Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out. Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Here is storytelling at its best." -Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth Here is a story about the islands we build and carry with us. " Lungfish is a force of nature-a deeply felt marvel of a book that navigates grief, parenthood, and the mysteries of family with unrelenting power and precision. Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prizeįinalist for the Main Literary Award for Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
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That is, this work is not a geometric discussion of catoptrics or dioptrics, the traditional subjects of reflection of light by mirrors of different shapes and the exploration of how light is "bent" as it passes from one medium, such as air, into another, such as water or glass. Opticks is largely a record of experiments and the deductions made from them, covering a wide range of topics in what was later to be known as physical optics. The publication of Opticks represented a major contribution to science, different from but in some ways rivalling the Principia. Opticks was Newton's second major book on physical science. It is considered one of the great works of science in history. (A scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706.) The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with prisms and lenses, the diffraction of light by closely spaced sheets of glass, and the behaviour of color mixtures with spectral lights or pigment powders. Opticks is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704. Pufahl embraces noir’s mood while weaving in a love story. Her style, so rooted in symbol and lyricism, can make her characters sometimes speak as if they were prophets on a whiskey bender.Pufahl is so committed to the spell she’s casting that her characters’ voices fall under it too. That sense of unreality can sometimes make Pufahl’s dialogue ungainly. Metaphors run so thickly over Pufahl’s story that the novel reads as much like a prose-poem commentary on the ’50s as a realistic novel set in it. Just as important, Pufahl’s prose can run with those icons and at times surpass them. She admires the genre’s blend of high and low culture, its sharp-elbowed sentences and neon-lit imagery, its vision of hard-luck off-the-grid lives. Pufahl.is plainly a fan of the fiercest noirs to come out of the postwar era. And her keenest observations are about the secrets we keep. But it does it so skillfully - Pufahl’s prose is consistently lyrical and deeply observant. It’s practically axiomatic that every story set in 1950s America must be a critique of its squeaky-clean surfaces. In Shannon Pufahl’s engrossing, melancholy debut novel, On Swift Horses, California feels both scrubbed new and thick with storm clouds. Published Date - Wednesday, 18 January 2023. It has sold over 200,000 copies and consists of a multitude of speeches given by the author. A much-sought after speaker on education throughout North America, his other books include Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling, (audio, Post Hypnotic Press 2012, print, New Society Press, 2009), A Different Kind of Teacher (Berkeley Hills Books, 2001), and The Underground History of American Education (Oxford Village Press, 2000). Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (ISBN 086571231X) is a book by teacher John Taylor Gatto. John Gatto was a teacher in New York City's public schools for over 30 years and is a recipient of the New York State Teacher of the Year award. There he had used his classes as a laboratory where he could learn a broader range of what human possibility is and what releases and what inhibits human power. With over 100,000 copies in print since its original publication in 2002, this book is collection of essays and speeches and includes a describes the wide-spread impact of the book and Gatto's "guerrilla teaching." A Book Review In the early nineties John Taylor Gatto resigned from 26 years of award-winning teaching in Manhattan’s public schools. Thirty years in New York City's public schools led John Gatto to the sad conclusion that compulsory schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders like cogs in an industrial machine. 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He's just a thug backed by Russia to cause chaos. They are sent on a mission to kill the Joker. It's an Elseworlds story where Red Hood is arrested for murdering criminals and takes over as leader of the Suicide Squad. He makes Wild Dog part of the Insurrection on Jan 6th to get some buzz for the book.īut that's not even the core of the story. Once again, Brian Azzarello mistakes shock value for a good story. For modern readers, the diary often gives fascinating insight into social and cultural changes for example, in the diary’s first year Pepys notes the arrival in England of a new drink, “tee” (tea).Īs a diarist, Pepys is honest about his own faults and failings, including his sometimes-uncontrolled temper and his extramarital dalliances. He presents his candid observations on famous personalities (from the king and queen on down), events both great and small, the theater, music, architecture, science, and fashions, among many other topics. Pepys makes note of what time he got up each morning, his daily schedule of work and leisure, what he ate, and the people he met-many of them belonging to the cream of London society. The diary is valued today as a firsthand document of upper-class life in Restoration England, an eventful period in which Pepys himself played a key role as naval administrator, member of Parliament, and confidant of two of England’s kings. "Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified. As they iterate time and again: friendship is valuable but not valued. 'I wish I were there to be doing it, too.'" A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara This book is funny, insightful, well-researched, thoughtful and incredibly needed. "'I wonder what Piglet is doing,' thought Pooh. Often, we forget to tell those we love most how important to us so if you read a quote below that resonates, why not send it to a friend to remind them how much you value them. It's hard to put into words sometimes how much good friends mean to us so we've found some of the loveliest quotes from literature that sum up exactly how we feel.įrom children's books (is there any friendship more perfect than that between Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet?) to classic literature, the writers below have all nailed that special feeling of meeting someone who gets us completely. They’re there for you through the good and bad times - and everything in between. 'Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.' Woodrow Wilson 'True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.' David Tyson Gentry. Today's economic system is based on money and credit. But debunking the founding myth tells us nothing about the system's functioning. But why is it important? It's like saying the state is legitimate because all people agreed to build it. But Graeber thinks it's all a lie - a fictional narrative that has never happened in actual pre-state cultures. This is a conventional classical and neoclassical economic theory. Graeber aims to dispel the widely accepted notion of money's truck-and-barter beginnings. He looks at what happens when a society has more debts than it can pay back (i.e., bankruptcy), how 'debt' is constructed socially and politically, why debt is necessary for economies to function properly, and much more. In his book Debt: The First 5000 Years, David Graeber explores how different societies have created and used their own forms of currency over time. In this blog post, we will explore the role of debt in society. The Witches protagonists therefore has opposite fates between the movies that are 30 years apart. At the end of the 1990 movie, Miss Irvine pays Luke a visit to turn him back into a boy and return his own mice to him. Miss Irvine is a witch too, but an assistant to the Grand High Witch, who is mistreated and quits the society. However, the character of Miss Susan Irvine is the X factor here that changes some of the plot line between these two adaptations. The boy and Bruno are content with their new forms as mice and Luke gets an adorable small home to sleep in. After the Grand High Witch is turned into a rat though in a more public sequence in the dining hall of the hotel, the main character (Jasen Fisher’s Luke in this version), does remain a mouse. In the previous version the children do not remain mice through to the credits of the film. The 2020 version of The Witches differs from the 1990 movie most in terms of the ending. (Image credit: (Warner Bros)) How The Witches Differs From The 1990 Version The best way to contact us is directly through the EBay Messages system. We will be happy to hear from you and will help you sort out any issues. Store Home View All Listing About Us Faq Contact Us Menu Fiction Non-Fiction Other Add our store to your favorites and receive exclusive emails about new items and special promotions! Sign Up If you are not completely satisfied with your order please contact us before leaving any feedback. The conflict made her shy and insecure for most of her young life. Steffie Steinke, born in Berlin in 1936, writes about the enduring love she had for her foster mother and the everlasting fear she had of her birth mother. Item: 144980922199 A Penny Always Has Two Sides Memoir Growing Up in Wartime G by Steinke Steffie. |