![]() ![]() OL15395438W Page-progression lr Pages 74 Ppi 386 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0316133868 The Secret of the Unicorn introduces some fleeting characters typical of Hergs profound imagination, and no less unique for their short stays: the Bird. Urn:lcp:secretofunicorn00herg:epub:0155e078-e050-428a-87e2-09f44c4d36e0 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier secretofunicorn00herg Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2t44v75k Isbn 0316358320ĩ2153472 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL1292018M Openlibrary_edition ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:59:35 Boxid IA146009 Boxid_2 CH111201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Boston, Mass. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Mark, regarding species believed to be extinct but with hidden reservoirs, waiting to flourish again: the Atala butterfly in Florida is a beautiful example of this actually happening: Especially since they didn’t have our modern perspectives about land management. I think we can legitimately lament the particular sub-species that are now lost forever, without being critical of people who did what they thought was best to protect their families. The project to eradicate wolves was seen as life-saving, not just the elimination of a public nuisance. Migrants out west frequently faced wolves on their treks out there, and again once they began homesteading. ![]() The issue, more viscerally, was with wolves killing children – something that was all too frequent in the 1800’s and in the time of Peak Wolf. I can’t speak to global motivations, but in the American Mountain West those were of lesser concern. ![]() ![]() This issue is often framed as people being irrationally afraid of wolves, or angry of them for stealing livestock – as if wolves understood property rights. One quick note on the discussion about wolves. I wonder if there are species we currently believe to be extinct that might have hidden reservoirs, waiting for an opportunity to flourish again. I found the discussion of near-extinct species returning particularly fascinating. Great discussion, thank you for the enlightening look into this wild experiment. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Other books recount historical events such as the Greensboro Sit-ins and the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Carole Boston Weatherford is a children's book author and poet who "mines the past for family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles." A number of Weatherford's books tell the stories of African-American historical figures such as Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, and Billie Holiday. Weatherford's books have received a wide variety of awards, including a Caldecott Honor for Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Between her dazzling scholarship and frequent hilarity of her dialogue lay her true subject: “the operation”, as she once phrased it, “of memory”. Though best known as a historical novelist, Mantel was less concerned with history than with its shape-shifting relative, recollection. Alison Hart, the troubled jobbing medium in Mantel’s novel Beyond Black, is, if not an alter ego, at least a metaphor for her art. She was brought up as a Catholic, and the idea of transubstantiation – the possibility of one thing changing into another – underlaid her work as a novelist, as did the fact that she “dwelled extensively with the dead”. “History is always changing behind us,” she said. It was central, too, to her relationship with the past. She was describing her re-marriage to her ex-husband Gerald McEwen, but the notion was no less key to her understanding of Thomas Cromwell, who evolved over the 2,000 pages of her Wolf Hall trilogy. “There’s no mileage, really, in believing the opposite,” she wrote in her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel had a great belief in people’s capacity for change. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of these speculative volumes concern the Culture, a utopian-anarchist society that extends across a sizable cluster of the universe. When not committing his considerable energies to such intense Bildungsromans as The Wasp Factory or bleak-humored narratives like The Crow Road, Banks inserts an M into “Iain Banks” and writes science fiction novels. ![]() ![]() Banks novel, you will find sour antiheroes sweet-talking corpulent cannibal kings, erratic robot drones so caught up in lending a helping hand that they overlook the telltale traces of emotional breakdown within those they serve, and a febrile zeal for blowing things up which suggests that Banks isn’t so much an author of bawdy and exciting adventures as he is a giddy eight-year-old with an elaborate train set scattered across a football field. The publication rights have reverted back to me. In 2008, I was commissioned to read all of Banks’s Culture novels, which had been reissued by Orbit in the United States, and I wrote the following essay for another outlet. This morning, the BBC reported that Iain Banks had passed away from cancer. Pamela Paul, The Gray Lady’s In-House Transphobe.An Angry Copy Editor on a Lonely Wednesday Night. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the past decade, police brutality has become a national concern as more and more unarmed Black teenagers are shot and killed by the police. Further, 98.3% of killings by police from 2013-2020 have not resulted in officers being charged with a crime (). According to, Black people are three times more likely to be killed by a police officer than white people. Police brutality is the excessive use of force by law enforcement against a civilian. In this following section, you will find a brief description and history of the Black Lives Matter movement, a description of how Dear Martin relates to the movement's concerns, as well as a list of other novels that have similar subject matter.īlack Lives Matter is a social movement that was founded in 2013 in response to police brutality in the United States. ![]() The Black Lives Matter movement inspired Nic Stone to write the novel. The realities that Justyce must face in Dear Martinare societal problems that plague the United States today. ![]() ![]() ![]() This deeply researched novel is a sweeping narrative of her life, from a childhood steeped in both joy and violence to her meteoric rise to fame at the head of the French army, where she navigates both the perils of the battlefield and the equally treacherous politics of the royal court. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless, steel-willed, and brilliant. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. ![]() France is mired in a losing war against England. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in the bold tradition of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hallġ412. Chen € 23.99 If ordered before 12:00h, this title will be in our store within 24 hours. Joan: The stunning new feminist reimagining of Joan of Arc Katherine J. ![]() ![]() ![]() Angelica Kauffman stakes a claim for the artist as a pioneering history painter, fashionable portraitist, and champion of a new ideal of masculinity. The book pays particular attention to Kauffman’s impact in England, where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts. ![]() ![]() Her remarkable life and work are presented here through beautiful reproductions of more than one hundred of her best paintings and drawings, including many never before seen. This publication explores the larger-than-life story of Kauffman myth, which arose even while she was still working. Well educated and very well connected, she enjoyed an international reputation, admired by Goethe and Herder and counting among her clients queens and emperors from across the continent. One of the outstanding artistic personalities of the Classical Age of art in London and Rome, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807) is regarded as the first woman artist of truly broad European standing. ![]() ![]() The previous parenthetical observation is a test. For one thing, the first movie memorably stars a tiny Raquel Welch, although a 1993 remake of the Disney movie does feature Sally Field voicing the cat’s lines, in what might be considered a similar miniaturization of an outsize screen personality.)īOOK REVIEW - 'The Body: A Guide for Occupants', by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, 464 pages). ( Fantastic Voyage should not be confused with Disney’s 1963 Incredible Journey, in which two lost dogs and a cat travel the northern forests of Canada to get home. Readers of a certain age may flash back to 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 movie of forgettable plot but remarkable special effects, in which a team of scientists shrink to microbial size and travel the body’s tubes and vessels against a background of giant blood cells and shiny, pulsating organs. Now Bryson has turned to the human body with The Body: A Guide for Occupants, meandering around its organs in his usual leisurely, amused way, always on the lookout for interesting landmarks and overlooked perspectives. He’s an award-winning author whose writing has led him up the Appalachian Trail, around the United States, and Britain, and through the history of science and language, a writer whose breadth of interest and felicitous style make both fact and anecdote go down easy. ![]() Bill Bryson is an excellent companion for a trip - it can be a physical journey or an intellectual one, doesn’t really matter which. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, this comic reminds me a bit of the series Giant Days but mostly because of the college themes of dealing with a new place as a freshman just starting out. I think I find myself enjoying young adult stories and themes more when they are in comic form than in prose, maybe because I’m so used to reading shoujo manga. With this manga adaptation though, I think the story has found a medium by which it has really attracted my attention. I didn’t really read much young adult literature back then. Written by Rainbow Rowell and published in 2013, the young adult novel would have surely slipped under my radar. ![]() I’ve never read the book that this manga is adapted from, and I’m not entirely sure that I would have given it a chance in prose form. ![]() |