6/24/2023 0 Comments Owly tiny tales andy runtonWhen the economy suffered a downturn, he lost his job "and after much soul-searching decided to follow my heart and draw Owly," he writes. He has worked on a series of design jobs and was employed by Motorola in Alpharetta 2000-2002 doing graphic design/interface design. He is a 1992 graduate of Parkview High School and was graduated from Georgia Tech in 2000 with a master's degree in industrial design from the College of Architecture. In 2010, his book "Owly" was chosen for inclusion on the Georgia Center for the Book's list of "25 Books All Georgians Should Read."Īndy Runton was born in 1974 in Jacksonville, Florida and moved to Lilburn, GA in 1988 and has lived in the Atlanta area ever since, currently making his home in Roswell. Andy Runton is the prize-winning creator of a popular series of graphic novels featuring a kind-hearted owl, Owly, who is always searching for new friends.
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6/24/2023 0 Comments Scotland by Bob HarrisMost books about urbanisation in Britain during this period confine themselves to English towns with the occasional reference to Welsh ones. The result is a book which draws on extensive research in local and regional sources, many of which have never been systematically investigated or deployed in reconstructing the histories of the communities concerned. While the bulk of the book has been written or re-cast by Bob Harris, an established and thoughtful authority on the period, it clearly owes a great deal to McKean’s input and the work of several research assistants and archival projects both they and Professor Chris Whatley of the University of Dundee promoted and managed over a ten-year period. He spent much of his professional career researching, documenting and promoting the history of Scottish architecture the length and breadth of the country and embracing many of the communities which feature in the present study. This formidable and scholarly volume, a major contribution to urban, social and cultural history, is first and foremost a tribute to one of its co-authors, Charles McKean, the distinguished architectural historian, who sadly died when the book was being written. These are poems loyal to their own intrepid logic and reckless plausibility. "In Dexter Booth's Scratching the Ghost, a cracked egg means the universe is splitting, the slap of a double-dutch rope is a broken-throated hymn, and splitting a squealing hog is akin to lovemaking. Here too is a "Short Letter to the Twentieth Century" and, finally, a "Long Letter to the Twentieth Century," as if across this collection the poet is mustering up the force to speak back to history. Here are memories of love lost, family mourned, a father absent, ghosts of hometowns and childhood. Booth's ruminations on loss in this award-winning debut are rooted in a time past but one still palpable and persistent. You are complaining about the itch, the burn scratch the ghost of your calf and heel. Winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Major Jackson The stub of your left leg dangles as I hold you up, my hands inserted under your arms like a child. The tools and technologies that help data-intensive applications store and process data have been rapidly adapting to these changes. We call an application data-intensive if data is its primary challenge-the quantity of data, the complexity of data, or the speed at which it is changing-as opposed to compute-intensive, where CPU cycles are the bottleneck. NoSQL! Big Data! Web-scale! Sharding! Eventual consistency! ACID! CAP theorem! Cloud services! MapReduce! Real-time! In the last decade we have seen many interesting developments in databases, in distributed systems, and in the ways we build applications on top of them.ĭata-intensive applications are pushing the boundaries of what is possible by making use of these technological developments. Free Download Designing Data Intensive Applications (The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems) Book in PDF written by Martin Kleppmann and Published by O’Reilly Media, Inc.Īccording to the Author,” If you have worked in software engineering in recent years, especially in server-side and backend systems, you have probably been bombarded with a plethora of buzzwords relating to storage and processing of data. 6/23/2023 0 Comments Rotten Peaches by Mitzi SzeretoA story contribution from her crime fiction anthology Getting Even: Revenge Stories received a “Highly Commended” from the Crime Writers’ Association’s (CWA) Short Story Dagger. She edited the first anthology of erotic fiction to include a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has written novels and short stories, and edited fiction and nonfiction anthologies, including her popular true crime franchise "The Best New True Crime Stories." Her books to date have been in the areas of crime fiction, true crime, cozy mystery, Gothic fiction, horror, quirky fiction, apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, paranormal romance, sci-fi/fantasy, erotic literature, parody and satire, Southern fiction, and fiction and nonfiction anthologies. Mitzi Szereto is an American-British author of multi-genre fiction and nonfiction. Author, Editor, Short Story Writer, Web TV Entrepreneur, Speaker, LecturerĬrime Fiction, True Crime, Cozy Mystery, Gothic Fiction, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Parody, Satire, Erotic Fiction, Genre Fiction, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Horror, Humor, Southern Fiction, Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic fiction, and General Fiction and Non-Fiction. It constitutes unjust discrimination, she argues, to restrict marriage to romantic or sexual relationships. If “everybody should have the right to marry,” Rick Santorum asked on the campaign trail earlier this year, then “what about three men?” While Santorum clearly intended this quip as a reductio ad absurdum of calls for marriage equality, the Arizona State University philosopher Elizabeth Brake argues in Minimizing Marriage that recognizing polygamous and polyamorous unions is not only required by justice but doesn’t go far enough.