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In #NewJersey, Governor Murphy signed a new law in December, the Freedom to #Read Act, to circumvent #book banning shenanigans in our public schools and #libraries. It’s based on a similar law already on the books in Illinois.

https://whyy.org/articles/new-jersey-book-banning-schools-libraries/


Content warning: #communities and our world and work spaces (people as the work)... #PEER SUPPORT


have a lovely time deciding which #book to #read next :awesome: 😂 :ablobwave: #hohoho


🦜 Fundamentals of Data Visualization
by Claus Wilke @ClausWilke @clauswilke
The website contains the complete author manuscript before final copy-editing and other quality control.
#Read online for free.
#dataviz #datavis #Book
https://github.com/clauswilke/dataviz
https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/index.html


I think you would be interested in a book that came recently to mind: Anne Wilson Schaef's When Society Becomes an Adddict.

I read it shortly after it was published in 1988, and at the time it was eye-opening about the problems in the company in which I worked. But in rereading it now, it has a much broader reach.

Here are inexpensive copies:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&ref_=search_f_hp&tn=When%20Society%20becomes%20an%20addict&an=anne%20wilson%20schaef

#book #psychology #sociology #society #culture #addiction


@RhiMG Ha! There's actually a whole chapter on that in the book called, "There Are Such Things As Cooties."

The Science of Kissing is primarily a #science #book.


Thank you, for this tremendous #photo — like a waking #dream or #time #travel.

Which is how I feel about the #desert in general & I’m fortunate to have visited this one, in particular: White Desert (aka ‘Farrafra’) in #Egypt .

Here’s a #book I wrote about my transporting desert experiences— with #photography 🙏🏼✨

https://www.theculturium.com/yahia-lababidi-desert-songs/

@bookstodon #books #bookstodon #culture #mysticism #poetrycommunity #poetry #writing #Morocco


Her #book ‘Silent Spring’ inspired a social movement.
@Sheril oh thank you for sharing this!! She is one of my #hero’s!! #Hero #greatwomen #Science #climate #pittsburgh #book


A 1606 print of Pliny the Elder. Carefully boxed up of course.

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Carefully boxed up, a Survey of the cities of London and Wedtminster, Borough of Southwark. 1733-35

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A 5d (5 pence) romance from the 1890’s. Very Victorian.

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Here are some saucy tomes!

The Universal Magazine of Knowledge & Pleasure. 1766/7

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Inside this much more modern box is a book in Latin, published in 1553!

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A massive 10 volume set entitled The Birds of Australia, dated 1910.
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Ha! They’ll let anything get in here. Aleister Crowley: Confessions. 1929

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I’m in the rare books repository at work and there are books here that were printed before Australia was colonised by the europeans.

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