Today's economic system is based on money and credit. But debunking the founding myth tells us nothing about the system's functioning. But why is it important? It's like saying the state is legitimate because all people agreed to build it. But Graeber thinks it's all a lie - a fictional narrative that has never happened in actual pre-state cultures. This is a conventional classical and neoclassical economic theory. Graeber aims to dispel the widely accepted notion of money's truck-and-barter beginnings. He looks at what happens when a society has more debts than it can pay back (i.e., bankruptcy), how 'debt' is constructed socially and politically, why debt is necessary for economies to function properly, and much more. In his book Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber explores how different societies have created and used their own forms of currency over time. In this blog post, we will explore the role of debt in society.
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(Grisham is hardly the first novelist to find this a juicy topic. See Bradford Morrow’s yummy The Forgers and John Dunning’s terrific Cliff Janeway series.) Sheer catnip for book critics like me, and I think readers who don’t usually gravitate to Grisham will get a kick out of Camino Island, which takes us inside the (sometimes dodgy) world of rare-book collecting. Instead, we go into the inner sanctums of … bookstores. Smart plotting, clever criminals and law-enforcement types are all here, but this one stays out of the courtroom. Next, he’s going on a bookstore tour for fans who haven’t seen him on the signing circuit for a quarter-century.Īnd finally, he’s given us Camino Island (Doubleday, 290 pp., ***½ out of four stars), a fresh, fun departure from his usual fare. John Grisham is full of surprises this summer:įirst, the best-selling author who reliably delivers legal thrillers in the fall (as he will this year) is publishing a book in June. There are several research-backed advantages to baby led weaning, including the likelihood of having more adventurous (read: less picky!) eaters, faster motor-oral development, and ease for parents. We used the baby led weaning approach with my two daughters and were very successful. I'm all for the self-feeding approach, as are many other dietitians. Is Baby Led Weaning Better Than Spoon Feeding? How did babies learn to eat before the invention of rice cereal and purees? By eating soft foods that their parents ate! It may seem counterintuitive if all you've ever known is purees for young babies, but if you think about it, it's not a new concept. You read that right - no purees, no rice cereal, no coaxing baby to open his mouth for one more bite of grey-green mush! They are guided by their own hunger and fullness cues, rather than a parent or caregiver pushing a spoon into their mouths until the jar or bowl is empty. With BLW, babies use their hands to pick up age-appropriate foods and put them into their mouths themselves. A better term is probably baby-led feeding, since babies are not actually being weaned from milk at this stage. With this approach, babies are in control of what and how much they eat. The approach was popularized by Gill Rapley, who has done extensive research on the topic. Baby led weaning, also called self-feeding (or BLW), is an approach to starting solids that skips the purees and spoon feeding altogether and goes straight to finger foods when babies are around 6 months old. They, under the leadership of Fosca, are into an ancient cult that was particularly focused on the line between life and death. He has assembled around him a small cult, female students who dress alike, attend private instruction with him, and who knows what else? They are known as The Maidens. A gifted teacher of classics, Fosca ( This name derives from the Latin “fuscus”, meaning “gloomy, dark, black, (voice) hoarse, hollow, cavernous, (of thoughts) dark, secret, occult” – uh, oh – from ) has a Svengali-ish charm. In no time she has ID’d a likely suspect and proceeds to find out everything she can, hoping, expecting to show that Professor Edward Fosca is a murderer.Īlex Michaelides – image from The Irish Times – photo by Manuel Vazquez When Zoe calls her aunt from Cambridge to tell her that her best friend has gone missing, Mariana Andros, a group therapist in London, heads to her alma mater immediately. It felt as if a kind of pestilence, a plague, were spreading through the college-like in a Greek myth, the sickness that destroyed Thebes an invisible airborne poison drifting through the courtyards-and these ancient walls, once a refuge from the outside world, no longer offered any protection. "An intoxicating, meticulously painted graphic novel, The City of Belgium is a technicolor carnival, a visual and formal masterwork that confidently upends conventions with its dazzling artistry."- Rain Taxi The City of Belgium occupies a place between lucid dream and tooth-grinding nightmare. Each has a series of misadventures that reveal them to be teetering on the edge of despair, of destruction, of becoming the people they’ll be for the rest of their lives. The three careen through the city’s nightlife spots and underbelly, getting ever deeper in the messiness of human existence as they chase pleasure-or at least a few distractions from their daily lives. Rodolphe glumly considers his own misery and then suddenly snaps out of it, becoming the life of the party. Victoria is lively and energetic, but surrounded by friends and family who are buzzkills, always worrying about what is best for her. No one bites-they’re all busy or maybe they just don’t want to party-but he’s determined to make this night something to remember. Jona is about to move away he calls his wife, who’s already settled in Berlin, before trying to make plans with friends for one last night on the town. An exquisitely drawn exploration of three lost souls' emotional terrainĪs night falls in the City of Belgium, three strangers in their late twenties-a most dangerous age-arrive at a popular restaurant. Jungian ideas are routinely discussed in part by curriculum of introductory psychology course offerings with most major universities, and although rarely covered by higher level course work, his ideas are discussed further by the Faculty of Humanities. Individuation was the central concept of analytical psychology. This is a psychological process of integrating the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining conscious autonomy. Jung considered the process of individuation necessary for a person to become whole. