![]() ![]() The Red Deal is a short document that presents the view that climate change is a consequence of capitalist colonisation. ![]() They incorporate The Red Nation's ambition of liberation for Indigenous peoples. The proposals urge the rejection of capitalism and a shift towards left wing governance models. The Red Deal proposals radically exceed the ambitions of the Green New Deal, presenting a framework to end the climate emergency through actions that centre Indigenous people and traditional territories. The Red Deal is sold as a 176 page paperback book, that is published by Common Notions Press, ISBN 9781942173434. It was produced by The Red Nation in April 2021. The Red Nation is a Native American advocacy group, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that focusses on decolonisation and anti-capitalism as means to liberate Indigenous peoples. ![]() The Red Deal was conceptualised The Red Nation co-founder Nick Estes in 2019. ![]() Its full title is The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth Publication The proposals are to supplement the Green New Deal proposals to address climate change. The Red Deal is proposed ecological and social movement framework, presented in book format, and published by The Red Nation. ![]()
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![]() "The days are long past, if they ever existed, where kids live in some happy little childhood protected by elves and fairies," she said.Ĭyma Zarghami, president of the Viacom Kids and Family Group, said Ellerbee has "helped multiple generations of kids understand the issues of the day, and she helped a lot of parents navigate how to talk about the tough topics as well. Children in a wired world are aware of news events, but might not always have reliable information, she said. The guiding philosophy was not to talk down to young viewers. After a decade of trying, she produced a special this year with dying children talking to their peers. She won Emmys for shows on AIDS, children of alcoholics, kids living with cancer, the adjustment of parents returning from war, autism and ethnic cleansing. The show delved into social issues like same-sex marriage and AIDS. ![]() ![]() She was Nick News head for 25 years, making programs tied to events like the 2001 terrorist attacks, the Oklahoma City bombing and Hurricane Katrina. ![]() The new kids' network Nickelodeon asked her to make a show explaining to youngsters the U.S. After a stop at ABC, Ellerbee and partner Rolfe Tessem opened a production company and what became their biggest job happened by chance. ![]() ![]() Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() ![]() |a On the eve of the revolution - How American food got bad - Revolutionizing the supermarket experience - The rules for finding a good place to eat - Barbecue: the greatest slow food of all - The Asian elephant in the room - Another agricultural revolution, now - Eating your way to a greener planet - Why does Mexican food taste different in Mexico? - The finding great food anywhere encyclopedia - The stuff and values of cooking at home. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index. Tyler Cowen offers the thinking persons guide to American food culture, and your relationships with food will be hugely enriched by the result. An Economist Gets Lunch is really about finding the best places to eatthe economics is little more than a side salad. |a An economist gets lunch : |b new rules for everyday foodies / |c Tyler Cowen. Tyler Cowen, a professor at George Mason University with a widely read economics blog called Marginal Revolution, joins the crowd with a book on food, now out in paperback. ![]() ![]() I looked up and the cameraman was filming me again. We had brought gas masks, thinking there might be chemical weapons strikes, but I wasn’t supposed to be lying bleeding in a hospital near the body of my friend. ![]() I was in Kurdistan, the part that was supposed to be relatively safe. It was only the third day of the Iraq war and the fighting had barely begun. It was my own, trying to tell me I wasn’t here. The explosion had wrecked my hearing and everything sounded muffled, even someone wailing just a body’s length away. I wasn’t sure if it was the woman with the mutilated leg, or the man with the wounded stomach, or the other man who’d been shredded by shrapnel, or my neighbour lying on the floor beside me. Screaming or moaning was best: it gave viewers a feeling of the pain and horror and they could imagine the wounds that caused it. Blood without the gore usually got through. Too much injury was bad: you couldn’t show it. ![]() ![]() I had done it often myself-walked round war zone hospitals looking for shots with the most pathos. I didn’t look as badly wounded as the others so he didn’t linger long, moving off to the next room where people were more photogenic because they were lying in their own blood. ![]() ![]() ![]() This perhaps shows that I only dislike Christie’s prejudices when they differ from my own. Under the present government, a philandering, financially