John Ruskin
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John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most prominent art and architecture critic of his day. His books,...
The Awakening and Selected Stories
Sandra M. Gilbert and Kate Chopin
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The Awakening and Selected Stories is Kate Chopin's groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to...
The Theoretical Foot
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An undiscovered novel by an iconic American food writer - the publication of this enchanting...
An Argument for Same-sex Marriage: Religious Freedom, Sexual Freedom, and Public Expressions of Civic Equality
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The relationship between religious belief and sexuality as personal attributes exhibits some...
Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism
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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York...
Set in a world where you are punished for making ethical or moral mistakes. If you are found to have made a bad decision, have lied, have stolen, have been disloyal or have stepped out of line, you are sent to trial and if are found guilty are branded with an F on various parts of your body depending on your error of judgment. From then on, the persons life is controlled by whistle blowers and the rules they in force. It's a good setup and I've sped through it - it's not the best written YA book I've come across but something about it has meant I haven't been able to put it down.
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) in Movies
Aug 1, 2017
The characters of Scout, Jem and Dill are fundamental to the storyline, showing how innocence is lost after being exposed to the discrimination of adults - in this case, an innocent black man accused of raping a young white girl, and a man with mental health issues being stigmatised by his community. A true classic in every sense.
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated A Monster Calls (2016) in Movies
Sep 11, 2017
From being bullied, abandoned and dealing with a mother dying from cancer, one day a monster in the form of a tree visits him to reveal various tales with a moral context. These come in the form of beautiful animations, not too dissimilar from The Three Brothers sequence in one of the final Harry Potter films. What we have to establish is whether the boy is actually encountering this monster or whether it is part of his repressed emotions.
Acting from the entire cast including Felicity Jones and more so the young child actor was fantastic. An interesting watch.
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel in Books
Sep 12, 2017
Wainwright makes clear that those seeking to stop the drugs trade fail due to their insistence on treating it like a war, when they should treat it like a market manipulation. Such a clever book.
