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Valenti sheds light on the value - and hypocrisy - around the notion that girls remain virgin until they’re married by putting into context the historical question of purity, modern abstinence-only education, pornography, and public punishments for those who dare to have sex. Morals are therefore linked purely to sexual behavior, rather than values like honesty, kindness, and altruism. Through in-depth cultural and social analysis, Valenti reveals that powerful messaging on both extremes - ranging from abstinence curriculum to Girls Gone Wild infomercials - place a young woman’s worth entirely on her sexuality. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country’s intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. The United States is obsessed with virginity - from the media to schools to government agencies. In Cinderella Ate My Daughter she exposed the “girlie girl” culture being marketed to young children. Waiting for Daisy was her memoir of infertility, cancer and motherhood. In Flux she explored the life choices of a generation of ethnically diverse, middle class women in their mid-20s to mid-40s. Her book Schoolgirls was groundbreaking in its discussion of educational inequity. In books and magazine articles Peggy Orenstein writes about the politics of every day life, usually relating to gender. Her TED talk has been viewed over 5.5 million times.Ī frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, she was named in 2012 by The Columbia Journalism Review as one of its "40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years". Peggy Orenstein (born November 22, 1961) is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic Schoolgirls. Orenstein speaks on Boys & Sex at Town Hall Seattle in 2020 You’ll also get to see Han interact with Norra and her crew, and the results are just as hilarious and complicated as you might expect.Īlongside Han, Norra and crew help liberate Kashyyyk from the last vestiges of the Empire, which means plenty of angry Wookiees! With Chewbacca leading the charge! It’s a great action set piece that I’ve always wanted to see, and I’m sure I’m not alone in that. We only got a small taste of Han (and Chewie!) in Aftermath, but you’ll see quite a bit more of him here. Here are a few reasons why I enjoyed Life Debt even more than I enjoyed Aftermath, and why you should give it a read as soon as you can: But with the just-published sequel, Life Debt, Wendig has surpassed even himself when it comes to rollicking action, complex characters, and sly humor. And much, much more.)Ĭhuck Wendig burst onto the Star Wars scene with Aftermath, his first novel set in everyone’s favorite galaxy far, far away. The second book in the Aftermath trilogy is here, and it's essential. Using newly discovered archival documents, Massimo Mazzotti reconstructs the wide spectrum of Agnesi's social experience and examines her relationships to various traditions-religious, political, social, and mathematical. Indeed, the life of Maria Agnesi reveals a complex and enigmatic figure-one of the most fascinating characters in the history of mathematics. In later years, however, she became a prominent figure within the Catholic Enlightenment, gave up the academic world, and devoted herself to the poor, the sick, the hungry, and the homeless. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair of mathematics at the university in Bologna. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. Friends are welcome from 12 noon til 3 p.m. Service will be held at Arrington Funeral Directors in Jackson, TN on Thursday, August 6, 2015. and Bette Hogan father, Thomas Joseph Hogan Jr. He is preceded in death by grandparents, Thomas Joseph Sr. He is survived by his sons, Thomas Joseph "TJ" and Cole Patrick Hogan his step-children, Austin Heath and Xander Lopez mother, Penny Hogan brother, Matthew (Kendra) Hogan sister, Stephanie (Eli) Michaelides brother, Christopher (Jennifer) Hogan many family and friends who loved him dearly. He was an avid reader, enjoyed playing golf, vacationing, and cheering on his Chicago Bears and Michigan State Spartans. He was a great father, husband, son, nephew, brother, uncle, and friend who will be missed by many. He cherished spending time with his family, especially his wife Julie and their boys. He was a genuine hard-working gentleman who touched the lives of many. He was the general manager of Pierce Distribution Services Company in Ripley, TN for 15 years. He earned a baccalaureate degree in package engineering at Michigan State University, and was a proud Brother of The Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. He moved to Michigan with his family where he attended West Bloomfield High School. "The general reader might be occasionally slowed by some of Seldom and other characters' weightier statements, but this will surely appeal to readers with a yen for science and mathematics." The Oxford Murders is comfortably short enough to be read in a single evening, and the plot rattles along at an efficient pace (.) The prose is straightforward but has some nice touches" - Thomas Jones, London Review of Books."Read it, and be temporarily convinced that applied mathematics is suddenly within your grasp." - Emma Hagestadt, The Independent. It would be all too easy to labour the connections between maths and murder, but there is a lightness of touch in the way the themes are laid out in the book that make it a very easy read." - Marcus du Sautoy, The Guardian The Oxford Murders is not the first thriller to combine the two, but it is one of the first to do it successfully.(.) What is more surprising is how sensitively he uses the ideas. "The mix of mathematics and murder mystery makes for a powerful cocktail.Not quite a consensus, but most enjoyed it - some thoroughly
The plot revolves around two best friends growing up in a black community in Southern California. Or, as a character about to have a baby thinks, "magic you wanted was a miracle, magic you didn't was a haunting." Even in absence, motherhood is the ghostly shaping presence around these female lives. Mothered, motherless, mothered badly or well, wanting to be a mother, choosing not to be a mother - like most women, the women of The Mothers are in a lifelong, shifting and painful negotiation with motherhood. Here, at last, is a novel about ordinary black lives. Brit Bennett should not be exceptional, but she is The Mothers has many strengths, but it is extraordinary for that one miserable fact. The Mothers illustrates how rare major books that treat black families and friendships are, where racism and suffering are present in the story but not the entire story. Black lives, families and stories matter - but they don't have a commensurate place in fiction. The publishing industry, despite all those solemn, virtuous panels on diversity, has thus far shown little interest in ordinary black lives. But you wouldn't know it from paging through major publishers' catalogs. How?īlack lives matter - not only black deaths. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Mothers Author Brit Bennett She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. Ashton is the key to protecting Isaiah and keeping her out of Garrison’s clutches. Only it was just the beginning.Įntrusting the fate of the world, not to mention her and Isaiah’s life to a father she’s never met is a big leap of faith on Fallon’s part. WARNING: Due to sensitive matters portrayed throughout the novel, Touching Eternity (Touch Series, book 1.5) is rated 18+ (Adult).įinding her past was supposed to end the nightmare. He’d left her behind, deserted and abandoned her to a madman hell bent on crushing her, stealing her soul and shattering her will.īut what if she’s finally given hope? A reason to live? Can Amalie finally accept the hand offering so much for so little in return? Can she love again when she has nothing left to give? The world shunned her and the only person she had ever loved, truly and with all her heart and soul, couldn’t stand the sight of her, couldn’t stand the thought of ever being with her. She is defective, something useless and broken. But Amalie is a prisoner, a disease, not fit for life. She wants to leave this world behind with its pain and darkness. There was Amalie and the horror that started a revolution that tore the fabric of humanity, of everything standing in the balance between power, hope and survival.Īmalie has one wish, one gnawing desire - she wants to die. Before love became the ultimate weapon of destruction. |