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Radical Unschooling by Dayna Martin5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Dayna calls it a partnership based paradigm of facilitating self-education. Needless to say not going to school is a central theme, yet its much more than this. It’s a whole new approach to parenting, a whole new relationship between parents and children. It is one that develops free thinking individuals and frees parents from the endless conflicts resulting from a policy of endless control. It’s a whole new approach not only to education but parenting in general. Is going to school really the best way for our children to prepare for a life in the current socio-political context? Many within the Matrix think it is, but are they acting upon unquestioned assumptions about education?ĭayna Martin offers us an alternative – Un-schooling. Dayna Martin of offers her vision and her approach. ![]() In this episode of the ‘Living outside the Matrix’ Podcast we discuss a radical form of home education called Un-Schooling. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 51:13 - 58.6MB) ![]()
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Joe abercrombie shattered sea trilogy5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() However, before returning to the First Law world, he wanted to write "something small", in his own words.(Source: Interview at Swecon, October 2012). Abercrombie followed up the trilogy with three stand-alone novels in the same world, Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country in 2009, 20 respectively.Ībercrombie is contracted with Gollancz for three additional novels after A Red Country, which will probably be another trilogy set in the First Law world. These three books comprise the First Law Trilogy. The novel was followed by two sequels, Before They Are Hanged and Last Argument of Kings in 20. Gollancz purchased the book and two sequels, publishing The Blade Itself in 2006. By chance, the manuscript came to the attention of editor Gillian Redfearn at Gollancz, a British science fiction and fantasy publishing company. He currently lives in Bath, Somerset with his wife and three children.ĭuring a break between jobs he began work on The Blade Itself in 2002, completing it in 2004. After graduation he worked in television production before becoming a freelance film editor. He was educated at the all-boy Lancaster Royal Grammar School, and then Manchester University where he studied psychology. ![]() 2.2 Standalone books in the world of the First LawĪbercrombie was born on 31 December 1974 in Lancaster, England. ![]()
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Eve's three daughters5/21/2023 ![]() Shafak creates a deeply meaningful, extremely relevant and riveting tale about the role belief plays in these modern women's lives. These three women are referred to as “the Sinner, the Believer, the Confused.” They are individuals caught in a state of flux between different nations, faiths and ideologies. Enrolled in this seminar alongside her are friends Shirin, a bisexual woman with an Iranian background who considers herself “as British as a treacle tart but as out of place as a stuffed date cake” and Mona, a politically-engaged woman of Egyptian descent who is an ardently devout Muslim. However, at the centre of this story is Peri, a highly intelligent Turkish woman who is confused about what God means to her. ![]() ![]() Every term he holds a selective seminar whose sole purpose is to probe the philosophical meaning of God. Religion continues to be at the centre of many battles, yet in her new novel Elif Shafak creates the character of A.Z.Azur, a controversial Oxford professor who encourages dialogue across religious belief systems as he believes that too many people suffer from what he calls “The Malady of Certainty”. When different factions are so convinced about the certitude of their own ideas and beliefs conflict is inevitable. ![]() It's deeply frightening and upsetting how politically divided society is at the moment. ![]()
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The twisted tales of bruce jones5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() In "Alone" young Karin's crank caller escalates in an unexpected manner: it's a hypnotist out to avenge his brother's death, since he had killed himself after she broke up with him. ![]() ![]() Still, as usual, there's no perfect crime although I don't necessarily buy how he gets hung up, as it were. All the better to murder them in a surprisingly visceral two-page sequence. Unlike yesterday's book, today's stories have more adult situations, nudity, and graphic violence it's the 80's cable of comic books! A writer plans on getting rid of his wife and his lover's husband in one stroke, planting letters and gifts pushing them towards each other. From 1986, the Twisted Tales of Bruce Jones #4, story and art by Bruce Jones. Yesterday we had Bruce Jones's Twisted Tales, which was maybe PG-13 horror today we've got the Twisted Tales of Bruce Jones, which is more of a hard R. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This counterintuitiveness is actually part of the point, argues Parker: the extraordinary thing about math is that it allows us to access logic and ideas beyond what our brains can instinctively do-through its logical tools we are able to reach beyond our innate abilities and grasp more and more abstract concepts. ![]() Part of the problem may be the way the subject is taught, but it's also true that we all, to a greater or lesser extent, find math difficult and counterintuitive. "Math is boring, says the mathematician and comedian Matt Parker. A mathematician and comedian offers games, puzzles, and hands-on activities to help those with a fear of math understand and enjoy the logical tools and abstract concepts of the subject normally only accessible at college-level study. ![]()
