![]() But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. ![]() It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. ![]() In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and a man who can make data sing, Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveals the ten instincts that distort our perspective. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. When asked simple questions about global trends - why the world´s population is increasing how many young women go to school how many of us live in poverty - we systematically get the answers wrong. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.´ MELINDA GATESįactfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. But Factfulness does much more than that. ![]() ´Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent miracle of human progress" as only he can. ![]() ´One of the most important books I´ve ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.´ BILL GATES ![]()
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![]() Also in the collection are scripts for the cable television movies Montana and Memphis (titled September, September in these drafts), which was adapted from a novel by Shelby Foote and co-written with Cybil Shepherd. The McMurtry Collection includes a screenplay for Hud (the film adaptation of McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By), and the screenplay for the John Cougar Mellencamp film project Falling from Grace (titled Ridin' the Cage and Indiana Moon in these drafts). ![]() ![]() The collection also contains the typescript manuscripts and first galley proofs for the book of essays In a Narrow Grave. The Larry McMurtry Collection contains multiple typescript manuscript drafts of the novels Leaving Cheyenne, The Last Picture Show, Moving On, Somebody's Darling, Cadillac Jack: A Novel, The Desert Rose, Lonesome Dove, and Texasville, plus manuscript notes and publisher's copies related to some of these works. ![]() ![]() ![]() They ran along side Santas, gorillas, Christmas trees and superheroes. All enjoyed the fellowship of other runners - many dressed up in costume. Supporting from the finish line were Meg Causey, RSCJ and Mary Jo Dorsey. ![]() The 5K was the run of choice for Bridget Bearss, RSCJ, Victoria Oakley, Judith Hehs, Michele Carrier, Stephanie Carrier '10, Christa Moran (mother of Hannah Grace Moran, Preschool), Mary Lou Cochran, Natalie Cochran '04, and Emily Cochran '02. After negotiating traffic and jams thereof, the parking angel led the 11 participants in three cars to perfect spots for the duration of the morning. Exhaust fumes curled around in the brisk air as carloads of runners waited for the Cochrans to arrive and lead the caravan to Detroit for the group's first running of the 24th Annual Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving Day. ![]() It was a dark, peaceful morning in the parking lot of the Field House. ![]() ![]() ![]() This book contains some dark shit, and if you have sexual violence/abuse triggers, this may not be a good fit for you. ![]() Please, please take me seriously when I say this is a BULLY romance. “I believe that love is the greatest thing in the world that it alone can overcome hate.” No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. ![]() Untouchable Copyright © 2018 by Sam Mariano Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination, or used fictitiously. ![]() ![]() ![]() Teenage Bri (pronounced 'Bree' and short for Brianna) is an aspiring rapper. So let's start with a spoiler-free overview. It was by no means bad, but after Thomas' incredible debut, The Hate U Give, I was expecting more (although, yes, On the Come Up was written in a short space of time and I shouldn't compare). I have to admit that I was disappointed by this. It is the story of fighting for your dreams, even as the odds are stacked against you of the struggle to become who you are, and not who everyone expects you to be and of the desperate realities of poor and working class black families.īrilliant, insightful, full of heart, this novel is another modern classic from one of the most influential literary voices of a generation. On the Come Up is Angie Thomas's homage to hip hop, the art that sparked her passion for storytelling and continues to inspire her to this day. ![]() ![]() With bills piling up and homelessness staring her family down, Bri no longer just wants to make it-she has to make it. But when her mom unexpectedly loses her job, food banks and shut-off notices become as much a part of her life as beats and rhymes. As the daughter of an underground rap legend who died right before he hit big, Bri's got massive shoes to fill. Or at least get some streams on her mixtape. Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. ![]() This is the highly anticipated second novel by Angie Thomas, the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning The Hate U Give. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The way the next two are structured I would like to write them back to back, but we’ll see how that shakes out. There are two books left in that series (five total, Son of the Black Sword, House of Assassins, Destroyer of Worlds, and working titles, Tower of Silence, and Graveyard of Demons). I do not have any idea on the release date for that yet, but my personal goal is to have it turned in well before the end of the year (which would put me at 3 novels turned in this year)Īfter Fever, the plan is to then get back to the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior. This one is set in California in the 1970s. Monster Hunter Memoirs: Fever, written with Jason Cordova. ![]() Cover Reveal: Servants of War by Larry Correia and Steve DiamondĪfter Servants of War I’ll be working on the next installment in the Monster Hunter Memoirs spin off series. ![]() ![]() But now that I've been published, a whole world has opened up for me." (Graeber) For many years, though, she says, "I was told that Pakistan was too remote in time and place for Americans or the British to identify with"(Hower 299). She says, "Whenever there was a bridge game, I'd sneak off and write. The responsibilities of a family led her to conceal her literary prowess. At nineteen, Sidhwa had married and soon after gave birth to the first of her three children. She then went on to receive a BA from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. ![]() Growing up with polio, she was educated at home until age 15, reading extensively. Born on Augin Karachi, in what is now Pakistan, and migrating shortly thereafter to Lahore, Bapsi Sidhwa witnessed the bloody Partition of the Indian Subcontinent as a young child in 1947. ![]() She has produced four novels in English that reflect her personal experience of the Indian subcontinent's Partition, abuse against women, immigration to the US, and membership in the Parsi/Zoroastrian community. Bapsi Sidhwa is Pakistan's leading diasporic writer. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() I was not expecting to disappear into this book. Seldom have I read fantasy where a character acted in such a truly compassionate manner. ![]() ![]() You definitely need to read Homeland first and when you get to Exile you will reap the reward of watching Drizzt DoUrden come to life, as well as develop into a character of principle and compassion. It was pulp fantasy fiction, entertaining but offered little else to urge me to move forward in the series.įortunately I did move forward and found the story really opened up in the second book. Everyone was so evil and there was all this talk of Lolth the Spider Queen and the women (Dark Elf society is matriarchal and these are some nasty evil murdering women) were little more than one-note nasties. I liked Homeland but I found the names and political intrigues in the Underdark city of Menzoberrazan to be exhausting. Having read Homeland, the first in the series about a year ago and enjoyed it but not considered reading any further, I didnt approach Exile thinking that it would be too compelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Upon its release, it was an immediate success worldwide, and became especially popular among younger readers. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a kidnapped, domesticated dog embracing his wild ancestry to survive and thrive in the wild. White Fang takes place in Yukon Territory and the Northwest Territories, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. The ranch was ultimately an economic failure, but it was during this period that London published some of his best-known works including White Fang (1906), The Iron Heel (1908), and Adventure (1911). ![]() Desirous that the ranch become a successful business enterprise, he continued to write purely as a commercial enterprise. ![]() ![]() Selmhardt $2.00 Jack London.” In 1905, London purchased a 1,000-acre ranch in Glen Ellen, Sonoma County, California, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain. Dated June 29 1905, the check is paid to the order of “E. Accompanied by a rare Oakland Central Bank check signed by London. BAL notes that the cancel page occurs printed on either wove or on laid paper (the rest of the text sheets are all laid paper) but no priority or other significance. Frontispiece and 6 color plates by Charles Livingston Bull. Octavo, original pictorial cloth with white and gilt lettering. ![]() |