![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Providing an impressive exploration of the profound impact these plants have on our survival and our pleasure, this well-illustrated book is a must have for gardeners, foodies, and environmentalists. Harris describes this symbiotic connection against the background of climate change, contending that humans must find a way to balance their need for grass as food, as living space, and potentially even as fuel. In this book, Stephen Harris explains the history of our relationship with these vital plants from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day.Ĭombining biology, sociology, and cultural history, Grasses explores how these staple crops bear the mark of human influence more visibly than any other plant and how we, in turn, are motivated to protect green space such as public parks. Indeed, grasses include four species―wheat, rice, maize, and sugar―that provide sixty percent of human calorie intake, and we become more and more dependent on these as the world’s population increases. ![]() Most people have memories of playing on well-manicured lawns or running across the flat green surface of a local park, but we often don’t think of grasses as something we consume. ![]()
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![]() A helpful and/or enlightening book that stands out by at least one aspect, e.g. contains uncommonly novel ideas and presents them in an engaging manner.Ħ – Notable. A helpful and/or enlightening book that combines two or more noteworthy strengths, e.g. presents the latest findings in a topical field and is written by a renowned expert but lacks a bit in style.ħ – Good. A helpful and/or enlightening book that has a substantial number of outstanding qualities without excelling across the board, e.g. A helpful and/or enlightening book that is extremely well rounded, has many strengths and no shortcomings worth mentioning.Ĩ – Very good. Often an instant classic and must-read for everyone.ĩ – Superb. A helpful and/or enlightening book that, in addition to meeting the highest standards in all pertinent aspects, stands out even among the best. Here's what the ratings mean:ġ0 – Brilliant. Books we rate below 5 won’t be summarized. Our rating helps you sort the titles on your reading list from solid (5) to brilliant (10). ![]() ![]() We rate each piece of content on a scale of 1–10 with regard to these two core criteria. ![]() ![]() Helpful – You’ll take-away practical advice that will help you get better at what you do. Whatever we select for our library has to excel in one or the other of these two core criteria:Įnlightening – You’ll learn things that will inform and improve your decisions. At getAbstract, we summarize books* that help people understand the world and make it better. ![]() ![]() But on the fourth set of long rings, I finally picked it up. Frankly, I am not a morning person and had failed to answer his three earlier phone calls. So I hurried to the radio and switched it on. Brooks’ voice, and he hung up without saying anything else. ![]() Oliver, turn on the radio, now!” There was an urgency I’d seldom heard in Dr. “Lay down true principles, and adhere to them inflexibly.ĭo not be frightened into their surrender…” Please do yourself and your family a favor and take 15 minutes to read this. I consider this book of such importance, especially right now, that I am dedicating blog space for the next few posting. ![]() We became fast friends and by September 1992 it was my honor to help him open the doors to our first college. For the next seventeen years we worked closely together and brought the concepts of Thomas Jefferson Education to thousands of families across the country. ![]() I was helping to run a youth program called Youth For America (we are relaunching YFA this year) and he was a featured speaker even though he had not yet graduated from college. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. NOTE: this is a highly condensed version of the text, running to just under 200 pages, whereas the original is nearly 1000 pages long! (Summary by Wikipedia) For instance, all characters age in step and all the family and feudal relationships are consistent among all chapters. One remarkable feature of the Genji, and of Murasaki's skill, is its internal consistency, despite a dramatis personae of some four hundred characters. The work does not make use of a plot instead, much as in real life, events just happen and characters evolve simply by growing older. The Genji was written for the women of the aristocracy (the yokibito) and has many elements found in a modern novel: a central character and a very large number of major and minor characters, well-developed characterization of all the major players, a sequence of events happening over a period of time covering the central character's lifetime and beyond. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first romance novel, or the first novel to still be considered a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Afterward, Martin Luther King told All India Radio that he'd decided to adopt Gandhi's method of civil disobedience as his own. ![]() So curators hauled in two cots, and the American civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King, spent the night next to Gandhi's vacant mattress. I am going to stay here, because I am getting vibrations of Gandhi,' " recalls curator Usha Thakkar. But he said, 'I am not going anywhere else. In an austere top-floor room where Gandhi's mattress and shoes still lay, King said he could feel "vibrations" of the Mahatma, or great soul. The house, called Mani Bhavan, where the Indian leader taught followers to spin their own fabric and where he launched satyagraha - his movement for truth and nonviolent resistance - had been converted into a museum. It was 1959, 11 years after Gandhi's death. visited the villa in Mumbai, India, where Mohandas Gandhi stayed in the 1920s, he had a special request: He wanted to spend the night in Gandhi's bedroom. Indian spiritual and political leader Mohandas Gandhi circa 1935. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Music of the African Diaspora, 14.) Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
![]() ![]() It’s going to be rambling, for which I apologize in advance I’ve been trying to organize my thoughts for over a week, and it’s just not happening. This is the toughest review I’ve had to write so far. Review: I feel like this review needs some kind of disclaimer (yep, it’s going to be that kind of review), so here goes. Soon Eleanor is secretly reading Park’s comic books over his shoulder this then leads the two to talking about comics and music, conversations that become essential parts of their daily lives. Park Sheridan begrudgingly offers her the seat next to him on the school bus, a moment that proves to be significant for both of them. ![]() ![]() Her home life is still miserable because of her abusive stepfather, and, as the new girl at school, Eleanor is almost instantly subjected to ridicule. To Sum It Up: In 1986 Omaha, Nebraska, Eleanor Douglas has just returned to living with her family. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has found an enigmatic backer and is working in a secret location. Terrifyingly, with each incarnation the sinister doctor draws closer to the possibility of succeeding in his ambition to create a new human race which he will control. Now he learns that a new Frankenstein clone, Victor Helios, is out there again, somewhere. Frankenstein's first monster, Deucalion, has spent two hundred years trying to put an end to his creator. In a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time, Dr Frankenstein lives on, seemingly indestructible, more malignant than ever. SOMEONE NEW IS PLAYING GOD The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. And Deucalion, Frankenstein's original and flawed attempt at replicating life, must finally confront his evil creator. ![]() Now the alliance of the good must make their last, best stand and do battle against overwhelming odds. To accomplish this aim he has created nothing less than the shock troops of the Apocalypse. Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan is to remake the future: a future in which mankind will be annihilated. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught. ![]() The cataclysmic conclusion to Koontz's brilliant reworking of the classic tale. ![]() ![]() I know I’m not the only reader who can’t get enough of this particular vein of book, but there’s just something so poignant and necessary about these stories and the way they acknowledge the women that history has done its level best to forget.Įlektra, Jennifer Saint’s follow up to her (also very good!) novel Ariadne, reframes the Trojan War as a specifically female story by grounding it in the distinct perspectives of three different but equally furious women: Clytemnestra, wife of Greek king Agamemnon who sacrifices their daughter on the altar of his own glory Cassandra, the unheeded prophetess who can see the future but not stop it from coming to pass and the titular Elektra, who comes of age over the course of the decade it takes Troy to fall. One of the most thrilling trends in publishing in recent years has been the rise of the female-focused mythological retelling, books that reevaluate and reassess some of Western literature’s most famous tales through a distinctly female lens and putting the spotlight squarely on the women who are often left to languish in the margins of men’s stories.įrom Madeline Miller’s Circe and Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to Natalie Hynes’ A Thousand Ships and Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, female authors are spinning heartbreaking and haunting tales about these female characters and telling their stories from fresh perspectives. ![]() |
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