5/12/2023 0 Comments Excluded by julia serano![]() ![]() All this to help you understand something that is so commonly misunderstood, but something we all think we get: gender. Sam dissects gender using a comprehensive, non-binary toolkit, with a focus on making this subject accessible and enjoyable. It is a few hundred pages of gender exploration, social justice how-tos, practical resources, and fun graphics & comics. Where do we start, when it comes to learning about something that's everywhere, infused into everything, and is often one of the primary lenses through which we see ourselves and others? When it comes to understanding gender, it's best to begin with deep breath, then with section one of this book by social justice advocate Sam Killermann, who uses clear language, helpful examples, and a bit of humor to help the medicine go down.This book is not overwhelming, it's not overly complicated, and it's not exhausting to read. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There are at least five spirits wandering the space you’re in now. There will always be something hovering or passing through, though most things that hover and pass are as interested in you as you are in earthworms. At the very least, there are a hundred insects within spitting distance of you and a few trillion bacteria on everything you touch. Most folk think they are alone and, as usual, they are mistaken. People stare a lot, break wind all the time, and touch their genitals much too much. As action-packed as your post-death party has been, most of it is spent watching people staring at things. ![]() ![]() Long periods of boredom interspersed with short bursts of terror. “Being a ghost isn’t that different to being a war photographer. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Stormbringer michael moorcock![]() ![]() The cursed nature of the sword adds to Elric's guilt and self-loathing, even as he feels pleasure when the stolen lifeforce enters his body. Stormbringer's hunger for souls is such that it frequently betrays Elric by creating a bloodlust in his mind, turning in his hands and killing friends and lovers. Elric loathes the sword but is almost helpless without the strength and vitality it confers on him. Its most distinctive features are that it has a mind and will of its own, and that it feeds upon the souls of those it kills. ![]() Stormbringer's edge is capable of cutting through virtually any material not protected by potent sorcery, and it can drink the soul from (and thereby kill) any unprotected living creature upon delivering any wound, even a scratch. ![]() This powerful enchanted black blade is a member of a demon race that takes on the form of a sword, and as such is an agent of Chaos. In the four novellas collected in the 1965 book Stormbringer, the sword's true nature is revealed. Stormbringer makes its first appearance in the 1961 novella The Dreaming City. It is wielded by the doomed albino emperor Elric of Melniboné. It is described as a huge, black sword covered with strange runes, created by the forces of Chaos with its own will. Stormbringer is a magic sword featured in a number of fantasy stories by the author Michael Moorcock. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Kill switch adam jentleson![]() ![]() ![]() Given the obstruction that his COVID relief bill has already faced, there are increasing calls, particularly from the left, to abolish the filibuster and use this new opportunity to push through a raft of rprogressive legislation, ranging from a new voting rights act to a raise to the minimum wage.Īs Adam Jentleson reveals in his new book, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, this state of affairs didn’t come out of nowhere. Even as I write this, there is consternation among many on the left that the Republicans in the Senate-joined by moderate Democrats Joe Manchina of West Virginia and Krysten Sinema of Arizona-will become significant stumbling blocks to President Joe Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda. Though this has been the case for quite some time-ever since Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky announced that the goal of his caucus was to make Barack Obama a one term president-it’s become increasingly clear with each passing year and each legislative debacle. It’s no secret that the United States Senate is, in a word, broken. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Nausee sartre![]() In his isolation, Roquentin suffers from the nausea, as he calls it – a sense of overwhelming sickness at the knowledge that he exists in a world rife with other things and people existing. This is the extent of Roquentin’s contact with other human life. He makes love without emotion to a local café owner occasionally, and, as he goes about his research, shares small pleasantries with a fellow library user who he has named ‘the Autodidact’ and who is reading his way through Bouville’s complete library alphabetically. Through Nausea’s narrative, written as Roquentin’s diary, it becomes clear that Roquentin leads an empty existence, spending his days working through papers in the local library, and his evenings in cafes and restaurants – all of this in suffocating isolation. Having travelled the world, he has settled on writing a biography of the Marquis de Rollebon, a minor figure in the French Revolution, in the hope that the book, once finished, will afford him some form of legacy that will transcend his mortal existence. Roquentin, a man on the brink of his thirtieth birthday, is undertaking a scholarly project in the small town of Bouville (modelled on Le Havre). ![]() ![]() ![]() Nausea (1938), La Nausée in the original French, is Jean-Paul Sartre’s first novel and an exploration of his early thoughts on existentialism through the meandering existence of one man. