7/8/2023 0 Comments A week in winter binchy![]() ![]() Maeve Binchy, (born May 28, 1940, Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland-died July 30, 2012, Dublin), Irish journalist and author of best-selling novels and short stories about small-town Irish life. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. ![]() COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. ![]() ![]()
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7/8/2023 0 Comments The dream gatherer![]() Raised in an orphan camp, Green Rider Danalong has known only war and strife, until a shipwreck leaves him stranded on a mysterious island.Ī story of friendship within a story of friendship. A visit with the eccentric Berry sisters turns dangerous when an arcane device is discovered in their house that can summon dreamers through their dreams, and one of them is a nightmare.įinding peace during the Long War. ![]() In The Dream Gatherer, Kristen Britain presents a novella and two short stories set in the universe of her best selling Green Rider series in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her first novel, Green Rider.ĭreams can be dangerous. ![]() The book includes illustrations and backstory on the creation of Green Rider by the author, and a special introduction by award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, Julie E. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the New York Times bestselling Green Rider series, this short volume introduces readers to new sides of Sacoridia in two new short stories and a novella. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Fulgrim visions of treachery![]() ![]() ![]() The series began in 2006, and as of mid-2019, it consists of 38 novels, 103 short stories and novellas (some of which are collated in 21 anthologies), 47 audio dramas (plus 4 audio drama anthologies), 2 artbooks, 2 scriptbooks, and 1 graphic novel. Beyond the core conflict with the legions of Space Marines, their Primarchs, and the Emperor, the narrative splits into various sidestories fleshing out virtually every major aspect of humanity's civil war, and the events preceding it. Long established in the background as being directly responsible for the shape the galaxy is in in the 41st millennium, it is the subject of the Horus Heresy series of novels and audio books, by various authors. The God-Emperor was permanently injured in a lethal duel with their leader, the Primarch Horus (his son, in a way), to the point that he is only kept alive by an extremely complex life support device known as the Golden Throne. ![]() In the Backstory of the Warhammer 40,000 universe is humanity's era of hope, only just starting to dawn after the long and terrible Dark Age, before it is brought to an end by the Horus Heresy, wherein fully half of the best warriors the human race had to offer turned to worshipping dark gods and nearly wiped out the other half. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Tom defalco spider man![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was nearly impossible to capture the consistent excellence of the prior team, but DeFalco and Frenz made a valiant, honorable effort - crafting a run loaded with great moments. These are all What If? scenarios, alas, so let’s deal with the realities: Following Stern was a thankless job – and what we got in DeFalco and Frenz was pretty good to great. He’s also noted that he might have reconsidered had he known Ron Frenz was stepping in as artist. With an editorial change (from Tom DeFalco to Danny Fingeroth) and his artist moving over to focus on the X-Men, Roger Stern felt it was time to move on. Let’s just call it like it is - aside from Lee/Ditko/Romita and Gerry Conway’s runs, Stern/JRJR is the high-water mark up to this point. Last time we chatted, I was closing out my look at the legendary, classic, insert-effusive-word-here Stern/Romita Jr. ![]() Click here for the complete index of columns. (Alex has been re-reading from the beginning.) Each installment covers a specific period in Spidey’s history, with Alex giving you a kind of bouncing ball approach, as opposed to an issue-by-issue breakdown. Welcome to The Spider’s Web - a recurring feature by novelist and Archie Comics Co-President Alex Segura that looks at Spider-Man’s development since his start in 1962’s Amazing Fantasy #15. THE SPIDER’S WEB: Timing can be everything… ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The time it never rained![]() ![]() ![]() Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Harvard and first author of the paper. ![]() “If you were to look at a large patch of the deep tropics today, it’s always raining somewhere,” said Jacob Seeley, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. In a new study, researchers from Harvard University found that during these epochs of extreme heat, Earth may have experienced cycles of dryness followed by massive rainstorms hundreds of miles wide that could dump more than a foot of rain in a matter of hours. Little is known about how the atmosphere and climate behaved during these so-called hothouse periods. Earth likely experienced these temperatures at various times in the distant past and will experience them again hundreds of millions of years from now as the sun continues to brighten. Now, imagine an Earth 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than today. Today, we are experiencing the dramatic impacts that even a small increase in global temperatures can have on a planet’s climate. ![]() ![]() ![]() The central focus of the work is a systematic, holistic reading of Aristotle's account of practical wisdom within the framework not only of his ethics but, more broadly, his epistemology. The book can stand alone as a substantive and illuminating series of philosophically-rich comments, but in conjunction with Action, Contemplation, and Happiness, the companion volume of which it was originally a part, it affords the reader further evidence to support the interpretation found there. ![]() Reeve's book is not just (nor even primarily) a translation: the commentary is the longest section of the book, and the combination translation and analysis section is only around 40 pages long, as is the introduction. This is a new translation of Nicomachean Ethics VI, accompanied by a concise facing-page analysis, a thorough commentary, and a philosophically rigorous introduction from which seasoned Aristotle scholars, moral philosophers, and students alike stand to benefit. ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes everything in Zane's power to control the temptation of his kind's breeding habits-until he can control it no more.Ĭopyright: 2013 Book Details Book Quality: Publisher Quality ISBN-13: 9781611604818 Publisher: Torrid Books Date of Addition: 12/28/16 Copyrighted By: C. ![]() Zane is mortified, until he discovers this intelligent pet of his has a secret-she's no pet at all. This female is an oddity, and for some reason, his new pet brings on his mating cycle. ![]() Females are anything but vulnerable in his world. Zane finds himself saddled with a bald, unusual pet Earth female. Their females are huge, aggressive, dominant and the two sexes live apart for safety reasons. What do they want from her The unearthly world Bay is taken to is fascinating, frightening and a lot different from Earth. Zargonnii warrior mercenaries are like nothing she has ever seen before. PRODUCT DETAILS RATINGS & REVIEW SHIPPING AND RETURNS Title: (ebook) Bays Mercenary Author: C.L. Zargonnii males have never seen a small, vulnerable female. Scholey series Unearthly World Synopsis Bay went from tortured human captive to exotic alien pet in a heartbeat. It takes everything in Zanes power to control the temptation of his kinds breeding habitsuntil he can control it no more. What do they want from her? The unearthly world Bay is taken to is fascinating, frightening and a lot different from Earth. Zargonnii males have never seen a small, vulnerable female. Bay went from tortured human captive to exotic alien pet in a heartbeat. Zargonnii warrior mercenaries are like nothing she has ever seen before. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Chuck pal![]() “It’s looking like my payment for at least my last two – perhaps four – books has been taken, and so that leaves me with no reserves to write the next book,” he says. ![]() But sitting in the lofty space where he teaches writing in Portland, he is gentle and thoughtful, choosing his words carefully. I’d idly assumed that the author of Fight Club, Choke and other vivid studies of all kinds of American violence would be an expansive raconteur, maybe even a bit boorish and alpha. “It’s been a spring to remember,” he murmurs. ![]() And to top off Chuck Palahniuk’s 2018 so far, there was the death of Anthony Bourdain – fondly remembered by Palahniuk for a TV show they made together in 2007, doing a gastronomic tour of the novelist’s hometown, Portland, Oregon. ![]() Then came the suspicion that his income for the last few years had been embezzled by an accountant at his literary agency. ![]() ![]() Laurie wrote and directed the short film, Property, and in 2011 directed Jim Brochu’s Drama Desk award winning performance in Zero Hour. ![]() Laurie has performed in numerous plays on and off Broadway, including the 20th anniversary production of The Glass Menagerie with Maureen Stapleton and the Tony-nominated revival of Mornings at Seven. She was awarded the Golden Globe for playing both a man and a woman on David Lynch’s iconic Twin Peaks. She followed it with twelve more Emmy nominations, winning for the Hallmark show Promise. ![]() She was nominated for an Emmy as the young alcoholic opposite Cliff Robertson in the much-celebrated original live TV performance of The Days of Wine and Roses. When she was twenty-three she changed her life and career by breaking her lucrative studio contract to do live television and theater in New York. She worked opposite Tyrone Power, Paul Newman, Ronald Reagan, Donald O’Connor, Dana Andrews, Rock Hudson, Rory Calhoun, Victor Mature, Tony Curtis, Jason Robards, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemon, Cliff Robertson, James Garner, George Clooney, and Mel Gibson. ![]() She has starred in almost a hundred films, starting as a teenager in 1950 when she was signed as a contract player to Universal Studios. She has been nominated three times for an Academy Award: for The Hustler, Carrie and Children of a Lesser God. Piper Laurie has been called one of the most celebrated and formidable actresses of the last half-century. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s one of the hardest books I’ve ever read in my life, and one of the most intensely affecting, and I think one of the most important for Australia in particular. ![]() I read the other four shortlistees, however, and while it was a strong list altogether, Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is something beyond what any of the others manage. ![]() This year, though, both time and reluctance held me back from two of the six titles – one because I really don’t enjoy the author’s work (Tim Winton’s Eyrie), and one because I felt the subject matter might be too hard for me to take (Richard Flanagan’s acclaimed The Narrow Road to the Deep North). I usually try to have a stab at the shortlist, if for no other reason than to measure how far my taste diverges from that of the literary establishment. The book I would have picked, the book that I thought head and shoulders above the rest, wasn’t the winner. While there is no doubt Wyld’s is a very good book, I admit to being slightly disappointed. The winner of Australia’s premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award, was announced last week – it went to Evie Wyld’s All the Birds, Singing, selected from a shortlist of six fairly diverse titles. ![]() “Even true stories have to be invented sometimes to be remembered…” ![]() |