From the "Here be dragons" parchment maps of the Age of Discovery to the spinning globes of grade school to the postmodern revolution of digital maps and GPS, Maphead is filled with intriguing details, engaging anecdotes, and enlightening analysis. Jennings also considers the ways in which cartography has shaped our history, suggesting that the impulse to make and read maps is as relevant today as it has ever been. Each chapter delves into a different aspect of map culture: highpointing, geocaching, road atlas rallying, even the "unreal estate" charted on the maps of fiction and fantasy. Ken Jennings takes readers on a world tour of geogeeks from the London Map Fair to the bowels of the Library of Congress, from the prepubescent geniuses at the National Geographic Bee to the computer programmers at Google Earth. Record-setting Jeopardy! champion and New York Times bestselling author of Planet Funny Ken Jennings explores the world of maps and map obsessives, "a literary gem" (The Atlantic).
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Cal and his family are immediately uprooted and moved to Clear Lake, Texas, to live in a retro ’60s-themed community with the other astronaut families as NASA attempts to recreate the golden age of the space program in hopes of maintaining public interest (and funding) for the program. He has already converted his existing online fame on the popular video streaming platform FlashFame into an upcoming highly sought-after internship at BuzzFeed, and he has started a list of college applications for where he plans to move to with Deb.Īll that planning is thrown a curveball, however, when his father – a commercial pilot – secures the final place among the Orpheus 20, a batch of new astronaut recruits who will be part of the Orpheus missions to Mars. An avid planner, Cal has precisely mapped out his life for the next few years with the end goal of becoming a professional journalist. is a 17-year-old boy living in Brooklyn in the apartment above his best friend Deb. The Gravity of Us is a YA novel set in the not-too-distant future when NASA is on the verge of launching the first manned mission to Mars. Please note: This post contains affiliate links. Today’s book review is The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper. Follow the Pride Month tag to find all the content in one space and keep checking back for more throughout the month. Throughout June, GeekMom has been celebrating Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. Pride Month The Gravity of Us, Background Image by Prawny from Pixabay, Cover Image Bloomsbury In the process of telling the story, the film highlights the cruelty of performing vivisection and animal research for its own sake (though Rosen said that this was not an anti-vivisection film, but an adventure), an idea that had only recently come to public attention during the 1960s–1970s. The film's story is centered on two dogs named Rowf and Snitter, who escape from a research laboratory in Great Britain. The Plague Dogs is the first non-family-oriented MGM animated film, and marks their first adult animated feature by the studio. The film was originally released unrated in the United States, but for its DVD release, was later re-rated PG-13 by the MPAA for mature themes such as animal cruelty, violent imagery, and emotionally distressing scenes. The Plague Dogs was produced by Nepenthe Productions it was released by Embassy Pictures in the United States and by United Artists in the United Kingdom. It was written, directed and produced by Martin Rosen, who also directed Watership Down, the film adaptation of another novel by Adams. The Plague Dogs is a 1982 adult animated adventure drama film, based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Journalist and infant health advocate Kimberly Seals Allers breaks breastfeeding out of the realm of "personal choice" and shows our broader connection to an industrialized food system that begins at birth, the fallout of feminist ideals, and the federal policies that are far from family friendly. How did feeding our babies get so complicated? Breastfeeding is a private act, yet everyone has an opinion about it. The hospital says, "Breast is best," but sends you home with formula "just in case." Your sister-in-law says, "Of course you should!" Your mother says, "I didn't, and you turned out just fine." Celebrities are photographed nursing in public, yet breastfeeding mothers are asked to cover up in malls and on airplanes. Pediatricians say you should but it's okay if you don't. Global warming is the most obvious comparison, but it's really all of capitalism and the exploitation fueling privilege at the cost of others lives and our future. One where the only chance that the rich and elite will do anything, is if they become afraid of an immediate threat so they don't have a chance to focus on trying preserve systems that give them relative advantage. Hell, it's a system previously built up by England, led politically by America, and accelerated and fueled worldwide by China's manufacturing. It's pretty easy to see the analogies for the modern day, where we are all so invested in systems doing horrific harm and damaging the world for future generations, because we can't unilaterally stop the system and don't want to give up the benefits. Instead we have to build up better alternatives even while recognizing it can mean a worse quality of life for the privileged, and they will resist that. Yeah, a lot of traditional story elements like battling the big bad evil sorceress got tossed out to focus instead on the ethics of capitalism and building alternatives.