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The demon prince ann aguirre5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Their attraction is forbidden, likely doomed beyond the wildness of wartime, but these fires burn too hot and sweet to be contained… ![]() Strangely, Alastor seems to need her as no one has before, and not only for her medical skills. Brusque and abrasive at the best of times, she never expected to bond with anyone, let alone Golgoth royalty. Sheyla Halek has always been more interested in research than personal contact, but family ties-and the needs of her pride-keep her in Ash Valley, deferring her dreams. Yet only the surprising support of a beautiful Animari doctor gives him the fortitude to fight.ĭr. Though he never wanted to rule, he must claim the throne and liberate his people, or the consequences will be calamitous. Against all odds, he must stop his power-mad brother, Tycho, before he destroys the Numina. ![]() Alastor Vega is the sole challenger in a brutal battle for succession. ![]()
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The Gingerbread Cowboy by Janet Squires5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() My picture book, The Gingerbread Cowboy, is the Arizona Governors 2007 First Grade Book and a special edition of 100,000 copies was printed for distribution to every first grade student in Arizona. I donate a portion of the proceeds from MONTY The Courageous Survival of a Rescue Dog to animal rescue organizations. My debut Western historical novel, Desperate Straits is a 2015 Peacemaker Award finalist. I can't remember a time when I didn't shar I write fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. My favorite activity is any one that involves horses. My family pioneered their way through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona as ranchers, miners and lawmen. My interest in the historic West stems from the stories I heard growing up. ![]() ![]() ![]() I write fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. ![]()
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The seagull anton chekhov5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() An actress wants to fight the changing of the times. ![]() A successful writer longs for a sense of achievement. A young man is pining after the woman of his dreams. A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. "A mesmerizing, unforgettable experience" – britishtheatre. Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness. Chekhov's characters are in the process of creating their lives or watching them fall apart, which, according to Butusov, may be a closely related activity. With the shuffling of actors' roles, you begin to sense something of a quadraphonic portrait of the creative personality, which demonstrates that greatness is precariously close to mediocrity while suggesting that the opposite is also true. This is not only a performance about the theatre, it is an anthology of the theatre that devours its children like monsters. Yury Butusov's frenetic production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who struggles to find a language of his own. Stage Russia HD (Satirikon Theatre): Anton Chekhov’s first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Tréplev. Satirikon Arkady Raikin Russian State Theatre ![]()
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The Sweet Gum Tree by Katherine Allred5/20/2023 ![]() The newest batch of kittens swarmed around my feet. I hadn’t felt welcome in the house since I’d left Hugh, especially not when Mama was there, like she was this evening. With a sigh, I opened my eyes and took a bite from my own supper. Fried potatoes and probably greens, I decided. It didn’t help that I could smell the mouthwatering scent of pork chops drifting from the house.įinding a spot in the sunshine, I closed my eyes and pictured the supper being prepared. ![]() ![]() For someone who didn’t normally have much of an appetite, I was amazingly starved. After changing into a pair of shorts and a T-shirt, I slapped a couple of ham sandwiches together and carried my plate and a glass of tea to the bench in front of the barn. ![]()
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Phantom mansion by Junji Ito5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() These girls become obsessed not only with fulfilling the boy's predictions - to a self-destructive degree.Ĭaught in the middle of all this is Ryusuke Fukada, a young boy wracked with guilt over a woman's suicide that happened when he was six. Things quickly escalate when a beautiful, black-clad boy begins appearing to girls at intersections and maliciously giving them bad fortunes. ![]() ![]() One of Junji Ito's lesser-known stories (overseas, at least), it has all the hallmarks of some of his greatest hits, like Uzumaki and Remina. The series takes place in a town where the latest fad is "crossroads fortune-telling," where you stand at an intersection and ask the first passerby to tell your fortune. Lovesickness, the collection's main story, is the main reason to pick up this book. ![]() |