6/29/2023 0 Comments Where they purr paul barbera![]() Each entry ends with a tasteful cat portrait and a Q&A. In the best book design choice ever, I want to note that there’s a cat photo on almost every page, and that the text that accompanies the photos focuses more on the cats than the furniture. (I mean, I get it, but I can’t really understand folks who don’t fill every nook and cranny of their space with bookshelves and everything that goes on them.) That said, there’s lots to love in this book - nice wall textures, hairy chairs, beautiful views… but I read it for the cats. And it’s not because I’m a huge fan of interior design. 200 color illustrations.Ģ8 interiors inhabited by 34 cats! This is my favorite coffee table book in a while. ![]() When They Purr: Inspirational Interiors And The Cats Who Call Them Home by Paul Barbera with Queenie Chan. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Peloponnesian war book![]() ![]() Nicias had negotiated the aptly-named Peace of Nicias previously in 421 BC which paused the ongoing conflict between Athens and Sparta until the Athenian Sicilian Expedition 421 BC. Nicias was the voice for moderation in Athens. ![]() Thucydides offers two contrasting views on the Sicilian proposition: Nicias, the sober-minded Athenian general (or strategos) who is fervently opposed to interventionism. the old and young, rich and poor are all united in support of the expedition as is necessary for an empire), while the skeptics are forced into silence for fear of being unpatriotic. The old, middle-aged, and young citizens all see an easy occupation of Sicily that will yield great riches and power (i.e. A rising and powerful love of Athens or a fervent patriotism arises among the Athenians. He continues by discussing the current zeitgeist in Athens. Thucydides begins to explain the expedition by offering a history of the origins of Sicily and its people. The Sicilian Expedition represents the turning point in the war. ![]() Thucydides claims the Peloponnesian War is the greatest event or movement in human history, and the most important part of this great war takes place in Books VI-VII: The ill-fated Sicilian Expedition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The rhythm of the rhyming text sometimes matches the rollicking spirit of the snowmen's wintry pursuits, but occasionally stumbles: "Then the snowman games begin: They line up in their places,/ each one anxious for his turn in the snowman races." The glee comes through at its most infectious in Mark Buehner's oil-and-acrylic paintings of the merrymakers, who look so delighted in their revelry that readers won't be able to help smiling in response. Surely a full night of play and a long glide back to their homes must be the explanation. Soon the boy pictures all the neighborhood snowmen gathered in the park for "ice-cold cocoa," a snowball fight, a round of making snow angels and more. When a boy observes that the snowman he built the day before now looks droopy and disheveled, he imagines what happened to his snow creation during the night. Not since Frosty paraded through the village square have snowmen enjoyed such a slip-sliding good time as they do in the Buehners' (Fanny's Dream)latest flight of fancy. ![]() ![]() Trail Specific Subs /r/PacificCrestTrail /r/AppalachianTrail /r/CDT /r/JMT Related Subsįor buying, selling, and trading ultralight backpacking gear. Weekly Thread - View only the Weekly Discussion threads.īest Of The Sub - View only the "best of" threads. Trails - View only trail related threads. ![]() Join us and ask yourself the question: Do I really need that? 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Katy Rozelle, Working Title Television’s Head of TV for the U.S., is overseeing development and also serves as executive producer. ![]() She has previously written eight romance novels under the pen name Selena Montgomery.Ībrams is widely credited with helping Joe Biden win the presidential election by boosting turnout in Georgia and playing a key role in giving Democrats control over the Senate.Ībrams will exec produce the TV series with Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. This is the first novel published under Abrams’ real name. She also discovers that Wynn suspected a dangerously related conspiracy that infiltrates the highest power corridors of Washington. Plunged into an explosive role she never anticipated, Avery finds that Wynn had been secretly researching one of the most controversial cases before the court-a proposed merger between an American biotech company and an Indian genetics firm, which promises to unleash breathtaking results in the medical field. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stacey Abrams On NAACP Social Justice Impact Award: 'I Share This Award With All Those Who Champion Progress' ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The samerilian![]() The main character eventually learns to accept himself through this friendship.” “And it turns out that this immigrant kid isn’t just from Asia, he’s actually from Asian mythology. It’s a story about “a young man who is struggling with his own cultural heritage, with the way he looks, with the language his parents speak, becomes friends with this immigrant kid,” said Yang. (First Second / Macmillon Children’s Publishing Group) ![]() But after reluctantly befriending his new classmate Wei-Chen Sun (Jimmy Liu), Jin gets pulled into a battle over heaven between mythological gods. ![]() “It felt like I was playing a virtual reality video game.”īased on Yang’s award-winning graphic novel, “ American Born Chinese,” which premieres Wednesday on Disney+, follows Jin Wang (played by Ben Wang), a teenager that just wants to fit in, play soccer and win over his crush. Whereas the promotional cycle for one of his books might involve appearances at events like librarian conferences, special advanced screenings of the TV series have taken Yang from the Bay Area to New York and even the White House.Īttending the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration hosted by President Biden, which featured a screening of “American Born Chinese,” earlier this month “really felt like I was living somebody else’s life,” said Yang during a recent video call. ![]() ![]() For cartoonist Gene Luen Yang, the lead-up to the premiere of “American Born Chinese” has been “very surreal.” ![]() ![]() The question: Who in the small town killed Amelia, and how is her life intertwined with Becca’s?ĭoes it pass the “ Homeschool Mom Test“? Let’s see. The story is told from two perspectives: Becca’s first person narrative and a third-person narrative of the events that led up to Amelia Anne’s death. That same night, Amelia Anne, a recent college graduate, is killed on the road outside Becca’s small town. ![]() Synopsis: Becca can’t wait to break free from her small town as soon as high school graduation is over, but when her boyfriend breaks up with her first, her world spins out of control. I’ll give you the basics first, and then my thoughts on it.Īge group: YA (definitely teens not preteens) I’m starting off with Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone because, quite frankly, it was the only one of the nominees I could find at the library last weekend. If you haven’t seen the list of nominees, you’ll find them here. Today I start my first of the Edgar-nominated YA and juvenile mystery books for 2013. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments From here to equality reparations![]() He has written an award-winning book with the folklorist and arts consultant A. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. ![]() The Ways & Means podcast series “ The Arc of Justice – From Here to Equality” is inspired by the research of the economist William A. What happened, and what does this have to do with the existing wealth gap between African Americans and white Americans? Find out in this episode. Three years earlier, when 90% of African Americans still were enslaved, the federal government enacted the Homestead Act and started offering free 160 acre plots of land to settlers, mostly white Americans.Ī tale of two promises made by the government – one kept, one broken. government decided that newly freed African Americans should have a plot of land to call their own. ![]() The promise of “40 acres and a mule” officially was made in 1865. ![]() The Racial Wealth Gap’s Roots in Federal Policy ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Universo DC by Geoff Johns![]() The franchise's highest-grossing film to date is Aquaman, written and produced by Johns, which earned over $1.15 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing DC film to date. ![]() Johns' involvement with DC Entertainment as producer, writer and executive has helped turn the DC Extended Universe franchise into the eleventh-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, having grossed over $5.6 billion at the global box office. In film, he was a producer or executive producer of Green Lantern (2011), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Shazam! (2019), Birds of Prey (2020), co-wrote and produced the story for Aquaman (2018) and wrote the screenplay for Wonder Woman 1984 (2020). He is the co-founder and former co-chairman of DC Films and former co-runner of DC Extended Universe until 2018. He served as Chief Creative Officer (CCO) of DC Entertainment from 2010 to 2018 and as President and CCO from 2016 to 2018. Television: The Flash, Titans, Doom Patrol, Batwoman, Stargirl, Superman & Lois ![]() ![]() Comics: JSA, The Flash, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, Infinite Crisis, 52, Action Comics, Blackest Night, Flashpoint, Doomsday Clock, The Avengers ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Flights by tokarczuk![]() "The History of Filip Verheyen Written by His Student and Confidant William van Horssen"."Josefina Soliman's Second Letter to Franz I, Emperor of Austria". ![]()
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