![]() Drawing on studies that underscore how tightly our sense of happiness and personal fulfillment is tied to performing skilled work in the real world, he reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. In The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, his widely praised follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Shallows, bestselling author Nicholas Carr explores how our ever growing dependency on computers, apps, and robotics is reshaping our jobs, talents, and lives.ĭigging behind the headlines about artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, digitized medicine and workplace robots, Carr explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. ![]() “A cultural manifesto.” - Los Angeles Review of Books “Not only persuasive but undoubtedly right.” - Wall Street Journal ![]() “Essential.” - New York Times Book Review “ chastening meditation on the human future.” - New York Review of Books ![]()
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![]() ![]() aside from the incongruously English dubbed version of Kerity (the sister sounds like a digitized Brit and the parents seemed stocked with awkward dialogue). ![]() Despite Rebecca Dautremer’s renown, I sadly found very little mention of her in the U.S. The caveat to this imaginative inheritance is Nathaniel’s illiteracy which is relentlessly mocked by his bratty sister and the impending collapse of his aunt’s dilapidated house. Kerity, directed by Dominique Monféry, is about a young boy named Nathaniel who inherits his aunt’s library and the real life stories contained within the books. Dautremer has recently brought her design talents and also her love of folklore to life in the animated salute to storytelling entitled Kerity: La Maison des Contes (the English title is Eleanor’s Secret). She has worked on such children’s book titles as The Secret Lives of Princesses and collaborated with her husband, author Taï-Marc Le Thanh, on an adaptation of the notorious child-napping ogress of Slavic-lore, Babayaga. Dautremer has a legacy as an illustrator with a soft spot for fairytales touched by a sense of humor. ![]() The art of French illustrator Rebecca Dautremer is like stepping through paper windows into miniature, rouge accented worlds of wonder. ![]() ![]() I had several discussions with Heisenberg. ![]() (p. 12, 4th ed.)Ĭapra later discussed his ideas with Werner Heisenberg in 1972, as he mentioned in the following interview excerpt: But man needs both.”Īccording to the preface of the first edition, reprinted in subsequent editions, Capra struggled to reconcile theoretical physics and Eastern mysticism and was at first "helped on my way by 'power plants'" or psychedelics, with the first experience "so overwhelming that I burst into tears, at the same time, not unlike Castaneda, pouring out my impressions to a piece of paper". Capra summarized his motivation for writing the book: “Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science. ![]() A bestseller in the United States, it has been translated into 23 languages. ![]() The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism is a 1975 book by physicist Fritjof Capra. ![]() ![]() ![]() These porose organs are the main difference between two morphologically similar species, P. ![]() more Punctoribates is one of few genera in Poronota (Acari: Oribatida) containing species with porose areas and species with saccules, the two types of the octotaxic system. Punctoribates is one of few genera in Poronota (Acari: Oribatida) containing species with porose. This means that myriapod species considered threatened at regional level may not be eligible for international funding specific for protection of native threatened species (more than US$ 25 million were available in the last decade) as most financial. Myriapod species assessments were found in eleven regional Red Lists however, no overlap between the species included in the global IUCN Red List and the regional ones was established. To analyze the occurrence of species present in regional Red Lists, accounts of 48 different countries and regions all over the world were consulted and all data about myriapods (Myriapoda) ever assessed in Red Lists at any level assembled. Invertebrates account for nearly 97% of all animals on the planet but are insufficiently represented in the IUCN Red Lists at both scales. ![]() more Red Listing of Threatened species is recognized as the most objective approach for evaluating extinction risk of living organisms which can be applied at global or national scales. Red Listing of Threatened species is recognized as the most objective approach for evaluating ext. ![]() ![]() ![]() He's a dreadlocked Johnny-come-lately with unproven claims to Bundjalung country at least, there is no one who is prepared to corroborate his story that he and not Bullockhead is the 'one true blackfella for this place.' Twoboy has been living off-country on the outskirts of Brisbane after studying law at the University of Melbourne. Jo is trying to avoid becoming hopelessly entangled in the fight between the charming outsider Twoboy Jackson, whose great-grandfather left his Bundjalung country in 1864 after being kidnapped and forced to join the notorious Native Police, and the recognised native title claimant, the aptly named Oscar Bullockhead. She has made her home on fictional Tin Wagon Road in an entirely fictional valley near Mullumbimby, a haven