![]() ![]() He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. ![]() William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. ![]() Eloquently and entertainingly described, as well as richly illustrated, science has never been more involving or entertaining. Now, in this handsome new edition, Bill Bryson’s words are supplemented by full-color artwork that explains in visual terms the concepts and wonder of science, at the same time giving face to the major players in the world of scientific study. The result is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Taking as his territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. In A Short History of Nearly Everything, the bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, confronts his greatest challenge to understand-and, if possible, answer-the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. This new edition of the acclaimed bestseller is lavishly illustrated to convey, in pictures as in words, Bill Bryson’s exciting, informative journey into the world of science. ![]()
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![]() But when detective Jimmy Perez and his colleagues from the mainland insist on opening out the investigation, a veil of suspicion and fear is thrown over the entire community. The locals on the quiet island stubbornly focus their gaze on one man - loner and simpleton Magnus Tait. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor, Catherine Ross. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is a cold January morning, and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. ![]() Like Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse or Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks, Cleeves' new detective, Inspector Jimmy Perez, is a very private and perceptive man whose bailiwick is a remote hamlet in the Shetland Islands. ![]() Long a celebrated crime writer in Britain, Ann Cleeves' fame went international when she won the coveted Duncan Lawrie Dagger for this amazing suspense novel, Raven Black. ![]() ![]() One day the horse-van of Charles (Charlie) Sloggett pulled into St Arnaud and set up an old tent with a sign, 'The Incomparable Sloggetts'. In his own partial biography, 'The Magician Dreams', Keith wrote: "Those years taught me how to be tough and sleep out in all weathers and go without food, and travel and mix with all sorts of people and how to entertain those people in all sorts of conditions." During the Depression years, with work scarce for his father and a large family to feed, Keith decided it was best to leave school at 13 to find work on local farms. Keith Oswald Clyde Abson (6 June 1912 to 29 September 1988) grew up as the second eldest of 10 children in the rural towns of Wedderburn and St Arnaud in Victoria. ![]() ![]() ![]() This amazed the young boy and triggered a lifelong passion for the wonderment of magic. In the dusty streets of central Victoria, a man stood in front of a young boy with a playing card in his hands, slowly tore it into pieces, and then with magic, put it back together as new. ![]() ![]() In clarifying what she thinks about the English war exertion, especially their flying corps, Julie starts recounting to the account of her closest companion, Maddie, a pilot. She is given two weeks to keep in touch with her admission, after which she will be executed or sent to a death camp. She has endured outrageous and horrible torments. From the earliest starting point, she admits that she is a quitter, and that she is going to advise the Nazis all that she knows to keep away from further cross examination. In epistolary structure, she thinks of her “admission,” spreading out all she knows of the English war exertion, in return for better treatment. ![]() ![]() ![]() The initial segment of the novel is told by Verity, Otherwise known as Julie Beaufort-Stuart, a Scottish noble and spy, as of now being held by the Nazi’s in the city of Ormaie inside involved France. Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth Wein, works on a few levels: as a recorded novel itemizing the WW endeavors of two English ladies-a government agent and a pilot-behind adversary lines in involved France as a spine chiller, with a curving plot and as a story about growing up for two ladies, who are still young people when they meet and become companions over the span of their war work. ![]() ![]() ![]() It gives us a glimpse, but doesn’t capture the spirit of his life. Unfortunately, the last stroke was fatal.īut this short summary of Wainaina’s life from birth to death, doesn’t do him justice. He even signed contracts for two new books and in 2018 announced, on Facebook, that he was in love and getting married to his Nigerian partner in South Africa. Every time he fought hard to recover, remained optimistic. On World Aids Day 2016 he announced on Twitter that he was HIV positive “but happy”. In the midst of virulent social and political homophobia, he published an intimate, autobiographical literary story, “ I am a Homosexual, Mum”. He came out as gay in 2014, at a time when African countries like Uganda and Nigeria were passing new anti-homosexuality bills. In 2011 he authored his acclaimed debut book, “ One Day I Will Write About This Place”. ![]() In 2007 he was awarded the title “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum which he declined because he preferred the freedom as a writer ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eventually marrying and caring for two children, the chance to co-author scripts with her sister brought Susanne into the writing profession full time. Born in Kent with her younger sister Caroline, the destined author would jot down ideas and short stories all through her young life. Her days are usually spent writing, going to the