![]() ![]() ![]() In the book, Roach describes a session in which she and Ed, her husband, volunteer to have sex while being recorded by a groundbreaking 4D ultrasound, in the interests of science. Her footnotes provide additional humor: as in a sentence that includes several DSM diagnoses listed as acronyms, she adds, "And from HAFD (hyperactive acronym formation disorder)". Of the book's numerous accounts, Roach discusses artificial insemination of sows in Denmark, the history of sex machines, and provides commentary on Alfred Kinsey's notorious attic sex experiments. Throughout, Mary Roach provides a humorous and often very personal view-both as a participant and observer-of humans, scientists, animals, and sex machines. It follows the winding history of science and its exploration of human sexuality, going back as far as Aristotle and finally ending with recent discoveries about the origination and anatomy of the female orgasm. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex is a 2008 book by Mary Roach. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated group?s members, A Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will satisfy Peter Straub's many ardent fans, and win him legions moreĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:16:30 Boxid IA150901 Boxid_2 CH120121030-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st Anchor Books mass market ed. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier. 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The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways.The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. ![]() ![]() With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply-but hooks wants to help change that. ![]() In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are-whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves.Įveryone needs to love and be loved-even men. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other important ingredient in Chinaman is alcoholism and its effects. 'Ms Second Generation', which I infer is Chandrika Kumaratunga). He generally refers to key political figures by nicknames (e.g. For those unfamiliar with this latter subject (including me), be warned that the author is oblique in his references. The historical context is Sri Lankan's travails in the late twentieth century. The major theme of the book is the mutability of the past – personal as well as sporting and political. ![]() A shared obsession between the principal characters, 'cricket' could just as well have been 'snooker' or 'stamp collecting'. Although it would be difficult to understand Chinaman without a good knowledge of cricket, the game is a device rather than the substance of the book. It isn't, though entries in this category are few (Selincourt's The Cricket Match is probably the front-runner). I was given this book as a gift because the giver had heard it described as the best novel written about cricket. ![]() ![]() Years of combing through hundreds of articles and other personal documents lying dormant in a "blue suitcase" given to her at 16-years old by her mother helped Clarencia connect with her father. Clarence Newsome died when Clarencia was six years old. The story chronicles the short, yet poignant, historical, legal career of attorney Newsome, as told by his youngest daughter Clarencia after many years of research. Newsome, Esq., a Civil Rights Champion, working amongst a distinguished group of Black Lawyers of the law firm Hill, Tucker, Olphin, and Marsh, in Richmond, Virginia. ![]() Outspoken introduces the world to Clarence W. Nearly sixty years later, discovering his legacy has helped me find my missing 'peace.'" "My father was a rebel and a bright young lawyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her career as a travel writer and her experiences as a real-life vagabond backpacking Central America are deeply seeded in this inspiring story. Kirsten Hubbard lends her artistry to this ultimate backpacker novel, weaving her drawings into the text. ![]() If she ever wants the courage to fall for someone worthwhile, she has to start looking back. And the secret to escaping the past, Rowan’s found, is to keep moving forward.īut Bria comes to realize she can't run forever, no matter what Rowan says. WANDERLOVE (2012 ages 14-up), ISBN: 9780385739375 Author and Illustrator With an extraordinary setting, delicately rendered and well informed by. As they travel across a panorama of Mayan villages, remote Belizean islands, and hostels plagued with jungle beasties, they discover what they've got in common: both seek to leave behind the old versions of themselves. When Bria meets Rowan, devoted backpacker and dive instructor, and his outspokenly humanitarian sister Starling, she seizes the chance to ditch her group and join them off the beaten path.īria's a good girl trying to go bad. Middle-aged tourists with fanny packs are hardly the key to self-rediscovery. In a quest for independence, her neglected art, and no-strings-attached hookups, she signs up for a guided tour of Central America-the wrong one. ![]() ![]() No, but 18-year-old Bria Sandoval wants to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Asa’s father asks him to look into it, he sees the perfect opportunity to see his little crime reporter again. When he winds up at a boring fundraiser beside Asa Mulvaney, they share an intensely passionate encounter that leaves Zane with an ache in his chest and a story idea that could make his career dreams a reality.Īt a nearby college, a cluster of suicides isn’t what it seems. Zane Scott is a small-time crime blogger and amateur sleuth, but he dreams of a byline in a major paper someday. When an experiment separates Asa and his brother, Asa is forced to navigate the world on his own for the first time in his life. In the Mulvaney family, murder is the family business and business is good. He and his twin brother live together, party together…kill together. Asa Mulvaney is half of a psychopathic whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three orphaned sisters are left to raise each other. WHEN WE WERE SISTERS tenderly examines the bonds and fractures of sisterhood, names the perils of being three Muslim American girls alone against the world, and ultimately illustrates how those who've lost everything might still make homes in each other. ![]() The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her crybaby younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation and Noreen, the eldest, does her best in the role of sister-mother while also trying to create a life for herself, on her own terms.Īs Kausar grows up, she must contend with the collision of her private and public worlds, and choose whether to remain in the life of love, sorrow, and codependency she's known or carve out a new path for herself. In this heartrending, lyrical debut work of fiction, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in this lyrical debut novel from the acclaimed author of If They Come For Us ![]() ![]() ![]() Murderbot heads with all speed to TranRollinHyfa, the location of the Gra圜ris home office, where all of its skills as a construct- and all of its modifications to appear more human- will be put to the test. Martha Wells returns to her Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, in Exit Strategy. Mensah, its favorite human, is reported missing from Port FreeCommerce after being accused of corporate espionage by Gra圜ris. Mensah-its former owner (protector? friend?)-submit evidence that could prevent Gra圜ris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit.īut who’s going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue?Īnd what will become of it when it’s caught?Įvents with Gra圜ris come to a head, as Murderbot learns that Dr. ![]() ![]() Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the Gra圜ris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? It is preceded by Rogue Protocol, followed chronologically by Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory, and followed in release order by Compulsory. Idiotic humans don't understand how to be safe, idiotic humans thought every place was like stupid boring Preservation! ( Exit Strategy)Įxit Strategy is the fourth novella in The Murderbot Diaries series. I wanted to put my fist through the nearest corporate logo. ![]() ![]() ![]() She returned to California and by the age of 19 finished her college education at San Francisco State University. Thereafter she enrolled in junior college. Rebecca skipped high school altogether, enrolling in an alternative junior high in the public school system that took her through tenth grade, when she passed the GED exam. ![]() These include November 2010’s Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, a book of 22 maps and nearly 30 collaborators 2011’s A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and many others, including Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics A Field Guide to Getting Lost Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities Wanderlust: A History of Walking As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit is the author of 13 books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. About Author Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit. ![]() Read Chavawn’s article, “ Laramie: A Gem City Atlas Reveals an Uncharted West” with image gallery, appearing in this issue. Editor’s Note: This interview with Rebecca Solnit follows from Chavawn Kelley’s participation in Laramie: A Gem City Atlas, which Rebecca led while a writer-in-residence at the University of Wyoming. ![]() |