Nations: The Dice Game
Tabletop Game
From the humble beginnings of civilization through the historical ages of progress, mankind has...
Jack Wilshere - Arsenal DNA
Book
Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in 1992, Jack began his football career at Letchworth Garden City...
Modernity Britain: Book Two: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62: Book 2
Book
David Kynaston's history of post-war Britain has so far taken us from the radically reforming Labour...
London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880-1920
Catherine Hindson and Heather S. Nathans
Book
Today's celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of...
How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston and Rebecca Lemov
Book
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the...
The Drug and Other Stories
David Tibet, Aleister Crowley and William Breeze
Book
This revised and expanded second edition brings together the uncollected short fiction of the poet,...
The Great War as I Saw it
Frederick George Scott and Mark G. McGowan
Book
A fifty-three-year-old Anglican priest and poet when the First World War broke out, Frederick George...
ames_morgan (8 KP) rated Educated in Books
Jun 19, 2018
Tara Westover never set foot in a classroom until she was 17 years old. Raised by Mormon survivalists in the mountains of Idaho her life was incredibly different than anything I can even imagine. With a midwife/herbalist for a mother and a father who operated a junkyard and prepared for the end of the world and was obsessed with the Illuminati Tara was horribly unprepared for life as she set foot into the academic world.
With no one to make sure Tara and her brothers and sisters had an education or even basic healthcare Tara decided to educate herself. At the age of 17 she had never even heard of the Holocaust much to the shock and disbelief of her fellow students and professor. With determination and perseverance Tara went on from never being in a classroom to receiving a a PhD from Cambridge University.
All the while Tara still struggled with a sense of loyalty to her family yet a desire to recreate herself into something more.
This was an incredible journey and I thank Tara for sharing it with us!
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts
Book
On the day Sam Waxworth arrives in New York to write for the Interviewer, a street-corner preacher...
Summer Day's Dream
Book
"""I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning...