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He passed away peacefully at his home a week later during the Obon festival. He had been in poor health since October 2007, and in August of 2008 he asked his doctor to discontinue treatment. He continued to farm and give lectures until just a few years before his death. Masanobu Fukuoka (1913-2008) Masanobu Fukuoka, the Japanese farmer/philosopher from Shikoku Island, and author of The One-Straw Revolution, passed away on Augat the age of 95. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2017, Silver was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the Creative Arts. Her stories, criticism, and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and other publications. Her short fiction first appeared in The New Yorker when she was featured in the inaugural Debut Fiction issue. 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As she trudges through the immense Green Cloak forest, her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves, as a galloping horse bursts from the woods. On her long journey home from school after a fight that will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her uncertain future. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book gives mostly accurate summaries of the most important passages of the Republic, which will be helpful to first-time readers. There is a helpful index of key terms and concepts. This book is a targeted tool for class discussion that, in the hands of a skilled instructor, could be successful. from Glaucon's challenge in Book II to the final arguments of Book IX), it would profit from "checkpoint" sections for each book (or couple of books) to help students tie together otherwise disparate arguments. Although it has a few cross-references to help students to see a unity (e.g. It lacks, however, a comprehensive or summary treatment of the argument of the whole Republic. 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