The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women – by Kate Moore Recommended for anyone who wants to better understand the sacrifices made by American women at home during World War I. From the publisher: As World War I raged across the globe, hundreds of young women toiled away at the radium-dial factories,…Continue reading Nonfiction to read this summer
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Friday Reads – Pico Iyer on the Pleasures of Being Foreign, Ethan Siegel on Dark Matter
Soon there’ll be more foreigners on earth than there are Americans. Foreignness is a planetary condition, and even when you walk through your hometown—whether that’s New York or London or Sydney—half the people around you are speaking in languages and dealing in traditions different from your own. Read the article at Lapham’s Quarterly But there…Continue reading Friday Reads – Pico Iyer on the Pleasures of Being Foreign, Ethan Siegel on Dark Matter
Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) by Mel Gooding
Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) by Mel Gooding Reviewed by Michelle Richmond forthcoming from Shambala Redstone Editions, October, 2014 ISBN: 9781590308400 Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) by Mel Gooding isn’t really a book. It’s a box of 42 art cards, accompanied by exercises to help bring out the artist in anyone,…Continue reading Art Rules! (And How to Break Them) by Mel Gooding
Pimp your resume: The Infographic Resume
Hannah Morgan thinks resumes are rather dullish. Her solution? The Infographic Resume: How to Create a Visual Resume That Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job. To promote the book, McGraw-Hill Professional has created an infographic resume for a man who needs no letter of recommendation, Sherlock Holmes. It’s very pretty, indeed. The timeline is…Continue reading Pimp your resume: The Infographic Resume
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year Old Boy with Autism
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Autism, by Naoki Higashida is a slim, immediately readable journey into the mind of a thirteen-year-old autistic boy. The book is arranged as a series of answers to 39 questions–such as “Why do you line up your toy cars and blocks?” and…Continue reading The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year Old Boy with Autism