![]() ![]() Pascoe has unfortunately invigorated some conservative commentators and writers to disagree with his conclusions (Marks 2020 Morton 2019) however, in terms of popular acceptance he seems to be on the winning side of the War in making a convincing case for the strength of pre-1788 Aboriginal culture, land use and social organisation beyond the minimalist and poorly defined concept of a “Hunter Gatherer” society. ![]() Having worked with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people for decades I am inclined to agree with Pascoe’s conclusion and argue it is time to embrace the Uluru Declaration – a Voice, a treaty and ‘Makarrata’.īruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu (2018) has given a recent jolt to the declining History Wars at a time when the majority of more informed Australians are recognising Aboriginal people as having land rights and deserving respect as the Original Owners of the land. ![]() ![]() Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu (2018) has given a recent jolt to the declining History Wars and has invigorated some conservative commentators and writers to disagree with his conclusions (Marks 2020 Morton 2019). ![]()
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![]() ![]() And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past.įollow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market’s dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood’s doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild’s great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world. Ghosts of the Shadow Market is a Shadowhunters novel. ![]() But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. ![]() Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters’ world. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare comes an exciting new short story collection that follows Jem Carstairs as he travels through the many Shadow Markets around the world. ![]() ![]() Is it Martin Del Gato, FunJungle's head of operations who hates kids and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and and hates animals even more? Or J.J McCraken, the owner of FunJungle and Summer's father, who has more concern for the dough he's raking in than the animals in the zoo? As their investigation goes on, Teddy gets squeezed on all sides to quit asking questions or Henry won't be the only animal in the zoo to turn up dead. With the help of Summer McCraken, a fiesty girl with secrets of her own, the two narrow down their prime suspects. They want to see any trace of Henry's death disappear like yesterday's paper. Dealing with the zoo's top brass proves to be nothing but a waste of time. Even though it's claimed he died of natural causes, Teddy smells something fishy and it sure ain't the polar bear's lunch. ![]() Henry, the hippopatamus at the brand-new nationally known FunJungle, has gone belly up. 12 year old Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Fitzroy has got a murder on his hands and trouble on his tail. ![]() ![]() ![]() AI sensors that creates a fully contactless society in a future pandemic Genetic fortune-telling that predicts risk of disease or even IQ ![]() Ubiquitous AI that knows you better than you know yourself ![]() In ten gripping narratives that crisscross the globe, coupled with incisive analysis, Lee and Chen explore AI's challenges and its potential: In this provocative work that juxtaposes speculative storytelling and science, Lee, one of the world's leading AI experts, has teamed up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to reveal how AI will trickle down into every aspect of our world by 2041. Humankind needs to wake up to AI, both its pathways and perils. Within two decades, aspects of daily life may be unrecognizable. AI has surpassed humans in speech and object recognition, even outperforming radiologists in diagnosing lung cancer. ![]() In the past five years, AI has shown it can learn games like chess in mere hours-and beat humans every time. Though the term has been around for half a century, it is only now, Kai-Fu Lee argues, that AI is poised to upend our society, just as the arrival of technologies like electricity and smart phones did before it. In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years?ĪI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. ![]() ![]() ![]() The emphasis on devised theatre is evident here. What’s more, Janina’s two dogs have gone missing.Ĭomplicité and McBurney have made their name for their complex literary theatrical adaptations, taken from page to stage through a company-wide devising process. The murders all target villagers who have been cruel to animals and Janina becomes dead set on a theory. Someone or something is picking off the men of this rural haven. If at first the setting seems like a charming backdrop for pensioner comedy, that impression quickly changes when the first of multiple dead bodies shows up. ![]() Complicite & Simon McBurney, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at the Barbican Theatre, foreground: Sophie Steer and Amanda Hadingue background: ensemble Alex Brenner/(c) Alex Brenner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertHenry Holt, 2014 One of the key terms in Elizabeth Kolbert's relentless, crushing new book The Sixth Extinction, is "Anthropocene" - a fairly new term used to differentiate the age in which we all live from that age's earlier term, the Holocene. