![]() ![]() Temporarily bend their anti-statist principles, in the cause of seeing Believing the Bolsheviks to be sincerelyĭedicated to this task, Soviet Anarchists were even prepared to With the standing army, police and courts) and replaced with a society State and Revolution”, which had re-examined Marx’s theory of the stateĪnd concluded that the existing bourgeois state must be abolished (along Lenin’s writings after April, 1917, particularly his famous work “The They workedĮnthusiastically in the Soviets, and were represented in the All RussianĬentral Executive Committee (VTsIK). Tendencies had taken part in the overthrow of Kerensky. The question of support for the Bolsheviks, anarchists of all Time in its history (prior to the collapse of the USSR). ![]() ![]() Russian Anarchism enjoyed a legal existence for the first, and only, Imprisoned in Russia, and from 1926 by the IWMA’s Relief Fund forĪnarchists and Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia.īetween February 1917 and the spring of 1918, The pages of the Bulletin edited in exile by Alexander Berkman - issuedįirst by his own Joint Committee for the Defense of Revolutionists Revolutionaries in Russia by the Bolshevik government, refracted through Itĭemolishes the illusion that the “Bolshevist Leninism” advocated inĮxile by Trotsky was somehow different from the murderousįascinating and heartbreaking chronicle of the repression meted out to Should read this book before they pay their membership fees. Every recruit to the SWP (if they still get recruits) ![]()
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![]() She spent months “in character,” following Tudor hygiene practices. The further back we go-or so I learned in history classes-the smellier people were. Most of How to Be a Tudor is taken up with dispelling myths. Goodman takes us through the day, blending firsthand knowledge with years of research. How to Be a Tudor follows the same pattern set by How to Be a Victorian. Goodman spent time living an approximation of life in sixteenth century England-wearing the clothes, cooking on open hearths, sleeping on rushes, even cleaning her teeth with lampblack. I now know what swashbuckling really means. ![]() I was so eager to devour the book’s contents when I got my hands on it that I stayed up far too late on Sunday night that I’m still paying for it. A few of my friends and I have been waiting impatiently for How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life, by Ruth Goodman, for months. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paola Bacchia was born Australian but has always looked to Italy as her Italian migrant parents made it impossible not to. A rice ball, a porchetta sandwich or a panini from a stand or off the beaten path vendor with a tiny hole in the wall (literally sometimes) shop are the true diamonds in the rough of this food gem country. But, the culinary road less traveled lies in the nooks and crannies that are street food. If any of you have spent any time in Italy, as Paola, the author of this guide to goodness, has, you know getting a bad meal is tough anywhere on the boot. So, a book on Italian Street Food is more than appropriate. Second, The Food Book Fair kicks off it’s 2017 edition. First, My Head of Culinary is trouncing about in Parma checking out brown cows and pig legs. ![]() ![]() Today’s post comes on the heels of two commingled happenings. ![]() ![]() But Park Geun-hye adopted her father’s method of patriarchal authoritarianism. And indeed, when Kim Jiyoung was published in Korea in 2016, there was a female president: Park Geun-hye, the daughter of military dictator Park Chung-hee. “When you girls grow up, maybe we’ll even have a female president!”, speculated Jiyoung’s mother to her young daughter. “The world had changed a great deal, but the little rules, contracts and customs had not, which meant the world hadn’t actually changed at all.” Kim Jiyoung can be seen as a sacrifice: a protagonist who is broken in order to open up a channel for collective rage Jiyoung’s life is also set against more positive developments, such as new legislation against gender discrimination – but the path to progress is serpentine. Cho spotlights the Korean financial crisis of 1997, after which increases in wage inequality and barriers to social mobility contributed to a sense of despair, fuelling misogynistic sentiments. Her derangement is the only way out of the cramped paradox of gender-based roles.Īs time passes, the novel shows how attitudes towards gender are entwined with socioeconomic issues. ![]() Cho’s formal excision of any sense of imaginative possibility is highly effective in creating an airless, unbearably dull world in which Jiyoung’s madness makes complete sense. ![]() ![]() What does it mean to narrate a life in a strictly chronological fashion? The linearity of the account feels claustrophobic, with the case-study style objectifying Jiyoung and stripping her of her interiority. ![]() ![]() ![]() Societal disapproval, and the failure and propaganda of the so-called War on Drugs, have created a view in which addicts are seen as subhuman. ![]() Doomed to remain hungry, addicts constantly seek because they do not know what they actually need. Those existing in the hungry ghost realm are always seeking relief in substances, objects, and behaviors that they hope will fulfill them. ![]() The hungry ghost realm is one of the six realms comprising the Buddhist wheel of life. Rather than resorting to pejoratives for addicts, Maté views them as the “hungry ghosts” of the title. ![]() He does not see his behaviors as markedly different than those of the addicts he treats, only less destructive. Maté has never been a drug user, but is a compulsive shopper and workaholic. Rather, it is a combination of scientific data, anecdotes about Maté’s patients, interviews with addicts and other medical professionals, and his own experience with addiction. Maté doesn’t intended for the book to be the definitive word on how society should handle addiction and addicts. In his view, society treats addicts as outcasts because society views them as making poor choices, when instead addicts are often dealing with the consequences of catastrophic childhood stress, and expressing it in addictive substances or behaviors. Much of the book, published in 2010, focuses on Maté’s evidence that childhood stressors increase the likelihood that one will become an adult addict (whether to an addictive substance, or any addictive behavior). ![]() ![]() William Least Heat-Moon