![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bananas lead to a look at the effects of multinational companies on “host economies,” and a personal story about a spice being “taken for granted” leads Chang to extrapolate on unpaid care work, which isn’t included in GDP calculations but “would amount to 30–40% of GDP” if it were. via the slave trade, and how free market economics only grant freedom to some. Chang ( Economics: The User’s Guide), a professor of economics at SOAS University of London, blends culinary facts and economic expertise in this rollicking guide that makes “economics more palatable by serving it with stories about food.” “Economics has a direct and massive impact on our lives,” Chang writes, and, in an effort to make knotty concepts accessible to a wide audience, he explains economic theory with culinary anecdotes: okra’s use in gumbo gives way to a discussion of how the vegetable was brought to the U.S. ![]()
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![]() The Dead House tells their story in mixed media format, including Kaitlyn’s diary entries, notes between the sisters, police notes, and interviews. Soon a third, sinister force begins haunting Kaitlyn and causing trouble for them at school. Yet Kaitlyn is convinced that both of them are real, and Carly’s friend Naida suspects that they are two souls sharing the same body. After their parents’ deaths, their psychiatrist becomes convinced that Carly suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID), and she begins treatment to merge their personalities. Carly has the daytime hours, while Kaitlyn has the night, and they have been this way for as long as they can remember. I am afraid.”Ībout: Carly has a secret that few people know: she shares a body with her sister, Kaitlyn. I’m the creature coming up from the basement, the thing under the bed. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’m the thing in the dark, just like the Viking used to tell me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as in Baldwin’s “after times,” argues Eddie S. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”-James Baldwinīegin Again is one of the great books on James Baldwin and a powerful reckoning with America’s ongoing failure to confront the lies it tells itself about race. ![]() Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated.
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