![]() ![]() ![]() He uses analogy well in clarifying points for instance, he compares the complexity of a smell made of many molecules to a musical chord made of many notes (p. Shubin makes this story accessible by maintaining a tight focus on the essentials of each topic while minimizing his use of technical terms. Your Inner Fish seeks to reveal the evolutionary history of humans as we travel down the branches of our family tree toward its trunk, passing fossils such as Tiktaalik and finding our “inner fish” along the way. ![]() Yet another child shouted “Maybe it is both.” Tiktaalik’s message is so straightforward even preschoolers can see it (p. Choosing the raised hand of one of these kids, I heard: No, no it isn’t a crocodile, it is a fish, because it has scales and fins. Other children started to voice their dissent. When queried why, he said that like a crocodile or lizard it has a flat head with eyes on top. The first child said it was a crocodile or an alligator. Or me the greatest moment of the whole media blitz was. In 2006, Neil Shubin made history when he announced his discovery of a “missing link”: a new fossil species showing characteristics that bridge the evolutionary gap between two different types of organisms. Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, by Neil Shubin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Being Polite to Hitler is a moving, frank, and surprising portrait of post-World War II America. Robb Forman Dew intricately weaves together personal and family life into a richly wrought tapestry of the country in the 1950s and beyond. Having expected her life to become smaller, Agnes is amazed to see it grow instead. She puts out fires, smoothes fraying nerves, and, stunned as anyone, receives a marriage proposal. She shepherds her daughter-in-law, Lavinia, who moves in with her own two daughters to escape her husband's drinking. And despite her newfound freedom, Agnes finds herself becoming even more entangled in the family web. As much as she'd like to, Agnes can no more deflect their adamant advice than she can step down as their matriarch. Often eloquent, sometimes blunt, and always full of fire, The Scofield clan is not a family that keeps its opinions to itself. ![]() But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what has so long defined her? After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield realizes that she is truly weary of the routine her life has become. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have arranged a marriage for him, allowing the joining of two families to help overcome the Morellis – he is not happy, to say the least. This is quite possibly why he is struggling at an early morning meeting that has been called by his mom and older brother Winston. The reality is that he is simply the only child that rarely says no to his mother. Losing his father as a teenager had an effect on Perry Constantine, becoming somewhat of a mummy’s boy – as much as anyone can to the infamous Caroline Constantine. Whilst she has no desire to marry now, she realises that it will at the very least get her away from her father. When she is advised that he has made a match for her and that she will marry Perry Constantine she shouldn’t be surprised that it is a done deal and that she has no say in the arrangement. The forgotten, only daughter to the elite Lancaster family, she has endured the wrath of her father all her life – especially after her time studying in Paris. ![]() My fate is sealed in my wedded union with a complete stranger.Ĭharlotte Lancaster has lived her life hidden away from the world. ![]() ![]() One moment I’m the forgotten daughter of one of the most wealthy families in the country, and the next I’m the blushing bride in an arranged marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends they are family. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds' Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start. Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. ![]() National Book Award WINNER Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature WINNER An INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! An INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER! " All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don't fit in." - New York Times Book Review From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents. ![]() ![]() ![]() The automation of rules governing transactions and dispute resolution through code, rather than traditional legal avenues, has been cited as viable in areas such as credit card disputes and security deposit agreements. Since algorithmic law is unambiguous, they argue that it reduces the subjectivity inherent in the traditional legal and judicial systems. Those who accept Lessig's literal meaning contend that, even in the event of a bug or glitch in the code, that same code still governs. Under an expansive view of “code is law,” if the code of a smart contract permits something then it is “legal.” This theory holds that code shall prevail, whether or not it conflicts with anything else. ![]() ![]() Thus, if the digital world remains “fundamentally skeptical about self-government,” and leaves regulations to coders only, we cannot ensure that our values will be embedded in the code that undergirds the Internet. That is, regulation will always exist, whether led by coders or by the government. Absent government regulation, the interests of coders-which may not prioritize shared values, such as privacy-will reign. ![]() According to Lessig, minimal government intervention in cyberspace will not mean less regulation. Lessig argues that we are preoccupied with nonregulation and that we view the concept of regulation as binary it is either present or absent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Penryn and Raffe travel north, and fall in with a militia resistance group, determined to fight back against the angels that have invaded Earth. He is reluctant to do so, but decides he must help if he wants the chance of having his wings reattached. Penryn helps nurse Raffe back to health, and asks him to help her find her sister. Paige is then kidnapped and their mother runs away. Raffe manages to fend off the angels, though he becomes seriously wounded, and the lead angel, Beliel, cuts off Raffe's wings. Their escape is interrupted by a fight between the angel Raffe (Raphael) and five challengers. Penryn, her mentally imbalanced mother, and Penryn's little sister, wheelchair-bound Paige, prepare to flee from Silicon Valley into the hills. When the novel begins, the Apocalypse has come. "Angelfall" is a young adult novel by Susan Ee and revolves around a post-apocalyptic California, and the attempts of seventeen year-old Penryn Young to rescue her kidnapped sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() if as a Female I may be calld an Idle, I never can be an uninterested Spectator,” she wrote to John Adams in 1793. ![]() “You know my mind is much occupied with the affairs of our Country. In between she was both a witness to and an erudite and witty commentator on the American Revolution, French and British society at the end of the eighteenth century, and the presidential administrations of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, as well as the beginning of the political career of her son, John Quincy Adams. Best known for her correspondence with her husband and the declaration “I desire you would Remember the Ladies,” Abigail Adams served as her husband’s advisor, critic, advocate, and above all, “dearest friend,” from the beginning of their courtship in 1761 until her death in 1818. ![]() ![]() The character frequently appears in exam questions, often based on the range of her influence upon Macbeth or the presentation of her as a ‘fiendlike queen”.Īs one of Shakespeare’s most powerful and active female characters Macbeth’s ‘dear wife’ provides rich material for essay responses. ![]() She is shown as a strong and ruthless woman, with vaulting ambition and courage, able to push her husband, ‘brave Macbeth’ to do anything for her (including murder Duncan), yet she ends the play, and her life, as a broken figure, destroyed by the guilt she has fought so hard to suppress. Although she actually appears in around a third of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s influence looms large across the text. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() PLEASE NOTE: That I have decided not to continue on with the series. Publication Dates: October 2012 – June 2015 ![]() Genre: New Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Love Triangles Trusting Liam is a sequel to Taking Chances with a different set of leads. Stealing Harper is an alternate retelling of Taking Chances. # of Books: 3 (Taking Chances, Stealing Harper, Trusting Liam) Despite their dangerous looks and histories, both men adore Harper and would do anything for her, including taking a step back if it would mean she’d be happy. She finds herself being torn in two as she quickly falls in love with both her new boyfriend, Brandon, and her roommate’s brother, Chase. Thanks to her new roommate, Harper is introduced to a world of parties, gorgeous guys, family, and emotions. Ready to live life her own way and to experience things she’s only ever heard of from the jarheads in her father’s unit, she’s on her way to college at San Diego State University. Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.Įighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. ![]() ![]() ![]() Synopsis for Taking Chances (from Goodreads): Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]() |