Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
Being a specialist book reviewer, I almost always have a solid understanding of what any given book I sit down to read for review is about, and what I can reasonably expect from it. “Almost always,” that is.
There’s a very good chance that when you are driving or riding along a road or track adjacent to a field in which cattle are present that you inexplicably say – to no one in particular – “cows,” or perhaps even give voice to a soft but prolonged and emphatic “mooooo.”
Australia’s “black summer” of 2020 – the most devastating wildfire season in the modern recorded history of that continent – was not only responsible for a level of devastation that stunned all who either witnessed it in person or saw the heart-breaking photos of it, it is also thought by many involved in studying global climate change to be a precursor of wildland fire seasons to come.
In recent years, the efforts to recognize and develop the work of women in the sciences have brought to the fore a number of important scientists who a mere fifty years ago may have been left largely unknown, whose work may have been unrecognized or ascribed to another, or whose talents may have been discouraged – or even inhibited – from being developed. And with this, a number of other women whose accomplishments in the past have begun to receive their justly deserved and long overdue recognition.