5/27/2023 0 Comments Life of pi illustratedThe fiercely independent Scottish outfit remains an outpost of rare quality and distinction, and this exceptional understated novel is certainly a worthy addition to its output. "- Quill & Quire, "Yann Martel's "Life of Pi (Canongate) is another reminder of the largely unsung excellence of the Canongate list. It also stands up against some of Martel's more obvious influences: Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, the novels of H. The book's middle section might be the most gripping 200 pages in recent Canadian fiction. Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction "Let me tell you a secret: the name of the greatest living writer of the generation born in the sixties is Yann Martel."- L'Humanité "A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "If this century produces a classic work of survival literature, Martel is surely a contender.'-The Nation "Beautifully fantastical and spirited." - Salon "Martel displays the clever voice and tremendous storytelling skills of an emerging master." -Publishers Weekly " could renew your faith in the ability of novelists to invest even the most outrageous scenario with plausible life." - The New York Times Book Review "Audacious, exhilarating.
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5/27/2023 0 Comments Complications by Atul GawandeThe essay unveils the flawed process by which hospitals seek to address and remedy errors and looks to anesthesiology for a model in error reduction. In “When Doctors Make Mistakes,” Gawande reflects on a time he made a mistake performing an emergency tracheotomy and launches into a data-driven discussion on error in medicine. “The Computer and the Hernia Factory” contains a debate about technology versus humans in the realm of diagnosis and looks at the successful example of a hospital streamlined for hernia operations, the results of a computer that reads EKGs better than people, and the inextricable role of humans in the diagnosis process. In the first essay, “Education of a Knife,” Gawande tracks his ability over time to perform a specific procedure-installing a central line-and discusses the consequences and necessity of training doctors on the job. Complications contains 14 essays divided into three sections: Part 1, “Fallibility” Part 2, “Mystery” and Part 3, “Uncertainty.” In Part 1, Gawande embarks on a candid discussion of errors and imperfections in medicine. 5/26/2023 0 Comments The anarchy east india companySaving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians. COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. 5/26/2023 0 Comments Think by simon blackburnWhen these beliefs involve the sleep of reason, critical awakening is the antidote. It is because of ideas about what the others are like, or who we are, or what our interests or rights require, that we go to war, or oppress others with a good conscience, or even sometimes acquiesce in our own oppression by others. In the end, it is ideas for which people kill each other. We are typically ready to believe that our ways, our beliefs, our religion, our politics are better than theirs, or that our God-given rights trump theirs or that our interests require defensive or pre-emptive strikes against them. Convictions are infectious, and people can make others convinced of almost anything. There are always people telling us what we want, how they will provide it, and what we should believe. “Goya believed that many of the follies of mankind resulted from the ‘sleep of reason’. He claims to be a trapper come from away, and, as Grace gets to know him, she becomes enamoured by his gentle smile and thoughtful ways. Then, one day, a handsome stranger ventures into the store. Three years later, the fighting rages on and the harsh realities of war come closer to home when rumours swirl about "wolf packs" of German U-Boats lurking in the deep waters along the shores of East Jeddore, a stone's throw from Grace's window. The war, everyone says, will be over before it starts. Grace stays behind, tending to the homefront and the general store that helps keep her small Nova Scotian community running. Inspired by a little-known World War II legend, a young woman and a stranger "from away" are caught on opposite sides of war in this enthralling novel about love and second chances from USA TODAY and #1 bestselling author Genevieve Graham.In the fall of 1939, Grace Baker's three brothers, sharp and proud in their uniforms, board Canadian ships headed for a faraway war. Along the way she found his elder brother, Lord Thornton, in the middle of a bout of wagering and excess drinking. When spinster Claudia Wentworth realized that her 15 year-old niece, Evelina, had eloped with one Rupert Hunt, she gave chase. The h also runs into her faithless ex-fiancé (who had thrown her over for a Russian heiress) who now wishes to rekindle the extinguished(?) flame, as well as a fierce Cossack admirer, while she tries to discover the identity of 'Sophy' - a name the H had let on during their initial adventure. Many humorous and banter-ific