![]() ![]() I also loved how she included stories about other topics like relationships, friendships, living with other people, and being consistent in what you do. Danielle offers quality career advice and really kept it real about getting started in the fashion industry. ![]() When reading this book I found Danielle Bernstein’s story so inspiring and motivational. Vertel Publishing, Image source: This Is Not A Fashion Story by Danielle Bernstein In her book she talks about her struggles with staying motivated and inspired, but also how important it is to stay true to yourself and trusting your intuition. I’ve always been so impressed with Sophia and her unique outlook on life. I read this book after finishing the Netflix series “Girlboss,” and was eager to learn more about her. Sophia Amoruso’s story to me is a classic, and probably partly why I have such an interest in fashion today. Portfolio, Image source: Girlboss by Sophia Amoruso For some of the best career advice or design inspiration, check out these 10 books every fashion student should read. Ever since I got into fashion in high school, I’ve really loved reading and checking out different fashion, design, and art books. ![]() Reading has been a hobby I have loved for as long as I can remember, and over time I have fallen in and out of keeping up with it. ![]()
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![]() There is little in the worldbuilding of The Dog Stars that stands up to any sustained scrutiny. Nina Allan’s review of the book at Strange Horizons is very much in line with my own opinion of it, and when she writes of Heller’s “thoughtless inconsistency”, this seems just right. The story of Colorado man Hig, it is set in the near future, following an apparently multi-causal apocalypse: there are references to both disease and climate change, and there also seems to be an ongoing confrontation with ‘Arabs’ in the background of this world. That latter book has a lot to recommend it – breadth of vision, unabashed ambition, memorable images – but may be defeated by the impossibility of its self-appointed task: as Vandana Singh has written, the novel trips over its own assumptions as it pushes its frame of reference ever outwards Intrusion may be slighter, but it also plays more consistently to its own considerable strengths.Ĭaught almost dead-centre in this dog fight is Peter Heller’s appropriately titled The Dog Stars. ![]() Of those, Ken MacLeod’s Intrusion seems to me more perfectly formed than Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, if perhaps as a function of a decidedly narrower imaginative palette. I’ve already reviewed two of the six shortlisted contenders for this year’s Arthur C Clarke Award. ![]() ![]() ![]() This new edition includes the original illustrations by Kathryn Uhl and features an introduction by Leslie Bow, who critically examines the changing reception and enduring legacy of the book and offers insight into Wong’s life as an artist and an ambassador of Chinese American culture. It was written at a time when few portraits of Asian American life were available, and no similar works were as popular and broadly appealing. The US State Department even sent its charismatic young author on a four-month speaking tour throughout Asia.Ĭited as an influence by prominent Chinese American writers such as Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston, Fifth Chinese Daughter is a foundational work in Asian American literature. ![]() Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese Daughter was one of the most widely read works by an Asian American author in the twentieth century. Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco’s Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Fifth Chinese Daughter, Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography, directly and honestly relates the struggles and accomplishments of an American-born Chinese girl. Center for Teaching and Research on Writing. ![]() ![]() The earliest phase of this border-wall was built in the year 737, and it was reinforced and changed on a number of occasions till well on into the 12th century (andersen, madsen, voss, 1976 roes- dahl, 1982: 141-6). But there was a distinct Scandinavian culture during most of the Viking Age, though of course also local differences and developments, and the southern border of Denmark - and Scandinavia - was well protected by one of northern Europe's largest earth-works : the Danevirke. ![]() ![]() of Medieval Archaelology, Aarhus University, Denmark.īut first it should be noted that the three present Scandinavian kingdoms Denmark, Norway and Sweden only started to take form during the Viking Age that Scandinavia is a very vast area (constituting about half of Europe's length), and that the topography and the natural resources vary enormously - from the mountain areas of the midnight sun in the extreme north to the green lowlands of south Scandinavia. ![]() ![]() ![]() Drezner, writing for The New York Times, says, "For such a small book, Snyder invests On Tyranny with considerable heft," but he also describes it as "overwrought" and tending toward hyperbole. ![]() Reviews Ĭarlos Lozada of The Washington Post describes the book as "clarifying and unnerving", "a memorable work that is grounded in history yet imbued with the fierce urgency of what now." Daniel W. The short (126 pages) book is presented as a series of twenty instructions on how to combat the rise of tyranny, such as "Defend institutions", "Remember professional ethics", and "Believe in truth". Explaining that "(h)istory does not repeat, but it does instruct," he analyzes recent European history to identify conditions that can enable established democracies to transform into dictatorships. On Tyranny focuses on the concept of tyranny in the context of the modern United States politics, analyzing what Snyder calls "America's turn towards authoritarianism". The book topped the New York Times bestseller list for paperback nonfiction in 2017 and remained on bestseller lists as late as 2021. A graphic version, illustrated by Nora Krug, was released October 5, 2021. The book was published by Tim Duggan Books in hardcover and by Penguin Random House in paperback. