![]() ![]() ![]() In her new work, a ‘manifesto’ for independent publishing, Hawthorne considers the publishing industry within its international social context and finds a similar state of affairs and set of requirements for change: the publishing industry is dominated by ‘global megacorp’ publishers who are determined to maximise profit at the expense of small and localised producers, who must fight back by advancing … not biodiversity in this case but bibliodiversity.īibliodiversity, an ideal scenario comparable to Habermas’ ‘public sphere’, is ‘a complex self-sustaining system of story-telling, writing, publishing and other kinds of production of orature and literature. In that book Hawthorne put the case for new ways of thinking and acting to protect and encourage biodiversity in the face of homogenising corporate globalisation. 2002 I attended the launch of Susan Hawthorne’s Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity and later used it as an economics text. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega. The roster of Roberts’ friends and acquaintances reads like a Who’s Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Roberts, in fact, seemed to be a prodigy of criminality – but one with a remarkable self-awareness and a fierce desire to protect his son from following the same path.Īmerican Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become - at age 22 - one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel’s most effective smuggler. As Wright’s tape recorder whirred and Roberts unburdened himself of hundreds of jaw-dropping tales, it became clear that perhaps no one in history had broken so many laws with such willful abandon. Those conversations would last three years, during which time Wright came to realize that Roberts was much more than the de-facto “transportation chief” of the Medellin Cartel during the 1980s, much more than a facilitator of a national drug epidemic. ![]() In 2008 veteran journalist Evan Wright, acclaimed for his New York Times best-selling book Generation Kill and co-writer of the Emmy-winning HBO series it spawned, began a series of conversations with super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the fabulously successful documentary Cocaine Cowboys. ![]() ![]() ![]() According to the group, "The Deep" is an homage to Acid/Techno duo Drexciya, residing in the same mythological universe created for their music: "All of their records refer to a utopian underwater civilization founded by African mothers thrown overboard from slave ships. ![]() Show producer Neil Drumming also commissioned a song for the episode called “The Deep” from hip-hop group Clipping. In 2017, Chicago Public Radio program This American Life aired an episode called “We Are in the Future” dealing with Afrofuturism, a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science and philosophy of history that explores the developing intersection of African diaspora culture with technology. It won the Lambda Literary Award, and was nominated for Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. ![]() The book was developed from a song of the same name by Clipping, an experimental hip-hop trio. It depicts an underwater society built by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard from slave ships. The Deep is a 2019 fantasy book by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. ![]() ![]() Christopher Paolini, the author of The Inheritance Cycle and the short story collection The Fork, The Witch, and The Worm, will be releasing his first adult novel this fall. ![]() ![]() There is not a specific release date for book 5. He claims that they're not paying a fair price for the grain they've got to sell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vesalio, a Belgian guy at the service of the Spanish Empire, more specifically, at the service of King Charles I and King Philip II of Spain, decided it was a nonsense, and introduced the fashion of only one person cutting the body while explaining their actions and adapting the book-ish information to real life. As a result, students got into a mess and understood little to nothing about what they were seeing. The funny thing is, when Physicians taught in the universities, they used to read a book while a different person with no theoretical basis opened the human body in the autopsies. Physicians had a higher status whereas Surgeons were just carpenters of bones. On the other hand, Surgeons disregarded Physicians because they were theoretical pricks who very rarely touched a body and knew nothing about how to amputate a leg. Physicians looked down on Surgeons because they knew no Latin or Greek and studied nothing from books, as most of them were illiterate, so their experience was gained from real patients in battlefields and boats. The science part is just anecdotical but I was thrilled when they talked about important historic discoveries or about German anatomy books (has that last thing really changed?).Ībove all, I liked seeing how Surgeons and Physicians were still separated. But I surely enjoy m/m romances, and a good historical one is difficult to find. ![]() Ok, I wouldn't have liked this book so much if it were a boring essay. I may sound like a freak but one of the reasons I loved this book so much was the medical stuff! ![]() ![]() Its fundamental thesis was "wolves are okay," and that badly needed saying at the time. As such, it probably succeeded: it sank deep into the public consciousness of wolves, and surely helped the great turnaround of the wolf's image in the western world. If I remember correctly from reading a long-ago interview with him, Mowat fully intended his book to be pro-wolf propaganda. This was in the early 1960's, when a lot of people were bent on systematically eradicating the wolf as a species. Mowat knew a lot about life in the Arctic, but he didn't know much about wolves. And quite a lot of it is, at least in terms of factual accuracy, horseshit. Let's get one thing straight: Never Cry Wolf is fiction. ![]() I hate it's made up from start to finish, yet the tagline on the cover says, "The incredible true story of life among Arctic wolves." I love it because I love wolves and this is a well-written, entertaining story about wolves. ![]() ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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She cooked a small mountain of artichoke dip. Still, my mother persevered, awash in the delusion that I had kept my popularity secret from her all these years. ![]() Although I was more or less forced to invite all my “school friends,” i.e., the ragtag bunch of drama people and English geeks I sat with by social necessity in the cavernous cafeteria of my public school, I knew they wouldn’t come. To say that I had low expectations would be to underestimate the matter dramatically. THE WEEK BEFORE I left my family and Florida and the rest of my minor life to go to boarding school in Alabama, my mother insisted on throwing me a going-away party. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s a sweet story of a Black family and community - and the mother who looks to them as role models. The mother narrating the book sees some of the same qualities in her child, and in other instances wonders if her child will be like them. Jess finds beauty wherever she goes, and auntie loves adventure. The child’s brother is contemplative, observant. For instance, Daddy has “loving kindness” in his eyes. With pen and digitally colored illustrations in simple shapes and uncluttered spaces, the narrator speaks directly to her child: “My child, my little one, who will you be when you are grown?” From there, she thinks about and presents family members and friends and the traits each has that makes them special. Today, I’ve got some spreads from Andrea Pippins’s Who Will You Be?, released back in April by Schwartz & Wade, in which a parent wonders who her child will grow up to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Intentionally and successfully inspiring." - Kirkus Reviews ![]() So she stood up for the rights of workers, especially girls and women-and she won, changing the way factory workers were treated in America forever!Ĭomplete with an introduction from Chelsea Clinton, black-and-white illustrations throughout, and a list of ways that readers can follow in Clara Lemlich's footsteps and make a difference! A perfect choice for kids who love learning and teachers who want to bring inspiring women into their curriculum.Īnd don’t miss out on the rest of the books in the She Persisted series, featuring so many more women who persisted, including Nellie Bly, Sonia Sotomayor, and more! She started working in clothing factories on the Lower East Side, only to realize that workers were being treated unfairly. In this chapter book biography by award-winning author Deborah Heiligman, readers learn about the amazing life of Clara Lemlich-and how she persisted.Ĭlara Lemlich immigrated to New York to escape danger in Ukraine, where she was born. Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who stood up, spoke up and rose up against the odds-including Clara Lemlich! ![]() |