The Underground History of American Education. Schools should replace Catcher in the Rye with Black Swan Green. Illustration by Noah Van Sciver I imagined it so differently. I would hand The Catcher in the Rye to my students and watch it transform their lives. They would see themselves in Holden Caulfield, and J.D. Salinger's words would elucidate their own frustrations and struggles. They would write righteous screeds against phoniness, start keeping journals, and forever treasure their pored-over paperback. The book would blow the minds of teenagers seeking a pilgrim soul—a friend’s voice in the wild of adolescence. What I did not expect was shrugging boredom, the most feared of student reactions. The problem is that Catcher in the Rye is no longer a book for cool high school students.
Unfortunately, the book’s reputation as the Great American High School Novel precedes it, and its popularity has been its undoing. The perfect teenage book should feel like it’s being passed around secretly, its message too raw and powerful for adults to understand. Enter Black Swan Green. Photo by Miriam Berkley. Cloud Atlas (novel) The Chaperone (9781594487019): Laura Moriarty. Amazon. The Man in the High Castle. The Man in the High Castle (1962) is a science fiction alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It won a Hugo Award in 1963[1][2] and has since been translated into many languages. Plot summary[edit] Background[edit] In 1941, the Nazis conquered the USSR and then exterminated most of its Slavic peoples; the few whom they allowed to live were confined to reservations. In the Pacific, the Japanese destroyed the entire U.S. Navy fleet in a decisive, definitive attack on Pearl Harbor; thereafter, the superior Japanese military conquered Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and Oceania during the early forties.
One of the core narrative elements (Operation Dandelion) is centered on a preemptive Nazi nuclear strike on the Japanese Home Islands. After Adolf Hitler's syphilitic incapacitation, Martin Bormann, as Nazi Party Chancellor, assumes power as Führer of Germany. Characters[edit] The Man in the High Castle contains a loose collection of characters. Storylines[edit] Themes[edit] The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation (9780140264456): Matt Ridley. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder (9780618056736): Richard Dawkins.
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (9780393332032): Lewis Wolpert. Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love (9780805069136): Helen Fisher. The Phenomenon of Man. The Phenomenon of Man (Le Phénomène Humain, 1955) is a book written by French philosopher, paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness. The book was finished in the 1930s, but was published posthumously in 1955.
The Roman Catholic Church initially prohibited the publishing some of Teilhard’s writings on the grounds that they contradicted orthodoxy. The foreword to the book was written by one of the key scientific advocates for natural selection and evolution of the 20th Century, and co-developer of the modern synthesis in biology, Julian Huxley. Summary[edit] The development of science and technology causes an expansion of the human sphere of influence, allowing a person to be simultaneously present in every corner of the world.
In Teilhard’s view, evolution will culminate in the Omega Point, a sort of supreme consciousness. His Dark Materials. A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love (9780618335404): Richard Dawkins.