![]() unless they're organic, in which case they're fertilized with feces. I mean, his whole claim that eating cows and chickens is bad because the animals are injected with hormones and antibiotics? Well, dude, you're probably right, but let's not forget that your prized vegetables are doused in pesticides. Though Jerker never gets too douchebaggy about his diet, he does get irritating. And while I do buy into Jurek's plant-based diet thing, it's really not going to stand between me and my weekly cheeseburger. I don't really care about a book that's nothing more than an ongoing list of Jurek's trail-running triumphs, broken up by the occasionally interesting vegan recipe. ![]() But you'll need the willpower of an ultra marathoner to get through this one.and getting the to last page will probably feel like crossing the finish line in a 100-mile ultra, too. He's a great runner and he just seems like a really nice guy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I knew a lot about the movement in the U.K., US and Germany in the lead up to WW2, but this book shocked me because I had no idea that forced sterilisations were still happening in the 1960s and 70s. I’ve been interested in eugenics since I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on disability and 20th Century literature. This writer pulled me in from the very first page and Civil was as real to me as my poor other half. I was three quarters of the way through the book and even went to bed early so I could finish the story. In fact I loved it so much that my other half kept asking whether I was ok and I couldn’t understand why, until I looked at the clock and three hours had gone past without me speaking. I tell this story to stitch their names inside your clothes, too.” Their names are stitched inside every white coat I have ever worn. “A year never passes without me thinking of them. ![]() ![]() Additionally, Wendy’s reaction to becoming a mother displays the commonly-held assumptions of childhood literature. ![]() This text genders activities of young boys and girls and perpetuates certain stereotypes regarding male and female interests and tastes (Nodelman and Reimer 87). Here, Wendy’s character is defined as a woman through her tendency to act under femininity and the traditional role of motherhood, thus confining her to stereotypical gender roles. This displays how the social structure between men and women in Neverland is the same as London. However, upon arriving in Neverland he tells the Lost Boys “I have brought at last a mother for you all” (Barrie 95). When Peter Pan initially meets Wendy he lures her to Neverland, a place filled with magic and enchantment, where adult law does not exist. The representation of female moral development in Peter Pan illustrates commonly-held assumptions about childhood literature. This is seen through the representation of motherhood, boyhood, and female relationships which are used to socially shape children and transcribe them with morals and values that adults see fit. The representation of childhood is evident in Chapter six of Peter and Wendy which both illustrates and challenges commonly held assumptions about childhood and gender. ![]() This literature follows a common theme of children’s writing as it sets up the child as an outsider to its own process and then unashamedly takes the child in (Rose 2). Barrie’s Peter and Wendy tells the story of an idealistic island for young children filled with mermaids and fairies. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are looking for some buddies to share experiences while you read, then please join in (formally the Saunders group read goes through Dec., but discussions will continue beyond). The Goodreads Sword and Sorcery group honored his memory with a groupread, catalyzing this post. Over the years, Black Gate has reviewed the entire Imaro series and the book of associated stories called Nyumabi Tales (see list). Saunders also wrote of a heroine named Dossouye (separate series), amongst other characters. Saunders is most known for his Imaro tales chronicling an African-inspired “Conan the Barbarian” on the fictional continent of Nyumbani. Saunders, the originator of Sword & Soul, passed away May this year (2020, Greg Mele covered a tribute for Black Gate). ![]() “Who am I? Who is my father? Where is my mother? Why do death and demons follow me wherever I go?” – Imaro in The Quest for CushĬharles R. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The game also didn’t have much content to begin with. And it only succeeded in making game-play complicated and uncomfortable. Released for the Xbox360 and PS3 consoles, Tony Hawk’s Ride discarded traditional controllers to focus on a skateboard peripheral that lets you move your skater by balancing yourself on it.įrankly put, it didn’t work. ![]() And to some people, the beginning of the end. One of the elements that prompted Tony Hawk’s fade into irrelevancy was developer Robomodo taking over work on the franchise. Join me as I take a tour of the last 20 years in the franchise, reviewing and ranking every game and shedding some light on the rise and fall of the Tony Hawk’s video game series. But this series was intense back in the day and it left its mark on gaming history. 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At the turn of the last century, when Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Facebook and Google designed their products to create habits that for many people become an addiction,” McNamee told CNN Business on Monday. He says platforms need to keep people on their sites as long as possible and often the most polarizing, divisive, and emotive content is what keeps people engaged. (FB) and other tech giants are bad for society due to their reliance on advertising. McNamee argues in the book that the business models of Facebook Facebook is currently worth about $500 billion. McNamee has said he served as a mentor to CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s early years and discouraged the young entrepreneur from selling the business for $1 billion to a bigger tech company. Tech investor Roger McNamee makes these claims in “Zucked: Waking up to the Facebook catastrophe,” due out on Tuesday. Facebook is bad for democracy and its executives have put profits over their civic responsibilities, an early investor in the company charges in a new book. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener-stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial-left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age ![]() "A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." -Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a January 2020 IndieNext Pick. Club, Vox, Jezebel, Town & Country, OneZero, Apartment Therapy, Good Housekeeping, PopMatters, Electric Literature, Self, The Week (UK) and BookPage. Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Parade, Teen Vogue, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, The A.V. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. A chilling portrait of injustice, this novel offers insight into the tragedies of war in any age.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause. ![]() Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. The anti-war masterpiece that became an iconic motion picture-now with a foreword by the creator of the acclaimed HBO(tm) series The Wireįamiliar to many as the Stanley Kubrick film starring Kirk Douglas, Paths of Glory explores the perilous complications involved in what nations demand of their soldiers in wartime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tesla devotes a good portion of his work to explaining a recent project of his that involves transmitting power through the air. He describes his development of the concepts for these devices and explains the theory behind them with the use of illustrative diagrams. ![]() "My Inventions" is an assemblage of six magazine articles Tesla is asked to provide to the periodical "Electrical Engineering." 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