![]() ![]() It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood. While Federici’s writing is quite straightforward, she references many ideas that will probably be new to many readers, especially if they’ve not read similar books before. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. Depending on the edition, Caliban & The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation is between 200-240 pages long, and it is divided into five chapters. ![]() a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomĪ cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Federici has become a crucial figure for. Caliban and the Witch Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation Silvia Federici. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In this powerful, disturbing, and timely novel, Ladee Hubbard reveals who people actually are, and most importantly, who and what they are not. Elegantly written and exhaustively researched, The Rib King is an unsparing examination of America’s fascination with Black iconography and exploitation that redefines African American stereotypes in literature. Hubbard works to deconstruct painful African American stereotypes and offers a fresh and searing critique on race, class, privilege, ambition, exploitation, and the seeds of rage in America in this intricately woven and masterfully executed historical novel, set in the early twentieth century, that centers around the Black servants of a down-on-its heels upper-class white family. Join Gulf South Writer in the Woods Ladee Hubbard and culinary historian Jessica Harris for a discussion of Hubbard’s new novel, The Rib King (HarperCollins 1/19/21) on Tuesday, Januat 6pm CT, register here. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Kirsten miller jason segel![]() ![]() So, I know what you're thinking - how is this different from Ready Player One? To be honest, it's not that different. It isn't until Kat has a life-threatening accident that Simon learns that Otherworld is not the game he thought it was - it's the next stage of reality - and the in-game actions have real-life consequences. ![]() Kat is hiding something, Simon knows it, but he just can't figure out what it is. Unsuccessful, Simon tries to reach out to her at school. After sending Kat a headset, Simon goes into the game to find her. So he turns to the Otherworld - a virtual reality game that allows users to interact with the world in new and exciting ways. Greeted by her new step-father, Simon is told Kat isn't seeing anyone. After being sent away to boarding school, Simon returns after a bit of a run-in with the FBI and immediately goes looking for Kat. This story follows Simon, a teenager who is trying to re-connect with his childhood best friend, Kat. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The invisible circus book![]() ![]() ![]() Like a more internalized Iris Murdoch, Egan doesn't let a character abruptly graduate to peace, acceptance, comfort - she'll describe, e.g., a Zen moment that Phoebe experiences, and then slap her right back down into misery, the way real life works. One thing Egan does beautifully that I really appreciate is to not tie anything up neatly. By the end, Phoebe has shed a great deal of her naivite and bravely come to face painful truths about her family and her idealization of them and of the flower-child generation she just missed growing up in. One scene on the beach with the sisters and the dying father made me put the book down for a few days - the narrator's childhood memory was so real and painful. Started off a bit rough but it's smooth now, and quite vivid. ![]() Set in 1970s San Francisco and Europe, where the protagonist traces her sister's footsteps. Egan's freshman novel, about a girl who, along with her widowed mother, is frozen in time since the suicide of her hippie sister the decade before. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments English Bengali Reading Comprehension Workbook for 1st 2nd 3r... by Jennifer Rose![]() ![]() Identify metaphors and similes in short stories. Make predictions based on what you have read. Identify statements as being fact (real) or fiction (make-believe).ĭistinguish between fact and opinion in selected texts. Study cause and effect relationships described in a text. Use context clues to guess the meaning of new words ![]() Place events in their natural sequence based on a text.Īnalyze characters, settings, plots and author's purpose.ĭraw conclusions and make inferences from short texts. Identify the main idea and supporting details of short texts. Identify how story elements (characters, plot details, etc) are alike or different. A sampling from our series of leveled stories workbooks.įables and historic passages followed by comprehension exercises. ![]() Stories leveled from A-Z with respect to reading difficulty. For early grades, most exercises focus on recalling information directly from the text. