![]() ![]() Her short comics have been published by the New York Times, Vertigo, and in several anthologies, including Flight and DC Comics’ Gotham Academy Yearbook. Forthcoming projects include two graphic novels, Compass South and Knife’s Edge (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) and, starting in July 2016, a reimagining of DC Comics’ Batgirl. Originally solicited as a four issue mini-series it was later changed to an. 1 3.92 (5,741 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback Goldie Vance English By (author) Hope Larson, Illustrated by Brittney Williams List price: US9.99 Currently unavailable See our Closure FAQs Add to wishlist AbeBooks may have this title (opens in new window). ![]() Hope Larson is the New York Times bestselling author of six graphic novels, notably her graphic novel adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time(Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and co-creator of BOOM! Studios’ Goldie Vance. Goldie Vance 12 issues Volume Published by Boom Studios. Theres a new sleuth on the block Sixteen-year-old Marigold Goldie Vance lives at a Florida. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At more than 600 pages, the book covers Einsteins entire life. These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. Isaacsons biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Einstein: His Life and Universe Walter Isaacson Simon and Schuster, Biography & Autobiography - 704 pages 13 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes. ![]() ![]() ![]() If nostalgia is rather ‘a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one’s life, to one’s home or homeland, or to one’s family and friends a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time’ – I would think of this story as of a profound melancholy, rather than a nostalgic one. Is the nostalgic feeling negative or positive? Is First love, the 1860 novella of which Turgenev by the end of his life thought of fondly as ‘the only thing that still gives me pleasure, because it is life itself, it was not made up….First Love is part of my experience’ - a tale of nostalgia? If nostalgia means ‘the pain from an old wound’, a feeling in which bitter-sweetness is preponderant, the novella certainly is a nostalgic one. Reading First love made me wonder on the nature of nostalgia. O sweet feelings, soft sounds, goodness and peace of a moved spirit, the melting joy of the first tender emotions of love - where are you, where are you? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In it, he frankly and exuberantly exposed the various deceptions and "humbugs" of his early business life. In 1854, at the strikingly early age of 44, Barnum penned the first edition of his autobiography. Barnum: The Legend and the Man (1989), much of the fault for the showman's lasting reputation lies with Barnum himself. Saxon points out in his superb biography, P.T. ![]() He was, in other words, one of the pioneers of business ethics.Īs A.H. Indeed, he was among the first to appreciate fully-and to articulate-that an honest approach was the most reliable path to long-term wealth. In fact, not only did the great showman never make the statement, but it would have been wildly out of character for him to have uttered it.Ĭontrary to his popular image, Barnum generally conducted his business enterprises in a virtuous manner, respecting his customers and making sure they were satisfied. Barnum (1810-1891) is best known as a consummate charlatan whose perspective on life and business is summed up in the contemptuous contention, "There's a sucker born every minute." It is testimony to the power of first impressions that this popular image persists even though it is very substantially wrong. Barnum: Written by Himself, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 404 pages, $14.95 paper ![]() ![]() ![]() At this vision's core is Universal Basic Income, the concept of providing all citizens with a guaranteed income-and one that is rapidly gaining popularity among forward-thinking politicians and economists. In The War on Normal People, Yang imagines a different future - one in which having a job is distinct from the capacity to prosper and seek fulfillment. The future looks dire-but is it unavoidable? The consequences are these trends are already being felt across our communities in the form of political unrest, drug use, and other social ills. Rapidly advancing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation software are making millions of Americans' livelihoods irrelevant. ![]() In The War on Normal People, Andrew Yang paints a dire portrait of the American economy. In a future marked by restlessness and chronic unemployment, what will happen to American society? One recent estimate predicts 13 million American workers will lose their jobs within the next seven years-jobs that won't be replaced. The shift toward automation is about to create a tsunami of unemployment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander, DeGruy wrote in her 2001 doctoral thesis that African Americans "sustained traumatic injury as a direct result of slavery and continue to be injured by traumas caused by the larger society's policies of inequality, racism, and oppression." : 91–92 This is summed up in Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome as: The book was first published by Uptone Press in Milwaukie, Oregon in 2005, with a later re-release by the author in 2017.