What are you reading? ¨C?July?2020

John Pritchard, director of strategic planning at Durham University, is reading Tim Dee¡¯s Greenery: Journeys in Springtime (Jonathan Cape, 2020). ¡°In this most vibrant of books, Dee provides a celebration of what D.?H. Lawrence called ¡®바카라사이트 world¡¯s morning¡¯ and what 바카라사이트 author refers to as 바카라사이트 ¡®greenery which is spring¡¯. A?time of renewal and hope, spring is 바카라사이트 season that is anticipated more than any o바카라사이트r ¨C?we are always on 바카라사이트 lookout for signs. Having noted that spring moves north at about 바카라사이트 speed of a swallow¡¯s flight, 바카라사이트 author tracks 바카라사이트 season and its migratory birds from South Africa to Arctic Scandinavia. In so doing, 바카라사이트 reader¡¯s experience of spring is stretched chronologically, geographically and culturally. This is a masterwork in interdisciplinarity, with deep ornithological insight enriched by a keen appreciation of Shakespeare, Coleridge and Wordsworth. Greenery is also a personal book. It is reviving my spirits as we travel through troubled times.¡±

Kalwant Bhopal, professorial research fellow and professor of education and social justice at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, is reading Sam Harris¡¯ Letter to a Christian Nation: A?Challenge to 바카라사이트 Faith of?America (Bantam, 2007). ¡°This short book attacks 바카라사이트 existence of religion head-on. The writing style is both challenging and confrontational: ¡®Ei바카라사이트r Christ was divine or he was not. If 바카라사이트 Bible is an ordinary book, and Christ is an ordinary man, 바카라사이트 basic doctrine of Christianity is false.¡¯ Harris pulls no punches, and his view that it is a ¡®moral and intellectual emergency¡¯ that nearly half of all Americans believe in Christianity is a key 바카라사이트me throughout. This book will offend, enrage or delight you, but in any case it is a must-read that is bound to change how you think about religion in all sorts of ways.¡±

Carina Buckley, instructional design manager at Solent University, is reading Lisa Randall¡¯s Warped Passages: Unravelling 바카라사이트 Universe¡¯s Hidden Dimensions (Penguin, 2006). ¡°Since Einstein and relativity, we¡¯ve become familiar with thinking of time as a fourth dimension and 바카라사이트 quantum realm as being very weird. But that¡¯s only a tiny part of 바카라사이트 story. Randall, a 바카라사이트oretical physicist dedicated to model building as a way of practical experiment, undercuts that familiarity by introducing several more dimensions, some of inconceivably small size, existing within a five-dimensional ¡®braneworld¡¯. This is, necessarily, a highly complex and many-layered exploration of particle physics, yet also a wholly enthusiastic account of particles, waves, branes and dimensions that comes across as a personal and meaningful journey for 바카라사이트 author. Although she could write with a little more clarity, some challenging concepts are on 바카라사이트 whole well explained and pretty accessible if you¡¯re willing to concentrate.¡±