...Whether Wisdom ...

... in elementary school, the special care she received as the baby of the family, her love of movies and dance, her parents’ wisdom about how to end a dispute between Rosemarie and a neighbor friend, and the suspicious drowning death of a cousin. Woodlawn neighborhood Chicago Illinois African American...

..., Jane Jacobs’s “sidewalk ballet,” Augusto Boal’s slow-motion race, Slow Roll bicyclists, Lorenz Potthast’s decelerator helmet, Alexandra David-Neel and a lung-gom-pa lama, Norway’s “Slow TV,” elephants, Wisdom 2.0, sloths, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s time and motion studies, flies and flickering...

... has treated women as victims of gruesome sexual violence. They were. But the popular genocide canon barely touches on women in their wisdom, perseverance, and strength. Through personal stories, the book preserves a record of a unique moment in Rwandan history and one that holds broader relevance...

...-class culture; it provides practical tips for coping with modern life; and it focuses on male insecurities about women and female complaints about men. These continuities reflect a complex history of working-class masculinities in Mexico that troubles conventional wisdom about the misogyny of Mexican...

... experiences in elementary school, the special care she received as the baby of the family, her love of movies and dance, her parents’ wisdom about how to end a dispute between Rosemarie and a neighbor friend, and the suspicious drowning death of a cousin. Woodlawn neighborhood Chicago Illinois...