![]() ![]() Le frère de papa a été abattu par des rebelles lorsqu'il est retourné à New York après la guerre. Le frère aîné de maman, Richard, a combattu les rebelles et il s'est fait tuer par eux. On dirait que, toute ma vie jusqu'à maintenant, j'ai écouté les adultes parler de la guerre. Maman s'est couvert les yeux : « Oh! Faites que cela n'arrive pas! » « À Kingston, tout le monde pense qu'il y aura la guerre », a-t-il dit. Puis il a abordé le sujet que je craignais. Ce soir, maman, Maria et moi avons fait de la couture tandis que Hamilton nous racontait encore des histoires à propos de Kingston. Tous les soirs, après le souper, je m'assois sur mon tabouret, au salon. Je voulais qu'Abbie vienne chez nous pour voir mon journal mais, quand nous nous sommes arrêtées chez elle, sa mère lui a donné des tâches à faire. ![]()
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![]() Sibling Dex and Mosscap experience both interior and exterior lives of humans and humanity through one another and with one another. I would warn you… compared to all that it’s kind of… boring? It has none of the things that make for compelling, gripping, thrilling entertainment. Maybe something HBO Max can pick up for prestige drama. Maybe all sorts of things that would make for a good movie or miniseries. Maybe something with thrills and adventure. The synopsis sounds like something that it isn’t… something about robots. Therein, Dex encounters Mosscap, a robot with a mission to find humans and ask a simple, single question: What do you need? Sibling Dex is a tea monk who, in a moment of existential crisis, decides to venture to the wilds where no human has gone since the robots left to do their own thing, separate and apart from the humans that created them. These two novellas – not sure if we can call them a duology just yet, considering I don’t know the plans Chambers and Tor have for the series yet – are exceedingly kind, gentle, and comforting reads. ![]() Which aligns with my reviews for my first reads of 2023 that aren’t library/ work-related: Becky Chambers’ Monk & Robot novellas, A Psalm for the Wild-Built and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy. Thanks for exiting and offering a platform for whatever T H I S is that I need for right now… First time in years that I’m bothering to review. First comment on Pajiba two days ago (after 10 years of lurking). ![]() ![]() ![]() Interactive features, lessons plans, a video clip and other resources are available at. Michael Pollan is the author of five New York Times Best Sellers: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Botany of Desire (which was also adapted for PBS in 2009), In Defense. ![]() With major funding from the National Science Foundation, "The Botany of Desire" premieres on PBS stations Oct. The program shows how four familiar species (the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato) evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control. The book is 'The Botany of Desire: A plants-eye view of the world. The Botany of Desire, a free PBS documentary on the evolutionary relationship between humans and plants. Radio shows, Web-based resources, community programs, life-long learning opportunitiesįeaturing Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an eye-opening exploration of the human relationship with the plant world-seen from the plants' point of view. Innovative programs for children and adults, and science information material for broadcasters Permanent, regional and traveling exhibits and associated outreach programs ![]() IMAX films and other film projects for diverse audiences NSF supports a wide variety of educational and informational projects for the general public Meets 181 total Release Year: 2009 Producer/Distributor: PBS Learning Media Series: The Botany of Desire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can they take a leap of faith together before it’s too late?įeatherbed is a stand-alone novel in Sarina Bowen’s World of True North. ![]() Feathers may be flying, but learning to trust takes time neither may have. What starts as a fling brings very real feelings for two lonely souls, but a future together seems as unlikely as chickens in a bookstore. Now they’re stealing kisses in Finn’s barn, sneaking out like teens, and burning up the sheets. And somehow amid book discussions and farm tours, they discover plenty in common. City slicker types like Harrison never end up staying in Vermont for the long-term. The burly organic farmer knows all about rare breed poultry, but dealing with a hot, older bookseller is an entirely different matter. Also not supposed to be here? An unexpected delivery of chickens.įinn Barnes knows chickens. Not in Burlington, Vermont, not running Vino & Veritas, a quaint inclusive bookstore and wine bar, and definitely not still alive, at forty-two. ![]() ![]() Harrison Phillip Fletcher, III isn’t supposed to be here. When a bookworm on borrowed time meets a younger, free-spirited chicken farmer, sparks and feathers fly… ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2012, the small publisher Universe released a translated edition of the first Maltese story, The Ballad of the Salt Sea, a long tale of high-seas double-dealing set on the eve of World War I. A few scattered translated editions appeared over the years but quickly went out of print, and import copies have only been available at premium prices. Like most European comics, though, Pratt’s Corto Maltese adventures have remained inaccessible and virtually unknown in the United States. Through the 1970s and ’80s, Maltese became one of the most popular and acclaimed comics characters in Europe. ![]() “Maybe I’m the king of idiots, the last representative of an extinct dynasty that believed in generosity! In heroism!” he sneers sarcastically after standing up to a bully. He’s a peer of Sergio Leone’s Man With No Name, Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, and the protagonists of Easy Rider. ![]() Maltese fit the mood of the times-a classic antihero, a romantic dropout whose jaded sensibility masks a crusading impulse, a roguish loner who always finds himself in