![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012 Singh founded the Good Thinking Society, through which he created the website "Parallel" to help students learn mathematics. His written works include Fermat's Last Theorem (in the United States titled Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem), The Code Book (about cryptography and its history), Big Bang (about the Big Bang theory and the origins of the universe), Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial (about complementary and alternative medicine, co-written by Edzard Ernst) and The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets (about mathematical ideas and theorems hidden in episodes of The Simpsons and Futurama). ![]() Simon Lehna Singh, MBE (born 19 September 1964) is a British popular science author, theoretical and particle physicist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Lastly, we’ve linked mainly to Amazon out of convenience, but we of course recommend seeking these out at one of Detroit’s amazing independent and used bookstores: Source Booksellers, John K. Also, books are separated by theme, but are otherwise in no particular order. We also mention options for further reading of books by the same author or on a very similar topic. We hope you enjoy-and if your favorite is not on the list, chime in with your picks in the comments.Īnd a couple more things to note: We chose books that were about or feature Detroit, but not necessarily those written by a Detroit author. While resulting list is not comprehensive, it is diverse, with fiction, non-fiction, and ones heavy on illustration. Whether cataloguing its impressive buildings, impactful socio-political movements, or the cautionary tale of its economic decline, there’s no end of material.īut nonetheless, we took on the task of identifying the 40 essential books about Detroit-the works that provide a starting point for anyone who wants to understand how Detroit became Detroit. Detroit is one of the those cities that demands to be written about. ![]() ![]() The whole arangetram industry operates on two counts: one is money, it is a money-making racket and the other is caste. At the same time I have seen arangetrams done for mediocre, mediocre students. The reason could be a level of disinterest, a dismissal that ‘this is all they’re capable of’ or just a condescending favour. ![]() I think this is why you have a maker saying in the book that a young man learns mrdangam had he been from the brahmin caste, he would have performed by now. ![]() And uncomfortable though it may sound, sometimes I wonder if the players teach the maker’s son only to prove that they are “casteless human beings”, more a sign of their progressiveness than any interest in nurturing talent. It’s not as if any player is going to give them any extra attention. When a mrdangam maker wants to become a player-and in the book there are a few instances-they’re not going to get any benefit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Just because I think this book is stupid, does not mean I think people who enjoy it are stupid. This is a review of a book, not a fact sheet. I've never deleted/moderated comments before, as that goes against my beliefs on free and public discourse, but any future offensive or judgemental/critical-of-people-instead-of-the-book comments will be ignored and deleted. But I am also free to moderate what goes on in my space. But please keep the ad hominems and accusations (and not just directed at me, but also other commenters) at home.Įveryone's free to say what they wish on a public forum. If you wish to add your own thoughts of the book, that's also perfectly fine. Be thus warned.įuture commenters: if you disagree with the review, that is perfectly fine and normal. So as a pre-empt, I highly suggest you not read this review if you can’t handle negative criticism of books you love. ![]() Eight years and this review is still attracting mad fangurls. ![]() ![]() Suddenly, you realise Stewart Laing's head-spinning production is not a City of Culture documentary at all, but a dazzlingly faithful adaptation of the novel. Just as we are never certain whether Robert's nemesis Gil-Martin is the devil made flesh, or a projection of a troubled mind, so we can never fully trust the archive material we're presented with.Īnton, meanwhile, is like the editor in Hogg's novel, sifting through the scraps of evidence, much of which is on display in the accompanying exhibition. These narrators, however, are as unreliable as Robert Wringhim, the fanatical sinner of Hogg's novel. Katie Mitchell talks about Bright ranting about one of her shows at the Gate theatre in London, and Annie Griffin recalls him reworking an entire 1989 production seven days before opening night. Actor George Anton, who tells the story of his involvement in Bright's wayward performances, shows us interviews with luminaries such as Tim Crouch, Alison Peebles and Giles Havergal, who reflect on his legacy. Some people, in this National Theatre of Scotland/Untitled Projects collaboration, do claim to remember. Confessions of a Justified Sinner seems to adapt itself to whomever is looking at it at the time, although the reflections are often unstable. ![]() Today, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who remembers Paul Bright and his adaptation of James Hogg's groundbreaking 1824 novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. But am I to be trusted? I may, for example, be like Keith Bruce of the Glasgow Herald, who wrote a review, seemingly published in the late 1980s, of an all-night performance in which a "few hardy souls … were rewarded with an experience none of us will forget". ![]() ![]() An instant best-seller in the