![]() The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine seeks to help men who "wish they knew then what they know now." Preventive Medicine also provides revealing outlines of feminine social primacy, Hypergamy, the 'Hierarchies of Love' and the importance of understanding the conventional nature of complementary masculinity in a world designed to keep men ignorant of it. Rational and pragmatic, the book explores the intergender and social dynamics of each stage of women's maturity and provides a practical understanding for men in dealing with women in those phases. ![]() ![]() Building on the core works of The Rational Male – Preventive Medicine presents a poignant outline of the phases of maturity and the most commonly predictable experiences men can expect from women as they progress through various stages of life. ![]()
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![]() Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas-“The Butterflies.” In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters-Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé-speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. ![]() Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. In the Time of the Butterflies is political history rendered read through fiction format and through the gifted poetic, lyrical writing of what we can now claim as a national treasure: Julia Alvarez. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. In the Time of the Butterflies addresses the story of the Mirabal sisters under the regime of Trujillo and is related to literary works by Julia Alvarez. The program featured Julia Alvarez herself.īook description: It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. This session on In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez was hosted by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies on December 5, 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() Standalone: New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest standalone, North of Nowhere, is an unputdownable race to the dramatic finish. ![]() ![]() Standalone: From Sandie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes The Trade Off, a gripping new suspense novel set in the midst of London's tabloid journalism scene. Box, Bruce Borgos’ The Bitter Past begins a compelling new series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck. Standalone: Seven women, inextricably linked by one man, must figure out which of them killed him in order to protect each other in Speak of the Devil, Rose Wilding’s electrifying debut thriller.įirst in Series: In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C. Standalone: Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in Melissa Adelman’s What the Neighbors Saw, a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Standalone: From Nora Murphy, the author of The Favor, The New Mother is a tense suspense novel that builds to a gripping game of cat-and-mouse, as well as a searing exploration of what it means to be a “good” mother. Looking for a new book that will make your heart race? The eighth edition of The Minotaur Sampler compiles the beginnings of six can't-miss novels-either standalone or first in series-publishing Spring/Summer 2023 for free for easy sampling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, Ellie has allies in her dad, her therapist, and her new neighbor, Catalina, who loves Ellie for who she is. It's also where she can get away from her pushy mom, who thinks criticizing Ellie's weight will motivate her to diet. ![]() In the water, she can stretch herself out like a starfish and take up all the room she wants. To cope, she tries to live by the Fat Girl Rules-like "no making waves," "avoid eating in public," and "don't move so fast that your body jiggles." And she's found her safe space-her swimming pool-where she feels weightless in a fat-obsessed world. Ellie is tired of being fat-shamed and does something about it in this poignant debut novel-in-verse.Įver since Ellie wore a whale swimsuit and made a big splash at her fifth birthday party, she's been bullied about her weight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not a gift, but a habit that parents, schools, workplaces, and individuals need to nurture if it is to thrive. Curiosity isn’t a quality you can rely on to last a lifetime, but a mental muscle that atrophies without regular exercise. But at the very moment when the rewards of curiosity have never been higher, it is misunderstood and undervalued, and increasingly practiced only by a cognitive elite.ĭrawing on fascinating research from psychology, sociology, and business, Curious looks at what feeds curiosity and what starves it, and uncovers surprising answers. Curious people tend to be smarter, more creative, and more successful. In Curious Ian, Leslie makes a passionate case for the cultivation of our desire to know. Which side of the ‘curiosity divide’ are you on? ![]() But only some retain the habits of exploring, learning, and discovering as they grow older. I am only passionately curious’ Albert Einstein.Įveryone is born curious. ‘A lovely, erudite exploration of what it is that makes us human’ – Independent on Sunday A fascinating multi-disciplinary analysis of why curiosity makes the world go round. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, the film is in the news for all the wrong reasons after a hot scene was leaked recently. ![]() Duration: 2:01 Views: 1 534 Report this video as: Dev Patel. “The film The Wedding Guest has many other beautiful sequences and … Back in the day: Dev Patel, 26, has blossomed into a heavy-hitting acting talent with a Best Actor in a Supporting role BAFTA to his name - but fans will still remember him as gangly. 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Anne Elliot of Persuasion: renting out her grand Somerset home and moving to a small house in Bath in the hopes of righting her family’s upside-down pocketbooks. (Live in a cottage? The indignity!) Fanny Price of Mansfield Park: so poor she’s sent to live with her aunt and uncle, where she’s expected to blend in with the drapery. The Dashwood sisters of Sense and Sensibility: left without money after their father’s demise and forced to radically alter their lifestyle. Elizabeth Bennet of Pride and Prejudice: daughter to a spendy, unemployed dad with four other sisters in need. Catherine Morland of Northanger Abbey: one of ten kids, poor. For all the Merchant & Ivory Doric-column grandeur of most Jane Austen stories, she’s the novelist’s only wealthy heroine. ![]() ![]() Take a peek behind the curtain to see the creative process of the most acclaimed anime director in the world today. ![]() This full-color, over-sized, hardcover book also includes Miyazaki's earliest sketches that eventually became the basis for some of the most beloved anime movies of the past 20 years.įrom the vaults of Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki! Original watercolor illustrations used as concept sketches for both the manga and film versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. An epic fantasy written and illustrated by the legendary director Hayao Miyazaki!įrom the vaults of Academy Award-winning director, Hayao Miyazaki! Original watercolor illustrations used as concept sketches for both the manga and film versions of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. ![]() ![]() He goes to the length of painting a white line around the border of his town. ![]() To get back his hometown, the “agrarian ghetto” he brings back slavery and segregation by race into the lives of the people, thinking that it will get his town back on the radar. ![]() His hometown Dickens where he is confident that he is going to forever remain and die in is suddenly taken off the maps of the United States Of America. After the death of his dad, he sets on to do farming on the land ahead of his house – marijuana and fruits being his main produce. ![]() The Sellout also referred to as Bonbon in the book has been homeschooled and experimented upon by his dad for psychological findings. Kindled by his isolated upbringing, racism and his general distaste of the hypocritical surroundings of the town, the narrator sets out on a journey of making the wrong things right. The novel won the Man Booker Prize 2016 and the National Book Critics Award 2016. The story of the narrator, a black African-American, is set in and around Los Angeles, California in the town of Dickens. Its one of those books that have this rare combination of satire and comedy submerged in its pages. The Sellout is a 2015 published novel by Paul Beatty. “Silence can either be protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.” ![]() ![]() ![]() And to see all of these young people from Alabama doing this, I think, was really encouraging. My graduating class sent students to Harvard and Yale and Stanford and Brown. And when I was there, my high school was one of the best high schools in the country - and you could tell. I was very fortunate to have the education that I had. On feeling conflicted about her parents' decision to send her to a majority white school in Alabama And I think in some ways it was their children who had to kind of lead the charge in helping them to understand how important race is here in America. I think having come from a country where everyone was the same race as them, race just wasn't a factor that they really valued or that they thought about too frequently. I think they couldn't really think of themselves in any other way. ![]() |