![]() ![]() ![]() “I learned very rapidly that I should never, ever reveal to anybody that I had a degree in physics from Oxford, because nobody-neither men nor women-would talk to me, because they’d regard me as completely abnormal,” she said. After graduating in 1969, Fara left the field to work in computer programming. Men dominated her physics classes, she said, and instructors and students alike parroted messages about female inferiority. Sexism in the field was direct and rampant. Raised in the London suburbs by her mother, a housewife trained as a nurse, and her father, who was a lawyer, Fara studied physics at Oxford University in the sixties. Her writing often emphasizes the contributions of translators, teachers, and technicians-previously unrecognized people whose work was crucial to the global development of science. Fara has spent her career unearthing new ways of viewing scientific history, and she has written about women’s contributions to science dating back to the Enlightenment period. This applies not only to wars and political movements, but also to the lives of scientists, along with their discoveries. “Every person who goes back can fish out a completely different set of facts and tell a completely different story,” said Fara, a historian of science at Cambridge University in the UK. Politicians, movies, and schoolteachers might have you believe that events unfolded one way, but the truth is far more complex and contradictory, as Patricia Fara well knows. ![]()
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![]() ![]() However, we valued thinking and education and independent thought and rationality in my home. I would not have had the language when I was growing up to consider myself a critical thinker, not with the weight I ascribe to “critical thinking” now. Your ability to articulate “ intersectionality” is admirable, growing up would you have considered yourself to be a critical thinker, or was this developed over time? It is important to talk about both sides of that dynamic.Ģ. To take up space, for some people that is a very radical thing.Īt the same time, it would be really radical for some people who have inherited space that they have not earned to cede space to others would also be very political. We grant space based on what a person has inherited or how much money a person has to spend or how much the person conforms to our idea of who should be in charge of the world. We do not allocate space to people based on their gifts or their talents or their humanity. And we make these systems in this unequal way. There are a lot of structures, norms, behaviors, and people who coordinate belief systems that require some people to make themselves smaller to the benefit of other people having space to become larger. ![]() What does it mean to you to be “unapologetically ‘thick’”? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also found a lot of the taunting of each other actually quite hilarious, and laughed aloud multiple times at the pettiness and immaturity of it all. However, somehow Sarah Hogle managed to truly make me root for these characters who had both been spiteful and manipulative at times, which is quite a feat since normally I run a mile at stupid toxicity in romcom relationships. I really liked the fun, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers premise, yet when I was about 30% into this book I truly thought both the main characters were going to be irredeemable and I didn’t see how the situation would convincingly turn around. Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for letting me read an e-copy in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() Since a clear-cut prevalence of either Law or Chaos would erase all life from the Multiverse, a third force known as the Cosmic Balance enforces certain limits on the powers of Law and Chaos, which in turn ensure the continued existence of the Multiverse. All these regions of spaces and parallel timelines are given shape by two metaphysical forces which are perpetually opposed to each other: Law and Chaos, which represent perpetual stasis and ever-changing disorder. Many of Moorcock's novels and short stories take place in a shared Multiverse: an array of interconnected parallel universes, many-layered dimensions, spheres, and alternative worlds, spanning from the Big Bang to the End of Time and from planet Earth to faraway galaxies. The Eternal Champion is a fictional character created by British author Michael Moorcock and is a recurrent feature in many of his speculative fiction works. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( February 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message). ![]() ![]() If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. ![]() The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And you'll find practical and even inspiring ideas for what you can actually do to help humanity thrive on this – our only – planet. This book will shock you, surprise you - and then make you laugh. ![]() For the first time you'll find big-picture perspective on the environmental and economic challenges of the day laid out in one place, and traced through to the underlying roots - questions of how we live and think. There is No Planet B maps it out in an accessible and entertaining way, filled with astonishing facts and analysis. Feeding the world, climate change, biodiversity, antibiotics, plastics – the list of concerns seems endless.īut what is most pressing, what are the knock-on effects of our actions, and what should we do first? Do we all need to become vegetarian? How can we fly in a low-carbon world? Should we frack? How can we take control of technology? Does it all come down to population? And, given the global nature of the challenges we now face, what on Earth can any of us do?įortunately, Mike Berners-Lee has crunched the numbers and plotted a course of action that is practical and even enjoyable. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He also learned to share his parents' enthusiasm for medicine and entered The Queen's College, Oxford University in 1951, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in physiology and biology in 1954. During his youth, he was a keen amateur chemist, as recalled in his memoir Uncle Tungsten. When he was six years old, he and his brother were evacuated from London to escape The Blitz, retreating to a boarding school in the Midlands, where he remained until 1943. Sacks was the youngest of four children born to a prosperous North London Jewish couple: Sam, a physician, and Elsie, a surgeon. Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, was a British neurologist residing in the United States, who has written popular books about his patients, the most famous of which is Awakenings, which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro. ![]() ![]() While I like the other Tortall books (Alanna, Daine, Kel) more, it was good to venture into the world again, especially with a heroine who is already competent. Her skills are put to the test right away as she searches for both a child horror story come-to-life and a mysterious employer who murders their workers after they're done with them. It’s told in journal format, which is not my favorite, but allowed for some cool storytelling tropes.īeka has some family magic that lets her hear ghosts and snatches of conversations from the past. She gets paired with the best Dogs in the business for her "puppy" year. Beka Cooper is a trainee "Dog", which is basically a police officer. ![]() ![]() Though the magic in Tortall is both more pervasive and less problematic. ![]() Young female law enforcement in a world with magic. I got the kindle version of this book a while ago but I only really started reading in earnest after I ran out of Kate Daniels books to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Coincidentally, she tried and loved coffee in a gnomish city, and decides to bring her appreciation for it to a new city.Īlong the way, coffee shop staples such as delicious pastry, chalkboard signage, the cafe cat who just comes by, and the student who works in the cafe for hours but never orders anything, are all grappled toward and achieved. She’s sick of it, and ready to start a new life. In Legends and Lattes, Viv the orc has spent her career thus far as part of an adventuring party, providing muscle for paid heists. Instead, coffee is an “exotic gnomish sensation,” so the process of opening up a coffee shop reads like one of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books in the Industrial Revolution series - when protagonist Moist Van Lipwig initiates a postal service, for instance. In this world, the idea of the coffee shop doesn’t yet exist in most places. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree is a fun and cozy found family story about a retired adventurer opening up a coffee shop in a D&D-style city. ![]() ![]() ![]() The unexpurgated version of Wright's electirfying novel shows his determination to write honestly about his controverial protagonist. The text printed in this volume restores the changes and cuts - including the replacement of an entire scene- that Wright was forced to make by book club editors who feared offending their readers. The story of Bigger Thomas, a young black man living in the raw, noisy, crowded slums of Chicago's South Side, captured the hopes and yearnings, the pain and rage of black Americans with an unprecedented intensity and vividness. "Native Son" exploded on the American literary and cultural scene in 1940. ![]() The authoritative new texts, based on Wright's original typescripts and proofs, reveal the full range and power of his achievement as an experimental stylist and as a fiery prophet of the tragic consequences of racism in American society. This two-volume Library of America edition presents for the first time Wright's major works in the form in which he intended them to be read. "Native Son" and "Black Boy" are classics of twentieth century American literature - and yet the novel and memoir known to millions of readers are in fact revised and abbreviated versions of the books Richard Wright wrote. ![]() |
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