reckless, misogynist like Kettering, prone to lying and betrayal, would probably be made a Cabinet Minister. To be fair, Derek Kettering, the only English nobleman in the book, was an absolute horror. The foreigners in ‘The Mystery of the Blue Train’ were so cartoonish that they seemed straight off the pages of a Tin Tin comic strip. The text has English exceptionalism bred in the bone. The thin writing made me more irritated than usual by the way foreigners were depicted. It felt like a boilerplate text the was put in for a first draft to move the story along and was then never revisited. ![]() The dialogue was OK but the text is very lacklustre. Perhaps that goes some way towards explaining why parts of the book felt so thinly written and why the narrative was so unfocused.įor the first third of the book, the writing had patches where it was quite threadbare. ![]() I’m told that Christie didn’t like this book and that she wrote it while going through a divorce and while she was distracted by caring for her young daughter. I’m glad I didn’t because the second half of the book was entertaining but getting there was a slog. Had I not been reading ‘The Mystery Of The Blue Train’ as part of a monthly group read with the Appointment With Agathacommunity on GoodReads, I’d probably have abandoned it before I was halfway through. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But after years of rivalry from afar, Adraa and Jatin only agree on one thing: their reunion will be anything but sweet. Together, their arranged marriage will unite two of Wickery’s most powerful kingdoms. Jatin is the royal heir to Naupure, a competitive wizard who’s mastered all nine colors of magic, and a boy anxious to return home for the first time since he was a child. Synopsis: Adraa is the royal heir of Belwar, a talented witch on the cusp of taking her royal ceremony test, and a girl who just wants to prove her worth to her people. There is romance and the book heavily leans into religion (the religion is one that is set up in the book). There is some slight sexual content and some fetishization scenes shown. There is one animal butchering scene and it’s graphic. Drugs are not used in the book but are mentioned and are a plot point. Recommended Age: 15+ (violence, gore, mass death, drugs, animal butchering scene, slight sexual content, some fetishization, romance, religion)Įxplanation of CWs: There is violence, mass death, and gore in this book. Recommended For…: young adult readers, fantasy, romance, South Asian inspired Support your authors!ĭiversity: South Asian MCs and characters ![]() ![]() As Luz navigates 1930s Denver, she begins to have visions that transport her to her Indigenous homeland in the nearby Lost Territory. Luz “Little Light” Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older brother, Diego, a snake charmer and factory worker, is run out of town by a violent white mob. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Book Riot There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. ![]() ![]() A “dazzling, cinematic, intimate, lyrical” (Roxane Gay) epic of betrayal, love, and fate that spans five generations of an Indigenous Chicano family in the American West, from the author of the National Book Award finalist Sabrina & Corina “Sometimes you just step into a book and let it wash over you, like you’re swimming under a big, sparkling night sky.”-Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You A PHENOMENAL BOOK CLUB PICK AND AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK. ![]() ![]() Seuss and Charles Schulz, with all the responsibility that implies. In their whimsy, slapstick and emotional matter-of-factness, these books have established their creator as sort of a cross between Dr. His two best-selling series of books - one about the odd couple Elephant and Piggie, the other about the mercurial Pigeon - resonate with the hard, confusing time of early childhood. (He pitched in again by hosting another doodle session on election night.) That Willems, who is 52, was ready to help during a hard, confusing time was no surprise. ![]() ![]() During the first wave of the pandemic in the winter, Mo Willems’s ‘‘Lunch Doodles’’ series, in which the beloved children’s-book author and illustrator led viewers in endearingly no-frills online drawing sessions, was a lifeline to families desperate to exercise their imaginations during lockdown. ![]() ![]() What the hell is a guy supposed to do though when he meets a woman who is not only beautiful but also feisty, fun, and way into nerd culture? I may be doomed. ![]() But, my sister’s new roommate…yeah I might have a small obsession. ![]() I prefer to keep things casual, and I’m always up front with women so that no one ever gets hurt. And, what’s worse is that he’s kind of the perfect guy. Unfortunately for me my roommates drop dead gorgeous brother seems hell bent on seducing me. ![]() And, the last thing I want or need is a man in my life to make things more complicated. The girl who’s afraid to love and the guy who’s known to be a player. ![]() |