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The Space Barons by Christian Davenport5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() T HEY CAUGHT THEIR first glimpse of it at 25,000 feet and falling fast. The Space Barons is also a story of rivalry-hard-charging startups warring with established contractors, and the personal clashes of the leaders of this new space movement, particularly Musk and Bezos, as they aim for the moon and Mars and beyond. Now they are pursuing the biggest disruption of all: space.īased on years of reporting and exclusive interviews with all four billionaires, this authoritative account is a dramatic tale of risk and high adventure, the birth of a new Space Age, fueled by some of the world’s richest men as they struggle to end governments’ monopoly on the cosmos. ![]() These entrepreneurs have founded some of the biggest brands in the world-Amazon, Microsoft, Virgin, Tesla, PayPal-and upended industry after industry. Nearly a half-century after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, these Space Barons-most notably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, along with Richard Branson and Paul Allen-are using Silicon Valley-style innovation to dramatically lower the cost of space travel, and send humans even further than NASA has gone. The Space Barons is the story of a group of billionaire entrepreneurs who are pouring their fortunes into the epic resurrection of the American space program. ![]() ![]() The historic quest to rekindle the human exploration and colonization of space led by two rivals and their vast fortunes, egos, and visions of space as the next entrepreneurial frontier ![]()
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Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy5/22/2023 ![]() The love of his life, Sue, is particularly confused: she combines an open, somewhat flirtatious manner with a pathological aversion to sex that left me wondering if she'd been abused as a child. ![]() The women in his life are used and confused in turn, not so much by Jude as by the terrible straitjacket women were forced into. Let down by everyone he chooses as a mentor (one of them doesn't last long enough for a round trip from one village to the next) spurned by the university he longs to enter and used and confused by the women in his life, he keeps trying to draw a smaller circle in the sand after each fresh assault, but ultimately he loses, and by then he doesn't care, and then he dies. ![]() Jude, a decent man with ambitions to become a scholar, doesn't stand a chance in Hardy's cold universe. ![]()
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Lonely Moon by Andrew Saxsma5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Me: Nobody says that, but I'll take that as a yes.If you had a free day, with no responsibilities, and your only mission was to enjoy yourself, what would you do? Leo: Tread lightly, Andrew, though we do not engage in battle that is not honorable, I'm not opposed to, what you say on Earth, 'whoppin you'. The Turg, my people, they value it above all else and have slain in its name. ![]() ![]() Leo: I would advise you, little one, not to belittle the power behind honor. Me: Well, they're prolly not used to seeing a big ass lion walking upright in battle armor, screaming about battle and honor and stuff of that nature. Oh, also, this is your first time on Earth, isn't it? Me: It's pretty tough, just give it a try. Holy shit, you are a lot bigger in person than I originally thought. What About Now? - Character Interview - Leo - First Appeared in Lonely Moon He's strong, caring, protective, and a beast on the battlefield, Leo was one of the ones I'm glad made it out alive. Originally crafted to fit a 'warrior' role, Leo adopted a personality of his own, one I myself can't help but appreciate. The Lion-humanoid 'Turg' are a proud, honorable species, and when I came up with them, I didn't realize he would be as popular as he has become. Leo, far and wide, has been revered as one of the most loved characters from Lonely Moon. ![]()
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Love sickness junji ito5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Not quite long enough to be considered a graphic novel, yet still longer than your average single-issue story, serialized manga is similar to a Stephen King novella vs. The first, titled “Lovesickness”, is a collection within a collection, compiling all five chapters of Ito’s “Lovesick Dead” serialized manga in one package for easy reading. Those who love (or prefer) Ito’s shorter works over his longer ones will find a little of both here as the content is divided into three sections, two of which index related stories while the final three are totally unconnected from each other – and among the best. Up next is a collection (of sorts) compiling ten “stories” in a single volume, hence the name Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection (translation by Jocelyne Allen). ![]() From appearing in blockbusters games like Death Stranding to new anime adaptations of his older work, more non-Japanese readers are getting to experience one of the most interesting voices in the horror genre than ever. Viz has been on a roll lately – a Junji Ito role – with its fantastic reissuing of some of the horror manga master’s lesser-known work to English-reading audiences, including last year’s translation of the planet-licking Remina. ![]()
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We Sinful Women by Rukhsana Ahmad5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Her short stories have appeared in anthologies around the world. Amal’s Story (RC Films) and Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers, (adaptation UK FC/Keel Films) Podcast: Trial by Fire (was commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces)įiction: Her first novel: The Hope Chest (Virago) and her anthology: The Gatekeeper’s Wife (ILQA) are both highly regarded. Screenplays: Cassandra and the Viaduct (BBC). She contributed to the series: Westway and was lead writer for the serial: Piyaar Ka Passport. Narayan’s The Guide, Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Nadeem Aslam’s Maps for Lost Lovers and M. Stage plays include: Song for a Sanctuary, Gatekeeper’s Wife, River on Fire, Mistaken: Annie Besant in India and Letting Go.įor BBC Radio, besides originals, she has adapted: Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, R. ![]() Rukhsana is a playwright, writer and translator. ![]()
