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[rederiswrites]

There really really ought to be a book about how the staple crops of different civilizations shape and influence those civilizations, and I really want to read it.

[alexseanchai]

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky and A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (three are alcohol, three have caffeine) are not quite that, but may still be of interest?

[rederiswrites]

I read Salt back in the day and it's so so good, second the rec. I have heard of 6 Glasses and not read it but I am sure I would probably love it. Gotta see if the library has it. Thank you!

[pandorasquillandquotes]

Gonna throw Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert in the ring here! You'll never see the modern world the same way again.

[vaspider]

A Short History Of The World According To Sheep by Sally Coulthard blew my mind. So many things are tied to wool and sheep and weaving and so many words and phrases are tied to wool, people have no idea.

Example words which come from textiles/weaving, if not specifically wool (go look them up!): subtle, shoddy, tabby, Brazil, rocket, twit, warped, going batty, on tenterhooks, text...

[foxofninetales]

I'll throw in a rec for Pickled, Potted, and Canned by Sue Shephard - a very interesting look at food preservation and how the availability of different types of food preservation shaped cultures and cuisines.

[electronsprotonscroutons]

Sweetness and Power is this but for the topic of sugar

[magneticdeclination]

The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavors of the Past might also be up your alley. It's about "forgotten" foods and staples. They talk about different types of wheat, sauces, veggies, etc and a little about the cultures from whence they come

[doctornerdington]

Also: Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser. One of my favourite books.

[bitchwhoyoukiddin]

DO I HAVE A SERIES FOR YOU. University of California Press has a gift for you and it is a 80+ book series on food studies. There are even some that are open access (legally free), but the rest are in libraries.

I also highly recommend Frostbite by Nicola Twilley. It’s about the impact refrigeration has had/is having on food preservation and culture, globally. It was one of my favorite books of this last year.

[calystarose]

Also, The Rice Theory of Culture https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1172&context=orpc By Thomas Talhelm

[ariaste]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Consider the Fork yet, which is about how environment/resources shape our ways of eating, which shapes both our culture and our concepts of politeness. So interesting, really recommend!

[languageramblings]

Adapted from the series Easily Confused Chinese Characters

[tamarrud]

Hey, Versobooks have made the above ebooks free to download

These resources challenge zionist ideology and offer a clear history of the occupation, Israel's military industrial complex, and the BDS movement. (X)

Download here because some of you can use some reading tbh

[gowns]

i want to add: if anyone is having trouble with this site, or if you just want a ton of research material, this is a link to a giant google drive 🇵🇸

Free Palestine - Google Drive

[hymnsofheresy]

“The goal of the Christian religion is not the idolizing of Christ, not christolatry, but that we all “are in Christ,” as the mystical expression goes, that we have a part in the life of Christ. This savior is a wounded healer, and he heals so that we may become as he is. Be as he is, laugh as he laughs, weep as he weeps. Heal the sick, even those who without knowing it have contracted the great neuroses of our society, who knows no mercy with themselves and their children when they consent to the nuclear state and technologies inimical to life. To feed the hungry means to do away with militarism. To bless the children means to leave the trees standing for them.”

Dorothee Soelle | Theology for Skeptics

[elijah-christopher]

this quote alone convinced me to read the whole book and i’d very much recommend it to anyone who wants a short (about 130 pages) book that discusses liberation and feminist theology in present times. her writing had me hooked the whole time and i enjoyed her statements on theodicy and the idea that a loving God is not omnipotent/authoritarian in the patriarchal sense that many churches fall to.

[el-shab-hussein]

Orientalism is the worst its been since the 1800's. Palestinians are not your OCs, your props, your narrative devices, we're not your saviours, we're not your models, we're not your objects.

Go fucking read Edward Said's Orientalism. We already hashed this shit out!!! And by we I literally mean Palestinian scholars specifically!!!!

[toiletpotato]

PDF

Another PDF

[arabianbutch]

And the audiobook! (Youtube, 9.5hrs long)

[haly-reads]

march 30, '23: learning aristotle's "poetics" for literary criticism paper//

[monsteravariegata]

Do you like vintage scientific illustrations?

Do you like not spending huge amounts of money on them?

This website has a huge collection of high quality vintage illustrations that you can download FOR FREE

They got pretty much everything!! Vintage maps, mushrooms, flowers, trees, bugs, birds, corals, fish, palm trees, feathers, tropical fruits, you name it!!

They even got some works of my dude Ernst Haeckel on there!!!!

I could go on and on but I suggest you check it out yourself. Personally, I will be covering my entire apartment with these once copyshops are open again. But even if you don’t want to do that, just browsing all these beautiful illustrations is a great way to spend your time. 

Have fun and stay save!

[fruityshirts]

Neat! I’m currently printing holiday cards with the circular poinsettia cuts from this set!

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[fakelavender]

january 2022 in my journal

[studynostalgic]

hey!! an anon asked me to make a post about my kpop journal, so here I am! I hope I can help a few of you! <3

THE PURPOSE

Why even make one, right? Well, I find that my kpop journal is kind of a creative outlet for me. I see journaling as a form of art, but without much pressure or much skill necessary. the most important thing is that you have fun!) Also, you’ll have a place where you can keep yourself updated with your groups and fangirl over them without annoying anyone. It’s kind of a diary, you can remember what you felt, thought or what was going on in the fandom.

ESSENTIALS

Really, there’s nothing you absolutely need, you can just use the stuff you have at home. But if you’re searching for cute and not to expensive stationery I recommend this shop.

ofc a journal → I use this one, but I like rhodia’s notebooks more

pens of your choice

washi-tape 

glue

magazines → you can cut out a lot of cool stuff from there

photocards → here’s a cheap way of printing some yourself

IDEAS

So, what do you actually include in your journal? There really is no right answer! Be creative and have fun. Here’re a few ideas to get you going:

group profile (members, facts, songs, etc.)

what I love about x member/group

daily/weekly/montly updates 

lyrics from your fav songs or songs that mean a lot to you

playlists for different moods

a page for special events (comeback, birthday, anniversary, …)

moodboards

your ships

fashion style (airport fashion and so on)

quotes

just like there’re a lot of videos for bujos on yt, there’re also some for kpop journals. you can watch them if you need some inspo!

Here’re a few pics of my journal, so you get an idea of what it can look like:

That’s it! I hope this post could give some of you an idea of what your kpop journal could look like. have a nice day y’all!! <3

[astrocatdraws]

Lucky to have Yoshitomo Nara exhibition in my home town!

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[sadcypher]

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe" - R.F. Kuang, Babel

[mostlyghostie]

The new, updated version of my Dream Library print is available here with 3 background colour options!

Which would you most want? I would personally love to read the potentially award winning book that I occasionally have vague ideas about writing..

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

via 何一荷

[days-of-reading]

Life after finals. Odd, but sweet. | Oxford, United Kingdom

[nodramalamacorn]

2022 sep 25 // For this, my latest page spread (covering 5th to 11th of September), I decided to use little paper bits found on the streets. So… I used purely trash for this collage 😄

Then I used paper from my stash for the texts, and finally doodled the pages with ink pens.

I still haven’t caught up since my Summer vacation, so I decided to skip collaging the following week - to catch up.

It looks so plain!

Anywho, I’m headed for Greece for another vacation next weekend, and hope there will be time for some paper play in my planner 😋