![]() "Isn’t that what our workshop participant’s have been doing in order to get better? Do people really need a pill or injection to change their state of being? Can we teach people to accomplish the same thing by teaching them how the placebo really works?" ![]() "I began to ask myself, ‘What if people begin to believe in themselves instead of something outside of themselves? What if they believe that they can change something inside of them and move themselves to the same state of being as someone who’s taking a placebo?" ![]() “The incredible results I’ve seen in the advanced workshops I offer and all the scientific data that has come out of that have led me to the idea of the placebo: how people can take a sugar pill or get a saline injection and then their belief in something outside of themselves makes them get better." ![]()
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![]() Sirota: The situation on Wall Street, all the Gordon Gekko "Wall Street" stuff came back out, the "Bonfires of the Vanities" and "masters of the universe." All of that was so iconic of the '80s and then suddenly it was hugely iconic in the Wall Street collapse and its aftermath and the whole debate about executive pay.Īnd then all the stuff about war. There's sort of that deja vu where you don't know where you heard it, but you could swear you've been there before.Ĭ: Can you give some examples? ![]() Sirota: The evolution was, I started hearing things in my own work in the political and media world that just sounded really, really familiar, and I was wondering why. But I think that has become much more obvious in the past few years.Ĭ: How did you make this discovery? ![]() ![]() We've gone back to the '80s!ĭavid Sirota: (Laughs) The thesis of the book is that the '80s have never ended, that we're basically still living in the 1980s. Since the '80s also marked the explosion of the consumer credit card industry, we thought it prudent to chat with Sirota about the rise of plastic and its ascension to cultural icon status.Ĭ: No wonder these times seem strangely familiar. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Low-effort book requests will be removed. Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub.“What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. 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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is in the darkness where Alice will discover her true calling and her life, and those friends, forever changed.Īcclaimed novelist Lev Grossman joins New York Times bestselling writer Lilah Sturges (Jack of Fables), and breakout artist Pius Bak for a new chapter in the smash hit trilogy The Magicians. ![]() But in this magical realm nothing is what it seems and something darker lies behind the spellbinding facade. Heartstopper is an ongoing young adult LGBTQ+ graphic novel and webcomic series written and illustrated by British author Alice Oseman.It follows the lives of Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring as they meet and fall in love. It’s not soon after graduation when Alice, Quentin, and their friends set their sights on the idyllic setting of Fillory-a place thought to only live in the pages of their favorite children’s books-where magic flows like rivers. ![]() During her years at Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, she rises to the top of her class, falls in love with Quentin Coldwater, and witnesses a horrifically magical creature invade their dimension. THE MAGICIANS: ALICES STORY is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman. ![]() THE MAGICIANS: ALICE’S STORY is an all new chapter set in the world of The Magicians trilogy of novels by New York Times bestselling author Lev Grossman that retells the events of the first novel through fan-favorite character Alice Quinn.Īlice Quinn is manifestly brilliant, and she’s always known that magic is real. Acclaimed novelist Lev Grossman joins New York Times bestselling writer Lilah Sturges (Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass), and artist Pius Bak (The. ![]() ![]() “Yeah, well, I do that when she doesn’t watch too. But I don’t think we scarred you for life, did we? I mean, you chain women to crosses and mark them up with a tool chest full of kink for fun. “So we are going to talk about it.” Jeremy tried to play it nonchalant, feeling anything but. “That was my motto until a few weeks ago,” Owen muttered. You’re both aware that’s not my thing, but you know my motto. “She hasn’t, and neither has anyone else. This was not the right conversation to get his mind off of sex. ![]() “Have you? Any of your threesomes gone beyond the usual bedroom play? Anyone want to tie you up or spank you? Don’t tell me Tasha’s never asked.” ![]() You shouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it.” Owen paused. “Torture chamber stuff sounds like judging. Don’t get all ‘What happens in Fight Club’ on me. ![]() “It’s Tasha, man,” Jeremy reassured him softly. “So she talks about what I do at the club? With you?” ![]() ![]() ![]() An IT thriller (like so many Murderbot stories) that functions at least partially as a forensic examination of linked surveillance and data systems. A cozy mystery garlanded with plasma cannons and spaceships. Martha Wells' newest entry in her award-winning, nerd-charming, trope-bending Murderbot series, Fugitive Telemetry, is a lot of things that you probably don't expect. ![]() Imagine that Agatha Christie or Nancy Atherton woke up one morning and decided to set their newest ticking-clock, cozy mystery not in some quaint English seaside village but in a quaint, progressive orbital station that Angela Lansbury's Jessica Fletcher was hurled forward a thousand years to find herself tutting over the body of a dead spaceman dumped in a hallway - no fingerprints, no DNA, no record of how he got there or who did him in. Armed and armored against all the evils that men do. Imagine for a moment that Hercule Poirot was a robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() But o my lord calamity turns to good fortune, as canals are awash and gondolas float and the Venetian Masked Ball is the sensation of the social season! In “Bawth,” as Eloise lolls in her bathtub at the Plaza and indulges in aquatic fantasies - water-skiing with her pet turtle and traveling the seas in a pirate ship - and she floods the entire hotel on the night of the Venetian Masked Ball. (Charge it please and thank you very much!) (Only the Plaza allows turtles!) She skibbles and skidders about the halls having grand adventures - feeding her mother’s attorney rubber candy, hiding in high-up holes in the Grand Ballroom, torturing her tutor and ordering everything possible from room service. ![]() Born 50 years ago as an impish voice Thompson would use to entertain friends - and first immortalized in “Kay Thompson’s Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grownups” - Eloise is a saucy 6-year-old who lives in the Plaza Hotel in New York with Nanny, her pug dog Weenie (who looks like a cat) and her turtle Skipperdee. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Scapegoated for violating Soviet law, they were charged with multiple counts of fabrication of evidence, falsification of interrogation protocols, use of torture to secure "confessions," and murder during pre-trial detention of "suspects" - and many were sentenced to execution themselves. In what has been dubbed "the purge of the purgers," almost one thousand NKVD officers were prosecuted by Soviet military courts. And what exactly happened in those courtrooms was unknown until now. Unlike the postwar, public trials of Nazi war criminals, NKVD operatives were tried secretly. While we now know a great deal about the experience of victims of the Great Terror, we know almost nothing about the lower- and middle-level Narodnyi Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del (NKVD), or secret police, cadres who carried out Stalin's murderous policies. Between the summer of 1937 and November 1938, the Stalinist regime arrested over 1.5 million people for "counterrevolutionary" and "anti-Soviet" activity and either summarily executed or exiled them to the Gulag. ![]() ![]() This book has many different words for sleeping (snoring, dreaming, dozing, slumbering). ![]()
![]() ![]() Numerous sociologists have studied the plurality and nuances of class categorisations, but this approach has been less pursued with respect to gender (Dunezat 2015). How we should conceive of and study gender is no longer self-evident in this context of social and legal transformations. neither male nor female) is spreading well beyond just the trans population. Discrimination on the basis of ‘gender identity’ gets included in the French criminal code in 2016, while calling oneself ‘non-binary (i.e. Enacted in 2013, France’s ‘marriage for all’ law was soon followed by the Law on the Modernisation of Justice for the 21 st Century (2016), which de-medicalises change of sex in the civil registry. The border between the sexes is becoming more porous in both the social sphere and in law. These changes are continuing at the start of the 21 st century with the remarkable development of feminist and LGBT struggles. Their right to vote, more schooling, the massive entry of women onto the labour market, contraception and the legalisation of abortion are all factors that have transformed how they live. ![]() Women’s lives are not the same as they once were. The gender order evolved considerably during the 20 th century. ![]() |