![]() ![]() ![]() Who am I kidding? I pester him for the manuscript as soon as he turns things in. I have read everything he’s written at this point and while I love a lot of my other author friends, he’s one of the few whose books I leap on the moment they come out. So now he exists in two forms in my head. He had me crying within the first ten pages. I was hesitant, because it was military SF, which is not usually my jam. Redshirts is way in the future of this story. You want to read their work and you are also terrified to read it, because what if it sucks? The novel that everyone was talking about was Old Man’s War, which is not this book. There’s a thing that happens when all of your friends are writers. ![]() What I do remember was thinking, “I need to read one of his books.” I honestly don’t remember what we talked about, because we talked for hours over a huge range of subjects. What struck me was that he was clever and funny, but that he also used that humor to make points about real things that were important. He was nominated for it, but I’d never heard of him or anything he’d written. I met John Scalzi at a writers’ conference when he was already well known for his blog, Whatever, but before he had won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on history, medicine, science and legend, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain, enlighten and alarm even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers. Menacing botanical illustrations render a ghastly portrait of evildoers that may be lurking in your back (or front) garden. Bestselling author Amy Stewart takes on two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations in an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate and otherwise offend. Wicked Plants The A-Z Of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise OffendĪ tree that sheds poison daggers a glinting red seed that stops the heart a shrub that causes paralysis a climbing plant that strangles and a leaf that triggered a war. I love being in the garden, so reading anything gardening related really grabs my attention. This book struck my interest right away, as I also love gardening and run a gardening and frugal living blog. Today’s book review is Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend by Amy Stewart. While I do love a good novel, I find more joy expanding my knowledge with a reference book, especially ones that stand out as a bit different on the bookshelf. Collecting books from my travels, as gifts from friends and scouring charity shops for great new reads. ![]() ![]() Read this book and learn the real story of Batman’s origins. It took both the strong writing and unique characterization by Bill Finger along with the amazing illustrations of Bob Kane for Batman to have become one of the most famous and beloved superheroes. Arrives by Thu, Mar 16 Buy Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, Pre-Owned Hardcover 1580892892 9781580892896 Marc Tyler Nobleman at. Nobleman’s book attempts to right a wrong and bring proper credit to Bill Finger as one of the two true creators of Batman. The illustrator Bob Kane convinced Bill Finger to write the stories about Batman without receiving any credit and also without receiving as much money as was going to Bob. Comic books were a fairly new type of literature at the time Batman was being created therefore, there wasn’t much history about how writers and illustrators should share credit for their work. How did this happen? Marc Tyler Nobelman reports on the anonymity into which Bill Finger fell while actually being the one to write the stories, breathing life into this super hero. ![]() While the picture of Batman is so well known, it is the writing behind that illustration that truly brings the Dark Knight to life. And it is The book is about the essential role of a writer named Bill Finger in. ![]() Bob Kane is credited as the creator, but he is the illustrator only. In 2012, I called Bill the Boy Wonder, by Marc Tyler Nobleman, one of the year’s best Jewish children’s books. How would you feel if you created one of the most famous of all comic book characters, but everyone thought someone else was his creator? It just doesn’t seem right, does it? Unfortunately, that is exactly what happened to Bill Finger, the creator of the character known as Batman. ![]() ![]() ![]() The presenter, Professor Gqola, is a UCT alumnus. The title of this year’s lecture is “Between Academic Inheritance and the Urgency of Definitions”. It is not only about hearing a new idea but also about considering the possible consequences of that idea, and the consequences of how we put that idea into action. ![]() They are about how we respond to power, and how we exercise our own power as responsible citizens. ![]() The annual lecture is a space that honours dissent and the intelligent expression of different points of view, and I commend the members of the AFC for opening up this UCT platform to different voices.Īcademic freedom, and the freedom of expression that is enshrined in the constitution, are intended to help us as South Africans to rebuild our country. The lecture is organised by the Academic Freedom Committee (AFC), who invite distinguished speakers to address a theme related to academic and human freedom. Now in its 52nd year of existence, the TB Davie Memorial Lecture was established by students at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to commemorate the work of TB Davie, Vice-Chancellor of the university from 1948 to 1955 and a defender of the principles of academic freedom. Professor Gqola, with her extensive work on women’s rights, is the perfect candidate to speak during Women’s Month. The 2018 TB Davie Memorial Lecture will be presented by Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola, the Dean of Research at the University of Fort Hare. ![]() ![]() ![]() They go from having a one night stand, to becoming friends who are fake dating, to falling in love. She panics and tells the girls he's her boyfriend, and there the fake dating begins. Her teammates/roommates don't respond to her well. After a scandal at her last school, she's transferred to Valley her senior year to play volleyball. ![]() Nate has responsibilities and a past, but he's a really fun-loving guy.