![]() ![]() Bridges will fall, subways near fault lines in New York and San Francisco will cave in, glaciers will wipe away much of the built world and scavengers will clean our human bones within a few months. Many of his lessons come from past developments, such as the sudden disappearance of the Maya 1,600 years ago and the evolution of animals and humans in Africa. “Watch, and maybe learn,” writes the author. Drawing on interviews with architects, biologists, engineers, physicists, wildlife managers, archaeologists, extinction experts and many others willing to conjecture, Weisman shows how underground water would destroy city streets, lightning would set fires, moisture and animals would turn temperate-zone suburbs into forests in 500 years and 441 nuclear plants would overheat and burn or melt. ![]() But it is unsettling to observe the processes. of Arizona An Echo in My Blood, 1999, etc.) addresses the question. ![]() Nicely textured account of what the Earth would look like if humans disappeared.ĭisaster movies have depicted the State of Liberty poking out from the ground and empty cities overgrown with trees and vines, but what would really happen if, for one reason or another, every single one of us vanished from the planet? Building on a Discover magazine article, Weisman (Journalism/Univ. ![]()
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![]() The Earl wants to give his grandson an education in power and privilege, but he does not suspect that the innocent little American may have more to teach. In Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886), seven-year-old Cedric Errol is growing up in New York City with his young widowed mother when he unexpectedly learns that the grandfather he has never met is an English earl. ![]() Restoring the novels to their original, unabridged American texts, this authoritative edition features over forty illustrations carefully reproduced from the first editions, twenty of them printed in full color. ![]() ![]() You are a story-I am a story.” From the people and places around her, Frances Hodgson Burnett, who moved to America from England at age fifteen, found stories enough for over forty novels and plays-including the three still-beloved classics of children’s literature presented in this Library of America volume. ![]() ![]() ![]() She's trying to learn herbalism, negotiate the delicate dance of having two suitors (one of them much more worldly than Juan Carlos, despite Juan Carlos having studied in Spain), and keeping her mother's secrets. The author doesn't hold back against the prejudices of the time, instead letting us see that what was common then is not acceptable now.Ĭonsuelo was a believable, complicated character. Mexico's culture of criollos (Spaniards born in the colonies), indigenous peoples, and Spaniards. ![]() This book is a fascinating look into early 18th C. and someone has told the local priest from the Holy Office about it. ![]() Complicating the matter is that Leila seems to have some sort of dementia, and calls out Hebrew prayers at random. It's 1711 in Mexico (then called New Spain) and the Inquisition is still active. but she holds a deep family secret: her mother is a converso, a Jewish person pretending to be Christian. Consuelo Argento is in love with Juan Carlos de Castillo. ![]() ![]() ![]() Įighteen months after Browder was deported, on June 4, 2007, Hermitage Capital's offices in Moscow were raided by twenty-five officers of Russia's Interior Ministry. In retaliation, on November 13, 2005, Browder was refused entry to Russia, deported to the UK, and declared a threat to Russian national security. Browder took on large Russian companies such as Gazprom, Surgutneftegaz, Unified Energy Systems, and Sidanco. The primary investment strategy of Browder was shareholder rights activism. In 1997, the Hermitage Fund was the best-performing fund in the world, up by 238%. The fund, and associated accounts, eventually grew to $4.5 billion of assets under management. The Hermitage Fund was founded in partnership with Republic National Bank, with $25 million in seed capital. ![]() He is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. ![]() William Felix Browder (born April 23, 1964) is an American-born British financier and political activist. ![]() ![]() In Kidby's cover, the older Sam Vimes is in the place of Frans Banning Cocq and Sam as a young man is in the place of Wiliem van Ruytenburch. The actual painting by Rembrandt is used as the back cover illustration. This is the first main-sequence Discworld novel not to have a cover by Josh Kirby who had passed away. Paul Kidby's cover parodies the famous Rembrandt painting The Company of Frans Banning Cocq and Willem van Ruytenburch, more commonly known as The Night Watch. A five-part radio adaptation of the novel was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from Februit featured Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes and Carl Prekopp as young Sam, and referenced the similar theme of a policeman unexpectedly being sent back in time from the series Life on Mars. The protagonist of the novel is Sir Samuel Vimes, commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch. ![]() The working title for this book was The Nature of the Beast, but this was discarded when Frances Fyfield published a book with exactly that title in the UK in late 2001. Night Watch is the 29th novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, published in 2002. For the painting by Rembrandt, see Night Watch (painting) or The Wikipedia Page. ![]() ![]() This page is about the novel NIght Watch. ![]() ![]() If you told me that Andy Weir wrote this having never read any of those books, instead only having seen the movie adaptations of each one, I would say, “Only if the last time he watched those movies