![]() ![]() ![]() Stay away from paleoanthropology, I was told as a young student smitten with fossils, and study less controversial stuff instead, like dinosaurs.Ī few pages into “Fossil Men: The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind,” the journalist Kermit Pattison concurs. We’re long past any serious debate that humanity evolved from apes in Africa a few million years ago, but the scientists looking for ever older bones of our ancestors always seem to be squabbling. THE SEDIMENTS OF TIME My Lifelong Search for the Past By Meave Leakey with Samira LeakeyĪmong the riot of species that have lived on Earth over the last four billion years, only we can ponder our own origins - and it often angers the blood. FOSSIL MEN The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind By Kermit Pattison ![]()
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![]() They’re family in a way that doesn’t come from blood ties and are living in a confined space, which can both fuse people and put relationships under pressure. Honestly, there are tons of things I could name here because I love worldbuilding in general, but if I have to narrow it down, I’d say the life and interactions of the crew aboard the Endeavor. What do you love most about the world you’ve built? STARBREAKER is the second book in your sci-fi romance series. To see how Tess, Shade, and the crew of rebel Nightchasers handle new threats and evolving relationships, you’ll have to try the books! The risks, action, danger, and romance escalate in Starbreaker, the second book in the trilogy. They get into a sticky situation with a damaged ship and turn to Shade Ganavan for help, not realizing that he could be a danger to Tess–but also so much more. That’s also what I love to write–and what you’ll find in Nightchaser and Starbreaker! The Endeavor series is a futuristic fantasy that introduces readers to Captain Tess Bailey and her crew of Robin Hood-like rebels who race across the galaxy stealing from the privileged to provide for those in need. ![]() Thank you for inviting me! I’m a romance author living in Paris, France and an avid reader of novels with high stakes, steamy romance, engaging characters, and tons of emotion. ![]() Welcome back to Fresh Fiction, Amanda! Can you tell us a little bit about yourself, and catch our readers up to speed on what’s been going on so far in the Endeavor series? ![]() ![]() Dawnay's rhyming couplets scan well and read aloud easily. ![]() Morris leans into the magic and enchantment even further: At this library, books arestacked in mountainous piles, with eager children scaling the teetering towers, trying to find the perfect tale just for them. Dawnay's lines preach the thrill of finding a new read., For those who love to read, the library is a wondrous place-books as far as the eye can see. ![]() ![]() Scribbly line art by Morris, in a style reminiscent of Quentin Blake and Matthew Cordell, portrays an immense library with rickety ladders, a friendly dinosaur shelf, and book stacks large enough to climb. ![]() ![]() ![]() There, he meets Romanov, an older and very clever wizard. Captured by a group looking after the Prince of Wales, Nick must go into a trance-like state to look out for psychic enemies. Meanwhile, in a world resembling our own, Nick goes with his father to a writing conference, where he is swept away into Roddy's world and mistaken for a guard. ![]() There are suggestions of foul play, but nothing definitive. ![]() At a meeting of the English king with the Scotch king, however, the Old Merlin drops dead, and the Scotch king takes it as an insult and retreats. The book begins from the point of view of Roddy, an adolescent girl who lives in a magical world and has a close friend, Grundo, who she looks after as he is considered rather slow. "The Merlin Conspiracy" is the story of a young boy and girl, who must protect their different worlds from a magical conspiracy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Harry tried to help Dexter out by suggesting that the boy might want to make a virtue of necessity by concentrating his murderous energies on the truly wicked people of the world-and Dexter agreed, beginning with the hospice nurse who was systematically overdosing Harry with morphine. Dexter knew from an early age that he was somehow different, and his father, Detective Harry Morgan, had picked up enough abnormal psychology on the job to recognize the signs. It takes one to know one, too, for Dexter has a very deep and well-guarded secret: He’s been bumping people off for years. A “blood-splatter analyst” for the Miami Police Department, Dexter works only on the messiest cases, nearly all homicides and quite a few the work of serial killers. A witty, grisly debut about the secret adventures of a Florida sociopath who murders only bad guys.