![]() Her 2013 book, White Beech: The Rainforest Years, describes her efforts to restore an area of rainforest in the Numinbah Valley in Australia. She has written over 20 books, including Sex and Destiny (1984), The Change (1991), The Whole Woman (1999), and The Boy (2003). Greer's subsequent work has focused on literature, feminism and the environment. An international bestseller and a watershed text in the feminist movement, it offered a systematic deconstruction of ideas such as womanhood and femininity, arguing that women were forced to assume submissive roles in society to fulfil male fantasies of what being a woman entailed. Greer's ideas have created controversy ever since her first book, The Female Eunuch (1970), made her a household name. Based in the United Kingdom since 1964, she has divided her time since the 1990s between Queensland, Australia, and her home in Essex, England. ![]() Specializing in English and women's literature, she has held academic positions in England at the University of Warwick and Newnham College, Cambridge, and in the United States at the University of Tulsa. ![]() Germaine Greer ( / ɡ r ɪər/ born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and public intellectual, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Recorded August 2007 from Bookclub, BBC Radio 4 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the proliferation of transnational Muslim networks over the last two decades, the religious authority of traditionally educated Muslim scholars, the uluma, has come under increasing scrutiny and disruption. The Imperatives of Progressive Islam (Adis Duderija) Esack provides a clear rebuttal of the hysterical stereotypes of Islam and a compelling vision of liberation for those seeking to reconcile politics and faith. He demonstrates how Islam fosters racial and economic justice and supports practices of nonviolence, and he develops its understandings of protection of the environment. He advocates for womens rights and reproductive freedom. He shows how it is not only possible but necessary for Islam to promote sexual equality. ![]() Offering perceptive, groundbreaking insights, Esack describes how progressive Islam can speak to social change on six burning issues today: war, poverty, race, gender, sexuality, and the environment. While trained in a Pakistani madrassah where he became acquainted with deeply orthodox forms of Islam, he also came to realize that his religions teachings of justice and peace could guide the struggle against apartheid and gender injustice. N his work to build a post-apartheid South Africa, noted scholar, writer, and activist Farid Esack found grounding in his Muslim faith. Whose Quran? : A Concise Guide to Progressive Islam(Farid Esack) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Brené, being the badass she is, took on his challenge and gave us Listening To Shame – TED Talk, where she explores the relationships between men and women and their vulnerabilities.įrom these two talks, I got my Brené wisdom and went forth into the world of dating, post-divorce, in search of a vulnerable and shame-aware woman. The man went on to say, “I guess that’s pretty convenient for you, then.” It was a burn. She was touring the world on the success of this talk when a man approached her after a speech and asked her, “Why do you only research women?” She mentions in her 2nd viral TED Talk, how this question struck her to the core. When Brené Brown did her breakthrough talk on vulnerability ( The Power of Vulnerability – TED Talk), she had compiled all of her research on women. ![]() So, for me, respect for women is in my DNA. ![]() It was easy, I was raised by three strong women and one absent (alcoholic) father. From birth, I was raised with the ultimate respect for women. We are taught a gentleman opens doors, holds chairs and stand when a woman enters the room. The hard part, the brave part, as a man is to not try and fix my partner’s issue.Īs men we are trained from birth to help women. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this captivating story of crisis and survival, Emily St. Years later, a victim of the fraud is hired to investigate a strange occurrence: a woman has seemingly vanished from the deck of a container ship between ports of call. Vincent, who had been posing as Jonathan's wife, walks away into the night. When the financial empire collapses, it obliterates countless fortunes and devastates lives. ![]() High above Manhattan, a greater crime is committed: Alkaitis is running an international Ponzi scheme, moving imaginary sums of money through clients' accounts. ![]() On the night she meets Jonathan Alkaitis, a hooded figure scrawls a message on the lobby's glass wall: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events-a massive Ponzi scheme collapse and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately Evie is nudged into steering her own course. McNamara ( Lovely, Dark and Deep, 2012) builds her cast-which is evidently all white aside from a minor character who mentions that he’s browner than his half siblings-largely from contrasting pairs, so readers who enjoy taking sides can, for instance, compare different parenting styles or Evie’s rival romantic interests. Evie, who is poorer than most of her classmates, the mousy one in the shadow of her charismatic best friend, finds herself suddenly cut loose when she does something Emma feels is a betrayal-but as soon as Evie starts to branch out, Emma reels her back into their lopsided relationship. Spun around what has become a largely one-way friendship between solid, reliable, introspective Evie and manipulative, thrill-seeking Emma, this soapy tale features the high school girls in repeated floods of tears over friendship drama, dangerous pranks, the drunken driving death of Emma’s older brother, a brief but torrid fling, a tendency to hesitate and overthink that threatens to sink Evie’s art school dreams, and unexpected changes in Evie’s family. ![]() New York teenagers whirl through laughs, tears, hookups, breakups, guilty secrets, and complicated friendships. ![]() ![]() ![]() One Lincolnshire report from the mid 19th century notes,Īt all weddings and funerals they give a piece of the wedding-cake or funeral biscuit to the bees, informing them at the same time of the name of the party married or dead. The custom is best known in England but has also been recorded in