![]() ![]() Highly accessible and relying on a bare minimum of economic jargon, the authors have once again created a pleasant and fresh atmosphere for readers to learn exactly how extraordinary the world of economics can be. The feel of the book is immediately chatty and humorous, and those who have seen and heard Levitt and Dubner in action will recognise their friendly manner in the book’s written style. Levitt and Dubner present a new illustrated edition of the hugely popular Superfreakonomics, offering a joyous outburst of ‘data-centric storytelling’ on a vast array of topics troubling the world. Superfreakonomics, Illustrated Edition: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance. Plentifully scattered charts, photographs, sketches and illustrations make this edition far more appealing than the original, but occasionally the book does slip into uncomfortable and unsympathetic tones, revealing a lack of understanding of some structural issues that cement inequality. Amy Mollett reviews the new illustrated edition of Steven D. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Thrown together by chance and joined by their hatred of the ruthless king, they will come to rescue each other in ways they cannot yet imagine. Though Jenna doesn't know why she's being hunted, she knows that she can't get caught.Įventually, Ash's and Jenna's paths will collide in Arden. But when the King's Guard launches a relentless search for a girl with a mark like hers, Jenna assumes that it has more to do with her role as a saboteur than any birth-based curse. Now Ash is closer than he’s ever been to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. The son of the queen of the Fells, Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. With time running out, Ash faces an excruciating choice: Can he use his powers not to save a life but to take it?Ībandoned at birth, Jenna Bandelow was told that the magemark on the back of her neck would make her a target. Adrian sul’Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magicand a thirst for revenge. Now he's closer than ever to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. ![]() ![]() Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. This dazzling beginning to a new series is indispensable for fans of Cinda Williams Chima and a perfect starting point for readers who are new to her work.Īdrian sul'Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic-and a thirst for revenge. Bestselling Seven Realms series, a generation later, this is a breathtaking story of dark magic, chilling threats, and two unforgettable characters walking a knife-sharp line between life and death. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s really uneven, but how else would it be? Her life from age three to age sixteen was really uneven. It moves in fits and lurches, which is probably how Angelou’s memory functions and also how she managed to glean the important bits from her early story. It’s autobiography, which is why it has some plot and continuity issues (not in factuality, but in flow). ![]() I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings might be her most-read work, a memoir first in the series and chronologically covering from birth to age sixteen. Her work has inspired and educated millions of people around the world, largely through her poetry and her series of memoirs about growing up Black in America through the twentieth century and sometimes poor and sometimes abused or neglected. In short, she’s one of the most famous authors of several generations and had a varied career from civil rights activist to poet to Broadway singer. Nonetheless, I eulogized her HERE, so if you are curious about her, that would be a good place to read a few paragraphs about her life and work. I can’t imagine the vast majority of you are not familiar with Maya Angelou and her work. ![]() Punch line: I am not going to include it in the curriculum, though I would recommend the book. I was really hoping this one would stick, even though it’s a touch longer than I would be including, ideally. If you’re new here, then you alone are not sick of hearing this: I was reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in order to write a curriculum for ninth grade homeschoolers in a class I am teaching this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us–and that it is a beast of terrible strength and ferocity. Kate’s is a tale of unexpected strength and resilience, of humanity’s defiance in the face of a terrible predator’s gaze, and inevitably, of savagery and death.īecause if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. In these pages, Max Brooks brings Kate’s extraordinary account to light for the first time, faithfully reproducing her words alongside his own extensive investigations into the massacre and the legendary beasts behind it. until now.īut the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town’s bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing–and too earth-shattering in its implications–to be forgotten. As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined. ![]() ![]() Provocative, challenging, and delightfully readable, this is a game-changing look at the most basic underpinning of existence and a powerful antidote to outmoded philosophical, religious, and scientific thinking. With a new preface about the significance of the discovery of the Higgs particle, A Universe from Nothing uses Krauss’s characteristic wry humor and wonderfully clear explanations to take us back to the beginning of the beginning, presenting the most recent evidence for how our universe evolved-and the implications for how it’s going to end. ![]() One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture, Krauss describes the staggeringly beautiful experimental observations and mind-bending new theories that demonstrate not only can something arise from nothing, something will always arise from nothing. A universal magnetic ferrofluid: Nanomagnetite stable hydrosol with no added dispersants and at neut. “Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?” Krauss, including A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than. ![]() ![]() Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place. Krauss See all books authored by Lawrence M. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Kind of narrows the range, doesn’t it.” She pursed her lips, looking out the windows, and then said, “I asked him. At that point, Goodman had no reason to go after me. “I’m not asking what you hope,” Jake said. Tried to make conversation as they watched politicians and hustlers streaming into Westboro’s: “Was Howard Barber the guy who had me beaten up?” Now she nodded: “Maybe you’ll learn to trust me.” Just don’t freeze and leave me on the street.” Jake looked at his watch and yawned nervously. “People grabbing the good seats that aren’t reserved.” “There’ll be a lot of traffic, starting just before noon,” Madison said. They drove back to Westboro’s and parked a block away, where they could see the front of the parking garage. ![]() He got a ball-peen hammer at a Home Depot on Broad Street and a pair of cotton work gloves. He smiled at her: “I was hoping you’d offer.” “That would be the pessimistic version of it,” Jake said. “Wait at Mom’s house until I find out whether you’re dead?” “So what am I supposed to do?” she asked. I can’t do it for long, but I can do it for a few hundred yards.” “If I walk on a left tiptoe, I don’t limp. He outlined his idea, and she said, “If anyone sees you going in, they’ll tell the police that it was a man with a limp. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also long-listed for the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour and the International Dublin Award. Mona Awad was born in Montreal and has lived in the US since 2009. Her debut novel, 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT A FAT GIRL (Penguin, 2016), won the Amazon Best First Novel Award, the Colorado Book Award and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Arab American Book Award. She teaches fiction in the Creative Writing program at Syracuse University and is based in Boston. Rouge, her fourth novel, is forthcoming September 2023 with Simon & Schuster. Her most recent novel, All’s Well, was longlisted for the International Dublin Award and a finalist for a Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror. Awad’s debut, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Colorado Book Award and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. It is currently optioned for film with Bad Robot Productions. It was a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. Mona Awad is the author of Bunny, named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Vogue, and the New York Public Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() Together they attempt to use their grief as a weapon for peace-and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict. And yet, when they learn of each other's stories, they recognize the loss that connects them. Rami and Bassam had been raised to hate one another. ![]() ![]() They inhabit a world of conflict that colors every aspect of their lives, from the roads they are allowed to drive on to the schools their children attend to the checkpoints, both physical and emotional, they must negotiate.īut their lives, however circumscribed, are upended one after the other: first, Rami's thirteen-year-old daughter, Smadar, becomes the victim of suicide bombers a decade later, Bassam's ten-year-old daughter, Abir, is killed by a rubber bullet. LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Independent - The New York Public Library - Library Journalįrom the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin comes an epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers.īassam Aramin is Palestinian. Colum McCann has found the form and voice to tell the most complex of stories, with an unexpected friendship between two men at its powerfully beating heart."-Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A quite extraordinary novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Armand's prose weaves together the City's thousand-and- one fascinating tales with a deeply personal account of one lost soul set adrift amid the early-90s' awakening from the nightmare that was the previous half-century of communist Mitteleuropa. Reinhard) of the 20th (who attempted and succeeded in turning flesh into soap). Edward) of the 16th/17th centuries (who attempted and failed to turn lead into gold), and the infamous H's (e.g. Golem City, the ship of fools boarded by the famed D's (e.g. 'Golem City'), across the 20th-century and before/after. In 8 octaves, 64 chapters and 888 pages, Louis Armand's THE COMBINATIONS is an unprecedented 'work of attempted fiction' that combines the beauty & intellectual exertion that is chess with the panorama of futility & chaos that is Prague (a.k.a. Shortlisted for the 2016 Not the Booker prize. The 'European anti-novel' in all its unrepentant glory is here in THE COMBINATIONS, following in the tradition of Sterne, Rabelais, Cervantes, Joyce, Perec. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book, indispensable for admirers of this great director and for -students of the cinema, will also prove an inspiration, much like Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, for anyone who responds to the claims of the imagination at its most searching and rigorous. He discusses the fundamental differences between theater and film parses the deep grammar of silence, music, and noise and affirms the mysterious power of the image to unlock the human soul. Notes on the Cinematograph distills the essence of Bresson's theory and practice as a filmmaker and artist. From the beginning to the end of his career, Bresson dedicated himself to making movies in which nothing is superfluous and everything is always at stake. He worked with nonprofessional actors-models, as he called them-and deployed a starkly limited but hypnotic array of sounds and images to produce such classic works as A Man Escaped, Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, and Lancelot of the Lake. The French film director Robert Bresson was one of the great artists of the twentieth century and among the most radical, original, and radiant stylists of any time. Robert Bresson Bresson on Bresson: Interviews, 1943-1983 Ten overstaan van de hele wereld Czech New Wave Filmmakers in Interviews The Cinema of Robert. ![]() |