![]() Wulf examines how his writings inspired other naturalists and poets such as Wordsworth, Darwin, and Goethe, and she makes the compelling case that it was Humboldt’s influence on John Muir that led him to his ideas of preservation and that shaped Thoreau’s Walden. Now Andrea Wulf brings the man and his achievements back into focus: his investigation of wild environments around the world his discoveries of similarities between climate zones on different continents his prediction of human-induced climate change his remarkable ability to fashion poetic narrative out of scientific observation and his relationships with iconic figures such as Simón Bolívar and Thomas Jefferson. Ironically, his ideas have become so accepted and widespread that he has been nearly forgotten. He came up with a radical vision of nature, that it was a complex and interconnected global force and did not exist for man’s use alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, whether climbing the highest volcanoes in the world or racing through anthrax-infested Siberia. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In pamphlets, letters, newspapers, and sermons they returned again and again to the problem of the uses and misuses of power-the great benefits of power when gained and used by popular consent and the political and social devastation when acquired by those who seize it by force or other means and use it for their personal benefit. ![]() Now, in a new preface, Bernard Bailyn reconsiders salient features of the book and isolates the Founders' profound concern with power. ![]() Hailed at its first appearance as "the most brilliant study of the meaning of the Revolution to appear in a generation," it was enlarged in a second edition to include the nationwide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, hence exploring not only the Founders' initial hopes and aspirations but also their struggle to implement their ideas in constructing the national government. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur of the paint business. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. Even more important for the development of his literary style - his advocacy of Realism - was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who during the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans. In 1869 he first met Mark Twain, which began a longtime friendship. Howells was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. ![]() Howells accepted after successfully negotiating for a higher salary, but was frustrated by Fields's close supervision. In January 1866 James Fields offered him the assistant editor role at the Atlantic Monthly. Willam Dean Howells was a novelist, short story writer, magazine editor, and mentor who wrote for various magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. ![]() ![]() Not only that, but the likelihood that process improvement will be successful is rapidly improved if workers come up with their own solutions. They’re the ones actually doing the work so they’ll be able to spot the opportunities and problems faster than you. Process improvement would be easy if it weren’t for the people, right? Wrong! Your people are your most valuable source of ideas and information. ![]() ![]() Sin #2: Not involving your workers in process improvement your customer - you might just find you’ve engineered yourself out of a job! As Henry Ford once put it, "it’s the customer who pays the wages." If you get caught up in designing fancy processes and systems that don’t ultimately serve the needs of those who pay your wages – i.e. ![]() Ignore the needs of your customer at your peril. Sin #1: Designing systems and processes that don’t meet customer needs Is your organization’s process excellence program struggling? Are you ignoring the needs of your customer? Olalekan Alominle, Process Specialist at MainOne depicts 7 deadly sins you may fall victim to. ![]() ![]() I felt like his loss was crushing me, and I worried that shining a light on it would only make it grow. Beau Biden, who was the son of President Biden and his first wife, died of brain cancer in 2015 at age 46.Īlthough she started writing the book two years after he died, she said "even the best memories were laced with pain. “But there was one thing I did not want to talk about: My son Beau," she said. ![]() She knew everything she wanted to write about, she said. The group is participating in a weeklong writing seminar at a ranch in Justin, Texas, sponsored by The War Horse, a nonprofit newsroom that publishes stories about the human fallout of military service.īiden, a community college writing professor, said that, after President Joe Biden finished up his earlier service as vice president, a publishing company suggested she write a book about her life. The first lady opened up about her experience with the children and siblings of service members who lost their lives during military service after the Sept. It connects to those who carry their own grief, reminds us that we aren't alone. “It takes courage to write,” she said Tuesday, “but it's worth it, because it helps us glue ourselves back together. WASHINGTON – Jill Biden says writing about the “crushing” grief she felt after her son Beau died of cancer helped give her the emotional strength to carry on as she encouraged young people who have lost loved ones during military service to spill their feelings out onto paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from Cora, which backfires on them both when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Cora’s unscrupulous estranged father, witnesses far more of Ampersand’s machinations than anyone was meant to see. ![]() ![]() How do you define “person” in the first place?