![]() ![]() ![]() Built by a broad coalition deeply rooted in the lives and struggles of ordinary people, this path has the practical benefit of both cutting energy prices and generating enough work to pull the U.S. Instead, Van Jones illustrates how we can invent and invest our way out of the pollution-based grey economy and into the healthy new green economy. We cannot drill and burn our way out of these dual dilemmas. The bottom line: we cannot continue with business as usual. As the headlines make clear, total climate chaos looms over us. Not only that, when we burn these fuels, the greenhouse gases they create overheat the atmosphere. With costs and unemployment soaring, the economy stalls. As supplies disappear, the price of energy climbs and nearly everything becomes more expensive. ![]() The economy is built on and powered almost exclusively by oil, natural gas, and coal-all fast-diminishing nonrenewable resources. In The Green Collar Economy, acclaimed activist and political advisor Van Jones delivers a real solution that both rescues our economy and saves the environment. Moderated by: Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Introduction by: Congresswoman Hilda Solis (CA – 32) *Invited*įeatured Author: Van Jones, founder and president, Green for All senior fellow, Center for American Progress author, The Green Collar Economy ![]()
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![]() In this collection, Parsons dissects the guts of the soul, to show us how awful we all are and how crushingly beautiful." - Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Sonora Texas, dusty and sprawling, houses Parsons's pining, broken, twangy, and unforgettable characters. "Kimberly King Parsons's Black Light is savage, celestial, and gorgeous. In her debut collection, Kimberly King Parsons has put it all on the line, with a hell of a payoff." - Sam Lipsyte, author of Hark These stories are funny and poignant and searching, full of taut poetry, not to mention the long pain and sharp joys of living and loving and lusting. "The very fact that Black Light exists in the world makes everything feel a little less bleak. I just finished this book, and I'm going to read it again right away." - Amy Hempel, author of Sing to It Parsons opens and ends stories brilliantly. ![]() ![]() "The bad-ass gals in these terrific stories are all attitude, and as funny and appealing in their imperfection and thwarted desire as you'll find in any fiction out there. "In lithe, lyrical prose à la Amy Hempel and Noy Holland, Parsons's short fiction parses the addictions and desires of Texan girls and women, and will break your heart even as it makes you laugh." - O, The Oprah Magazine "Parsons's debut crackles with the frenetic energy of the women who stalk its pages.Parsons's characters are sharp and uncannily observed, bound up in elastic and electrifying prose." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() ![]() ![]() The book discusses how malleable human identity is. She debunks many studies that purport to prove such differences, often discovering poor assumptions in their design and execution. The third part examines how stereotypes are perpetuated through children’s lives.įine provides a wide range of studies and research that show how gender is not innate. The second part focuses on how stereotypes affect human behavior, as well as studies that have been done on gender differences in the brain. The book is divided into three parts: the first part discusses the origins and persistence of gender stereotyping. The author offers several suggestions for how to change gender biases in society. ![]() She also states that the gender stereotypes promoted by neurosexism have real-world consequences, such as holding women back in their careers. In Delusions of Gender, Fine takes a comprehensive look at the field of neuroscience and observes that there is sexism in this field. ![]() The author uses a thorough analysis of neurological studies and interviews with scientists to show how our minds are not as different as we think they are. 1-Page Summary of Delusions of Gender Overall Summaryĭelusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society and Neurosexism Create Difference is a book that seeks to debunk the idea that men and women have different brains. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as he settlesĭown to read his glasses slip from his face and smash, forever trapping him in a blurry world. This is paradise to him, and he begins to organize books to read for years to come. He decides to commit suicide until he sees a library. When he wakes up, he discovers a nuclear war hasĭestroyed the Earth. He sneaks into the vault at lunchtime to read and is knocked unconscious by a shockwave. He'll have a world all to himself - without anyone."īank teller Henry Bemis loves to read. ![]() Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks orĪnything else. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank presidentĪnd a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. Woman in bank: Lela Bliss " Witness Mr.Writer: Rod Serling (based on a short story " Time Enough At Last" by Lynn Venable). ![]() ![]() ![]() See the Low Effort Posts section of the wiki for more details.Īlways link to the original content where possible. (Though, be warned, that subreddit is full of spoilers for the whole series). Memes and jokes should be posted in /r/WetlanderHumor. This means no pictures of book covers, no memes, and no posts that don't in some way directly pertain to The Wheel of Time. 