![]() Jane Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three bestselling and critically acclaimed narrative nonfiction books. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A Best Book of the Year: Salon, Slate, The Economist, The Washington Post, Cleveland Plain-Dealer About the Author: ![]() history, and obliterate Constitutional protections that define the very essence of the American experiment. ![]() In spellbinding detail, Jane Mayer relates the impact of these decisions by which key players, namely Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, exploited September 11 to further a long held agenda to enhance presidential powers to a degree never known in U.S. The Dark Side is a dramatic, riveting, and definitive narrative account of how the United States made self-destructive decisions in the pursuit of terrorists around the world-decisions that not only violated the Constitution, but also hampered the pursuit of Al Qaeda. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The book that inspired the movie Prayers for the Stolen,Mexico’s selection for the 94th Academy Awards (Oscars 2022) Ladydi Garcia Martínez is fierce, funny and smart. ![]() Written in a gorgeous lyric all its own, Gun Love is the story of a tough but optimistic young woman growing up in contemporary America, in the midst of its harrowing love affair with firearms. Así, Jennifer Clement nos lleva a un lugar donde confluyen el humor y la desesperación, y las mujeres enfrentan las tragedias con solidaridad y dignidad. ![]() All around them, Florida is populated with gun owners-those hunting alligators for sport, those who want to protect their families, and those who create a sense of danger. Born in a rural Mexico region where girls are disguised as boys to avoid the attentions of traffickers, Ladydi dreams of a better life before moving to. ![]() Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection to each other. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Gun Love by Jennifer Clement Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Awards A New York Times Editor's Choice Time's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2018 Library Journal's Best Books of 2018 The searing, unforgettable story of a young girl's resilience, by the award-winning author of Prayers for the Stolen Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter-in the parking lot next to a trailer park. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. ![]() ![]() The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chief Executive Officer David Solomon has called the new arrangements “an aberration” that the investment bank will “correct as quickly as possible,” arguing that it’s especially crucial for new recruits to absorb the Wall Street culture. The findings suggest the rapid adoption of new technology amid the pandemic will offer lasting economic gains, helping to boost sluggish productivity that has long weighed on global growth. ![]() economy by 5%, mostly because of savings in commuting time, the study says. The work-from-home boom will lift productivity in the U.S. The great work-from-home experiment occasioned by the pandemic has divided opinion in the corporate suite and sparked endless debates about whether employees work as effectively from the kitchen table as they do from the office.Ī new study finds that, in fact, remote work does indeed make us more productive. ![]() ![]() I walked across the vast undulating plateau, past reindeer herds, to the summits of the highest peaks and to sparkling blue lochs, where, without another soul in sight, I swam naked, just like Nan. It was a struggle when the only highlight was a small piece of chocolate for pudding. My calculated rations consisted of eggs or porridge for breakfast, with carrot and potato stew for dinner. Nan’s mountain world taught me the importance of connecting with my surroundings, to take time away from technologyĮach morning, I collected water from springs and lit my rusty camping stove behind a sheltered rock. From here, I would set out each day with a map, visiting places Nan described so beautifully in her book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Weighed down by old equipment, I walked for five hours to the Cairngorm plateau from the closest village of Aviemore, setting up camp in a vast glacial gulley in the shadow of Cairn Gorm mountain, my home for the next 17 nights. Elise shelters behind a rock to cook dinner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since then, our library has grown to over 1,200 titles, and, needless to say, my tiny team and I have come across an inspiring line or two along the way.Īt Four Minute Books, everything we do follows a system. That personal challenge is how this site began. Hi, my name is Nik! I’m the founder of Four Minute Books. What can you do to get through the day? How can you muster your courage, focus your attention, and summon some extra energy to keep doing a few more hours of work that matters? The answer: Short inspirational quotes - and in this organized list, you’ll find exactly the one you need. ![]() You’re still tired from eating a too-big lunch (again), and your third coffee hasn’t kicked in yet. ![]() ![]() They reference historical materials from the nineteenth century as well as fictional works like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein they reference modern movies and TV shows. Each part has two or three chapters devoted to social structures or cultural constructs (puberty, virginity, seduction, marriage, birth, family, and bad mothers, respectively) that Doyle then analyzes through a feminist lens and through the intertextuality of horror and true crime. ![]() ![]() ![]() The research and thought on display here is impressive.ĭoyle divides the book into three parts: daughters, wives, and mothers. It’s one of those theses that seems obvious once you sit and think about it, if you’re of a feminist bent like myself, but what makes this book special is the consummate skill Doyle brings to synthesizing all these various real life and fictional portrayals of women-as-the-monster. To elaborate a bit more, Doyle argues that the portrayal of women (and femininity) in our media and culture overlaps with our understanding of the monstrous, the Other, the unnatural or unholy, and in this way patriarchal structures encourage people of all genders to view “male” as normal and default and “female” as deviant. Doyle’s follow-up to their 2016 Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear. That’s the thesis of Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power, Jude Ellison S. ![]() Women are monsters, according to the patriarchy. ![]() ![]() A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never. I must go, uncertain of my fate but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. The stories in the book were well written, funny, and poignant. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. I felt like a part of the family as I read Friendly Persuasion. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Persuasion narrates the emotional journey of its protagonist Anne Elliot, who chances upon Captain Wentworth, a suitor she was persuaded to reject seven. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. ![]() Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. ![]() Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. It’s considered her most mature, serious novel though hardly without her signature. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. Persuasion is Jane Austen’s final completed novel, published six months after the author died in 1817. ![]() I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. ![]() ![]() ![]() My bestselling book here in Australia is Taronga (Penguin). ![]() (I’d still like to write a concluding story for my Gibblewort series, for instance.) There are also many books I contributed stories to. ![]() These last really tested me but were great fun. More than a dozen adult novels, over 20 YA novels, two novellas, a few picture books, and 15 books for littlies. Which was the best-selling for you? How many book awards did you pick up? How many books have you published during your writing career? Now, settled (kind of!) in Battery Point in old Hobart, my wife and I work on. Inevitably, other books must follow, because I suddenly find myself beset by a wealth of things I simply MUST write about. My upcoming novel, Wanderer, (Eagle Books) is the very first fruit of this shift. Then, early in my eighties, I was hit by a yearning to write fiction again. ![]() ![]() I remember trying to wrap my head around this idea as a child and feeling dizzy: Our lives take place in the space that decomposition leaves behind. If nothing decomposed, the earth would pile up kilometers-deep with the bodies of animals and plants. And without their powers of decomposition, our lives would be inconceivable. Fungi can digest many things, from wood to rock to kerosene. But how? My questioning often led me back to fungi-metabolic wizards with a breathtaking capacity to arrange and rearrange the world. A solid log becomes soil, sugar becomes alcohol, a lump of dough rises into bread. I’ve always been fascinated by the way things transform. He recently answered questions about the nature of intelligence, psychedelic drugs, and creative home brews from Mind Matters editor Gareth Cook. ![]() Sheldrake’s book is a poetic letter to the associates we never knew we had. And they serve as a platform for, and partner in, almost every aspect of life. Fungal species count in the millions-the true number is unknown. ![]() In his book Entangled Life, scientist Merlin Sheldrake introduces us to vastly underappreciated players in the story of our planet. ![]() |