5/10/2023 0 Comments Pandemic by sonia shah![]() Rather than waging war against a pandemic after it is already full-blown, Shah argues, we must focus on proactive defenses against disease to prevent the next blow. ![]() She uses cholera, responsible for seven pandemics in the past two centuries, as a case study. ![]() By weaving historical evidence, expert analysis and personal anecdote (including her travels in cholera-stricken Haiti), Shah shows how political and practical factors, such as city crowding and lack of infrastructure, have paved the way for global sicknesses. To clarify how these plagues take such wide hold, journalist Shah tracks the history and science of past pandemics. Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, From Cholera to Ebola and BeyondĪ pandemic is the worst kind of disease eruption-one not just isolated to a single community (an outbreak) or even a region (an epidemic) but a sickness that spreads the world over. ![]()
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5/10/2023 0 Comments The vanishing sky![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The archival footage from the video only makes the track more chilling. It’s about family and the evil that ordinary, upstanding people can do. Others tap into something that I’m trying to convey in the story.Ī haunting song that struck me completely still the first time I heard it. A few of these ten tracks are on the list because they helped transport me to a place and time that’s long gone. It took me eight years to finish a first draft of The Vanishing Sky, and I listened to certain songs repeatedly as I wrote and revised. Annette Binder's Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel The Vanishing Sky: "A masterful story of war, horror, and love.Binder provides a family's-eye view of the terror and trauma, offering readers a unique perspective on the war." Annette Binder's novel The Vanishing Sky is an epic and moving debut where World War II's German frontis seen through the eyes of a family. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lincoln cabinet of rivals![]() He won because he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires. That Lincoln succeeded, Goodwin demonstrates, was the result of a character that had been forged by experiences that raised him above his more privileged and accomplished rivals. Throughout the turbulent 1850s, each had energetically sought the presidency as the conflict over slavery was leading inexorably to secession and civil war. When Lincoln emerged as the victor, his rivals were dismayed and angry. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln waited in their hometowns for the results from the Republican National Convention in Chicago. ![]() Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story, the setting, and the characters lend themselves to a musical montage, and a musical will also create more room for a diverse cast in a way a movie might not feel able to. We covered this graphic novel a lot when it came out, and there were talks about its film rights being grabbed by Universal, so there was obviously a desire to adapt this work, and I honestly think a musical would be perfect. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. A fairy tale for any age, The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart. About the Author Jen Wang is a cartoonist, author and illustrator living in Los Angeles. The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang (Goodreads Author) 4.37 Rating details 90,540 ratings 15,458 reviews Paris, at the dawn of the modern age: Prince Sebastian is looking for a brideor rather, his parents are looking for one for him. ![]() How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect a friend? Jen Wang weaves an exuberantly romantic tale of identity, young love, art, and family. ![]() But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Sebastian’s secret weapon (and best friend) is the brilliant dressmaker Frances―one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion! Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Half blood blues author![]() ![]() not that it matters, but there was something so authentic-feeling about this group of hard-living black male jazz musicians holed up in nazi-occupied paris, that i just naturally assumed the author was privy to the way men interact with each other the baiting and insults, the quips and bravado, the sullenness that comes from waiting waiting waiting, while the female character seemed like a perfect invention - a fantasy of talent and maternal/sexual intrigue. ![]() and i was halfway through before i realized this was an author ess. So i'm glad this book escaped that label, because when this book is good, it sparkles like a thousand year old vampire in the sun. and from what i hear of this year's winner, the barnes? is not positive reviews, kiddies. that just means it wasn't a complete snoozefest. I'm glad this book didn't win the damn booker. ![]() ![]() The book later became a children’s choice book with both the New York Public Library and the International Reading Association.