rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jul. 19th, 2021 06:18 pm)
What's the difference between a bag of cat food and a bag of basmati rice in similar shiny packaging? Turns out, our cats didn't sense any, leading to some early morning guerilla bag opening and a need for new rice storage.

Erin Austin Dwyer, Mastering Emotions: Feelings, Power, and Slavery in the United States: 1slavery and emotions )
Jordan Ellenberg, Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else: geometry is fun )
Daniel Greene, The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope: how libraries and schools are colonized by neoliberalism )
Adam Alter, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked: put down your phone )
Thomas J. Tobin & Kirsten T. Behling, Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: universal design for learning )

Cyndi Kernahan, Teaching about Race and Racism in the College Classroom: teaching about racism )
Stephen D. Brookfield and Associates, Teaching Race: How to Help Students Unmask and Challenge Racism: ditto )

Stacey Abrams, Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Changelead like Stacey Abrams )
Pankaj Mishra, From the Ruins of Empirepostcolonial theories )
Camila Townsend, Fifth SunAztec history )
Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans--And How We Can Fix Itstructural racism )
Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, & Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Mostconflict management )
Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperousa book with many ideas )

Andrew L. Whitehead & Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United Statesnot just racism and not really religious )

James Dommek Jr., Midnight SonAlaska color )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Jan. 18th, 2021 04:36 pm)
Peter Kolchin, Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdomfascinating comparisons )

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding SweetgrassNative biology )
John Harris, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passagethe slave trade's end )
David Grann, The Lost City of Zcolonial dreams )
Silvana Condemi & François Savatier, A Pocket History of Human Evolution: How We Became Sapienswhat it says on the tin )
David Schneider, The Invention of Surgerynot really what it says on the tin )
Hallie Rubenhold, The FiveJack the Ripper's victims )
Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931the economic consequences of the peace )
Kate Brown, Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Futureyikes )
David McCullough, The Wright Brotherstwo guys )
Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern Americarailroads and ripoffs )
Thomas Richards, Jr., Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United Statesunfixed 1840s )
Brent Goldfarb & David A. Kirsch, Bubbles and Crasheswhat's a bubble? )
W. Caleb McDaniel, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in Americaa woman's unequal fight )
Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascismtrying to define fascism )
rivkat: Dean reading (dean reading)
( Apr. 16th, 2017 06:26 pm)
The Curse of Cash )The Shakespeare Riots )Nigel Cliff, The Shakespeare Riots: Late nineteenth-century Americans and Britons were pretty serious about their Shakespeare. Both claimed him as their inheritance, and most of the book is taken up describing the cultural role of Shakespearean actors and Shakespeare’s plays in the period; it ends in a big riot because of anti-British feeling in New York played out through the bodies of two actors in competing presentations and with competing acting styles, the more emotional and physical American versus the more thoughtful Briton.

The Vaccine Race )

Nation Without Borders )
Everglades )Nursing war stories )Theresa Brown, The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives: Everyone likes war stories, right? These are ordinary stories from an oncology floor at a teaching hospital, with small victories, small losses, petty patients and graceful ones. If you really like medical stories, this will please, but not otherwise.

Actual war stories )

Bellevue )

von Humboldt )
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( Jul. 11th, 2004 09:55 pm)
The personal )

The political )

The prose )
Iain Banks, Dan Brown, Harlan Coben, Jasper Fforde, Laurell K. Hamilton, Diana Wynne Jones, David Lodge, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Joss Whedon, sf and horror anthologies, and ancient Japanese poets.

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