![]() ![]() Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems they often wrestle with serious philosophical and moral dilemmas, whether it is Horton discovering the very essence of life or the Lorax teaching us about morality. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. ![]() So with this in mind, let’s see if we can understand the Grinch and his kind. And this kind of appreciation might also say something meaningful about our ethical attachments and commitments in general. In this light, understanding how and why people might experience a profound change of heart can help put some flesh on the bones of a better understanding of something extraordinary about us – our capacity for change for the better against such tall odds. Well-entrenched characters tend to resist amendment, gradual or otherwise. In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, we find a creature who experiences a remarkable metanoia, a profound change of heart. ![]()
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![]() There’s nudity, but it also seems well-placed so as to show frailty or humanity. They involve sometimes awkward moments that seem true given the circumstances, like a moment where Nagate must drink a love interest’s filtered urine to stave off death, or in another moment where we learn how the pee tubes in the Gardes work. There are moments of tender intimacy that aren’t over making them feel genuine and true. ![]() Knights of Sidonia has been complied into a Master Edition featuring larger print, colored inserts and omibused. Probably the most fascinating element about the people in this story is how humanity has evolved to allow for energy consumption via photosynthesis, cloning asexual people, and the culture that now exists. One of the manga worlds most intriguing artist returns with a science-fiction tour de force which combines post apocolyptic action, modern sci-fi video game tropes and a traditional Japanese aesthetic in The Knights of Sidonia. Nagate serves as a surrogate to the reader allowing us to learn about what human life is like on this mysterious spaceship which is giant, has weather, and a wild sci-fi look. Kill the placenta and you kill the monster. These giant beasts have swinging tentacles, humanoid features, and a near impenetrable core that is designed to protect a placenta. This puts him on the front line in fighting the near invulnerable Gauna. ![]() He’s soon deemed special and given a mechanized weapon/ship called a Gardes. ![]() It follows a mysterious boy named Nagate Tanikaze who was found after years of hiding in a giant spaceship containing the last known humans in the universe. This is an easy manga to appreciate due to the art and the subtle storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Where the JWST really excels is that we're able to physically resolve the thermal glow from dust in those inner regions. None of those instruments were able to see the interior structure within the outer belt, however. "By looking at the patterns in these rings, we can actually start to make a little sketch of what a planetary system ought to look like - if we could actually take a deep enough picture to see the suspected planets," Gáspár added.įomalhaut's outermost belt, which is twice as large as the Kuiper Belt, has been imaged previously by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Herschel Space Observatory and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). ![]() "I would describe Fomalhaut as the archetype of debris disks found elsewhere in our galaxy, because it has components similar to those we have in our own planetary system," András Gáspár of the University of Arizona, the lead author of a study announcing the new results, said in a statement. ![]() Debris disks form later, after planets are in place. The dust belts around the young star are thought to be debris from collisions between larger bodies like asteroids and comets, and are therefore referred to as "debris disks." These disks are different than protoplanetary disks, which hold material that later gloms together to form planets. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More tracks like Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D.Playlists containing Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D.Users who reposted Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D. ![]() Users who like Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred D.capable of touching readers of any age."-The Christian Science Monitor"A profoundly affecting novel."-Publishers Weekly Available for purchase at:AmazonBarnes & NobleBooks A MillionHudson BooksellersIndieBoundPowell'sTargetWalmartGoogle Play StoreiBooksKobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format) - Audiobook (Downloadable format) But through it all, Cassie and the Logans stand together and stand proud-proving that courage, love, and understanding can defy even the deepest prejudice."This dramatic sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is a powerful novel. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. A stunning repackage of a companion to Mildred D. Other neighbors are destroyed and shattered by the greed of landowners. Let the Circle Be Unbroken (Logan Family Saga, 7) Paperback April 12, 2016. Lee Annie, stands up for her right to vote, she and her family are driven from their home. Then, Cousin Suzella tries to pass for white, with humiliating consequences. must go on trial for murder-and confront an all-white jury. Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, with cover art by two-time Caldecott Honor Award winner Kadir Nelson!It is a frightening and turbulent time for the Logan family. ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:865338883 Scandate 20100407234933 Scanner . Vernor Steffen Vinge (Listeni/vrnr vndi/ born October 2, 1944) is a retired San Diego State University (SDSU) Professor of Mathematics, computer scientist, and science fiction author. ![]() It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. OL1975714W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.19 Pages 632 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0613278259 A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. OL24207123M Openlibrary_subject long_now_manual_for_civilization Openlibrary_work Urn:lcp:fireupondeep00ving:epub:b2349770-6ffa-4095-8877-22a1bfc3abd2 Extramarc Cornell University Foldoutcount 0 Identifier fireupondeep00ving Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t48p6pd82 Isbn 0812515285ĩ780812515282 Lccn 91039020 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition A Fire Upon the Deep By: Vernor Vinge Narrated by: Peter Larkin Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins 4.3 (2,939 ratings) Try for 0. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:32:52 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA115123 Boxid_2 CH105501 Camera Canon 5D City New York DonorĪlibris Edition 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() Silk underwear doesn’t fragment or contaminate wounds. Zippers chafe skin and jam when exposed to sand. The army would like…uniforms that protect against all that modern warfare has to throw at them: flames, explosives, bullets, lasers, bomb-blasted dirt, blister agents, anthrax, sand fleas. ![]() Polyester is cheap and strong, but melts and sticks to surfaces, including burn wounds. Nomex, a flame-resistant material, gives tank and air crews a potentially lifesaving five seconds to take off their clothing before it ignites. The US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center comprises specialized laboratories that develop and test “everything a soldier wears, eats, sleeps on or lives in.” Researchers weigh the advantages of potential fabrics for uniforms. ![]() Roach grants readers an overview of – and appreciation for – the enormous efforts military scientists expend in keeping soldiers alive and well.īestseller Mary Roach turns her keen eye to the science that addresses the many ills that combatants face, with fascinating results. For this report, she embedded herself in obscure US Army research labs to learn seemingly mundane yet potentially lifesaving particulars of military science. Science writer Mary Roach made a name for herself by examining the hidden, the unappreciated and the forbiddingly unappetizing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is primarily an opportunity for Shalvis to introduce the cast of characters for this series and set up the background for it, making sure we understand how intimate a small town such as Sunshine is and how incredibly attractive Brady, Adam, and Dell are. I did enjoy Lilah’s battle with sweets and her idea of bribing herself away from them. This is a cute, very white bread, and fluffy read with no real tension or drama. The couple focus is on Lilah Young and Brady Miller. ![]() Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Beach Blanket Bad Boys, Instant Attraction, Instant Gratification, Instant Temptation, The Night Before Christmas, "Under the Mistletoe", It Had to Be You, Simply Irresistible, The Sweetest Thing, Animal Attraction, Rumor Has It, Rescue My Heart, It’s in His Kiss, Head Over Heels, Lucky in Love,, He's So Fine, At Last, One in a Million, Forever and a Day, Second Chance Summer, My Kind of Wonderful, "Wrapped in You", Get A Clue, The Trouble with Mistletoe, Chasing Christmas Eve, “One Snowy Night”, Rainy Day Friends, Merry and Brightįirst in the Animal Magnetism romance series revolving around a group of friends involved in helping animals in Sunshine, Idaho. ![]() Animal Magnetism by Jill ShalvisĬontemporary romance in Paperback edition on Februand has 304 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grey acknowledges a big debt to transpersonal psychology, the study of manifold dimensions of human consciousness, a science whose leading philosopher, Wilber, contributes the hyperbolic foreword ("Alex Grey might be the most significant artist alive"). He's found equal inspiration, however, in the works of Blake, Kandinsky and the drawings he made of Michelangelo's sculptures and paintings during a 1994 trip to Italy. If this sounds reminiscent of the psychedelic 1960s, that may be because, as Grey freely admits, "sacramental" hallucinogens like LSD and mescaline have been a source of inspiration for him since the mid-1970s. ![]() ![]() The book is bursting with his own mystical paintings and drawings, depicting floating cosmic eyes, the soul leaving the body of a dying person, haloed skulls, metaphysical thought-diagrams, human torsos lit from within by chakras or psychic energy centers. In a freewheeling narrative, Grey compares what he sees as the materialism and moral irresponsibility of most contemporaryart to his own creative endeavors, which draw on meditation, visualization, shamanic drumming, Taoism, yoga and Tibetan Buddhism. In this Technicolor manifesto calling for a renewed spiritual content in modern art, Grey argues that contemporary artists have lost touch with the search for transcendence that infused the work of such masters as Michelangelo, van Gogh, Pollock and Kahlo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013 Satoshi Kanazawa, an American evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics, set off an international firestorm with a blog post for Psychology Today, in which he asserted that Black women were objectively less attractive than white women. These incidents crystallize the pervasiveness of the Welfare queen and Jezebel tropes in American public discourse. president’s demonstrably false claim that the majority of welfare recipients were Black. ![]() Recent examples include: the faux right-wing uproar over Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B’s WAPmusic video and the previous U.S. Social and government institutions in the United States continue to use these images, which work to perpetuate the erasure and oppression of Black women in a multitude of ways, limiting our rights and discrediting our experiences. In her groundbreaking 1990 monograph Black Feminist Thought, sociologist Patricia Hill Collins argues that certain controlling images of the American Black woman-e.g., Mammy, Matriarch, Welfare Recipient, Jezebel, Unwed Mother-continue to pervade American culture and are still being used as tools of oppression. ![]() The meme that was created to inspire Black women is now too often used to oppress them. ![]() ![]() In an attempt to assist the Grant family in recovering some of the fortune lost when Grant was defrauded of his estate, Twain created a national marketing campaign that used Civil War veterans as booksellers. Grant was an instant success-a result of the marketing efforts of Mark Twain, Grant’s publisher and personal friend. ![]() In an honest and intelligent voice, the celebrated Civil War general and former President offers a detailed and intimate telling of the events of the Mexican-American war, and the American Civil War and his role within it as a Union General.Īt the time of its publication, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant is recognized today as one of the most significant American military memoirs of all time. ![]() Completed a short time before his death in 1885, the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. ![]() |