gym, or just blogging with her fanbase over theories and debates on the many memorable characters she's created.See more books by Caroline Peckham Susanne Valenti BiographyĪ lover of dystopian fiction and literature. Currently living just a few minutes from her parent's home in Kent, UK. Partnering with her sister Susanna, the pair have acted as each other's editors and critiques while coming out with multiple teen fantasy series. Creating storylines with characters created from her own imagination has kept the prolific author writing for the past decade and keeps her going through the long hours and writer's block. Encouraged by her Beatles obsessed, Tolkien fan father, Caroline went on to study Zoology but pursued writing as a career. ![]() A born-spirited reader, the young Peckham became enraptured by fantasy novels, waiting till midnight to read the latest Harry Potter release. ![]() Love In The Mafia Wars (2021) Author Biographies and Other Books Maggie Cole BiographySee more books by Maggie Cole Caroline Peckham Biographyīorn in the UK village of Kent, Caroline was unconsciously set to become a fiction writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only for Adam and Amelia, the truth is far more dangerous. ![]() ![]() But when their romantic trip takes a dark turn, they both start to wonder – can they trust the one they’re with? Because every couple tells little white lies. The remote location is perfect for what they have planned. An anniversary they’ll never forget.Īdam and Amelia are spending the weekend in the Scottish Highlands. Soon to be a Netflix series from the producer of The Crown The phenomenal new thriller from the bestselling author of Sometimes I Lie ‘Not just fiendish but positively Feeneyish – dark, ingenious and very clever’ Cara Hunter, author of Close to Home Ten years of marriage. ![]() ![]() The results are pretty striking: 96.4 percent of our genes match orangutans’, 97.7 percent match gorillas’ and 98.6 percent match chimpanzees’. ![]() However, exactly how genetically similar are we? Scientists can now analyze the human genome and find out just how alike we are to our wild cousins. It’s not hard to see similarities between humans and other primates. Big Idea #1: Science shows that humans are more genetically similar to other primates than previously thought. ![]() There’s also a theory about how language emerged, and it suggests that humans may have been better off as hunter-gatherers. Technology has made it possible to better understand humans, but the brutal truth about them is also important to know.Ĭhimpanzees are considered human by some taxonomists. They’re fascinating creatures that have been around for thousands of years, and they’re still evolving today. In fact, it may be more surprising that we aren’t closer to them than previously thought. It makes sense that we’re closely related to other primates, because they’re our closest evolutionary cousins. King Kong, Tarzan, Planet of the Apes and the orangutans at zoos are just some examples. People have been fascinated with apes for a long time. ![]() 1-Page Summary of The Third Chimpanzee Overview ![]() ![]() His sentences described off-kilter worlds we could admire but never hope to fully live in: “The Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() His early writing was pleasingly alien but didn’t always connect. He was a maximalist-Barry Hannah raised on Saturday-morning cartoons and optimism instead of alcohol and anger. For a while, SaundersLand was its own distant planet. It’s almost hard to fathom how a writer this good could get better. In earlier collections like CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996) and Pastoralia (2000), Saunders indulged a fascination with melancholy ghosts, death-filled theme parks, and near-future dystopias governed by commandment-slogans like Robust Economy, Super Moral Climate! These settings were crutches, if delightfully novel ones-“a mechanical way to force me into those weird situations where some voice has to come,” as Saunders once put it.īut you could know all this and still know almost nothing about Tenth of December, Saunders’s new story collection. ![]() By now, we know the George Saunders tool kit: his favored verbs, such as to “wonk.” His stylistic tics, such as “such as.” The arbitrarily capitalized phrases, copyrighted and trademarked: I CAN SPEAK! TM And we know the concerns those nouns and verbs betray: the encroachment of advertising into our emotional lives the juxtaposition of the casual and the colloquial with the profound the enthusiasm and earnest sincerity with which we lie to ourselves and others. ![]() ![]() “How many times have you been unable to fully enjoy a special moment because you couldn’t stop thinking about what was missing?” But he does suggest, rightly so, I think, that we “throw away the idea that you need to pause your life until you are fully healed.” Life is motion. His vision of self is a very healthy one. I can’t truly have a healthy relationship at any level if I don't understand myself first. Not trauma as we often think of it, perhaps, but the trauma of “jealousy, anger, doubt, and low self-worth.” And the recovery “is not about managing your emotions it is about managing your reactions to your emotions” because “our reactions tell us what our mind has internalized from our past experiences.” And since each and every one of us has different experiences, everything starts with self. ![]() There is material on self-awareness, personal relationships, and society at large, but it all comes back to self. ![]() I have never encountered this author or his work before reading this book but was not surprised to learn, after finishing the book, that he began his thoughtful journey during a meditation course focused on the self. ![]() |