Robert heinlein the rolling stones7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() It was published in hardcover that year by Scribner's as part of the Heinlein juveniles. ![]() A condensed version of the novel had been published earlier in Boys' Life (September, October, November, December 1952) under the title "Tramp Space Ship". ![]() The Rolling Stones (also published under the name Space Family Stone in the United Kingdom) is a 1952 science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. ![]() L'invasione dei gattopiatti (The Rolling Stones) è un romanzo di fantascienza per ragazzi del 1952 dello scrittore statunitense Robert A. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now in simple but potent strategies and dozens of recipes you’d swear were fattening, Mireille reveals the ingredients for a lifetime of weight control–from the emergency weekend remedy of Magical Leek Soup to everyday tricks like fooling yourself into contentment and painless new physical exertions to save you from the StairMaster. ![]() Following her own version of this traditional wisdom, she has ever since relished a life of indulgence without bulge, satisfying yen without yo-yo on three meals a day. The key? Not guilt or deprivation but learning to get the most from the things you most enjoy. Reintroducing her to classic principles of French gastronomy plus time-honored secrets of the local women, he helped her restore her shape and gave her a whole new understanding of food, drink, and life. That shock sent her into an adolescent tailspin, until her kindly family physician, “Dr. Hers is a charming, sensible, and powerfully life-affirming view of health and eating for our times.Īs a typically slender French girl, Mireille went to America as an exchange student and came back fat. In her delightful tale, Mireille Guiliano unlocks the simple secrets of this “French paradox” -– how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy. Stylish, convincing, wise, funny, and just in time: the ultimate non-diet book, which could radically change the way you think and live.įrench women don’t get fat, but they do eat bread and pastry, drink wine, and regularly enjoy three-course meals. ![]() Muted by Tami Charles7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() As the dream turns into a nightmare, she must make a choice: lose her big break, or get broken.Inspired by true events, Muted is a fearless exploration of the dark side of the music industry, the business of exploitation, how a girl's dreams can be used against her - and what it takes to fight back. Even the painful sacrifices and the lies the girls have to tell are all worth it.Until they're not.Denver begins to realize that she's trapped in Merc's world, struggling to hold on to her own voice. Choose any three poems from each section of the story that you feel capture emotionally resonant moments in the plot. Merc gives them everything: parties, perks, wild nights - plus hours and hours in the recording studio. Muted is a novel in verse, which is fitting because Denver’s chosen form of self-expression is singing and through the lyrics she writes. Writing, performing, and her ultimate goal: escaping her very small, very white hometown.So Denver is more than ready on the day she and her best friends Dali and Shak sing their way into the orbit of the biggest R&B star in the world, Sean "Mercury" Ellis. Be Heard.For seventeen-year-old Denver, music is everything. A ripped-from-the-headlines novel of ambition, music, and innocence lost, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo and Jason Reynolds! Be bold. ![]() Dracula 19927/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Work on Bram Stoker's Dracula began in the 1970s. From casting to storyboarding to on-set controversy, here are some facts about the making of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The result is a film that looks like no other Dracula before or since, but it wasn't easy to arrive at that point. In the early 1990s, fresh off The Godfather Part III, Coppola took an interest in a new adaptation of Dracula, Bram Stoker's classic novel that's widely credited with ushering in on our modern fascination with vampires.Ĭoppola, eager to make a version of Dracula that would stand out from the countless adaptations that came before, envisioned a film that would make elegant and elaborate use of soundstages, practical effects, extravagant costumes, and more. ![]() Though director Francis Ford Coppola is perhaps best known for the string of classics he produced in the 1970s-including The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now-for a certain kind of film fan, there's another classic in the Coppola filmography very much worth constant revisiting. ![]() The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() “If you’re thinking about how time is currently passing by, the biggest factor influencing your time perception is attention,” Aaron Sackett, associate professor of marketing at the University of St. In moments of life-or-death fear, for example, your brain would release large amounts of adrenaline, which would speed up your internal clock, causing you to perceive the outside world as moving slowly.Īnother common distortion occurs when we focus our attention in particular ways. But you don’t need to travel any distance at all to experience strange distortions in your perception of time. Time moves differently atop a mountain than it does on a beach. ![]() But what’s certain is that, outside of the realm of physics, our individual perception of time is also surprisingly elastic. ![]() Scientists still have much to learn about how we perceive time, and why time operates differently depending on the scale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Primary sources of inspiration and irritation for Dinesen include major writers such as Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, but also lesser-known figures as well.