Eugenia

Eugenia
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ISBN-10 : 0299306836
ISBN-13 : 9780299306830
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugenia by : Eduardo Urzáiz Rodríguez

Eugenia

Eugenia
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 9781922052322
ISBN-13 : 1922052329
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugenia by : Mark Tedeschi

This is the true crime account of the man known as Eugenia Falleni, who in 1920 was charged with the murder of his wife. Assigned female at birth, Eugenia Falleni lived in Australia for twenty-two years under the name Harry Crawford, and during that time officially married twice. He lived a full married life with his first wife, Annie, for four years before Annie realised that her husband was transgender. They continued to live together for eight months before they went on a bush picnic, when Annie mysteriously died. Her body was not identified for almost three years, and during this time Harry married again, this time to Lizzie. When Harry was finally arrested and charged with Annie's murder, the police attempted to tell Lizzie that her husband was biologically female. She laughed at them – she thought she was pregnant to him. This is the story of one of the most extraordinary criminal trials in legal history. The book traces Harry’s history: from being raised as a girl in an Italian immigrant family in New Zealand, to his brutal treatment when he first began living as a man, and his twenty-two years in Sydney including his two marriages. Finally, the trial of Eugenia Falleni for Annie's murder is extensively analysed by the author, Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi KC, one of Australia's foremost criminal law barristers. ‘Outstanding new true-crime … A grimly fascinating and extraordinary tale.’The Age ‘In the hands of NSW Senior Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi, Eugenia’s story is gripping.’Australian Women’s Weekly ‘Tedeschi writes with a deep compassion ... and makes us all consider how fear, prejudice and ignorance can affect lives, even today.’Herald Sun

x+y

x+y
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Publisher : Profile Books
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ISBN-10 : 9781782834434
ISBN-13 : 1782834435
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis x+y by : Eugenia Cheng

From imaginary numbers to the fourth dimension and beyond, mathematics has always been about imagining things that seem impossible at first glance. In x+y, Eugenia Cheng draws on the insights of higher-dimensional mathematics to reveal a transformative new way of talking about the patriarchy, mansplaining and sexism: a way that empowers all of us to make the world a better place. Using precise mathematical reasoning to uncover everything from the sexist assumptions that make society a harder place for women to live to the limitations of science and statistics in helping us understand the link between gender and society, Cheng's analysis replaces confusion with clarity, brings original thinking to well worn arguments - and provides a radical, illuminating and liberating new way of thinking about the world and women's place in it.

The Kinship of Secrets

The Kinship of Secrets
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Publisher : Ecco
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781328987822
ISBN-13 : 1328987825
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Kinship of Secrets by : Eugenia SunHee Kim

From the author of The Calligrapher's Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised in the United States, the other in South Korea, and the family that bound them together even as the Korean War kept them apart.

The Art of Logic in an Illogical World

The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
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Publisher : Basic Books
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781541672505
ISBN-13 : 154167250X
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by : Eugenia Cheng

How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't be logical, what are we to do? In this book, Cheng reveals the inner workings and limitations of logic, and explains why alogic -- for example, emotion -- is vital to how we think and communicate. Cheng shows us how to use logic and alogic together to navigate a world awash in bigotry, mansplaining, and manipulative memes. Insightful, useful, and funny, this essential book is for anyone who wants to think more clearly.

Eugenia

Eugenia
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Publisher : Victoria University Press
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 9780864737786
ISBN-13 : 0864737785
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugenia by : Lorae Parry

Set in 1916 and the present, EUGENIA tells the story of Eugenia Martelli, an Italian immigrant at the beginning of the century, who lives as a man and marries a woman without revealing her true gender. Eugenia is a charmer, a con artist, a womaniser and an outsider, who lives life on a dangerous edge. Eugenia is arrested - but is she a cold-blooded criminal or has she been put on trial as a gender offender?