Įxpanding on a hypothesis of "post-traumatic slavery syndrome" by psychiatrist Alvin Francis Poussaint and journalist Amy L. The book argues that the experience of slavery in the United States and the continued discrimination and oppression endured by African Americans creates intergenerational psychological trauma, leading to a psychological and behavioral syndrome common among present-day African Americans, manifesting as a lack of self-esteem, persistent feelings of anger, and internalized racist beliefs. ![]() Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing is a 2005 theoretical work by Joy DeGruy Leary. Transgenerational trauma, Racial inequality in the United States, Racism in the United States 2005 Theoretical book by Joy DeGruy Leary ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Roger Hobbs is certainly a name to look out for from now on and the narrator Jake Weber did a pretty good job too. It is an excellent book and a worthy award winner. The San Francisco Chronicle Detail and pacing- Ghostman is great at both. The New York Journal of Books Richly imagined and darkly facinating. Never knowing what will come next makes Ghostman a true nailbiter. ![]() This is a novel that's just packed full of baddies! They're all up to no good and there's no room for heroes, at least in the conventional sense. Ghostman is a slam bang, gritty, down and dirty, law breaking journey into the underworld in which honor among thieves is a serious joke. If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? The bank heist that takes place in a sky-scraper. More importantly, it doesn't at all confuse the listener.You'll find both stories compelling in their own rights. Don't let this put you off because this is done SO skilfully that it really does lend a special 'edge' to the overall story and makes the listening something special as it all unwinds. In 2013, with the support of his agent Nat Sobel and his editor Gary Fisketjon, Rogers crime novel, Ghostman, was published by Alfred A. What I like best is the way the author weaves together the current plot and story-line together with another from the past. If you could sum up Ghostman in three words, what would they be? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The film stars Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz and Tim Roth as Guildenstern, although a running theme throughout has many characters, themselves included, uncertain as to which is which. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.įilmed around Zagreb, Croatia and in Brežice Castle, Slovenia, the movie won the Golden Lion at the 47th Venice International Film Festival. ![]() They encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Like the play, the film depicts two minor characters from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead is a 1990 tragicomedy film written and directed by Tom Stoppard based on his 1966 play of the same name. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many are the heroes who stand at the forefront of this endless fight against evil, but few names conjure up as much awe and respect as the legendary commissar Ciaphas Cain. In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, mankind’s mighty Imperium is threatened on all sides by its enemies – brutal orks, ravening tyranid hordes and the corrupt armies of Chaos. ![]() These outrageous adventures of the Imperium’s most heroic Commissar have never been collected in an omnibus before – so it’s the perfect time to grab them and reacquaint yourself with Cain. The tyranids may just be the greatest threat the Imperium has ever faced, voracious extragalactic monsters intent on devouring all life… but they’ve never had to contend with Commissar Cain! These three novels tell tales of Cain vs the tyranids – plus there are t’au and zombies too! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Words like, Duty, Honor and most of all-Love. ![]() The more Henry gets to know Sarah Mirabelle Zinnia Von Titebottum, the more enamored he becomes of her simple beauty, her strength, her kind spirit…and her naughty sense of humor.īut Rome wasn’t built in a day-and irresponsible royals aren’t reformed overnight.Īs he endeavors to right his wrongs, old words take on whole new meanings for the dashing Prince. While Henry revels in the sexy, raunchy antics of the contestants as they fight, literally, for his affection, it’s the quiet, bespectacled girl in the corner-with the voice of an angel and a body that would tempt a saint-who catches his eye. Only one will win the diamond tiara, only one will capture the handsome prince’s heart. After a chance meeting with an American television producer, Henry finally makes a decision all on his own:Ī reality TV dating game show featuring twenty of the world’s most beautiful blue bloods gathered in the same castle. Hoping to force her grandson to rise to the occasion, Queen Lenora goes on a much-needed safari holiday-and when the Queen’s away, the Prince will play. Henry Charles Albert Edgar Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap. Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Kobo | BAM! | IndieBound ROYALLY MATCHED (Royally #2) by Emma Chase ![]() |