Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey’hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. Cora and Caesar’s first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor’engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Matters do not go as planned’Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood’where even greater pain awaits. The Newest Oprah Book Club 2016 Selectionįrom prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.Ĭora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.
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Galton wrote about the inheritance of genius in 1869 and he developed statistical techniques to model how societies should be shaped. He wanted to craft better societies, better cultures, filled with people with more "desirable" characteristics. Darwin doesn't mention humans in the "Origin of Species" at all, but later on, in 1871, he published the "Descent of Man" which is the application of evolutionary theory to humans.ĭarwin’s half cousin, Francis Galton - who was very enamored with the work of his relative, and his celebrity status - took those principles of artificial selection and applied them to human populations. Darwin demonstrated that the behavioral or physical characteristics of any species can be changed over generational time by selection, either natural or artificial. What happened in the 19th century, though, is the emergence of the ideas of natural selection and evolution in 1859 as described by Charles Darwin. What is the modern definition of "scientific" eugenics, and how did Charles Darwin and Francis Galton contribute to its creation?Īs far as we can tell, the idea of trying to control and mold populations through biology - by restricting reproductive rights or in the infanticide of babies deemed unworthy - appears to be almost universal in almost every culture as long as we have records. O元902892W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.76 Pages 342 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1863501568 OL1395236M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:influencepsychol00cial:lcpdf:d56b5bce-9a3a-4b60-9983-5a5625f0239d Influence, Sales, Marketing, Management, Leadership, Negotiation, Communication. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:33:46 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA129115 Boxid_2 CH101101 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition Rev. What I learned from this book (in no particular order):ġ. To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty. Sexual violence against women is also a recurring theme in his work. The girl being raped was named Lisbeth, which he later used as the name of the heroine on his Millenium trilogy. This event haunted him for the rest of his life. Witnessed a rape when he was 15, and was helpless to stop it. These books are all bestsellers in Sweden and in several other countries, including the United States and Canada. The first three books ( The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) have since been printed as the Millenium series. When he died at the age of 50, Larsson left three unpublished thrillers and unfinished manuscripts for more. 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As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste materials, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the American landscape and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s. From this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children of secrets and sins of lawsuits, murder and, eventually redemption. The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates, July 4, 2005, HarperPerennial edition, Paperback. So it all begins, in the 1950s, with the dark foreboding of the Falls the sinister background to events. During her vigil, an unlikely new love story begins to unfold when she meets a wealthy lawyer who is transfixed by her strange, otherworldly gaze. For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husband's recovered body. 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She enjoys the company of her horse more than court, and she has a way of blending into the shadows. No one says much about the middle princess, Andromeda. The youngest, the sweet beauty with her Prince Charming. The eldest, a valiant warrior-woman, heir to the kingdom. The tales tell of three sisters, daughters of the high king. An often-ignored middle sister gets attention from a dark stranger in this fantasy romance trilogy opener by the author of the Forgotten Empires series. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help listeners further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives listeners an introduction to some of his favorite places - in his own words. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania’s utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman’s Empty Quarter - and many places beyond. A guide to some of the world’s most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony BourdainĪnthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. Ĭlassical conditioning was stumbled upon by accident. Pavlov had such a great impact on the study of classical conditioning that it is often referred to as Pavlovian conditioning. Although Edwin Twitmyer published findings pertaining to classical conditioning one year earlier, the best-known and most thorough work on classical conditioning is accredited to Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist born in the mid-1800s. Classical conditioning is the process in which an automatic, conditioned response is paired with specific stimuli. Classical conditioning is one of those unconscious learning methods and is the most straightforward way in which humans can learn. Learning can occur through both unconscious and conscious pathways. Learning is the process by which new knowledge, behaviors, attitudes, and ideas are acquired. As a young girl, she begins to manifest a strange and terrifying brand of magic, and it’s not long before someone is trying to kill her. Onyesonwu – Onye for short – is Ewu, a child of rape expected to live a short, violent life. I went into Who Fears Death with almost no expectations. Okorafor’s Hugo-winning Afrofuturist novella, but other than that I’m a relative newcomer to her writing. But there, next to the five millionth copy of Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World, was a book I’d never even seen before: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor. Their sci-fi/fantasy section wasn’t huge, which seems to be standard for hippy/literary bookstores. In Burlington, we stopped on Church Street at a little place called the Crow Bookshop, which deals in new, used, and out-of-print books. The best honeymoon we could hope for, really. We road-tripped from Burlington, Vermont to Bar Harbor, Maine and stopped at every. For our honeymoon, my wife and I went up to sunny New England. |