![]() ![]() ![]() Done by a few prominent scientists (and without going into the details) the study sowed in me if not doubt then some very good reasons to reevaluate my knowledge and understanding of human consciousness and brain physiology. I still yearn to uncover the reasons behind its results. I don’t tend to accept theories lightly, but this book exposed me to a double-blind study done by SPR in the early part of the twentieth century that still occupies my mind. Their foundation was further fortified by my believe in the theories of evolution and the development of human societies as defined by the works of Darwin and Diamond. For the longest time I found support for my existential convictions in the works of Camus, Sartre and Nietzsche. ![]() One reason may have been my enormous respect for the works of the father of American psychology William James who presided over the SPR from 1894 to 1895.Īnyone who read my second book on the meaning of existence will understand the my current dilemma. ![]() I have to admit this book excited my interests in the studies performed by the Society for Psychical Research (The SPR’s former presidents’ list reads like the Who’s Who in Science). ![]()
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![]() She was the guest editor of the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing, a finalist for the 2014 Royal Society Winton Prize, and a winner of the American Engineering Societies' Engineering Journalism Award, in a category for which, let's be honest, she was the sole entrant. Her 2009 TED talk made the organization's 2011 Twenty Most-Watched To Date list. She serves as a member of the Mars Institute's Advisory Board and the Usage Panel of American Heritage Dictionary. Mary has written for National Geographic, Wired, Discover, New Scientist, the Journal of Clinical Anatomy, and Outside, among others. ![]() ![]() Mary Roach is the author of the New York Times bestsellers STIFF: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers GULP: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, PACKING FOR MARS: The Curious Science of Life in the Void BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex and GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War. Mary Roach is a science author who specializes in the bizarre and offbeat with a body of work ranging from deep-dives on the history of human cadavers to the science of the human anatomy during warfare. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What makes Lamott so compelling is that all of her advice comes not from the ivory tower of the pantheon but from an honest place of exquisite vulnerability and hard-earned life-wisdom. (Available as a print and as a face mask.) One of trailblazing 18th-century artist George Edwards’s natural history illustrations. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around. One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. ![]() Lamott adds to the collected wisdom of great writers with equal parts candor and conviction, teaching us as much about writing as she does about creativity at large and, even beyond that, about being human and living a full life - because, after all, as Lamott notes in the beginning, writing is nothing more nor less than a sensemaking mechanism for life: ![]() Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life ( public library) is among my ten favorite books on writing - a treasure trove of insight both practical and profound, timelessly revisitable and yielding deeper resonance each time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riots are erupting across the city as citizens demand justice for Freddie Gray, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who has died under suspicious circumstances while in police custody. "A work of journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police unit but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster that is the American drug war."-David Simonīaltimore, 2015. ![]() NOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE PELECANOS NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" ( The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city ![]() ![]() ![]() This tale narrated by its two main characters, Alejandro Fuentes and Brittany Ellis.īrittany Ellis is a typical high school student living in the wealthy north side of suburban Chicago. This is the tale of two seemingly different teenagers from two very different worlds on the north and south sides of suburban Chicago. Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles is a new and interesting take on the phrase opposites attract. In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.Ģ010 RITA Winner for Best Young Adult Romance ![]() But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more. ![]() So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she’s worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I re-read the issues from back then during the course of this Major’s Body project. Perhaps you’ll recall my ambivalence towards the nudity and sexually charged content in Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell, at this point my only experience of the franchise. Oh boy, some actual Ghost in the Shell manga in my bumpkin town comic shop?! The cover (above left) didn’t feature the character design I recognised as the Major, but that’s no big problem, right? Woman-fetish wise, it’s not quantifiably worse than the average Big Two cover of the time. Issue two of Man-Machine Interface, published in English in the early 2000s by Dark Horse after the 1991-onward six-year serialisation in Japanese by Young Magazine, was the first piece of Shirow Masamune’s cartooning I chanced upon. This is part seven of a pan-franchise series (find previous parts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ). If you care to google, “Motoko Kusanagi is “ autocompletes to “a man” and “is hot,” then “in bed with a boy” and “in bed.” For a science-fiction philosophy character named for her military position, we (the audience - although I don’t limit this to those who have experienced the fiction, as the Major is iconic) sure are caught up in thinking about her gender and sexual status. The Major, or Motoko Kusanagi, is the protagonist of each incarnation of the Ghost in the Shell manga-anime-merchadise franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.Īibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Narrator: First-person from the perspectives of Aibileen, Minny, and Miss Skeeterīook Summary: The Help by Kathryn Stockett Hypocrisy, Writing, Storytelling, and Freedom Setting Place: Jackson, Mississippi 1962 through 1964 Major Characters: Constantine Bates, Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, Aibileen Clark, Minny Jackson, Hilly Holbrook, Elizabeth Leefolt, Celia Foote, Stuart Whitworth, Mae Mobley Leefolt, Leroy Jackson, Elaine Stein, Yule May Crookle, Johnny Foote, William Holbrook, Senator “Stoolie” Whitworth, Pascagoula, Treelore Clark ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Within the text of Olive’s best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him. She’s traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal-an experience that shocks him to his core. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. “One of finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” - The New York TimesĮdwin St. One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Felker-Martin’s critical eye manifests gleefully in her fiction as she dares you to turn away but compels you to keep looking. In the year leading up to her debut, she has written about the importance of confronting the horrors of sexual abuse and “the deployment of victimhood as an unimpeachable defense,” all around laying the groundwork for the understanding that art does not harm people - people harm people. Released the same week that Texas Governor Greg Abbott called for citizens to report the families of transgender children and Vladimir Putin’s forces invaded Ukraine - and just two months after Parul Sehgal made “The Case Against the Trauma Plot” in The New Yorker - Felker-Martin’s horror novel cunningly weaves trans determinism, war, and trauma together in an effort to locate joy, empathy, and pleasure in a world on fire.įelker-Martin is a fierce defender of transgressive fiction against the brand of puritan neoliberalism that seeks to limit the genre by leveraging the language of harm, autonomy, and consent. ![]() FEW NOVELS ARRIVE so perfectly in tandem with their moment of release, but Manhunt, the debut novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, is not like other novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() IT IS A VIOLATION PUNISHABLE UNDER LAW FOR ANY PERSON UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE TO PRESENT ANY WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF AGE WHICH IS FALSE, FRAUDULENT OR NOT ACTUALLY HIS/HER OWN FOR THE PURPOSE OF ATTEMPTING TO PURCHASE ANY ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE. 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