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Things Fall Apart

The archetypal modern African novel that contrasts life in precolonial Africa with the colonialism that followed.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Fiction

Foreign Affairs (magazine/website)

Via essays, reports, books, a podcast, and more, Foreign Affairs is incredibly useful as a high-level, thorough, substantive, and intelligent take on how the U.S. impacts the world today.

Posted byCarlenFebruary 3, 2025February 3, 2025Posted inArchives, Products

News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project provides resources for the general public and educators to help them learn how to identify credible information.

Posted byCarlenDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inArchives, Products

Me and The Times

“Me and The Times” by former New York Times editor Robert Stock is a remarkable memoir of his early life and his career.

Posted byCarlenDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inArchives, Memoir & Poetry

The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

The evolution of the U.S. media, and how it became the force it is today.

Posted byCarlenDecember 16, 2024December 16, 2024Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

In My Heart – A Book of Feelings

This is a lovely little book that goes through various feelings and explains what they feel like, and if they don’t feel good, how you might go about feeling better.

Posted byCarlenNovember 11, 2024November 11, 2024Posted inArchives, Children's

Thinking, Fast and Slow

An examination of how we think the way we think via System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (deliberative).

Posted byCarlenNovember 11, 2024January 10, 2025Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade

Ann Fessler brings forth the secret stories of an event that affected over a million women in the decades before Roe v. Wade: the surrender of their babies for adoption due to familial, religious, and social pressures.

Posted byCarlenSeptember 12, 2024September 12, 2024Posted inArchives

UN Women Data Hub

The UN Women Data Hub has reports on data on security and violence against women across the world, findings on how multiple countries left behind women in pandemic responses, and a comprehensive library of resources.

Posted byCarlenSeptember 12, 2024September 12, 2024Posted inArchives, Products

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

The modern world revolves around data, but because data treats men (not women) as the default, bias against women is inherent in the systems that run our lives.

Posted byCarlenSeptember 12, 2024September 16, 2024Posted inArchives, Non-fiction

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