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![]() This book chronicles these differences with open arms, a lot of love, and the deep belief that though we may come from separate places and have different backgrounds, all parents want the same things for our families - and especially for our children. Full of essays that readers of all backgrounds will find provocative, My Brown Baby acknowledges that there absolutely are issues that Black parents must deal with that white parents never have to confront if they're not raising brown children. My Brown Baby From noted parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes the definitive book about parenting African American. After publishing almost 2,000 posts aimed at lifting the voices of parents of color, Millner has now curated a collection of the website's most important and insightful essays offering perspectives on issues from birthing while Black to negotiating discipline to preparing children for racism. ![]() ![]() The site, hailed a "must-read" by The New York Times, speaks to the experiences, joys, fears, and triumphs of African American motherhood. For over a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, and wickedly funny commentary about motherhood on her critically acclaimed website,. ![]() From noted parenting expert and New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner comes the definitive book about parenting African American children. For almost a decade, national parenting expert and bestselling author Denene Millner has published thought-provoking, insightful, sometimes wickedly funny. ![]() ![]() The principle is evident in attacking and occupying Middle Eastern countries, then justifying the war on terror by pointing to the increased radicalization ensuing from the invasion.Īnother way to look at the book - and this only enhances the Straussian reading - is as a peek into the mind of Big Brother himself the Orwellian subtext is pervasive throughout the book. The same principle applies in foreign policy, such as in retreating from Bill Clinton's tentative rapprochement with Iran and North Korea as Bush's first order of business, demonizing these countries as evil, and then setting in motion offensive strategies once those countries predictably react. ![]() ![]() Or to execute a reckless Medicare drug expansion plan, catering to pharmaceutical companies and knowing it would lead to insolvency, to set the stage for drastic future cuts in Medicare - and other entitlements, while they're at it. ![]() An example would be to purposely inflate the housing bubble and then use the succeeding bailout to further enrich the wealthy elites at the cost of the average worker. The beauty of the Bush philosophy of governance is that it creates and accelerates those very conditions of stress (radical economic inequality promoted by tax cuts for the wealthy and concomitant cuts in public services for the less well-off) that then provide fertile ground for popular acceptance of measures intended to further worsen conditions for the subject class. ![]() ![]() Staff Engineer is your guide to building your career towards a staff engineering. Will has been an engineering leader and software engineer at technology. ![]() ![]() I wrote the foreword to Will Larson’s fantastic book, Staff Engineer. Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track. Will Larson is the author of my new favorite engineering management book. (It was such a great conference! The Lead Dev folks are magical.)Īs part of that same conference, I got to interview a tech luminary: Diane Tang, Google Fellow. Here’s my intro as cohost of the first ever Staff Engineering conference. That includes understanding your own impact: we dive into what a Staff+ engineer even is and why the industry needs them. Part one of the book is about understanding the big picture of your company and your organization, creating that big picture for other people with vision and strategy, and being willing to make the big decisions that are blocking other people. ![]() ![]() ![]() This elegiac communal spirit overhangs Pamuk’s reflections as he introduces the writers and painters (among the latter, most particularly the German Antoine-Ignace Melling) through whose eyes he came to see Istanbul. ![]() In this place came his first intimations of the melancholy awareness that binds all residents of his city together: that of living in the seat of ruined imperial glories, in a country trying to become “modern” at the dizzying crossroads of East and West. He begins with his childhood among the eccentric extended Pamuk family in the dusty, carpeted, and hermetically sealed apartment building they shared. A portrait, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world’s great cities, by its foremost man of letters, author of the acclaimed novels Snow and My Name Is Red.īlending reminiscence with history family photographs with portraits of poets and pashas art criticism, metaphysical musing, and, now and again, a fanciful tale, Orhan Pamuk invents an ingenious form to evoke his lifelong home, the city that forged his imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. ![]() After a slow start due to the unusual format (a glossary would probably help), this develops into a surprisingly poignant tale of friendship, change, and growth. ![]() But best friends are always there for each other, and a series of emergencies pushes them further apart and then brings them back together, closer than ever. Since cynical Maddie can’t cope with Zoe’s emerging faith, and trusting Zoe won’t see anything wrong in her growing relationship with Mr. Angela flits through a series of rotten boyfriends, Zoe discovers Christianity while becoming disturbingly close to her English teacher, and Maddie befriends the class bad girl. Friends can help each other get through the year, but only if they manage to stay together. Tenth grade is