Ireland, Wales, Germany, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Bohemia and the United States. Little is known about the origins of this practice, although there is some unfounded speculation that it is loosely derived from or perhaps inspired by ancient Aegean notions about bees' ability to bridge the natural world and the afterlife. ![]() If the custom was omitted or forgotten and the bees were not "put into mourning" then it was believed a penalty would be paid, such as the bees leaving their hive, stopping the production of honey or dying. Telling the bees is a tradition in many European countries in which bees would be told of important events in their keeper's lives such as deaths, births, marriages and departures and returns in the household. Detail of Charles Napier Hemy's painting The Widow (1895) ![]() ![]() ![]() She eludes him for five years, but he has finally chased her to ground and stolen her enchanted jewel, giving him absolute power over her. Denying him, she flees, struggling to forget his searing, possessive kiss. Wroth provides her with the perfect opportunity to torment her sworn enemy-for with his new heartbeat comes a consuming sexual desire that can only be slaked by her. Coldly interested only in the power his Bride will bring, he can hardly believe when Myst the Coveted awakens him body-and soul.įamed throughout the world as the most beautiful Valkyrie, Myst has devoted her life to protecting a magical jewel and to fighting the vampires. Nikolai Wroth, a ruthless Vampire general, will stop at nothing to find his Bride, the one woman who can "blood" him, making his heart beat and filling him with strength. Discover a dark and wicked new world in Kresley Cole's remastered tale "The Warlord Wants Forever," the first scorching installment in her #1 New York Times bestselling Immortals After Dark series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Full Tilt is a story about what it means to love with your whole heart, to sacrifice, to experience terrible grief and soaring joy. Something deep and pure and life-changing.something as fragile as glass, that they both know will shatter in the end no matter how hard they try to hold on to it. But neither of them expected the deep connection they felt, or how that connection could grow so fast from friendship into something more. He lets her crash with him for a few days to dry out and get her head on straight. ![]() Jonah sees that Kacey is on a path to self-destruction. His plans include seeing the opening of his glass installation at a prestigious art gallery.they do not include falling in love with a wild, tempestuous rock musician who wound up passed out on his couch. He knows his situation is hopeless, and he's vowed to make the most of the handful of months he has left to him. She wakes up with the hangover from hell and no memory of the night before, or how she ended up on her limo driver's couch. A wrecked concert in Las Vegas threatens to ruin her career entirely. But she is torn between wanting to be a serious musician, and the demons that lure her down the glittering, but alcohol-soaked path of rock stardom. And now, as lead guitarist for a hot up-and-coming band, she is poised at the brink of fame and fortune. "I would love you forever, if I only had the chance." Kacey Dawson has always lived life on the edge-impulsively, sometimes recklessly. ![]() ![]() ![]() He settles in a nearby monastery for 20 years, during which time he barely ages a day. ![]() Alobar meets the Bandaloop in the Himalayan mountains but does not find them immediately helpful. ![]() Both Pan and Kudra are familiar with death and express a desire for some alternative to it. In his travels East, Alobar meets the Greek god Pan and an eight-year-old Hindu girl named Kudra. With the advice of a shaman, he sets off for the country of the Bandaloop because, he is told, they have discovered the secrets of immortality. Alobar decides that he would prefer never to die. After a year, however, another set of arbitrary norms threaten to cut his life short. ![]() This attempt fails, and he escapes with one of the members of his harem, settling down in a distant village. It is customary to kill and replace the king at the first sign of decline, so Alobar attempts to hide the evidence. Though the book opens on these modern-day characters’ lives, they take second stage in Parts 1 through 3 and return to the narrative’s forefront in Part 4.Ī thousand years in the past, King Alobar, the ruler of a small, proto-Bohemian kingdom, discovers signs that he is aging. They all receive anonymous deliveries of beets. Claude and Marcel, members of the famous LeFever family, run a perfume corporation in Paris. Lily Devalier runs a small parfumerie in New Orleans with the assistance of V’lu. Priscilla Partido, a quick-witted waitress, lives in Seattle. The novel quickly introduces the main characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the deputy chief of staff to former Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), Jentleson had a front-row seat to the Republican Party’s obstructionism during the Obama years, from basic gun reform (which Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) helped defeat in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre) to the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court (which McConnell, again, helped defeat). So long as Democratic senators like Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) cling to the arcane Senate tradition of filibustering, the party is unlikely to pass major legislation on healthcare, immigration, infrastructure and more.Īdam Jentleson knows the stakes all too well. ” )ĭespite winning full control of the federal government for the first time since 2008, Democrats face a firm limit on how much they can accomplish in office. ” (Manchin then reiterated his commitment to the “involvement of the minority. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) offered a ray of hope for President Joe Biden’s nascent administration March 7 during an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press.Īsked whether he’d be willing to exempt certain forms of legislation from the filibuster - which functionally allows any senator to “veto” a bill that doesn’t have a 60-vote majority of support - the mercurially moderate Manchin answered: “If you want to make a little bit more painful - make him stand there and talk - I’m willing to look at. ![]() |