![]() ![]() ![]() The book puts a human face on our planet’s biggest crises, showing how local action can make all the difference moving forward. This self-inquiry led her to write a book, "In Search of The Canary Tree: The Story of A Scientist, a Cypress, and a Changing World ," which was published last fall. “What was lingering for me was, how do I really cope with that in my daily life? How does that shape my future outlook?” she told Salon in an interview. Oakes was one of the foremost experts on Alaska's troubled yellow cedars - trees that are dying due to reduced snow, shallow rooting, and other climate change-related effects. The 2019 festival takes place in Telluride, Colorado from October 3–6.Īfter finishing her PhD in Stanford University’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources, Lauren Oakes still had questions about how we live in the throes of the climate crisis. This article was co-produced with Original Thinkers, an ideas festival that uses speakers, art and film to create new paradigms. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Persephone is a strong, capable heroine who is taking control of her own destiny. Speaking of Persephone's voice, it is honestly the most grating sound I've ever heard. There are even times when the narrator drops Persephone's voice during narration, as if she's gotten tired of it. She gives each character a different manner of speech and I've found that narration immediately following dialogue keeps that character's voice rather than Persephone's (since the story is in first person). ![]() In the span of one paragraph she'll pronounce things differently, the most notable being Gaia (Guy-uh to Gay-uh) along with other general Greek pronunciation problems (Rhea, specifically). Let me give you a brief overview of the issues: The narrator is inconsistent in pretty much everything. I honestly regret not reading the book myself because the narrator is the worst narrator I've ever heard. The story is well-written and while I would've liked a little more focus on the external plot, I absolutely loved the romance. To make them lesbians and reveal Zeus to be the douchebro we all know him to be is just awesome. The story of Persephone and Hades has always been a favorite of mine, especially when you delve deep into the various interpretations of the "original" translations. The Dark Wife is a book I've been meaning to read for years but just finally found the time in the form of hour-long commutes to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() The title ended in October 2013 the adventures of Miles continue in Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man, released in July 2014.Īfter the "Death of Spider-Man" story arc, in which Peter Parker was killed, the title's third volume was launched, in which writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Sara Pichelli depicted Parker's mantle being passed on to Miles Morales. The series was set in a continuity shared with other relaunched Ultimate Marvel titles including Ultimate Comics: X-Men and Ultimate Comics: Ultimates. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Sara Pichelli, the series also served as a continuation of elements from the miniseries Ultimate Comics: Fallout and focuses on the all-new Spider-Man, Miles Morales. ![]() ![]() It followed the "Death of Spider-Man" storyline that concluded the series Ultimate Spider-Man, to which Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man served as a sequel. Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man was a monthly comic book series published by Marvel Comics that debuted in September 2011 as part of the second re-launch of the Ultimate Marvel imprint. Sara Pichelli, Chris Samnee, David Marquez ![]() ![]() ![]() From the high school Senior who gets sold-out concert tickets, and the food addict who receives tuition to a weight loss program, to the man who is given the chance to walk to the ends of the earth to save his true love’s life.Įach accepts the gift with the understanding that there’s always a catch, and anyone who agrees to Jonathan’s terms risks losing even more than they stand to gain. The recipients of these gifts vary as greatly as the terms of Jonathan’s unusual contracts. ![]() But no gift comes without a price, and those unwilling to pay the price learn that no gift comes without a consequence. No longer concerned with business and finance, Jonathan turns his attention to giving. ![]() When multi-millionaire Jonathan Wheeler’s wife contracts a debilitating illness, it transforms both of their lives. This is a book I can proudly recommend to any reader-man or woman. So why not just call it Romance? Apart from the ridicule I would face at the fire station, there is so much more to it than a love story. It is Contemporary Fiction with Romantic elements. Gifts and Consequences is a departure from the Young Adult Fantasy genre in which I wrote Jabberwocky and Hatter. The highlight was the electronic release of my third book: Gifts and Consequences. It was such a great day in my writing career that the release of the Hatter paperback was NOT the big news of the day. ![]() ![]() □ Revivez le en □□□□□□ sur /ihgsZ81aoh- FFAthlétisme February 25, 2023ĭuplantis added a centimeter to the world record of 6.21m he had previously set at the World Championships in Oregon last year. Il faudra bientôt relever le plafond ! □ □ Phénoménal ! □□ Armand Duplantis est sur le toit du monde à Clermont-Ferrand en s'élevant à 6️⃣,2️⃣2️⃣ m ! ![]() He may only be 23 years old, but Armand Duplantis is already a sporting great.Īn Olympic, World and European champion already, the Swedish athlete has become accustomed to also breaking world records.