![]() ![]() At the same time, he reveals the woeful inadequacy of recent attempts to attribute the rise of the West to purely material causes-favorable climates, abundant natural resources, guns and steel. Stark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world. Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. How the West Won demonstrates the primacy of uniquely Western ideas-among them the belief in free will, the commitment to the pursuit of knowledge, the notion that the universe functions according to rational rules that can be discovered, and the emphasis on human freedom and secure property rights. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping new look at Western civilization. ![]() Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Modernity developed only in the West-in Europe and North America. ![]() Finally the Truth about the Rise of the West ![]()
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She is basically a pawn between her mother and the Prince of Evernight in a game that they have been playing for years. Vi is being sent to Thiago’s court as a “hostage” for the next 3 months. I have devoured McMaster’s other series - vampires, werewolves, dragons, oh my! (all recommended) - but am not a fan of fae stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() I figured, hey, if I can write this well before I even learn to read, imagine what I’ll be able to do once I can actually make my letters! My first professional publication happened during high school-I submitted an original quip to Reader’s Digest: “Is a belly-dancer a waist of energy?” Then upon graduating from Cornell University, I did corporate communications and freelance feature-writing before taking the plunge into my true lifework-novels. Genius that she was, she read back “my” pithy prose or imagery-rich poetry. The best way to get one-on-one time with a parent or sibling? Ask them to read me a story! From my earliest memories, books meant special time with the people I adored.Īs a preschooler, I used to scribble on a scrap of paper and ask my mother what I’d written. ![]() ![]() As the youngest of five children with two working parents, I had to compete for attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The article takes the contributions of Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, as well as Steven Rose and Daniel Dennett, as “case studies.” A pragmatist approach to the problem outlined above is helpful it offers a framework for criticizing the coherence, and therefore the utility, of the central concepts of popular science (such as Dawkins’s “selfish gene,” and Gould’s “spandrels”). Surely, there must be a point or means of critical entry that does not rely on specialist knowledge. How, then, are “lay readers,” who rely on pop science for their scientific “literacy,” to engage critically with conflicting theories? This is an important question, for it addresses the very possibility of critical engagement on the part of those readers for whom popular science is supposedly written. But one does not have to look far to find bitter dispute among science writers. ![]() Popular science is, ostensibly, for non-scientists it aims to make knowledge about how the world “just is” widely accessible. ![]() ![]() ![]() When people had looked at him oddly, he had assumed it was because he was the son of a lord. He hadn't known that when he was young and had a mother who loved him in spite of his face. And if that wasn't a miracle, I don't know what is! I had eight days to write the story–and for the first and only time in my writing life, I sat down at my computer every morning and wrote ten pages exactly.Įight days later, I had a finished story that is one of the best and most loved novellas I've ever done. ![]() ![]() This story is something of a Christmas miracle in its own right because I overcommitted when I agreed to write The Black Beast of Belleterre, and I found myself slammed up against a genuine drop-dead deadline. ![]() Of course it will be a marriage in name only, because what woman could want him? Little does he know! When he learns that a neighboring girl, the exquisite young Ariel Hawthorne, is about to be sold into marriage with a revolting lecher, he offers her the only protection he can: his name. James Markland, Lord Falconer, knows how ugly he is, and he lives a life of seclusion, wearing a heavily cowled mantle to conceal his face from the world. This is a classic Beauty and the Beast story, since who doesn't love Beauty and the Beast? It's also my only Victorian Christmas novella, because it was for an anthology called A Victorian Christmas. ![]() |