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trick Or Treat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Halloween. With four days left for the United States Presidential election, anyone can surmise that unless something goes drastically wrong, the conservative right will lose the race. It is evident from the speeches on television that the Republican Party is beginning to feel increasingly desperate. After all, McCain has been outspent and out-endorsed. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=34&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering MISHA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1980s, Misha (which translates to bear in Russian) was the most popular children&#8217;s magazine in India published in English. Within its glossy pages, you were treated to folk tales, science fiction, riddles, photographs, pen pal sections, puzzles and illustrations. As an added bonus, it smelled awfully good. Unfortunately the collapse of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=20&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cairo Trilogy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palace Walk (1917-1919) We are introduced to Al Sayyid Ahmad Abd Al Jawad, a conservative patriarch and his family-Amina, the subservient wife who doesn&#8217;t dare lift her eyes to her husband despite his debaucheries and iron rule that keeps her in house arrest. Fahmy, the law student whose nationalistic fervor makes him stand up against [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=16&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something To Answer For by P.H.Newby</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohufish</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This out of print novel by P.H.Newby, was the first book to win the prestigious booker prize. After a brief search on Google, I found a few sites that were selling it for around $250. Much as I wanted to read it, I couldn&#8217;t find it in my paltry stipend to provide for such steeply [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=saintelmosfire.wordpress.com&amp;blog=703501&amp;post=12&amp;subd=saintelmosfire&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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