was interviewed about his life and work. He has written for The Atlantic, Time, Esquire, and National Geographic. William Least Heat-Moon is the author of the best-selling Blue Highways: A Journey into America (which spent 42 weeks on the NYT bestsellers list) PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country River-Horse: Across America by Boat, and Columbus in the Americas. The writing of the book was fraught with frustration, disappointment, rejection, and other emotions faced. That book, Blue Highways, remained on The New York Times bestseller list for forty-two weeks in 198384, and is still in print. He responded to telephone calls, faxes, and electronic mail from viewers. William Least Heat-Moon’s newest book, Writing Blue Highways, tells The Story of How a Book Happened. Occassional photographs, maps, and illustrations were also shown. A video clip was shown of his home in Missouri. He also talked about starting to use the name Heat-Moon and his partly Osage heritage. Among his concerns were the preservation of the environment, heritage, and values of America and planning for the future. ![]() He talked about his journeys through America and the different people he encountered. ![]() T12:00:00-04:00 William Least Heat-Moon was interviewed about his life and work. ![]() ![]() Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she had been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. The Tallmadge Branch Library is a one-stop spot for the community's educational and entertainment needs and interests. Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over thirty-five mystery novels. With Juliet Brody and Reverend Brook tying the knot in Ohios Amish Countrys most anticipated nuptials of the year, Bailey King. ![]() If you're visiting the nearby MetroParks Freedom Trail, be sure to visit the library's evolving NatureConnect area for interactive and hands-on nature experiences. Buy a cheap copy of Marshmallow Malice book by Amanda Flower. Visitors to the Tallmadge Branch Library enjoy programming for all ages, including play and storytime, book discussion and crafting opportunities, StoryWalk, and more. Music and movies, along with computers and computer classes, WiFi, printing, copying, scanning, and faxing rounds out a diverse selection of resources and services. Today's information and entertainment needs are met through a rich collection of books that include very popular Inspirational Fiction titles, and Tallmadge High School Yearbooks. ![]() ![]() ![]() The local history Lawrence Collection resides at the public library and the adult services librarian works closely with the Tallmadge Historical Society to preserve and share the area's important heritage. The Tallmadge Branch Library recognizes the rich history of its city while providing relevant and responsive service to today's active and evolving community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the case of 1954’s Horton Hears a Who, this LP recording came from the publisher itself, Random House, in 1976. Published in 1940, Egg was a 78 RPM record set in 1947. Horton Hatches the Egg was adapted for records relatively fast, as we saw in the last Spin. As in the earlier story, Horton the elephant finds himself at the center of one chaotic situation after another, usually being ridiculed, while he clings both to his values and his goal. Part science fiction, part social commentary, Horton Hears a Who is as much at home in high school and college classes as it is in grade schools today. Total Running Time: 32 minutes (Horton Hears a Who: 18 minutes, Horton Hatches the Egg: 14 minutes). Random House Records 4-6 (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Mono) ![]() Seuss’ HORTON HEARS A WHO and HORTON HATCHES THE EGG A look at the vinyl LP of the second “Horton” book recorded by the publisher, and the soundtrack from the classic Chuck Jones TV special with Hans Conried and June Foray.ĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() My Policeman is captivating and tenderly written. And the trope that LGBT+ people are harmful to children fuels the banning of drag shows to children in parts of the United States. Despite significant campaigning efforts, the conversion therapy Patrick undergoes in a 1950s British prison remains lawful today. But we need not stretch the imagination quite so far in either direction. Perhaps it’s easier for some to imagine themselves pining after a uniform-clad Harry Styles in the Brighton of yesterday than living fearfully in the Brunei, Baghdad or Beirut of today. ![]() The experiences of the characters in My Policeman enable us to understand the ways in which bigoted laws have an unrivaled power to ruin lives. ![]() As evidenced most recently by developments at the US Supreme Court, which overturned Roe vs Wade in June, our rights are built on unsecure foundations that will not hold unless we are able to prevent demagogues everywhere from weaponising our identities to oppress us. The LGBTQ+ community in the west benefits from relative privilege. In the abstract, some might find it challenging to identify with this. There are approximately 69 countries that have laws that criminalise homosexuality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, she writes comic books of her own in Portland, Ore., where she lives with her husband and two children. “I think my mom had the notion that ‘Wonder Woman’ was a feminist to me.” In exchange for chores, Kelly Sue got Wonder Woman comics. “It was the 70s there was a feminist movement,” she told the Air Force in an interview this past fall. But she was also inched toward comics, and feminism, by her mother. Raised in the 1970s on Air Force bases around the world, Kelly Sue became a comic book fan in part because the bases had loads of comics floating around. Last summer she told a panel on women in comics that she was “willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn’t have to,” and it’s through that lens-discomforting others as a way to actively oppose the essentializing notions of “what women love”-that I think Kelly Sue takes on her rare, fiery, quality. It’s easy to see the temper in Kelly Sue DeConnick, ready to be unleashed. ![]() “Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?” A lot of well intentioned, genuinely nice people think like that. “Women are going to like the books that appeal to them,” she said. The writer Kelly Sue DeConnick told me a story about a retailer who recommends the same book, Fables, to every woman who enters his store. ![]() |