tough, with obnoxious trendy classmates, unfair parents, and sex. Best buds SnowAngel (Angela), zoegirl (Zoe), and mad maddie (Maddie) IM with one another constantly when not in school. Told entirely in instant messages, this modern epistolary tale prompts both tears and LOL (laughing out loud). ![]() ![]() ![]() One month after my mother died, I received a message from my grandfather Dekarta Arameri, inviting me to visit the family seat. ![]() In the Arameri way, which is the way of the Amn race from whom they originated, I am the Baroness Yeine Darr. I also am, or was, the chieftain of my people, called ennu. Tribes mean little to us these days, though before the Gods' War they were more important. In my people's way I am Yeine dau she Kinneth tai wer Somem kanna Darre, which means that I am the daughter of Kinneth, and that my tribe within the Darre people is called Somem. The tales do not say what happens when the most powerful family in the world is offended in the process.īut I forget myself. ![]() In the tales, such a couple lives happily ever after. It is the stuff of great tales, yes? Very romantic. I have often wondered what he said and did that night to make her fall in love with him so powerfully, for she eventually abdicated her position to be with him. My father dared ask my mother to dance she deigned to consent. There was a ball for the lesser nobility-the sort of thing that happens once a decade as a backhanded sop to their self-esteem. Yet it does not surprise me that she tried. I was born anyhow, of course nature cannot be denied. They say my mother crossed her legs in the middle of labor and fought with all her strength not to release me into the world. My people tell stories of the night I was born. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons – who founded Yelp Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim – who together founded YouTube Chapter after chapter, Thiel gives example after example of how to successfully build the future.īut Why Listen To Thiel? Well, Peter Thiel has played a role in partnering with, inspiring and/or investing in some of the most successful tech entrepreneurs in the United States (and probably the world) including:Įlon Musk – who founded SpaceX and co-founded Tesla Motors Quite frankly, certain sections of the book are so ridiculously well put together that one just sits there and thinks after reading them. ![]() Along with co-author (and former student) Blake Masters - Thiel has put together a hard-hitting set of standards for entrepreneurs, startups, and thought-leaders to carefully consider when building the “next big thing” of the future. The book, "Zero to One" was inspired by a collection of lectures delivered by Peter Thiel during his teaching years at Stanford. Zero To One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Book Summary of "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel Blake Masters ![]() ![]() ![]() These alcohols are toxic, and may cause symptoms if swallowed in amounts greater than 30 milliliters. The scented ingredients in perfume are infused into these alcohols as a way of preserving and stabilizing the product’s desired scent. The most toxic ingredient in perfumes, colognes, and aftershaves tends to be ethanol or isopropyl alcohol. Let’s take a closer look at medical emergencies caused by fragrance products as well as other less serious conditions that can be related to perfume. But exposure to topical fragrances can trigger allergies, skin sensitivities, and cause harm over time. The good news is that immediate, irreversible damage to your health caused by one-time use of perfume or cologne - so-called “perfume poisoning” - is rare. ![]() Instead, these chemicals are simply covered by the word “fragrance” - a catchall ingredient category that really could mean anything.īecause so many ingredients included in perfume aren’t disclosed to the buyer, there are some well-founded concerns over the chemical reactions perfume can trigger in your body. You might think that finding out what’s in your perfume would be as easy as reading the ingredient label.īut because of laws that protect fragrance manufacturers from sharing “trade secrets,” almost every perfume sold commercially is crammed with chemicals that aren’t listed individually on the product packaging. ![]() ![]() The novel’s final section returns to the point of view of the older Adso, who visits the site where the abbey had once stood to gather up the fragments of the library. There, he meets many prominent theologians, explores the greatest library in Christendom, has his first and only sexual experience, helps William solve the mystery of a series of murders, and witnesses the final, tragic destruction of the abbey. Adso recounts how he journeyed to an abbey in northern Italy as a servant and companion to William of Baskerville. The older Adso, by contrast, is more comfortable accepting the limitations of his ability to comprehend the ways of God and the mysterious order of the universe. ![]() ![]() Throughout the novel, he consistently questions authority and ponders the impossibility of arriving at definitive solutions to any of the many mysteries and arguments that unfold around him, since it seems everything can be interpreted in many different ways. He loves reading and studying and is fascinated by the mysteries of the abbey’s library. The younger Adso is described as young and handsome, and is very curious and inquisitive. However, much of the novel’s action takes place much earlier, when he was a Benedictine novice in his late teens. The younger Adso is described as young and handsome, and is very curious and inquisitive. When he writes the story of his life, Adso is an old man living in a German monastery and preparing for his own death. ![]() ![]() When he writes the story of his life, Adso is an old man living in a German monastery and preparing for his own death. ![]() |