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. ![]() Short stories, passages or poems followed by reading comprehension exercises. Buy English French Reading Comprehension Workbook for 1st 2nd 3rd Grade: Essential Test-Prep Exercises to Teach Your Kids (Reading Comprehension Workbooks for Kids) by Rose, Jennifer (ISBN: 9798645232085) from Amazon's Book Store. Below you will find links to over 200 children's stories as well as reading worksheets focused on specific reading skills. Our reading comprehension worksheets help kids improve comprehension skills. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To the surprise of both the veteran “Dogs” and her fellow “puppies,” Beka requests duty in the Lower City. This is the beginning of her story, her legend, and her legacy….īeka Cooper is a rookie with the law-enforcing Provost’s Guard, commonly known as “the Provost’s Dogs,” in Corus, the capital city of Tortall. Hundreds of years before Alanna first drew her sword in Tamora Pierce’s memorable debut, Alanna: The First Adventure, Tortall had a heroine named Beka Cooper – a fierce young woman who fights crime in a world of magic. This month, for the inaugural Old School Wednesday Readalong, we’re discussing Terrier by Tamora Pierce!įor every readalong book, we’ll structure this a little bit differently than our usual Joint Review faire – first, we’ll give our (brief!) opinions regarding the book, then we’ll tackle some discussion questions. In March 2013, we asked YOU for your favorite old school suggestions – and the response was so overwhelmingly awesome, we decided to compile a goodreads shelf, an ongoing database, AND a monthly readalong/book club. What better way to snap out of a reading fugue than to take a mini-vacation into the past? We came up with the idea towards the end of 2012, when both Ana and Thea were feeling exhausted from the never-ending inundation of New and Shiny (and often over-hyped) books. Old School Wednesdays Old School Wednesdays is a weekly Book Smuggler feature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Very compelling history, a less compelling thesis ![]() The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and Shakespeare, and even Thomas Jefferson. That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic by Lucretius-a beautiful poem containing the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late 30s took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with excitement what he had discovered, and ordered that it be copied. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. ![]() Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt’s works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Up the down staircase author![]() ![]() His grandfather, George Edmund Haynes, was the founder of the National Urban League and a protégé of eminent black sociologist W. ![]() All four great-grandparents on his father's side owned land in the South as early as 1880. In many ways, Haynes's family defied the odds. As an authority on race and urban communities, Haynes brings unique sociological insights to the American mobility saga and the tenuous nature of status and success among the black middle class. Haynes and Syma Solovitch capture the tides of change that pushed blacks forward through the twentieth century-the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, the early civil rights victories, the Black Power and Black Arts movements-as well as the many forces that ravaged black communities, including Haynes's own. Down the Up Staircase tells the story of one Harlem family across three generations, connecting its journey to the historical and social forces that transformed Harlem over the past century. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments The giver stars![]() She’s sustained by her friendships with the other women, especially the brash, self-sufficient Margery O’Hare, and the appreciation of the isolated families she serves. She finds respite in riding with the women of the new WPA-sponsored horseback library. Alice Wright escapes her stifling English family by marrying an American, but this choice leads to further misery in the rural Kentucky household of her unaffectionate husband and his domineering father, the owner of the local coal mine. ![]() ![]() An adventure story grounded in female competence and mutual support, and an obvious affection for the popular literature of the early 20th century, give this Depression-era novel plenty of appeal. ![]() ![]() ![]() I learned a lot about my own ableism and ableist assumptions through this book. She writes with openness and intelligence and invites readers into her world, which made Care Work such a compelling read. She writes about so many important topics, including the importance of accessibility and how we should strive beyond accessibility too, the ways that we should honor and celebrate femme labor and pain as opposed to devaluing it, and questioning the survivor-industrial complex that states that survivors of abuse or trauma have to present a certain way to receive respect and dignity. ![]() In Care Work, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha delves deep into the realities and politics of disability justice, a movement that centers sick and disabled queer and trans Black and brown people. One of the most mind-expanding and heart-opening books I have ever read. ![]() |