Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang, 2019
Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.
The Earth in Her Hands by Jennifer Jewell, 2020
In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell—host of public radio’s award-winning program and podcast Cultivating Place—introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up.
#RufusPTurner was a #polymath and a frigging #genius at a time #whitefolks were #lynching people like him--us.
"At age 17 he wrote the first of his nearly 3,000 articles, mostly having to do with radio electronics"
"With 40 books on #radio #electronics to his credit[...]Turner, who also wrote #books on #technicalwriting"
You'd think that he'd get his due in the #engineering community. If anyone is aware of a #autobiography or #biography post it now!
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Fiona MacCarthy's "Gropius : The Man Who Built the Bauhaus" is rewarding reading not just for those interested in architecture and design but for anybody trying to get to grips with the cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century.
MacCarthy is determined to dispel the hostile caricature promulgated by Tom Wolfe and other antimodernists of Gropius as a planner of the subordination of the human to a soulless, mechanized modernity.
Instead, MacCarthy argues, Gropius was an heir of William Morris in his passionate conviction that architecture and design can incorporate not just the conveniences of technology but also the values of art into our modern lives.
For MacCarthy, the fruits of this passion are to be found in the work of Gropius as an architectural educator and thinker as much as -- or perhaps even more so than -- in the actual buildings he designed.
As the prime mover of the Bauhaus, the legacy of Gropius lives on not just in the initiation of students of art and design by means of a foundation course or in the contents of an IKEA flatpack, but also in holding out for "experiment, delight, and the meaning of our choices in the things we choose to live with."
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:south_dakota: **A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart**
"_I came to understand that their marriage failed not only because of interpersonal tensions and a clash of values, but also because of some of the ways in which ideas about gender, race and Indigenous identity were rapidly changing in the U.S._"
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“Connection reaches into Rodge’s work not just as a responsibility, but through his writing method as well”
SNACK Magazine speaks to Rodge Glass about moving to Glasgow, first meeting Alasdair Gray, & his latest book Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir
SAJA BOYS REAL SINGING VOICES: Meet Kevin Woo, Neckwav, SamUIL Lee, Danny Chung, and Andrew Choi
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BBC iPlayer: The True Story Behind 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
The BBC iPlayer page for *The Wolf of Wall Street* presents the 2013 film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The movie, based on the real-life memoir of stockbroker Jordan Belfort, depicts his meteoric rise in the financial world and his eventual downfall driven by greed, co... [More info]
Being #DavidOgilvy, before, during & after @Ogilvy. We review @kennethroman6’s #biography #KingofMadisonAvenue http://wp.me/P23AlC-yg
As Jeff Chang puts it in “Water Mirror Echo,” his exuberant new book about Lee as both a celebrity and an Asian American, the restless actor oscillated between “follow-the-flow Zen surrender” and “sunset-chasing American ambition.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/books/review/water-mirror-echo-jeff-chang.html
#NowWatching “Cold Light of Day” (1989) on blu-ray from Arrow Films
Get it: https://amzn.to/4o0IjyB
Directed Fhiona-Louise
Starring Bob Flag, Martin Byrne-Quinn
Fictionalized account based on the actions of serial killer Dennis Nilsen.
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@ai6yr I have a ton of #books and #graphicnovels about the French #resistance
A fascinating #biography is:
A woman of no importance.
Sunday reading.
This book is an intimate and captivating exploration of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s artistic journey from theatre kid to Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony winner for Hamilton, the Musical. Review--> #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookBlogger #Bookstagram #LinManuelMiranda #SimonandSchuster #Biography #BookReview #ARC
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I may have found my book of the year
Also, congrats the author for her Walk of Fame star
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Quote of the day, 3 October: The last days of St. Teresa
The last days of Saint Teresa
As told by Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew
The day after our arrival at Alba [i.e. 21 September 1582], she was so greatly exhausted that the physicians feared, for the moment, that she could not live: a great sacrifice for me, the greater because I must remain in this world.
For, aside from the love I bore her and that she had for me, I had another great consolation in her company: almost continually I saw Jesus Christ in her soul and the manner in which He was united to it, as if it was his heaven. This knowledge filled me with the deep reverence one should feel in the presence of God.
Truly it was heavenly to serve her, and the greatest torture was to see her suffer.
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew writes about the final illness of St. Teresa: “Truly it was heavenly to serve her, and the greatest torture was to see her suffer.”
