![]() ![]() That’s forty-two individuals with the wealth of 3.7 billion people” (p. Another money-related fact “the richest forty-two people on the planet have as much money as the poorest half of the world’s population. Not surprisingly, it’s a disgustingly large discrepancy. ![]() how much someone in the ‘untouchable’ part of India’s caste system makes cleaning out latrines. She goes on to compare how much Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon earns each hour (even when sleeping) vs. “our worth–and how we (sic) much we sell our time for–more often than not has less to do with our intelligence, work ethic, or inherent abilities and more to do more (sic) with where on the planet we are born (p. But this book is so unsettling because it’s not just a result of some great research, it points out things that are widely known but that we’d rather not acknowledge. Further to that, Tong discusses the different sources of energy the world’s grid is powered by, a topic particularly relevant as wars (physical and verbal) are fought over where our future focus and investment should lie. Another interesting fact liquid leftover from whey in cheese-making is used to generate the town’s electricity in the town of Albertville, home to 1500 people. She begins the book by speaking about our connection with the natural world how our cells are connected to those of nature, the similarities between us and animals, and some fascinating random facts, including the point that dragonflies see in slow motion! (page 78). ![]()
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![]() ![]() As benevolent as he has been in a myriad of ways, God has remained aloof on this uncomplicated request." ―Beth MooreĪll My Knotted-Up Life is a beautifully crafted portrait of resilience and survival, a poignant reminder of God's enduring faithfulness, and proof positive that if we ever truly took the time to hear people's full stories. ![]() I was just trying to make it here in the meantime. God could do what he wanted with eternity. All My Knotted-Up Life is told with surprising candor about some of the personal heartbreaks and behind-the-scenes challenges that have marked Beths life. I've wanted to know this about myself as much as anyone. All my knotted-up life I've longed for the sanity and simplicity of knowing who's good and who's bad. We go from knowing each other better than we know ourselves to barely sure if we know each other at all, to precisely sure that we don't. "It's a peculiar thing, this having lived long enough to take a good look back. An incredibly thoughtful, disarmingly funny, and intensely vulnerable glimpse into the life and ministry of a woman familiar to many but known by few. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fox belongs to a group called the Institute of the Sublime - and Ruby can't stay away from him. ![]() ![]() He understands what she's going through and he offers her a chance to feel peace. Her family has been torn apart and it's all her fault.The only thing that makes sense to her is Fox - a gentle new friend who is wise, soulful and clever, yet oddly naive about the ways of the world. And it's only after she's drawn into its web that she learns its sinister secrets. Her search leads her into a community that seems guided by love. Ruby Jane Galbraith is an ordinary girl seeking peace in the wake of family tragedy. The boundless sublime / Lili Wilkinson Book Bib IDīook, Online - Google Books ![]() ![]() ![]() I could list the positives for every actor and their character, literally the casting (and execution) seems perfect at this point (through episode seven). Aubrey Plaza's performance is delightfully off-beat and maniacal. As SONY/Fox has often mis-stepped with the X- Men and its creative use of characters and story lines, LEGION seems to be avoiding the potholes, while creating a new amalgam of story from the past to forging ahead with a cohesive story. ![]() I'm a comic book geek from the 1980's, but Noah Hawley seems like he has more than his ducks in a row for this project. His ambitious, multi-volume epics ( Mistborn, The Stormlight Archive) and Hugo Award-winning The Emperor’s Soul have earned both critical acclaim and a substantial popular following. The story is vague & intriguing from the beginning with growing enchantment as the episodes stack-up. Brandon Sanderson is one of the most significant fantasists to enter the field in a good many years. I first knowingly crossed his path in The Guest & have not looked back since (comparable with Matthew McConaughey in Killer Joe). Dan Stevens is a force of nature, in this story he literally is & his screen presence is a growing maelstrom. You do not need them in a review of this show. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m gonna go talk to that girl and tell her that she’s a girl,” Maria decides shortly after they cross paths. He’s intrigued by Maria’s rock-star vibe she becomes convinced that he’s actually a trans woman in desperate need of saving from his dissociative male façade. After her girlfriend dumps her and she loses her job and apartment, Maria does what any of us would do: She steals her ex’s car, snags a bunch of heroin, and road-trips out West - where she meets a small-town Nevada Walmart clerk named James H. It follows Maria Griffiths, a conflict-averse, often inebriated trans woman who sucks at communicating in every aspect of her life except when she’s blogging. Nevada opens in New York sometime immediately post–Great Recession. ![]() ![]() Now, some twenty-odd years later, this book stands as both a classic and a still-revolutionary work-one that continues to push us gently but profoundly to the furthest borders of the gender frontier. Gender Outlaw was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. It basically asks three questions, what is a man, what is a woman, and why do we have to be one or the other. ![]() But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions. Kate: It’s called Gender Outlaw, on Men, Women and the Rest of Us. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein's transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. Buy a discounted Hardcover of Gender Outlaw online from Australias leading. The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. Booktopia has Gender Outlaw, On Men, Women and the Rest of Us by Kate Bornstein. ![]() ![]() and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either. ![]() ![]() More Than This by Jay Mclean - 9781477820384 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. I wonder what events in all our lives-hers included-are The Turning Points? The points where we all determine that the fear of our pasts and the uncertainty of our futures are greater than our need for happiness. More Than This by Jay Mclean, 9781477820384, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. ![]() Tatiana Sokolov narrates a variety of fiction but especially likes saucy romances. ![]() Jay lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where she can be found running after her two little boys. ![]() I’m grateful he showed up on my doorstep,Īnd I don’t just mean here on this journey with him. Jay McLean is the internationally bestselling author of the More Than Series, the Road series, and the Combative trilogy. More Than Enough is book five in the More Than series and may be read as a standalone, though it is recommended to read in series order. ![]() ![]() And you’re marked Anya Volkov, it’s already too late for you. It ain’t easy to leave a mark on this place, but it sure leaves a mark on you. It’s survived plagues and winters cold enough to freeze your heart in your very chest. The Butchers of the London mob who run an empire built on sin and greed. This city’s been burned to the ground, bombed by the Luftwaffe, and still she stands. This is a special cover paperback edition of Forget-Me-Not Bombshell which includes a DIGITAL SIGNATURE from and Wallstreet Journal 1 bestselling authors Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti I was sold to my enemies. This city was a kingdom of brutality, from the cutthroat royals who publicly executed countless unfortunate sods at Tower Hill, to louts like Jack the Ripper who spilled the guts of his victims all over Whitechapel - the very place you find yourself in right now. ![]() She’s beauty and fucking grace, darlin’, and she’ll leave her mark on you forever now, because you’ve already placed your feet upon her pavements, and once you walk in the footsteps of the people who’ve lived here, it’ll alter you in ways you can’t even imagine yet. ![]() She’s opportunity and history and culture. ![]() ![]() She’s the conqueror of the old world and the streets of this here London Town weave spells around those from foreign lands. “She’s a country forged in pain and glory, her soil is tainted with the blood of those who fought and died for her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My interest is in ways that the series reflects certain aspects of Australian culture and history and, in particular, how inclusive the series has been in representing Indigenous Australian ways of seeing this history. Abstract: The Glitch is a six-part television series first aired on the Australian public broadcast network, the ABC, in July 2015. ![]() This text may be archived and redistributed both in electronic form and in hard copy, provided that the author and journal are properly cited and no fee is charged. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both an insight into Joyce’s life and childhood, and a unique work of modernist fiction, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to fully come into themselves. The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus’s Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also an oblique self-portrait of the young James Joyce and a universal testament to the artist’s ‘eternal imagination’. ![]() This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Seamus Deane. Playful and experimental, James Joyce’s autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. ![]() |