Īwards received by subsequent books include her second novel – My Name is Sus5an Smith. ![]() The same year her first novel, The Romantic Obsessions and Humiliations of Annie Sehlmeier, received the Delacorte Press First Young Adult Novel Contest, leading to its publication. While there, Louise earned a master’s degree in English. The Plummers moved from Boston to Minnesota in 1971 when Tom took a position at the University of Minnesota. Louise Plummer is a noted author, young adult fiction writer and a retired associate professor of English for Brigham Young University. Thus, we will be participating in timed-writings, and reading these aloud to each other.Īnn Cannon and I will teach two hours of the class together and then split up for our individual classes. Memory is often enhanced by fast writing, allowing the subconscious to give up its secrets. Such personal writing is an “attempt.” It is a try at the truth. ![]() The aim of the memoir is not to nail down facts, but to remember what has happened over time, to the tantalizing, dismaying, broken bits of our life’s history. This course will have you write stories from your life from memory. Whether you’re writing for your family or for a publisher, discover and pass along the stories from your own life to your children or to the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Do you cherish your humble and silky life?" She makes us see the extraordinary in our everyday lives, how something as common as light can be "an invitation/to happiness,/and that happiness,/when it's done right,/is a kind of holiness,/palpable and redemptive." She illuminates how a near miss with an alligator can be the catalyst for seeing the world "as if for the second time/the way it really is." Oliver's passionate demonstrations of delight are powerful reminders of the bond between every individual, all living things, and the natural world. "Do you love this world?" she interrupts a poem about peonies to ask the reader. Mary Oliver's perceptive, brilliantly crafted poems about the natural landscape and the fundamental questions of life and death have won high praise from critics and readers alike. This collection features thirty poems published only in this volume as well as selections from the poet's first eight books. ![]() Since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. ![]() Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award for New and Selected Poems, Volume One. ![]() ![]() Moreover there’s Jerzy Pilch (doubled in his presence on the nomination list as there are his journal and novel) in duel with “the great” – Wiesław Myśliwski (definitely a possible champion). But the competition is very strong and it’s difficult not to appreciate also Ziemowit Szczerek’s honest and profound depiction of Ukraine vs Poland in his Przyjdzie Mordor i nas zje, czyli tajna historia Słowian. Kurz i krew – a very moving portrait of the city that unfortunately tends to be just a sad dot on the mental map of our Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() Personally, I have some favourites among nominated books and for sure I will keep my fingers crossed for Małgorzata Rejmer and her reportage book Bukareszt. The twenty books nominated for 2014 Nike prize for literature look very promising. ![]() ![]() Not coincidentally, LBOs first came on the scene in the late 1960s, when a generation of people, some of whom had built massive business empires, were getting ready to retire.īecause of the way estate taxes function, if business owners wanted to retire and pass their companies on to their heirs, they would have had to pay huge sums of money in taxes. ![]() These transactions were devised by clever lawyers who were looking for ways to help wealthy business owners skirt estate taxes and pass money onto their heirs. But at its inception, the LBO was simply a way to preserve family wealth. ![]() ![]() Have you heard the term leveraged buyout, or LBO? Well, by the 1980s, the LBO had become a dirty word, synonymous with corporate greed and the unhinged nature of Wall Street. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Plato the republic book 10![]() ![]() In Book I, Socrates entertains two distinct definitions of justice. ![]() However, it is unlikely at this point that any of these philosopherssave Socrates, of courseanticipates the ambition and enormity of their undertaking. The other philosophers, including Thrasymachus, Polermarchus, Glaucon, and Adeimantus enthusiastically consent to such a worthy topic. The discussion quickly moves to justice thanks to Socrates. His reputation for good conversation already well-established, Socrates is approached by some dilettante philosopher acquaintances and drawn into a dialogue. In the first episode Socrates encounters some acquaintances during the festival of Bendis. It's architect will be Socrates, the fictional persona Plato creates for himself. Not only does it not exist in actuality, but it does not exist in theory either. ![]() The Republic itself is nothing at the start of Plato's most famous and influential book. ![]() |