Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race, Nico Slate
Автор: Steven Pinker Название: The Blank Slate ISBN: 014027605X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140276053 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: от 1652.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: Recently many people have assumed that we are shaped by our environment: a blank slate waiting to be inscribed by upbringing and culture, with innate abilities playing little part. This title shows that this view denies the heart of our being: human nature.
Автор: Slate, Jenny Название: Little Weirds ISBN: 0349726426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780349726427 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 1668.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: An essay collection from actor and stand-up comedian, Jenny Slate
Автор: Slate, Joseph Название: Miss Bindergarten Celebrates 100th Day K ISBN: 0142500054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780142500057 Издательство: Random House (USA) Рейтинг: Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Miss Bindergarten, the world's best kindergarten teacher, is getting ready for another milestone. Tomorrow she and her class will have been together for 100 days. To celebrate, each student must bring "100 of some wonderful, one-hundred-full thing!" At night, while the students go to work assembling their projects, Miss Bindergarten is working, too, making special surprises for the class.
The 100th day of kindergarten is bound to be unforgettable! Children will delight in hearing about this special event, a common cause for celebration in kindergartens today.
Illustrated by Ashley Wolff.
Автор: Slate Magazine Название: The Explainer ISBN: 1400034264 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781400034260 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 1191.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание: What happens to recalled meat? What's the difference between a serial killer and a spree killer? How do you stop a lava flow? Does homeowner's insurance cover murder? And what is Ovaltine anyway? Answers to these and other fascinating questions you never thought to ask, from the writers at Slate Magazine
An entertaining and genuinely informative compilation of answers to some of life's most improbable questions, from the writers of the online magazine Slate. Often inspired by events in the news, the "Explainer" column asks the questions we never think to ask, or that we're too embarrassed to admit we don't know how to answer. Filling in these overlooked blanks of our daily lives, the book provides memorable tidbits for conversations, further rumination, or important context as we follow current events from day to day. Full of fascinating information about unlikely but important subjects, The Explainer will entertain and inform anyone who has ever stopped to wonder who runs Antarctica, how cell phones can reveal your location, or whether one can live off lizard meat.
Автор: Slate, Joseph Название: Ms Bindergarten & Best Friends ISBN: 0448481324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780448481326 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 367.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Slate Jenny Название: Little Weirds ISBN: 0316485349 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780316485340 Издательство: Hachette Book Group Рейтинг: Цена: 2822.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: One of Vanity Fair's Great Quarantine Reads: Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders).
You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of "Obvious Child." But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility.
As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gasses that are science gasses, not farts (don't be immature). Heartbreak, confusion, and misogyny stalk this blue-green sphere, yes, but it is also a place of wild delight and unconstrained vitality, a place where we can start living as soon as we are born, and we can be born at any time. In her dazzling, impossible-to-categorize debut, Jenny channels the pain and beauty of life in writing so fresh, so new, and so burstingly alive, we catch her vision like a fever and bring it back out into the bright day with us, where everything has changed.
Описание: The contributions assembled in this volume present cutting-edge research that examines the network of Indo-American interconnections over a wider time frame. The case studies stretch into the early decades of the American republic hinting at a longer history of mutual influence and exchange, beyond the registers of ‘the American century’ of globalization. By bringing together academics working across disciplines ranging from history to cultural and literary studies, comparative religion, political science and sociology, this volume thus foregrounds and historicizes the complex, multi-sited, polyvalent nature of the Indo-US encounter. At the same time, the book explore the possibilities of methodologically engaging with established categories—such as the nation, the imperial and Empire—and test alternative typologies to better understand this encounter. Taken together, our authors reconstruct the myriad ways in which Americans and Indians have engaged with each other through trade, diplomacy, intellectual comradeship, missionary evangelism and revolutionary fervor.
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, chocolate, and salt expressed his active resistance to economies based on slavery, indentured labor, and imperialism.
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet sheds new light on important periods in Gandhi’s life as they relate to his developing food ethic: his student years in London, his politicization as a young lawyer in South Africa, the 1930 Salt March challenging British colonialism, and his fasting as a means of self-purification and social protest during India’s struggle for independence. What became the pillars of Gandhi’s diet—vegetarianism, limiting salt and sweets, avoiding processed food, and fasting—anticipated many twenty-first-century food debates and the need to build healthier and more equitable global food systems.
Автор: Pankhurst, Sylvia Название: Writ on cold slate ISBN: 1916312144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781916312142 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 1477.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Belongingsis, as it sounds, a collection of thoughts and feelings that depict the very heart of Asmas life as aBritish Sudanese woman. A life that contains multiple influences,expectations and juxtapositions. Her poems are raw and unfiltered Asma holds little backin her work, covering subjects personal to her such as migration, mentalhealth, racism and sport. These lines that started out as spokenpieces have finally made it to the page, to be read and savoured. Asma presentsyou with that which is hers. Her Belongings.
"My entry into concentrated Catholicism, a forced alteration in my DNA, was to take place today." So begins John's parochial education in this enchanting, semi-autobiographical tale of a young boy ready to learn the mysteries of the Universe.
First-grader John has an interesting perspective on life, much to the dismay of the nuns at the Catholic school he attends. To them, boys who ask too many questions are dangerous and poised to enter the ultimate fiery pit. As he struggles to figure out the lessons the nuns are trying to teach him, John does his best to puzzle out the religious teachings and how they apply to his place is in this world.
This tale focuses on John and the complexities of his family, who do what they need to do in order to scrape by in a blue-collar town. Dominating the landscape of his life is his Irish culture, which informs every part of what he knows about family and the world around him.
At times touching and often very funny, readers will identify with a young boy's confusion over the contradiction between what he is told is right and what his heart tells him is right.
Автор: Alexander Scott Название: Slate Star Codex Essays: Volume II ISBN: 1735797111 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781735797113 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 5516.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
In this book, you will find essays concerning philosophy, politics, economics, religion, science, culture, society, history, mathematics, and other topics. They are written in various styles, including conversations, stories and something close to rants. Volume II contains 35 essays written between 2015 and 2017.
If Scott wrote his own intro about them, he might have said:
You will probably disagree with many of these essays. That's okay. Some of them are even wrong, in the sense that I made a mistake or I misunderstood something. Some of them are really hard to understand, because I'm exploring an unfamiliar topic. Some of them are just jokes.
But I think if you read all of them, there will be quite a lot that will be true and useful to you.
I have been writing about this stuff online for years, but this is the first time my work is collected in one place on paper. I hope that these essays are interesting, thought-provoking, and at least somewhat informative.
Essays include:
CBT In The Water Supply
Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons
It's Bayes All The Way Up
Plus over 30 additional essays, book reviews and works of fiction.
Автор: Robinson William E. Название: Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena ISBN: 0986239364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986239366 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 2941.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the late nineteenth century, mediums across the country were busy delivering messages from the dead to anyone who would listen. And there were plenty who would. Often these words from beyond appeared on slates during s ances. But the brand of magic that mediums offered was nothing more than that-magic. Author William E. Robinson, an accomplished magician who worked as a stage manager and assistant to Alexander Herrmann and Harry Kellar, knew all the tricks of the trade. His book, Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena, published in 1898, explained them all.
This new edition includes all the original illustrations, along with an introduction by Henry Ridgely Evans-another turn-of-the-century magician who knew the dead couldn't talk, except through the preservation of the written word. Just as Evans and Robinson will be doing between these covers.
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