"Even with the best of intentions, cruelty is just around the corner." Things can change, and they must.Ī new order and a new course will put in place the events the Moirai have sewn and destined to rip apart the foundations of the galaxy. Once Hope leaves this life, a moral obligation suddenly is no more. The past events-Daimones Trilogy Vol.2-revealed the crucial role the humans have in the galaxy organization.and made them aware of their strength. A new neurological drug, Fusion, is heavily produced on Eridu and has created the path for a rapid evolution of the new humans, richness and good fortune. The last humans-the 'spared ones'-have all died but Hope, the second of Dan Amenta's human daughters, though she's living her last days, too.ĭan has seen Earth become a different world as the new civilization rises. The first contact with the aliens led to the apocalypse-Daimones Trilogy Vol.1-and then put the seeds for a galactic upheaval, space wars againts aliens, and galactic empires struggles. Aliens have regenerated a new, transgenic species of humans called the Selected. In a dark future, a first contact and an alien colonization changes forever the destiny of the race of man.
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Increasing ocean noise levels from human activities are also a concern since the noise may interfere with right whale communication and increase their stress levels. Entanglement in fishing gear and vessel strikes are the leading causes of North Atlantic right whale mortality. (They got their name from being the "right" whales to hunt because they floated when they were killed.) Whaling is no longer a threat, but they have never recovered to pre-whaling numbers, and human interactions still present the greatest danger to this species. Right whales are baleen whales, feeding on copepods (tiny crustaceans) by straining huge volumes of ocean water through their baleen plates, which act like a sieve.īy the early 1890s, commercial whalers had hunted North Atlantic right whales to the brink of extinction. Two other species of right whales exist: the North Pacific right whale, which is found in the North Pacific Ocean, and the Southern right whale, which is found in the southern hemisphere. The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world’s most endangered large whale species the latest preliminary estimate suggests there are fewer than 350 remaining. Mary Roach is an American author, specializing in popular science. From the space shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new space capsule (cadaver filling in for astronaut), Roach takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can’t walk for a year? have sex? smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a space walk? Is it possible for the human body to survive a bailout at 17,000 miles per hour? To answer these questions, space agencies set up all manner of quizzical and startlingly bizarre space simulations.Īs Mary Roach discovers, it’s possible to preview space without ever leaving Earth. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void She is the author of Switch On Your Brain, Think and Eat Yourself Smart, The Perfect You, and Think, Learn, Succeed, among many other books and journal articles, and her videos, top-rated podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mess, and TV episodes have reached millions globally. Caroline Leaf is a communication pathologist and neuroscientist whose passion is to help people see the power of the mind to change the brain, control chaotic thinking, and find mental peace. In just sixty-three days, you can start to clean up your mental mess and be on the road to wholeness, peace, and happiness. Caroline Leaf's latest book provides a scientifically proven five-step plan, the Neurocycle, to find and eliminate the root of anxiety, depression, and intrusive thoughts in your life so you can experience dramatically improved mental and physical health. Backed by clinical research and illustrated with compelling case studies, Dr. There's hope and help available to us-and the road to healthier thoughts and peak happiness may actually be shorter than you think. But we shouldn't settle into this mental mess as if it's a new normal. Take charge of your runaway thoughts! Toxic thoughts, depression, anxiety-our mental mess is frequently aggravated by a chaotic world and sustained by an inability to manage our thought life. While women read romance novels for all sorts of reasons, the escape they offer – particularly during these times – cannot be overstated. It still delivers the fun of falling in love.” ‘Seasoned romance’ is a term people use, but they also just call it romance because it is just romance. “If the heroine’s passed her childbearing years, that takes out all the accidental pregnancy plots and the pressure to get married and have a baby, especially in historical books. “It’s really awesome the way it changes the story,” says Maya Rodale, author and former romance reviewer for NPR Books, of an older female lead. Book protagonists are becoming more diverse, and now, there are finally more “mature” female characters. Thanks in large part to social media, the genre - much maligned in the ‘80s and ‘90s - is moving past its Fabio phase. Something interesting is going on in the world of romance novels. (That this first Masterpiece series to prominently feature Black people is a slave narrative is unsurprising, and worthy of further examination in and of itself.)īorn into slavery on a sugarcane plantation, July gets taken from her mother as a child simply because the owner’s sister Caroline (Atwell) spots her out in the fields and thinks she’s cute. “The Long Song,” an adaptation of Andrea Levy’s 2010 novel, not only centers a very specific Black character and experience, but deliberately dares any skittish viewers expecting something quite different to look away. Outside of something like Andrew Davies’ 2019 “Sanditon” adaptation, which cast Crystal Clarke as a Jane Austen character born in the West Indies, there really haven’t been any PBS Masterpiece dramas that spotlight Black characters, let alone have them steer the entire series. That the tragic heroine of this story is Black slave July ( Tamara Lawrance) rather than her corseted white mistress - played by period drama veteran Hayley Atwell, no less - immediately marks “The Long Song” as a very different kind of Masterpiece series. It looks how there came about such holiday traditions as Santa Claus, Christmas trees and trimmings, gift-giving and charity-giving, Christmas cards and wrappings. This book describes the evolution of Christmas celebration in America since the early 17th century. It is a time of public displays, illuminated department stores, and the showing of popular films such as Miracle on 34th Street, and It's a Wonderful Life. Twentieth-century America often seems obsessed with the idea of Christmas. Throughout his work Hickman will play with a lot of ideas that Bendis introduces during his Avengers run, so it pays to be familiar with those stories. Try not to be overwhelmed, if I think anything is truly worthwhile it will be in bold. I’ve included lots of notes so you can get an idea as to whether it’s worth your time, depending on what you’re interested in. You can pick and choose more freely but there are quite a few titles that are relevant to the larger story that will add to the experience. This isn’t just an Avengers list it’s basically everything Hickman has done at Marvel. This one is more complicated than normal Hickman is known for drawing on a lot of other peoples work to create his own super-story. This list is more than just an Avengers reading order, it is designed to show you the links between his stories and other peoples. Before he wrote Avengers he did a few other notable stories for Marvel, and all of them feed into each other in some way. Jonathan Hickman is coming to the end of his run on Avengers, and about to start the summer event Secret Wars, which will impact pretty much every Marvel title in the universe. TikTok video from LINDSEY | BOOKTOK✨□□ "Jafar brought alllll the □ in this book! 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For me this book was like if Neon Gods + Vipers and Virtuosos or Haunting Adeline had a baby ✨ □: Desperate Measures by (Wicked Villains series) In short, Shakespeare invented our understanding of ourselves. How to understand Shakespeare, whose ability so far exceeds his predecessors and successors, whose genius has defied generations of critics’ explanations, whose work is of greater influence in the modern age even than the Bible? This book is a visionary summation of Harold Bloom’s reading of Shakespeare and in it he expounds a brilliant and far-reaching critical theory: that Shakespeare was, through his dramatic characters, the inventor of human personality as we have come to understand it. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare’s genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays. Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of The Western Canon, has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about and teaching Shakespeare. |