was a hundred years ago, and also he didn’t watch the movies, he watched the trailers, and not like in a movie theater where you’d be paying attention, but like they were playing before a VHS tape and he was fast-forwarding them to get to the movie he intended to watch, which was probably something very bad like Blade Runner, and so all he saw were random images.” ![]() The students of this particular school are Alice (of Wonderland fame), Wendy (fresh outta Neverland), and Dorothy (back from Oz). ![]() ![]() This book wishes it had a tenth of the creativity and fun and adventure). This is a graphic novel that imagines there is a boarding school for children who have returned from magical worlds (and if you’re saying “Wow, sounds an awful lot like Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series,” you take that back right now. ![]() Here is something very funny and cool that doesn’t remotely make me want to scream for a thousand years: When authors write retellings of books they apparently have never read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intuitive eating is NOT related to what you may have heard of recently as “intuitive fasting” – which is the diet culture’s hijacking of the term to create yet another fad. You can learn more about their work on their website,, including their “10 Principles of Intuitive Eating.” The concept was popularized by dietitians Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch in their 1995 book, Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works. Intuitive eating is characterized by eating in response to physiological hunger and satiety cues rather than emotional cues and not considering certain foods to be forbidden. What is “intuitive eating?” (and what it is not) This post will explain what is “intuitive eating” and the resources you can access to explore it on your own. The more I see, the more I think that this could be a new chapter in my fitness journey. ![]() When I bypassed my inner judge and listened to what dietitians had to say, I have gotten more curious. When I first heard of intuitive eating, I dismissed it as some hippie-dippie excuse to indulge a lack of willpower. ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes us from snow stilled hunting grounds to a modern-day makeshift sweat lodge, and there is a reverence in these places. Jones writes about cold November hunting grounds that evoke a time when horsemen were in control, and being Native was neither good nor bad, but free. The setting makes one wonder, what could be lurking out there? Highways cut through vast prairies only interrupted by a rogue barn house or pumpjack. ![]() The sky feels bigger there as if the horizon reaches well beyond the mountains. Jones’ descriptive writing of the landscape is so evocative that readers can smell the heady scent of manure, the mild sweetness of corn and grain in the air. The wide-open fields seem equal parts ancient and modern as scenes flow seamlessly between basketball games to coming-of-age rituals that make up the daily lives of these characters. Stephen Graham Jones’ novel The Only Good Indians transports readers to the northwest, shifting between North Dakota, Montana, and the frigid outskirts of a Blackfeet reservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() I cannot explain why I love this book so much, I know I’m in the minority here as this is not everyone’s favourite but my guess is that I really love both main characters with their strengths and shortcomings. We looked in the shed where she keeps her bike, but there’s only a lawnmower in there. Kim last night, and she said that Lottie Bishop kicked her in the crouch so many times that she didn’t know if she’d ever be able to take her vibrator for a test spin again.” Kaycee shrugged. “My momma was on the phone with her friend Ms. This book is filled with the typical Robin Alexander humour full of ridiculous situations, quirky characters and funny dialogues. The Summer of Our Discontent is an enemies-to-lovers novel where nothing is taken too seriously. But that’s about to change when they are forced to share two weeks together as chaperones in a girls’ summer camp… ![]() Frequently playing practical jokes on each other, they never considered the possibility of a friendship, let alone something more. ![]() Previous Lesbian Book Quotes of the Monthįaith Leblanc and Rachel Chauvin have hated each other since childhood.40 Best Lesbian Romance Books for Valentine’s.Lex’s Top 13 Best Lesfic Halloween Books 2020.Lex’s Top 13 Best Lesfic Halloween Books 2021. ![]() ![]() VanderMeer has been as prolific as ever in recent years, leaning more and more into his unique authorial tendencies, at once naturalistic and anything but. ![]() VanderMeer’s debut as a novelist came almost two decades ago, though I first became aware of his writing five years ago, with 2014’s The Southern Reach Trilogy. ![]() ![]() At its best, Dead Astronauts is an avant-garde and gorgeously textured story that demands to be proselytized. It’s as if the same literary universe, expansive cast of characters and creatures, and unique perspectives have united toward a central aim. VanderMeer is unparalleled in his ability to bring to our ears the songs of such strange worlds, from the animals that inhabit them to the soil itself.Īt times in Dead Astronauts, the book’s sprawling nature seems connected with VanderMeer’s other work. There are giant flying bears, lighthouses that might also be tunnels, and a talking fox that may be the messiah. Jeff VanderMeer, author of the novel Dead Astronauts, seems to have gleefully taken to the nickname “the weird Thoreau.” The moniker was first assigned to him by The New Yorker writer Joshua Rothman, and like Thoreau, VanderMeer tends to center on humankind’s connection to the natural world. ![]() |