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Situated at the crossroads between East and West, Iran has been marked by its encounters with other cultures and has influenced them with its own. "And beyond the stereotyping which still continues today, there has always been considerable mutual influence and interaction between Iran and the West." "It is my hope that Iran in World History will help remind readers that, since the time of the ancient Greeks, Iran has been the civilization against which the West defined itself," says Foltz, a professor in the Department of Religion. Encompassing religion, literature, the arts and politics, his new book provides a comprehensive history of one of the most influential civilizations, and gives compelling examples of its continuing role in the world today. That's what Concordia researcher Richard Foltz reminds readers in Iran in World History (Oxford University Press). Home of one of the most ancient and enduring civilizations, Iran has been at the nexus of world history for the past 3,000 years. Montreal, Decem- In recent days, Iran has made headlines for issues including a nuclear deal with Russia, human rights violations and the imprisonment of a Western journalist.īut the news from Iran hasn't always been bad. This news release is available in French. Image: The new book by Richard Foltz is shown. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Hollowland by Amanda Hocking![]() Dynamite Entertainment presents Amanda Hocking’s The Hollows: A Hollowland graphic novel. But for five people – siblings Remy and Max King, med student Blue Adams, rockstar Lazlo Durante and teenager Harlow Smith – it’s the start of a journey that they can never return from! Learn for the first time how the characters of Hollowland started their journeys as we go back to the very beginning of the story. ![]() It’s Day One as a new pandemic sweeps the globe, and all over the world people are turning into mindless zombies. Welcome to the world of the best selling novel Hollowland as never seen before – adapted and enhanced by #1 New York Times bestseller Tony Lee ( X-Men Unlimited, Doctor Who), with superb artwork by Steve Uy ( Avengers Initiative, JSA Classified). ![]() ![]() Now I am going to answer a few questions that you may have. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Cosmos pale blue dot![]() "There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world," wrote Sagan when the iconic image was first revealed to the world. It was his idea for Voyager to turn around and take the opportunity to image Earth and its companions before its mission to the edges of the Solar System took it too far away. ![]() Sagan himself was instrumental in the photo being taken. At Sagans request, NASA commanded its Voyager 1 spacecraft to turn its camera on Earth, creating an image that came to be known as the ' Pale Blue Dot ,' one of the most famous pictures of. The term “Pale Blue Dot” was coined by Sagan as he reflected on the significance of the photograph, which portrays Earth as a small, insignificant dot in what appears to be a beam of light (but is actually lens flare) in a vast cosmos. ![]() ![]() Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot: A Vision Of The Human Future In Space was published in 1994, inspired by the famous 1990 Pale Blue Dot photograph taken by the Voyager 1 space probe before it traveled out of the Solar System and into interstellar space. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Amanda hocking kanin chronicles![]() ![]() Her boss Ridley Dresden is overseeing the mission, but as their undeniable attraction heats up, their relationship is about to reach a whole new level, one neither of them is prepared for.Īs they delve deeper into the Skojare world, they begin to unravel a long hidden secret. Being half Skojare herself, it's also a chance for her to learn more about her lost heritage. The Skojare people need protection from the same brutal enemy that's been threatening the Kanin, and Bryn is there to help. It's a dream that brings her to a whole new realm… The glittering palace of the Skojare. In the majestic halls of a crystal palace lies a secret that could destroy an entire kingdom…īryn Aven refuses to give up on her dream of serving the kingdom she loves. ![]() ![]() She lived way out in the boonies with no nearby neighbors. In the nine months North Carolina had been her home, she had heard some creepy animal calls, but that one had sounded downright human.Ĭouldn't have been. ![]() The sky had gone from black to charcoal gray, a harbinger of sunrise that did little to alleviate the gloom. ![]() The hair on the back of her neck rising, Sarah Bingham surveyed the meadow around her. "Ī strident screech pierced the predawn quiet. "This is a great beginning to an exciting new series. " Electrifying, Funny, Lust-inducing, and Inventive. Sarah is everything that I want in a paranormal romance woman. Darkness Dawns starts out with a bang and continues at a fast, gripping pace that never disappointed." " Duvall masterfully entwines romance and danger for a fresh take on the paranormal. " Action-packed world building and a hero daring all for love makes Darkness Dawns one of the most fascinating romances I've read all year. "Filled with sexy men and plenty of action, Darkness Dawns kept me turning the pages well past my bedtime. ![]() "This is a strong start in what looks to be a thrilling and chilling new paranormal series. ![]() |