UK, the book, which TIME’s reviewer praised in 1946 for how it “plays on the surface of life so wittily and deftly,” cast a gimlet eye on an aristocracy-one that included the author’s family, who notoriously spanned the political spectrum of the time-struggling to acclimate to a new social order. This is the tumultuous, if still enviable, backdrop for the three-part miniseries The Pursuit of Love, an adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s classic novel from writer-director-actor Emily Mortimer that comes to Amazon on July 30. Such newfangled ideas as careers for aristocratic men and formal education for their future wives scandalized the older generations. Rich Europeans had infiltrated high society. The monarchy faced threats from communism on the left and fascism on the right. But by the time the Great War wrapped up, the country’s professional class was ascendant, progressive social movements were gaining steam and the aura of God-given superiority that surrounded people who could trace their lineage back to the Norman conquest was starting to dissipate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, sure, they had a good run through the Victorian era. ![]() ![]() That’s why antidepressants have to be marked with the warning MAY CAUSE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.īecause what brings you back to life also gives you the means to destroy yourself. In the deepest throes of depression, when sunlight is anguish and the sky throbs like one big raw migraine and you just want to sleep until you or everything else dies, you’re less likely to commit suicide than someone coming out of a depressive episode. And Laney is going to show them just how true. And Armin and Blythe are going to help.īecause the rumors are true. When a ghost from her past resurfaces-the bully who broke her down completely-she decides it’s time to live up to her own legend. She’s not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses-and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own.īut Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn’t worth sticking around for. ![]() ![]() ![]() It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. The next dark and sexy romantic suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Unteachable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, in its entirety, is the prologue to The Kingkiller Chronicle: A reader turning the first page of The Name of The Wind is standing on the brink of a significant time investment (not to mention the inevitable emotional investment that comes with being a fan of anything long-running and serialized). It's the opening of a gigantic trilogy whose concluding volume has been incognito for nearly six years. This is a book that weighs in at just over 200,000 words, whose sequel is nearly double that-almost 1000 pages depending on the typeset used. With that in mind, let's take a look at the opening to The Name of The Wind, the first book in the Kingkiller Chronicle trilogy. ![]() You can promise one type of story and deliver another and get away with it, but you need to be very, very good and, crucially, the story you give the reader must be at least as interesting as the one they signed up for. ![]() ![]() This isn't just a matter of quality or a book being well written. I remember reading somewhere (Stephen King might have said it) that the opening of a book is a promise, and that the extent to which a book succeeds-the extent to which the reader comes away from it satisfied-depends largely on whether it upholds that promise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ You Hurt My Feelings ” (A24, theaters): Nicole Holofcener takes a nuanced and funny look at a white lie that unsettles the marriage between a New York City writer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and a therapist (Tobias Menzies). “ The Little Mermaid ” (Disney, theaters): Halle Bailey plays Ariel in this technically ambitious live-action remake of a recent Disney classic directed by Rob Marshall (“Chicago”) and co-starring Melissa McCarthy as Ursula. “ Sanctuary ” (Neon, theaters): A dark comedy about a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) and her wealth client (Christopher Abbott). ![]() “ Master Gardener ” (Magnolia, theaters): Joel Edgerton is a horticulturist in this Paul Schrader drama, co-starring Sigourney Weaver as a wealthy dowager. “ White Men Can’t Jump ” (20th Century Studios, streaming on Hulu): Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow co-star in this remake of the 1992 film, co-written by Kenya Barris and featuring the late Lance Reddick. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm new to the premise of the multiverse, having read only two books in this sub-genre, but I'm really loving the concept. The first book in the Many-Worlds Trilogy, Tandem is a riveting saga of love and betrayal set in parallel universes in which nothing-and no one-is what it seems. ![]() As time runs out, Sasha finds herself torn between two worlds, two lives, and two young men vying for her love-one who knows her secret, and one who thinks she's someone she's not. If Sasha succeeds in fooling everyone, she will be returned home if she fails, she'll be trapped in another girl's life forever. To prevent imminent war, Sasha must slip into the life of an alternate version of herself, a princess who has vanished on the eve of her arranged marriage. Sasha never believed such worlds were real-until now, when she finds herself thrust into one against her will. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds inhabited by girls who looked like her but led totally different lives. Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. ![]() |