![]() An essay collection of undeniable power, The Collected Schizophrenias dispels misconceptions and provides insight into a condition long misunderstood. In essays that range from using fashion to present as high-functioning to the depths of a rare form of psychosis, and from the failures of the higher education system and the dangers of institutionalization to the complexity of compounding factors such as PTSD and Lyme disease, Wang’s analytical eye, honed as a former lab researcher at Stanford, allows her to balance research with personal narrative. An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. ![]() Opening with the journey toward her diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder, Wang discusses the medical community’s own disagreement about labels and procedures for diagnosing those with mental illness, and then follows an arc that examines the manifestations of schizophrenia in her life. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members of the “collected schizophrenias” but to those who wish to understand it as well. An illuminating, breathtaking look into the underexplored world of schizophrenia, with the rare perspective of someone whos actually been there mindbodygreen. An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets." Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world’s most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. Here's an official plot synopsis: "Set in eerie, post-World War II Venice on All Hallows’ Eve, A Haunting in Venice is a terrifying mystery featuring the return of the celebrated sleuth, Hercule Poirot. ![]() Once again, Branagh's latest Christie adaptation was written by Michael Green (he's written all of Branagh's Poirot adaptations), and will feature a score from Joker and Chernobyl composer Hildur Guđnadóttir. That's a stacked deck, if we do say so ourselves. Well, this looks solid! And how about that cast? Here's the full lineup: in addition to Branagh's Poirot, you've got recent Oscar-winner Michelle Yeoh, former 30 Rock star Tina Fey (!), Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar secret weapon Jamie Dornan, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Yellowstone's Kelly Reilly, and Riccardo Scamarico. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blake blinked and chewed the inside of his lip for a moment as he thought. ![]() Not a child, but like she should be studying somewhere rather than lying on his floor in a mess of her own blood and his window. Delicate features and olive skin at odds with the blood and debris around her. He wasn’t sure what he was expecting, but his breath caught sharply in his throat and he stilled, a strand of soft hair slipping between his fingers. Kneeling beside her, he carefully brushed aside the mass of dark hair that covered her face. Still, he’d learnt over the years not to trust the way things looked. She (and it was a she by the looks of it) didn’t look very threatening right now, unconscious and covered in blood along with the remains of his window. He looked back down at the intruder – if you could call her that. ![]() He shook off the surprise and grabbed the remote control which triggered metal shutters to slam down over the windows of his apartment, blocking out the world so that the dim lighting and the broken window of his downtown apartment wouldn’t being seen from the outside. ![]() He froze for a second, staring over the back of the sofa at the figure that had just hurtled through his window, now sprawled in shattered glass on his floor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Main Character: Turing Hopper, Washington, D.C. Let It Crow! Let It Crow! 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Read Murder With Peacocks by Donna Andrews available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meaning is…conveyed not only by what’s depicted, but through structure: the size, shape, placement, and relationship of components––what they’re next to and what they’re not, matters. He explores the ironic tension between the expansion of scientific knowledge and the intellectual barriers that arise between different areas of study, and also demonstrates a keen understanding how relationality affects meaning: Drawing from the works of scientists, philosophers and artists, Sousanis creates a journey through three-deminsional space rendered on two-dimensional surfaces. ![]() Sousanis defines “unflattening” as “a simultaneous engagement of multiple vantage points from which to engender new ways of seeing” (32). The artwork in this book is brilliantly conceived and exquisitely rendered. The written text is somewhat vague and highly repetitive, but Sousanis more than compensates for this weakness with visual creativity. ![]() Sousanis’s central message––that we should learn to see from multiple perspectives at once instead to searching for the “correct” outlook––is an important one, despite not being particularly novel. This stunning work of art presents a gauntlet of brain-teasers that challenge our assumptions about the nature of human perception and understanding. Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening has the look of a graphic novel, but it’s actually a group of interrelated philosophical essays presented in comic book form. ![]() ![]() ![]() I am currently working on my thesis on la SAPE, a social movement of well-dressed men that began in the two Congos. In addition, I am a senior writing coach at Writing Central, one of first communications-focused collegiate writing centers. At the University of Oregon, I edit Ethos, an award-winning multicultural magazine and Dressed Up Ducks, the university's style blog. ![]() I am also a writing intern for the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation. ![]() Last summer, I interned at Paper Magazine, an arts publication in New York City, and Empathetic Media, a startup focused in virtual and augmented reality. I spent fall 2015 in Morocco, writing profiles on a visual artist and a controversial political cartoonist. ![]() I wrote and photographed stories on illegal mining, an up-and-coming DJ, and one of the only Ghanaian journalists covering LGBTQ issues. My interest in foreign reporting began in summer 2015, when I interned at Today Newspaper in Accra, Ghana. I am majoring in journalism and international studies with an African studies minor and am a student in the university's Robert D. I'm passionate about using my multimedia and new technology skills to tell stories around the world. My name is Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, and I am a graduate from the University of Oregon. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are not friends on this journal, Please comment there using OpenID.Ĭreate your own visited map of The United StatesĬharacters: Alpha Males, Cinderfellas (from rags to riches.), Friends (with benefits), Multicultural Lovers, Pretty. While he battles to find his own path, Hirotsugu finds solace in a boy who will become his secret friend, then his salvation, and then as they become adults together, the love of his life. The human world meets the yōkai in a power struggle for the fate of Fujiwara no Hirotsugu. ![]() I ultimately finished the last paragraph disappointed and asking "what just happened?" Love how the author built a fictional world using Japanese folklore combined with historical facts."Ī coming-of-age love story between an orphan and the heir of the richest family in the Land of Yamato. "I enjoyed this book very much because it was so different up until the end. I wouldn't mind reading the next book for this one was a HFN." ![]() It was a sweet story packed with a lot of feels. "I have never felt the attraction for this type of story but I must admit, the author's writing style is one that engulfed all my senses and left me wanting more. It’s a beautifully structured story - the slowest of slow burns, but gorgeous through and through. At the same time, the prose was so clear and sparkling that I was drawn in, in no time. I’m not familiar with Noh theatre or the storylines this story was based on. ![]() "Reading the author’s introduction, I found the premise of this story intriguing. Elisa_rolle Shinigami: Takamagahara Monogatari Book 2 ![]() ![]() For adults seeking a single-volume overview of world history, for students in search of a quick refresher course, or for families to read and learn from together, Gombrich’s Little History enchants and educates. He paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests of grand works of art of the advances and limitations of science of remarkable people and remarkable events, from Confucius to Catherine the Great to Winston Churchill, and from the invention of art to the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Gombrich vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Rather than focusing on dry facts and dates, E. Gombrich’s sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages “All stories begin with ‘Once upon a time.’ And that’s just what this story is all about: what happened, once upon a time.” So begins A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old. ![]() ![]() Their tentative relationship is threatened when Mason is put in the crosshairs of the local gang and the town sheriff. Mason knows he isn’t good enough for her, and Emily knows she should stay away, but that doesn’t stop the pull they feel toward each other. Mason and Emily are opposites in nearly every way, but neither can deny the attraction between them. ![]() Still, she can’t help but be drawn to him. Her life doesn’t need more complications, and this distractingly attractive, clearly damaged boy promises nothing but trouble. She has enough on her plate with mothering her younger siblings and protecting a secret that could destroy everything, when she runs into Mason-literally. ![]() He just wants to survive until his eighteenth birthday so he can escape this backwater town and finally be free.Įmily is struggling to keep what’s left of her family from falling apart after a horrible accident stole her mom. ![]() Mason’s not interested in bonding with these newfound grandparents. Apparently he’s got grandparents-parents of the father he knows nothing about. When his mom ends up in prison, he’s shipped off to the middle of nowhere. ![]() Mason’s life is far from perfect, but it turns out it can get worse. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While that definition is very tidy, the reality in today’s world is messier and more complicated.
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