![]() ![]() Brother Sun, Sister Moon: Saint Francis of Assisis Canticle of the. That message resonates ever more clearly today in an age of simultaneous excess and economic retrenchment. Descopera colectia de carti scrise de autorul Katherine Paterson din cea mai mare. Saint Francis' austere but loving message was radical and galvanizing in its time-founding a religious order that profoundly influenced the course of Western History. Her style perfectly matches the tone of Saint Francis' hymn: a balance of almost stark simplicity with a richly colored celebration of the multiplicity of life. Pamela Dalton's remarkable gift is to infuse a decorative folk art with the emotional depth and richness of the finest children's book illustrations-combining the naivete of the old Amish technique of Scherenschnitte ('scissor cutting') with a highly trained, profoundly experienced painterly style. ![]() Her voice provides a deeply appropriate medium for us to hear Francis of Assisi's words anew. She has made these subjects accessible to a broad readership that spans generations. Brother Sun, Sister Moon by Katherine Paterson, Pamela Dalton, 2011, Chronicle Books edition, in English. Katherine Paterson, daughter of missionaries, and wife of a minister, has always had a particular and ecumenical sensitivity to themes of the spiritual and to matters of religion. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Not as funny as the original but worth reading… ![]() And remember, it’s a do-unto-others mentality on Jasper Lane, so when lesbian couple Asha and Keiko move in and Sandy helps Keiko get a directing job at Steve’s gay porn film company, it’s par for the course! Steve and Sandy Jones are now proud parents, but Sandy’s got to find something to do with herself, and running for office in the Gay Porn Wives Club may be just the ticket. Melinda, divorced from her stuffy husband, is looking to dip her toe in the dating pool, but she’s got one problem: her potential date’s embarrassing last name. Take another turn down Jasper Lane, the well-off neighborhood where gay porn parties, fresh cheesecake, and friendly busybodies welcome newcomers while a dog named Gayhound helps with the landscaping.Ĭassie Bloom is thrilled her son Jason is home, but she’s worried about the secrets buried around the house, especially when a scary-looking stranger starts spying on her! Rick and James are basking in the blush of love ~ or is it the flush of jealousy as Rick’s rugby teammate starts hanging around? ~ and the flamboyantly gay Terrence is off bonding with his newly discovered son, Christian. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a member of the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology, and has traveled to more than sixty countries around the world to engage in fieldwork on the yokai and spirits of different cultures. And yet the human instinct endures, seeing through the absurdity of such a rigid and outdated command structure with gallows humor.īorn Main Sakaiminato, Tottori, Japan, Shigeru Mizuki is a specialist in stories of yokai and is considered a master of the genre. Indeed, commanding officers prove even more ferocious than the wild unknown of Papua New Guinea. Mizuki's fanciful characters must make do against a photo-realistic backdrop teeming with tropical life that remains inhospitable. The desperation and moral depravity on display is devastating. This deeply personal and landmark anti-war work could only have been made by a pacifist. Inspired by Eisner Award-winning author Shigeru Mizuki's own mandatory tour of duty as an active combatant in the Imperial Japanese Army, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths portrays a flailing infantry unit on its last legs near the end of the Second World War. ![]() The alternative is certain execution as a consequence of survival. A platoon of soldiers is ordered into battle. The book that brought pre-eminent Manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki to the English-speaking world Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths by Shigeru Mizuki, translated by Zack Davisson / ISBN 9781770466302 / 372-page paperback published by Drawn & Quarterly ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But wait-there’s more! Concluding pages identify each caterpillar in sequence, provide readers with information about what they eat and reveal the kinds of moths and butterflies that result from their metamorphoses.