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Oceans by Simon Holland5/13/2023 High-probability high-impact ocean tipping points due to warming, ocean acidification, and deoxygenation may be more fragmented both regionally and in time but add up to global dimensions. Climate-induced tipping points are traditionally associated with singular catastrophic events (relative to natural variations) of dramatic negative impact. Prevention of negative impacts requires mitigation efforts based on feasible research-based pathways. The identification and monitoring of such changes, which also includes tipping points, is an ongoing and emerging research effort. Some of these changes are happening fast and may be difficult to reverse. Anthropogenic climate change profoundly alters the ocean’s environmental conditions, which, in turn, impact marine ecosystems.
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Allison van diepen books5/13/2023 Then, for the rest of the book, their romance was really overshadowed by Darren's work as an informant and surviving as a drug dealer in a dangerous community.Īside from the romance, Darren's story was enjoyable enough. I wish there was more build up and more hesitation on Jessica's part, instead of them instantly being together. Apparently they've always liked each other and just sort of end up together after Darren kissed her at a club to get other guys off her back. While I was reading, though, I had the hardest time believing their relationship. And when a turf war breaks out, Darren has to hurry up and bring Diamond Tony down before more people get hurt.īased on the summary, it sounded like Darren and Jessica's relationship was a huge part of this book. Darren doesn't expect to fall for Jessica, though, and now he has more than himself to lookout for. Darren has decided to work with the police to bring Diamond Tony down, but if any of Tony's guys find out, Darren's dead. Reminding me of the Perfect Chemistry series by Simone Elkeles, I couldn't wait to see the two main characters of this book fall in love when the danger of their lives could threaten to pull them apart.Īfter spending two years in juvie for taking the fall for Diamond Tony, Darren is out for revenge. Review: The main reason I read this book was for the romance.
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The plague robin buss5/12/2023 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141185132 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 200 g Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 20 mm You may also be interested in. Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960. His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer. He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr Rieux, resist the terror.Īn immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.Īlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. Albert Camus Tony Judt Robin Buss - The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a horrifying death. Albert Camus masterpiece, The Plague, demonstrates how literature can provide insight into the multidimensional experience of suffering and its impact on the patient and the caregiver. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage
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Normal People by Sally Rooney5/12/2023 The book is populated with bullying teenagers, evil boyfriends, and abusive family members who are not so much “normal” as stock. Rooney’s writing is often plodding and its protagonists Marianne and Connell not all that compelling, often to the point of archetypal. It’s not that Normal People is a bad book - it’s just rather bland. I begrudgingly agree with Sefl’s cantankerous analysis. It may say things that millennials want to hear reflected back at them, but it’s very simple stuff with no literary ambition that I can see. I read a few pages of the Sally Rooney book. What’s now regarded as serious literature would, 10 or 20 years ago, have been regarded as young-adult fiction. Unfortunately, my response to both Rooney’s novel and the subsequent series resembled that of an elderly curmudgeon, namely Will Self, who, in one of the only negative reviews of the novel writes: I fall squarely into the book’s intended readership and, judging by critical agreement, was about to have my millenial mind blown. With the release of the series, there has been renewed interest in Rooney, her novel, and her position as a seminal millennial writer. It features extremely good-looking people exchanging banal romantic lines, (“It’s funny, the decisions you make when you like someone, then your whole life is different”) and longing gazes across crowded rooms to tepid indie music. The trailer plays rather like a forgettable teen drama. There’s a wave of hype surrounding the BBC Three miniseries adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling second novel Normal People (2018).
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Scar tissue autobiography5/12/2023 It is instead a compelling story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption. Hyperion, 24.95 (480pp) ISBN 978-1-4013-0101-9 More By and About this Authorchevronright Featured. SCAR TISSUE far transcends the typical rock biography, because Anthony Kiedis is anything but a typical rock star. SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, with Larry Sloman. But there s a price to pay for both success and excess and in SCAR TISSUE, Kiedis writes candidly of the overdose death of his soul mate and band mate, Hillel Slovak, and his own ongoing struggle with an addiction to drugs. Crisscrossing the country, the Chili Peppers were musical innovators and influenced a whole generation of musicians. He formed the band with three schoolfriends - and found his life's purpose. Scar Tissue is a story of dedication and debauchery, of intrigue and integrity, of recklessness and redemption-a story that could only have come out of the. and plunged headfirst into the demimonde of the L.A. After a brief child-acting career, Kiedis dropped out of U.C.L.A. Raised in the Midwest, he moved to LA aged eleven to live with his father Blackie, purveyor of pills, pot, and cocaine to the Hollywood elite. In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story, and the history of the band itself.
