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Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in …
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A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in …
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma …
Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past …
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under …
How can we harness society's potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless …
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she …
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she …
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under …
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Not a review as such, because I don't really know how to give this a star rating. It was more academic than I was expecting, though I shouldn't have been surprised given it's a university press! Among the 'highlights' was chapter 2, with a classification and partial enumeration of far-right groups in Canada. Particularly notable was its explanation of the ideology behind Diagolon, which is much more sinister than I remember from news coverage around the time of the convoy. There's some good analysis through chapters 3, 4, and 5 of how people are attracted to far-right groups and the world-view they build up. The authors see group members as rational actors, even if the underlying facts they lean on are a very one-sided view of reality, often veering into conspiratorial thinking. Chapter 6 is particularly good on the failures of PSC and CSIS, who appear stuck in a post-9/11 focus on Islamist terror and almost willfully ignore the danger of the far-right. Also good to see the authors comment on the term 'lone wolf' -- as they point out, this commonly-used expression assigns far too much 'coolness' to these individuals and is practically only ever used for white attackers -- 'lone actor' is a more helpfully-neutral term.
In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities. While some, such as Blood …
Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past …
One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. …
This is the first of Pratchett's novels that I've read to the end (I've certainly tried at least one before and didn't get anywhere) and I think I understand the attraction. Vimes is a thoroughly decent chap, in a messy world, and Pratchett weaves words of wisdom into a pretty entertaining story. I'm not sure it moved me enough to hoover up the rest of his books, but I at least understand why people like him so much.