![]() ![]() 'What I learned is that we are infinitely more complex and wondrous, and often more mysterious, than I had ever suspected. ![]() It will have you marvelling at the form you occupy, and celebrating the genius of your existence, time and time again. ![]() Full of extraordinary facts and astonishing stories The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a brilliant, often very funny attempt to understand the miracle of our physical and neurological make up.Ī wonderful successor to A Short History of Nearly Everything, this new book is an instant classic. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the extraordinary contraption that is us.' Bill Bryson sets off to explore the human body, how it functions and its remarkable ability to heal itself. THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER_'A directory of wonders.' - The Guardian'Jaw-dropping.' - The Times'Classic, wry, gleeful Bryson.an entertaining and absolutely fact-rammed book.' - The Sunday Times'It is a feat of narrative skill to bake so many facts into an entertaining and nutritious book.' - The Daily Telegraph_'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The Body: a Guide for Occupants Bill Bryson € 14.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 2-3 working days. The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019. ![]()
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![]() “… So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. ![]() An added benefit is the chance to share this experience on a communal level. Along with all the pain, it allows us a chance to dream of the impossible, of the unattainable, and retain the hope that anything can happen, and does happen, more often than we could dare to wish for. Sport has the potential for those magical, indelible moments. It is our basic need to yearn for a pure, unadulterated form of emotion, the likes of which are rarely encountered in a mundane, routine life. Why then this meek acceptance when it comes to football? (Or any sport for that matter?) I personally think it’s about quality and intensity. Since it is impossible to emotionally detach from your team, there is a hapless resignation when we leave ourselves open to a life-time of hurt, heartache and deep depression the exact kind we might be running away from in our day-to-day reality. Hornby talks about how Arsenal helped him deal with the divorce of his parents, and how later when it irretrievably became entangled with his life, it became his haven, his escape from the real world. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby is by far one of the best books I’ve ever read about football, and one of its many interesting aspects is the writer’s willingness to lay bare his obsession and discuss what it really means to be a fan. ![]() ![]() Step #8: Go back and read what you've written. This will personalize the letter and get the reader involved with you right away. If you're writing a letter, incidentally, try as much as possible to address it to a particular individual. Your opening sentence is your chance to mold that impression. ![]() There's ample research showing that first impressions are essential in framing how other people judge your competence. Psychology is very useful in this stage of the game. Then, when you end the essay, reinforce that initial point by restating it in somewhat different words. If you're writing a cover letter, you're also responding to a question- perhaps one that is implicit: "Why should we hire you?" Answer that question, and your reader will want to learn more. If it is an essay or short-answer question, and you are asked to describe why you want whatever you're trying to get, then state this clearly and directly. Now, getting serious, think about what question you are trying to answer. ![]() Your essay, and your reader, will thank you. If you feel that way, write your opening statement like that- and then delete it. Many people think the opening statement should be an eye-catching phrase, a quote, or some cute play on words. You want to tell a complete story in this letter or essay, so your beginning should open the circle that your ending will close. ![]() ![]() So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. ![]() ![]() Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I still think it's a fairly rich work of historical fiction, I now recognize that I don't have much reason to like the heroine. I'll admit my youth and the newness of it all for me back then had me more entranced (so to speak) than I was this time. ![]() It was quite the experience for me, getting me to chew on layered concepts that were still new to me at the time, such as the practice of some light-skinned people of color passing for white. I was thirteen or so the first time I read this YA novel. Now the impending choice of whether or not to leave her home forever to live life as a free woman is breaking Harriet's heart in Wolf by the Ears by author Ann Rinaldi. Although Harriet calls Jefferson "Master," she's never felt the reality of her enslavement, and rumor has it that she and her siblings are the master's mulatto children. Harriet Hemings loves her life at Monticello, where the former president Thomas Jefferson is head of the plantation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has published over a dozen scientific papers and holds four patents. Crichton’s great talent was writing books that were virtually impossible to put down. Wilson earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense. He recently wrote the Earth 2: Society comic book series for DC Comics. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its sequel Robogenesis, as well as ten other books. Crichton remains the only writer to have a number one book, movie, and TV show in the same year.