Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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The Ever-Present Origin
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This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag,...
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Hej! So glad you want to go Swedish with me. This app is filled with useful Swedish words and...
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Cooked
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In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he...
The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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From the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of...
Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Tides of Possibility in Books
Jan 12, 2018
A few of note:[The Color of Silence] by [Mandy Broughton] about compassion. [The Woman Who Wanted to Play Havisham] by [Haralambi Markov] which message seems to be, be careful what you wish for. [Imaginary Numbers] by [Corinn Heathers] which I would really love to see expanded to a novel with more a back story.
[Teachable Moments] by [Brandon Crilly] seemed to be my favorite though. Perhaps I am biased as a teacher and the title is a term we are not allowed to have in the classroom anymore thanks to the testing culture. The idea of a former teacher doing what is best for young people and by doing that he teaches them the biggest lesson of life.
I will be looking for more works from some of these authors. I could have done without the poetry though.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Behind the Curve (2018) in Movies
Feb 24, 2019 (Updated Feb 24, 2019)
Still, with some of the personalities involved, the film can't help but be entertaining, and it does make some important points about the dangerous results of excluding and isolating people, and the importance of education rather than mockery. Has already been denounced as a hatchet job by people in the Flat Earth community, but then you could probably have guessed that. Highly entertaining and thought-provoking; possibly worth watching just for the scenes showing the reactions of Flat Earthers when their painstaking experiments to prove the world has no curvature predictably give the opposite result. You can't win 'em all, guys.