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century is a 2017 book by Timothy Snyder, a historian of 20th-century Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the ancient and authoritative texts of three samurai masters, this manual gives the direct and authentic samurai solution to any of life's many situations. Previously, the aspiring samurai had no resource at all. Any book about the samurai, or their codes, was either so strictly historical, or so thickly academic, that it didn't give any practical solutions to the average person, about how to go about applying the samurai ethic to their daily life. "item_description" : "Who hasn't considered, at some point in their life, what it would take to live as a samurai? Whether it was a serious, life-long obsession or a passing, whimsical thought in either case, there was really no way to know how to go about living life as a samurai. "item_title" : "Instruction Manual for the 21st Century Samurai", ![]() ![]() A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at Harper's and frequent contributor to the Guardian newspaper. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about environment, landscape, community, art, politics, hope, and memory, including the updated and reissued Hope in the Dark, three atlases, of San Francisco in 2010, New Orleans in 2013, and New York forthcoming in October 2014's Men Explain Things to Me 2013's The Faraway Nearby A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster A Field Guide to Getting Lost Wanderlust: A History of Walking and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). ![]() ![]() Is it myth or magic at work, for good or for ill? Comatose from crashing into the sea, Rain is taken in by a community of single women committed to obscure devotional practices.Īs the mainland of Maracoor sustains an assault by a foreign navy, the island’s civil-servant overseer struggles to understand how an alien arriving on the shores of Maracoor could threaten the stability and wellbeing of an entire nation. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba’s granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. ![]() Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz.īut “out of Oz” isn’t “gone for good.” Maguire’s new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first in a three-book series spun off the iconic Wicked Years from multimillion-copy bestselling author Gregory Maguire, featuring Elphaba’s granddaughter, the green-skinned Rain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She began elementary school one year earlier than usual for her age, in 1932, and became an excellent student and an avid reader. Young Erma lived with her elder paternal half-sister, Thelma. Her parents were Erma ( née Haines) and Cassius Edwin Fiste, who was the city crane operator. Her work stands as a humorous chronicle of middle-class life in America after World War II, among the generation of parents who produced the Baby Boomers.Įrma Fiste was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, to a working-class family, and was raised in Dayton. By the 1970s, her columns were read semi-weekly by 30 million readers of the 900 newspapers in the U.S. She also published 15 books, most of which became bestsellers.īetween 1965 and Ap– five days before her death – Bombeck wrote over 4,000 newspaper columns, using broad and sometimes eloquent humor, chronicling the ordinary life of a Midwestern suburban housewife. Erma Louise Bombeck ( née Fiste Febru– April 22, 1996) was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper humor column describing suburban home life, syndicated from 1965 to 1996. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was the moment of fashion minimalism, with Jil Sander and Calvin Klein. The moment in the world was the gospel of Faith Popcorn ‘cocooning,’ where you sat in your cozy home and watched Friends on your white shabby chic sofa. “The ostentation of the ’80s was gone, the stock market crashed and we went to the Gulf War. “Tom Ford really did bring sex back,” Scully says. ![]() James Scully, who handled casting for Ford’s Gucci from day one (though did not cast this campaign), agrees. (Testino, it should be noted, has been accused by 13 male assistants and models of “sexual advances that in some cases included groping and masturbation” dating back to the mid-1990s, according to a New York Times investigation from January.) When I started doing Gucci with Tom Ford, he pushed me to new heights…Before we were restricted because of the concerns around the world: you can't have nudity in some countries a man cannot be touching a woman. Writing in the Independent in 2008, Testino said that in the ’90s, “Advertising campaigns became more exciting than editorial. ![]() According to the Guardian, Gucci said the ad was “intended to be the ultimate ironic pun for a sexy brand in a logo-led age,” calling it “playful” and noting its subversion of traditional sexual roles: a man on his knees before a woman. ![]() |