In „The Word for World is Forest“ schreibt Le Guin über eine Gemeinschaft von Personen, die kein Konzept von Gewalt kennen, jedoch mit einem Aggressor konfrontiert sind, dessen Verständnis von hu“man“ity sogar Gewalt erfordert. Konfrontiert mit der Zerstörung ihrer Umwelt und der Missachtung von allem, was Sie sind, wehren sich die „Creechies“ und gewinnen ihre Umwelt zurück. Gewalt wird ein Teil ihrer Kultur. Ein Geist, der nicht zurück in die Flasche kann.
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Coming Up: Join Texas Observer's Lise Olsen in conversation with Michelle Pitcher, to celebrate the release of Lise's new book The Scientist and the Serial Killer.
FREE event! April 9, 7pm BookPeople, #Austin, Texas
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bookpeople-presents-lise-olsen-the-scientist-and-the-serial-killer-tickets-1207891188059
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Strip the DRM from your Kindle books, simple effective, free, online https://dedrm.com/
"Ameisen" steht in der #Bücherwabe für die These von Bayo Akomolafe, dass wir hinsichtlich der Denkwege, die unsere Lebens- und Wirtschaftsform bestimmen, in einer tödlichen Logik gefangen sind, wie Ameisen in einer #Ameisenmühle: Ameisen folgen den Duftspuren ihrer Vorgänger und laufen im Kreis bis sie sterben.
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Little Bits: Issue #21 for January 2025
Race on over to read the latest instalment of Little Bits issue #21 for January 2025 to explore the largest collection of discovered bits to date.
Kerry Ferrand makes book review videos, mainly covering non-fiction. You can follow at:
There are already seven videos uploaded, you can browse them all at https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/videos
The videos have subtitles in English, click CC to see them.
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #NonFiction #NewZealand #PeerTube #PeerTubers
#introductions
Thought i'd give the #fediverse another go. I'm an #occupationaltherapist living in #cornwall. I work in #mentalhealth and also do #autism assessments. I'm a keen amateur photographer mostly taking photos with my phone at the moment. I'd love to connect with people on here. My interests are #photography #music #reading #books #walking #countryside #nature #mentalhealth #autism #adhd #neurodivergence #scandinavia #dogs #animals #antifascist #environment
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Kerry Ferrand makes book review videos about a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. You can follow their review account at:
They've already published over 60 videos. If these haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://spectra.video/a/kerry_ferrand/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Fiction #NonFiction #Literature #PeerTube
Feeling Anxiety About Climate Change and Other Environmental Threats? These Five New Books Can Help
Advice to help recharge your momentum and resilience makes these books must-reads for anyone who feels helpless or hopeless about climate chaos
#books #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate
Haven't joined my email list yet? Never received your free book? Now's a great time to sign up; I'm changing up my marketing strategy to keep in better touch with my fans!
https://storyoriginapp.com/giveaways/352eda48-44de-11f0-a3a4-37b9c031cb04
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Is your bookshelf or Zoom background embarrassing?
These antique binder book designs in the Global Museum Store will make a difference!
Reviews:
⭐ I love this 2-ring binder. I bought one for my sister as well and we are both very happy with them - Kelly M.
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https://www.zazzle.com/collections/binders_planners-119129983103120542 #zoom #books #binders #folders #stationery
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#30DayChartChallenge Day 10 | Pop Culture. Top 20 #books of 2025 by genre & publish date, according to Readers’ favourites on Goodreads. 📚📖
Most romance novels were published in spring/summer. Nonfiction books have the longest book titles and Fantasy books lead in terms of total pages.
Tried to make it look like a book shelf, not sure I suceeded 😅
it took 25+ years of searches, but i finally struck paydirt this morning: a legit, retail copy of FirstClass BBS for the macintosh
the backstory: in 1995, my redneck farm school managed to get an entire lab of twenty Mac LC's, and one of the machines was tucked off in a corner to run "FirstClass" for the entire school using an external 14.4k Global Village Teleport modem.
i was already a bbs kid by this point, but i had never heard of FC. all of the boards i visited were PC/ANSI boards running software like Oblivion/2, Iniquity, PCBoard or Wildcat. i had never even *heard* of a macintosh bbs. our computer teacher managed to get a landline number for the modem, and encouraged me to call it from home.
when i connected from home, i was nonplussed - the board was black/white ASCII with some of the worst menus i had ever seen. i browsed a few of the conferences and logged out. a "lamer board" if i had ever seen one.
the next day, i made my opinion unswervingly clear to my computer teacher: "Your board sucks Mr. M!"