ĭaniel H. He wrote and directed Westworld, The Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Looker, Coma and created the hit television series ER. His books have sold more than 200 million copies worldwide, have been translated into forty languages, and have provided the basis for fifteen feature films. ![]() Michael Crichton (1942-2008) was the author of the bestselling novels The Terminal Man, The Great Train Robbery, Jurassic Park, Sphere, Disclosure, Prey, State of Fear, Next and Dragon Teeth, among many others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sifting through his books, and the growing critical tradition around them, we find a writer who is committed to confronting, disrupting, and just plain fucking with conceptions of race at every turn. In fact, in his entire body of work one finds an ongoing meditation on all the sloppy, simplistic, lazy, and inevitable ways that we rely upon such racial signifiers. Etc. Everett can obfuscate and complicate and subvert these designations all he wants, but to the extent there is such a thing as African-American literature, he’s one of the most important writers doing it.Ī Percival Everett novel is never just about race, never limited to race, and certainly never traffics in simplified notions of blackness through urban or rural clichés. If you haven't read Percival Everett, you are missing out on one of the greatest black writers working today. If you have read him, then maybe you understand why I would make such an audacious claim, even though I know damn well I haven’t read enough contemporary fiction to really back it up. If you haven’t read Percival Everett, you are missing out one of the great novelists of our time. ![]() ![]() Stay with me, son, there is no moral to this tale. Strictly speaking and I love to speak strictly, there are no utterances in the world but only sentences, cut off from the actual world by the beginning and their periods, question marks, or nothing but the fact that they end, cut off even from any real exchange between so-called speakers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the hidden world of the Hittites, near the Amazons’ ancient capital of Thermiscyra in Anatolia, she unearthed traces of powerful priestesses, women-only religious cults, and an armed, bisexual goddess – all possible sources for the ferocious women.Ĭombining scholarly penetration with a sense of adventure, Webster Wilde has produced a coherent and absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions, still disturbingly widespread, of what men and women can do. North of the Black Sea she found archaeological excavations of graves of Iron Age women buried with arrows, swords and armour. For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. ![]() Did they really exist? For centuries, scholars consigned them to the world of myth, but Lyn Webster Wilde journeyed into the homeland of the Amazons and uncovered astonishing evidence of their historic reality. Like so many aspects of Amazonian history, these theories are debated among. ![]() ‘Golden-shielded, silver-sworded, man-loving, male-child slaughtering Amazons,’ is how the fifth-century Greek historian Hellanicus described the Amazons, and they have fascinated humanity ever since. Amazon Etymology Naming the Legendary Warriors. M1OOD9CU6T A Brief History of the Amazons Kindle A Brief History of the Amazons By Lyn Webster Wilde To download A Brief History of the Amazons PDF, make sure you follow the hyperlink beneath and save the ebook or gain access to additional information that are in conjuction with A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE AMAZONS ebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() The extraordinary illustrations, which have the kind of stripped-down simplicity that takes years to achieve, were by her sister, Ruth Gervis. She later remarked that she had initially despised it because she’d written it so easily. She published more than fifty books, but Ballet Shoes was her first for children and its roaring success took her by surprise. Noel Streatfeild was herself one of three sisters, and within her family cast herself in the role of plain, unremarkable middle child (Petrova, I suppose, although she was kinder to Petrova than she had been to herself). ![]() There are books I repeatedly re-read if I’m feeling mildly perturbed or sorry for myself, and Ballet Shoes was the first of these an enrapturing and emotionally satisfying little work of genius. ![]() It feels like one of those childhood totems that pre-dates conscious memory, like the pattern of a bedroom wallpaper. ![]() I can’t remember reading Ballet Shoes for the first time. Surrounded by a cast of benignly eccentric adults, three adopted sisters grow up in genteel poverty in 1930s London and find their respective vocations in acting, motor mechanics and ballet dancing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Donning his toga, he crosses town to meet the matron who reveals that her son may not have been as loyal to Pompey as one may think. ![]() On his way back, Gordianus encounters traffic despite the late hour thanks to Caesar’s impending arrival since crossing the Rubicon.Īfter a sleepless night, Gordianus awakes to a summon by Numerius’ mother, Maecia. Soon after, Gordianus pays Cicero, the person Numerius went to see prior to meeting his untimely death at Gordianus’, a visit. Upon seeing his dead kinsman, Pompey orders Gordianus to solve the murder and takes Davus as collateral. Soon after, Pompey himself comes to visit. With Diana’s help, the two discover a coded message with a dossier on Gordianus. Before reporting to the Great One, the two inspect the body only to come upon a secret compartment hidden in the corpse’s shoe. Gordianus and his son-in-law, Davus, find Pompey’s cousin, Numerius Pompeius, dead in the garden. The main character is the Roman sleuth Gordianus the Finder. It is the seventh book in his Roma Sub Rosa series of mystery stories set in the final decades of the Roman Republic. Rubicon is a historical novel by American author Steven Saylor, first published by St. ![]() |