Īnd why simply hating people for their participation in a system that uses things like slavery and exploitation isn't useful, nor is just saying "smash it all". Persephone has chosen to live in the mortal world. Persephone’s mother is Demeter, the Goddess of the Harvest. A quick primer on Greek Mythology: Hades is the God of the Dead and Persephone is the Goddess of Spring. TikTok proving that its algorithm does know me well. In the space of a week, I’ve read book one, 1.5, and book two. I get suggested a lot of books similar in some way to those things and authors.Ī Touch of Darkness is a modern day retelling of the Hades and Persephone story. Full disclosure, I love fantasy books, dystopian, alpha heroes, spicy faeries, and vampires, all things Sarah J. One of the series that enjoys a lot of air time on BookTok is The Touch of Darkness books by Scarlett St. I never post, only lurk, and I go down the rabbit hole at least once a day. Then, I found BookTok and it took my love up a notch. They recommend series, act out scenes, swoon over book boyfriends, show off amazing bookshelves + “shelfies” and even warn you about which books don’t live up to the hype. If you’re not on TikTok, this is a category you can search on the app and you will find tons of videos from creators talking about all things books. (Or, as she learned when trying this exact feat, greenish-brown.) If you're trying to see a frog, look first for a patch of green. Basically, what she means is this: Narrowing down what you're looking for will help you see it.In his book The Mountains, Stewart Edward White said something that affected her: To really see, you have to "forget the naturally obvious and construct an artificial obvious.".One of the things she wants to see is the green ray, a streak of light that comes out of the sun for two seconds at sunset. Still, she's determined to keep looking.She considers what specialists, who know where to look, can see in nature that she can't.How excited you get about a penny, she thinks, depends on the level of "healthy poverty and simplicity" you've cultivated in your life. She remembers when she was a kid and used to hide pennies for people to find.Annie's thinking about seeing, and specifically, about perspective. One might say that the action occurs in Pamplona, Spain with the annual festival of San Fermin and its running of bulls and subsequent days of bullfights, but one can easily argue that the real interest of the novel is in its portrayal of the group to which Barnes is a part and how he details their anxieties, frailties, hopes, and frustrations. Editions Showing 1-30 of 2,405 The Sun Also Rises. The Sun Also Rises, first major novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1926. by Ernest Hemingway First published October 22nd 1926 Sort by. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period of social life that ranges from Paris to locations in Spain. Editions for The Sun Also Rises: (Paperback published in 1957), 0743297334 (Paperback published in 2022), 0099908506. The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. He's a Jewish writer who has recently published a novel and was a middleweight boxing champion in college at Princeton. Cohn, like Jake, is an American expatriate living in Paris, although unlike Jake he did not fight in World War I. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Sun Also Rises Jake Barnes, the narrator, describes his friend, Robert Cohn. That’s part of what the story is about, after all. It’s also a relatively trim book for McCammon whose books can run sometimes 2-3 times the length of this one and so the introduction of a world in which telepathy plays such an important role is relatively small in scope, which works very well for the narrative the novel is offering. The cover for Robert McCammon’s new book The Listener is subtle, but the words within carry the force. It’s a surprisingly well-balanced novel in this way minus the occasional moment of “see the 1930s were like this” and the “1930s were like this!” which it can do from time to time. So the book is part The Shining, part Jim Thompson/James M Cain, and the over all effect is a solid suspense novel that doesn’t fall down beneath the weight of its plot or prose. His story meets up with our grifters when the young girl he’s been contacting is one of the children kidnapped by the pair. The two decide to kidnap a rich New Orleans business man’s children and hold them ransom for $200,000.Īlong side all of this we also meet Curtis Mayhew, a Black man from Louisiana who has some small level of telepathic abilities. Seeing him fail one good time, and then seeing him meet another con artist, Ginger, we come to understand that this will be a con book. And we are following a man named Pearly (Partlow) who is a wandering grifter. We are placed in the middle of the 1930s post Lindbergh kidnapping, as we are reminded of. This is a pretty new noir/supernatural suspense novel by Robert McCammon, author of Gone South, Boy’s Life, and Swan Song among others. The appeal of these 10 songs is fairly consistent, channeling the experimental gothic folk of David Tibet’s work in Current 93. An overcast atmosphere too oppressive to ignore, but on such a scale that one can’t help basking in it. Like a novel chronicling a rise from the rubble immediately following some catastrophic event, the batch of tracks Dark Star Safari has cooked up indulge in the spectacle of a turmoil that no one enjoys, but everyone is morbidly fascinated by. From the opening moments of “Patria,” the stage is set: a reversed bass track, faintly moaning distortion, and vocalist Jan Bang crooning “ This was a perfect place/ ‘Til we lost our way” all evoke the sense that something isn’t right. How could something so cold and atmospheric also hook you so instantaneously? Counterintuitive as it may sound, Dark Star Safari’s sophomore album Walk Through Lightly does just that. |
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