Welcome to Hive Book Club Highlight #312
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Hey everyone! to kick off some more activity in the community, let's start out this week by this simple prompt!
What book would you most recommend to someone who wants to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of war, and why?
There's no minimum of words and feel free to tell us about it.
This isn't a contest but a weekly prompt that will happen every Monday 😊 as perhaps throughout the week you have finished reading a book and wanted to share a particular experience when you finished reading a book. Let us know if you make one! there might be some tip along the way 😊
Today we're highlighting some of these content that you might enjoy. Check them out & don't forget to engage.
@jhymi/beauty-in-identity--4vk
The best thing about the holidays for me is the lack of guilt. Finally, I can read novels without feeling guilty that I should devote that time to studying my academic books instead. I was holding my breath. Holding it very hard as the school session drew to a close because I couldn’t wait to pick a book guilt-free once again. In my time away from novels, however, I downloaded a lot. And the reason why I’m ecstatic is because of the type of books I downloaded.
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@herosik/a-century-of-surgeons-jurgen-thorwald-my-opinion-about-the-book-stulecie-chirurgow-jurgen-thorwald-moja-opinia-o-ksiazce
Medicine. A topic that has been with us for centuries, and only for about 150 years, is no longer associated with pain or death. The first procedure/surgery under general anesthesia was performed 160 years ago. So general anesthesia was first used in 1864 in America during tooth extraction. About 100 years ago, unless you were a king, president, super-rich or lucky, you died in excruciating pain from a ruptured appendix. If the situation was a bit worse (I think it was a privilege for wealthier people at that time), you could sail to India. There, the chances increased noticeably, but they still did not guarantee cure. The treatment was as follows: the doctor put his hand in the place where the back loses its noble name, looked for this organ, grabbed it, then inserted his other hand, but this time with a sharp knife or scissors and cut it off. If the body experienced enormous stress, interference with its interior, fever, did not bleed to death, and the body was strong enough to survive the infection, it was probably healthy. If there was no anesthesia, how did they anesthetize us? Strong vodka (often samogon, where the cheapest beer from the supermarket is Divine Ambrosia), ether, opium or a wooden hammer (like when slaughtering a pig, only a little weaker).
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@erigm/book-review-the-dragon-reborn-3-book-of-the-wheel-of-time-esen
In this third installment we meet the dragon people who are manifesting and going out in search of the chosen one, the one who will proclaim himself as the true Dragon Reborn. In the midst of strange dreams, Rand decides to leave his camp and go to Tear in search of a crystal sword that the prophecies say that only the true dragon will be able to raise it. Meanwhile, Egwene, Nynaeve and Elayne are in danger in The White Tower after the existence of the Black Aja is revealed and the Amyrlin proposes them a risky mission that will take them to Tear. Mat, already cured of his illness by the Aes Sedai and upon learning of the danger the girls are in, decides to go after them. Thus all these plots will end in a common point where a battle will be fought and the Dragon Reborn will be proclaimed.
@litguru/through-the-looking-glass-a-few-thoughts-on-magister-ludi-the-glass-bead-game-hermann-hesse
This novel won Hesse the Pulitzer prize in literature. It's a tour-de-force into the intellectual, social, and spiritual implications of a "Glass Bead Game", whose actual mechanics remain a mystery, but it is based on the idea of reducing complex concepts or ideas down to their essence, like glass beads, which can then be combined and recombined to create novel configurations of knowledge.
@oluchi31/32-candles-a-beautifully-twited
The book 32 candles is a book written by Ernessa T. Carter. It follows the story of a young black south African girl – Davidia Jones. Davidia was born to a promiscuous mother in a small town Missisppi. Everybody hates her or so she thinks. Because of her mother’s promiscuous lifestyle, the women in the town don’t hesitate to tell her to her face that she is ugly. And in school, she is nicknamed Monkey Night because she is ugly.
@helloisalbani/bookreview-miranda-in-retrograde-or-living-by-horoscope
For those who are immersed in the academic world, being promoted to full professor at a prestigious university would be the epitome of their career, which is why after being denied her promotion, Dr. Miranda Reed is totally devastated. Her next step? Taking a sabbatical year to navigate uncharted waters, in this case, to learn about astrology, even though she has denied its veracity all her life, and let her horoscope guide her steps.
African philosophy is an interesting field of philosophy as soon as you enter the space. Much has been debated about what exactly African philosophy is, especially in two senses of the term/word/concept: How is African philosophy philosophy? and How is African philosophy African? Both these questions are wholly rooted in a tremendously racist framework in which western philosophy is taken as the paradigmatic example of what constitutes philosophy, and that western philosophers carry the sceptre that allows them to dictate what exactly can be called philosophy and so on. Western philosophy is oftentimes – in fact more often than not – labelled as philosophy. Islamic, Chinese, African, and all of the other traditions are always labelled as X philosophy. It is rarely the case that philosophy from Africa, done by an African philosopher is classified philosophy, unless they are partaking in the dominant conversation happening in academia – think studies on the sublime of Kant, the Logic of some obscure analytic philosopher, and so on.
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