The book's organization is not chronological rather, it unfolds as a series of snapshots that coalesce around major themes and tropes that Schulman identified from three sources: the 188 interviews that she and filmmaker Jim Hubbard conducted for the ACT UP Oral History Project her own participation in ACT UP from 1988 to 1992 and her decades of activist experiences and research. The direct challenge to history in both discipline and method is explicit and intentional. Let the Record Show is, Schulman says, a history - not the history - of ACT UP from the movement's origins in 1987 to its split in 1992. In this meticulously crafted history of ACT UP New York, Sarah Schulman invites readers "to imagine ourselves as potentially effective activists and supporters no matter who we are." Offering this history to activists today as a handbook of lessons learned from ACT UP's successes and failures, Schulman illustrates how social movements of the past inform those of the present and how we all have the power to move beyond bearing witness to acting up to help those in need. Let the Record Show is a stunning achievement.
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Ken Follett is a grasp at appointing people to these events on the timeline. I cherished it in addition to realized to see background as a group of tales, not simply events on a timeline. After that in school I had a professor that mentioned the tales behind-the-scenes, the political machinations in addition to individualities which drove the selections in addition to repercussions of the occasions in historical past. Once I was in elementary and in addition senior highschool, background was about years and in addition events with none similarity to people that created the events. I supply this publication 5 star as a consequence of the truth that it’s an pleasurable learn and offers background a person contact. When the story opens, Rick Gage is just one of the “wranglers” around the place, doing stuff on contract from the big boys to make a living, when he spots the people from the Destry branch of the company giving Alexia a hard time. Her resources have to run out, eventually. Alexia won’t give up, however, and she constantly tries to solicit donations, expertise, and more to help her find a way to locate and bring back Trent. The company that flourished from the technology Trent developed eventually squeezed her out of her 50% share in the company after having Trent legally declared dead. His sister Alexia refuses to believe that he’s dead, and she’s the only one. The fellow, Trent Montoya, ended up being one of those people who entered and never came out of a sinkhole. While some people believe that these folks are in another dimension, still alive, even the fellow behind the technology that allowed sinkholes to happen believe that these folks are most likely dead. Unfortunately, sometimes someone can enter a sinkhole and never comes out. In the distant future, mankind has found a way to create and travel through “sinkholes” in space – this shortens space travel so much to the point that people begin exploring various planets and star systems out there. The second, more practical reason for the book's success is that it is a compelling read both as a self-help book and a leadership/management manual. Covey believed that outward success was not success at all if it was not the manifestation of inner mastery in his terminology, 'private victory' must precede 'public victory'. Having previously studied the success literature of the last 200 years for a doctoral dissertation, Covey was able to draw a distinction between what he termed the 'personality ethic' - the quick-fix solutions and human relations techniques which had pervaded much of the writing this century - and the character ethic, which revolved around unchanging personal principles. Covey's message of 'restoring the character ethic' was so old-fashioned it seemed revolutionary. Suddenly, aspiring to be a 'Master of the Universe' in a shoulder-padded world did not seem to satisfy, and people were ready for a different prescription for getting what they really wanted out of life. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People came out just as we entered the 1990s. What lifted it above the mass of books that claim the secret to a better existence?įirstly, it was timing. Stephen Covey's book is one of the phenomena of modern personal development writing. With reputed sales of over 15 million copies and translations into 32 languages, it also forms the intellectual basis of a large company, Franklin Covey. The longer we linger over the pages the more we come to understand that the meaning behind each photographed collage are just as layered as the artwork itself.īelonging is the story of a family growing up in an urban environment. The power and depth behind the textured three-dimensional collages supersede language the pictures fire directly to our emotions so we can relish the book over and over again at any age. There are no words in Belonging and yet, it is anything but wordless. She makes them by photographing her detailed miniature collage scenes which are made out of everything from bark to earth, wool or tin. They give me a flush of emotion, a tear that says, yes, you’ve captured the exquisite beauty of life.Įnglish-Australian artist Jeannie Baker refers to her books as ”wordless’’. I have other Jeannie Baker books, or rather I’ve bought them for my children because of the beauty of the artwork and they way the art elicits conversation. Two friends gave me this aptly-titled book for my birthday last year. Belonging by Jeannie Baker (Walker Books Ltd. This is the same image as the one I use at the beginning of this post (I usually use final publisher images, but even publisher Harper Collins and author Cynthia Hand don't have a full-color rendering of this lovely cover). You've got some glare spots and some darkness where there shouldn't be, but you can really get a taste of how gorgeous the cover is. So I tried a third time, this time using a camera. Very silvery and pretty, but still missing the way the book looks when you physically see it. I tried scanning a picture of the actual book jacket for you guys (yes, I liked the book so much that I went out and bought a physical copy yesterday), and got the middle image. The first image is what you'll find if you go to order the book online from sites such as Amazon and B&N. The book was as surprising as physically seeing the cover. I picked the book up the other night after work and didn't finish until almost two in the morning. When I finally started reading this book, I was in for the shock of my life because I LOVED it. Second, the cover wasn't anything inspirational-even online "finalized" copies. First, the book was about angels, which isn't my genre du jour. I'll be honest: It took me a while to pick up my ARC. Cynthia Hand's debut novel, Unearthly, is full of unexpected surprises and delights. Former Redskins defensive end, Phillip Daniels, was hired as the new director of player development on February 17, 2012. "The integration success story of the Kennedyadministration, didn't take place in Mississippibut here in the backyard of the nation's capital. After bringing in new faces Brandon Lloyd, Antwaan Randle El, Adam Archuleta and Andre Carter with lucrative contracts and lucrative bonuses in the 200506 offseason, expectations for the Redskins were high. 13, 2013: During halftime of Sunday Night Football, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas declares the Redskins name an insult, a slur, no matter how benign the present-day intent. 5, 2013: President Barack Obama weighs in, telling the Associated Press, If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team even if it had a storied history that was offending a sizable group of people, Id think about changing it., Oct. Chris Cooley's 71 receptions broke Jerry Smith's season record for a Redskins tight end. Every single one of these players won a Super Bowl with the Redskins, and three were chosen for the Pro Bowl. 3 overall, and that's what they did, moving down "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh also played numerous other positions, including cornerback and punter. During the 1935 season, the Redskins split their first two games before going into a season-long scoring slump, posting only 23 points during a seven-game losing streak. Three days before the Monday Night Football game against the New York Giants, the Redskins hired former Tampa Bay Buccaneers General Manager Bruce Allen. Ginny’s husband, Mark, a wildlife scientist, sees a vision that suggests impending devastation and grows increasingly paranoid, threatening the safety of his wife and son. Ginny, a devoted surgeon whose work often takes precedence over her family, has a baffling vision of a beautiful co-worker in Ginny’s own bed and begins to doubt the solidity of her marriage. In the quiet haven of Clearing, Oregon, four neighbours find their lives upended when they begin to see themselves in parallel realities. But boy, this book really wasn’t what I thought I was signing up for. That’s why when I saw the description for If, Then by Kate Hope Day in NetGalley, I thought this would be a great way to marry science-fiction with literary fiction and maybe push me into the genre a little more. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when stories take place in an alternate reality (like Harry Potter or any of the great YA trilogies), but I’d not consider much that I’ve read science-fiction… if anything. Weirdly enough, however, is that my enthusiasm for the genre hasn’t really translated much over to literature. I’m really into science-fiction TV and movies: Star Trek, Star Wars… I love them both. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming.Īnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope-the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman-through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties, |