![]() ![]() But the dark and clammy school room couldn’t keep Henri from taking his students outside into the fields and pastures where the real world teemed with life. Although Henri’s family moved often, he always found joy in discovering the insects that lived in the nearby farms and vineyards. He marveled at beetles, ants, spiders, mushrooms… all kinds of nature. Imagine a young French farm boyin the early 1800s with no formal educational training in entomology, the study of insects, becoming one of world’s most renowned experts in the field simply through observing and writing about the insects around his home. Although he seemed odd to the other students, he created a lifelong passion for studying nature. Ir describes young Jean-Henri Fabre and his curiosity of the world around him. ![]() Small Wonders– Jean-Henri Fabre & His World of Insects is about a boy who was not much interested in any academic studies… except for biology. Hopefully, the curriculum and the teachers are keeping them engaged in their studies so that they understand the subject matter. ![]() Now that school is in full swing, students are well into their studies. Written by Mathew Clark Smith, Illustrated by Giuliano Ferri Small Wonders– Jean-Henri Fabre & His World of Insects ![]()
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![]() When she becomes aware of a string of bodies that are marked the same way per parents’ were, Emma knows she’s closer than she’s ever been to finding the murderer. Everyone tells her that her parents were victims of that war, but she knows better, and-with the help of her parabatai Julian Blackthorn-has been investigating the murders on her own. Years ago, Emma Carstairs’ parents were murdered during Sebastian Morgenstern’s war (if you don’t know what that is, go back and read The Mortal Instruments series, starting with City of Bones). It’s a good a thing, too, because-while I remember most of the major things from Lady Midnight-there are a lot of minor things that’d I’d forgotten. ![]() I thought about skipping the rereads and going straight to the new book, but I’ve learned that lesson way too many times to put myself through it again, so I’m forcing myself to delay reading the new book. ![]() I wanted to reread Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadowsbefore Queen of Air and Darknesscame out earlier this week, but my books were in storage for a few months while I moved from Hawaii to Texas and I didn’t get them back until too late to time it perfectly. ![]() ![]() This book grabs you from the first page, tumbling out facts and information in a down to earth and readable way, with a chatty humour which does not disguise the amount of knowledge that neuroscientist author David Eagleman has to offer. Here’s the first review, from the excellent site LoveReading.Co.UK: ![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, the book is scientifically rigorous and refreshing but also a joy to read. “Here’s the expose about the non-conscious brain and all the machinery under the hood that keeps the show going.” Though other books have been written about the brain - “three pounds of the most complex material we’ve discovered in the universe” - Incognito stands out because Eagleman is both a celebrated neuroscientist conducting original research, as well as a gifted novelist. “Most of what you do, think, act and believe is generated by parts of your brain to which you have no access,” writes Eagleman. After releasing his last book, Why the Net Matters, as an iPad app, neuroscientist David Eagleman returns to traditional publishing with his latest book, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. ![]() ![]() ![]() What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. ![]() Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares.īut we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lived in Marion, Illinois until 2014, when he moved to Nashville. While at SIU, he was part of a TV show on Alt.news cable TV called Consumer Advocate. Pargin then attended the Southern Illinois University (SIU) radio-television program, graduating in 1997. He and fellow Internet writer John Cheese (real name Mack Leighty) attended high school together and met during an art class they shared. Pargin was born in Lawrenceville, Illinois. John Dies at the End was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012. ![]() ![]() He is the former executive editor of humor website, a recurring guest in the Cracked Podcast, and has written six novels: John Dies at the End (2007), This Book Is Full of Spiders (2012), Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits (2015), What the Hell Did I Just Read (2017), Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (2020) and If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (2022). Jason Pargin (born January 10, 1975), prior to 2020 using the pen name David Wong, is an American humor writer. Pop culture, news media, Americana, science fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A day when walking outdoors becomes a sign of psychosis. The discovery that Earthlings are being destroyed by a mysterious kind of psychological virus. Machines that learn to think for themselves–and direct their thoughts to overturning the establishment. Nightfall and Other Stories is a collection of 20 pieces of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, including, of course, the novelette Nightfall, one of his most famous works. The other stories in the collection span far and wide: A dedicated scientist who whips up his own love