![]() ![]() ![]() In this book, Williams observes magnificent ancient cave art in France and Spain that signals a deep respect and admiration for horses well before they were domesticated visits the mountains of Wyoming with experts in equine behavior to understand the dynamics of free-roaming mustangs celebrates the Takhi horses of Mongolia and more. Indeed, recent scientific breakthroughs regarding the social and cognitive capacities of the horse and its ability to adapt to changing ecosystems indicate that this animal is a major evolutionary triumph. ![]() Williams chronicles the 56-million-year journey of horses as she visits with experts around the world, exploring what our biological affinities and differences can tell us about the bond between horses and humans, and what our longtime companion might think and feel. In The Horse, journalist and equestrienne Wendy Williams brings that story brilliantly to life. Horses have a story to tell, one of resilience, sociability, and intelligence, and of partnership with human beings. ![]()
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![]() Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and you’ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. ![]() without a single repeat!īased on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every night. ![]() With Rachael Ray’s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, you’ll have everyone at your table saying “Yummo!” 365 days a year.Įven your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when it’s in constant rotation, so mix it up! Food Network’s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees you’ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year. ![]() ![]() "Made no mistake they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. It is also an intelligent, thoughtful, and occasionally humorous book about the intersection between humans, disease, public health and the animal kingdom. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic explores the science behind human pandemics, and is a culmination of decades-long interest in animals, biology and travel. ![]() ![]() After all, there’s a reason he is has been given an Academy Award in Literature and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Alright, maybe he isn’t a diviner maybe he merely pays attention to the scientists around him. He appears to have predicted the 2014 Ebola outbreak and ability to country jump years before it happened. I do think SARS was scary as a healthcare provider because it seemed to circumvent standard isolation and had a high fatality rate.ĭavid Quammen is prescient. I thought the topic might give me heebie-jeebies, but it mostly didn't, except when it comes to traveling to China, Bangladesh or West Africa. And check out the comments below from 2016. ![]() ![]() Don't say David Quammen didn't tell you so. 2020 Update: Well, here we go, 2020 Covid pandemic. ![]() ![]() It was William who gave his youngest brother an airplane, and after Dean’s tragic death, William helped to raise his niece. ![]() This deeply felt memoir explores the close relationship between Dean’s uncle and her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, a barnstormer killed at age twenty-eight during an air show four months before she was born. She also reveals wonderfully entertaining and intimate stories and anecdotes about her family-in particular her uncle William, or “Pappy,” with whom she shared colorful, sometimes utterly frank, sometimes whimsical, conversations and experiences. In Every Day by the Sun, Dean Faulkner Wells recounts the story of the Faulkners of Mississippi, whose legacy includes pioneers, noble and ignoble war veterans, three never-convicted murderers, the builder of the first railroad in north Mississippi, the founding president of a bank, an FBI agent, four pilots (all brothers), and a Nobel Prize winner, arguably the most important American novelist of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() The next chapter focuses on Gilda’s time in San Francisco in 1890. Bird and the original Gilda teach her many things, and eventually turn her into a vampire. The original Gilda takes her to the brothel that she owns, where Gilda meets another vampire named Bird. ![]() Gilda’s story starts in Louisiana in 1850, when she meets the woman whose name she adopts and who gives her eternal life as she herself is escaping her Mississippi plantation. As we read about Gilda, we follow her through small episodes in her 200 year life as a vampire. The book follows the life of Gilda, an escaped slave turned vampire as she discovers what makes people human through herself and the relationships she forms. The Gilda Stories is an expansive novel which explores various aspects of humanity from a non-human point of view. ![]() ![]() Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred from his missions at any cost.until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he's never known before. Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed nearly too dangerous, too ruthless.and if he isn't careful, he'll lose his wings. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have. ![]() ![]() ![]() That book became a bestseller in 2013, nominated for the Folio prize and the Wellcome prize. The Bolivia story was set aside as Toews answered an urgent need to write All My Puny Sorrows, a tragicomic story of one sister’s life and death, told by the one left behind. As Women Talking sat nascent in Toews’s mind, her sister Marjorie killed herself on the railway tracks in Steinbach where her father, Melvin, had done the same 12 years earlier. Could be right out of The Handmaid’s Tale.”īut the timing of the release is coincidence, not prescience, because the novel was a long time coming. Comparisons to the newly hot The Handmaid’s Tale were already likely (not just bonnets but the patriarchy) and became inevitable when Margaret Atwood tweeted: “ Don’t miss this one!. The slim book drops into the cultural conversation around sexual assault like an exclamation mark: “#MennoniteMeToo” remarked one reader. ![]() It’s a dense, eerie, darkly funny novel that reads like a tightly constructed short story. Toews’s eighth book, Women Talking, is a fictional account of eight women gathering in the wake of the men’s arrests to decide a course of action. ![]() Rigid and righteous … the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach, Manitoba. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Abu Ali is born, the Genie of the Lamp announces that his destiny has already been foretold he was the one chosen to break the spell of the Land of Green Ginger and restore the Magician - turned into a Button-Nosed Tortoise by a spell that went wrong - to his normal shape. The Land of Green Ginger is the story of Prince Abu Ali, the son of the Emperor Aladdin of China. This well-known and well-loved fantasy adventure was written by Noel Langley, the screenwriter for The Wizard of Oz, and contains original Edward Ardizzone illustrations throughout. When Abu Ali is born, the Genie of the Lamp announces that his destiny has already been foretold he was the one chosen to break the spell of the Land of Green Ginger and restore the Magician - turned into a Button-Nosed Tortoise by a spell that. ![]() ![]() In a 1988 interview with campus radio station WKCR, he said student opinions about university policy did matter to him, but if they were offered without reasoned explanations, then they meant no more to him than if a majority of students liked strawberries. "When decisions begin to be made democratically around here, I will not be here any longer." Deane concluded with what students widely mocked as "the strawberry statement": "Whether students vote 'yes' or 'no' on a given issue means as much to me as if they were to tell me they like strawberries." ĭeane frequently said that he had been misunderstood on the matter. It was the journal of James Simon Kunen (called Simon in the movie), who was a jock at Columbia when the student uprising got started, and half-heartedly joined. "A university is definitely not a democratic institution," he added. Speaking about the role of students in university policy, Deane said that "student or faculty opinion should not in itself have any influence on the formation of administrative policy". ![]() Operating Procedure: Notes of a Draft-Age American (James S. ![]() ![]() The book's title was a reference to a statement made by Herbert Deane, vice dean of Graduate Faculties, in an April 1967 interview with Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper. James Simon Kunen and The Strawberry Statement The year 1968 was a year to be. The Strawberry Statement is a non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen, written when he was 19, which chronicled his experiences at Columbia University from 1966–1968, particularly the April 1968 protests and takeover of the office of the dean of Columbia by student protesters. ![]() ![]() ![]() "What an interesting education you must have had." - butler Alfred Pennyworth "Tonight I met the man who's been murdering Gotham's gang bosses. He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. ![]() ![]() Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() |