I fell sick with a fever the very eve of the day when she was to leave for the visitation of her monasteries. I was not at all in a condition to undertake the journey.
She said to me: “Do not be disturbed, my child! I shall leave orders here to send you to me as soon as the fever leaves you.”
But at midnight, when she sent a religious to ask how I was, I found that I was free from fever.
She rose from her bed, came to me, and said: “It is true, my daughter, you no longer have any fever; we can easily undertake the journey. I hope it may be so, and I will recommend the matter to God.”
And so it was; we left in the morning.
During the five days preceding her death at Alba, I was more dead than alive. Two days before her death, she said to me once when we were alone: “My child, the hour of my death has come.”
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew remembers the death of St. Teresa: Two days before her death, she said to me once when we were alone, “My child, the hour of my death has come.”
This pierced my heart more and more. I did not leave her for a moment. I begged the religious to bring me what was necessary for her. I gave it to her. It was a consolation to her for me to do so.
Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew
Chapter X, Last Moments of Saint Teresa
Portrait of Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew by France de Wilde (1917). Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)In their translation for ICS Publications, Father Kieran Kavanagh and Otilio Rodriguez note that Fray Antonio de Jesús ordered St. Teresa to travel from Medina to Alba de Tormes to settle difficulties in the community. She and Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew arrived the evening of 20 September.
Biographer William Thomas Walsh offers further detail. The journey was exhausting with little food. Upon arrival, the prioress was so alarmed by Teresa’s condition that she ordered her own foundress to bed. Teresa obeyed.
Walsh continues: “Next morning she got up, walked about the convent, heard Mass, received Holy Communion with great devotion, and took a severe discipline. Thus she went on, getting up and resting in turn, attending Mass each day, until the Feast of Saint Michael, September 29. Then, after Mass, she had a hemorrhage which left her so weak that she had to be helped back into bed in the infirmary. She had asked to be placed there so that she could look through a certain window and see the priest saying Mass in the chapel beyond.”
Teresa spent the first night of October in prayer, and at dawn asked to have Fray Antonio of Jesus hear her confession.
On October 3, the eve of Saint Francis, at about five o’clock, she asked for Viaticum. The nuns dressed her in veil and white choir mantle and lighted tapers in the infirmary. While they waited for the priest, Teresa spoke:
“Hijas mías y señoras mías, for the love of God I beg that you will take great care with the keeping of the Rule and Constitutions, and pay no attention to the bad example that this wicked nun has given you, and pardon me for it.”
When the priest arrived with the Blessed Sacrament, she raised herself without help. Her face became beautiful and illuminated, much younger than her age. Ribera writes that “clasping her hands, full of joy, this swan of utter whiteness began to sing at the end of her life more sweetly than they had ever heard her sing and spoke lofty things, amorous and sweet.”
She said: “Oh my Lord and my Spouse, now the desired hour is come. Now it is time for us to go. Señor mío, now is the time to set forth, may it be very soon, and may Your most holy will be accomplished! Now the hour has come for me to leave this exile, and my soul rejoices at one with you for what I have so desired!”
Anne of St. Bartholomew, M; Bouix, M 1917, Autobiography of the Blessed Mother Anne of Saint Bartholomew, inseparable companion of Saint Teresa, and foundress of the Carmels of Pontoise, Tours and Antwerp, translated from the French by Michael, M A, H. S. Collins Printing Co., Saint Louis.
Thomas Walsh. W 1987, St Teresa of Avila: A Biography, TAN Books, Charlotte.
Featured image: Giovanni Segala, The Death of St. Teresa of Avila, 1696, oil on canvas, Church of San Pietro in Oliveto, Brescia, Italy. One of six lunettes on Teresian themes, restored for the fifth centenary of St. Teresa’s birth in 2015. Photo by Renáta Sedmáková © Adobe Stock.
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Jane Goodall: An Inside Look (Full Documentary) | National Geographic https://youtu.be/d3b6zSpy7P4?si=I007T1kocNKtEJal
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Jane Goodall The Woman Who Redefined Man by Dale Peterson, 2006
This essential biography of one of the most influential women of the past century shows how truly remarkable Jane Goodall's accomplishments have been.
Heart Earth by Ivan Doig https://hokkaidomarket.net/books-info.php?item=1459 #BIOGRAPHY #BOOKS #BOOKSHOP #MEMOIR #NONFICTION #BIOGRAPHY #WESTERN #bookstodon