potion. “Nightfall,” published when the author was only twenty-one, was arguably his breakout work, making such an impression that, almost thirty years later, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted it the best science-fiction short story ever written Compiled by Asimov himself, who prefaced each story with an introduction, it begins with “Nightfall,” the tale of a world with eternal sun that is suddenly plunged into total darkness and utter madness. A collection of twenty classic short stories by Isaac Asimov, author of the Foundation series, featuring the definitive and only in-print version of “Nightfall”įrom one of history’s most influential writers of science fiction comes this collection of twenty short works of fiction, arranged in order of publication from 1941 to 1967. Nightfall and Other Stories is a collection of 20 pieces of short fiction by Isaac Asimov, including, of course, the novelette Nightfall, one of his most famous works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pomerantz's book has generated controversy. His new book is a fascinating look at Trump's financial manipulations and the hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels and prosecutors' consideration of whether they amounted to crimes provable in court. And Pomerantz wrote in his resignation letter that not bringing a case against Trump was a grave failure of justice. ![]() So Pomerantz and another senior attorney resigned. But the newly elected district attorney, Alvin Bragg, wasn't ready to proceed with charges. In his book, Pomerantz calls the investigation the legal equivalent of a plane crash where the principal cause was pilot error.Īt the end of 2021, as District Attorney Vance approached retirement, Pomerantz felt the team had sufficient evidence to file felony charges against Trump. ![]() Pomerantz was a retired prosecutor and lawyer in December 2020 when he was invited to join then DA Cyrus Vance's team looking into Trump. ![]() Our guest today, Mark Pomerantz, has written an insider's account of the year he and others at the Manhattan district attorney's office spent on a criminal investigation of Donald Trump's finances and business practices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russell National Wildlife Refuge and the still evolving American Prairie Preserve. Manning hones in on the Missouri Breaks region of north-central Montana, an area of roughly 3.5 million acres that incorporates the Charles M. Yet, whereas Grassland, subtitled “The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie,” was wide-ranging and ambitiously tracked remnants of prairie across much of North America, this more recent work has a narrowed focus, choosing instead to tell the story of a single patch of prairie. ![]() The two books share a similar geography and Manning's commitment to his subject-the prairie-certainly has not waned. ![]() It might be tempting to read Richard Manning's most recent book as a sequel to Grassland (1995), arguably his best-known work. ![]() ![]() ![]() After some investigations, Frye's psychologist lets them listen to a tape recording of one of Frye's sessions. "Frye" escapes just before Clemenza arrives and Hilary tells him what happened. Hilary is once again attacked by a man who appears to be Frye. Afterward, Clemenza asks Hilary out, and the two begin a romantic relationship. She calls the police and once again meets with Clemenza, who tells her that Frye's body has been found and takes her to the morgue to identify it. The next day, Frye returns and attacks Hilary again, this time receiving several stab wounds before escaping. ![]() Detective Tony Clemenza tells her that Frye has an airtight alibi, as the police called his home and he answered, proving that he could not have been anywhere near Los Angeles that night. Frye tries to rape her, but she forces him to leave at gunpoint and calls the police. Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, is attacked in her home by Bruno Frye, a mentally disturbed man whose vineyard in Napa Valley she recently visited. ![]() The novel was also adapted for a 1990 film by the same name. It was the first of Koontz's novels to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list, and is widely credited with launching his career as a best-selling author. Whispers is a novel by American suspense author Dean Koontz, originally published in 1980. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as a teenager, our hero is determined and ambitious: When he meets the “pretty girl” who he will be obsessed with for the rest of his life, he doesn’t allow love to divert him from his quest-the second step in Hamid’s scheme. Our hero’s father, who works as a personal servant and sends his wages home to support his family, eventually brings his family to the city-the first step in Hamid’s tongue-in-cheek reworking of the hackneyed how-to-get-rich scheme. It’s the life story of an unnamed man, an amoral Horatio Alger who is born to a poor family in a rural village in a country that sounds a lot like India (but could be any developing nation with an emerging economy). ![]() Hamid, whose previous novels, The Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, were shortlisted for several major literary awards, including the Booker Prize, creatively appropriates the self-help format in How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. And Mohsin Hamid’s new novel fits the bill perfectly. It’s always enlightening-and enjoyable-to read business literature that actually qualifies as literature. ![]() |