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Well, don’t cry over spilled milk! You can get this book, too.

You Let the Cat out of the Bag! (Understanding Idioms) by Cynthia Amoroso

May 2, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Have you ever “let the cat out of the bag?” I am sure we all have once or twice in our lifetime. But in You Let the Cat out of the Bag! (Understanding Idioms) by Cynthia Amoroso, we learn more of these sayings, the meaning of them and even the possible history to them (the less than honest butcher would instead have given the ordered pork to the customer, would have put a cat in a bag instead). Also included, is a glossary (plus other […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Curiosities & Wonders, Cynthia Amoroso, Language Arts, Mernie Gallagher-Cole, social science

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:283 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Curiosities & Wonders, Cynthia Amoroso, Language Arts, Mernie Gallagher-Cole, social science ·
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Soylent Green is people!

Technopoly by Neil Postman

August 8, 2022 by Halbs Leave a Comment

It’s nearly impossible for contemporary critical thinkers to write about our relationship with technology without referencing Postman’s Technopoly. While it was originally published thirty years ago, many of its points and predictions remain as relevant as ever. However, Postman also gets a lot wrong. In particular, his solutions to cultural issues with tech problems seem shallow at best. For that reason, I would only recommend this book to readers interested in the history of our concerns about tech. Postman first asserts that “embedded in every […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: culture, dangers of technology, Neil Postman, social science, technology

Halbs's CBR14 Review No:27 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: culture, dangers of technology, Neil Postman, social science, technology ·
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Okay, but really, you should read this.

The End of Bias: A Beginning by Jessica Nordell

June 24, 2022 by narfna 2 Comments

30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 18/30 Yep, still catching up on my April reviews. This one has been holding me up because the book was very good and very smart and those two things by themselves nearly always stymie me in my review-writing, but together it’s just a recipe for disaster. Brain frozen, words will not come. So I am starting this review—which I need to get out of the way because I want to be caught up on reviews before I […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Jessica Nordell, narfna, non fiction, Psychology, science, social science, the end of bias, the end of bias: a beginning, the science and practice of overcoming unconscious bias, unconscious bias

narfna's CBR14 Review No:86 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Jessica Nordell, narfna, non fiction, Psychology, science, social science, the end of bias, the end of bias: a beginning, the science and practice of overcoming unconscious bias, unconscious bias ·
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I wrote this a few hours before I heard of the current events

V Is for Voting by Kate Farrrell

January 7, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

NOTE: I wrote the below review before I heard about the riots. I want to present this review as it was before I had my feelings of the recent events. Before I knew that my cousin’s son was working (though in Virginia) someplace near Washington DC. Before I knew my cousin was hearing gunshots and racial slurs outside her apartment. Before she started playing phone tag to make sure her friends were safe. Before I became sick to my stomach at the horrors we keep […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alphabet, Caitlin Kuhwald, civics, Concepts, Diversity & Multicultural, Kate Farrrell, Politics & Government, social science, United States, voting

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Children's Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alphabet, Caitlin Kuhwald, civics, Concepts, Diversity & Multicultural, Kate Farrrell, Politics & Government, social science, United States, voting ·
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A science heavy debunking of contemporary gender essentialism.

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine

July 6, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

I tried to read this book near the beginning of quarantine, in hard copy, and my poor overloaded brain just couldn’t handle it. If I had read this in audio, a format my brain can handle for serious subjects, I probably would have rated it much higher, and gotten through it much faster (and I’ll be honest, retained more than 10% of it). So take this review with a grain of salt. (P.S. I just googled that phrase, and it evolved from something Pliny the […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Cordelia Fine, gender, non fiction, science, social science, the gender binary, the gender delusion

narfna's CBR12 Review No:63 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Cordelia Fine, gender, non fiction, science, social science, the gender binary, the gender delusion ·
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We all have biases, or “Why grandma might suddenly sound like a racist”

May 26, 2018 by KimMiE" Leave a Comment

Twelve years ago, my grandmother passed away at the age of 94. Born in 1912, she was the product of a different time, but other than maybe telling a slightly off-color joke or wondering out loud why there were so many more homosexuals around these days than when she was young, I don’t recall her being prejudiced against any particular group (except maybe Italians, but that’s a story for another day). Apparently in her final days in the nursing home, however, she started loudly proclaiming […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, KimMiE", Racism, sexism, Shankar Vedantam, social science, unconscious bias

KimMiE"'s CBR10 Review No:15 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, KimMiE", Racism, sexism, Shankar Vedantam, social science, unconscious bias ·
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