![]() Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth’s deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. ![]() Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. But spans of hundreds of years-the time a molecule of carbon dioxide resides in the atmosphere-approach the limits of our comprehension. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. ![]() ![]() Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Edinburgh International Book Festival is now officially open and you can head down there to browse the wonderful children’s book store or to take part in some of the fantastic free arts and crafts activities they have in the Baillie Gifford StoryBox.įor more information on some of the shows we’ve seen this week, check out the reviews page, and our top tips from this week are :ĭavid Baddiels’s AniMalcolm – We loved this musical ! Very slick, professional and hugely absorbing….Malcolm wakes on his 11th birthday and isn’t that impressed with his presents – Malcolm does not like animals and he’s very soon surrounded by them. So, its been another whirlwind of a week at the festival, and it’s hard to keep up with some of the fab shows we’ve seen, we’ve also been back to the hot donut stall in Assembly Gardens, and enjoying the gelatos from the stall next door !! ![]() ![]() ![]() He was obsessed with puzzles and solving problems as a kid. "I learn most from my failures - that is the way to learn, that is the way to be successful."Īnd Rubik knows a thing or two about success. "If you don't really mind if you are winning or losing, you enjoy the play. If Rubik's name sounds familiar that's because he's the inventor of the Rubik's Cube - that fun (and frustrating) colorful cube puzzle. ![]() "They really can't enjoy life because of that." "Most people are taking most of the things too seriously," he says. Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik takes play very seriously - and suggests we could all lighten up. His new book is called Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All. Listen Architect and inventor Ernő Rubik says people were shocked when he didn't become a full-time puzzle maker after the success of his Rubik's Cube. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and that he was doomed to destroy the woman he took as wife. Rumor said the powerful Nicolai DeMarco could command the heavens, that the beasts below did his bidding. Perhaps best known for her bestselling "Dark" series, featuring the haunted and mesmerizing immortal Carpathians, Feehan is arguably the biggest name in paranormal historical romance-and any reader who loves passionate love stories tinged with the supernatural should enter the Lair of the Lion. It is the breathtaking story of a beautiful, penniless aristocrat who promises herself to the handsome, powerful, mysterious, and not wholly human Don Nicolai DeMarco in order to free her imprisoned brother-even though legend has it that the Don will destroy any woman he weds. Ī classic from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan, Lair of the Lion is a dark-edged and enthralling take on the beloved "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tale. Rumor says the powerful don could command the heavens and the beasts below. She'd even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion-legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco. About the Book Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was public relations manager for Feltex New Zealand from 1961 to 1972. Ian Cross was a newspaper reporter from 1943 to 1956, at The Dominion (1943-1947 and chief reporter 1951-1956), the Panamá América (1947-1949) and the Southern Cross (the Labour Party newspaper, 1949-1950). Another memoir was released in 2007 called "Such Absolute Beginners". ![]() In addition, in 1988 Cross published "The Unlikely Bureaucrat", a non-fiction memoir. His later novels are "The Backward Sex" (1959), "After ANZAC Day" (1961) and "The Family Man" (1993). ![]() Cross was an editor of the New Zealand Listener from 1973 to 1977, chairman of the NZBC between 19 and chief executive from 1984 to 1986.