![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Ī "NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Uncovering the adolescent roots of issues that remain important to American women throughout their lives, this groundbreaking book challenges us to change the way we raise and educate girls. By taking us into the lives of real young women who are struggling with eating disorders, sexual harrassment, and declining academic achievement, Orenstein brings the disturbing statistics to life with the skill and flair of an experienced journalist. Inspired by an American Association of University Women survey that showed a steep decline in confidence as girls reach adolescence, Orenstein set out to explore the obstacles girls face-in school, in the hoime, and in our culture.įor this intimate, girls' eye view of the world, Orenstein spent months observing and interviewing eighth-graders from two ethnically disparate communities, seeking to discover what was causing girls to fall into traditional patterns of self-censorship and self-doubt. ![]() ![]() When Peggy Orenstein's now-classic examination of young girls and self-esteem was first published, it set off a groundswell that continues to this day. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ![]()
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![]() ![]() With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of black America.Ī friend of luminaries including Dr. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. 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For most of the history of mankind, sweet food would have been a handful of berries in autumn, or a lick of honey when someone was brave enough to knock down a wild bee’s nest. So, firstly we have the story of the apple, which fulfills our need for sweetness, something which seems almost primal. The book centres on four human desires, and the plants that encapsulate them. I’ve found it a fascinating read, one of those where you interrupt your partner’s book about the Vietnam War to regale him with facts about the arrival of the apple in the US or the way that prohibition and the war on drugs in the US led to the development of much stronger marijuana in Europe. Indeed, it took one of my friends buying ‘The Botany of Desire – A Plant’s-Eye View of the World’ for me as a birthday present for me to actually read it. ![]() Dear Readers, I’m a bit late to the party here: my friends have been raving about ‘The Omnivore’s Dilemma’ and this book for quite some time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Revealing that Tonio is actually his illegitimate son, he has Tonio castrated, and sends him off with Guido to study in Naples.Īlthough everyone in Venice is inclined to believe that Carlo was behind his castration, Tonio cannot accuse him of the crime because doing so would result in the extinction of the Treschi family. Although Andrea attempts to cut Carlo out of the family, Carlo returns after Andrea's death, and plots to regain his original position. Tonio, on the other hand, learns that his older brother Carlo was exiled for embarrassing the family. After a suicide attempt, he becomes a music teacher in the Naples conservatorio. Although Guido becomes a star of the opera as a teenager, he loses his voice at eighteen, as many castrati did. ![]() Set in eighteenth-century Italy, Cry to Heaven focuses on two characters, peasant-born Guido Maffeo, who is castrated at the age of six to preserve his soprano voice, and fifteen-year-old Tonio Treschi, the last son of a noble family from the Republic of Venice, whose father, Andrea, is a member of the Council of Three of La Serenissima. Taking place in eighteenth-century Italy, it follows the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a maestro from Calabria, both trying to succeed in the world of the opera. ![]() Cry to Heaven is a novel by American author Anne Rice published by Alfred A. ![]() ![]() Scott explores the strengths and weaknesses of classic and contemporary perspectives on the problem of evil and invites readers to assess the cogency and relevance of each on their own. Scott reinvigorates stalled debates in philosophy and theology through a detailed reassessment of the problem of evil and the task of theodicy and through a careful analysis of the major models and motifs in theodicy. In Pathways in Theodicy, designed for students and scholars alike, Mark S. Academic studies on theodicy, moreover, typically succumb to theological deficiency and abstraction, often devoid of any concrete connection to Christian life and practice. ![]() ![]() Why does God permit senseless suffering? If God is good and all-powerful, why does evil exist? The problem of evil perennially vexes theology, but many theologians have abandoned the project of theodicy, or the theological explanation of evil, as either fruitless or hopeless. ![]() ![]() ![]() During The Chocolate Soldier’s run, few theaters were willing to produce Arms and the Man-and Shaw’s wallet took a hit.