![]() ![]() The search continues.Ītlantis is a legendary lost city that has captured the imagination of people for centuries. But stories of the lost city continue to intrigue explorers across the globe. The reality is you can find these all over the place: look at crystals and different sorts of basalt formations. When you first look at the Bimini Road, it does look a lot like some artificial structure, but that impression comes from the wrong idea that in nature, you’re not going to find a lot of straight lines and highly ordered structures. But many geologists insist the Bimini Road is simply a natural formation. Many believe Atlantis had been found at last. ![]() ![]() The theories of its location range from the coast of Ireland to the Azores Islands. Legend said 12000 years ago, and it disappeared suddenly in a single day and night. Most people consider Atlantis a highly technologically advanced civilization with space travel, automobiles, and submarines. The lost city of Atlantis was said to be the world’s first advanced civilization and powerful kingdom. ![]()
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![]() They also allege a 14th Amendment violation citing the Equal Protection Clause, because the challenged books are disproportionately titles by nonwhite and/or LGBTQ+ authors and explore diverse stories and themes. Joined by free-speech advocacy group PEN America and several authors and parents, Penguin Random House filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Escambia County School District and its school board, alleging they were violating the 1st Amendment by scrubbing library shelves of books based on a political or ideological disagreement with the ideas the books express. ![]() A lawyer for the publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House told The Times it was suing to stop “one of the most unsubtle attempts at viewpoint discrimination” ever seen. This week, a book publisher - the largest in the world - entered the fray. ![]() As school library book bans proliferate across the country, the resistance is becoming more organized. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is definitely sweet, but eating too much of it will induce episodes of barfing. JENNA & JONAH'S FAUXMANCE is the type of novel that would correspond to some sort of crème-filled chocolate doughnut in the delightful world of food. Among the blessed quietness that accompanies obscurity, Charlie and Fielding proceed to discover something surprising: they really don't know each other at all. It isn't until the paparazzi pick up on a vicious rumor about the pair that they are forced to escape to an obscure beach house to ride out the publicity wave. What do you even expect? The two have been practically glued at the hip against their will for the last four years as promotion for their popular hit tween TV show Jenna & Jonah's How to Be a Rock Star. ![]() Reviewed by Cinnamon for Ĭharlie hates Fielding, and vice versa. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing and plot development are sublime. ![]() Each element has been created and developed to ultimately form a perfect balance together and they result in a story that will appeal to historical fiction and romance fans alike. What The Wind Knows is one of my new favorites with a fascinating historical setting in 1920s Ireland, a time travel twist and a romantic and family story you cannot help but fall in love with. It is simply impressive how different and unique each new story is, and this newest addition is no exception. The year 2019 has without doubt started on a high note with the upcoming release of What The Wind Knows. I think everyone knows by now I’m a huge fan of Amy Harmon‘s books and I’m always over the moon when I find out there is a new story coming out. *** A copy of this book was kindly provided to me by Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchange for an honest review. Only the wind knows which truly comes first.” 2023 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]() 2017 Netgalley And Edelweiss Reading Challenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The key, he said, is to understand the concept of huzun. In this case, he has found Maureen Freely, bilingual (having grown up in Istanbul) and a distinguished writer in her own right: she has done a wonderful job, which does not read at all like a translation, and, having managed a good part of the book myself, somewhat painfully, in the original, my admiration for what she has done is boundless. In the recently published first volume of memoirs, Istanbul: Memories and the City, Orhan Pamuk describes how a 1950’s child hood among Europe -yearning cosmopolitans in the crumbling ruins of the Ottoman Empire helped to shape him as a writer. ![]() Pamuk writes a very intricate Turkish, and has not always been well served by his translators. Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk has opened a museum displaying artifacts in parallel with his novel Museum of Innocence, which tells a love story lasting three. This present book, by the well-established Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, is a good idea: childhood and late-adolescent autobiography woven into a picture of Istanbul, at the time, and earlier. You live until you are thirty, said Graham Greene, and after that it is all memory. Along with Balzac’s Paris and Dickens’s London, Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul now ranks as one of the most illustrious author-trademarked cities in literary history. ![]() ![]() ![]() They made their data series easily available starting around 2007. The first was the careful empirical work of Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez, who used a variety of sources to compile data series on trends in the concentration of income among the very rich – the top 1% and above – which had not been available before (Piketty & Saez, 2003). government data on income distribution have shown rising inequality of income among households, although the official data have not adequately charted the rise of the share of income of the very rich, due to under-sampling and omission of capital gains income.