![]() ![]() Then a young hero named Will, through a great deal of luck combined with an innate skepticism, figures out what’s coming and flees before being capped. When the adolescents are returned to the outside, they have mind-control devices woven into their scalps, robbing them of free will-depriving them, more specifically, of any desire to fight the creatures that manipulate the machines. ![]() Humans attend “capping” ceremonies around the time of their fifteenth birthdays, in which long mechanical tentacles swoop down from the Tripods to yank eager teens skyward, one by one, into their interiors. Towering, inscrutable machines called Tripods stride about like giant Humvees atop metal stilts. “The White Mountains,” a young-adult novel first published fifty years ago, is set in the future, at a time when the Earth has been rendered entirely rural and has been taken over by aliens. ![]()
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![]() ![]() While Kim arrived dripping in pearls as she showed off her famous curves while looking absolutely heavenly. ![]() Meanwhile her sister Kendall showed off her model physique in a sparkling black sequin bodysuit with a silver collar, and platform boots. Jenner shares Stormi as well as her son Aire Webster, one, with her rapper ex-boyfriend Travis Scott, 32. Last year the star made headlines and left many scratching their heads for attending the Met Gala in an Off-White bridal look. Kylie accessorized her look with a pair of diamond stud earrings and sparkling rings. Meanwhile Stormi, five, wore a denim jacket and jeans with a white T-shirt and black sneakers, with social media users pointing out that her outfit might have been inspired by South Korean singer Jungkook. ![]() The mom-of-two wore picture-perfect glam, including a touch of pink blush on her cheeks and nude matte lipstick. The reality TV star wore her raven tresses parted on the side and pinned up into a chic updo featuring voluminous curls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many consider "First Contact" to be the story that defined "first contact" as a problem in the sense of a chess problem with a mostly-empty board and just a few pieces in tense juxtaposition. ![]() First Contacts: The Essential Murray Leinster includes two dozen stories from 1934-1964: half from Astounding Science Fiction, two previously unpublished, two from the slick magazines, and the rest from other science fiction magazines.įirst Contacts takes its title from Leinster's famous 1945 novelet "First Contact", on the initial encounter between humans and an alien race, and more or less gathers stories on this theme. Leinster wrote many stories for the slick-paper magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, generally under his real name, Will F. ![]() I'm not sure there can be any such thing as the essential Murray Leinster - the man wrote far too much science fiction for that, entertaining readers across half a century of writing beginning in 1919, and occasionally sparking ideas that broadened into new realms of speculation, widening the way we think about time or interstellar travel. First Contacts - Essential Murray Leinster ![]() ![]() “He’s more person than dog,” Denny explains to her. It’s tested first when Denny meets Eve (Amanda Seyfried), who takes a while for Eve to warm up to Enzo. Over the next decade and more, their loyalty and companionship endures through good times and bad. And it’s told from the perspective of Enzo (voiced by Kevin Costner), a golden retriever adopted as a puppy by Denny (Milo Ventimiglia), a fledgling race-car driver with an aptitude for driving on wet tracks. ![]() It’s a saga of life, death, and the supportive role pets play in a family unit. However, only the most cold-hearted cynics won’t be at least mildly touched by this big-screen adaptation of the bestselling Garth Stein novel, even if it ultimately tugs too aggressively at the heartstrings. As the latest in a recent glut of films exploring the devoted bond between humans and dogs, The Art of Racing in the Rain has its target audience in legions of canine aficionados who can relate. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pulp was their first offering in this new format, followed at the end of the year by the debut of Reckless. During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, this creative team shifted from producing monthly ‘floppies’ to more sustainable, self-contained graphic albums, as exemplified by the European comics industry. Brubaker and Phillips excel at chronicling the trials and tribulations of their hard luck, morally-compromised protagonists, while making the reader empathize with them. ![]() ![]() The duo’s longest running collaboration, Criminal, follows the fortunes (and misfortunes) of the Lawless clan. Early works such as Sleeper and Incognito explored the supervillain underworld through the standpoint of active participants therein, while The Fadeout focused on the James Ellroy-tinged milieu of Golden Age Hollywood. The creative duo of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have worked together for several decades, amsssing a robust body of work:, most of it with an emphasis on crime stories. ![]() ![]() from Loyola Law School in 1995 and is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University. Duran is also a national trainer on Predatory Lending through AARP.