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician, much of his life's work was spent exploring other areas, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. Ĭarl Jung's autobiographical work Memories, Dreams and Reflections, Fontana editionĬarl Gustav Jung (German pronunciation: 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist.Professional Psychology: Debating Chamber Except if he’s not responsible, then who is? And when a werewolf falls head over haunches in love with you, what are you supposed to do anyway? The rules of dating just got a whole lot more complicated. If a wolf cries wolf, it makes sense to listen, yet Mo is convinced that Cooper is not the culprit. Several people around Grundy have been the victims of wolf attacks, and since Cooper has no memory of what he gets up to while in werewolf form, he’s worried that he might be the violent canine in question. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind. Werewolf trouble.įor Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, it’s love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham-who has been openly critical of Mo’s ability to adapt to life in Alaska-has trouble of his own. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Even in Grundy, Alaska, it’s unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. It also anticipated tighter market balances in the second half of the year, “when demand is expected to eclipse supply by almost 2mbpd.” While our own forecast puts current global demand at around 101mbpd, we see higher demand in June, boosted by the driving season in the US and more oil being used to generate power to cool down buildings in the Middle East. In its latest monthly oil market report published this week, the Paris-based agency raised its forecast for global 2023 oil demand by 100,000bpd to 102mbpd. The International Energy Agency sees robust global oil demand. We still see several main reasons to expect the oil market to be under supplied in coming months: However, this means an upside of over 25% from current levels. We now see the Brent price reaching USD 95 a barrel by the end of this year, down from our previous forecast of USD 105/bbl, as we expect Russian oil output to stay at around 9.6 million barrels per day (mbpd) instead of 9mbpd in the second half of this year. Still-elevated Russian exports and the sizable inventory build at the start of this year due to a milder winter in the Northern Hemisphere have also played a role. Nest, Inga's second novel, was published in 2014 and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize and shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013. Inga Simpson began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing. It's a lot of work for an old man with shaking hands, but he'll give it a go, as he always has. And there's a special project he has to finish. His grandchildren visit often: to cook, eat and hear his stories. His son is on at him to move into town but Mr Wigg has his fruit trees and his chooks to look after. Things are changing though, with Australia and England playing a one-day match, and his new neighbours planting grapes for wine. He spends his time working in the orchard, cooking and preserving his produce and, when it's on, watching the cricket. He misses his daughter, too, and wonders when he'll see her again. Mrs Wigg has been gone a few years now and he thinks about her every day. It's the summer of 1971, not far from the stone-fruit capital of New South Wales, where Mr Wigg lives on what is left of his family farm. 'beautiful and absorbing' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD A novel that celebrates the small things in life, by a fresh Australian voice. It’s really impressive and it’s a great read for people from all different genres – whether your about romance, historical fiction, general fiction or feminism, it’s all there and it’s very readable. This book demonstrates some of the most complex character development I think I’ve seen in a book for a long time. It’s a powerful story and it has me so excited about what else the author will write next (aside from the sequels which I’m rushing off to read ASAP). It explores how far the women are willing to go to improve their lives and where they must draw the line between survival and morality. It’s a story of friendship, of love, of self-respect and learning where your boundaries are. They’re in a brothel and forced to repay their debt to their owner, and of course they stand no chance of that ever happening. The Wolf Den is a story that sucks you in and shows you the lives of these women who have been stolen and sold off as slaves. But omg, this is so much more than just a pretty face. My main motivation for reading this was the fact that ‘Pompeii’ appears in the blurb, and how pretty the cover was. I haven’t stopped thinking about this book since I finished reading it (which was months ago and I’m very late on writing this review). |