![]() ![]() Hooks talks about popular culture as a site for pedagogy – this term describes an iterative relationship of learning from student to teacher and vice versa. ![]() ![]() Let’s take a look back at this work and its prevailing resonance two decades later. Her work has been adopted by feminists and cultural theorists around the world. In the seminal Cultural Transformation video series, from 1997, bell hooks explains the importance of critical thinking for women in general, as well as for racial justice. hooks argued that mainstream feminism silences experiences of race, ethnicity and class.įor the past three decades, hooks has explored the representation of race in popular culture, and how this affects social relations and public education. ![]() Her work shows how women of colour have been marginalised by power structures in society as well as by White feminists who purport to speak about the universal struggle of all women. Starting out as a literature professor, hooks would go on to challenge cultural studies in the early 1980s with books such as Ain’t I A Woman?: Black Women and Feminism and Feminist Theory: From Margin to Centre. Black American cultural theorist bell hooks’ distinguished contribution to sociology has been to unearth the intersecting issues of cultural difference, race and knowledge within feminism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I think most people are familiar with Cleopatra but few are familiar with Zenobia so I thought this would be a great book for review! Something unique, different, and about a woman who defied social expectations. But will her hubris draw the wrath of the gods? Will she learn a “woman’s place,” or can she finally stake her claim as Empress of the East? As war breaks out, she’s faced with terrible choices.įrom the decadent halls of Rome to the golden sands of Egypt, Zenobia fights for power, for love, and for her son. When her father dies, she sets out on her own, pursuing the power she believes to be her birthright, dreaming of the Roman Empire’s downfall and her ascendance to the throne.ĭefying her family, Zenobia arranges her own marriage to the most influential man in the city of Palmyra.īut their union is anything but peaceful-his other wife begrudges the marriage and the birth of Zenobia’s son, and Zenobia finds herself ever more drawn to her guardsman, Zabdas. ![]() She won’t submit to a lifetime of subservience. Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry against her will. Especially because I know virtually nothing about Zenobia….I even had to Google her so I could at least put a name to the ‘face’ in antiquity. So when this book about Zenobia came across my nightstand for review, I was intrigued. I love reading about women in antiquity….especially about women that I don’t know much about. ![]() ![]() Stolarz wrote and published four more titles after her first book and clubbed all of them into a single series. This book made good sales in most of the places of its publication and turned out to be a grand success. Author Stolarz made her debut in the field of writing with the book called Blue is for Nightmares in 2003. Later, she graduated from Emerson College with an MFA degree in Creative Writing. Stolarz studied at Merrimack College and obtained her bachelor’s degree. The influence of the trials can be effectively seen in the witchcraft/Wiccan and magical elements of Stolarz’s books. She was brought up in her home city, which is widely famous for its 1692 witch trials. Author Stolarz was born on May 5, 1972, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Stolarz’s works mostly consist of teenage protagonists and include elements found in romance and mystery novels. Besides these, Stolarz has also written several standalone books, a couple of short story collections in collaboration with Melissa Marr, Gabrielle Zevin, Justine Larbalestier, and Scott Westerfeld, and has contributed to Amanda Valentino’s series called Amanda Project. The other popular book series penned by Stolarz include the Torch series and the Dark House series. ![]() She is best known for writing the Blue is for Nightmares book series. Laurie Faria Stolarz is a renowned American novelist of young adult, fiction, and fantasy novels. ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, her Hunter partner, Fade, keeps Deuce at a distance. ![]() Now, topside in a town called Salvation, she's a "brat" in need of training in the eyes of the townsfolk. ![]() Outpost: Deuce's whole world has changed. And when Deuce and Fade are exiled from the enclave, the girl born in darkness must survive in daylight in the ruins of a city whose population has dwindled to a few dangerous gangs. When the pair discovers that the neighboring enclave has been decimated by tunnel monsters, the elders refuse to listen to their warnings. As part of her new role as Huntress, Deuce is paired with Fade, another teenage Hunter. The New York Times-bestselling trilogy is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world-facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.Įnclave: Fifteen-year-old Deuce lives in a world below New York City which has been decimated by war and plague. ![]() The Razorland Trilogy: Enclave, Outpost, and Horde ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Edgerton reassesses the significance of such acclaimed inventions as the Pill and information technology, and underscores the continued importance of unheralded technology, debunking many notions about the implications of the "information age." A provocative history, The Shock of the Old provides an entirely new way of looking historically at the relationship between invention and innovation. Indeed, many highly touted technologies, from the V-2 rocket to the Concorde jet, have been costly failures, while many mundane discoveries, like corrugated iron, become hugely important around the world. ![]() ![]() He challenges us to view the history of technology in terms of what everyday people have actually used-and continue to use-rather than just sophisticated inventions. Now, in The Shock of the Old, David Edgerton offers a startling new and fresh way of thinking about the history of technology, radically revising our ideas about the interaction of technology and society in the past and in the present. Wells to the press releases of NASA, we are awash in clichéd claims about high technology's ability to change the course of history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bailey found that she liked being in an office a lot more than working in a hospital. Bailey and walking around in a lab coat.