My best academic credential is undoubtedly my diploma from the Bronx High School of Science (class of 1964). I was born Jand grew up right near the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden, so that I could walk to either by myself from an early age. I saw my first total solar eclipse in 1991, as a columnist with Travel Holiday, and attended Space Camp for an article in the retirement magazine New Choices. My most unforgettable assignment for the Times required me to live twenty-five days as a research subject in a “chronophysiology” laboratory at Montefiore Hospital, where the boarded-up windows and specially trained technicians kept me from knowing whether it was day outside or night.įor twenty years I wrote freelance for numerous magazines, most notably Harvard Magazine, Omni, Science Digest, and Discover, as well as Audubon, Life, and The New Yorker. My two all-time favorite full-time jobs were as science writer for the Cornell University News Bureau, where my beat included everything from astronomy to veterinary medicine, and staff reporter in the Science News department of The New York Times, covering psychology and psychiatry. Beginning fresh out of college as a technical writer for IBM, I moved quickly into journalism in January 1970, just in time for the first Earth Day. I have spent my entire professional life writing.
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Now all Roger has to do is hike halfway around the entire planet, then capture a spaceport from the Bad Guys, somehow commandeer a starship, and then go home to Mother for explanations.įortunately, Roger has an ace in the hole: Bravo Company of Bronze Battalion of The Empress' Own Regiment. Then Roger found himself shipwrecked on the planet Marduk, whose jungles were full of damnbeasts, killerpillars, carnivorous plants, torrential rain, and barbarian hordes with really bad dispositions. Then warships of the Empire of Man's worst rivals shot the crippled vessel out of space. After all, what else did he have to do with his lifeīut that was before a saboteur tried to blow up his transport. It probably wasn't too surprising that someone in his position should react by becoming spoiled, self-centered, and petulant. Why wouldn't even his own mother, the Empress, explain why they didn't trust him Or why the very mention of his father's name was forbidden at Court Or why his mother had decided to pack him off to a backwater planet aboard what was little more than a tramp freighter to represent her at a local political event better suited to a third assistant undersecretary of state so why wouldn't anyone at Court trust him He was young, handsome, athletic, an excellent dresser, and third in line for the Throne of Man. Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock didn't understand. Rue Descartes, by Thierry Leterre, Feb07 (French journal edited by the Collège international de philosophie).Public Knowledge, by Gigi Sohn, 03Oct06.
From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to Sir Roger Casement "hanged on a comma" from George Orwell shunning the semicolon to Peter Cook saying Nevile Shute's three dots made him feel "all funny", this book makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with. This is the book for people who love punctuation and get upset about it. The beautifully simple pictures are a sweet, kid- and parent-appealing blend of comic-strip style and fine art the cast of children depicted is commendably multiethnic. "You have nothing to lose but your sense of proportion - and arguably you didn't have much of that to begin with." If there are only pendants left who care, then so be it. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss dares to say that, with our system of punctuation patently endangered, it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them for the wonderful and necessary things they are. "Pansy's ready," we learn to our considerable interest ("Is she?"), as we browse among the bedding plants. Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss 4.1 (64) Paperback (Reprint) 18.00 Hardcover 17.99 Paperback 18.00 eBook 13.99 Audiobook 0. "Its Summer!" says a sign that cries out for an apostrophe, "ANTIQUE,S," says another, bizarrely. Everyone knows the basics of punctuation, surely? Aren't we all taught at school how to use full stops, commas and question marks? And yet we see ignorance and indifference everywhere. You can download our flyer here:-> blue_balliett Now its home to the town library and museum.īlue Balliett will be in the area for a non-public signing and we have prepared a special flyer with book ordering information… You will discover the towns founding father Warren Featherstone and his massive buggy whip factory… the post office, pharmacy and of course Warren’s massive mansion, with its brass polished doorknobs and wall-to-wall imported Italian marble. The book is about a mystery concerning a rare stolen notebook written by Charles Darwin. Her latest book, “The Danger Box” takes the reader to “Three Oaks” -a small Michigan town in the Southwest corner of the state near Lake Michigan. Her books are like antique curiosity cabinets, with clever mind-twisting games and codes sprinkled throughout. you’re always learning something new and interesting when you read Blue Balliett. She often describes in true-to-life detail places that actually exist… and adults love to read her books too. She creates fascinating mysteries and adventure stories for YA readers that are based on historical figures (the artists Vermeer, Calder and architect Frank Lloyd Wright all had roles in her past books. Blue Balliett is one of our favorite writers. But when an unwelcome visitor targets a player, Misha revisits his darkest days, and that might cost him and Max the beginning they've worked so hard to build.