![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only has food production impacted climbing obesity rates and health problems, but it's also had devastating economic and social effects. In this fascinating exposé on the fast food industry, we're taken through the history of how we got to where we are today in terms of food production, and how the contemporary food chain has changed. Even if you've never eaten fast food, you've been impacted by it, and world-renowned and award-winning investigative journalist Eric Schlosser is here to tell us why. Being informed about this industry is essential, because it's not just about the food they sell us there are more sinister aspects to the business model.įast Food Nation uncovers the unsavory aspects of the food industry and globalization. It's okay to succumb to guilty pleasures once in a while we're human, and as the saying goes, 'to err is human.' However, according to our author, being oblivious to the global behemoth that is the fast food industry is no longer an option. Have you ever heard of cognitive dissonance? Well, when it comes to food, many of us are guilty of knowing that what we're eating isn't good for us, but continuing anyway. ![]()
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After all, other languages classify things differently, and “any parts-of-speech scheme leaves gaping holes.” All the same, he confesses a certain fondness for this approach, no matter how inadequate it may seem to experts, self-appointed and otherwise. John Stuart Mill once bravely claimed that adjectives, nouns and verbs represent “fundamental categories of human thought.” It takes Ben Yagoda very little time to conclude that this fails to withstand serious scrutiny. ![]() The Parts of Speech, for Better and/or Worse. ![]() Ben Yagoda: When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, her sexcapade vacay goes sideways when she gets a new boss and finds out the UnSeelie are plotting to kill her uncle. She finds herself working in a bar in a little town in Texas where she meets Mr. When Ell finds out she has one year before she'll have no choice but to ascend, she decides a little trip to Earth is in order. I'll have a little loose fun, if ya know what I mean, and then I'll come back. Ugh, I don't wanna! I mean, I know I have no choice, but can't a girl have a little fun before she has to spend the rest of her life with a stick up her ass? Not to mention, I'm a nymph and I haven't even lost my v-card yet. ![]() ![]() BOOK ONE in A Fairy Awesome Series I thought I had years before I'd have to ascend to the Seelie throne, but all that went out the window when my Uncle Rowan decided to abdicate early. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags 6degrees 20 Books of Summer 1001 Books Africa America Art Australia Autobiography Biography Black culture Black history Blogging about blogging Book review Britain Canada Comedy Crime Dystopia Economics England Fantasy Feminism Film France Germany Graphic novel Historical fiction History Horror Humour Independent Publisher India Influx Press Italy Japan Journalism LGBTQ London Mental health Meta Music Mystery New York Paris Philosophy Picture Prompt Book Bingo Poetry Politics Psychology Racism Randomness Religion Russia Science Science Fiction SciFi Scotland Short stories Six Degrees of Separation Sociology Spain Speculative fiction Sweden Thriller Tokyo Translation Travel United Kingdom USA Wales War Women's Prize for Fiction Women in translation Women in translation month Women read women ![]() ![]() Eras of American drinking, in terms of practices and favorite potions, are superimposed on their corresponding time periods of the tenure of each chief justice in the Supreme Court’s history-with those chief justice eras looked at in terms of alcohol and the law. At Tulane, she teaches courses in constitutional law, judicial decision-making, and her latest special topics class “Booze, Drugs and the Courts.”ĭescribe your book in terms your bartender could understand.Ī cocktail-by-cocktail history of the Supreme Court and its decisions on alcohol and the Constitution. ![]() Supreme Court and Alcohol (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). Today’s Points Interview features Nancy Maveety, Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and author of the new book Glass and Gavel: The U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Xenogenesis trilogy, also referred to as Lilith’s Brood, features a Black female as its protagonist. As they reveal their terms, Lilith must decide if she’s willing to cooperate with her captors and saviors for a chance to return to Earth.īutler’s work is known for raising questions about race and class. Slowly, the Oankali aliens reveal themselves and Lilith must learn to repress her fear and revulsion at the multi-tentacled aliens whose motives slowly become clear to her. At first, wrecked by isolation and fear, Lilith nearly goes insane waiting for her invisible captors to reveal why she’s being held. Lilith Iyapo awakes on an alien ship after Earth has been torn apart by nuclear war. Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy.īutler’s Xenogenesis Series starts with Dawn (1987). So it’s surprising that the announcement today marks the first ever television or film adaptation of Butler’s work. Butler, who penned over a dozen novels in her lifetime, won Hugos and Nebulas, was awarded MacArthur Fellowship, and was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Writer and director Victoria Mahoney ( Yelling to the Sky) will pen the script. Butler’s novel Dawn for a television adaptation, Deadline reports. Groundbreaking director Ava DuVernay ( Wrinkle in Time, Selma) will executive produce Octavia E. ![]() ![]() ![]() His five-year voyage on the Beagle established him as a geologist whose observations and theories supported Charles Lyell’s uniformitarian ideas, and publication of his journal of the voyage made him famous as a popular author. ![]() In modified form, Darwin’s scientific discovery remains the foundation of biology, as it provides a unifying logical explanation for the diversity of life.ĭarwin developed his interest in natural history while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, then theology at Cambridge. The fact that evolution occurs became accepted by the scientific community and the general public in his lifetime, while his theory of natural selection came to be widely seen as the primary explanation of the process of evolution in the 1930s, and now forms the basis of modern evolutionary theory. ![]() Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, eminent as a collector and geologist, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from common ancestors through the process he called natural selection. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For them the tale may be too obvious, the evolution of the characters too clumsy and uneven, the dénouement predictable. Hoffman drops readers into the narrative rather like Steven Erikson’s Malazan series, without explanation and yet for adults, especially those who’ve read a bit of the genre, the books may not be complex enough. However, in places, the book felt as if it might be rather perplexing for younger readers. Some books, like, say Raymond Feist’s Magician or Terry Brooks’ Sword of Shannara can be happily read by teens and adults alike. I think part of the problem, for me, is that the book tended to fall between the two potentially interested parties. For others, rather like myself, there may be an overall feeling of a tale told before, admittedly told well, though in the end rather empty. Nothing wrong with that – many will enjoy the entertainment and energy of the novel as they did Harry Potter or the Young Bond series. The tale is appealing the fight scenes are exciting, the characters easily recognisable and the pages of the short chapters turn.īut, for better or worse, it is a young adult novel, though not explicitly advertised as such. As young adult books go, The Left Hand of God is a book which has much to be applauded. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Joy of Sakura by Margaret Speck Ogawa The Death of a Marriage by Tina Jenkins Bell The Day She Decided to Wear No Clothes by Joanna Zarkadas The Crows at Countryside by Heather Murray Provisioning Between Lives by Joanne Gram No Never, No More by Isabel Wolfe-Frischman More Bursting Than Juicy by Sophy C Chaffee Juanita Falls into Her Story by Adela Najarro Jessie Talked to God by Maggie Felisberto Hold My Drama, Please by Jill Cunningham Eleanor and Isak by Deborah Stewart Chinn Confession of a Female Bodybuilder by Mia Cara KinsellaĮarly One Romantic Morning by Debra J. ![]() Boundless Waves Against Shut Eyes by Shakira Croce At the Edge of the Picture by Ann Shenfield A Weenie by Any Other Name by Rita Ariyoshi Unlearning Their Forced Desire for Me to Become The Wise-Ass Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree by Don Carter The Day She Decided to Wear No Clothes by Joanna Zarkadas The Crows at Countryside by Heather Murray Provisioning Between Lives by Joanne Gram ![]() Deadline: March 8 ( International Women's Day)Ĭonfession of a Female Bodybuilder by Mia Cara Kinsella ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matilda finds her courage facing off with a bully of a headmistress, named Miss Trunchbull. It's the story of a lonely girl with special powers and neglectful parents. She joins Michele Norris to talk about Matilda, this month's pick for NPR's Backseat Book Club. Lucy Dahl - the youngest of Dahl's five children with his first wife, American actress Patricia Neal - remembers hearing those stories before she fell asleep. That bedtime story became Dahl's first children's book, James and the Giant Peach. This went on for quite a long time with a story about a peach that got bigger and bigger and I thought, 'Well heck, why don't I write it.' " And if they ever said the next night, 'Tell us some more about that one,' you knew you had something. Roald Dahl died in 1990.Įvery night, author Roald Dahl told his children a story: "Most of them pretty bad," he admitted in a 1972 BBC4 interview, "but now and again you'd tell one and you see a little spark of interest. Author Roald Dahl stands with his wife, American actress Patricia Neal, and their newborn daughter, Lucy, outside their home in Buckinghamshire, England, in August 1965. ![]() |