scenes follow. The h and the H gets constantly thrown at each other. One thing leads to another, and the H's aunt and the h become good friends and the h and her niece get invited to spend the season in London with her. The chase ends soon and they find the two young lovers already at logger heads and relieved to be rescued. So, when her niece and his brother (teenagers both) elope to Gretna Green, she gate crashes his card party and harangues him into chasing the young lovers. Their families may be (sometime) neighbors (one of his family's minor estate borders hers') but they've never met as their families are locked in an ancient feud - kept alive mostly by her brother. The h is a somewhat uptight but likable spinster while H, by contrast, is a carefree and droll charmer. Performed at the Aronoff Center for the Arts (which accommodates a total Play, a screenplay, half a dozen short stories, and the first fewĪt the end of my senior year, my play was not selected to be My senior portfolio included a poetry manuscript, a one-act With both a high school degree and a vocational degree in creative Which is now the nation’s only K-12 school of the arts, and I graduated I attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts (think Fame), School, actually, and although I was awful I was nonetheless encouragedīy my teachers to believe I was a serious artist who would one day UFR: First, do you consider yourself a writer? For you, what does that term mean, exactly? She is the founder and creative director of The Lit Pub. Which was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Awards for PoetryĪnd has been nominated for the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel A five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Molly Gaudry was nominated for the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. 5/26/2023 0 Comments The thing itself adam robertsWinner of the BSFA Award for 2012’s Jack Glass, and nominated three times for the Arthur C Clarke Award for his SF novels Salt, Gradisil and Yellow Blue Tibia, Adam Roberts doesn’t just write clever, sophisticated science fiction but writes about science fiction as well, as one of the genre’s foremost historians and critics, and The Real-Town Murders is his 17th novel, no two of which are similar. Let’s turn first to the author of the thing itself, Adam Roberts, one of the finest contemporary SF writers, who also happens to be a teacher of English Literature at the University of London. If someone ever decides to turn this intelligent and enjoyable sci-fi novel into a movie, I’d recommend the above for the trailer voice-over narration. ‘In a world…where the real world has lost its shine and people are migrating full-time to the virtual….a society where bots & AIs take care of almost everything…where sunbathing is a bigger vice than smoking…one woman must race against time to solve an impossible murder, a crime that lies at the heart of a high-stakes conspiracy.’ 5/26/2023 0 Comments Gun Runner by Larry CorreiaBut Rook cannot stand by and watch as the Warlord runs roughshod over the citizens of Swindle, the way the Collectivists did on his homeworld. Rook has been in the smuggling business long enough to know that it''s best to take the money and not ask questions. The client: a man known only as the Warlord. His latest mission: steal a top-of-the-line mech called the Citadel and deliver it to the far-flung planet Swindle, a world so hostile even the air will kill you. Now, Jackson Rook is a criminal, a smuggler on board the Multipurpose Supply Vehicle Tar Heel. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he''d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. BROWN THE HEART OF A WARRIOR Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. THRILLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA AND JOHN D. For this reason, Mittelholzer's autobiography, A Swarthy Boy, published in 1963, has seldom been the object of separate study but has often been used as a reference in the criticism of his fiction. As a matter of fact, the author’s personal obsessions, his multifarious interests and his unconventional ideas on life overbearingly emerge throughout the whole of his literary production. The peculiarity of Mittelholzer’s literary work lies, above all, in its particular closeness to biography. In spite of this, much of his rich production has frequently been interpreted as «the work of a novelist manqué» (GILKES 1979: 95) for its insistence on sensational and morbid aspects. His novels, moreover, anticipate the main themes and concerns typical of post-1950 West Indian literature: the question of identity, the problem of ethnic and cultural admixture, the sense of rootlessness. Many, however, recognise his pioneering role in Caribbean literature as he was one of the first of his generation to emigrate to England in order to have his work published. The name of Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965) is still quite unknown outside the area of Anglo-Caribbean literary studies. A matter of colour: Edgar Mittelholzer’s A Swarthy Boy |