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A community for the Wheel of Time fantasy series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1966, he began teaching English in the Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, located in the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Georgia. ![]() He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Cornell University and a second Master's from Johns Hopkins University. ![]() His maternal grandmother, Margaret Pollard Smith, was an associate professor of English at Vassar College and his father was a famous landscape architect, named Brooks Edward Wigginton. His mother, Lucy Freelove Smith Wigginton, died eleven days later of "pneunomia due to acute pulmonary edema," according to her death certificate. He was convicted of child molestation in 1992.īrooks Eliot Wigginton was born in West Virginia on November 9, 1942. In 1986 he was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year" and in 1989 he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. These were based on articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia. He was most widely known for developing the Foxfire Project, a writing project that led to a magazine and the series of best-selling Foxfire books, twelve volumes in all. JSTOR ( January 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Įliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ![]() This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. ![]() ![]() Under the skilful direction of Madeleine Withington, the brilliant cast (Alexander Spinks, Lib Campbell and Tel Benjamin) gives this madness the high energy performances it deserves. It’s audacious, exuberant and effervescent. ![]() The whole thing operates simply as an opportunity for some seriously crazy comedy. There’s some theatre in-jokes, but no need for any knowledge of the canon. ![]() Ironically, for a piece that responds to our obsession with the Bard, I’ve seen it more times than I’ve seen most of his plays. Written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield, it’s been kicking around since the 1980’s. Considering the alternative, this is in no way a criticism.Īs an abridgement of Shakespeare’s plays, The Complete Works is equivalent to summarising Moby Dick with the word ‘whale’. ![]() Having said that, only Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet are presented in any meaningful way (providing that wacky parody fits your definition of ‘meaningful’.) Most of the other plays are merely namedropped. The fourth wall is firmly down as three actors share their attempt to present all 36 of Shakespeare’s plays. The more discerning theatre-goer might surmise from the title that this is a comedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Baines, the more she begins to realize just how much she has to lose if the truth ever comes to light. But Sadie must be careful, for the more she discovers about Mrs. And as the eyes of suspicion turn toward the new family in town, Sadie is drawn deeper into the mystery of what really happened that dark and deadly night. The murder rocks their tiny coastal island, but no one is more shaken than Sadie.īut it’s not just Morgan’s death that has Sadie on edge. The opening chapters of The Other Mrs would seem to indicate this is what is about to occur, but it is not quite what we receive. ![]() Sadie and Will Foust have only just moved their family from bustling Chicago to a coastal island in Maine when their neighbor Morgan Baines is found dead in her home. A woman is drawn into a mysterious web of secrets in this twisty whodunnit from New York Times best-selling author Mary Kubica ![]() ![]() ![]() Moses may have taken two tablets before breakfast, but there was nobody home to listen to the prayers of the victims of the Shoah. The truth won't make your Baby Jesus cry because, sad to say, there ain't no such Son of God. I wish I could go back to the comforting certainties of atheism it's so much less unpleasant than the One True Religion. But then I was recruited by the Laundry, and learned better. ![]() ![]() It was a conviction encouraged by every crazy news item from the Middle East, every ludicrous White House prayer breakfast on the TV. Like the majority of ordinary British citizens, I used to be a good old–fashioned atheist, secure in my conviction that folks who believed-in angels and demons, supernatural manifestations and demiurges, snake-fondling and babbling in tongues and the world being only a few thousand years old-were all superstitious idiots. Bob Howard, accidental hero, return in the fourth of Charles Stross's novel about the activities of that most secret of British secret agencies-The Laundry. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do these things you'll experience the full effect. Last, you might want to print a list of characters because, like all Russian novels, the many patronymic names can be confusing, especially if you're listening. It also helps to know a little about Dostoevsky's background because several elements are autobiographical. The Wikipedia article on "Demons" is short and informative. One of the two lead characters, Peter Stephanovich Verkhovensky, a creepy Charles Manson type, is based on Nechayev. In order to appreciate it, you should do a little research on the 1869 murder by the Russian revolutionary Nechayev. "Devils" is a very political novel and was intended to be so. "Devils" (formerly translated as "The Possessed," and sometimes translated as "Demons") is one of Dostoevsky's four great long novels, the others being "Crime and Punishment," "The Idiot," and "The Brothers Karamazov." First, don't by the version narrated by Patrick Cullen and titled "The Possessed." The narration is poor and the translation is the outdated one by Constance Garnett. ![]() |