Įqual parts counting book, nature book and ideal read-aloud fodder, this is a beauty of an offering from a familiar team. On one page, you’ll find a spider, monarch eggs, monarch chrysalis, and milkweed plant labeled. Each page is beautifully illustrated by Lois Ehlert. Ten Little Caterpillars is a great book for learning about caterpillars. The 10th caterpillar, however, becomes a butterfly in a satisfying, if predictable, culmination of the verse. Ten Little Caterpillars by Bill Martin Jr. Each caterpillar from the jacket gets its own spread, with one climbing a cabbage head, another carried off to school in a jar and another falling into the sea. Open, white backgrounds of interior spreads allow the collages’ vibrant colors to stand out in clean, visually dynamic spreads that invite readers to pore over the flora, other creatures and the caterpillars themselves who populate the pages. ![]() Arresting jacket art introduces 10 little caterpillars munching on a verdant, heart-shaped leaf against a white background. Martin’s posthumous release rests in illustrator Ehlert’s capable hands, resulting in a picture book that delivers on his reputation as a master of engaging, rhythmic, rhyming text as it presents some of Ehlert’s best work to date. “Move over very hungry caterpillar-10 little caterpillars have arrived. ![]() ![]() For the next thirteen years, Hick had her own room at the White House, next door to the First Lady. Her admiration drew the buttoned-up Eleanor out of her shell, and the two quickly fell in love. Hick, as she was known, had grown up poor in rural South Dakota and worked as a servant girl after she escaped an abusive home, eventually becoming one of the most respected reporters at the AP. Eleanor had been raised in one of the nation’s most powerful political families and was introduced to society as a debutante before marrying her distant cousin, Franklin. ![]() Over the next thirty years, until Eleanor’s death, the two women carried on an extraordinary relationship: They were, at different points, lovers, confidantes, professional advisors, and caring friends. A lifeline came to her in the form of a feisty campaign reporter for the Associated Press: Lorena Hickok. By that time, she had put her deep disappointment in her marriage behind her and developed an independent life-now threatened by the public role she would be forced to play. In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the claustrophobic, duty-bound existence of the First Lady with dread. ![]() ![]() A warm, intimate account of the love between Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter Lorena Hickok-a relationship that, over more than three decades, transformed both women's lives and empowered them to play significant roles in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history ![]() ![]() 8 In the book Crenshaw, what is the name of the dog walking service that Jackson and Marisol made up? See Spot Walk ![]() ![]() In the book Crenshaw, what kind of fact does Jackson like? Animal facts Katherine Applegate In the book Crenshaw, what does Jackson want to be when he grows up? a scientist ![]() What type of dog is Aretha? A big Labrador Mutt pg.16 What color hair does Robin have? Yellow pg.17 What is Jackson's favorite colored jelly bean? Purple pg.17 What was Jackson named after? Guitars pg.26 What did Jackson want to call Aretha? Dog pg.26 What category would Jackson's dad put Krispy Kreme Donuts? The magic category p.38 Who is the author? Katherine Applegate p.cover Who is the main character? Jackson p.11 What cereal does Robin like to use in cereal ball? frosted flakes p.15 what cereal does Jackson like to use in cereal ball? Cheerios p.15 What day was Jackson's family doing the yard sale? Sunday p.33 What is Robin's favorite book? the House on East 88th street p.34 What was the book Jackson Liked? A Hole Is to Dig p.36 What sickness does Jackson's dad have? multiple sclerosis p.40 What sign did mom tape on the bathroom? I'd rather be fishing p.41 What did mom borrow from work? toilet paper p.44 When did they move out of their house? After 1st grade p.91 What is jiving? lying p.97 Who liked to sleep in Jackson's box? Aretha p.103 Jackson met a kid who lived in what type of car? A Volks Wagon Beetle In the book Crenshaw, who is the author ?. ![]() ![]() ![]() Courtney Sullivan Wasnt sure at first but really enjoyed it. Two stories: one in which a couple adopts a chimp, the other in which research chimps narrate their story with some made-up language. ![]() Her favorite thing to do is to make clothes for children. A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam Weird book, hard to get into, sometimes incredibly interesting other times just frustrating. Her hobbies are reading, sewing, and needlework. Since ending the BSC series in 2000, Ann’s writing has concentrated on single novels, many of which are set in the 1960s.Īfter living in New York City for many years, Ann moved to the Hudson Valley in upstate New York where she now lives with her dog, Sadie, and her cats, Gussie, Willy and Woody. They inspired her to become a writer herself. Travers, Hugh Lofting, Astrid Lindgren, and Roald Dahl. ![]() Some of her favorite authors at that time were Lewis Carroll, P. Even before she was old enough to write, she would dictate stories to her mother to write down for her. Sometimes Ann names her characters after people she knows, and other times she simply chooses names that she likes.