You can sign up for a free library card here. This book list is meant to support CivicCLP’s Speaker Series, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life with Eric Klinenberg. The conversation around community spaces such as churches, senior centers, public schools and libraries representing the bulk of social infrastructure continues as we enter the “Great Reknitting.” Not to put too fine a point on it, but in order to restore civil society, we need to start with libraries. This idea of supporting and enhancing social infrastructure is discussed in his 2018 book, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (the title being “borrowed” from Andrew Carnegie who stated public libraries are “palaces for the people”). There isn’t a single reason why this loneliness crisis exists, but there is a way to recover: Social infrastructure.Įric Klinenberg declares that social infrastructure – such as public libraries, churches, public schools and other “palaces for the people” – can help fight issues such as inequality, polarization, and even climate change. Factors like the pandemic and our deep political divides have kept us isolated, while social media and media echo chambers sort many of us into silos.
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It was a decade earlier but only a few feet away from the small, dingy hospital room he now lay in, soiled with blood, sweat, and bitter tears. His heart beat once again as oxygen saturated his body, but his newfound peace was instantly destroyed: The moment they brought him back into the world, ripping him from the darkness of afterlife, he was transported to a time he had long ago wished to forget. He was a bit disappointed, to say the least.Ī few minutes later, at exactly midnight, Corrado was violently shocked back to life. After everything Corrado had done in his life, he had expected hellfire and brimstone. He heard nothing, he saw nothing, and he felt nothing. Everything blurred, sights and sounds distorted, as reality twisted and the world around him faded away. Pain swept from his body like a rolling wave, numbness swallowing him whole. There had been a strong lurching in his stomach and a sudden wooziness as blood gushed from the bullet wounds in his chest. On October 12, at 11:56 in the evening, Corrado Alphonse Moretti died. After all, we can choose our friends but not our family. He drank beer with a US president, found himself singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and unearthed genetic links to Hollywood actresses and real-life scoundrels. Jacobs' journey would take him to all seven continents. wondered, and how do I find them? So began Jacobs' three-year adventure to help build the biggest family tree in history. That's enough family members to fill Madison Square Garden four times over. And we have over 80,000 relatives of yours in our database." Jacobs has received some strange emails over the years, but this note was perhaps the strangest: "You don't know me, but I'm your eighth cousin. Jacobs undergoes a hilarious, heartfelt quest to understand what constitutes family - where it begins and how far it goes - and attempts to untangle the true meaning of the "family of humankind".Ī. New York Times best-selling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically A. Blank illustration spaces preceding most cantos TWO ENGRAVINGS BY BACCIO BALDINI AFTER BOTTICELLI illustrating cantos 1 and 2 of Inferno, both in fine impressions. Initial-spaces with guides-letters, catchword on last page of some quires. 369 leaves (without the first and two final blanks). Collation: π 8 2π 6 (-π1 blank, π2r Landino's introduction, 2π3v Ficino's commendations, 2π6 blank a 1 0 b 8 c-e 1 0 f 8 g 1 0 h-i 8 l 1 0 m-n 8 o-r 1 0 s 6 (Inferno text and commentary, engraved illustrations to the first two cantos on a2r and b1v) aa-gg 1 0 hh 1 2 ll-mm 1 0 oo 6 (aa1 blank, aa2r Landino's prologue to Purgatorio, aa3r Purgatorio) A 8 B-H 1 0 I 6 L 1 2 (A1r Landino's prologue to Paradiso, verso blank, A2r Paradiso, L10v colophon, -L11-12 blanks). Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, 30th August 1481. Commentary by Cristoforo Landino (1424-1504), commendations by Marsilio Ficino (1433-99). The Toronto story begins on, when Frederick Banting and Charles Best began their summer research project in the laboratory of John James Rickard Macleod, and we are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of this landmark achievement. The remarkably rapid commercial production of insulin soon followed. The experiments conducted at the University of Toronto resulted in the first demonstration that a pancreatic extract could be prepared that would consistently lower glucose, reverse ketosis and arrest the catabolic effects of type 1 diabetes. The purpose of this article is to describe the early experiences with respect to research leading to the discovery of insulin in Toronto (ON, Canada). Indeed, many scientists made important and, in some cases, seminal contributions to identifying the endocrine role of the pancreas and the potential for pancreatic extracts to have a glucose-lowering effect. There has been a great deal of controversy regarding priority of discovery of insulin. She knew how kids felt, what made them laugh, what they wore, collected, read, and played with. Known as a flamboyantly funny and deeply honest writer and speaker, Paula Danziger knew how to relate to young readers at their level. Among her titles are: the enormously popular Amber Brown books as well as Remember Me To Harold Square, The Divorce Express, and Can You Sue Your Parents For Malpractice?