![]() But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 „signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies – all motionless except for one moving image – a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. ![]()
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![]() “You can kill people by saying that society is equal,” he writes, “then starting a hundred-yard race with most white people at the fifty-yard line.” Some of his more storied players, such as Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning, overcame institutional and social barriers to become stars, but most athletes even at the college level are playing against the odds, with few standing a chance of going pro. ![]() Basketball, Thompson adds, “became a vehicle for me to challenge injustices.” Arriving at Georgetown in 1972, when Black coaches were few, he demanded that his players be students first, telling recruits that he expected them to spend more time in the library than in the gym. The renowned Georgetown basketball coach looks back on a long career, interlaced with thoughts on the challenges of being Black in America.Ĭoach Thompson, writes co-author and ESPN correspondent Washington, is a masterful student of “the game behind the game,” both the intellectual challenges of the court and the psychological factors that influence and sometimes impede players. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was on a summer trip to New Guinea in 1964, however, that he first began to carefully consider the questions that would intrigue him for the next half-century: why did New Guinea’s extremely intelligent and resourceful indigenous peoples have no writing, chiefs, or steel tools? His Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies was an attempt to answer that question. Diamond studied physiology at Harvard and Cambridge, before narrowing his research to the cellular and molecular mechanisms of the gall bladder. ![]() ![]() In addition to teaching geography at UCLA, researching the birds of New Guinea and the Southwest Pacific Islands, and promoting the practice of sustainable environmental policies to leaders around the world, JARED DIAMOND is also the author of bestselling books about evolution and human history. ![]() ![]() Secrets are exposed and lives are changed forever in Keeping 13, the explosive sequel to the bestselling book, Binding 13. Only one boy has the ability to climb those walls. ![]() Beaten and broken, her walls are up and her trust is shaken. Traumatized beyond repair after her return from Dublin, and desperate to protect her little brothers, Shannon finds herself falling into the same old cover-up, barely keeping her head above water, as her future unravels before her eyes. ![]() She knows that demons and evil men don't just exist in fairytales. The life she was born into demands nothing less. Keeping secrets has never been a problem for Shannon. With his best friend, Gibsie, by his side, Johnny embarks on his quest of exposing the secrets surrounding the girl who haunts his every waking hour. ![]() Lost, insecure, and desperately seeking comfort, he sets his sights on unraveling the mystery of the girl with the midnight-blue eyes. His first, last, and only true love has always been rugby.įollowing a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny is struggling to hold onto his dreams. ![]() ![]() He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. ![]() Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() New Comics #1, also published in 1935, was retitled twice to become Adventure Comics. It became the first comic to contain all-original material, instead of combining newspaper comic strips and the comic-strip style material. New Fun, often referred as New Fun Comics #1, was published in February 1935. His first two titles were called New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine #1 and New Comics #1. The title has also featured the debuts of Dick Grayson, James Gordon and many of Batman's villains and supporting cast, as well as other DC characters.ĭetective Comics was the brainchild of National Allied Publication's owner, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson. ![]() As of issue #27, the title became best known for the introduction of the Superhero Detective, The Batman, who eventually became the main feature. ![]() Detective characters, such as Slam Bradley and the Crimson Avenger, were featured monthly in its early days. One of DC's signature titles the title featured early talents such as Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Bob Kane, Sheldon Moldoff, Jerry Robinson and Bill Finger. Continued in Volume 2 (The New 52) and Volume 3 (Rebirth).ĭetective Comics is a DC Comics monthly comic book published since 1937, focusing on detective stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, she has an uncanny ability to resist his charms. The exquisite widow temps Castleford like no woman has before. What really breaks Castleford out of his ennui, however, is Daphne Joyes, owner of The Rarest Blooms. He’s surprised, however, that one of the properties houses The Rarest Blooms, a place where all of his friends’ wives once lived. Castleford is resigned to taking a closer look at what is so special about the lands in question. That is, until a relative bequeaths him several properties of seemingly no importance. However, now that his friends have made the abominable decision to fall in love and marry, Castleford finds himself bored to tears. ![]() The hedonistic duke with a Midas touch spends six days a week drinking, whoring, and other pleasurable pursuits, leaving anything of importance to be dealt with on Tuesdays. The term “rake” is far too tame a descriptor for a man like the Duke of Castleford. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() She convincingly recreates the historical era in which each character lives, not merely to set the scene but to add an understanding of why and how they act as they do. Her sympathetic touch and ability to imbue each character with life involves us from the first to the last page. In The Town House, Norah Lofts evokes fourteenth- and fifteenth-century life from the perspective of five different characters. The vast scope of The Suffolk Trilogy - continued with The House at Old Vine and The House at Sunset - involves the reader in a fascinating journey through time. In its very foundations it held secrets and lies, passionate love and deep despair. Built in the late fourteenth century by Martin Reed, a runaway serf who had defied his master for the woman he loved, the house was to change and grow for six centuries. The Town House is the first in Norah Lofts' enduringly popular Suffolk Trilogy about the Old Vine at Baildon. Can a house built from the ashes of tragedy ever be a place of lasting happiness? Can the hereditary mix of wild gypsy lore, fierce independence, magic and mystery truly settle in a respectable home? ![]() ![]() Anden goes to Espenia and I loved following him. Still dealing with the Mountain Clan, the No Peak Clan had to really use their wits because everything had to be in secret. ![]() Hilo, Shae, Kehn, and Tar are all coming into their perspective position and I love seeing them progress. After being thrust into the Pillar position after Lan's deathin the previous book, Hilo is still trying to figure things out. ![]() However, this did not effect my enjoyment of the book at all. I had a little bit of issue with the timeline, I have no idea how much I'm had passed because all of the sudden the story would jump 3 months. The only issue I had with the book is I have no idea how much time had passed. Even without action and just scenes where there is just planning, I never felt bored. Lee showcases her writing again by creating fantastic scenes that just flow together. There were so many twists and moments that just made me physically stop because I wasn't expecting it. ![]() I am so invested in the Kaul family and just want them to succeed after loosing so much. It's funny, because usually I don't like a politics in my book usually but this is one in obsessed with. I was immediately drawn back into the land of Janloon and all of the politics. I was not wrong! Fonda Lee did such an amazing holding the same intensity as the first one. So I was expecting a lot from this book because of how amazing the first book was. ![]() ![]() ![]() He thinks it to be an impotent, isolated body existing only for its own proud satisfaction. ![]() ![]() Something like chess but far more intricate, the game of Magister Ludi known as the Glass Bead Game is. The child masters several instruments and strikes up a friendship with Disignori, another boy his age who is cynical from the start of Castalia's position in the world. It is the key to a full understanding of Hesses thought. ![]() As a little boy, Knecht is placed under the tutelage of the Music Master, an older man who mentors the boy and has a more profound impact on him than any other person in his life. The boys study a diversity of intellectual, philosophical, and artistic topics in the hope that they would one day master the glass bead game, a mysterious practice by which the players may demonstrate to the world a kind of transcendent truth at a traditional ceremony broadcast to all corners of the globe. All members of the order are boys and are brought in as young children. At some time in, centuries in a future, a young boy named Joseph Knecht is recruited to study within the austere order of the Castalians. Joseph Knecht grows from an unassuming child to the leader of an esoteric order that exists to demonstrate the true nature of reality to the world. ![]() |