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Dear aaron mariana5/12/2023 It was her story about learning to love herself as she was, forgiving and growing. I was expecting a chemical and passionate story about two people falling for each other, instead I got a fiery little cracker who at first was someone I thought I wouldn’t get along with, but I grew to love Jasmine. “I could have been the bigger person, but fuck it, I was five foot three and I wasn’t built to be that person ever.” Romance wasn’t even an undertone until about the 70% mark. I mean, yes it had romantic elements to it, but this story was revolved around people finding themselves and developing and friendships and family and so so so much more. I will go even farther and just put it out there… I would even go as far as saying that this was more than just a romance novel. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce you to one of the slowest slow burns in the history of slow burns. Not to say that this was not a fun read – because it was. This started off as a solid 4 star read for me, and it all went downhill from there. “If I can’t skate with you, I don’t want to skate with anyone else.”
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The doctors blackwell book5/12/2023 Elizabeth handled herself with such dignity and decorum that by the time she had received her degree in 1849 - the first woman in America to do so - she had won over both professors and students.Įventually, after a more difficult journey, Emily received her medical degree in 1854. The decision whether to admit her was left to the 113 (male) students in the expectation that they would veto it, but, seeing it as ludicrous and a great joke, the high-spirited young men voted her in. The idea of women studying the human body was considered both preposterous and indecent but it was that attitude which, after Elizabeth had been rejected by other medical schools, opened the doors of New York state's Geneva Medical College. Improbably, the success of this eminently serious-minded pair could be said to begin with a joke. According to the relentlessly moralistic Elizabeth, women's inferior standing was owing to the deficiencies of women themselves, who are "so often careless mothers, weak wives, poor housekeepers, ignorant nurses, and frivolous human beings."
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Donnelley, then president of the company, was impressed by a set of seven razors presented to him by one of the company's suppliers, and wanted to create a gift that would similarly represent his own company's product and could not be purchased on the open market. "Obscure gems." According to company legend, Thomas E. Lakeside Classics is a series started in 1903 that reprints neglected classic works. Donnelley Company produced fine books as well as mail order catalogs, phone directories, and the like. Lakeside Press was a Chicago publishing imprint under which the R. Unbumped spine heads and tails, with sharp corners. Brown buckram binding with gilt-stamped decorative device to the front boards and with gilt-stamped lettering to the spine cloth. From Mexican Days to the Gold Rush, by James Marshall, publ. We Pointed Them North: Recollections of a Cowpuncher, by Edward Charles Abbott, publ. Gift quality still in the original shrink-wrap. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, issued as part of The Lakeside Classics annual series. Charming reprints from The Lakeside Press division of publisher R.
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The notion that a kiss could transform a person from hideous monstrousness into a state of beauty and normality was popular in the Middle Ages. Many of the ingredients of the classic fairy tale are present in ‘The Frog-Prince’: the beautiful princess, the handsome prince, the marriage at the end, the magical transformation, the evil fairy/witch, the importance of the number three, and the idea of undergoing a trial before the happy resolution materialises. And that, in summary, is the story of the frog-prince. She accepted, and they went to live in the prince’s father’s land, where they were married and lived happily ever after. When this had occurred, he was magically changed back into a prince, and offered the princess his hand in marriage. The only thing that could break the spell was if he managed to persuade a beautiful princess to take him out of the spring and let him spend three nights in her home.
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The Merchant of Death by Lisa Henry5/11/2023 For years he had interviewed the bright lights: Madonna, Courtney Love, Jessica Lange, and all the other usual suspects but, Kevin knew that his rapidly unraveling life was as shallow as the hotel’s hip furniture and he was hanging on by his fingertips. hotel room wondering how he would get through his scheduled interview with Hugh Jackman. On his 53rd birthday, Kevin Sessums woke up in his L.A. Martin’s Press), writer Kevin Sessums details his debilitating descent into drug addiction and his hard fought road to redemption: In his new memoir I Left It on the Mountain (St. New month, new books! A new month is upon us, and so are a slew of new and noteworthy LGBT books. New in February: Kevin Sessums, Lashonda Katrice Barnett, Kenny Porpora, and Carter Sickels |