![]() ![]() The dinosaurs will all but disappear as mammals rise to claim and reshape the planet, and you will be a witness to this fantastic transformation. In the terrible mass extinction that will follow, more than half of known species will vanish seemingly overnight in both searing fire and constricting cold. As we watch, an asteroid some seven miles across is set to slam into the earth, leaving a geologic wound over fifty miles in diameter. ![]() ![]() Tyrannosaurus rex will be toppled from its throne, along with every other species of non-avian dinosaur no matter their size, diet or disposition. But in a matter of hours, everything here will be wiped away. A Triceratops horridus ambles along the edge of the forest, enjoying this endless summer of the dinosaurs. It's a sunny afternoon in the Hell Creek ecosystem of North America 66 million years ago. Picture yourself in the Cretaceous period. A fascinating exploration of the world's worst mass extinction and how it shaped all subsequent life on our planet. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Ann was more than happy to stand aside and let her friend have the well-deserved limelight. Instead of a computer programme detailing bullet trajectory, her team had a ball of string and some blue tac. How her team would chortle at the methods employed by the popular TV series CSI. In the bookshop we held an event with Ann Cleeves and her forensic advisor, whose no nonsense and down to earth attitude held us all riveted for the whole evening as she detailed crime scene scenarios. Read my post about the books featured in Rules for Perfect Murders I can confirm that Ann is very kind, and a jolly excellent writer to boot. ![]() There we got to grips with the Cyrillic alphabet, learnt Russian Grammar and enjoyed our annual Russian party with the rest of the class and which featured a lot of Balalaika music and Borscht. And I'm going to be completely shameless here and do a bit of name-dropping, but Ann and I sat next to each other in a Russian evening class that we both attended. Ann is an author with a lot of links to the area in which I live. Of the many books featured in Rules for Perfect Murders, I was delighted to see Ann Cleeves' Raven Black mentioned. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on a broad range of sources, most notably Du Bois's unpublished manuscript and research materials, Williams tells a sweeping story of hope, betrayal, disillusionment, and transformation, setting into motion a fresh understanding of the life and mind of arguably the most significant scholar-activist in African American history. The surprising story of this unpublished book offers new insight into Du Bois's struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of the war, along with the broader meanings of race and democracy for Black people in the twentieth century. ![]() In The Wounded World, Chad Williams offers the dramatic account of Du Bois's failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I- and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fixed food poisoning thanks to Triplis updating Scumbumbo's XML Injector & prevented the interaction to show up on empty plates.Sims can now wash off more wounds using the " Wash Blood Off " in the shower!. ![]() ![]() Both murder types have autonomy options & club activities. Occult Slaying By default, the "Occult Slaying" murders will be available against werewolf sims, however, if you don't have the werewolves gamepack installed or if you'd like to enable it against other types of sims you can enable them from the Extreme Violence -Mod- options category Extreme Violence -> Options -> Enable Occult Slaying For -> Select the sims that you want to enable the Occult Slaying against. How To Enable The New Murders?: Animalistic Murders By default, the "Animalistic Murders" will be available for werewolf sims, however, if you don't have the werewolves gamepack installed or if you'd like to enable it for other types of sims you can enable them from the Extreme Violence -Mod- options category Extreme Violence -> Options -> Enable Animalistic Murders For -> Select the sims that you want to enable the murders for This will also give your sim the "Feast On Corpse" interaction, which will be available on dying sims.Feast On Neck Both of these murders will give your sim a harvested piece of flesh that will be placed in your sims inventory. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's something very powerful that I wanted to explore. ![]() I think the love story is very important, the love between two young men and the first time that they really fall in love. JEDROWSKI: For me, it's essentially a coming-of-age story with a love story attached to it. SHAPIRO: How did you conceive of the central relationship in this book between these two young men? It's the debut novel by Tomasz Jedrowski, who joins us from his home in France. The narrator, Janusz, meets a young man named Ludwik at a summer work camp. The new novel "Swimming In The Dark" is a teenage love story set in Poland in the 1980s. While protests and the pandemic might make this summer a little different, we can still experience some of those moments through fiction. Summer can be a time to wander in a forest until you get lost, skinny-dip in a lake by moonlight, fall in love. ![]() ![]() Other works include Jennifer Blood for Dynamite Entertainment, Razorjack for Titan Books (co-written