Strayed faced down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. She had no experience as a long-distance hiker, and the trail was little more than “an idea, vague and outlandish and full of promise.” But it was a promise of piecing back together a life that had come undone. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to hike the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State - and to do it alone. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Wild is a powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an 1100-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe - and built her back up again.Īt 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything.
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His grandmother says he is descended from heroes and can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. Hazel wishes she could ride away from it all on the stallion that appears in her dreams.įRANK IS A KLUTZ. Now because of her mistake, the future of the world is at risk. But that was the problem-when the Voice took over her mother and commanded Hazel to use her "gift" for an evil purpose, Hazel couldn't say no. Sure, she was an obedient daughter, even when her mother was possessed by greed. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job of it. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth. But the camp doesn't ring any bells with him. Somehow Percy manages to make it to a camp for half-bloods, despite the fact that he has to keep killing monsters along the way. His brain fuzz is lingering, even after the wolf Lupa told him he is a demigod and trained him to fight with the pen/sword in his pocket. When he awoke from his long sleep, he didn't know much more than his name. In other adventures, the Prince of Helium encounters a race of telepathic warriors, the Princess of Helium confronts the headless men of Mars, Captain Ulysses Paxton learns the secret of human immortality, and Tan Hadron's idealized notion of love is tested as he fights off gigantic spiders and cannibals.Įdgar Rice Burroughs vision of Mars was loosely inspired by astronomical speculation of the time, especially that of Percival Lowell, who saw the red planet as a formerly Earth-like world now becoming less hospitable to life due to its advanced age. His adventures continue as he battles great white apes, fights plant men, defies the Goddess of Death, and braves the frozen wastes of Polar Mars. There he meets the fifteen foot tall, four armed, green men of mars, with horse-like dragons, and watch dogs like oversized frogs with ten legs. When John Carter goes to sleep in a mysterious cave in the Arizona dessert, he wakes up on the planet Mars. If you don’t add this book to your reading list for any other reason, do it because some of the most vibrant movements of today are drawing inspiration and implementing concrete practices from brown’s work. While Emergent Strategy was published 2 years ago and has since become wildly popular among activists of color, queer and feminist activists, and others interested in intersectional approaches to contemporary organizing, this innovative text has received far less attention among social movement researchers in the academy. Since then I’ve found myself returning to it again and again. Much to my good fortune, last year during an intersectional feminist faculty learning circle, a colleague* recommended brown’s Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (2017). Social Forum and as executive director of The Ruckus Society, brown is shaped by and remains a crucial voice in contemporary struggles for justice. Having previously served as a national coordinator for the 2010 U.S. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownĭetroit-based writer and trailblazing pleasure activist adrienne maree brown has been deeply engaged in organizing around black liberation, climate justice, and feminism for over two decades. I am not a crier, but by the final pages of Trespasses, I was in tears. A rising sense of tension throughout comes to a shocking head. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.Īs tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish. Against her better judgment – Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married – Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who’s made a name for himself defending IRA members. By day she teaches at a parochial school at night she fills in at her family’s pub. Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.Īmid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. “TRESPASSES vaults Kennedy into the ranks of such contemporary masters as McCann, Claire Keegan, Colin Barrett, and fellow Sligo resident, Kevin Barry. “Brilliant, beautiful, heartbreaking.”-J.Courtney Sullivan, New York Times Book Review SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Very rapidly, aided by the dozens of engineering schools that had sprouted in the city since Independence, Bangalore became the hub of India’s information technology (IT) revolution. In the early 1980s, the city reinvented itself once again, this time as the home of some of the world’s most outstanding entrepreneurs. Gowda built a hundred lakes and lined the wide avenues of the city with leafy trees.Īfter India gained independence, Bangalore became known as a pensioners’ paradise. When the fabled founder of Bangalore, Kempe Gowda, set out to build his dream city in the early sixteenth century, his mother gave him two instructions: keregalam kattu, marangalam nedu. For example, night vision goggles convert the near-infrared spectrum into the visible spectrum, making it easier for biologists to observe nocturnal animal behavior. Tools that convert (seemingly) latent aspects of our environment into quantities we can sense greatly ease scientific discovery. Chapter 1, "Coming to Our Senses", discusses how important the augmentation of our five basic senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch) is for expanding scientific knowledge. Summary ĭeath by Black Hole is divided into seven sections: The Nature of Knowledge, The Knowledge of Nature, Ways and Means of Nature, The Meaning of Life, When the Universe Turns Bad, Science and Culture, and Science and God. It is an anthology of several of Tyson's most popular articles, all published in Natural History magazine between 19, and was featured in an episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolutionĭeath by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries is a 2007 popular science book written by Neil deGrasse Tyson. 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DURHAM - Duke University held its annual university-wide commencement ceremony Sunday at Brooks Field at Wallace Wade Stadium to celebrate its graduating classes of the academic year as 228 student-athletes received degrees.ĭuke welcomed Adam Silver ('84), Commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), as the commencement speaker while Duke President Vincent Price also addressed the graduates.Īs commissioner of the NBA since 2014, Silver has been named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People, Fortune's World's 50 Greatest Leaders and Bloomberg Businessweek's list of 50 people who defined global business. Additionally, Silver has earned Sports Executive of the Year honors at the Sports Business Awards, Sports Business Journal's Executive of the Decade and was named Sports Illustrated's Executive of the Year.Ī 1984 political science graduate, Silver was appointed to Duke University Board of Trustees in 2015 and currently serves as vice chair.ĭuke also awarded four honorary degrees Sunday to individuals who have made distinguished contributions to the arts, environmental sciences and social justice – Branford Marsalis, Deborah Rutter, Susan Solomon and Darren Walker. The third in the series, The Wide Window sees Klaus, Violet and Sunny thrust once again into the home of another relative as they continue to escape the madness. The Week of Culture, a week packed full of interactive talks and workshops created to develop students’ knowledge of other cultures and lifestyles, saw us virtually welcoming speakers and businesses to deliver sessions on a range of topics from music, education and poetry to careers, mental health and religion.īaasit Siddiqui, Founder of Siddiqui Education and well-known for appearing on Channel 4’s Gogglebox, shared his journey into education from studying at university and getting a job as a data analyst through to becoming a teacher, appearing on Channel 4’s Gogglebox and later running his own business. Our students have had the chance to listen to a range of guest speakers, including a star of TV’s Gogglebox and an American author, as part of their Week of Culture. |