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The mysterious method5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() But many consciousness researchers underestimate the depth of the challenge, believing that we just need to continue examining the physical structures of the brain to work out how they produce consciousness. ![]() Things have changed a lot, and there is now broad agreement that the problem of consciousness is a serious scientific issue. Luckily, there is an alternative approach that may ultimately be able to crack the mystery.įor much of the 20th century, there was a great taboo against querying the mysterious inner world of consciousness – it was not taken to be a fitting topic for “serious science”. There is growing suspicion that conventional scientific methods will never be able answer these questions. How does the passing around of electrical and chemical signals between neurons result in a feeling of pain or an experience of red? ![]() But what no one has so far managed to explain is how all of this results in feelings, emotions and experiences. We have made a great deal of progress in understanding brain activity, and how it contributes to human behaviour. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, consisting of almost 100 billion cells – known as neurons – each connected to 10,000 others, yielding some ten trillion nerve connections. Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. ![]()
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Tortoises by Kate Riggs5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Library Binding (July 15th, 2016): $46. Tortoises by Kate Riggs Paperback 10.Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Turtles & Tortoises.Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Zoology.Includes table of contents, index, same-page definitions, and further resources. Publication date 2014 Topics Testudinidae - Juvenile literature, Turtles, Testudinidae Publisher. An end story retells Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the hare.Ī great nonfiction resource for student reports, animal units, and life science lessons. ![]() ![]() and from fast-flying hummingbirds to slow-moving tortoises, the world of animals is wonderfully diverse. Readers explore the many different kinds of tortoises, where they live, their behaviors and features, and why they move so slow, all with STEM-appropriate text and gorgeous photography. By Kate Riggs, ISBN: 9780898129304, Paperback. Slow and steady, some tortoises can live up to 150 years! They live a quiet life of eating, basking in the sun, and digging burrows. Meet the amazing dome-shelled reptile! Introduce elementary kids to tortoises and their long lives in the wild. As introductions to informational text, these titles will plant the seeds of knowledge A kindergarten-level introduction to tortoises, covering their growth process, behaviors, the habitats they call home, and such defining features as their rounded shells. ![]()
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Chaplin autobiography5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Despite his tragic childhood, his gift for making people laugh was soon recognized and he embarked on a film-making career that would bring him immeasurable success, as well as controversy, particularly in the United States. ![]() He was born into a theatrical family, and his father died of drink while his mother, unable to bear the poverty, suffered bouts of insanity. Saved from a life of hardship by his comic genius, Charlie Chaplin went on to win the hearts of nations with his films. This book is available and ready to be shipped. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He encounters the return of Big Milt and Wolfie Wasserman (the most feared father-and-son outlaw team east of Nevada), and investigates another bold crime by the sweet-faced Bad "Bubbe." And, as ever, the Rabbi is the quickest draw in the West when it comes to pulling out bits of Talmudic insight to fit any occasion, that is. These adventures combine Jewish and American folklore by creatively retelling comic Jewish folktales and setting them loose on the western frontier of the 1870s.Īs his fame grows throughout the Rocky Mountains, Rabbi Harvey meets new characters including the luckless gold miner Abigail and faces a slew of new challenges. Part Wild West sheriff, part old world rabbi, Harvey protects his town and delivers justice, wielding only the weapons of wisdom, wit, and a bit of trickery. In this follow-up to the popular "The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey: A Graphic Novel of Jewish Wisdom and Wit in the Wild West," the Rabbi returns to the streets of Elk Spring, Colorado. Rabbi Harvey is Back with Ten Hilarious New Adventures ![]()
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![]() ![]() Arnold also likens criticism to creativity, citing how the writing of criticism gives rise to creative joy that comes from original writing. He states that the role of criticism is to make itself inherently valuable, and to rouse men from complacency to a state of achieving perfection. Arnold defines the role of a critic as the one to view an object for what it really is, to bring best ideas to the masses, and to create an atmosphere that fuels the literary genius of the future. ![]() ![]() In his essay, Arnold states that criticism should be a ‘dissemination of ideas, an unprejudiced and impartial effort to study and spread the best that is known and thought of in the world’. His essay “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” was published in his first collection of critical writings, “Essays in Criticism” in 1865. He occupies a prominent place in the history of Literary Criticism. Matthew Arnold (1882 – 1888) was a poet-critic and one of the most significant writers of the late Victorian period in England. ![]() |