ĭexter Morgan makes his living off the blood of the dead-literally. ![]() ![]() ![]() – “Hellboy”‘s Mike Mignola is partnering with Ben and Max Berkowitz of Not a Billionaire and Starburns Industries to create a new live-action show titled The Forever House. Newsarama has more on the release, including solicitation text and release dates for the first two issues. ![]() – Marvel Comics is re-releasing the digital-first and already-collected-in-print “Jessica Jones: Blindspot” series as single issues. You can check out the full list of 2020 releases at. ![]() – Dark Horse announced new entries in their Disney/Pixar “The Story of the Movie in Comics” line, including graphic novel adaptations of Onward, Alice in Wonderland, The Incredibles, and Mulan, among others. If you’re into Batman, Deathstroke, and/or Cheshire, you’ll want to click over to The Reporter and take a look at what’s headed the Dark Knight’s way in 2020. – The Hollywood Reporter shared the first covers and solicitations for James Tynion IV and Tony Daniel’s upcoming “Batman” run. Titled “920London,” the new book will tell the story of “a doomed romance between two emo kids, set in London in 2005.” You can learn more about “920London” at Image’s website. – Image announced that “The Pervert” artist Remy Boydell is returning for a new graphic novel in April 2020. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has been more than a century and a half since Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was first published. INTRODUCTION TO THE CITY LIGHTS EDITION OF Narrative of the Life of Frederic Douglass, An American Slave The New Critical Edition is intended to be released, promoted and marketed at the same time as Davis's collection of speeches, The Meaning of Freedom, forthcoming from City Lights in Fall 09. Davis is listed as a co-author, rather than an editor or contributor. As this is a new critical edition, however, Angela Y. In order to capture the largest market share, particularly in ongoing backlist orders from course adoptions, the title remains the same as the original edition. Will be supported and promoted by the Pacifica Archives, the Pacifica Radio (including Democracy Now). Newly relevant given the election of Barack Obama, Angela Davis discusses why and how the Narrative is important today for understanding freedom, conscience, resistance and social justice. Already a cornerstone of every African American studies syllabus, the new edition has the potential to become the edition adopted by progressive-leaning professors and department heads. This new edition, featuring essays by Angela Davis that focus on the importance political resistance and freedom struggle, will introduce Frederick Douglass’s Narrative to the Obama generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this and other plays he developed the concept of "indirect action," in which the dramatic action takes place off stage and the significance of the play revolves around the reactions of the characters to those unseen events. ![]() While the subject and the characters of the work are, in a sense, timeless, the dramatic technique of the play was a Chekhovian innovation. The play also functions as a magnificent showcase for Chekhov's acute observations of his characters' foibles and for quizzical ruminations on the approaching dissolution of the world of the Russian aristocracy and life as it was lived on their great country estates. Since that time it has become one of the most critically admired and performed plays in the Western world, a high comedy whose principal theme, the passing of the old semifeudal order, is symbolized in the sale of the cherry orchard owned by Madame Ranevsky. The Cherry Orchard was first produced by the Moscow Art Theatre on Chekhov's last birthday, January 17, 1904. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ingrid was interviewed by Lindsey Nikola, a speechwriter, producer, and neighborhood handywoman. Ingrid’s immensely popular TED talk “Where Joy Hides and How to Find it” has been viewed more than 17 million times, so no one tell her how many people listen to this podcast, okay? ![]() She’s also the founder of the website The Aesthetics of Joy, which helps people to find more joy in life (and work) through design. Ingrid Fetell Lee is an experienced designer and author of Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness. Join us after the interview for Tangible Takeaways, where we’ll talk about the ideas and actions we can take with us and implement our own workplace cultures. This episode, we’re talking with author Ingrid Fetell Lee about joy-why it’s not the same as happiness, and what we can change about the places we work to make our jobs, and ourselves, more joyful. Welcome to The Work Place, where we’re hot on the trail of what makes great workplace cultures tick, and what we can all do to make the ones we work in better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They kind of get on with it and wait for the weekend.īut I also meet people who absolutely love what they do and couldn’t imagine doing anything else. You know what I’m talking about, don’t you? I’m not saying it’s true of you, but you know, it’s true of a lot of people. They don’t enjoy their lives all that much. Also, they don’t much enjoy the work they do, if they do work. They don’t have any special talents to speak of. I meet some people, quite a lot of people actually, who feel they don’t have any real talents. It’s what I call Finding Your Element.Īnd I want to say a few words about what it is, about why it matters and what you can do about it if you feel you haven’t found yours yet. Hello and welcome! I’m Ken Robinson, and I want to talk to you about how people can discover their true talents and passions and the difference it makes in their lives if they do that. He provides basic principles and tools to help guide us to do the work we enjoy with a sense of contentment and purpose. In this talk, Sir Ken Robinson, offers a guide to finding and being in your element. Full text of educator Sir Ken Robinson’s talk: “ Finding Your Element”. ![]() |