6/30/2023 0 Comments 12 years a slave real storyThey said they had heard around town that he was a good fiddler and offered him the opportunity to perform with them in a circus in New York City. In 1841, Northup was approached, and ultimately deceived by, two men near the corner of Congress Street and Broadway. Without much to do, it was difficult to make a living and provide for his family. The winters, however, were another story. The Saratoga summers were busy, allowing for plenty of work due to the many visitors to the city. He worked at various jobs including duties as a cabbie, and as a performer and violinist in various Saratoga hotels, including the Grand Union Hotel. He later relocated to and lived in Saratoga Springs, NY, as a free black man with his wife and family. Solomon Northup was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir, “Twelve Years A Slave.” Born in 1807 in Minerva, NY, Northup, an incredibly talented and intelligent man, spent his early years working various jobs and farming in Washington County.
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Through these engaged works on issues such as rape, abortion, athletics, sexual harassment, and pornography, MacKinnon seeks feminism on its own terms, unconstrained by the limits of prior traditions. Authentic in voice, sweeping in scope, startling in clarity, urgent, never compromised and often visionary, these discourses advance a new theory of sex inequality and imagine new possibilities for social change. MacKinnon offers a unique retrospective on the law of sexual harassment, which she designed and has worked for a decade to establish, and a prospectus on the law of pornography, which she proposes to change in the next ten years. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all the spontaneity and accessibility of a live presentation. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Mary roach marsRoach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller blasters. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. Join "America’s funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post ), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2021Ī Washington Post and Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2021 6/30/2023 0 Comments Down the rabbit hole book review"Más cercano a la investigación que a la producción literaria, residiendo en Barcelona, el autor logra construir un discurso infantil lo suficientemente depurado, mínimo, que hace las veces de esta pequeña herramienta destinada a desarmar secretos, la mejor crítica a la actualidad política mexicana, latinoamericana, en líneas generales, sin por eso jugar a ser vanguardista por elegir a un narrador poco prototípico." - Fernando Bogado, Página 12."Through carefully constructed, satirical prose, deftly translated by Rosalind Harvey, Villalobos illustrates how prolonged exposure to violence desensitises people and the ease with which the grotesque can be normalised." - Lucy Popescu, The Independent.I mean that as a compliment." - Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian It is just as well it is only 70-odd pages long. "We have here a control over the material which is so tight it is almost claustrophobic (and novelists really like constricted spaces).The plot is slight." - Ángel Gurría-Quintana, Financial Times "His nonchalant observations, both accurate and detached from the facts by his age, are devastating. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorī+ : sordid circumstances, described with childish innocence Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. Down the Rabbit Hole - Juan Pablo Villalobos |