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@servelan@newsie.social
2024-04-28 22:30:30

Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History” – Mother Jones
motherjones.com/politics/2024/

Ruby Bridges blasts book bans as "ridiculous" attempts to "cover up history"
"The history, all the subject matter that they want to ban, it's happening in the world."

@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social
2024-03-27 20:29:11

April 18 at YDS — book launch for the new Critical Dictionary of the Church. Co-author Bénédicte Sère of the University Paris Nanterre joining us to speak about the volume, with YDS Prof. Volker Leppin as respondent.
Thursday, April 18, 5-7 p.m., RSV.
divinity.yale.edu/ca…

A photo montage. On the left, a purple book cover with the title "Dictionnaire Critique de L'Eglise". On the right a black and white picture of a woman over a color photo of a man with glasses.
@cheryanne@aus.social
2024-03-29 11:38:10

It's been a while since I checked but there definitely used to be one in the National Library's special collection
abc.net.au/news/2024-03-29/har

Harvard University removes human skin binding from book after more than 90 years
Prestigious Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries.

@laimis@mstdn.social
2024-04-27 17:53:01

This #book has a terrible name but excellent contents inside: goodreads.com/book/show/116889
It discu…

Profiting in Bull or Bear Markets
Recognize, Predict, Plan for, and Profit From Bull and …

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2024-02-28 08:04:16

The fact that when it comes to #Mao, the West often romanticizes him and ignores that he was a dictator and was the culprit for the deaths of millions of #Chinese people, is deafening. I don’t see any auction houses putting up Mein Kampf up for sale. //Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more…

Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more than £30,000
Early editions of the book of quotations will be sold at an auction of Cultural Revolution artefacts

@laimis@mstdn.social
2024-04-27 17:53:01

This #book has a terrible name but excellent contents inside: goodreads.com/book/show/116889
It discu…

Profiting in Bull or Bear Markets
Recognize, Predict, Plan for, and Profit From Bull and …

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2024-03-28 13:07:37

New frontier in computer science paper titles just dropped. Sure, sure, people have likely used variants of "to be or not to be", but how many people quote from Tamburlaine? Finally my humanities education comes in handy! [From nytimes.com/2024/03/28/books/r

You see it everywhere, even if you don’t always recognize it: the literary allusion. Quick! Which two big novels of the past two years borrowed their titles from “Macbeth”? Nailing the answer — “Birnam Wood” and “Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow” — might make you feel a little smug. Perhaps the frisson of cleverness (I know where that’s from!), or the flip-side cringe of ignorance (I should know where that’s from!), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search-optimized headline c…

Like My Book Title? Thanks, I Borrowed It.
Literary allusions are everywhere. What are they good for?

@laimis@mstdn.social
2024-04-28 18:05:48

While on vacation was able to finish this #book:
goodreads.com/book/show/236586
One of those "oldies but…

The Magic of Thinking Big
The timeless and practical advice in The Magic of Think…

@laimis@mstdn.social
2024-02-28 05:16:40

My wife and I decided to form our own #book club. Each of us take turns recommending a book and then after we can discuss it, etc make a date out of it. Fine. I have read only non-fiction for maybe a decade, and what am I reading now? Some story that involves cadets and riding dragons ... what one will do for love...