the middle of a lost cause. The Italian cartoonist Hugo Pratt introduced his most famous character, the cynical sailor and “gentleman of fortune” Corto Maltese, in 1967. ![]() ![]() ![]() This item will be sent through eBays Global Shipping Programme. And now it’s ready to dazzle the imagination in its second millennium. The Ghost in the Shell 2007 by Masamune, Shirow Book. ![]() An epic dystopian tale of politics, technology, and metaphysics, The Ghost in the Shell has been hailed worldwide as an unparalleled visionary work of graphic fiction. From Shirow Masamune, the award-winning creator of Appleseed and Dominion, comes The Ghost in the Shell, the breakthrough manga that inspired the internationally acclaimed animated film. When Major Kusanagi tracks the cybertrail of one such master hacker, the Puppeteer, her quest leads her into a world beyond information and technology where the very nature of consciousness and the human soul are turned upside down. ![]() ![]() In this rapidly converging landscape, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to track down the craftiest and most dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including “ghost hackers” who are capable of exploiting the human/machine interface and reprogramming humans to become puppets to carry out the hackers’ criminal ends. Ghost in the Shell ( Kkaku Kidtai 'Mobile Armoured Riot Police') is the original manga created by Masamune Shirow. Deep into the twenty-first century, the line between man and machine has been inexorably blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human tissue. ![]() ![]() ![]() But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore argues, because self-government depends on it. ![]() The American experiment rests on three ideas-”these truths,” Jefferson called them-political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. And it rests, too, on a fearless dedication to inquiry, Lepore Written in elegiac prose, Lepore’s groundbreaking investigation places truth itself-a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence-at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas”these truths,” Jefferson called thempolitical equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. Written in elegiac prose, Lepores groundbreaking investigation places truth itselfa devotion to facts, proof, and evidenceat the center of the nations history. You can read this before These Truths: A History of the United States PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book These Truths: A History of the United States written by Jill Lepore which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore ![]() ![]() ![]() I would love to have heard a lot more about their wonderful, intelligent cats, including their names. Sterling was not diligent about caging Rascal but needed to get him to the wild regardless relieved to know he was safe and free. I am not keen on the novel, if it elaborates upon the unpleasantness. Why would his Dad hire anyone who dislikes animals and usurps Sterling's room to live in? Why should hired help get a say in the North's always content household? This version skimmed those hiccups. There were two unpleasant thorns in the year with his raccoon: a preacher threatening Rascal if he raided his produce again (not a Godly man to think the Lord's creatures are for killing) and a new sourpuss housekeeper. Knowing the main events, I might not need to read the novel. I whizzed through these 80 pages in a day. I got " Little Rascal", shortened for children and the whole "Rascal" story, from garage sales or thrift shops. We meet Sterling and his Dad, a lawyer, in 1918. Their brother survived world war I in France. ![]() They adored Sterling and helped raise him, after their Mom, Sarah Elizabeth Nelson North, died at 47 in 1914. It matters so much that he had an animal-loving, kind Dad and sisters. ![]() This is a lovely memory by a Grandfatherly person for his Grandchildren, about being ages 11 to 12 in Wisconsin, raising a baby raccoon. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I watched the movie by myself in a hotel room, which is not the way to watch that movie for the first time just because you want a group of people you can turn to and say ‘What the hell is going on?'” recalls Franco, reclined on a love seat in Midtown Manhattan. Cannes Film Festival 2023: Live Updates of All the Looks From Red Carpets, Arrivals and Photocallsįranco and his brother, James, are the stars of “The Disaster Artist,” a quirky biopic about the relationship between two best friends, actors Greg Sestero and Tommy Wiseau, who costar in “The Room.” The film is regarded - unofficially - as being the worst film ever made since its 2003 premiere.ĭirected by James in-character as the eccentric, long-haired Wiseau, “The Disaster Artist” is based on Sestero’s 2013 memoir “The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, the Greatest Bad Film Ever Made.” It marks Franco’s first major project with James, who called him after reading Sestero’s book several years ago and implored his younger brother - filming in Boston at the time - to watch “The Room.” ![]() ![]() ![]() It includes an exclusive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum – a leading voice on authoritarianism and Russian history – who fears that ‘once again, we are living in a world that Arendt would recognise.’ This is the first-ever illustrated edition, with famous propaganda images and documentary photography from the USSR and the Third Reich. Arendt – with the insight of a Jewish refugee who fled Hitler’s Germany – lays bare the brutality of Nazism and Stalinism, and seeks to advance our understanding of the forces of antisemitism and imperialism that forged them. Published shortly after the Second World War, Hannah Arendt’s study of state tyranny stands as a powerful warning from history, and as one of the 20th century’s most important works of political history. In an age of strong-man leaders, mass populist movements and media disinformation, The Origins of Totalitarianism has soared back into the public consciousness and become essential reading for our times. ![]() |