with artist John Higgins), and the Rico Dredd trilogy for Abaddon Books, for whom he has also created the acclaimed JUDGES series which explores the genesis of the world of Judge Dredd. He currently writes Proteus Vex and Judge Dredd for 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. He can be found on Michael Carroll is the author of over forty books, including the award-winning New Heroes series of Young Adult superhero novels and the #1 Amazon best-selling cult graphic novel Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Carroll is the author of over forty books, including the award-winning New Heroes series of Young Adult superhero novels and the #1 Amazon best-selling cult graphic novel Judge Dredd: Every Empire Falls. ![]() ![]() With The Books They Gave Me: True Stories of Life, Love and Lit (Free Press), Jen Adams gathered stories of books received as gifts-perfect selections, ill-chosen ones, romantic ones, illuminating ones. Jacques Bonnet has thousands of books, and in Phantoms on the Bookshelves (Overlook), muses on collecting books and even cataloging them, good advice for those of us "besieged" by our own libraries. ![]() Paul, asked indie booksellers for their top 50 reads, which, along with anecdotes on the bookselling life, he has collected in Read This! Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores (Coffee House Press). Hans Weyandt, co-owner of Micawber's Books in St. The Books That Mattered: A Reader's Memoir by Frye Gaillard (NewSouth Books) is a tribute to the books that "enriched and altered his life." His literary explorations include excerpts from the works he cites, reminding us of past favorites and showing us soon-to-be new ones. ![]() Novelist Nick Hornby writes the monthly "Stuff I've Been Reading" column for the Believer, and More Baths Less Talking (McSweeney's Books) is a compilation of his last two years of reviews. ![]() ![]() Earlier this week we wrote about the current abundance of books about books. ![]() ![]() With the school’s bully as one of the other potential heirs, Kam and his friends must decipher the hidden meanings in artwork and avoid the mysterious men following them in a quest to not only keep the school open, but keep Kam’s hopes for recovering his voice alive. To inherit a fortune and save his school, Kameron Boyd must be the first to answer all the riddles on a scavenger hunt through Chicago. Cattapan (Author) 68 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 2.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 12.99 16 Used from 1.91 12 New from 12.86 1 Collectible from 36.50 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. The riddles send Kam on a scavenger hunt through the churches of Chicago. 7 Riddles to Nowhere Paperback Augby A.J. ![]() If he succeeds, he’ll become heir to a fortune that could save his school. He just has to solve a series of seven riddles to find the treasure before the other students. ![]() Kam learns that he and several others have been selected as potential heirs to a fortune. ![]() Then a letter arrives with the opportunity to change everything. ![]() Kam's mom hopes his new school will cure his talking issues, but just as he starts to feel comfortable, financial problems threaten the school’s existence. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.īecause of a tragic event that took place when he was five-years-old, seventh grader Kameron Boyd can't make himself speak to adults when he steps outside his home. ![]() ![]() This, she posits, will help us to alter both our perspective and our definition of love. Instead, we should borrow from the classic old adage which posits, “Love is a verb,” and think about love as a continuous action rather than a feeling that comes and goes. ![]() But the author argues that we shouldn’t think of love as a feeling at all. Because we think of love as a feeling, we often make decisions - and base our definition of love - on the presence (or lack) of that feeling in our lives. ![]() So, what can we do? How can we clear up these misconceptions and find the true definition of love? How can we heal our pain? The author suggests that the answer is simple: we need to change our perspective. ![]() The world is full of so much pain and, sadly, a good deal of it occurs because we are so confused about love. With the prevalence of these misconceptions, it’s no surprise that people wind up using and abusing each other or breaking each other’s hearts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read George Bernard Shaw's play Saint Joan Shaw also wrote an introductory essay to provide the background history of Joan of Arc and her time which is given on this page below the link to the play. The play covers the entire life of Saint Joan of Arc and contains six scenes and an epilogue. Because of the way Shaw portrays Joan as refusing to accept any authority by the Catholic Church, many have taken his play as an argument that Joan of Arc was the first protestant. Shaw's approach was to portray Joan and as real human being flawed with a stubborn streak that would ultimately lead to her downfall. Due in large part to the theatrical success of Saint Joan, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1925. George Bernard Shaw's classic play about Saint Joan of Arc was first performed in 1923 in New York and is considered one of his greatest achievements. Joan of Arc - Maid of Heaven - Saint Joan by G.B. ![]() |