![]() ![]() Their apprenticeship with Truelove has led into their work with projects like the TradeRoots Culinary Collective in Wisconsin, as well as their current work in central Kentucky as a seed grower for Truelove, as well as for Ujamaa Seeds and Experimental Farm Network. ![]() They've been known to write things here and there about seeds, politics, ecology, histories, futures, and materiality. Their work focuses on the political ecologies and cooperative geographies of participatory seed work, especially through lenses of Black, queer, and liberatory ecologies. There is also a short clip from the summer of 2019 while a group of us harvested peas and Chris narrates, and a short update from this month so we can hear the awesome things Chris is up to this summer.Ĭhris Keeve is a seedkeeper, chaotic gardener, and PhD student in Geography at the University of Kentucky. In this episode, we hear from former Truelove Seeds apprentice and current Truelove Seeds seed producer and collaborator Chris Keeve in an interview from last fall 2021 when they visited during our annual growers gathering at our farm outside of Philadelphia, PA. ![]()
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Rates of anxiety disorders and depression are rising rapidly among teenagers, and in the US universities can’t hire therapists fast enough to keep up with the demand. W e talk incessantly about how to make children more “resilient”, but whatever we’re doing, it’s not working. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lives in New York, where she is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island) and a Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. She was also co-producer with Jim Hubbard of the feature documentary United in Anger: A History of ACT UP and is co-director of the ACT UP Oral History Project. ![]() Sarah Schulman is the author of sixteen books, including the novels The Mere Future, The Child, Rat Bohemia, and Empathy (all from Arsenal Pulp Press) and the recent nonfiction works The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination and Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International Sarah Schulman. After Delores is a fast-paced, electrifying chronicle of the Lower East Side's lesbian subculture in the 1980s. A new edition of Sarah Schulman's acclaimed 1988 novel, a noirish tale about a no-nonsense coffee-shop waitress in New York who is nursing a broken heart after her girlfriend Dolores leaves her her attempts to find love again are funny, sexy, and ultimately even violent. ![]() ![]() ![]() A blend of histories-movies and TV, war and cars- Cigarette Lighter is so good I took up smoking.” – Chris Offutt, author of My Father, the Pornographer “This book is a Zippo fueled by the remarkable mind of Jack Pendarvis. Either way, you can't hang onto it forever.' Ah, such is life.” – Mary Miller, author of The Last Days of California Like this gem: 'Your cigarette lighter represents your soul, so you get drunk and give it away to your pal, or your pal steals it without compunction. And that's just the start! Cigarette Lighter is worth it for the index alone, but there's so much more. ![]() ![]() It brought back terrible memories of an uncle dead in Vietnam, nothing but his Zippos to imagine him by, and the beautiful boy who broke my heart, leaving me with a carpenter pencil and a tiny lighter I could hang from my keychain (though I never did that would have been much too painful). “I didn't realize how much I needed this book. ![]() ![]() As far as I know, this is a factual recreation of men and the turmoils they faced in 1950s to the 1980s. No, this is a book for someone who is looking for a read that has imperfect characters to match this imperfect world. :)įirst of all this is a book that is not for a person seeking a fictitious storyline that has perfect characters within. Though it doesn't cover exactly the same material, please read the Isaacson book instead. it would rush through in an exhilarating rush." "., a numerical trait established early on by some random math hacker." Surely we're not calling Leonardo of Pisa ("Fibonacci"), the medieval mathematician about whom fairly little is known, a "random math hacker" are we? Incorrect and otherwise cringe-worthy snippets like this abound. I checked the written text to make sure that these were not themselves quotes, but were in fact the author's own words. ![]() Someone who knows that the emphasis does not always belong on the last noun phrase of the sentence.īelow are two quotes from this book. ![]() ![]() Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Mike Chamberlain? No, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson is a fantastic contribution in this space, though it focuses more on the hardware. Has Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution turned you off from other books in this genre? ![]() ![]() Join me every week as I delve into the wonderful world of travel, investigating exactly how travel can help you transform, interviewing people who use travel as a tool to better their lives, and giving you all my favourite travel itineraries, tips, and hacks to help you on the road. I’m Jessica Grace Coleman, author, travel transformation coach, founder of Flip The Script Travel Transformation Services and your host for the Travel Transformation Podcast. Whether you are an aspiring digital nomad, want to completely transform yourself and your life, or simply want to boost your confidence through epic travel experiences, I’m here to motivate and inspire you to go after all your wildest dreams. ![]() ![]() Welcome to the Travel Transformation Podcast – the podcast that explores the life-changing potential of solo travel, intentional travel, and location-independent working. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The roots of the Moghul Empire lie with the legendary warriors Genghis Khan and Tamburlaine at its height it contained 100 million people, from Afghanistan in the north and present-day Pakistan in the west, to Bengal in the east and southwards deep into central India. Yet, as Diana & Michael Preston vividly convey in the first narrative history of the Taj, it also reflects the magnificent history of the Moghul Empire itself, for it turned out to mark the high point of the Empire's glory at the same time as it became a tipping point in Moghul fortunes. Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal, its flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled everyone who has seen it, and the story of its creation is a fascinating blend of cultural and architectural heritage. While Galileo suffered under house arrest at the hands of Pope Urban VIII, the Thirty Years War ruined Europe, and the Pilgrims struggled to survive in the New World, work began on what would become one of the Seven Wonders of the World: the Taj Mahal. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amazon has certain ways of looking at the free market which is simply not one that the French state takes. Amazon countered by stating: "All measures that aim to raise the price of books sold online will curb the ability of French people to buy cultural works and discriminates against those who buy online." Terry Craven, a bookseller at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, told BBC News that the new law was "very much" in line with the country's other policies. "The law is part of our cultural heritage," said conservative lawmaker Christian Kert, who sponsored the bill. Like most countries in continental Europe, France has a fixed price law for books in its case, it allows discounts only of up to 5%. ![]() The legislation will now go to the Senate, which is expected to pass it by the end of the year. Yesterday, French lawmakers "took aim at Amazon to protect local bookshops" when France's lower chamber, with the support of the Socialist government, passed a law barring online booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, the New York Times reported. ![]() ![]() ![]() Faerie, Chaos, and the possible appearance of a dread enemy of the Library are going to make this simple book acquisition far more dangerous than Irene anticipated.Īnd then there is the possible ally who is hauntingly familiar in his nature, especially given Irene’s own name… The book itself seems to be extremely dangerous in nature. The chaotic world she steps into makes trying to find the book far more complicated than she anticipates. When she is assigned a new assistant (who is clearly more than he appears) and a seemingly simple task to find a book in an alternate London, things start going wrong immediately.Ī rival Librarian demands that she hand over both the job and the assistant over to her. Irene is a junior librarian of the Library. ![]() This process does not always go well, especially with the rarer finds. They travel to alternate worlds in search of rare books, of key books, of special books to add to their collection. The Librarians are devoted to the love of books, their acquisition and preservation. It is a Library of the first order, in the same tradition as Pratchett’s multidimensional and universe-spanning idea of L-Space in his Discworld novels. It can take hours, even days, to get to locations within the library. ![]() A library with connections and portals to endless worlds. A seemingly endless Library, with books from across multiple worlds. ![]() |