ĭuring his lifetime, several producers and directors told Shaw that Pygmalion might make for a terrific musical, but financial considerations kept him from letting anybody take a crack at converting it into one. ![]() But the success of this adaptation ultimately hurt the creator of its source material. In 1908, composer Oscar Straus amazed audiences with The Chocolate Soldier, an operetta based on Shaw’s 1894 play Arms and the Man. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW DIDN’T WANT PYGMALION TO GET THE MUSICAL THEATER TREATMENT. Similarly, the male lead in Shaw’s Pygmalion-phonetics professor Henry Higgins-tries to “sculpt” a lower-class working girl into a well-spoken English lady. A product of ancient Greek folklore, this character would later be immortalized by the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote about him in Book 10 of The Metamorphoses. Pygmalion is named after a mythical artist who supposedly sculpted an ideal woman-only to fall in love with the statue. Adapted from Shaw’s masterpiece, the new show dazzled critics and audiences alike-and, a few years later, was turned into an award winning movie featuring Audrey Hepburn. Here are a few facts about the crowd pleaser in honor of its birthday. ![]() Sixty years ago today, My Fair Lady made its Broadway debut. Then, in 1956, it was adapted into the definitive musical. For decades, George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion looked like a play that could never be turned into a musical. ![]() ![]() Like Shawn Coyne (in Story Grid, discussed here) and John Truby (in The Anatomy of Story, which I’ll cover in a future newsletter), Brody sets out to identify the key elements that all good stories have in common.īrody breaks these elements down into fifteen “beats,” following the methodology of Blake Snyder’s advice for screenwriters. ![]() While this is almost certainly not the last book on writing you’ll ever need, I do think that you should have it in your collection. I’ve been hearing buzz about Jessica Brody’s Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You'll Ever Need since it came out last fall. ![]() How’s the writing going? If you are stuck and need some creative solidarity, check out the Camp NaNoWriMo threads on Twitter ( You’ll find hundreds of other writers sprinting or stumbling along, trying to find their path. ![]() ![]() So, on this podcast, we’ll hear from experts working to change the legal profession and leaders who’ve developed creative solutions to complex problems in other fields. To develop fresh approaches to the way we educate lawyers and serve our clients, we need to open up the conversation. And students coming to law school today need new skills that turbocharge their legal education so that they can navigate the dynamic landscape that lies ahead. Our profession is full of bright, engaged lawyers working at the highest levels, but we frustrate many of those we want to serve because of the way we structured the practice of law in our legal systems. And now through the Future of the Profession Initiative, my colleagues and I focus all our energy on thinking about how to do just that. As an alum of the law school who practiced law for a decade in private sector and government practices, I realized there are so many ways we lawyers can better serve our clients. ![]() I’m Jennifer Leonard, Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Pennsylvania, Carey Law School. Every time I see someone like that, I get giddy and start moving in my seat and get excited because that person is going to grab that baton and move us forward. ![]() ![]() Jennifer: Dean Conway, what makes you optimistic about the future of the legal profession?ĭean Conway: Every prospective student who is willing to come into law school with an open mind and with a mission to serve above self. Follow us on social media! Find us on Facebook ![]() ![]() ![]() With their help, I developed a curatorial project and we showed it for the first time in Spain. A year later, I was in touch with Howard Greenberg, the gallerist responsible for Vivian Maier prints, and John Maloof, the collector who holds tens of thousands of Maier’s negatives. LC: What was your role in the discovery and eventual dissemination of Vivian Maier’s work?Īnne Morin: I first heard about Vivian Maier in 2011 and I have been very interested by her photographs ever since. Here is an edited version of the interview from 2014: Morin was also very generous to share with us, and the readers of LensCulture, 120 photographs from the exhibition. In July 2014, Jim Casper, editor-in-chief of LensCulture, spoke with Anne Morin, the curator of the great exhibition, “Vivian Maier: A Photographic Revelation” that was shown throughout Europe. The film about her and her life and photography was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards in 2015. From monographs to worldwide gallery exhibitions and the widespread release of a feature film (the second documentary produced about her life and her work), the attention that Maier’s story has generated is dwarfed only by the astounding quality of the photographs she left behind. Since the discovery and exposure of Vivian Maier’s work in 2009, this reclusive, mysterious figure-street photographer, nanny, visual genius-has been the subject of widespread acclaim and attention. ![]() |