įor Brake, marriage not only should not be restricted to opposite-sex couples, or indeed to couples at all. Opponents of same-sex marriage are quick to raise the specter of polygamy. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake, Oxford University Press, 240 pp., $24.95.ĭoes legalizing gay marriage go far enough? This article was originally published by C4SS Senior Fellow and Molinari Institute President Roderick T. Norton & Co., 1981), in which Gould exposed case after. Kamin of Princeton University has said, "a major contribution toward deflating pseudobiological 'explanations' of our present social woes". Goulds critique, published in Science in 1978 (.pdf) and made famous in The Mismeasure of Man, was that Mortons measurements unconsciously reflected his biases. Holloways slur is based on a critique by him and five other anthropologists of Goulds famous 1981 work The Mismeasure of Man (W. These additions strengthen the claim of this book to be, as Leo J. Gould has written a substantial new introduction telling how and why he wrote the book and tracing the subsequent history of the controversy on innateness right through The Bell Curve, Further, he has added five essays, in a separate section at the end, on questions of The Bell Curve in particular and on race, racism, and biological determinism in general. And yet the idea of innate limits - of biology as destiny - dies hard, as witness the attention devoted to The Bell Curve, whose arguments are here so effectively anticipated and thoroughly undermined by Stephen Jay Gould. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard University and the author of over twenty books. When published in 1981, The Mismeasure of Man was immediately hailed as a masterwork, the ringing answer to those who would classify people, rank them according to their supposed genetic gifts and limits. 6/22/2023 0 Comments The ritual adamIf you would like to mask a potential spoiler, use the following format: (/spoiler)Īll times in ET (EST/EDT) unless otherwise noted. Adam Nevill, author of such folk horror fare as Banquet for the Damned (2004), The Ritual (2011), House of Small Shadows (2013), and The Reddening (2019), graciously agreed to an interview in August 2018. Spoiler tags are left to user discretion. Some rule violations may result in a temporary or permanent ban on the first strike. So they go, cursing manfully all the way. We do ask that you help us keep a high level of discourse by avoiding image-only posts, blog spam, surveys, plugging your own unpublished or self-published fiction, and linking to fundraisers or items for sale. After day breaks, he resumes trudging up-hill both ways with college buddies Hutch (Robert James-Collier), Phil ( Arsher Ali ), and Dom ( Sam Troughton) in order to pay tribute to Rob, whose last wish was to go on a hike with his best mates into secluded, misty, tree-lined Sweden. However, without warning, they end up deep within not the natural forests. No book is off-limits since horror is subjective. Adapted from contemporary English writer of supernatural horror Adam Nevill’s The Ritual, the film tells a story about the reunion of a group of college friends planning a trip to the Swedish mountains to commemorate their friend Robert who died in a robbery accident. Here is your place to share your love or loathing for horror lit, but remember to be respectful.Ībusive comments and posts will get you banned but having a dissenting opinion is acceptable. 6/22/2023 0 Comments White bird rj palacioSara's harrowing experience movingly demonstrates the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives. Here, Palacio makes her graphic novel debut with Grandmère's heartrending story: how she, a young Jewish girl, was hidden by a family in a Nazi-occupied French village during World War II how the boy she and her classmates once shunned became her savior and best friend. Palacio's bestselling collection of stories Auggie & Me, which expands on characters in Wonder, readers were introduced to Julian's grandmother, Grandmère. A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.Palacio’s unforgettable graphic novel debut is a story about the power of kindness and unrelenting courage in a time of war. Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson! R. 6/22/2023 0 Comments Eleanor and hick bookThose that remained came with two conditions: first, the entire collection was to remain unopened until ten years after her death and second, the library’s director was to withhold any letters that might cause embarrassment or injury to a living person. Although the collection is extensive, it is not a complete record Hick carefully curated the collection and destroyed an unknown number of letters. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. In 1958, Hick donated more than 3,000 letters to the Franklin D. This reluctance to question or discuss the sexual orientation of a renowned First Lady intensified in 1978 when much of their correspondence was made public. Historians have traditionally been reluctant to pronounce Hick and Eleanor lovers, insisting on the possibility that they were merely dear friends. The novel's strength is in Bloom’s willingness to portray the intimate nature of the bond between these two remarkable women. The two women quickly fall into a comfortable routine as Hick reminisces about their love affair. In the novel, Eleanor has summoned her former lover to her Greenwich Village apartment after an eight-year separation. Roosevelt and just months before the end of World War II. The story takes place over a weekend in April 1945, shortly after the death of Franklin D. Amy Bloom’s historical novel, White Houses, proclaims itself to be an intimate look at the relationship between Lorena “Hick” Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt. |