Īnn has always enjoyed writing. But many of her characters are based on real people. All of Ann's characters, even the members of the Baby-sitters Club, are made up. Many are written about contemporary problems or events. Some are based on personal experiences, while others are based on childhood memories and feelings. She's now a full-time writer.Īnn gets the ideas for her books from many different places. After graduating from Smith College, Ann became a teacher and then an editor of children's books. She grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, with her parents and her younger sister, Jane. ![]() Ann Matthews Martin was born on August 12, 1955. ![]() ![]() Additionally, the system can achieve high detection accuracy while being self-powered by ambient light. OptoSense supports this framework through example applications ranging from object use and indoor traffic detection, to liquid sensing and multitouch input. To situate the novelty of OptoSense among prior work and highlight the generalizability of the approach, we propose a design framework of ambient light sensing surfaces, enabling implicit activity sensing and explicit interactions in a wide range of use cases with varying sensing dimensions (0D, 1D, 2D), fields of view (wide, narrow), and perspectives (egocentric, allocentric). We present OptoSense, a general-purpose self-powered sensing system which senses ambient light at the surface level of everyday objects as a high-fidelity signal to infer user activities and interactions. ![]() Battery-powered sensors require user maintenance, preventing practical ubiquitous sensor deployment. Existing solutions with cameras can be privacy-invasive. Ubiquitous computing requires robust and sustainable sensing techniques to detect users for explicit and implicit inputs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Facts are a lot less compelling than the dictates of the lizard brain. Over the course of only three days, fear and panic led the stock market to plummet $20 billion only to boomerang back up a day later. A lesson from the 1962 Flash Crash:Īt their core, humans are basically emotional, irrational beings. But if you’re in it for the key lessons from Business Adventures rather than the book’s elegant prose, we’ve rounded up a few for you here. We agree that the 12 case studies that comprise Business Adventures resist summary. “Brooks wrote long articles that frame an issue, explore it in depth, introduce a few compelling characters, and show how things went for them… Unlike a lot of today’s business writers, Brooks didn’t boil his work down into pat how-to lessons or simplistic explanations for success.” Penned by a long-time New Yorker contributor, one of the main strengths of Business Adventures is its wonderful prose and stories. ![]() Business Adventures’ lessons are about human nature in the context of business, and though technologies and best practices change, people never do. Perhaps above all, Business Adventures teaches lessons about people – how they act, what makes them thrive and flounder, and what devilry they’re likely to get up to if left to their own devices. ![]() Business Adventures details 12 critical moments in American industry, including the rise of Xerox and Piggly Wiggly, the Ford Edsel fiasco, and the GE and Texas Gulf Sulphur scandals. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and Ian McKellen have also slipped into Holmes’ shoes in recent times) is no news to you, but also consider ITV’s Maigret adaptation (2016-2017), which starred none other than Rowan Atkinson in the titular role. The easily found testimony for this will be the many numbers of high-budget productions with celebrity stars playing age-old classic detective figures – Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes (Holmes is the hot stuff no wonder, as Robert Downey Jr. The saving grace, as always, has been other focused thriller frameworks – be it genre-blending of mystery and psychological horror, greater artistic merit and emphasis on atmospheric and cinematographic elements, or the good old detective tale with a well-mapped plot.įor the last of the above mentioned, there have no doubt been a number of takes with original scriptwriting, and we have had some superb writing in original productions over the years, no doubt, but the fact of the matter remains that the bigger money and appeal still seems to fixate on adaptations. ![]() Spy thrillers have been an easy practice dummy for parodies over the ages, but cop procedurals are almost unanimously agreed upon to be a subgenre where things will inevitably go south, and the many fundamental pitfalls of it begin to show promptly when producers push for a sustained run on a single franchise. Stepping over from non-scripted to scripted territory, things get somewhat finicky (and hit-or-miss) when one gets to the bulk of the output here: cop procedurals. ![]() |