Levels of equality and freedom have come and gone, and maybe European patriarchal society isn't the apex.

Read this one.

#anthropology #books #nonfic #bookstodon @bookstodon

Democracy at the apex. But we learned that evolution is a collection of paths through a forest, sometimes heading where we want to go and sometimes not. Mutuations are random and not always more beneficial. Thus, species don't always progress with change.

They posit the same for human history. We haven't been heading in a direct line to where we are, and we don't have to stay here.

@bookstodon #anthropology #nonfic #books #bookstodon

#JustFinished The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

This was a great book! Graeber and Wengrow integrate new archeological discoveries with anthropology and turn common belief on its side. In the same way that we used to think that evolution was a progressive march to new and improved species, we also thought that human development was on an upward arc to better things, with capitalism and

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#anthropology #nonfic #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Today, I started reading How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr. I will admit that I'm a bit raw because my sister is in the hospital, but JFC, this is brutal!

Between what we weren't told as kids and details on things that we were sort of told, it's incredibly informative and interesting, but I can't stop crying about things in it.

Like, I never knew the Philippines had been an American territory.

#books #bookstodon #nonfic #USHistory @bookstodon

I have a new book out today and I hope it encourages people #nonfic #sustainability https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/moon-books/our-books/earth-spirit-beyond-sustainability

I have a new book coming out this month #MoonBooks #EarthSpirit #NonFic https://contemplativeinquiry.blog/2022/06/20/book-review-beyond-sustainability/

If you happen to be in the vicinity of Owensboro, KY on April 10, drop by OCTC's Blandford Hall to watch #TheRoom with co-star @gregsestero@tweets.icu. DM me for more info.

#Film #TheDisasterArtist #NonFic #SethRogen #Comedy #Kentucky #owensboro

QOTD: The Goddess of Ick

"Many times, we cling to toxic relationships because being a victim seems like the lesser of two evils. We feel like we are just trying to hang on, to survive. But we cannot discover what we are capable of until we let go and settle into the world, changed by other people's actions."

#WritingCommunity #NonFic #bookstodon @bookstodon #ActuallyAutistic #WritingLife #AuthorGoddess #IndieAuthors #Reading #WritingOnStream

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#ThisJustInBooks #indiebookstore #books #Bookstadon #nonfic #history #NewArrivals #BookstoreCats #CatsAndBooks​

Started reading We are not Broken by George M. Johnson last night, and I'm practically halfway through. It's a memoir, and it's just a great read. I'll probably finish tonight. Granted, it's #YoungAdult #nonfic. Still!

#CurrentlyReading

Just finished reading FINISH by Jon Acuff and highly recommend! Lots of great tools to help w/ perfectionism and brain weasels at different stages of a project. (In my case, about 90% to the end of my current novel WIP.)

#booktodon #writing #advice #writerslife #nonfic

#morningRead #reread one of my favorite non fic #amReading #nonfic

@chrisvolion Luckily I was in—I think it was Group 49: Historical Fiction/Fury/Rags to Riches. I was very happy with my submission. But oh man, if I advance and am assigned anything in the fantasy, sci fi, speculative genres, I am beyond screwed. Outside of #ChildrensLit I am purely a #NonFic fan.

My two-year-old is looking through the Weetabix children's encyclopedia I had when I was a kid and it's blowing my mind. She is THRILLED by what's what surprises her on each page. Also, she identified an octopus as a snail, which is just clever. #NonFic #NonFiction #ChildrensbBookstagram #ChildrensBooks

Grinding away at "The Orientalist" by Tom Reiss so I can finish before this weekend's book club meeting, snapped up Danyel Smith's "Shine Bright" and checked out a library ebook copy of Sequoia Nagamatsu's "How High We Go In The Dark" #books #nonfictionbooks #nonfic #fictionbooks

My post with selected quotes from "Amateur" by Thomas Page McBee, the autobiographical book with reflections about masculinity by a trans man who gets into boxing, is live:
http://hcoder.org/2020/06/30/book-summary-amateur/

#books #summaries #BookSummaries #trans #nonfic #boxing

Just finished reading "Amateur" by Thomas Page McBee, an autobiographical book by/about a trans man who starts boxing and thinking about masculinity and what it means to be a man.

Not as enlightening as I had hoped, but still a very nice read and some food for thought. I don't think I will do a summary of the book, but I'll make a collection of my favourite passages or somesuch.

#books #trans #boxing #nonfic

#intro / #introduction

Hi! I'm Accio ^^

My main acct is @acciomath, but I'm experimenting with having some alts for some of my different interests.

I'm a big fan of #fantasy, #scifi, and #nonfic books, and my current favorite authors include Neil Gaiman, Brandon Sanderson, and Octavia Butler.

Please share book recommendations with me :)