![]() These ecosystems drastically changed once the space rock hit. ![]() This ancient ecosystem and others worldwide included far more than apex predators, such as Tyrannosaurus rex, and their prey, of course they also hosted a wealth of creatures, including lice and other parasites. In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, science writer Riley Black chronicles both the pre-apocalyptic idyll and the worldwide devastation that resulted from what some scientists have dubbed “Earth’s worst day.” The book is a compelling amalgamation of both new and old scientific information (and some science-based speculation).īlack begins her tale by exploring what happened in the Hell Creek area of today’s Montana, whose rocks offer what is perhaps the best record of a dinosaur habitat. In the wake of the event, as many as 75 percent of all species were wiped out. Heat generated by ejecta falling back to Earth ignited wildfires worldwide that blazed for months, if not years. Some of the sulfur-rich debris poisoned the sky, unleashing downpours of acid rain. ![]() The impact blasted out an enormous crater and heaved large amounts of material into the atmosphere. ![]() ![]() Some 66 million years ago, give or take several millennia, a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid slammed into our planet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Later he became design director for the Olivetti Corporation of America, and then art director for Fortune magazine. When he moved to America in 1939, Lionni was hired by a Philadelphia advertising agency as art director. It was there that he met the contacts who were to give him a start as a professional graphic designer. Having settled in Milan soon after his marriage in 1931, he started off by writing about European architecture for a local magazine. Lionni's business training gradually receded into the background as his interest in art and design grew. ![]() He was born in Holland in 1910 of Dutch parents, and although his education did not include formal art courses (in fact, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa), he spent much of his free time as a child in Amsterdam's museums, teaching himself to draw. Leo Lionni has gained international renown for his paintings, graphic designs, illustrations, and sculpture, as well as for his books for children. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89. ![]() He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. ![]() ![]() It is a book that stands to make a difference. This impassioned book not only dissects the problems, but makes pointed, informed recommendations for change. And unlike mostworks on poverty, this one delves into the calculations of some employers as well-their razor-thin profits, their anxieties about competition from abroad, their frustrations in finding qualified workers. We meet drifting farmworkers in North Carolina, exploited garment workers in New Hampshire, illegal immigrants trapped in the steaming kitchens of Los Angeles restaurants, addicts who struggle into productive work from the cruel streets of the nation's capital-each life another aspect of a confounding, far-reaching urgent national crisis. We encounter them every day, for they do jobs essential to the American economy. Shipler exposes the interlocking problems by taking us into the sorrowful, infuriating, courageous lives of the poor-white and black, Asian and Latino, citizens and immigrants. ![]() But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. ![]() Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology-hard, honest work. ![]() ![]() Vera is determined to find the truth behind the notorious diamond and its legendary curses-even better when the expose puts her in the same orbit as a magazine publisher whose blackmailing schemes led to the death of her beloved father. Shortly after the world-famous Hope Diamond is acquired for a record sum, Vera begins investigating rumors about schemes by its new owner, jeweler Pierre Cartier, to manipulate its value. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. ![]() A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. Rose, New York Times bestselling author of Tiffany Blues, "a lush, romantic historical mystery" (Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale), comes a gorgeously wrought novel of ambition and betrayal set in the Gilded Age. ![]() A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭoetzee spent most of his early life in Cape Town and in Worcester, a town in the Cape Province (modern-day Western Cape), as recounted in his fictionalised memoir, Boyhood (1997). He is descended from 17th-century Dutch immigrants to South Africa on his father's side, and from Dutch, German and Polish immigrants through his mother. The family mainly spoke English at home, but John spoke Afrikaans with other relatives. His father, Zacharias Coetzee (1912–1988), was an occasional attorney and government employee, and his mother, Vera Coetzee (née Wehmeyer 1904–1986), a schoolteacher. Life and career Early life ( Boyhood) Ĭoetzee was born in Cape Town, Cape Province, Union of South Africa, on 9 February 1940 to Afrikaner parents. Ĭoetzee moved to Australia in 2002 and became an Australian citizen in 2006. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Prize (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. John Maxwell Coetzee OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. 1995: The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also love to add a little bit of vintage wallpaper for understated charm. This is easily done by marking off the area with blue tape and painting carefully below. Although for fun, I often paint a wall 36 inches from the ground up. This trick adds color and anchors the space while keeping a fresh and open feel.