![]() ![]() Here’s what I came up with off the top of my head: ![]() ![]() I think they exist for the older readers, but not so much with picture books unless they’re part of group shots. The hardest thing to find? Casual diversity involving handicapped characters. Put another way, these are books where the point of the story isn’t diversity, but just a natural outgrowth of it. We’re just looking for books where diversity is integrated into the storyline without a hitch. I worked up a short list but I’d love it if other folks could offer up suggestions of their own. Since this particular group of moms was looking for younger titles I had to wrack my brain to come up with ideas. It’s something we strive to find in a lot of our books for kids, but actively seeking it out isn’t as easy as it sounds. The phrase is typically used to describe pop culture but I think it applies well enough to children’s books. To illustrate her point she called this “casual diversity”, a term I’d hitherto been unfamiliar with. She’d been talking with her friends and they decided that what they’d really like would be a list of children’s books in which diversity is just a part of everyday life. A friend of mine turned new mom had an interesting request the other day. ![]()
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![]() She continues to look up on the old mansion, now under renovation, with a bit of reverence. She has a fairly successful life, owning her own organic sporting goods store.Īs a child, she would look upon the Blue Ridge Madam mansion, the place her family called home generations ago until the 1930s when they became impoverished. She is now survived by her grandmother Georgie, who lives in a nursing home. Now as an adult, Willa promises to settle down in the town she once loved. ![]() Growing up, she was sort of a wild child, a prankster, known by her fellow classmates as the Walls of Water High School joker. Willa Jackson returns to the small southern town of Walls of Water, North Carolina eight years ago when her father passed away. Publisher: Bantam First Edition edition (March 22, 2011).Jenn Bantam, Mystery/Suspense, Review, Women's Fiction 11 ![]() ![]() Review: The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen ![]() ![]() ![]() Expect that unique mix of remarkable humans, talented pets, incredible vehicles and impressive sporting legends. We also want to encourage readers to put their own record-breaking to good, so look out for projects that might inspire you to make a difference - so don't just Discover Your World, Change Your World! Despite the challenges of the past year, it's been business as usual at Guinness World Records, and our researchers continue to field thousands of applications a month. Our editors have chosen to curate the book with environmental issues at the forefront of their mind, so we open with a chapter exploring what's happening to our ecosystem and what superlative lengths people are going to make a difference. Fully revised and updated, and with a bright new design, Guinness World Records 2022 provides a fascinating snapshot of our world today. ![]() ![]() ![]() Avedons oversized photographs of working class westerners have become icons in photographic history, as capable of generating debate today as when they were first exhibited. Assertive, controversial, and graphically striking, these portraits generated extensive (and at times, heated) discussion about the nature of portraiture, photography, and prevailing stereotypes of the region. ![]() ![]() A restaged version of this monumental exhibition just opened at the Center for Creative Photography on the University of Arizona campus, and remain on view until January 1, 2007.Īvedon traveled for five years, making portraits of ordinary people living and working in the Western United States. The project opened to widespread acclaim and was, in fact, one of the most highly attended exhibitions in the museums history. TUCSON, AZ.- In 1985, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas organized the exhibition In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only when it was re-released in 2000 for WonderSwan Color (damn, do you remember this handheld?) that the logo had its identity changed to today's standard. For the American release, the logo changed to just the English typography. It was presented with artwork done by Amano featuring a very familiar Warrior of Light. First, it was all written in katakana with a bright, translucent blue, similar to the crystals in the game. The first Final Fantasy logo had several versions before it got to the one we know today. ![]() Final Fantasy I Above is the original logo and below the reworked after long years of suffering. Technical curiosity: the font used in all titles is Runic MT Condensed. This results in a logo that is often conceptual, but which characterizes the essence of the game - or describes its ending in some cases. While the game is still in development, Amano is given a handful of information about it, like a plot summary, and must illustrate something from what he gleans from reading it. He illustrated almost all of them, except for the bad ones, and he has a very peculiar and interpretive process. The illustrator of the franchise logos is Yoshitaka Amano. Logo Illustrator Yoshitaka Amano designed not only logos, he also designed concept art for many major characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm looking forward to the inevitable sequel. ![]() Overall this is a very emotional, beautiful sci-fi tale with enough action to satisfy adult readers. The “I love you – F**k you too” chapters are particularly clever. The dialogue is fun too Janus, Camese, and Diana in particular talk brusquely and sarcastic. The characters are rather interesting, with Diana leaving her lesbian lover Vesta, to be with the male Janus, after they disagree on the future of the