Īnd he did so again on Saturday, breaking the pole vault word record for the sixth time at the All Star Perche 2023 event in Clermont-Ferrand, France. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Since May and the kids seem like they’re staying through the summer, Mom wants some sort of souped-up swing set for Junior. Jacob studiously avoided looking at the strip of bare skin he revealed because Garrick and Ray were right behind him. “What are you talking about building?” Linc came to a stop right next to them, wiping his face on the edge of his T-shirt. ![]() Miss out on Portland.” She sighed dramatically, but her eyes stayed friendly. “If the weather’s good, I might as well build it for her.” “My mom was making noises about getting a new play structure for the little kids.” It wasn’t a lie-she had been talking about exactly that on Sunday, but he hadn’t been the most enthusiastic about a weekend spent wrangling power tools and fiddly small parts. “I should probably stick around here,” he said as they came to a stop, rear groups starting to catch up. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the widespread revolt against commodified information, McKenzie Wark sees a utopian promise, beyond the property form, and a new progressive class, the hacker class, who voice a shared interest in a new information commons. This vexed ground, the realm of so-called “intellectual property,” gives rise to a whole new kind of class conflict, one that pits the creators of information–the hacker class of researchers and authors, artists and biologists, chemists and musicians, philosophers and programmers–against a possessing class who would monopolize what the hacker produces.ĭrawing in equal measure on Guy Debord and Gilles Deleuze, A Hacker Manifesto offers a systematic restatement of Marxist thought for the age of cyberspace and globalization. Raymond Williams, Keywords HTML for Dummies (quick reference edition) Additional Texts: Stephen J. Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory Neil Postman, Technopoly. The bold aim of this book is to make manifest the origins, purpose, and interests of the emerging class responsible for making this new world–for producing the new concepts, new perceptions, and new sensations out of the stuff of raw data.Ī Hacker Manifesto deftly defines the fraught territory between the ever more strident demands by drug and media companies for protection of their patents and copyrights and the pervasive popular culture of file sharing and pirating. Paul Fussell, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. A double is haunting the world–the double of abstraction, the virtual reality of information, programming or poetry, math or music, curves or colorings upon which the fortunes of states and armies, companies and communities now depend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead of feeling sorry for himself with nothing left to wear, Uncle Ry feels remorse for not being able to give away something as beautiful as the moon. Instead of disturbing the robber, he welcomes him into his home and gives him his only robe as a gift. When Stillwater shares the story of “Uncle Ry and the Moon,” he parallels the idea of unselfish giving with the tale of a simple man who was one day visited by a robber. Stillwater teaches each child lessons through stories that help them handle the events in their lives. Zen Shorts is the story of how Stillwater the panda becomes friends with three kids named Addy, Michael, and Karl. Read aloud video by Fun2Read Guidelines for Philosophical Discussion Stillwater teaches each child lessons through stories that help them handle the events and emotions in their lives. Zen Shorts is the story of how Stillwater the panda becomes friends with three kids Addy, Michael, and Karl. Questions for Philosophical Discussion » Summary A series of tales exploring friendship, luck, generosity and anger. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her introduction she writes, “Some of the patterns in the this book are contemporary originals…Other patterns are traditional…I have resurrected these from old, forgotten books and translated them into modern terminology…Still other patterns have come from other areas of the world…Like music, knitting truly is a universal language.” It is fittingly dedicated “To the further enrichment of a beloved craft”. Available at schoolhousepress, amazon and at norli. ![]() It is part of a series of four encyclopedic reference books, and it is my favorite of the series – which I just had to buy after flicking through one. ![]() Walker – an influential knitting expert, author and feminist – was first published in 1970 by Schoolhouse Press and has been in demand ever since. ![]() ![]() He describes their affair as unlocking "the sickness" that has plagued him since adolescence, when he sexually abused a little girl, a crime for which his elder foster brother Mike took the blame to spare Lou from prison. His main outlet for his dark urges is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with clichés and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: "If there's anything worse than a bore," says Lou, "it's a corny bore."ĭespite having a steady girlfriend, schoolteacher Amy Stanton, Ford falls into a passionate, sadomasochistic relationship with a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland. Lou Ford appears to be an unremarkable deputy sheriff in a small Texas town beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes. In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written." Plot summary ![]() The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. ![]() |