![]() ![]() His stories have appeared in the anthologies Monsters & Mormons and Space Eldritch II. He recently published a book of poetry, Incorrect Astronomy. Creative works include three novels, The Scholar of Moab (AML best novel of 2011, Montaigne Medal Finalist), A Short Stay in Hell, Rifts of Rime. His publishing history includes lots of scientific work focused on evolution and ecology, including publications in American Naturalist, American Entomologist, Biological Theory, Biology & Philosophy, Newsweek, Evolution, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Agriculture and Human Values, and other scientific papers. ![]() ![]() Peck is a biology professor at Brigham Young University. ![]()
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![]() The narrative starts with a general introduction of Native Nations in the United States. The vivid artwork features a simple, bold style. "Students at the Native Nations Community School share presentations about the history, present, and future of Indigenous communities. ![]() Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the US government not recognizing tribes as nations), Native urban relocation (from reservations), self-determination (tribal self-empowerment), Native civil rights, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), religious freedom, economic development (including casino development), Native language revival efforts, cultural persistence, and nationhood. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. ![]() Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. ![]() Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here! ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Romancing the inventor![]() ![]() I was delighted to read a book where she finally gets her “happily ever after”. ![]() Genevieve Lefoux has always been one of my favorite characters from the Parasol Protectorate series. The second book in this series is Biffy’s story and is titled “Romancing the Werewolf”. This is the first book in the Supernatural Society series which is a series of novellas about some of the side characters from Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate world. It takes place after the Parasol Protectorate series but before the Custard Protocol. With culture, class, and the lady herself set against the match, can Imogene and her duster win Genevieve’s heart, or will the vampires suck both of them dry?” Genevieve Lefoux is heartsick, lonely, brilliant, and French. Desperate, she takes work at a local vampire hive, only to fall in love with the amazing lady inventor the vampires have imprisoned in their potting shed. ![]() Imogene Hale is a lowly parlormaid with a soul-crushing secret. Stand Alone or Series: 1st book in the Supernatural Society series ![]() ![]() ![]() “some rocks.” Two rocks would be a pair of rocks. ![]() Scene was Ernie’s way of showing us there were some rocks in theīackground. ![]() Phil Fumble basically completely disappeared as Nancy became a strip that has literally had papers and later whole books dedicated to how carefully Bushmiller managed to craft his strips.Īrt Spiegelman explains how a drawing of three rocks in a background In 1933 Bushmiller introduced Fritzi’s niece Nancy, because you can only write so many stories about a dynamite gal dealing with her idiot boyfriend, and by 1938 the comic was just called Nancy. In 1925 Ernie Bushmiller took over the comic strip Fritzi Ritz, about a flapper named Fritzi who was a kinda cheesecakey saucy dame with a lot of sometimes-boyfriends, most notably the goofy-as-hell, owned-with-regularity doofus Phil Fumble I’m reblogging again because I feel like most of my followers aren’t Nancy Enthusiasts™Īnd don’t know all the context around this, which I think make it even better This art style with modern references is the most jarring thing I’ve ever seen You guys there’s a new nancy cartoonist and she’s amazing ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments The looting machine review![]() ![]() I especially appreciated a concept from an Angola specialist Burgis met: When Burgis isn't able to get the exact details, he still illuminates the general mechanisms by which the resource wealth of African states is funneled into the hidden bank accounts of the political elites. He runs into major roadblocks when investigating Chinese companies generally and the shadowy "Queensway Group" in particular. ![]() Yet there was only so much of the hidden financial web that Burgis could untangle. I was shocked by his level of access to the highest levels of African government and industry. He names names and backs up his claims with painstaking on-the-ground investigative reporting. ![]() Noting that "like its victims, its beneficiaries have names," Burgis dives into the specifics in African resource states from Angola to Zimbabwe. Financial Times reporter Tom Burgis traces the illicit flows of tens of billions of dollars of African natural resource wealth to local dictators, Western corporations and financial elites, and - more recently - massive Chinese enterprises. But all of these pale in comparison to the scale of the financial crimes described in "The Looting Machine". For my 2018 "Year of Crime and Punishment," I've been reading about bank heists, insider trading, contract killing, and identity theft. ![]() ![]() Leeming started working for Baldwin as a secretary and continued working for him in various capacities for years. So there was a tension between his ability to draw people to him and his need to get away from those people so that he could write, in part because of the costs of having those people around him. One of the constant refrains of this biography is that Baldwin needed people around him, but he couldn’t write with people around him. ![]() Leeming first met Baldwin in Instanbul, where Leeming was a professor and Baldwin was staying with a friend trying to write. ![]() ![]() This biography was originally published in 1995, nine years after Baldwin’s death. In addition to those, I have read three books about Baldwin that had biographical aspects but were not primarily a biography, Begin Again by Eddie Glaude, What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson, and James Baldwin and the 1980s by Joseph Vogel.