stellae. ![]() There is even a description of a new disembodied “Stella” and what that experience is like for the stellae stars. There is nonstop action, some sex, and a little gore (nothing really graphic). For instance, is this Earth in the future, or another planet? I wasn't clear on that, but the story is vivid nonetheless. This was a fun and fascinating tale, but I was left wishing a I had a little more detail into the background of this world. Told from the perspectives of each of the ten, the nobility learn that the dangers they tried to escape from pale in comparison to what and who they meet. ![]() But, she finds herself trapped between two spheres, two lives, and two lovers. He meets Diana, a woman who runs the psychopump and controls the souls that are released into the stellae. Her fortieth birthday is nine days away, and she is required to take her life and join the Stellae in Spheria 1. Janus is a biohacker determined to destroy the stellae and re-establish order. The Star and the Stellae is a fantasy novel where the upper class has the option to enter a “lifeless death” and join the stellae – a constellation of star-like, godly souls that controls the living lower class below. ![]() ![]() ![]() When we talk about tiger women in China, we understand them to be thus, domineering and snarling-ly relentless.Īll timid husbands married to such women understand what I’m saying. Tigers being the king of the mountain, tiger women are so likened because they share similar dominating traits with the big cat. This may have to do with the fact that in China, fierce and tenacious middle-aged women are sometimes called tigers – or tigresses, to be exact. I guess the question is why “tiger” mom instead of, say, a sheep mom or a dog mom. Tiger mom seems to be quite well explained in the above. The phrase was first coined in the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a 2011 parenting memoir written by Yale law professor Amy Chua. The phrase “tiger mom” is defined as a strict disciplinarian mother who demands high achievement from her children and maintains control of their activities. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, when her second cousin shows up as Contestant One in her Test, she receives final confirmation that the system corrupt as well as flawed, and this pushes her over the edge into rebellion. She doesn’t have to become disillusioned with the system she can already see some of its flaws, though she tends to think about it from her perspective rather than that of the boys. Sudasa doesn’t start out as naïve as some dystopian heroines. ![]() ![]() Five boys are competing for her hand, but the only one who intrigues Sudasa is Contestant Five, who seems to be walking the fine line between deliberately failing the Test and being conscripted into the army as punishment for failing to participate. Twelve years later, Sudasa, who barely remembers life before Koyanagar declared independence, turns seventeen and must choose a husband through the Test even though she doesn’t really want to get married. The women of the city of Koyanagar fight back, creating an independent city-state walled off from the rest of the country, where every boy will have a fair chance to win a wife through a series of challenges called the Test. “Instead of fixing things/ of making changes/ of making improvements/ all they’ve done/ has been to break them/ in reverse.”Īfter decades of ultrasounds and selective abortions thanks to an ill-advised One Child Policy, India has five boys for every girl, turning women into a valuable commodity. ![]() ![]() Shungiku Nakamura's distinct style of manga has been identified largely throughout Japanese and English yaoi fanbases. She is most famous for creating Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance. ![]() ![]() Works: Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance (2002 - Ongoing) "Junjou Mistake" (2008) Hybrid Child (2003 - 2004) Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi (2007 - Ongoing) "√W.P.B." (2004) "Touzandou Tentsui Ibu Shungiku Nakamura ( 中村春菊 Nakamura Shungiku?, born December 13,1980) is a Japanese yaoi manga artist. She often cowrites with Fujisaki Miyako, who authored the novels of Yoshino Chiaki no baai in Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. Her works usually include large age gaps between the seme and uke and characters with careers in the publishing industry (as depicted in Junjo Romantica and Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi). Shungiku Nakamura ( 中村春菊 Nakamura Shungiku?, born December 13,1980) is a Japanese yaoi manga artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are, for the most part, institutional fixtures, filling faceless job slots: clerk, dietary aide, technician, maid. We are no longer independent practitioners, known by our own names, for our own work. Women are still in the overall majority – 70 percent of health workers are women – but we have been incorporated as workers into an industry where the bosses are men. Ninety-three percent of the doctors in the US are men and almost all the top directors and administrators of health institutions. Today, however, health care is the property of male professionals. Medicine is part of our heritage as women, our history, our birthright. They were called “wise women” by the people, witches or charlatans by the authorities. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from books and lectures, learning from each other, and passing on experience from neighbor to neighbor and mother to daughter. They were midwives, travelling from home to home and village to village. ![]() They were pharmacists, cultivating healing herbs and exchanging the secrets of their uses. They were abortionists, nurses and counsellors. They were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history. First Published: in 1973 by The Feminist Press at CUNY. ![]() |