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![]() ![]() It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. ![]() “Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction.” - Esquire, Best Books of 2022Ī “carefully researched and reported work of cultural history” ( The New York Times) that explores how one body part has influenced the female-and human-experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. “Winning, cheeky, and illuminating….What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke’s intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise.” - The Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruth moved from New York City to Canada since it was an easier place to care for her sick husband and dying mother but now feels the move was “a withdrawal” and is finding it hard to write. ![]() Nao wants to “drop out of time” so does her father, a computer programmer who spent 10 years in California’s Silicon Valley before the dot-com bust apparently sent the family back to Tokyo and subjected Nao to vicious bullying at school. The book contains 16-year-old Nao’s diary, bound within the covers of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time-and that’s no accident, since both funny, grieving Nao and blocked, homesick Ruth are obsessed with time: how it passes, how we live in it. On the beach of an island off British Columbia’s coast, Ruth finds a Hello Kitty lunchbox containing a stack of letters and a red book. Ozeki’s magnificent third novel ( All Over Creation, 2003, etc.) brings together a Japanese girl’s diary and a transplanted American novelist to meditate on everything from bullying to the nature of conscience and the meaning of life. ![]() ![]() We've now realized that the mapping of the human genome has yielded many beautiful computer models but little else. 102) An approach that ironically is quite opposed to the study of life. ![]() From a biology textbook quoted by Capra, "One of the acid tests of understanding an object is the ability to put it together from its component parts. Our biologists had taken a mechanistic view of life. ![]() While physicists were busy revolutionizing our outlook on the fundamentals of the universe, the mechanistic paradigm of the past had already taken hold on the methods of every other field. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll be moderating a very interesting discussion at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Gender Forum Knowledge Lab entitled “Promoting Women Leadership in Technology through Innovation in Higher Education and TVET (technical and vocational education and training)” - today, Nov. ![]() This negatively affects not only the government's efforts to achieve gender equity, but also the economic growth rate of the entire society. Women are still under-represented in technology fields such as computing, digital information technology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The digital revolution is disproportionately affecting women but it is also an opportunity for them to prepare for future jobs. ![]() Did you know that only 35% of STEM (Science, technology, engineering, and math) students in higher education globally are women, with differences observed within STEM disciplines? ![]() ![]() ![]() Her straightforward, often poetic account of immense anguish, separation from her husband, and struggle for freedom inflamed public opinion during a period when stormy debates on abolition were common in both the United States and England. ![]() The first black woman to break the bonds of slavery in the British colonies and publish a record of her experiences, Prince vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England. Subjected to bodily and sexual abuse by subsequent masters, she was bought and sold several times before she was ultimately freed. Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering experiences in her life when she was separated from her parents and siblings at the age of twelve. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Joanna Basford's Secret Garden is an 'inky treasure hunt and colouring book' filled with intricate drawings waiting to be brought to life. These intricate, magical drawings from Secret Garden by Johanna Basford are just waiting to be brought to life.' The Guardian It has been translated into over 44 languages. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book was her first book. Johanna Basford has sold over 21 million books worldwide. Use felt tip pens to add a splash of colour or a black pen with a fine nib to create your own doodles and details. There are pictures to colour, mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. This interactive colouring book takes you on a ramble through a garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations by Johanna Basford. ![]() Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yvonne Rudellat was born Yvonne Claire Cerneau on 11 January 1897 at Maisons-Lafitte, near Paris, France. She was "fast becoming a demolition expert" at the time of her capture. Foot, described Rudellat as "cheerful" and "fluffy" and with "steady nerves and good sense." As a courier she traveled widely around the Loire river valley to deliver messages and to participate in sabotage operations against facilities important to the Germans. The official historian of the SOE, M.R.D. She died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp a few days after the liberation of the camp by the allies. She worked as a courier for the Prosper or Physician network (or circuit) from August 1942 until June 1943, when she was captured by the Germans and imprisoned. Rudellat was the first female SOE-trained agent to go to France (although preceded by Virginia Hall who as an American entered Vichy France legally as a journalist ). SOE agents allied themselves with French Resistance groups and supplied them with weapons and equipment parachuted in from England. ![]() The purpose of SOE in occupied France was to conduct espionage, sabotage and reconnaissance. Yvonne Claire Rudellat, MBE, (née Cerneau, born, France, 11 January 1897 – died, 23 or 24 April 1945), code name Jacqueline, was an agent of the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in World War II. ![]() Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany ![]() ![]() ![]() Pamela Riordan has grieved her lost husband for three long years but has forged a new life for herself in his absence. With little knowledge of his past, he fears the secrets which might well bring danger to his family, and the question he must answer for himself-whether a man can ever truly return home when he is no longer the man he once was. The story opens in the winter of 1978 when Casey Riordan returns from three years in exile to find the world he left behind has changed. So begins Where Butterflies Dream, the fifth book in the award-winning Exit Unicorns series. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine-an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on… The map is worn at the folds¬-sometimes right through-and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. ![]() From the author of the award-winning Flights of Angels comes the fourth book in the Exit Unicorns series.Įach of us carries within a map of memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan's storytelling talent and his atmospheric, hard-hitting prose make this a strong addition to mature fantasy collections." - Library Journal "Spellbinding. Praise for The Steel Remains "The award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Market Forces brings the same iconoclastic approach to his fantasy debut as he did to his sf technothrillers. But with heroes like these, the cure is likely to be worse than the disease. Now Gil and two old comrades are all that stand in the way of a prophecy whose fulfillment will drown an entire world in blood. ![]() Some speak in whispers of the return of the Aldrain, a race of widely feared, cruel yet beautiful demons. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath-Gil, for short-a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. "Bold, brutal, and making no compromises-Morgan doesn't so much twist the clichés of fantasy as take an axe to them."-Joe Abercrombie A dark lord will rise. ![]() |