ĭavid Leeming was James Baldwin’s friend and his hand-chosen biographer. Previously, I have read three novels ( Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk) and three essay collections ( The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, and No Name on the Street). Summary: James Baldwin’s chosen biographer, his friend and sometimes secretary and translator David Leeming.Īfter reading my last Baldwin book, I knew I needed to read a complete biography before reading more of Baldwin’s writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The leader of the Group was Igor Dyatlov who had only just turned He was an affable and highly experienced skier, hiker and orienteer. In February nine young skiers died in strange circumstances in the northern Urals Mountains in Russia. MOUNTAIN OF THE DEAD THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident by Keith McCloskey. The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare (ISBN). While one of the skiers fell ill and returned., the remaining nine lost their way and ended up on another mountain slope known as Kholat. In January, ten experienced young skiers set out for Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia. ![]() The History Press, Jul 1, - Travel - pages. The Dyatlov Pass incident resulted in nine unsolved, mysterious deaths # Keith McCloskey attempts to decipher the bizzare events that led up to that night and the subsequent aftermath In January ,# 10 experienced young skiers set out to travel to a mountain named Mount Otorten in the far north of Russia.# Otorten translates# Reviews: Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident: Author: Keith McCloskey: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: History Press, ISBN:, Length: 5/5(1).Skip to main Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. Mountain of the Dead: The Dyatlov Pass Incident: KEITH MCCLOSKEY: Books. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Marley books by john grogan![]() ![]() He is strong, powerful, endlessly hungry, eager to be active, and often destructive of their property (but completely without malice). Marley, a yellow Labrador Retriever, is described as a high-strung, boisterous, and somewhat uncontrolled dog. Told in first-person narrative, the book portrays Grogan and his family's life during the thirteen years that they lived with their dog Marley, and the relationships and lessons from this period. It has subsequently been adapted by the author in three separate books, as well as separately into a comedy-drama film released in 2008. The dog is poorly behaved and destructive, and the book covers the issues this causes in the family as they learn to accept him in addition to their grief following Marley's death. ![]() Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog is a New York Times bestselling autobiographical book by journalist John Grogan, published in 2005, about the thirteen years he and his family spent with their yellow Labrador Retriever, Marley. 2005 "First Edition" stated William Morrow publishers, New York hardbound in red and ivory boards with red lettering along spine very good as-new condition with unmarked pages pictoral dust jacket very good. ![]() ![]() ![]() But is he really damaged or just crazy or just imagining it all? Evenson leaves the reader guessing so that we’re not sure whether to be relieved or alarmed when the doctor gets ready to drill holes for the steel plate in the skull. So it is that in one story in this collection, “Click,” its very title filled with ominous portent, the protagonist is suffering brain trauma and cannot remember something most terrible that he has done. But does that shadowy, scary figure even exist? There’s the question. And what good would a gun do against a ghost, anyway? So you grab, naturally, a book, “the largest and heaviest one in the stack,” and hope for the best. What do you do when, in a waking dream-or, better, a dream from which waking seems impossible-you have to defend yourself from a spectral figure that’s flitting through your pad? If you’re one of Evenson’s characters, you might not have the resources or the will to keep a gun handy. ![]() Atmospheric, sometimes-nightmarish tales by the ever macabre Evenson ( Windeye, 2012, etc.). ![]() 6/5/2023 0 Comments Books by peter spier![]() ![]() Bank of America’s consumer-facing lines of business include its network of branches and deposit-gathering operations, retail lending products, credit and debit cards, and small-business services. It is organized into four major segments: consumer banking, global wealth and investment management, global banking, and global markets. This week we’ll take a look at:īank of America is one of the largest financial institutions in the United States, with more than $2.5 trillion in assets. ![]() ![]() So we’re now providing a new weekly feature article called ‘One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying’. While doing this research we’ve also uncovered a number of common stocks that investing gurus have recently bought, or continuing to hold in their portfolios, according to their latest 13f’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks. ![]() As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in investing gurus who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. ![]() |