Īnother awesome audiobook in what is shaping up to be a KILLER series! Hockey is my new crack, baby, and Avon Gale is my main dealer! Power Play was surprisingly low angst, like the other books in the series, despite having the potential to be a total downer. They must navigate not only Misha's remorse and a past he's spent a lifetime trying to forget, but also a sleazy GM who is determined to use their history as a marketing hook. Max's optimism plays havoc with Misha's equilibrium - as does the fierce attraction that springs up between them. But nothing prepares him for the shock when he learns the new head coach is Misha Samarin, the man who caused Max's accident.Īfter spending years guilt-ridden for his part in Max's accident, Russian native Misha Samarin has no idea what to do when he's confronted with Max's presence. Despite everything, Max gets back into the game he loves - only this time, behind the bench as an assistant coach of the Spartanburg Spitfires, the worst team in the entire league. A freak accident during the Stanley Cup Playoffs put an end to Max Ashford's hockey career. I've read it half a dozen times and it still stands up. (As a side note, he followed it up with EIGHTBALL #22, a comic that has to remain exactly what it is. The three-act structure almost begs to be remade for film. It was first published in 1989 by Fantagraphics Books as a Spiritual Successor to Clowess previous comic series Lloyd Llewellyn. I got the feeling that this book was a direct result from working on the GHOST WORLD script. Eightball is a comics anthology series written and drawn by Daniel Clowes. As his loyalties stray you find that he's in love with The Girl, an image he's created long before he finds the physical incarnation deemed worthy. David's objects of desire are laced with his sexual obsessions, a Clowes strongpoint. Soon personalities clash and blood is spilt.Ĭlowes' first book after GHOST WORLD still features an intense, close friendship but mixes in a distant mother, an estranged father and the clues to their break up hidden in fragmented panels of a yellowing comic book. The second chapter is set on a small island as relatives and friends shelter from what they believe to be the coming apocalypse. She understands the powers she holds and milks his fixations for her own ego and to taunt another lover. Three separate acts, three turns in direction.ĭavid briefly finds the girl of his dreams while on the way to a funeral. 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. This is a queer deck, intentionally diverse, and a much needed reset to often whitewashed cis-het fantasy imagery. All the Kings are animals, which I found intriguing (a raven king for the wands, a rabbit for the coins, a dragon for the chalices, and a finch or robin-like bird for the swords). Other than the gorgeous variation in The Lovers cards, the names of the cards are familiar with the suits read as Chalices, Coins, Wands, and Swords- each with their own theme. In the guidebook, Trungles is intentional about noting the Asian and African origins of the Tarot and ensuing misappropriation powered by Imperialism that brought the tarot to Europe and gave us the familiar images we now consider ‘traditional’. There’s a good chunk of skin showing in the deck, which Trungles uses to distort expectations of what sex and gender look like in the body. In amongst the mermaids, angels, and fairies, the Star Spinner Tarot is reflective of the Rider-Waite Smith tradition but not tethered to it the images are a breath of fresh air. The art in this deck is beautiful, bold, unendingly vibrant, which Trungles somehow manages to maintain in even the cards with a darker palette. It's a race against time to protect it, for if the Aurelia is hurt, all fabulous creatures will vanish from Earth. A second book in the series, The Griffin's Feather, was published over a decade later and now Funke returns to the world of Dragon Rider with a third book in the series, The Aurelia Curse.Ĭornelia joined Nikki Gamble In The Reading Corner from her home in Volterra Italy and explained why there might be long gaps in writing new stories for her series and what prompted her to write this latest book.īen and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean that can bring light or darkness to whoever it first meets - a vast, mythical Aurelia. Her first book to be translated into English was The Thief Lord, followed by Dragon Rider, which was hugely successful, remaining on the New York Times bestseller list for 78 weeks and achieving the number one slot on the children's list. Cornelia Funke is a fantasy writer whose work has garnered international recognition and has been adapted for cinema. |