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Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined―and Redefined―Nature

by Beth Shapiro

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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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“The truth is, it’s very hard to understand Latino identity without acknowledging the way it’s been fundamentally shaped and transformed by centuries of Latin American colonialism and the U.S.’s own violent history with race and racism.”
― Paola Ramos, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

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“Being a geek is all about being honest about what you enjoy and not being afraid to demonstrate that affection. It means never having to play it cool about how much you like something. It’s basically a license to proudly emote on a somewhat childish level rather than behave like a supposed adult. Being a geek is extremely liberating.”
― Simon Pegg

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“Ultimately, we are all products of the experiences we have and the decisions we make as children, and it remains a peculiar detail of human condition that something as precious as the future is entrusted to us when we possess so little foresight. Perhaps that's what makes hindsight so intriguing. When you're young the future is a blank canvas, but looking back you are always able to see the big picture.”
― Simon Pegg, Nerd Do Well

tags: childhood, experiences, future, life

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“Storytelling has always been a form of resistance for generations of Latinos. Some have used it to resist assimilation; others to resist change and preserve the past.”
― Paola Ramos, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America

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“So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: introduction, les-miserables, preface

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