ĭanziger received numerous honors, including: Parent's Choice Awards, International Reading Association - Children's Book Council Awards, a IRA-CBC Children's Choice Award and many nominations for state reading and library association awards. She returned to teaching, but the success of her book encouraged her to become a full-time writer. Wrote her first bestselling novel, The Cat Ate My Gymsuit. She received her Masters Degree in reading and during that time she Beginning her career as a teacher, Danziger taught at the junior high, high school, college levels. Born in Washington, D.C., and raised in New York, Paula Danziger knew since second grade that she wanted to be a writer. Hearing contemporary songs performed with a classical twist modernises not only the music, but the sentiment behind it. As an audience, we become conscious of the public eye as a constraint on the characters - Kitty's private life becomes a performance to satisfy convention, and Nan's agency is limited by the relentless male gaze. The stage direction is very clever, particularly the way in which the Chairman smashes through the fourth wall with every swing of his gavel. Laura Wade had the vision to recreate the atmosphere. Sarah Waters painted a vivid picture of Victorian-era music halls. The screenplay manages to capture the elusive glamour of the theatre perfectly, perhaps being of that medium. An already colourful cast of characters are brought - quite literally - to life. The drama, the romance, the magic of the stage - all become more visceral in the stage adaptation. That being said, this screenplay has a distinct character whilst remaining true to the book. Having read the novel and watched the play performed live, it is difficult for me to judge the screenplay of Tipping the Velvet in its own right. SIDELIGHTS: A trip to Mexico's Yucatan peninsula inspired science writer Charles C. Writer for television show Law and Order and for Home Box Office. Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic Monthly, Wired, Science, Forbes, Smithsonian, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Text editorial coordinator for photograph collections Material World, 1994, Women in the Material World, 1996, and Hungry Planet, 2005. Writings published in The Best American Science Writing 2003 and The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003. (With David Freedman) At Large: The Strange Case of the World's Biggest Internet Invasion, Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1997.ġ491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus, Alfred A. Plummer) Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species, Alfred A. (With Peter Menzel) Material World: A Global Family Portrait, introduction by Paul Kennedy, Sierra Club Books ( San Francisco, CA), 1994. (With Mark Plummer) The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition, Alfred A. Crease) The Second Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics, Macmillan ( New York, NY), 1986, revised edition, Rutgers University Press ( New Brunswick, NJ), 1996. Sloan Foundation, and Margaret Sanger Foundation. Writer of content for CD-ROMs.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Writing prizes from American Bar Association, American Institute of Physics, Alfred P. Box 222, Amherst, MA 01002.ĬAREER: Science journalist. Agent-Richard Balkin, Balkin Agency, P.O. The movie, based on a novel of the same title by Paolo Cognetti, is the story of a lifelong friendship between two men, Pietro and Bruno, who meet as eleven-year-olds, in the summer of 1984. On the other hand, its style and its dramatic sense do indeed reflect a concept-about movies, the world, and their connection-that’s as dispiriting as the aesthetic itself. My definition of a slow movie isn’t that it’s slow of action but slow of thought some movies with spare drama and long, static takes offer an invigorating onrush of ideas, whereas “The Eight Mountains” is not only slow in its action and in its succession of images but also nearly devoid of ideas or, at least, of their expression. There’s just enough information in the hundred and forty-seven minutes of “The Eight Mountains” to fill a short film, enough audiovisual variety to pack a booklet of picture postcards, and enough emotional range to fit a trailer. In the midst of this, Garrett must also confront his own his class rage, growing paranoia, and a dependency that he cannot seem to shake. Garrett and the Ascendant team reunite to face enemies on all a wounded Russia bent on keeping its crumbling empire in place, a cyber genius fixated on Garrett, a femme fatale willing to do anything to establish a new world order. Total chaos could engulf society within a matter of days. In The King of Fear, Garrett recognizes a string of events that could lead to economic Armageddon in the banks closing, grocery shelves lying empty, the nation’s currency rendered worthless. But it also made him a marked man―marked by terrorist groups marked by the US Government. His unique talents saved countries from falling into a world war in The Ascendant. Garrett Reilly sees what others do numbers, patterns, a nation on the brink of collapse. But now the whole world’s economy is at risk… Unlikely patriot Garrett Reilly can identify threats against America from both inside and outside the nation’s borders. The blistering sequel to The Ascendant : An action-packed thriller starring a bond trader turned antihero. |