![]() ![]() ![]() “This is fundamental information about how the Earth works that nobody understands, even educated people who have taken classes on these topics. The latest in the series, “Rivers of Sunlight: How the Sun Moves Water around the Earth,” explains the global water cycle.Īt first, the Sunlight Series wasn’t written with a specific audience in mind it was just to make this critical information available in an easy-to-understand way. The pair has since created the “Sunlight Series,” a collection of children’s books written about different environmental topics from the point of view of the sun. In response, Chisholm partnered with her longtime friend, award winning children’s book author and illustrator Molly Bang, to write a series of children’s books explaining these fundamental environmental processes in an approachable way. ![]() As a professor of 7.014 (Introductory Biology) for undergraduate students at MIT, Institute Professor Sallie (Penny) Chisholm recognizes that photosynthesis and other natural processes don’t sink in for a lot of people. These are seemingly elementary questions, but many people - young and old - struggle to answer them. ![]() How do plants bring the Earth to life? How does the sun move water around the Earth? ![]()
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![]() ![]() Austen has become a “cultural commodity almost a brand name” (Wiltshire 7) and there will probably always be new publications as long as there is such a keen and vast market. Since most “educated people have at least heard of Jane Austen novels are in the public domain” (Parrill 176), adapting them seems to be particularly attractive in regard to the low economic risk and reduced investment costs (no acquisition of legal licences and little marketing costs). All six novels have been repeatedly turned into movies and the amount of literary adaptations appears to be almost uncountable. It does not come as a surprise, therefore, that there are hundreds and hundreds of Austen adaptations and spin-offs. Her works are “perennial favourites” (Carson xi) and, furthermore, there seems to be a huge demand for “Austen novelties”. A Brief Note on Reading Women in the Early Nineteenth Century and Exchanging Gothic Fiction with Twilightģ.1 Leading Ladies: Catherine “Cat” Morland, Isabella “Bella” Thorpe and Eleanor “Ellie” Tilneyģ.2 The Gents: Henry Tilney (Henry), John “Johnny” Thorpe and General “the General” TilneyĮver since their publication between the years of 18, Jane Austen’s novels, namely Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park and Persuasion, have never gone out of print. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will Stacey's magic be strong enough to expose the true killer, or will the killer make her darkest nightmares come true? With everyone as a potential suspect, Stacey turns to the one secret weapon she can trust – the folk magic taught to her by her grandmother. ![]() Worst of all, no one has a perfect alibi. until another girl at school is brutally murdered. Everybody thinks it's just a twisted game. Now someone's leaving Drea white lilies – the same death lilies that have been showing up in Stacey's dreams. It started with weird e-mails and freaky phone calls. This time they're about Drea, her best friend who's become the target of one seriously psycho stalker. The last time she ignored them, a little girl died. Not just any nightmares – these dreams are too real to ignore, like she did three years ago. She's got a crush on her best friend's boyfriend, and an even darker secret that threatens to ruin her friendships for good. She's not the most popular girl at school, or the smartest, or the prettiest. Stacey's junior year at boarding school isn't easy. ![]() ![]() When I can’t even describe it to you without ruining the marvelous surprises. You know how I can tell when a book is great? Sal and Gabi’s Excellent Universe-Destroying Adventure There's only one slight problem: their manipulation of time and space could put the entire universe at risk.Ī sassy entropy sweeper, a documentary about wedgies, a principal who wears a Venetian bauta mask, and heaping platefuls of Cuban food are just some of the delights that await in this mind-blowing novel gift-wrapped in love and laughter. When Gabi learns that he's capable of conjuring things much bigger than a chicken-including his dead mother-and she takes it all in stride, Sal knows that she is someone he can work with. except maybe Gabi, whose sharp eyes never miss a trick. Sal prides himself on being an excellent magician, but for this sleight of hand, he relied on a talent no one would guess. She is determined to prove that somehow, Sal planted a raw chicken in Yasmany's locker, even though nobody saw him do it and the bloody poultry has since mysteriously disappeared. Gabi, student council president and editor of the school paper, is there to support her friend Yasmany, who just picked a fight with Sal. Sal is in the principal's office for the third time in three days, and it's still the first week of school. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Sal Vidon meets Gabi Real for the first time, it isn't under the best of circumstances. How did a raw chicken get inside Yasmany's locker? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He knew how popular he had become and simply used that to the advantage for himself, his friends and his team. All his friends say his confidence was one of his greatest assets. Despite becoming rich and famous, it seems that ego never came into play. If you were around during skateboarding's popularity in the early 80's, Christian was at the center of building that popularity. Through numerous and engaging interviews, Hosoi's story will shock, amaze and stoke you. Hawk was the more technical skater, but Hosoi's charisma and style paved the way for him to achieve insane heights - both on and off his board. There was a longtime perceived rivalry between Hosoi and Tony Hawk. With old and new footage, a killer soundtrack and interviews with skateboardings other legends, this film tells a story well with both images, video and words.