Daodejing
(Liveright)
Laozi; Brook Ziporyn, trans. ...
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January 27th, 2023
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January 25th, 2023
On Monday, February 6th, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "The Arctic World Archive: Storing Human Knowledge for a Long Winter" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Worskshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Shannon Lee Dawdy.
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Description: In 2017, deep in an abandoned coal mine in the arctic archipelago of Svalbard, a Norwegian company built a vault designed to store backup archives of human knowledge for thousands of years, inspired by the so-called "Doomsday Seed Vault"...
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January 20th, 2023
On this week's Front Table, journey into stories about familial love and hate, human prejudice and cruelty, and the transformative power of art: from a collection that moves effortlessly between a mother, grandmother, and daughter to explore the meanings of maternal to a biography of a 19th century multiracial family who personified the racial myths that reverberate to this day. Find the following and more at...
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January 13th, 2023
On Monday, January 23rd, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "Organs and Humans on Chips: Biomedical Models and the Political Economy of Innovation" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Worskshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Melanie Jeske.
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Description: In the wake of mounting concerns regarding translational failure between bench research to bedside therapies, new actors, fields, and technologies now promise to disrupt existing...
Posted in: Bibliographies
January 13th, 2023
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January 6th, 2023
Chuck Berry: An American Life
(Hachette Books)
RJ Smith
Best known as the...
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December 16th, 2022
I Fear My Pain Interests You
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December 9th, 2022
The Everybody Ensemble
(Picador USA)
Amy Leach
Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories...
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December 2nd, 2022
On this week's Front Table, find stories framed against the backdrop of a migratory adolescence to reckon with race, religious conflict, culture clash, and multiple identities - from a mapping of one young woman’s Black diaspora as she revisits her unsettled childhood in order to reclaim her legacies to a young boy’s story of coming north to the promise of opportunity, only to pay the harrowing costs of deindustrialization and neglect. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants...
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November 23rd, 2022
On this week's Front Table, explore the most elemental aspects of humanity: perseverance and artistry - from an analyses of structural oppression and the changes necessary to end it to how to appreciate the art we, and others, create regardless of the world around us. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice
(Harper Perennial...
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