[bksvol-discuss] Re: Submitted: In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India

  • From: "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:57:48 -0400

Is the copy of In Spite of the Gods better than the one added to the collection recently?


E.


At 05:27 PM 10/15/2007, you wrote:
Submitted for validation:

In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India -- 2007



Spellchecked very carefully, many Indian names, should not need spell checking.

Headers removed.

Blank pages labelled and numbered.

A burgeoning economic and geopolitical giant, India has the 21st century stamped on it more visibly than any other nation after China and the U.S. It's been an expanding force since at least 1991, explains journalist Luce, when India let go of much of the protectionist apparatus devised under Nehru after independence in 1947 from Britain, as part of a philosophy of swadeshi (or self-reliance) that's still relevant in India's multiparty democracy. From his vantage as the (now former) Financial Times's South Asia bureau chief, Luce illuminates the drastically lopsided features of a nuclear power still burdened by mass poverty and illiteracy, which he links in part to government control of the economy, an overwhelmingly rural landscape, and deep-seated institutional corruption. While describing religion's complex role in Indian society, Luce emphasizes an extremely heterogeneous country with a growing consumerist culture, a geographically uneven labor force and an enduring caste system.

Jim Nuttall--Michigan

----- Original Message ----
From: Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 5:04:20 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names

I don't know if it will affect the pronunciation of the Daisy version or
not, nor do I know how the Braille translator will handle it. I am simply
trying to keep what is in the book. I guess I'll just have to see what
happens to the Ø - in the Braille version anyway, since I don't use the
Daisy one - when it gets added to the collection. I can at least say that my
JAWS doesn't seem to pronounce anything differently when I use that Ø
compared to a word with the normal O.

Evan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 9:48 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names


> Do I assume that when corrections like this are made, they will affect the
> pronunciation in the DAISY format but will simply be ignored or attempted
> to be verbalized in braille (such as when we see "greater than" written
> out?) This leads to an additional question; how is a book in the
> collection downloaded in order to see the print?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 12:17 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
>
>
>> Thanks, this is excellent! I can just use a global replace to correct
>> these names. The Ø didn't scan quite right, so that's why I needed to
>> find out what it was so I could fix them up.
>>
>> My version of MS Word won't give me that using the alt-shift-o, but I can
>> use the alt-0216 method to accomplish the same thing.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Evan
>>
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>> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:57 PM
>> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Question About a Special Character in Names
>>
>>
>>> I don't know what it's called, but I have it in my
>>> Symbols under the Insert MEnu in Word. I've pasted it
>>> below. If it came out maybe you can copy and paste. It
>>> can be made by keystrokes, at least on my keyboard, by
>>> combining Alt shift o, i.e., alt capital o.
>>>
>>> Ø
>>>
>>> Hope that works for you.
>>>
>>> Cindy
>>>
>>> -
>>>
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