The Book of Eve: A beguiling historical feminist tale – inspired by the undeciphered Voynich manuscript

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They actually had a bunch of men and women included in the study. So that's great. But they didn't set out to test sex differences. They just wanted to know: Is this new special EEG machine ... Is it usefully influential in monitoring anesthesia effectively? And it turned out. Yeah, sure. The machine was kind of fine. But what they really found out is that women come out of anesthesia faster, even if they're the same weight as the guy. They still need a different profile of treatment in anesthesia. And it's actually true that women are more likely to wake up on the surgery table.

Eve was immeasurably useful to me in my life-long quest to understand my own body. I highly recommend it to anyone who is on the same journey. -- Hope Jahren, author of LAB GIRL and STORY OF MORE To Ricoeur, freedom is the origin of evil. How does he get there from the initial argument that the story of Adam symbolically condenses the plight of the Hebrews? John?” Without looking, he knew she was grinning. Ancient and powerful, this woman radiated the contagious joy of a child. With one arm she pulled him to her, kissing the top of his head. Turning briefly to your last book, I have to admit I found The Symbolism of Evil a bit impenetrable.How does the Bible fit into Milton’s theological vision? What he ultimately seems to be saying is that though the Fall is inescapable and irreversible, Adam fell with Eve not just into sin, but into love. And he fell because he was consubstantial with Eve, ‘flesh of my flesh.’ Augustine concluded that if you think that Adam is an allegorical figure, eventually you’ll wind up thinking that Jesus is an allegorical figure, too” There are so many varying critical interpretations of how Eve emerges as a figure in this poem. For one thing, she is always at a secondary remove from divinity. A smart, funny, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman's body, Eve surprises, educates, and emboldens. Who runs the world? Girls! -- Bonnie Garmus, author of LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY Samuel Clemens was perfectly capable of ridiculing the Bible. My point is that he isn’t Voltaire. Mark Twain’s is a different kind of project, more playful, funnier, and more poignant.

He took 15 years trying to write his literal interpretation, and he couldn’t finish it. The trouble is, you can’t actually interpret the Book of Genesis literally, any more than you can when Jesus says, ‘I am the door; I am the vine.’ Is he a door? Is he a vine? Of course not. It’s a metaphor. The Scavengers have been calling for you for longer than an hour, and since you are the only Collector within a hundred miles . . .” It’s fascinating, isn’t it? By a rich tradition of interpretation, Adam and Eve saw themselves for the first time not simply as vulnerable and without clothing, but as sexual beings—hence, nakedness refers to genitals. In Augustine’s account, nakedness particularly shows what it means to be aroused if you’re a male. It’s visible, and you’re not in control of it.

Such a rare book: scholarly, funny, accessible and very important. A truly original history of humans that explains so much of who we are today -- Chris van Tulleken, author of ULTRA-PROCESSED PEOPLE John closed his eyes and turned his face to the sky, wishing his conversation with Eve had not been so unbearably interrupted. But unfortunately, being of reproductive age is anywhere from, like, 12 or 13, to in your early 50s," Bohannon says. "So that's the majority of our lives. That's a big gap."