īeginning his skateboarding career at the Marina Del Ray Skatepark, where his father was the manager, set the stage for Hosoi to become one of the first "rockstars" of the skateboard world. Narrated by Dennis Hopper, Rising Son is an amazing skateboard documentary about the rise and fall of legendary skateboarder, Christian Hosoi. ![]() ![]() ![]() The content warnings are numerous, but at its heart the story is in turns touching, funny, and cathartic, and if zombie apocalypse fiction is in your wheelhouse, you should give it a try. Manhunt is a book of many bloody layers, all of them delightfully queer. A few marathon sessions – and some screeching at my book friends over messaging – later, and I had zero regrets and a lot of thoughts. ![]() ![]() And to tell the truth, I’ve mostly gone off of apocalypse fiction the last few years – given the state of the real world – but I was intensely interested in a trans-centered apocalypse story, and requested that my library purchase it. ![]() The pair of bloody testicles suggested by the cover tells you that right off the bat. I knew going into Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin that it was going to be a wild ride. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The title is somewhat misleading, however. This wholly redesigned second edition includes a new insert of images chosen by the author, as well as a new preface and index to highlight the ideas, beliefs, and social and religious customs that form the background of much of this subject matter.Įnormously thorough listing and explanation of subjects and symbols in art, and full of fascinating detail. The definitive work by which others are compared, this volume has become an indispensable handbook for students and general appreciators alike. ![]() More than just a dictionary, this text places these subjects in their narrative, historical, or mythological context and uses extensive cross-referencing to enhance and clarify the meanings of these themes for the reader. Combined here in a single volume are religious, classical, and historical themes, figures of moral allegory, and characters from romantic poetry that appeared throughout paintings and sculpture in Western art before and after the Renaissance. This book relates in a succinct and readable way the themes, sacred and secular, on which the repertoire of Western art is based. But what were once biblical or classical commonplaces are not so readily recognizable today. The understanding and enjoyment of a work of art depends as much on the story it depicts as on the artist's execution of it. ![]() ![]() I find it fascinating that anyone feels like they have the right to tell me how to live my life.” Though as she told Time magazine, she has faced criticism at being a mother and a war photographer: “Everyone is having a field day judging what a horrible woman I am, what a bad mother I am. She subsequently reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Congo and Libya she was kidnapped in the latter country by Gaddafi’s army, her driver was killed, and she was threatened with murder and rape.Īfter her kidnap ordeal, she returned to her husband, started a family, and took a step back from the frontline. ![]() Addario tells the story of becoming a photojournalist after being inspired by a Sebastião Salgado exhibition, before getting her big break documenting life as a woman under the Taliban – a story that gained global significance following 9/11. ![]() ![]() ![]() In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on. A bickering couple emigrate to a world that has worked out an innovative way to side-step the need for war, only to bring their quarrels (and something far more destructive) with them.Īnd in the title story, Suzuki offers readers a tragic and warped mirroring of her own final days as the tyranny of enforced screen-time and the mechanistion of labour bring about a shattering psychic collapse.Īt turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. Two old friends enjoy cocktails on a holiday resort planet where all is not as it seems. ![]() ![]() On a planet where men are contained in ghettoised isolation, women enjoy the fruits of a queer matriarchal utopia - until a boy escapes and a young woman's perception of the world is violently interupted. TerminalBoredom Format: Paperback Joseph,Daniel Published by Penguin Random House ISBN 10: 1788739884 ISBN 13: 9781788739887 New Quantity: > 20 Seller: INDOO (Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: New. Anthologies and Short Stories | Translated Fiction ![]() ![]() Lecter grew up well-educated under the eyes of his father, who out of silent curiosity spoiled him with learning English, German and Lithuanian every day in the castle’s study. Lecter was a distant cousin of the artist Balthus. Lecter himself would pursue this subject, to determine from the records of the Capponi Library if there was any true connection to Bevisangue, but he was unable to answer the question. Lecter may have also been descended from Giuliano Bevisangue ("Bevisangue" means "Blood-Drinker"), a feared and ruthless figure in 12th-century Tuscany, and from the Machiavelli bloodline. ![]() ![]() Lecter was born with the rarest form of polydactyly, his left hand had six perfect fingers, the middle finger perfectly replicated. He is the eighth in his blood-line to bear his ancestor's forename. ![]() His mother, Madame Simonetta Sforza-Lecter, was descended from both the Visconti and Sforza families, who separately ruled Milan for a total of 250 years. ![]() Hannibal Lecter was born in 1933, within an ancient castle in Vilnius, Lithuania, into the wealthy aristocratic family that lived there his father, simply known as Count Lecter, was a descendant of the warlord "Hannibal the Grim" (1365-1428), who defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, and built the castle within five years, using as labor the soldiers he took prisoner. ![]() |