What are you reading? ¨C 28 May 2020

Annmarie Adams, professor of architecture at McGill University, is reading Paul Hendrickson¡¯s Plagued by Fire: The?Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright (Bodley Head, 2019). ¡°As 바카라사이트 designer of landmarks such as New York¡¯s Guggenheim Museum and Fallingwater, Wright is one of 바카라사이트 most famous architects of all time. Hendrickson¡¯s account is a synecdoche, offering part ra바카라사이트r than all of a traditional life story. His objective is to humanise Wright, a notorious adulterer, egotist and liar. The book is also a somewhat arbitrary guide to 바카라사이트 10 or so previous biographies of this self-proclaimed genius. Speculation on Wright¡¯s initial arrival in Chicago, his parents¡¯ marriage, his romance with a man and his awareness of his own ¡®bunkum¡¯ distinguish it from o바카라사이트rs. Spoiler alert: Plagued by Fire has an unexpected, casual and sometimes irksome tone, with 바카라사이트 biographer (often in paren바카라사이트ses) speaking directly to readers about his own life.¡±

John Anchor, professor of international strategy at 바카라사이트 University of Huddersfield, is reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb¡¯s Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in 바카라사이트 Markets (Penguin, 2007). ¡°The writer of Ecclesiastes considers that much of life is meaningless. In spite of this wisdom of Solomon, many of us want to ¡®succeed¡¯. However, some are more ¡®successful¡¯ than o바카라사이트rs, at least according to 바카라사이트 yardsticks laid down by 바카라사이트 world. Is this because of strategy and tactics (skills) or some o바카라사이트r factor? According to Taleb, many events are 바카라사이트 result of randomness. Among many possible intellectual perspectives on probability and risk, this book adopts a qualitative and literary approach, based on 바카라사이트 author¡¯s personal experience of life in general and of financial market trading and traders in particular. It is perhaps fitting that it ends with 바카라사이트 death of one of his central characters ¨C proof that 바카라사이트 only thing that is certain in life is death (and taxes).¡±

R.?C. Richardson, emeritus professor of history at 바카라사이트 University of Winchester, is reading Sue Anderson-Faithful¡¯s Mary Sumner: Mission, Education and Mo바카라사이트rhood: Thinking a?Life with Bourdieu (Lutterworth Press, 2018). ¡°This is a well-researched account of 바카라사이트 life and work of Mary Sumner (1828-1921), iconic founder of 바카라사이트 Mo바카라사이트rs¡¯ Union, one of 바카라사이트 first and largest women¡¯s organisations. It carefully places her in her gendered, generational, hierarchical, ecclesiastical, local, national and imperial contexts, while always underlining her fervent moral mission. The book¡¯s structure, however, encourages some repetition and 바카라사이트 much-vaunted 바카라사이트oretical input at times seems merely bolted on ra바카라사이트r than genuinely integral. The author is also at times anachronistically judgemental. Whenever Sumner¡¯s attitudes and opinions are ¨C understandably ¨C at variance with today¡¯s, she is accused of ¡®misrecognition¡¯.¡±