5/13/2023 0 Comments Butts by Heather RadkeOffit uses these lessons to investigate how we can separate good science from bad, using some of today's most controversial creations-e-cigarettes, GMOs, drug treatments for ADHD-as case studies. These unwitting errors add up to seven lessons both cautionary and profound, narrated by renowned author and speaker Paul A. These are today's sins of science-as deplorable as mistaken past ideas about advocating racial purity or using lobotomies as a cure for mental illness. from the rise of trans fats as the golden ingredient for tastier, cheaper food to the heart disease epidemic that followed and from the cries to ban DDT for the sake of the environment to an epidemic-level rise in world malaria. History is filled with brilliant ideas that gave rise to disaster, and this book explores the most fascinating-and significant-missteps: from opium's heyday as the pain reliever of choice to recognition of opioids as a major cause of death in the U.S. What happens when ideas presented as science lead us in the wrong direction? Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong
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5/13/2023 0 Comments The missing marquessA minimalistic in that sense, the cover page holds many attributes.Įnola Holmes is fourteen years old and quite happy that she has got her birthday presents. All the illustrations are done using black, red, turquoise blue and white colors. Seeing the female protagonist an earlier version of a popular vehicle will make you remember those old times. This cover page will remind you old European books. Let us take a look at the cover page of original edition.Įnola Holmes Mysteries by Nancy Springer – The Case of the Missing Marquess | Book Cover (Original) I found it interesting and so here are my thoughts on the first book in this series, The Case of the Missing Marquess, published in 2007: Cover Page: In my pursuit of books for young readers, I came across this series and thought I’ll give it a go.
5/13/2023 0 Comments The book of life sojourner truthAt this point, however, Isabella had already left her husband and taken her youngest child, going to work for the family of Isaac Van Wagenen. In 1827, New York law emancipated all enslaved people. She had many enslavers, and while enslaved by the John Dumont family in Ulster County, she married Thomas, also enslaved by Dumont and many years older than Isabella. Her parents were James and Elizabeth Baumfree. She was born in New York as Isabella Baumfree (after her father's enslaver, Baumfree) in 1797. The woman known as Sojourner Truth was enslaved from birth. 1797, Ulster county, New York, U.S.died November 26, 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan), African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Notable Quote: "This is what all suffragists must understand, whatever their sex or color-that all the disfranchised of the earth have a common cause." Sojourner Truth, legal name Isabella Van Wagener, (born c.Published Works: "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave" (1850).Known For: Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist known for her fiery speeches. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Perdita by Paula ByrneNever one to pass up an opportunity, she later used his ardent and numerous love letters as blackmail. On her release, Mary rose to become one of the London theater’s most alluring actresses, famously playing Perdita in The Winter’s Tale for a rapt audience that included the Prince of Wales, who fell madly in love with her. His dissipation landed the couple and their baby in debtors’ prison, where Mary wrote her first book of poetry, gaining her the patronage of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. After being abandoned by her merchant father, who left England to establish a fishery among the Canadian Eskimos, Mary was married, at age fifteen, to Thomas Robinson. One of the most flamboyant free spirits of the late eighteenth century, Mary Robinson led a life that was marked by reversals of fortune. This thoroughly engaging and richly researched book presents a compelling portrait of Mary Robinson–darling of the London stage, mistress to the most powerful men in England, feminist thinker, and bestselling author, described by Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a woman of undoubted genius.” I’ve never been much interested in the planet Mars I thought Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles (1950) was dumb. I don’t even like Mars bars. It felt adolescent, escapist, and elitist, oblivious to the school of hard knocks of which, I told myself, I was an alumnus, whereas Harris was forever flitting off, apparently never actually having to work for a living and oblivious to the history of colonialism so closely tied to our European explorers’ vaunted “Age of Discovery,” etc. My grumpy predisposition was further stoked early in the book as the author went on about her fascination with travel to Mars and the noble history of European exploration. After all, I’d cycled many thousands of miles across continents when I was younger than her, and then spent time in a lot of the places she would traverse, from Turkey and Central Asia to Nepal and India. I worried it might be a “been there, done that” kind of read, wherein I would smugly second-guess the author. I have to admit I was not positively predisposed towards this book. Like the author, her story has aged well. Kate Harris’s tale of bicycling the Silk Road of Central Asia, her Land of Lost Borders, came out a couple of years ago and it describes two rides, one in 2006 and another, longer one five years later. Toronto: Penguin Random House (Vintage Canada), 2018 Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds on the Silk Road 5/13/2023 0 Comments Resolution by Laney PowellAnd when I created America's Promise and became its Chairman, my very best partner in that program were the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. I