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Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News. 2, 2021 talk was co-sponsored by Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute, the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Center for Research on Social Change, the Center for Race and Gender and the American Cultures Center.
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Dead lions book review6/6/2023 That novelette The List, which comes in between the second and third complete novels, Dead Lions and Real Tigers, is an engaging read on its own. Although he wasn’t convinced it had been better, the Cold War had been more respectable. The fact that Bachelor served in the secret service during a period when half of the people revealed their personal lives online occasionally amused him, but it also occasionally depressed him. The Jackson Lamb Thrillers have grown to be international successes, and John Murray (UK) has just re-released them with brand-new, ominous “spooky” cover art. Years have passed Book 5 will be released in the middle of 2018 and Book 6 is now being written. I am terrible at reading a series, but I promised myself this would be an exception because the idea, the characters, and Herron’s excellent style made it impossible to continue religiously from that point on. This book was a perfect fit for me because I’m an unapologetic lover of the British TV show Spooks and enjoy dark humour. When Soho Crime initially published Mick Herron’s Dead Lions (Book 2 of the Jackson Lamb Thriller) in the US in 2013, I had the pleasure of reading it.
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The tree poem by robert frost6/6/2023 At times he seems to listen to and accept the wisdom of the trees, imitating their movement and feeling at peace in his home. The speaker has a curious nature, he seems torn between listening to the advice of the trees - he interprets the noise they make as they are buffeted by the wind as saying that he should remain fixed and grow strong in his home, his ‘dwelling place’. One day when they are ‘in voice’ and tossing around, as if to scare the white clouds above them to move on, he will have less to say than them, but at least he will be gone. He says he will not stay put like them: ‘I shall set forth somewhere’, he won’t stay confined in the comforts of his own home but instead make ‘the reckless choice’ and travel or move to a different place. He sways like a tree, his head resting on his shoulder, imitating their posture and movement. The speaker then switches back to himself, he says that sometimes when he watches the trees sway from the window or door of his house, his ‘feet tug at the floor’ - he also becomes rooted to the spot. As they grow older, they also grow wiser, and they keep talking - they also wish to stay in the same place once they mature. The trees talk of going (leaving), but they never get away themselves. Why are humans happy to put up with the constant noise of trees, more than other noises, so close to their homes? We put up with them all day until we have no sense of what joyful task we were doing, and instead we just sit and listen to the noise of the trees. The speaker tells us that the trees make him think.
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Atlas shrugged author6/6/2023 Set in America in a non-descript time – they had telephones and TV, but limited air travel and still some steam trains – the characters in the book we follow, are ‘get-up and go’ type people. Taken to its extreme it can have devastating effects, as Atlas Shrugged showed. It was Original sin, which according to the Christian Church, we are all born with. Actually, it was when I was nearly at the end of the novel that she mentioned what the book was really about. My take on what happened in the book was more about the discouragement of people with ideas and incentive, and an encouragement of mediocrity and laziness. But on reading the book I am not so sure that Ayn Rand was against communism. Well that is what I remember hearing when it was first released. There were a lot of similarities in the book to the times we were currently going through.įirst published in 1957, Ayn Rand was noted for her intolerance for communism. The lady who wrote the article was right. When a few weeks ago, while reading an article in the Business Section of the newspaper where the writer said we were living in similar times to Atlas Shrugged, I remembered I had the book, in a box set of Ayn Rand’s novels, so decided to read it.Īs it turned out it was the perfect book to read during isolation because of the COVID pandemic. So long ago that I had forgotten what the story was about. It is many years since I have read this book.
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Kate raworth's doughnut economics6/6/2023 The Doughnut is an attempt to provide such a compass. Nobel economists Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz and 23 other leading economists concluded that "those attempting to guide the economy and our society are like pilots trying to steer a course without a reliable compass". It is normally represented by the Gross Domestic Product, despite the very partial picture this provides of the whole. She also reflects on the power of images.īy the end of the 1950s, output growth had become the overriding economic policy objective in industrial countries, with the concept of utility at its heart. Contents Who wants to be an Economist? įrom the frustrations of students who don't find the answers in their taught courses, Raworth recounts some of her own experiences, from university to working in Zambia, writing the Human Development Report at the UN and deciding to start by looking at economics by its goals rather than its mechanisms.
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Most importantly they can miss out on the joy and stimulation from stories and storytelling. When a child or young person is not able to be read with confidence, it can affect how they engage in all aspects of their education. Research shows that children in out-of-home care are struggling to reach minimum national literacy benchmarks and they need support and intervention to bridge this worrying gap. All children are entitled to an education, the foundation of which is literacy and the joy and benefits of reading. It is how we connect to our culture from birth, find escape and explore and develop our imagination. Reading to children of any age is one of the most powerful things you can do for them.
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History of the 1619 project6/5/2023 These lectures and essays counter today’s deep intellectual, social, and cultural crisis, manifested in the racialist theorizing of the NY Times’ 1619 Project, with the struggle for objective truth upon which the unity of the working class is based. McPherson, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, and Clayborne Carson. The book elaborates American history through lectures, essays, and interviews with eminent historians Gordon Wood, James M. The Project denigrated the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War, ignored the struggle for labor and civil rights in the twentieth century, and entirely omitted the role of abolitionists, of Frederick Douglass, and of Martin Luther King. The New York Times’ 1619 Project, launched in August 2019, mobilized vast editorial and financial resources to portray racial conflict as the central driving force of American history. The only comprehensive left-wing critique of the 1619 Project, featuring essays and interviews with prominent scholars of American history and writers for the World Socialist Web Site.
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Sector Eight by Michael Atamanov6/5/2023 (LitRPG Stories from Bestselling Authors) Game Changer (Reality Benders Book #3) LitRPG series Stay on the Wing (The Dark Herbalist Book #2)Ī Trap for the Potentate (The Dark Herbalist Book #3)Įxternal Threat (Reality Benders Book #2) LitRPG series Video Game Plotline Tester (The Dark Herbalist Book #1) Sector Eight (Perimeter Defense: Book #1)Ī Game with No Rules (Perimeter Defense Book #4) Servobattalion (Expansion: The History of the Galaxy Book #3) Re-Start (Level Up Book #1) LitRPG SeriesĪ Song of Shadow (The Bard from Barliona Book #2) LitRPG series Kingdom of the Dead (An NPC’s Path Book #2) LitRPG series The Dead Rogue (An NPC’s Path Book #1) LitRPG Series God Mode (AlterGame Book #3) LitRPG Series More LitRPG stories set in your favorite worlds! Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.Īny correlation with real people or events is coincidental. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. English translation copyright © Andrew Schmitt 2018
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He was especially excited about the take-home project, how to play finger football and shocked by the silence is golden day where there is no speaking.Īt the beginning of the book, Ellie’s best friend Mo gets Ellie to try out for the soccer team, she isn’t the sporty type but she does it for her friend we liked the friendship aspect and how Ellie was willing to try something out of her comfort zone.Įllie McDoodle:Most Valuable Player is a great book about teamwork and learning to understand that you can’t always be the best at everything. I didn’t think my son would show interest in this series initially because it is about a girl and they are still a pretty gross species to my nine year-old and he is still of the mindset that boys stick with boys things and girls with girls so I was pleasantly surprised by his keen interest. My nine year old son recently read Ellie McDoodle:Have Pen Will Travel so he was quite excited when we received a copy of Ellie McDoodle:Most Valuable Player, especially since soccer is one of his favourite team sports.
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