His bad choices and often brainless behaviour get Fogg into some scrapes. This created a certain pace, flow and rhythm that I liked and felt worked really well. I like the fact Verne uses a journey as a setting and tells us the story as Fogg leaves London and travels all over the world to return to London. HIGHLIGHTS: I thought Around the World in 80 Days was great. The best known adaptation is the 1956 movie starring David Niven ( (1956_film) which earned 5 Oscars. This is a free e-book from Around the world in 80 days has been adapted into many forms of media including video games, musicals, radio plays and various film and TV versions. When Englishman Phileas Fogg takes on a bet of £20,000 from his gentlemen’s club that he cannot circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less–an unheard-of feat in the Victorian world–he sets off, with his manservant Passepartout at his side, on a series of exotic exploits and comic misadventures (Fogg is mistaken for a thief on the run by a pursuing Scotland Yard detective)… First serialized in a French newspaper in 1872, this is perhaps the most beloved and the most enduring of Jules Verne’s novels of imaginative escapades.
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“ successfully blends metaphor with the macabre.genuinely entertaining.Delicious fun.” ― Publishers Weekly (starred review) "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.īut when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.įaced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.Ĭamille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. She didn't choose to be this way.īecause Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her-how they judge her. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. This one was a first-time read for me, and i'd always felt a bit of a hole in my life for not having read it, as it was the only one i hadn't read. grant? hmmm, are ya?) but in the world of newsflesh, it's true that a little insanity will always serve you well, amiright, foxy? It also had two major advantages: most of the roads were already half blocked to prevent campus traffic from disturbing the residents, and most of those residents were slightly insane by any normal societal measurement.Ĭonsidering that a replica of a medieval weapon is later used, to great effect, in a different newsflesh story, the idiocy seems instead to be just good thinking. and also her many wonderful turns of phrase:īerkeley, being a university town in Northern California, had two major problems: not enough guns, and too many idiots who thought they could fight off zombies with medieval weapons they'd stolen from the history department. i'd read it so many years ago, but i still remembered all of it, which is a testament to the staying power of mira grant's imagery. It was good to revisit this story, like seeing an old friend. Nancy Frey is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University. He has published numerous articles on improving student achievement. He is a member of the California Reading Hall of Fame and was honored as an exemplary leader by the Conference on English Leadership. Model effective learning strategies themselvesĭouglas Fisher is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College.Use the right teaching strategies at the right time.Teachers create assessment-capable learners through various targeted “moves” designed to: However, we cannot help students be assessment-capable learners if teachers are not assessment-capable themselves.
Titan Comics has produced their first “Artist’s Edition,” a special, oversized hardcover in a glorious 10×15 format so fans can enjoy the legendary collection from a modern master in an all-new way, printed the same size as his original pages and drawings. Thirteen fine stories in all, superbly drawn by one of the finest fantasy illustrators today. These are complete stories, wonderful fantasy works with demons, fairies, elder gods, dark riders, beautiful ladies… All the elements of British myths and legends, including hints of Lord of the Rings and famous characters of song and legend, like Tam Lin, Barbara Allen, Thomas the Rhymer, Twa Corbies, The False Knight, The Black Fox, The Three Lovers, and The Great Selchie of Sule Skerry. From the original art, here is that work–plus 50 pages of new material, scripts, thumbnails, original sketches and much more. Twenty-two years ago, artist Charles Vess teamed up with an all-star ensemble of ground-breaking and award winning writers including Neil Gaiman ( Sandman), Jane Yolen ( Lost Girls), Sharyn McCrumb ( The Ballad of Frankie Silver), and Jeff Smith ( Bone) to produce The Book of Ballads – which re-imagined the greatest English, Irish, and Scottish folktales in sequential art. Pin-Up & Adult –You must be 18 or older. If you liked The Piano of Death and The Boot of Destiny, you'll love this mash-up of the two books and the way it brings you even deeper into the stories of Veronica Silver and her daughter Tracy. Christopher Clark's family saga series The Stains of Time, weaving them together with bonus materials found nowhere else. Wingfield collects the first two novels of E. Now he's back in town, and she's determined to render justice with a magical potion.Ĭan Veronica and Tracy uncover the deeper truths of their lives by re-examining a lifetime of mistakes? 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In this conversation, Paul talks about why the fear and guilt-based climate change narratives don’t work and how we need to reimagine our relationship to our surroundings if we are to save the planet. We also talk about his new book, Regeneration, which offers a unique approach to understanding and taking action to address the climate crisis. We discuss Paul’s book Drawdown, in which he provides a list of 100 potential solutions to climate change and ranks them by the potential amount of greenhouse gases each could cut. Paul is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment.įor Paul, the solutions to climate change are local, where human beings use their imagination to form economies that create more life than they take. Today we speak to Paul Hawken about how to end the climate crisis in one generation using an approach centered on regeneration. Neoliberal capitalism turns life into money by killing it, but what good is that money on a dying planet? Massive congrats to Tolga Öncü, Peter Ac, and everyone in the IKEA innovation team and at Verity on this successful partnership. IKEA is the first retailer in the world to deploy a solution like this, and they now have 100 of these busy little Verity drones at work during non-operational hours to improve stock accuracy and secure availability of products for both online or physical retailing, so human colleagues no longer need to go up to manually confirm each pallet. … and now they also fly around IKEA stores at night. 'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Taleb refuses all awards and honours as they debase knowledge by turning it into competitive sports. Fooled by Randomness, and The Bed of Procrustes). □Ī lot has been written about the huge potential of drone technology… but most coverage tends to focus on last-mile delivery.ĭrones have incredible potential to transform a wide range of operational tasks and processes, from agriculture optimisation and real estate inspection to construction safety and high-risk engineering tasks.Īll things that are dangerous or hard for humans. (60,786 ratings by Goodreads) Softcover ISBN 10: 0141031484 ISBN 13: 9780141031484. Meet the new IKEA drones… now flying around the stores when we’ve all gone home. Parker, Kelly Robson, Michael Swanwick, Jo Walton, Elle Katharine White, Jane Yolen, Kelly Barnhill, Brooke Bolander, Sarah Gailey, and J. E Cooney, Aliette de Bodard, Kate Elliott, Theodora Goss, Ellen Klages, Ken Liu, Patricia A McKillip, K. Kuang, Ann Leckie & Rachel Swirsky, Daniel Abraham, Peter S. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations.īringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working today- Garth Nix, Scott Lynch, R.F. From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. |