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In these tumultuous times, I have gathered my reflections on war and its profound impact on society into this book, hoping to provoke thought and discussion among readers. Written amidst urgent moments, these essays serve as a protest against the prevailing narratives shaped by those in power, often skewed by party loyalty and media influence. As we navigate the dangers of blind allegiance to our leaders, I emphasize the need for critical thinking and active engagement from all citizens. My observations reveal a concerning trend where citizens are rendered passive under government control, ...

A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to nature - specifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself. She also cops occasionally to the pretentiousness of her mission, and laughs along with the listener at her attempts to be both environmentally friendly and sane, considering the fact that she’s moved in with a bunch of strangers in a remote locale.

The New York Times bestselling author of Darwin’s Doubt presents groundbreaking scientific evidence of the existence of God, based on breakthroughs in physics, cosmology, and biology. Beginning in the late 19th century, many intellectuals began to insist that scientific knowledge conflicts...

In Magnolias, Sweet Tea, and Exhaust, Carole Townsend goes to ground with NASCAR, following the races at Southern tracks from one to the next, learning about the sport and the culture of NASCAR as she goes. Townsend meets and interviews top drivers as well as some of NASCAR’s rising stars, legends, team owners, pit crews, and fans.

What do you do when your world ends? At 28 years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her - one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog - and together they sought out every national park, historic site, forest, and wilderness they could get to before their money ran out or their minds gave in.

Sex, Time, and Power offers a tantalizing answer to an age-old question: Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species. Natural selection allowed for reconfiguration of hormonal cycles, entraining women with the periodicity of the moon - and imbuing women with the concept of time.

In an age where technologies such as AI threaten to supplant human intelligence, an award-winning scientist offers a radical new view of our innate human technology and what we're truly capable of. There are rare moments in time when we make choices that irreversibly change the world, and our...

Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, The Conjure Woman marks Charles W. Chesnutts debut, presenting a captivating collection of seven short stories set in Patesville (Fayetteville), North Carolina. Drawing from local color traditions and rich dialect, Chesnutts tales delve into the realm of conjuring, a form of magic rooted in African hoodoo, while firmly rejecting the romanticized portrayals of slave life and the Old South. Though echoing the influences of Joel Chandler Harriss beloved Uncle Remus stories and Thomas Nelson Pages plantation fiction, The Conjure Woman intentionally diverges ...

Women in Quantum features conversations with women working at the forefront of quantum computing. From research breakthroughs to career journeys, each episode offers an inside look at what it’s really like to build a life in quantum—demystifying the field and amplifying voices too often left out of the story.

Every creation begins as a thought, from a symphony to a marriage to an ice cream cone to a rocket launch. When we have an intention, a complex chain of events begins in our brains. Thoughts travel as electrical impulses along neural pathways. When neurons fire together they wire together...

Mind the Gap: Women’s Health is a new podcast series exploring one of modern medicine’s biggest blind spots: the Women’s Health Gap. Through open, accessible conversations with leading researchers, founders, investors, and policy experts, Season 1 connects the stories behind the data to reveal how women’s health has been overlooked and what it will take to change that. Structured around five pillars: education, research, innovation, investment, and policy, the 12-episode season dives into topics such as PCOS and chronic pain, censorship of women’s health content, femtech innovation, ...

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is celebrated for her groundbreaking work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, where she boldly asserted that women are not inherently inferior to men; rather, they appear so due to the lack of education. She advocated for the treatment of both men and women as rational beings, envisioning a society built on reason and equality. Today, Wollstonecraft is recognized as a pivotal figure in feminist philosophy, with her early calls for women’s equality and critiques of conventional femininity laying the groundwork for the feminist political movement that ...

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

She was 17 years old on a Christmas Eve flight 40 years ago to join her father for Christmas when the unimaginable happened. The Lockheed L-188A Electra, on the way from Lima to Pucallpa, flew directly into a thunderstorm. A strike of lightning left the plane incinerated and Juliane Diller (Koepcke) still strapped to her plane seat falling through the night air two miles above the Earth. Her survival is unexplainable and considered a modern-day miracle. Her mother was among the 91 dead and Juliane the sole survivor.

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this...

Talking to women from around the world, Philippa studies and celebrates what it means to be a wild woman. From the sixteenth-century botanist who was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe to modern-day women responding to bear attacks in Yellowstone, working to rewild reserves in South Africa, photographing Caribou in the Arctic and more, Philippa examines how these women benefit from a life spent in the wilderness and also considers what the natural world gains from them.

In the first-ever history of the world's female buccaneers, Pirate Women: the Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas tells the story of women, both real and legendary, who through the ages sailed alongside - and sometimes in command of - their male counterparts. These women came from all walks of life but had one thing in common: a desire for freedom.

Dive into Progressive Woman of History, a monthly magazine that champions the aspirations and interests of women in the realms of economics and politics, expertly edited by Josephine Conger-Keneko. Join us as we explore the stories and achievements that shape womens roles in society, narrated by KevinS.

In Long Road of Womans Memory, Jane Addams recounts a captivating tale surrounding Hull House, the renowned settlement house she founded in Chicago in 1889. A peculiar rumor had emerged that a Devil Baby resided within its walls, drawing many women to Hull House in hopes of catching a glimpse of this mythical child. As these women shared their often heart-wrenching stories with Addams, she was inspired to explore the intricate interplay of myth and painful memory in their lives. Revered for her groundbreaking work at Hull House, Addams was a distinguished sociologist, activist, and author, ...

Why Women Grow is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. This book emerged from a deeply rooted desire to share the stories of women who are silenced and overlooked. In doing so, Alice fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women's lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance.