pick“Without Africa, and the slave plantation agriculture of the Caribbean that derived from it, there would never have been the kind of explosion of wealth that the West enjoyed … nor such early or rapid industrialization.” And French retraces the pathways of the European countries rampaging through the African continent, meanwhile destroying already existing kingdoms. It is a devastating, but necessary overview over the slave trade.
pickThis was a great overview of Scotland. Very to the point of who was king/queen and when. It highlights the major players in Scotland.
Not quite, AI, not quite... (prompt "Rousseau's cold remedy bottle")
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Of course, many earlier books, especially devotional tracts, had brought tears to the eyes of their readers, but La Nouvelle Héloïse released a flood: "tears," "sweet tears," "tears that are sweet," "delicious tears," "tears of tenderness." One reader sobbed so vehemently that he cured himself of a severe cold.
Up next…I‘ve had this on my shelf for a while. I enjoy this author!
#bookspinbingo
#unreadbookshelf
#nonfiction
so-soVery interesting book, but a lot of facts mentioned. I think it would have been better to read it instead of listening to it. The first few and the last frew have been the most interesting ones to me (Big Bang, Homo sapies). The ones inbetween on how first life (cells) evolved on earth seemed quite boring to me.
Rousseau addressed the paradox of his position as a novelist in two prefaces, which explained that novels were bad in themselves because they caused corruption, yet salutary in that they could inspire virtue among those already trapped in a corrupt society.
He also added a further paradox: "This novel is not a novel.
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!!! Cake and eating it!?
pick(sings) That‘s nobody‘s business but the Turks…