Ģ Then a few years ago, two interacting developments catapulted inequality to its current high degree of public attention. In the 1990s, new and highly publicized fortunes arose in hi-tech, finance, and other sectors. ![]() After a long period when the rich had kept a low profile, an open display of great wealth usually associated with earlier periods in history returned in the U.S. Starting in the 1980s, the mass media advertised the growing number of billionaires. However, evidence of increasing inequality has been emerging for some time. ![]() 1 Rising economic inequality has attracted a good deal of attention in recent years, among academic specialists, the general public, and politicians. ![]() ![]() Gradually, I understood that I must be lying on the ground-on stone, earth, and perhaps dry leaves. Hardness, powder, something light and brittle. My hands were grasping not at a mattress, not at pillows, sheets, or blankets, but at things that I didn’t recognize, at first. ![]() I remembered little by little what a bed was. After a time, I came to understand, to remember, that what I was lying on should have been a bed. I curled my empty, wounded body tightly, knees against chest, and whimpered in pain. The hunger was a violent twisting inside me. In two places my head felt crusty and lumpy and … almost soft. The sound of my voice, even the touch of my hands seemed to make the pain worse. My head pounded and throbbed, and I held it between my hands, whimpering. ![]() I tried to drag myself away from the heat source, whatever it was, moving slowly, feeling my way until I found coolness, smoothness, less pain. I was lying on something hard and uneven, and it hurt me. There was nothing in my world but hunger and pain, no other people, no other time, no other feelings. ![]() I was hungry-starving!-and I was in pain. ![]() ![]() ![]() My Life on the Road is the moving, funny, and profound story of Gloria’s growth and also the growth of a revolutionary movement for equality-and the story of how surprising encounters on the road shaped both. And so began a lifetime of travel, of activism and leadership, of listening to people whose voices and ideas would inspire change and revolution. The seeds were planted: Gloria realized that growing up didn’t have to mean settling down. When she was a young girl, her father would pack the family in the car every fall and drive across country searching for adventure and trying to make a living. ![]() Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories-in short, out of our heads and into our hearts. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. Taking to the road-by which I mean letting the road take you-changed who I thought I was. Publishers Weekly Gloria Steinem-writer, activist, organizer, and inspiring leader-now tells a story she has never told before, a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and a catalyst for change. Includes “Secrets,” a new chapter! When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | ONE OF O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE’S TEN FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Harper’s Bazaar ![]() ![]() Ender is far more occupied by the feeling that the formics were too easily destroyed: Why did they have all of their queen's in the one place, an easy target for destruction? He is accompanied on the ship by his sister, Valentine, formerly the political pundit “Demosthenes” while his brother Peter continues his quest to be Hegemon of Earth. On the way he locks horns with Admiral Morgan, the captain of the ship who has delusions of seizing control of the colony for himself. ![]() Ender is forced to take up the role of the governor of a colony many years travel distant. Colonies have formed on many former formic planets. ![]() This book is intended as a sequel to “Ender's Game” and takes place roughly at the same time as Speaker for the Dead (and later books).Įnder is a war hero having eliminated the formic (bugger) threat to earth but due to the political climate there he cannot return. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also worked for the British Museum’s own travel company and later for Noble Caledonia.Īfter his retirement from the British Museum, he continued to lecture until lockdown and was due to travel and give his talks for Noble Caledonia later this year. Probably most in his element when guiding travellers as one of the leading lecturers on Swan Hellenic cruises around the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Egypt, George endeared himself to thousands of passengers. He was one of the founding members of the Friends of the Petrie Museum at UCL in 1988, and also served on the committee of the Sudan Archaeological Research Society. He served on the Council of the Egyptian Exploration Society for many years and on the editorial board of its magazine, Egyptian Archaeology. ![]() George wrote books mainly aimed at a general audience, but imbued with up to date scholarship, such as his two-volume The Pharaohs (2010), Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses (1986), books for travellers such as Pharaohs and Pyramids (1991), and several books for children. ![]() His courses on Egyptian hieroglyphs were always oversubscribed and gave hundreds of people the opportunity to read the language in museums and on site. He inspired many to go on to study ancient Egypt at university he was very generous with his advice. After graduating, in 1973 he was appointed a staff lecturer for Egypt and the classical world at the British Museum, a post he held until his retirement in 2004. ![]() |