Īlejandra Cedilloreceived her J.D. He has worked on numerous home equity fraud cases on behalf of homeowners against lenders, brokers, and home improvement contractors. Duran worked on legislation to fund Real Estate Fraud Prosecution Units and civil remedies for victims of home equity fraud. Duran was awarded a National Association for Public Interest Law Equal Justice Fellowship to work with the Home Equity Prevention Task Force at Bet Tzedek Legal Services. ![]() from Boston College Law School and is a graduate of the United States Military Academy. ![]() ![]() ![]() To experience talks like this, please join us at the Bioneers National Conference each October, and regional Bioneers Resilient Community Network gatherings held nationwide throughout the year.įor more information on Bioneers, please visit and stay in touch via Facebook () and Twitter (). Learn more at 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world's most pressing environmental and social challenges. This speech was presented at the 2012 National Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, CA. "We have invented an economic system - then and now - that doesn't just kill life, it depends on killing life." In this speech, Hawken discusses his younger days, how and why he started a health food store in Boston in the 1970s, and our connection with nature and each other. ![]() ![]() Paul Hawken is a visionary social entrepreneur, the award-winning author of multiple landmark books including Blessed Unrest, The Ecology of Commerce and Natural Capitalism (co-author), and the Co-Founder of OneSun, a radically innovative solar energy technology company. ![]() ![]() ![]() Without a doubt the best book I have read in 2019 thus far, Thick: And Other Essays is thick with wit, intelligence, and an assured self-awareness. ![]() McMillan Cottom has crafted a black woman’s cultural bible, as she mines for meaning in places many of us miss and reveals precisely how-when you’re in the thick of it-the political, the social, and the personal are almost always one and the same. Yet Thick will also fill a void on those very shelves: a modern black American female voice waxing poetic on self and society, serving up a healthy portion of clever prose and southern aphorisms in a style uniquely her own. ![]() This bold compendium, likely to find its place on shelves alongside Lindy West, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, dissects everything from beauty to Obama to pumpkin spice lattes. ![]() In the bestselling tradition of bell hooks and Roxane Gay, McMillan Cottom’s freshman collection illuminates a particular trait of her tribe: being thick. Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses on college data to unleashing another identity: a purveyor of wit, wisdom-and of course Black Twitter snark-about all that is right and much that is so very wrong about this thing we call society. Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more-by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well before Proudhon, proto-anarchist thinkers such as Gerrard Winstanley (1609–76) laid down some notable precedents for anarchist feminism. Joseph Déjacque went further, admonishing Proudhon either to “speak out against man’s exploitation of woman” or “do not describe yourself as an anarchist” (1857/2005: 71) he went on to denounce the patriarchal family, “a pyramid with the boss at its head and children, woman and servants at its base.” The inference made by both – that the egalitarian and anti-authoritarian principles which Proudhon opposed to the domination of church, state, and capital must also be consistently applied to relations between men and women – did, in fact, become the preeminent interpretation of anarchism vis-à-vis gender, in theory if not always in practice, from the late nineteenth century on. These arguments led feminist radical Jenny d’Héricourt (1809–75) to reply not only that his accounts of women were contradicted by historical and scientific fact, but that “you contradict your own principles” (1864: 117). Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–65), the first to write the words “I am an anarchist” in 1840, was at the same time a convinced anti-feminist, regarding women as intellectual and moral inferiors and dedicating an entire book to attacking feminism as a form of modern decadence or “pornocracy” (1858, 1875). ![]() ![]() ![]() “ urgent, sharp-elbowed survey of the last half-century of white American evangelicalism.” Shelf Awareness “ fascinating and fervent book….a provocative, but insightful and detailed look at the culture and impact of evangelical Christianity today, where The Duke and The Messiah are riding saddle-by-saddle toward some sort of glory.” Houston Press This lucid, potent history adds a much needed religious dimension to understanding the current American right and the rise of Trump.” Publishers Weekly “ engaging history of the shifting ideal of Christian masculinity. Sure to be controversial, the author’s closely reasoned argument is thoughtful and provoking.” Booklist “ fascinating study of the rise of militant masculinity among Evangelicals. “Those who legitimately ask “How can evangelicals support Donald Trump?” need to read this book to understand why. A searing and sobering book, one that should be read by anyone who wants to grasp our political moment and the religious movement that helped get us here.” Darren Dochuk ![]() “This deeply perceptive book establishes Kristin Kobes Du Mez as the Christian critic of this crisis moment. Highly recommended, especially at this critical moment in religious, cultural, and political history.” Brian D. A scholarly work of history, but it is so well written that it promises to be popular with a wide audience. ![]() |