5/23/2023 0 Comments Biography of plutarchIn the age of chaotic electronic information, there seems to be an indefatigable production line turning out big, solid biographies, written to the weight and bulk of footlockers. Robert Caro's epic life of Lyndon Johnson, now running to three volumes, with more to come, is one of the great American biographies.Īnd so on. Edmund Morris is taking a break from his Theodore Roosevelt sequence to write a book about Beethoven. Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer of the Kennedys and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, will publish a new examination of Abraham Lincoln next spring. Rockefeller's biographer, has written a brilliant new study of Alexander Hamilton. In Grace and Power, Sally Bedell Smith has brought her impressive gifts as a reporter to bear upon the Kennedy White House. The young British writer Simon Sebag Montefiore has just produced Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, a savagely intimate portrait of one of history's more impenetrable characters. The first years of the millennium have become, for interesting reasons, a golden age of popular political biography.
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5/22/2023 0 Comments The Poison Squad by Deborah BlumWiley (no relation to the publishing company) was a ferocious fighter for food safety. But US food manufacturers were in for a wild ride when Harvey Wiley became chief chemist for the Department of Agriculture in 1883. Industrialisation of food production not only made more goods available to more people, but also hailed a time when products were modified with, at best, non-edible ingredients – think floor sweepings in pepper – or, at worst, toxic compounds such as arsenic dyes. Instead of eating produce bought directly from farmers, foregoing ready meals and E numbers, people at the turn of the 20th century were faced with formaldehyde-laced milk, bleached flour and canned vegetables dyed with copper sulfate. Everything was better in the good old days – or was it? It turns out that we have to dismiss any nostalgic ideas we might have of our great-grandparents’ healthy lifestyle. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The henna wars authorAmidst sabotage and school stress, their lives get more tangled-but Nishat can’t quite get rid of her crush on Flávia, and realizes there might be more to her than she realized.Ī portrait of coming out in a Muslim family, The Henna Wars explores the ways that our culture defines who we are-and the ways it can’t define us. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat choose to do henna, even though Flávia is appropriating Nishat’s culture. And her life only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life.įlávia is beautiful and charismatic and Nishat falls for her instantly. Nishat doesn’t want to hide who she is, but she also doesn’t want to lose her relationship with her family. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this rom com about two teen girls with rival henna businesses.When Nishat comes out to her parents, they say she can be anyone she wants-as long as she isn’t herself. My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing Some bullying and a character being outed) Published by Page Street Kids on May 12, 2020 5/22/2023 0 Comments Little Pea by Amy Krouse RosenthalHer alphabetized memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life (published in 2005) was named one of Amazon's top ten memoirs of the decade. She was selected as the 2015 author for 'The Global Read Aloud', an eight-week program for classrooms around the world to engage with each other by reading the same books. Duck! Rabbit! was read at the White House during the 2010 Easter Egg Roll. Rosenthal had several books on the New York Times bestseller list: I Wish You More, Uni the Unicorn, Plant a Kiss, Exclamation Mark, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, and Duck! Rabbit!. Books Īmy Krouse Rosenthal wrote for both adults and children. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference. She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. Rosenthal speaking at the TEDx Waterloo conference, February 25, 2010Īmy Krouse Rosenthal (Ap– March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Captain blood 1922"Captain Blood" is also the first book of a world famous trilogy about Peter Blood's adventures. A swashbuckling classic that brims with stolen treasure and adventure on the high seas, Captain Blood quickly became a best-seller soon after it was first published. Even when he destroys England's enemies, even at his most triumphant.Ī rollicking tale of piracy on a grand scale, accented with breath-taking maritime manoeuvres, near misses, and broadside hits, Sabatini’s fast-paced novel is alive with colour, romance, and excitement. Once again Sabatini entraps the main character via the shadow. Scaramouche was first published in 1921, followed by Captain Blood in 1922. The result is Captain Blood is a fair minded leader of brutal pirates intent on ravaging various ships on the oceans. