![]() It is a short book that articulates what about the veil, from the hijab to the burqa, can be so damaging to women, their identities and everyday lives.Ĭentral to Lazreg’s argument against the veil is the assertion that veiling is not solely a religious act. ![]() Her manifesto flies in the face of the elites and scholars who have reclaimed the veil as a symbol of women’s liberation and agency. They are a series of powerful anecdotes, beginning with one about Lazreg’s own mother, who could not leave the house without her veil to protect her daughter from bullies. The letters that make up Questioning the Veil are a personal appeal for women to shed the veil. A sociology professor at Hunter College, City University of New York, she grew up in a Muslim family in Algeria. To Marnia Lazreg, the issue is of utmost importance – she is a soldier in the trenches. ![]() The way Muslim women dress has raised much anxiety in the world, enough for France to ban headscarves in public schools and Saudi Arabia to require that women cover themselves head to toe. If Muslim women’s bodies represent the war of ideas about Islam, the veil is the greatest battleground. Questioning the Veil: Open Letters to Muslim Women ![]()
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![]() This Professor Andrew Martin is here for one purpose only – to destroy all record of this achievement. The real Professor Martin solved one of the great conundrums of mathematics, which would in time have far reaching consequences…not necessarily a good thing…at least in some eyes. ![]() He is found wandering around the streets of Cambridge, naked, in the guise of Professor Andrew Martin. It is now that is important.Įssentially this is about an alien visiting the earth. Relationships often do, but we keep looking too far ahead – we don’t realise that the past has gone, the future never arrives. The stuff we keep in our wallets, purses, back pockets, behind the settee, in jars, tins and the like just doesn’t do it. Our quest for happiness and how, fundamentally we get it all wrong. If I do, I usually have at least two copies – one for bath-reading, the second for keeping in mint condition to be read with care. I don’t often take books into the bath, for just this reason. ![]() Sadly the copy I bought is now wrinkled and slightly bowed, having fallen in the bath. Perhaps the third Matt Haig volume I have read. My friend Martina, who sadly no longer works with us, suggested I read this one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Of all the fun I've had this year with the Scandinavian canon, The Keeper of Lost Causes is the one I'd be most eager-and reluctant-to loan. Ah, but there is more, so much more in this frenzied thriller.” - The New York Times Book Review “ sordid tale.inspired by actual events during a dark period of Danish history. Maybe its the translator that adds a more of UK dimension, so the novel comes out like more of a cross between a powerful Ian Rankin character dipped into a. But she isn’t dead.yet.ĭarkly humorous, propulsive, and atmospheric, The Keeper of Lost Causes introduces American readers to the mega-bestselling series fast becoming an international sensation. His colleagues snicker, but Carl may have the last laugh, because one file keeps nagging at him: a liberal politician vanished five years earlier and is presumed dead. ![]() But Department Q is a department of one, and Carl’s got only a stack of cold cases for company. So a promotion is the last thing he expects. Then a hail of bullets destroyed the lives of two fellow cops, and Carl-who didn’t draw his weapon-blames himself. Ĭarl Mørck used to be one of Denmark’s best homicide detectives. Get to know the detective in charge of Copenhagen's coldest cases in the first electrifying Department Q mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sloane has a stable job, a quaint cottage, a passion for baking that might just be turning into a business, and a huge crush on brooding security guard Walker Ironside. Hidden and safe from Callie’s dangerous father, Sloane is satisfied with their new lives. Or that a decade later she’d escape from California with her daughter, Callie, to start over in the Scottish Highlands. ![]() Sloane never imagined she’d get pregnant at sixteen. What he doesn’t need is distraction in the form of the enticing but too-young newcomer, single mother Sloane Harrow. If not happy, Walker is content working with the elite security at the club and maintaining his bachelor lifestyle. To a village in the Scottish Highlands that plays host to an exclusive members-only club, Ardnoch Estate. Yet after years of traveling the world as a bodyguard, Walker misses his homeland enough to return. It’s been a long time since Walker Ironside left behind Scotland and the memories that haunt him. ![]() And in a town this small, they can't hide from their fierce attraction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is filled with instruction, examples, exercises, and most of all - positive reinforcement. ![]() It covers the basics without going too far in depth to bore the reader. Unlike many other how-to write books, Creating Stories is a relatively short (174 pages) book. Sharing one's expertise for the young writer is no easy task, and Creating Stories is an excellent entry point. ![]() I'm guessing ADHD may have played a part in his past (and maybe still does). So far in his young career, Kalmbach has completed one novel (working on his second), mentored new writers, has done some freelance editing, leads a writers' group, created the Rochester Writers Collaborative and started WritAnon, an online