![]() ![]() For one thing, the author doesn’t seem to know what an Englishwoman’s clothing of the period is really like (stays are not attached to underdrawers!). As each character finds his or her way to the opium ship Ibis, the stories merge into one, as the desire to break free of the poppy trade leads to defiance and mutiny.īut while the author has done a brilliant job, there are several problems with this book, at least for me. Following the fates of a wildly diverse caste of characters, from an American freedman passing as white to an Indian widow who escaped from her husband’s funeral pyre, the book spins a series of picaresque tales illuminating the impact of the opium trade on individuals and on India. An epic tale of the opium trade in 1838 and its far-reaching effects, Sea of Poppies is a book of amazing skill and scope. ![]()
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![]() The description in the "Warm Worlds and Otherwise" acknowledgements characterized this version as "heavily revised". Ain" uses the revised text first published in the 1974 anthology "SF: Author's Choice 4" (Harry Harrison, ed).
![]() ![]() This created a truly perverted scripture that rejected the Old Testament and added new fake scriptures like the Gospel of Judas and Gospel of Peter to retroactively justify itself. ![]() In the centuries that would follow, considerable efforts would be made to banish the ideas of Aristotle and Plato from the church to avoid heresies like those of the Gnostics, who applied Plato’s ideas to Christian cosmology. While Paul the Apostle repeatedly speaks to stoics and epicureans throughout the Roman Empire, he doesn’t addresses their ideas as meaningfully sufficient. Early Christians struggled with the question. It is a very real and meaningful thing to ask what philosophy has to do with religion and if they can even be combined in the first place. There is an age-old question that has haunted and confused millennia of Christians since far beyond when the church father Tertullian asked “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” And that is the question of syncretism. ![]() ![]() Social and economic issues Įhrenreich investigates many of the difficulties low wage workers face, including the hidden costs involved in such necessities as shelter (the poor often have to spend much more on daily hotel costs than they would pay to rent an apartment if they could afford the security deposit and first-and-last month fees) and food (e.g., the poor have to buy food that is both more expensive and less healthy than they would if they had access to refrigeration and appliances needed to cook).įoremost, Ehrenreich attacks the notion that low-wage jobs require only unskilled labor. In 2019, the book was ranked 13th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. ![]() ![]() Ehrenreich later wrote a companion book, Bait and Switch, (published September 2005), about her attempt to find a white-collar job. It was expanded from an article she wrote from a January 1999 issue of Harper's magazine. The book was first published in 2001 by Metropolitan Books. ![]() ![]() The events related in the book took place between spring 1998 and summer 2000. Written from her perspective as an undercover journalist, it sets out to investigate the impact of the 1996 welfare reform act on the working poor in the United States. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America is a book written by Barbara Ehrenreich. ![]() |