In an imaginary conversation at Cafe Griensteidl in New York City twelve venerable women scholars outdo nine very rich dangerously misguided men of enormous power. Bill Gates appears and so does Sir Michael Barber of Pearson, along with Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth and Dorothy Lintott of Alan Bennett's History Boys. Scenes from Isaac Asimov's Nightfall and Italo Calvino's Daughters of the Moon are folded in. Sarah Montague of BBC's Hardtalk, Jeremy Paxman of Nightline, and researcher and historian of education Diane Ravitch, all play their parts. Thomas Piketty of Capital in the Twenty-First...
In an imaginary conversation at Cafe Griensteidl in New York City twelve venerable women scholars outdo nine very rich dangerously misguided men of en...
What would it take to make Earth a child safe zone? Nineteen Clues: Great Transformations Can be Achieved through Collective Action makes the case that there are two threats to our children that impact every aspect of their present and future lives. The first threat to our children is the hostile take over the US public education system. Noam Chomsky calls it, "the campaign to destroy those parts of the education system that enrich the lives of students, that interfere with indoctrination, with control, with imposing passivity and obedience." While Diane Ravitch writes, "Never have public...
What would it take to make Earth a child safe zone? Nineteen Clues: Great Transformations Can be Achieved through Collective Action makes the case tha...
"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male counterparts. "You would separate yourselves on your island of knowledge, and sink the punt which would bear us over to your privileged shore," Hampson tells us she writes, "Of all the twaddle - forgive me, male sycophants - that the world has ever heard, I think the greatest is that which you have talked about female education." "Now," the Lady Professor supposedly writes, "look me straight in the face (no shirking, sir ). Is it not jealousy -...
"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male co...
"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male counterparts. "You would separate yourselves on your island of knowledge, and sink the punt which would bear us over to your privileged shore," Hampson tells us she writes, "Of all the twaddle - forgive me, male sycophants - that the world has ever heard, I think the greatest is that which you have talked about female education." "Now," the Lady Professor supposedly writes, "look me straight in the face (no shirking, sir ). Is it not jealousy -...
"You would prevent us from competing with you," P. Hampson laughs on the page when he writes of the way a Lady Professor of Girtham scolds her male co...
One reviewer writes: -From the opening scene I felt I was reading something like a Miyazaki masterpiece. The descriptions are so vivid that only his genius talent for animation could capture them. Just as Howl's Moving Castle takes you on a journey with both darkness and light, here there is palpable evil and fragile heroism in non-clichEd plot twists and turns. Required reading for our times.-
Split is a dystopian urban fantasy set in New York City in 2022 that is now frighteningly real. In the genre of 1984 and Brave New World the novel foretells a future...
One reviewer writes: -From the opening scene I felt I was reading something like a Miyazaki masterpiece. The descriptions are so vivid that only hi...
One reviewer writes: -From the opening scene I felt I was reading something like a Miyazaki masterpiece. The descriptions are so vivid that only his genius talent for animation could capture them. Just as Howl's Moving Castle takes you on a journey with both darkness and light, here there is palpable evil and fragile heroism in non-clichEd plot twists and turns. Required reading for our times.-
Split is a dystopian urban fantasy set in New York City in 2022 that is now frighteningly real. In the genre of 1984 and Brave New World the novel foretells a future...
One reviewer writes: -From the opening scene I felt I was reading something like a Miyazaki masterpiece. The descriptions are so vivid that only hi...