He chuckled, "What? First Class is great! It's you DOS guys that suck."
he motioned to a nearby LC and opened a program called FirstClass Client. it showed a login dialog; he hammered in his u/p and a few seconds later, he was logged in to the BBS over the LAN.
...... except, it was all graphical! the entire board was a rich mac OS gui. navigation between file areas and message conferences was by opening and closing windows, and clicking on buttons. no ascii/ANSI characters. downloading a file was just plain drag and drop from the server's folder to your desktop.
i had never seen anything like it: a bbs that functioned more like an operating system and windowing environment. it was a *decade* ahead of anything i had seen in ms-dos
that experience left a huge impression on me. i never found any bbs that felt as good as FC before or afterward, and spent years trying to find a legit copy of it. because it was insanely expensive ($800+) it was mostly sold to educational and corporate institutions, and very few copies ever showed up on ebay. until today. i can't wait to receive this in a few weeks, and begin documenting
and archiving the contents.
fwiw - i wrote a much longer version of this story, and many others about the 90s bbs era, in my book Mages & Modems: A Childhood Well-Wasted in the Golden Age of Personal Computers, Games, and Internet Piracy:
https://tomotama.com/books
BookWyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Amazon Goodreads. BookWyrm has a built-in book catalogue you can choose details from, but if you can't find a particular book you can add it to BookWyrm manually:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-to-manually-add-a-book-on-bookwyrm
This guide also answers some common questions about adding books manually.
If you're unfamiliar with BookWyrm and want to find out more about it, there's a general guide to it at:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/bookwyrm-a-social-network-for-people-who-enjoy-reading
Fae Reviews makes video book reviews, especially about romantasy books (romantic stories with a fantasy setting). You can follow at:
They've already uploaded 17 videos, you can browse them all at https://makertube.net/a/faereviews/videos
#FeaturedPeerTube #Books #BookReviews #Romantasy #Romance #Fantasy #PeerTube #PeerTubers
Believe. And buy her book, you filthy hippies.
“The Onion’s best satire has always been based in both emotional honesty and clearly stated, well-researched facts — in other words, the truth,” Wenc writes. “Its writing staff has now given us decades of brilliant, compassionate, blunt and hilarious critical thinking about news, the media and human nature — and a lot of fun and silliness too.”
https://wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/funny-because-its-true
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Smashwords - Free Scifi Summer - My short stories are FREE from Smashwords July 1-31, 2025! Grab a free story from any of the eighteen below:
https://inkican.com/smashwords-free-scifi-summer/
#freestuff #free #freebies #giveaway #frugal #scifi #Sciencefiction #books #booksforkids
As much as I apporve of this creativity. If you have a book you don't want (I know but it could happen, theoretically) give it to a thriftstore, that's where I get most of my books 😁
@libraries @librarians @bookbubble @bookstodon
@bookbubble
#Book #Books #BookMemes
#Library #LibraryMemes #Memes #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour
#Bookstodon #Bookworm #Bookwyrm #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing
Get ready for a new Public Domain Day!
On January 1st, 2026 a lot of books and movies enter the public domain.
See the "2026 in public domain" wikipedia page for some interesting works and the "Public Domain Day in Literature" Standard Ebooks page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
#Books #PublicDomain #Gutenberg #StandardEbooks
On January 1st, 2026 a lot of books and movies enter the public domain.
See the "2026 in public domain" wikipedia page for some interesting works and the "Public Domain Day in Literature" Standard Ebooks page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_public_domain
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
#Books #PublicDomain #Gutenberg #StandardEbooks
In ihrem Essay zu Lessing betont Arendt die politische Relevanz der Freundschaft. Politisches Denken ist parteiisch, dabei jedoch nicht subjektiv oder relativistisch. Allein im Ideal der Freundschaft kann der politische Diskurs vollzogen werden. Das Verstehen-Wollen des Anderen ist die Grundlage von Politik. Die grundsätzliche Ablehnung des Anderen,wie es im totalitären Denken geschieht,ist damit der Tod von #Politik . #Faschismus ist nicht politikfähig.
#books #philosophy #politics #bücherwabe
RE: https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/116564028981413601
Anyone remember Asimov's "Franchise?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
#Books #Literature #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Asimov #IsaacAsimov
Summer was coming to a close but it hadn't walked completely away yet. On one of the last warm and glorious days at the beach, they found a spot in the grass to read a book together: they traveled to a magical imaginary story world at the same time that they immersed themselves the real, magical world that surrounded them.
Seaside Story canvas print -- https://stevehendersonart.com/featured/seaside-story-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print
#art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #ayearforart #reading #books #family #beach #summer
Tales of Merlin and King Arthur Resurface After 750 Years, Hidden in a Bookbinding