was privileged to be stationed at Fort McPherson a number of years ago as the Commanding Officer of Forces Command, and then when I left here and went to the Pentagon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and then ultimately retired from the Army from that position, I nevertheless would come down to Atlanta on many occasions, as Peter noted, with my work with America's Promise, but especially with my work as a member of the Board of Governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, a role that gave me a great deal of satisfaction, and one of the greatest programs we've seen for volunteerism in this country. SECRETARY POWELL: Thank you all for that great Atlanta welcome, and Peter, thank you for the gracious introduction. Powell > Speeches and Remarks > 2004 > October Remarks at the Southern Center for International Studies Secretary Colin L. You are in: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice > Former Secretaries of State > Former Secretary of State Colin L. Fans will be thrilled to know the series continues with The Blood of Olympus in 2014. The horrifying monsters are nicely balanced by peace-loving Titan Bob, a skeleton calico cat called Small Bob, and gentle giant Damasen. While more serious than the previous titles, there are lighthearted moments here, many involving a farting polecat. The heroes realize that they cannot change their parentage but they can control their legacy. As Annabeth and Percy struggle to survive Tantarus's poisonous atmosphere and creatures, the other demigods must undergo harsh trials particularly Hazel, Frank, and Leo, but they learn and grow mentally and physically from their experiences. The Gods are incapacitated by their Greek and Roman personalities warring with one another, and the demigods from Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter are on the verge of an all-out war. The other five demigods must get to Eprius in Greece, find the House of Hades to open the Doors of Death on the mortal side, save Annabeth and Percy, and seal the entrance to stop Gaea's forces from escaping into the mortal world and destroying it. Annabeth and Percy have fallen down into Tantarus, and they must fight off the attacks from the monsters stuck there long enough to find the Doors of Death. Gr 5-8 Fans won't be disappointed as the cliff-hanger ending from the previous book, The Mark of Athena (Hyperion, 2012), leads to further exciting adventures by the intrepid demigods in this penultimate book in the "Heroes of Olympus" series. 5/13/2023 0 Comments This Fierce Blood by Malia MárquezAlthough the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Though completed in 1940, "The Master and Margarita" wasn't published in Moscow until 1966, when the first part appeared in the magazine "Moskva." It was an immediate and enduring success: audiences responded with great enthusiasm to its expression of artistic and spiritual freedom. Its central characters, Woland (Satan) and his retinue-including the vodka-drinking black cat, Behemoth the poet, Ivan Homeless Pontius Pilate and a writer known only as The Master, and his passionate companion, Margarita-exist in a world that blends fantasy and chilling realism, an artful collage of grotesqueries, dark comedy, and timeless ethical questions. Combining two distinct yet interwoven parts-one set in ancient Jerusalem, one in contemporary Moscow-the novel veers from moods of wild theatricality with violent storms, vampire attacks, and a Satanic ball to such somber scenes as the meeting of Pilate and Yeshua, and the murder of Judas in the moonlit garden of Gethsemane to the substanceless, circus-like reality of Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov's devastating satire of Soviet life was written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime. Despite numerous complexes and a general feeling of self-doubt, he believed in the value of his work and strove to immortalise it. In general, he was a man of opposites: an introvert who could talk about his passions in an engaging way. At the same time, he was endowed with an extraordinary sense of humour, combined with cynicism and a developed sense of observation. Beksiński was an intellectual with wide humanistic knowledge and outstanding knowledge of the matters which absorbed him the most, for example, classical music. To characterize his figure, we should pay attention to his extraordinary erudition and eloquence. This is probably the best evidence of Beksiński’s class. Considering his position and extraordinary achievements, one would rather expect arrogance and complacency. What is particularly striking was his modesty, self-irony and a powerful distance to his own person, according to their testimonials. But in direct contact, as his friends and acquaintances testify, he made an even stronger impression. Too bad for me, because Beksinski – even in the light of archival and biographical materials available to us – appears to have been an exceptional figure. Unfortunately, I have never had that opportunity. Krakow, Poland – Kafkadesk sat down with Jaroslaw Serafin, the art director of the Historical Museum in Sanok, Poland, to talk about Zdzisław Beksiński (1929 – 2005), the great Polish master of arcane figures, dystopian worlds and haunting shapes. Abusive Parents: Though the book does not detail any abuse on the part of Agnes' parents, they do immediately reject their daughter when she comes out, and apparently left her with her abusive aunt.Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke provides examples of the following tropes: As their relationship develops, they find themselves succumbing to a spiral of depravity. In the year 2000, two gay women - Agnes Petrella and Zoe Cross - meet online as Agnes attempts to sell a family heirloom. Originally published on its own, it was later reprinted with two additional stories as Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke is a 2021 queer horror novella by Eric LaRocca. |