Even recently, in 2019, it was re-adapted into a television miniseries, created and directed by Giacomo Battiato for RAI, and distributed internationally. Moreover, the novel was popularized and adapted into a movie directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring the ‘007 detective’ Sean Connery. The publishing world is convinced that Eco found the magic formula for a successful novel, and international academia is interested in challenging the novel with countless interpretations. Since its publication, Il nome della rosa won the Italian Strega prize, and received the attention of international readers, critics, and academic circles by being translated in over fifty languages. The Name of the Rose, 1983), which notably enjoyed sudden international success. Still, he is also renowned for his narrative production, and in particular for his first novel, Il nome della rosa (1980, En. Umberto Eco (1932–2016) is internationally recognized as being one of the most influential intellectuals of our time, having published countless studies on many issues such as semiotics, communication, aesthetics, and so forth, a significant portion of which has been translated into many different languages.
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“Before we get started, we need to clarify what we mean when we talk about success, a word we’ll be using quite a lot in this book. Women often have a broader definition of success than men do However, our primary focus in this book is not on identifying external barriers or providing road maps around them.” (p. “So we repeat: we are not trying to gloss over or deny obstacles that we know are real. Impenetrable old-boys’ networks, sexist bosses, men who seem incapable of listening to women or who claim credit for their ideas in meetings, career tracks that assume families do not exist, performance review criteria subtly designed to favor men, the unconscious biases that shape hiring and promotion: these impediments are real and unfortunately continue to play a role in stymieing women’s advancement.” (p. “Our focus on behaviors doesn’t mean we seek to blame women who have not risen as quickly as they would have liked or that we don’t appreciate the role external barriers play in keeping women stuck. The habits that hold women back have to be put in context of the very real bias that exists in organizations An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent!" Ultimately, the egg hatches, revealing an elephant-bird, a creature with a blend of Mayzie's and Horton's features.Īccording to Geisel's biographers Judith and Neil Morgan, Geisel claimed the story was born in early 1940 when he left a window open in his studio, and the wind fortuitously blew a sketch of an elephant on top of a sketch of a tree. Horton endures a number of hardships but persists, often stating, "I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. The book tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who is tricked into sitting on a bird's egg while its mother, Mayzie, takes a permanent vacation to Palm Beach. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House. Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. I've also grown a bit of a fondness to the Riverclan for their constant generosity and courage to help a clan when it is needed. The appearence of Ravenpaw was nice though. Cloudpaw annoyed me more than anything, Fireheart's stuggle as deputy was the only thing that really had my interest, and I wish Greystripe was more present than he was. Overall, the story is just kind of meh for me. She's rapidly becoming my least favorite character. She acts like she's a bitter ex he who got cheated on. Yeah we get it, Tigerclaw betrayed you, get over it. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors 4: Rising Storm. Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunters Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. I really hope she is not like this forever in the next book because the whole "to hell with starclan" attitude is really obnoxious and selfish. The fourth book in Erin Hunters 1 nationally bestselling Warriors series. Bluestar was actually annoying me greatly in this book. I did get misty-eyed when one of my favorite characters died but beyond that, this one didn't grab me a lot. The fourth book in Erin Hunters 1 nationally bestselling Warriors series. It didn't have me on the edge of my seat as much and the end was pretty predictable. Meanwhile the forest gets hotter and hotter, and everyone braces for the coming storm. But out of the four I have read, I found this one to be the most boring so far. Don't get me wrong, I love this series so far as a first time reader. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing. Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks. With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she's the lucky one. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called "hero" leaves her badly injured. But is it really worse than working for an oil conglomerate or an insurance company? In this economy? As a temp, she's just a cog in the machine. Working for a monster lurking beneath the surface of the world isn't glamorous. Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she needs a job. Includes a bonus story for the paperback. "This book is fast, furious, compelling, and angry as hell." -Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author The Boys meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this smart, imaginative, and evocative novel of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption, told with razor-sharp wit and affection, in which a young woman discovers the greatest superpower-for good or ill-is a properly executed spreadsheet. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.ĭaniel Allen has always been a good kid-a decent student, popular-but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons-hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. From the award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo and author of the bestseller Before the Fall, an intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his twenty-year old son.Īs the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a forensic pathologist in the NYC Medical Examiner's office, finds a pattern of unrelated cocaine overdose deaths among career-oriented people never known to have used drugs. 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Richard Wrangham, Harvard University professor of biological anthropology and the author of Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, cooking food transformed the course of human development.Īccording to Dr. No one had access to a Big Green Egg or Blackstone Grill. Of course, there weren’t any fancy sauces or rubs in those times. Humans have been cooking food since their discovery of fire, which would take us as far back as the Paleolithic era. Cooking Over Fire – Just How Long Have We Been Doing It? But the roots of the modern-day cookout can be traced much further back. After all, it seems like every generation most of us can recall has been taking part in this unique pastime, particularly on summer holidays like the Fourth of July. The tradition of cooking meat and other food over a fire in the backyard seems distinctly American. She explains the visual language of bisexuality, about bi visibility on screen and the colourful world of bisexual communities. She also questions societal reactions to bisexuality (are bi people more promiscuous? No). She asks why so few bisexual people are out, and examines the mental and physical health consequences of this. She examines the latest research on bisexual kids, parents and grandparents, and explores bisexual identities across the lifespan. She introduces some famous bi activists and scholars whom everyone should know. She looks at behavioural bisexuality in animals, and investigates whether there is a bi gene. In Bi Julia Shaw explores how people have defined and measured bisexuality during its long and important history. This book sets out to answer some of the questions that many people have about bisexuality. Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority in the world and the least well understood. On this particular winter evening the good lady's guests included several habitués: President Bonnet, a retired magistrate who had withdrawn to his small property at Saint-Jaury, in the suburbs of Brives, and the Abbé Sicot, who was the parish priest. Hurrying to the fireplace, the Marquise de Langrune took a large log from a basket and flung it on to the glowing embers on the hearth the log crackled and shed a brilliant light over the whole room the guests of the Marquise instinctively drew near to the fire.ĭuring the ten consecutive months she spent every year at her château of Beaulieu, on the outskirts of Corrèze, that picturesque district bounded by the Dordogne, it had been the immemorial custom of the Marquise de Langrune to entertain a few of her personal friends in the neighbourhood to dinner every Wednesday, thereby obtaining a little pleasant relief from her loneliness and keeping up some contact with the world. Dinner was just over, and the company were moving into the drawing-room. |