The Calligrapher's Daughter

The Calligrapher's Daughter
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9781408841808
ISBN-13 : 1408841800
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis The Calligrapher's Daughter by : Eugenia Kim

'A beautiful, deliberate and satisfying story spanning thirty years of Korean history' Publishers' Weekly 'Kim weaves a wonderfully nuanced historical portrait, rich in detail and resonant with meaning and wisdom' Independent In Korea, Najin Han, the privileged daughter of a calligrapher, longs to choose her own destiny. Smart and headstrong, she is encouraged by her mother - but her stern father is determined to maintain tradition, especially as the Japanese steadily gain control of his beloved country. When he seeks to marry fourteen-year-old Najin into an aristocratic family, her mother defies generations of obedient wives and instead sends her daughter to serve in the king's court as a companion to a young princess. But the king is soon assassinated, and the centuries-old dynastic culture comes to its end. In the shadow of the dying monarchy, Najin begins a journey through increasing oppression that will change her world forever. As she desperately seeks to continue her education, will the unexpected love she finds along the way be enough to sustain her through the violence and subjugation her country continues to face? Spanning thirty years, The Calligapher's Daughter is an exquisite novel about a country torn between ancient customs and modern possibilities, a family ultimately united by love and a woman who never gives up her search for freedom.

Vernacular Industrialism in China

Vernacular Industrialism in China
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 254
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ISBN-10 : 9780231550338
ISBN-13 : 0231550332
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Vernacular Industrialism in China by : Eugenia Lean

In early twentieth-century China, Chen Diexian (1879–1940) was a maverick entrepreneur—at once a prolific man of letters and captain of industry, a magazine editor and cosmetics magnate. He tinkered with chemistry in his private studio, used local cuttlefish to source magnesium carbonate, and published manufacturing tips in how-to columns. In a rapidly changing society, Chen copied foreign technologies and translated manufacturing processes from abroad to produce adaptations of global commodities that bested foreign brands. Engaging in the worlds of journalism, industry, and commerce, he drew on literati practices associated with late-imperial elites but deployed them in novel ways within a culture of educated tinkering that generated industrial innovation. Through the lens of Chen’s career, Eugenia Lean explores how unlikely individuals devised unconventional, homegrown approaches to industry and science in early twentieth-century China. She contends that Chen’s activities exemplify “vernacular industrialism,” the pursuit of industry and science outside of conventional venues, often involving ad hoc forms of knowledge and material work. Lean shows how vernacular industrialists accessed worldwide circuits of law and science and experimented with local and global processes of manufacturing to navigate, innovate, and compete in global capitalism. In doing so, they presaged the approach that has helped fuel China’s economic ascent in the twenty-first century. Rather than conventional narratives that depict China as belatedly borrowing from Western technology, Vernacular Industrialism in China offers a new understanding of industrialization, going beyond material factors to show the central role of culture and knowledge production in technological and industrial change.

Angels & Insects

Angels & Insects
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307819598
ISBN-13 : 0307819590
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Angels & Insects by : A. S. Byatt

In these two “astonishing” novellas (The New Yorker), the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession returns to the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and perversion. "At once quirky and deep, brimming with generosity, imagination, and intelligence." —The New Yorker In Morpho Eugenia, an explorer realises that the behaviour of the people around him is alarmingly similar to that of the insects he studies. In The Conjugal Angel, curious individuals – some fictional, others drawn from history – gather to connect with the spirit world. Throughout both, Byatt examines the eccentricities of the Victorian era, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance, science and faith into a sumptuous, magical tapestry.

Eugenia's Creations

Eugenia's Creations
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Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages : 166
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ISBN-10 : 9781662400483
ISBN-13 : 1662400489
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Eugenia's Creations by : Jill Bibbs

The title of this book is my middle name Eugenia and all my creations and pain I have endured in my life and in my dreams. I have daydreams and night dreams, some good, some bad, some perplexed, and some crazy. The pain is about deaths of my family, friends, neighbors, and people in the world. I can say that my title is Me* because I feel I'm a very confused and complicated person. (The title and Eugenia's creation's pain*.)