for self-funded retirees, hippies and burnt-out tree-changers. ![]() In the novel, Jo Breen has retreated to her ancestral homeland in Bundjalung country where she labours among the dead as caretaker in the Mullumbimby cemetery. She is quick to say that the novel is a work of fiction, despite its real setting in the unimaginably beautiful hinterland on the far north coast of New South Wales. Melissa Lucashenko's latest novel, the long-awaited Mullumbimby, is honest and nuanced in the way it treats the cultural warfare that can ensue in bitter disputes over native title. The politics of belonging can be a tricky business. ![]() ![]() I really didn’t appreciate his treatment of Phoebe, for one thing. Phillips tried hard to let readers know Dan wasn’t the typical football jock, but failed dismally. Okay, so the good news is the books leading man isn’t actually a pedophilic slime-bag – the bad news is, Phillips introduction of Dan Calebow is so grotesque that it colors his character for the rest of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s actually his ex-wife, Valerie, who he divorced last year but still engages in these sexual fantasies with while the two are between partners. And then it’s revealed that this girl isn’t actually 16, or a stranger to Dan. I continued to feel queasy as Dan proceeded to have sex with this sixteen-year-old girl, and Phillips details the encounter for three pages or so…. At this point I was feeling pretty much sick to my stomach. At this gas station is a 16-year-old girl wearing a short skirt and football jersey – she comes on pretty hard to the infamous Dan Calebow and he agrees to follow her home, since her parents are away. We first meet Dan on his way home from a black-tie event, as he stops in at a gas station. Phillips has written what is quite possibly the worst introduction of a romantic hero in the history of contemporary romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Bauer’s deft hands, however, the full relationship arc is as intricate and compelling as the on-page hockey games in which the characters play, which had me equally riveted. They end up with the most tragic first kiss ever, followed almost immediately by the sort of impossible situation that only seems to work in fiction. ![]() Neither man expects the instant connection that develops into a real friendship, and the first days they spend together are as lovely as they are poignant-because a subtle sort of pining exists as an undercurrent of every interaction, and the inevitable conflict is about to rear its head. Overall, this is a story about soul mates, hockey style, with a fascinating twist on the forced proximity trope.ĭue to their positions in a relatively exclusive club, Bryce and Hunter were aware of each other before meeting in person. In fact, he also completely nails what appeals to me about this subgenre in a discussion between the two main characters about the game of hockey itself. ![]() Every book I’ve read by this author has been vastly different, but all have been fantastic, and Bauer brings that same storytelling skill to the hockey romance subgenre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Adopted by the tribe’s chief, Boone had been accepted as a member of the village. Here is an interesting example that involves Daniel Boone, who had been taken prisoner by the Shawnee war tribe that the child Tecumseh belonged to. Religious beliefs, ceremonies, social morays, games, agricultural practices, tools and weapons, clothing, house construction, the roles of men and women: all of this is included in Thom’s narration of the life of the remarkable Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh. One reason is you will learn so much about the Algonquian/Shawnee culture as it existed in the Ohio River Valley during the late 1700s and early 1800s. ![]() This Shawnee maxim is the major theme of James Alexander Thom’s Panther in the Sky, a historical novel I wholeheartedly recommend. Translation: May we be strong by doing what is right. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This story, which is focused on the lives of a Korean family who moves to Japan, examines shame at many levels – personal, cultural, historical – without labeling it directly. So, without a bunch of marked passages to put to music, and without writing a full review, I will share the single thing that stood out – shame. But there will be no mixtape, for the simple reason that although I found this family saga engrossing in terms of plot, there was nothing particularly compelling about the style of Lee’s writing. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee has 266,391 ratings and 26,202 reviews on Goodreads. Because really, what more can I say about a text if 20,000 others have shared their thoughts? Conversely, there’s always an audience for eighties music videos paired with some choice quotes (I think). Ordinarily, if a book I’ve read has thousands of reviews on Goodreads, I’ll do a literary mixtape instead of a review. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the 20th century. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Unlike every other superhero, she has also has a secret history. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. ![]() Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following. Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story - and a crucial history of 20th-century feminism. ![]() |