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a thief and pirate. Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out. Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. First published in 1922, "Captain Blood" is a classic novel of adventure and romance, and one of Italian-English writer Rafael Sabatini's best. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Deep down dark by héctor tobarHe is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Additionally, Tobar contributed to the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Los Angeles riots of 1992. He also worked for several years as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. He was a Metro columnist for The Times, a book critic, and the paper's bureau chief in Mexico City and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His long career in journalism includes work for The New Yorker, LA Weekly, and many positions at the Los Angeles Times. Tobar is the son of Guatemalan immigrants. Héctor Tobar (born 1963, Los Angeles) is a Los Angeles author and journalist, whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States. Héctor Tobar at the 2011 Texas Book Festival. She challenges him to contribute his own stories, in which he gradually reveals his identity as son of a wealthy magistrate. When mysterious Madame Chang arrives at the inn, her storytelling transports Rendi. He wonders about the innkeeper’s son who’s disappeared and about peculiar old Mr. The innkeeper’s bossy daughter irritates Rendi. Bad-tempered and insolent, Rendi hates Clear Sky, but he has no way of leaving the sad village where every night the sky moans and the moon has vanished. When a troubled runaway arrives in an isolated Chinese village where the moon has disappeared, he initiates a quest to find the missing orb and resolve his past.Įscaping from home in a merchant’s cart, Rendi’s abandoned in the Village of Clear Sky, where the innkeeper hires him as chore boy. 5/21/2023 0 Comments How emotions are createdHowever, the results of these studies vary greatly from person to person. There have been many studies that measure brain activity and nervous system responses to determine what emotions people are experiencing. In addition, the same expression can be interpreted differently depending on its context within a photo or scenario. Studies measuring the movement of muscles in faces show that there is no one pattern for a single expression rather, they vary greatly. However, experiments have shown that facial expressions are not as simple and fixed as once thought. Even members of an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea were able to correctly identify emotions using this method. They used their photographs to test emotion recognition around the world. Tomkins created a set of photographs that depicted basic emotions such as fear, happiness, and surprise. In the 1960s, a group of psychologists led by Silvan S. This means that the way we understand and process an event is as important as the actual event itself. Scientists have found that emotions are not only a result of what we experience, but also how our brain processes those experiences. Lisa Feldman Barrett’s theory is called the classical view of emotion. However, they also thought we had to use our reasoning abilities to control those feelings. Historic thinkers believed that emotions were innate and automatic. 1-Page Summary of How Emotions Are Made Introduction 5/21/2023 0 Comments Kj charles subtle blood“You send me out of my mind,” Will whispered. Will and Kim have overcome a lot in their time together but this just may be the biggest fight of their lives. Worse than that, though, they find themselves up against Kim’s awful family – who have all but disowned Kim and who treat people like Will as if they’re the dirt on the bottom of their shoes. That is until a man is murdered at a local gentleman’s club and they’re both dragged right back into the shady world of criminal organizations, lies, and the effects of unchecked power. Kim made an oath to stop with the lies and Will can tell he’s really trying to turn a new leaf. His used bookshop is thriving and his relationship with ex-spy and disgraced aristocrat, Kim Secretan, seems to be on solid ground. He’s healed up nicely from the injuries sustained in The Sugared Game. When we pick up with Will Darling at the start of this book, things are looking up. It was a wild ride with a lot of ups and downs but it was so much fun to read, I wish it didn’t have to end! They totally swept me away, both with the romance and the mystery/danger. I stumbled upon it randomly and read all three books back-to-back. I can’t believe I’m already at the end of Will Darling and Kim Secretan’s adventures! This trilogy was such an unexpected delight for me. “…What would I do with a better man? He wouldn’t like it, and I’d get bored.” “Christ, I adore you.” “Good,” Will said. In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave.ĭave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened.ĭave has also written many books, virtually none of which contain useful information. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. |