![]() ![]() ![]() And it also discusses how it can sometimes be difficult for friends and family members to remember a name change, to change from being a brother to a sister, and to use the proper pronouns. The artwork is clearly not intended to be the focus of this book. I found it especially interesting how the book switches from referring to the child as he/his/him to she/hers/her once the decision is made. Obviously, this book provides a framework for transgender discussion as so many children are going through this process, today. It begins with a young boy named Nick who, after a lot of consideration, decides he isn't a boy and makes slow changes to become "Hope." His parents are patient and understanding, even making sure to find a good doctor for their child to speak with while making this decision. I recently heard about this book and was pleased to see it was available through my college. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The laws governing use of time travel are absolute break any one of them and, one way or another, your life is over. James is a chronman, undertaking missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasure without altering the timeline. Those responsible for delaying humanity's demise believe time travel holds the key, and they have identified James, troubled though he is, as one of a select and expendable few ideally suited for the most dangerous job in history. In his time, Earth is a toxic, abandoned world, and humans have fled into the outer solar system to survive, eking out a fragile, doomed existence among the other planets and their moons. Time Salvager: a fast-paced time travel adventure from Wesley Chu, the award-winning author of The Lives of Tao.Ĭonvicted criminal James Griffin-Mars is no one's hero. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most Zoroastrians if asked, 'In a nutshell, what do Zoroastrians believe?' would begin their answer with the moral maxim: 'Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.' Zoroastrianism: A Guide for the Perplexed takes this foundational trifold ethic as the framework for its three main chapters. The religion continues as a living faith for an estimated 130 - 150,000 adherents in the world. Zoroastrianism has developed over a span of at least three thousand years, with roots in a common Indo-Iranian culture and mythology, then becoming part of imperial Iranian ideology within an Ancient Near Eastern setting, and emerging in variant forms in western and central Asia in late antiquity. The significance of the Zoroastrian religion in the development of the history of thought is often only mentioned in passing, or is completely overlooked. ![]() ![]() Goodbye, 50% of Earth’s human population. In the second wave, strategic detonations along coastal fault lines cause global tsunamis. As disabled planes fall from the sky and stalled vehicles crash violently on the highways, humans start waking up to the fact that their world isn’t really theirs any more. In the first wave, an electro-magnetic pulse takes out all technology - lights, cars, batteries, phones - in one fell swoop. This invasion is definitely managed hands-off, and it works. Forget alien fighter drones swooping screaming through our skies. In The 5th Wave, the end of life as we know it is pretty much a foregone conclusion once the mothership shows up. As the startling new young adult novel The 5th Wave makes clear, when the aliens do get here, humans won’t stand a chance. Don’t think that a scrappy band of humans will join together to defeat the invaders, with an inspirational soundtrack thumping in the background. Quick, what’s the first thing you think of when you think of alien invasions? E.T.? Independence Day? Close Encounters of the Third Kind? 16-year-old Cassie has news for you: When the aliens do arrive, don’t expect sweet and cuddly. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This requires a social and political explanation and the task of repoliticizing mental illness is an urgent one if the left wants to challenge capitalist realism.”Ĭapitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? If it is true, for instance, that depression is constituted by low serotonin levels, what still needs to be explained is why particular individuals have low levels of serotonin. It goes without saying that all mental illnesses are neurologically instantiated, but this says nothing about their causation. Second, it provides an enormously lucrative market in which multinational pharmaceutical companies can peddle their pharmaceuticals (we can cure you with our SSRIs). First, it reinforces Capital’s drive towards atomistic individualization (you are sick because of your brain chemistry). ![]() Considering mental illness an individual chemico-biological problem has enormous benefits for capitalism. The chemico-biologization of mental illness is of course strictly commensurate with its depoliticization. “The current ruling ontology denies any possibility of a social causation of mental illness. ![]() |