īailey would change her mind after the prospect of people thinking she was a doctor had gotten a lot less interesting and go into media, working in licensing and marketing campaigns for Nintendo, Garfield and Rugrats. She liked the idea of people calling her Dr. She graduated from Ponteland High School and would later get her degree in physiology from Thames Polytechnic with the intention to becoming a forensic scientist. While in school, she daydreamed about other things that had nothing to do with her studies. British author Helen Bailey was born and raised in a village called Ponteland, which is located nine miles from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, she has one brother named John. ![]() ![]() ![]() “How Robin would have loved this!’ the aunts used to say fondly. ![]() Handcuffed in a locked trunk in the bottom of a river, he squandered not a heartbeat on being afraid, never buckled to the terror of the chains and the dark and the icy water if he became lightheaded, for even a moment, if he fumbled at the breathless labor before him– somersaulting along a river-bed, head over heels– he would never come up from the water alive.Ī training program. ![]() No divine aid for him he’d taught himself the hard way how to beat back panic, the horror of suffocation and drowning and dark. ![]() Saint Joan had galloped out with the angels on her side but Houdini had mastered fear on his own. No prison in the world could hold him: he escaped from straitjackets, from locked trunks dropped in fast rivers and from coffins buried six feet underground.Īnd how had he done it? He wasn’t afraid. He was the master of the impossible more importantly, for Harriet, he was a master of escape. Of all the heroes on her list, the greatest of them all was Sherlock Holmes, and he wasn’t even a real person. “The possible, as it was presented in her Health textbook (a mathematical progression of dating, "career," marriage, and motherhood), did not interest Harriet. ![]() ![]() The plot was very intriguing and very well paced, with alternating chapters and sometimes even sentences between their worlds. There is a lot of other diversity too, Nolan is Latino, and Amara is a bisexual POC character. I have to say, this book rocks with disability rep! Because of a seizure, Nolan has lost part of his leg, and Amara, the other main character has lost her tongue so she cannot speak, has trouble eating and uses sign language. Though it’s not exactly epilepsy, the rep for epilepsy is actually very accurate. Until Nolan gets a new med to try and finds out he can actually communicate with Amara… ![]() That can be a blink, a whole night’s sleep, and it even comes in seizures when something’s happening in the other world. Wow this was quite the ride! I adored the concept of this book: through some sort of epileptic seizures Nolan gets a glimp of a whole other world through the eyes of a girl named Amara every time he closes his own eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the most addictive books Ive read in a while. The most compelling books for teens since Fallen, Unearthly and its sequel, Hallowed, have received rave reviews from critics and teen readers alike.Praise for Unearthly:Utterly captivating. And when the fire of her vision erupts and both Christian and Tucker are in danger, who will she choose to save?Cynthia Hands debut novel, Unearthly, has become a hit with fans of paranormal romance. When Clara meets Christian, the boy in her visions, he is everything she could wish for so why does she also have feelings for her enigmatic classmate, Tucker? Clara discovers that her Purpose is only a small part of a titanic struggle between angels and their destructive counterparts, the Black Wings. ![]() But only now, through fragmented visions of a terrifying bush fire, is her Purpose the crucial rite of passage for every part-angel becoming clear to her. Clara has known she is part-angel since she turned fourteen two years ago. The heart-wrenching, unputdownable paranormal romance from Cynthia Hand.Angelic powers, forbidden romance, and the choice between fulfiling your destiny or following your hearts desire. ![]() ![]() The children's expressions are deftly rendered-especially when they are faced with a second batch of tamales. Martinez's sensuous oil paintings in deep earth tones conjure up a sense of family unity and the warmth of holidays. Soto, noted for such fiction as Baseball in April, confers some pleasing touches-a tear on Maria's finger resembles a diamond he allows the celebrants a Hispanic identity without making it the main focus of the text-but overall the plot is too sentimental (and owes a major debt to an I Love Lucy episode). Of course the ring turns out to be safely on Mom's finger. She and the cousins search every tamale-with their teeth. Only later, when the tamales are cooled and a circle of cousins gathered, does Maria remember the diamond. When her mother steps away, Maria seizes her opportunity and dons the ring, then carries on with her work. All she wants is a chance to wear her mother's diamond ring, which sparkles temptingly on the kitchen counter. Maria is making tamales, kneading the masa and feeling grown-up. ¡Qué montón de Tamales (Spanish Edition) Paperback Picture Book, AugSpanish Edition by Gary Soto (Author), Ed Martinez (Author), Alma Flor Ada (Author), 1,087 ratings Teachers pick See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. ![]() ![]() ![]() Snow is falling, preparations for a family feast are underway and the air is thick with excitement. ![]() |