Author: Angela Palm File Type: epub Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. Though she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of Riverine, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course.**ReviewWINNER OF THE GRAYWOLF NONFICTION PRIZE A spellbinding memoir of place, young love, and a life-altering crimeA Most Anticipated Book for 2016 by The Week A Chicago Tribune Summer Reading PickHaunting. . . . Densely symbolic, unsentimental, and eloquent, Palms book explores the connections between yearning, desire, and homecoming with subtlety and lucidity. The result is a narrative that maps the complex relationships that exist between individual identity and place. An intelligent, evocative, and richly textured memoir.Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewCombining lyrical prose with a haunting narrative, Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prizewinner Palm recounts a story filled with secret longings, family history, and musings on what might have been. . . . This is a memoir to linger over, savor and study.Publishers Weekly, starred review [Palms] writing is easy to read, compelling and draws the reader in with its momentum. Riverine is about self-determination, the origin of deviance, and places, particularly the liminal ones. . . . Palms story is yet unfinished, but her memoir has an admirable structure and art of its own.*Shelf Awareness *Moving meditations on how memories continue to affect ones ever-changing personality, however far away we may move.*Booklist*Riverine digs deep into the soil of the pastriver soil, corn field soil, flooded soil and stubborn soilto find not only the roots of the future, in all of its mysterious convolutions and divergences, but also the possibility of futures that never came to pass. Angela Palms gorgeous candor sings urgently through these pages, her prose a tuning fork offering frequencies Id never heard before.Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy ExamsRiverine is a beautiful bookboth expansive and intimateabout homecoming and departure, the American ideal of reinvention and the ways we are bound to and bound by the past.Brigid Hughes, Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize judge Angela Palms Riverine is the stuff good memoir is made of a personal narrative rich in metaphor and insight that finds meaning in those memories that confused us as children, made us squirm as adults. A truly lovely book crafted with exquisite language.Domingo Martinez, author of *The Boy Kings of Texas*With a probing curiosity for the topography of both the land and the mind, Angela Palm maps out a world of deep quiet, loneliness, and sudden violence. Riverine reminds us that, while their land may be flat, the lives of those who populate our prairies and flood plains are anything but.Will Boast, author of *Epilogue*Angela Palm delivers a lyrical storywe come of age with her as she navigates a complicated landscape within and surrounding her. She breaks rules in life. She breaks rules on the page. Language is her essence here. There are sentences so arresting, I paused and paused and paused to absorb them. Molly Caro May, author of *The Map of Enough*Riverine is a stop-and-think kind of book, and a stay-up-all-night kind of book, as well, a quest for a place that isnt quite there, but that grows more real page by page, even as we rush to flee it. Angela Palm offers a fresh voice and shows us the heartland were least likely to hear about, those fruited plains dotted with prisons and parties and families that dont quite fly, even as these chapters soar. A beautiful book, heartfelt but literary, blunt but poetic, moving and wise, funny, too.Bill Roorbach, author of Temple Stream and *Life Among Giants*About the Author Angela Palm owns Ink + Lead Literary Services and is the editor of an anthology of Vermont writers, Please Do Not Remove. Her work has appeared in Paper Darts, Midwestern Gothic, Tampa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Burlington, Vermont.

Author: Paul Drake File Type: pdf Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political institutions. He argues that, without a thorough examination of the historical roots and causes of Latin American democracy, most general theories can not adequately explain its failures, successes, and forms. Latin America offers an extraordinary laboratory for the study of democratic experiments. Alongside a well-deserved reputation for authoritarianism, it boasts one of the worlds deepest, richest histories of democratic movements, ideas, and institutions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the regions leading democracies did not lag very far behind the United States and Western Europe in making numerous advances. In comparison with those countries, though, Latin Americas democratic history has been distinctive because of its fundamental dilemma how to reconcile political systems theoretically committed to legal equality with societies divided by extreme socio-economic inequalities. **Review Between Tyranny and Anarchy offers a sweeping revision of the chronicle of democratic struggles in Latin America, long seen as the region of authoritarian cultures. Paul Drake challenges readers to reconsider the history of Latin American politics and the social actors who shaped it. (Jeremy Adelman Princeton University) The book is well written and rich in detail, and is recommended especially for political scientists needing historical background on Latin America andor interested in the political development of the region. (A. Siaroff Choice. ) [The books] careful consideration of the intricate, unexpected ways in which political, social, economic, ideological, and diplomatic factors play off each other in particular circumstances, enhancing or restricting the effects institutional engineering offers valuable insights to those concerned with constructing substantive and meaningful versions of democracy in the region (Erica Gbriela Pani Bano The Americas.) About the Author Paul W. Drake holds the Institute of the Americas Chair, is the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, and is a Distinguished Professor in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He has also served as President of the Latin American Studies Association.

Author: Colin Ellard File Type: epub Library of Science Book Club selectionDiscover magazine What to Read selection A really great book. IRA FLATOW, *Science Friday* One of the finest science writers Ive ever read. Los Angeles Times Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom. New York Times Book Review [Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating. NPR Colin Ellard is one of the worlds foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our citiesand ourselves. CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether were awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and natureplaces we escape to and cant escape fromhave influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario. **

Author: Judith Newman File Type: epub A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column To Siri with Love comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all.When Judith Newman shared the story of how Apples electronic personal assistant, Siri, helped Gus, her son who has autism, she received widespread media attention and an outpouring of affection from readers around the world. Basking in the afterglow of media attention, Gus told anyone who would listen, Im a movie star.Judiths story of her son and his bond with Siri was an unusual tribute to technology. While many worry that our electronic gadgets are dumbing us down, she revealed how they can give voice to others, including children with autism like Gusa boy who has trouble looking people in the eye, hops when hes happy, and connects with inanimate objects on an empathetic level.To Siri with Love is a collection of funny, poignant, and uplifting stories about living with an extraordinary child who has helped a parent see and experience the world differently. From the charming (Gus weeping with sympathy over the buses that would lie unused while the bus drivers were on strike) to the painful (paying $22,000 for a behaviorist in Manhattan to teach Gus to use a urinal) to the humorous (Guss insistence on getting naked during all meals, whether at home or not, because he does not want to get his clothes dirty) to the profound (how an automated assistant helped a boy learn how to communicate with the rest of the world), the stories in To Siri with Love open our eyes to the magic and challenges of a life beyond the ordinary.