ĭuring his career, he wrote a number of books, including his first novel "The God Boy", which was released in 1957 to critical acclaim. His contribution to New Zealand literature extends to his work on various boards, his critical commentaries and his various roles in the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Jake digs into the details of the case, he knows he has to find a way to save the boy, even at the risk of his career and his family's safety. Once again, Brigance is the court-appointed lawyer who seeks truth and justice for his client, in this case a sixteen-year-old boy named Drew Gamble, who is charged with murdering a law enforcement officer and faces the death penalty. The novel was released on 13 October 2020. The latest book features the return of the character Jake Brigance, a small-town Mississippi lawyer who takes on difficult cases. Print (hardback and large print paperback)/digital (audiobook and Kindle)Ī Time for Mercy, a legal thriller novel by American author John Grisham, is the sequel to A Time to Kill (his first novel, published in 1989) and Sycamore Row (published in 2013). ![]() ![]() ![]() In despite of his sometimes controversial past, he had always kept steadfast to his goals, and status as an authority on Information Technology, fictional writing, and even musical arts. ![]() He has been instrumental in the contributing development of instructional materials for academic use at the University of Dublin (Ireland) and the University of Antwerp (Belgium), in addition to producing I.T security training content for various Government installations within the Eastern Caribbean region and continental Africa. However, in despite of his interest and intellect of varying authoring genres, his expertise is more concentrated on Computer Security Software, and Information Technology Engineering. He also holds various levels of authoring consultancy commitments with three other content publishers in England, Bahrain, and Barbados, which allows him to write on an extended variety of reader content. Dennis Adonis is an Educational Author, Novelist, and Musician, in addition to currently serving as a Contributing Writer on Information Technology for, and a Contributing Content Writer on current affairs for CNN News – International. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He found no escape from human tragedy in the comforts we build to shield ourselves from reality - even in art, which for most intellectuals has replaced religion. His satire can be biting and his wit devastating. Samuel Beckett's acute mind pulled apart with courage and much humour the basic assumptions and beliefs by which most people live. John Calder has examined the work of Beckett principally for what it has to say about our time in terms of philosophy, theology and ethics, and he points to aspects of his subject's thinking that others have ignored or preferred not to see. Beckett is a writer whose relevance to his time and use of poetic imagery can be compared to Shakespeare's in the late Renaissance. Ncreasingly Samuel Beckett's writing is seen as the culmination of the great literature of the twentieth century - succeeding the work of Proust, Joyce and Kafka. ![]() ![]() ![]() 72 Politics and Poetics of Mobility: Gender, Motion, and Stasis in E. ![]() 54 Towards Forsterian Mobilities through Public Transport as Public Space Jason Finch, Åbo Akademi University. Forster’s Fiction Dominika Kotuła, University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn 25 “Áh yoù sílly àss, góds lìve in woóds!” Queer appropriations of Edwardian Classicism in Forster’s short fiction and Maurice Claire Braunstein Barnes, University of Oxford 42 “Old things belonging to the nation”: Forster, Antiquities and the Queer Museum Richard Bruce Parkinson, University of Oxford. 7 “Where Is Your Home”? Spaces of Homoerotic Desire in E. Forster’s “Arthur Snatchfold” Athanasios Dimakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Forster List of Contents “The Hotel Case”Queering the Hotel in E. ![]() Special issue of the PJES dedicated to E. ![]() ![]() There was probably little question that Pullman's version could or would equal that of the King James, but some of the writing here is quite far from Pullman's best. Pullman was brave to risk the comparison, true, but - to be kind - it doesn't work in his favour. This was particularly glaring during Pullman's retelling of the Sermon on the Mount, one of the most striking passages in Western literature. And, as I'm sure he would be the first to agree, he is in no way as powerful or elegant a writer as Lancelot Andrewes and the committee that put together the King James Bible. The problem was, for me, that in sticking so closely to the biblical narratives, Pullman brought the Bible constantly to mind. Throughout, he insists on Jesus's humanity. ![]() One understands why he chose to recast them. We get the tale of John the Baptist, the bread and the wine, the Sermon on the Mount and so on. But after that strong start, Pullman begins to recount, with only minor variations at times, the well-known incidents from the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The Good Man Jesus begins with the pace and sense of adventure of a Pullman story. But this short novel's flaws are instructive and kind of fascinating in themselves. ![]() ![]() Although Pullman is a great choice for this story, the question remains: Has he succeeded in doing anything new or interesting with one of our civilization's most compelling stories? The answer, for me, is: Well, no, not quite. ![]() |