Ĭhloe is a new character to the series and is an athlete herself. He's Gabby's best friend and has something in his past that haunts him. We don't know much about him, but in the last book, I feel like we got a bit of insight. Nate is one of the guys on the team with Wes, Joel, and Zeke. ![]() I love new adult and I love sports romance, so this series has been a real win for me. The Fake is the fourth book in Rebecca Jenshak's 'Smart Jocks' sports romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen’s the kind of character who says things like: “Sometimes I wonder, if I were a character in a book, would I be sympathetic? Would I make a good good guy?” This is a guy who’s a bit of a sociopath to begin with, so that’s saying something. ![]() He has just recently begun his senior season on the college wrestling team and he is obsessively focused on one thing and one thing only: winning.Īs his season progresses and he pursues his quest for greatness, Stephen’s mind spirals further off the deep end and his narration becomes more unreliable. Stephen is one of the strangest and most disturbing characters I’ve encountered in quite some time. And yet it’s not the kind of book I would recommend to just anyone. This book is absolutely mesmerizing and unlike anything I’ve ever read. After reading several lackluster books recently about college-age protagonists meandering through life, I’ve come to the conclusion that I only really enjoy these kinds of stories when the characters have a truly distinct voice. ![]() ![]() Please see authors website for full details. This is a DARK romance and therefore comes with a content warning. And the start of our reign over the girl who wanted us dead.Ī dark why choose polyamorous (MFMMM) contemporary retelling of the four horsemen of the apocalypse set in Sarah Bailey's Dark Universe with cliffhangers and a HEA in the final book. The moment she stepped through the doors of Fortuity, it was the beginning of her end. If she knew what was good for her, she would have never come back. Scarlett couldn't remember who we'd been to her, but we recalled her all too well. ![]() ![]() One day she returned to the city and sought us out. The only trace of her was dust in the wind. She was one of us until she was ripped away from her life. If you have questions about my books or would like the reading order Click Here for FAQs. For specific content warnings Click Here. ![]() No one knows where we came from nor how we got our name.ĭrake, Francis, West and I rule the financial industry like kings. Many of my books contain sensitive content/subject manner. ![]() ![]() Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts. minority of Berkeley's 25,000 students had already become engaged in political activity through the civil rights movement, and also in organizing opposition to Sen. Thus, as veteran socialist and Free Speech Movement participant Joel Geier explained in an interview for : In July 1964, students also protested the Republican National Convention on the outskirts of San Francisco. Between late 1963 and early 1964, dozens of students were among the hundreds arrested in protests against racist discrimination at businesses in the Bay Area. Students at the UC campus were involved in civil rights organizing and community struggles, such as against discriminatory hiring practices. It was a campaign led by radicals and revolutionaries who were determined to defeat segregation on the way to a more just and equal society.ĭespite its liberal image, Berkeley in the 1960s was characterized by Jim Crow racism. ![]() ![]() NOW OFFICIALLY celebrated by the institution it fought against, the Free Speech Movement that shook the University of California (UC) Berkeley in 1964 wasn't about an abstract principle. ![]() ![]() In some ways, the role of images in science publishing hasn’t changed much over the past 150 years. For instance, in 1896, Nature published physicist Wilhelm Röntgen’s first X-ray plates 1 in the 1920s, maps to debate Alfred Wegener’s theory of continental drift 2 and in 1968, the graphs that described astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s discovery of pulsars 3. Over the years, Nature adapted through its succession of editors, with, in recent decades, ‘sister’ journals carving out their own space in increasingly specialized scientific disciplines. The banner, if not the subtitle, remained on Nature’s front page until just after the Second World War. ![]() (The artist might have been engraver James Davis Cooper, who illustrated Charles Darwin’s 1872 book Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals.) Under the masthead were the words ‘A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science’. When it came on the market in November 1869, Nature stated its commitment to the visual with a beautifully drawn masthead showing Earth emerging from clouds. Thus, communicating research has always been predicated on combining image and text to share discoveries, ideas and observations. It pivots on the material - whether that is an atom, a gene, a crystal, a whale or a distant galaxy. Science is a fundamentally visual endeavour. ![]() ![]() Norman Lockyer’s figure of a solar spectrum, published in the first issue of Nature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Otherwise, we have created a very dangerous system, where a very large part of the population feel that they are not gaining from globalisation-they are not gaining in particular from European integration-and that people at the top, large corporations or people with high wealth and high income, get a better deal because the system in a way was organised so that they can just click on a button and transfer their wealth to another jurisdiction and nobody can follow them. ![]() It has to come with some common tax system, so that the most mobile and most powerful economic actors have to contribute to the common good-at least as much a proportion of their wealth and of their income as the middle class and the lower socio-economic groups. The circulation of investment is, of course, not bad in itself but it has to come with an automatic transmission of information about who owns what and where. It was organised via particular international treaties and we have to rewrite these treaties. ![]() Free capital flow is not something that came from the sky-it was created by us. Thomas Piketty: We have to rethink the way we organise globalisation. ![]() |