Two professors at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse are leading the charge to promote “fat studies,” a recently established micro-discipline that argues that society oppresses obese people.
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Month: December 2019
‘Uncanny Valley’ Charts a Tech Pilgrim’s Progress
In this extraordinary memoir, Anna Wiener writes about joining the start-up industry and her eventual disillusionment with it.
Source: NYT > Books
Sonny Mehta, Venerable Knopf Publisher, Is Dead at 77
A voracious reader and an instinctive decision maker, Mr. Mehta could spot great books and, coming from a paperback world, had no qualms about pushing them.
Source: NYT > Books
[Teen & Young Adult][Free] Love Chances
Why can’t she be a “daddy’s girl” or “mother’s brat?” Someday she will get over it…hopefully, soon. On the outside looking in, Ondrea Robertson has it going on. Contrary to popular belief, The National Merit Scholar and future Spelman College student is also an orphan who battles her inner struggles of loneliness, until she meets […]
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[Teen & Young Adult][Free] River Rising (Carson Chronicles Book 1)
Weeks after his parents disappear on a hike, Arizona engineer Adam Carson, 27, searches for answers. Then he discovers a secret web site and learns that his mother and father are time travelers stuck in the past. Armed with the information he needs to find them, Adam convinces his younger siblings to join him on […]
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