Ī rich example of Dinesen's use of nineteenth-century sources is the second to last story in the 1934 collection Seven Gothic Tales, "The Dreamers" (1) In this analysis, I will examine the gothic precursors for the figures Olalla and Rosalba, who are presented as alternative identities for the tale's female protagonist, Pellegrina Leoni. ![]() ![]() More than many other writers, she consciously engaged in an ideological dialogue with her literary predecessors by often subverting nineteenth-century patriarchal discourse, as Sara Stambaugh points out (19). We know that Isak Dinesen strove to create intricate intertextual puzzles in her writing. ![]() Chatter book ethan7/7/2023 ![]() We worry, ruminate, and catastrophize rather than think clearly in ways that allow us to solve problems, innovate, and create. Rather than make people feel better, introspection often leads them to experience something else-chatter.Ĭhatter is the cycle of negative thoughts and feelings that turn our capacity for introspection into a vulnerability rather than a strength. But more often than not, people’s attempts to use this tool backfires. In fact, some scientists think it is one of the defining evolutionary advances that distinguishes human beings from other species. ![]() Introspection-the ability to observe one’s own mental processes-is a valuable tool for reflection and decision-making. ![]() Listen to our “Book Bite” summary on the app 1. ![]() His research on controlling the conscious mind has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Science.īelow, Ethan shares 5 key insights from his new book, Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It (available now on Amazon). is a Professor of Psychology and Management at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory. ![]() Going for the Blue by Roger A. Caras7/7/2023 ![]() This book should be read by anyone who just "might" like to have a "show dog." It does not give all the answers, and the depth of its practical information is not great, but those who still want to get involved after reading it will find that numerous other books provide advice on grooming, handling, breeding, and raising dogs. The competition itself is often a source of frustration, and when the whole family gets involved, the stakes are even higher. Newcomers to dog shows are often surprised and finally disillusioned by the dedication required to succeed. With his typical charm, wit, and humor, Caras takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour, starting with early show history, the politics of the show ring, the mechanics of showing, and picking and choosing both a breed and that all-important puppy. Aside from someone who has bred, raised, and shown dogs for decades, who other than CarasD"The Voice of Westminster," the hugely successful kennel club dog show held at Madison Square Garden each FebruaryDcould provide such an insightful look into the world of dog shows. ![]() Red madness by gail jarrow7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() She knows exactly what caused pellagra, of course, but she allows the science to unfold exactly as it would have, without stepping in to say, basically, "People thought this, wasn't that dumb?" A totally uninformed reader would know no more about the disease while reading than had already been uncovered at that point in the chronology. Jarrow is very careful here, avoiding tilting her hand any earlier than necessary. Pellagra is the reason for our enriched bread, which is why a disease that was so common as little as 80 years ago is virtually unheard of in modern America. Hence why it was so common in the South, a region that still loves its cornmeal. Mold? Bacteria? Poor hygiene? Actually, pellagra is a disease of malnutrition, caused by a diet that's heavy on corn products and fat but has little protein and vegetables. And yet, as recently as a hundred years ago, pellagra was dangerously widespread, the fourth leading cause of death in some Southern states, and there was no medical consensus of how to cure the disease, how to treat it, or even what caused it. ![]() Are you familiar with pellagra? Unless you're a history buff (or, maybe, a fan of Good Eats, which mentioned it in passing on one episode) you've probably never even heard of it before. ![]() Pokemon adventures vol 1 77/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Viz released the first seven volumes of the series in tankōbon format from J to January 2003 as well as in magazine format. The distributing company Viz Media has licensed the series for English in the United States. The Japanese publisher Shogakukan has been releasing the individual chapters in tankōbon format with the first one being released on Augand currently, 52 tankōbon have been released. The series is written by Hidenori Kusaka, it is illustrated by Mato during the first nine volumes, while Satoshi Yamamoto starts illustrating it since the tenth volume. Since the manga is based on the video games, there are some delays with the serialization since the authors need to have seen the games in order to continue with the plot. The story arcs of the series are based on most of the Pokémon video games released by Nintendo and, as such, the main characters of the series have the name of their video game. ![]() Pokémon Adventures, known in Japan as Pocket Monsters Special ( ポケットモンスター SPECIAL, Poketto Monsutā SPECIAL), is a Japanese manga series published by Shogakukan. ![]() |