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a different kind of warfare that required not just fighting, but what we now call 'nation building' that required cultural sensitivity to the people around them, required living among the people, protecting the population, earning their trust so that they, in turn, will tell us who the bad guys are." And so, what you have to do is not merely capture and kill the insurgents, but change the social conditions. They respond to people's needs in a country where the government is not satisfying those needs. Kaplan, who writes the War Stories column for Slate, explains that Petraeus and a number of his West Point peers were interested in the writings of counterinsurgency theorists who believed that "insurgencies grow out of something. "We tend to call it irregular warfare even though this kind of warfare is the most common," Kaplan tells Fresh Air's Dave Davies. ![]() Kaplan says that while counterinsurgency is not a new kind of warfare, it's a kind of war that Americans do not like to fight. ![]() Petraeus and follows the four-star general from Bosnia to his commands in Iraq and Afghanistan.Ĭentral to the story are ideas of counterinsurgency. In a new book, The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War, journalist and author Fred Kaplan tackles the career of David H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fund could not have predicted that Severino Kwizera, unused to the ways of the “First World” (Mr. He hoped never to feel that way again, but no man could predict the future. In the past, he had longed for similar release. ![]() Fund wanted to be nothing more than a bag of bones, heavy spirit laid to rest. Why would the Facilities Manager deny himself when there were, more often than not, snacks arrayed on plastic trays in the library’s staff lounge, liters of soda for the taking in the refrigerator? Perhaps beneath the thin skin of his impatience, Mr. Fund was impatient because he was thin? Severino had never seen the man eat a bite of food on the job. Fund was, in addition to being impatient, far too thin. In Severino’s opinion (never to be shared), Mr. ![]() Jim Fund in moments of impatience, muscles taut as wire twanging in his jaw, Severino did his best not to recall. ![]() Some proved helpful, provided reminder or inspiration- a stitch in time saves nine-and for these Severino was grateful. Severino knew a few expressions in English now, thanks to his boss, the Facilities Manager at the Bethelsville Public Library. Clean water gushed effortlessly from the tap. A clockwise turn continued to be his first impulse, but he thought again- righty, tighty, lefty, loosey-and twisted the spigot to the left. Severino Kwizera splashed disinfectant into the big yellow bucket on wheels, then hoisted the bucket into the metal utility sink. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seveneves is, in my opinion (and I know it’s not necessarily the opinion of all) the result of a brilliant writer surrounded by editors unwilling or unable to tell him to stop, rewrite, condense, or anything else an editor is supposed to do with a book. Neal Stephenson seems to have heard my challenge in advance, and written a book that seems to go out of its way to prevent someone from finishing it. ![]() ![]() But I have had a horrifying tendency to not finish Stephenson’s more recent, and more mammoth books of late, and when Seveneves finally arrived on my doorstep, I made a silent pledge not to do the same thing again. I have been a fan of Neal Stephenson’s writing for a while now, and at least two of his works can easily be brought to mind when someone asks me for something brilliant. ![]() ![]() Kant, for example, believes that people do not seek friendship simply for friendship’s sake, but rather, to serve a greater purpose and to satisfy some selfish need. Not all philosophers, however, believe in this model. Can colleagues be friends–online strangers, parents, even the moon?Īristotle wrote about the different kinds of friendship–Friendships of Utility, Friendships of Pleasure, and Friendships of Virtue. Questions such as, “What is the nature of friendship?”, “What are the rules of friendship?”, and “What constitutes a friend?”, are all philosophical questions. “How might ‘friendship’ be looked at from a philosophical perspective?”, you may ask. The topic of friendship is very pertinent in the lives of children and one that philosophers have debated for a long time. Owl tells the moon to go home, but when the moon goes behind a cloud, he is sad and wants the moon to come back. In this story, the moon follows Owl home. “Owl and the Moon”, the last of five stories in Arnold Lobel’s Owl at Home, serves as an excellent starting point for philosophical discussion about friendship, knowledge, and truth with elementary students. ![]() ![]() Read aloud video by Becky Shattuck Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion One evening, when Owl goes for a walk one night, he makes a friend that follows him all the way home. Owl lives by himself in a warm little house. ![]() ![]() Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary “Owl and the Moon” serves as an excellent starting point for philosophical discussion about friendship, knowledge, and truth. ![]() |