Ĭora Sabino not only serves as the full-time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in ways neither of them could have anticipated. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. The human race is at a crossroads we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis. PLEASE NOTE: An earlier version of this audiobook had chapters out of order, but this error has been corrected. ![]() ![]() His second novel, About a Boy (1998), focuses on the growing relationship between 30-something Will Freeman and Marcus, a 12-year-old boy. His first novel, High Fidelity (1995), is the story of an obsessive record collector and list-maker, and was adapted as a film in 2000 starring John Cusack. His fiction continues to explore male obsessions, crises and weaknesses. In 2012, it was recognised for its Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing at the British Sports Book Awards. It won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award and was adapted as both a play and a film, the latter starring Colin Firth. Fever Pitch, his memoir of a life devoted to Arsenal football club, was published in 1992. His first book, a series of critical essays on American novelists, was published in 1992. He graduated from Cambridge University and taught English to foreign students while reviewing for magazines including Time Out and the Literary Review. ![]() Nick Hornby was born in Redhill, Surrey, England, in 1957. ![]() ![]() Eventually, Charles would get the family to their claim in Walnut Grove as he found work as the town butcher and Justice of the Peace. They lived with relatives near South Troy during that time while helping run a Burr Oak, Iowa hotel. Charles Ingalls’ pioneering and restless spirit would move them again to a preemption claim in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. This was still Indian Territory at the time, and the family would soon be forced to move back to Wisconsin. Their first adventure west took the family to land not open for homesteading yet near Independence, Kansas. Photo from Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum. ![]() ![]() Carrie, Mary, and Laura Ingalls, circa 1879-81. ![]() ![]() Mohler - Home / by Ian Ross & Lovern Kindzierski, illustrated by Adam Gorham - Tlicho Naowo / by Richard Van Camp, illustrated by Nicholas Burns - Ayanisach / by Todd Houseman, illustrated by Ben Shannon - First hunt / by Jay & Joel Odjick, illustrated by Jay Odjick - Copper heart / by Elizabeth LaPensée, illustrated by Claude St. Foreword / by Hope Nicholson - Introduction / by Michael Sheyahshe - Vision quest: echo / by David Mack - Ochek / by David Robertson, illustrated by Haiwei Hou - Coyote and the pebbles / by Dayton Edmonds, illustrated by Micah Farritor - The Qallupiluk: forgiven / by Sean and Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, illustrated by menton3 - Ue-pucase: water master / by Arigon Starr, illustrated by David Cutler - The observing / by Elizabeth LaPensée, illustrated by Gregory Chomichuk - Strike and bolt / by Michael Sheyahshe, illustrated by George Freeman - Siku / by Tony Romito, illustrated by Jeremy D. ![]() ![]() Esch as a character moves the reader to sympathy, but it is Skeetah who drives the story. She tells a boy-and-his-dog story about her brother Skeetah and his pit bull, China, raised for dog fighting. Their homestead is called “The Pit.” Ward’s language teases out the inherent violence of this place - both physical and psychological - in brutal details red, black and white dominate the color scheme of the novel as do references to meat, sweat and blood.Īs a narrator, rendering the story in the present tense, Esch is observant, poetic and often given to reminiscing about her mother who died in childbirth. Her mother is dead and her father is an alcoholic. Esch is the only girl in a family of boys, and her world, as the name of the town suggests, is isolated and savage. ![]() ![]() Salvage the Bones is told in the voice of Esch Baitiste, a pregnant, tomboyish teenager whose lover will not even look at her as they have sex in a toilet stall. She is a writer-of-conscience of the kind we see too few of these days. Ward, a Stegner fellow and finalist for the Hurston Wright Legacy Award, demonstrates extraordinary promise for both style and subject matter. Both novels are to be admired for the author’s portrayal, in highly lyrical language, of the gritty lives of the rural poor. ![]() Jesmyn Ward’s second novel, Salvage the Bones, revisits fictional Bois Sauvage, an impoverished African-American community on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast that is the setting for her acclaimed debut, Where the Line Bleeds. ![]() |