writing community. Creating Stories is his first book in the Writing for Teens series. Writing Advice for Teens ~ Creating Stories is Author Mike Kalmbach's latest venture (or should I say adventure) into the writing realm. ![]() ![]() ![]() It isn’t that these early scientists acted dishonestly while modern scientists posses greater integrity, indeed many of these early scientists practised a degree of transparency in reporting their data that sadly surpasses the present-day norm. At least not according to the late evolutionary biologist and science communicator Stephen Jay Gould, who argued in his 1982 book The Mismeasure of Man that the evidence simply had never been on the side of the skull-measurers, literal or figurative. ![]() Half that time, a mere 75 years ago, although not unchallenged this belief remained widespread within the scientific community albeit crude and ineffective psychometric testing had by that time replaced the physical measuring of skulls.īut why did scientists once believe such silly ideas? Did a fair and objective interpretation of the evidence available at the time support such conclusions, only for new evidence to come along and paint a radically different picture? ![]() ![]() Has Stephen Jay Gould’s The Mismeasure of Man really been discredited?Ī century and a half ago the most learned and conscientious of men believed that the size of the human skull was a measure a person’s intelligence, and that the various sub-species of human being, of which there were multiple, could be objectively ranked into a hierarchy of cranial, and hence intellectual capacity. ![]() ![]() No matter where she is transplanted, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship, even in the strange and the unlovely.įor it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts. In her nonfiction debut, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil explores the many places she has called home, from inhospitable plains to tall mountains in big sky country. The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. She goes beyond that though by relating her life experiences to the behaviors and characteristics of animals and plants. What the peacock can do is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life. Enter a world where the Aimee Nezhukumatathil shows us the everyday connections among us and the biodiverse world I felt a sense if innocence, wonder and deep respect and love for nature as she shares her connections with nature. It is a very fine book indeed, truly full of wonder' - James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life and Pastoral Song This book demands we find the eyes to see and the heart to love such things once more. ![]() ![]() ![]() No community reviews have been submitted for this work. ![]() 'Within two pages, nature writing feels different and fresh and new. World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Fumi Nakamura, Sep 08, 2020, Brilliance Audio edition, audio cd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Determined to survive, she's up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. Bartending at a dive, she's still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Now, she's trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn't easy. ![]() And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. She's spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night CircusĬharlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. ![]() ![]() ![]() For one reason or another, the issues of the series were delayed long after the movie was released, killing the intended wave of hype it was supposed to ride in the first place. This is a frustrating problem that I remember also occurring with the Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey movie synergy miniseries. In all honesty, I thought the series was only supposed to have two issues and completely forgot about it because it had been so long a wait. Its first issue came out back in August, 2021, and its second issue released the month after… and now, finally the last issue releases over half a year later. Suicide Squad: Get Joker is a series that was created to capitalize on the release of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pressure she put on Megan to live up to her perfect expectations was extremely unbelievable. I’m kind of worried to speak badly of this book due to its audience and me not having any personal experience of the topic, but I found her a little bit annoying. I have to say I cannot relate to this at all, so I don’t know how realistic and relatable it actually is, but the phrase ‘I had to cut I just had to’ got a little repetitive. But the truth about Kendra’s abuse is just waiting to explode, with startling unforeseen consequences. Scars is the unforgettable story of one girl’s frightening path to the truth. Since her own mother is too self-absorbed to hear her cries for help, Kendra finds support in others instead: from her therapist and her art teacher, from Sandy, the close family friend who encourages her artwork, and from Meghan, the classmate who’s becoming a friend and maybe more. To relieve the pressure, Kendra cuts aside from her brilliantly expressive artwork, it’s her only way of coping. ![]() If she lets her guard down even for a minute, it could cost Kendra her life. Frightened, Kendra believes someone is always watching and following her, leaving menacing messages only she understands. Kendra, fifteen, hasn’t felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially because she still can’t remember the most important detail– her abuser’s identity. ![]() |