Ĭharacter: I love white bedrooms, or sometimes ivory. Rachel painted a 36″ portion of this room’s walls in a bright and fresh shade of pink. Here are my favorite tips for a romantic bedroom design. ![]() I rarely make my bed, but my bedding is always so abundant and sumptuously soft that methodically turning back the duvet and sheets and fluffing up the pillows makes the bed look heavenly. ![]() I consider all five senses and don’t get too hung up on a bedroom being neat and tidy. A limited color palette, like this romantic space with deep, dusty purples and pinks, inspires a relaxing mood. I believe the simpler the room the more peaceful it is. It is where we have our first thoughts of the day and our last. Selecting the right palette for the bedroom is important because it should feel like a sanctuary. Throughout my many moves and whether my home is large or small, my formula for decorating a bedroom remains the same: It must be a place to inspire peace of mind. A soft color palette, ornate details and the charm of vintage patina characterize this Shabby Chic space. Photo by Amy Neunsinger for My Floral Affair/ by CICO Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() " arguably the most important intellectual alive." -The New York Times "Foucault. In addition to the debate itself, this volume features a newly written introduction by noted Foucault scholar John Rajchman and includes substantial additional texts by Chomsky and Foucault. ![]() What begins as a philosophical argument rooted in linguistics (Chomsky) and the theory of knowledge (Foucault), soon evolves into a broader discussion encompassing a wide range of topics, from science, history, and behaviorism to creativity, freedom, and the struggle for justice in the realm of politics. The Chomsky-Foucault Debate On Human Nature by Noam Chomsky 3.50 2 Ratings 2 Want to read 0 Currently reading 2 Have read Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date SeptemPublisher New Press Language English Pages 128 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. Above all, their discussion serves as a concise introduction to their two opposing theories. In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a time of great political and social instability, two of the world's leading intellectuals, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, were invited by Dutch philosopher Fons Elders to debate an age-old question: Is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of our experiences and external influences? The resulting dialogue is one of the most original, provocative, and spontaneous exchanges to have occurred between contemporary philosophers. In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Herman Hesse, a German-Swiss novelist, poet, and painter, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. Finally he is transformed by the simple philosophy of the ferryman Vasudeva, whose wisdom comes not from learned teachings but from observing the River. But none of these brings him the answers he seeks. On the way, he faces the entire range of human experience, living with ascetics, meeting Gotama the Buddha, and learning the art of love from Kamala the courtesan. One of the great philosophical novels, Siddhartha is a beautifully written tale of the son of an Indian Brahmin who leaves his family to begin a lifelong journey toward Enlightenment. But this man, Siddhartha, was not a follower of any but his own soul. Once he was a wandering monk, and briefly, like thousands of others, he followed Gotama the Buddha, enraptured by his sermons. In the shade of a banyan tree, a grizzled ferryman sits listening to the river. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Seeing family members learn-imperfectly, of course-about gender, pronouns, and issues commonly faced by trans people (but invisible to most cisgender people) was like watching a microcosm of broader society. I watched my own family grapple in recent years with meanings of gender when my niece came out as trans. ![]() As Trump leads a top-down assault against trans people, we are also witnessing a wider cultural awareness of trans people and their issues, undoubtedly driven by a mix of activism, media representation, and personal encounters. ![]() Much like the struggle for gay and lesbian rights in recent years, the struggle for trans acceptance and rights has greatly intensified, resulting in some limited progress during the Obama years and horrific backlash under Trump. So much has changed-for both better and worse, since progress is not linear-in the years after Susan Stryker’s Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution was first published in 2008. If you are interested in writing for the series, please send a kosmail to Chrislove. LGBTQ Literature posts on the last Sunday of every month at 7:30 PM EST. From fiction to contemporary nonfiction to history and everything in between, any literature that touches on LGBTQ themes is welcome in this series. LGBTQ Literature is a Readers and Book Lovers series dedicated to discussing literature that has made an impact on the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve always told authors as an editor, I can fix text on the page, but I can’t fix a blank one. Kris: I don’t know that I’ve received any advice on writing except write. Lisa: What’s the best piece of writing/author advice you’ve ever received that you’d pass on to someone just getting started in the business? I think the first one on one scene with Mooney and Scott (one of the main characters) sets up his personality and the balance for the story. He’s a secondary character that decided he was going to help out the main characters get together. Kris: The character of First Sergeant Luna aka Mooney snuck up on me as I was writing. Lisa: What’s your favorite scene in Wait for Me, and what makes it a fave? I like people and being around them but after a while I need quiet. Kris, let’s start by having you tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know. For those of you who don’t know, Kris is the long-time editor in chief at MLR Press, so this is a change of hats for her. Lisa: Welcome to author Kris Jacen, who’s joining us today to celebrate the release of her debut novel, Wait for Me. ![]() |