![]() And Eagleman's answers are consistently clear, engaging and thought-provoking." Actor Hugh Laurie described the series as one of the influences for his television series Chance. structured around crucial and wide-ranging questions, saturated with personal and social relevance. The scientific journal Nature described the series as "an ideal introduction to how biology generates the mind. Forbes magazine wrote that "in the fine tradition of Carl Sagan, Eagleman shows that science is captivating without hyped embellishment, and, if you pay attention, you'll find yourself immersed in it". The New York Times listed it as one of the best television shows of 2015. The series and accompanying book garnered wide critical acclaim. The series consists of six 1-hour episodes: EpisodeĮagleman's book to accompany the series, The Brain: The Story of You, was co-published by Pantheon Books (US) and Canongate Books (UK). As of early 2016 it has been nominated for an Emmy Award. The series debuted on PBS in 2015, followed by airings on the BBC in the United Kingdom and the SBS in Australia. Eagleman explores the wonders of the human brain with the goal of revealing why we feel and think the things we do. The Brain with David Eagleman is a PBS documentary series created and presented by neuroscientist Dr. ![]() PBS (United States), BBC (United Kingdom), SBS (Australia) Julian Jones, Toby Trackman, Nick Stacey, Catherine Gale, Johanna Woolford Gibbon, Dan Clifton, Glenn Barden, TV series or program The Brain with David Eagleman ![]()
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![]() ![]() Written with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny and wonderfully suspenseful, Crooked Little Heart is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. Buy a cheap copy of Crooked Little Heart book by Anne Lamott. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. ![]() The Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for thirteen-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. ![]() With the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, her two bestselling works of nonfiction, Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Red chalk on laid paper 31 x 23.3 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington.ĭegas began to paint early in life. Early life Įdgar Degas, Self-Portrait, c. In his early thirties he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life. Īt the beginning of his career, Degas wanted to be a history painter, a calling for which he was well prepared by his rigorous academic training and close study of classical art. ![]() His portraits are notable for their psychological complexity and their portrayal of human isolation. In addition to ballet dancers and bathing women, Degas painted racehorses and racing jockeys, as well as portraits. Although Degas is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist, and did not paint outdoors as many Impressionists did.ĭegas was a superb draftsman, and particularly masterly in depicting movement, as can be seen in his rendition of dancers and bathing female nudes. Degas is especially identified with the subject of dance more than half of his works depict dancers. ![]() Edgar Degas ( UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː/, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː/ born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.ĭegas also produced bronze sculptures, prints and drawings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This kind of problem refers to the difficulty of determining liability for the damage that may arise between these banks and their customers. Since these banks are based on mechanisms that are substantially different from those of traditional ones, it was natural that some kind of incompatibility between the existing legal texts and the banks would appear as they evolved. ![]() There is no doubt that the development of the banking along with the emergence of e-banking system and its widespread use has been accompanied by a number of legal problems arising from dealing with this type of banks. Riyadh Abu Saida Faculty of Law – University of Kufa ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, and unbeknownst to Nancy, a big real estate development is under way that would destroy her beloved harbor and new home. After moving out of their opulent home, she and her posse of girlfriends invest in a racing boat of their own to live on, and she teaches them the fine points of sailing. Roger would rather make Nancy's life a living hell than give up his boat. She tells him she wants a divorce-with the sailboat, Bucephalus, part of the deal, too. So when her philandering husband, Roger, is caught in flagrante with an opportunistic widow on their racing sailboat, Nancy sticks it to him. Hermosa Beach housewife Nancy Hadley is no pushover. ![]() Romance, betrayal, and an epic yacht race make Carrie Talick's debut novel perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Susan Mallery. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Johanna,” I paused until her averted eyes finally wandered back to mine. ![]() “Your not remembering the reasons is one of them.” We did, but I shrugged my shoulders anyway and adopted my shell-shocked facial expression just to anger her, leaving her no choice but to retaliate. ![]() She wanted me to let her off the hook rather than force her into the shithole of specifics, but I remained silent and forced her to struggle. “I’m stopping this because.of so many reasons.” “Johanna, just recycle the shit and get it over with.” Ten seconds after I’d learned my brother had committed suicide, and I was actually analyzing inseam stitching. Nothing goes on the body of a fashion chick without a thorough subjugation of purpose-from the geographic source of the silk, the centimeter of heel height, the luster of gold on the bangle, the direction of the point of the collar, to the goddamn choice of stitch for the inseam. She revealed no cleavage, messaging with absolute crispness that on this morning she was goal-driven, pointed, clean, and efficient. She was wearing a dark blue suit more suitable to a law firm than the sales department of the luxury women’s clothing design company at which she spent sixty hours a week. She wanted to make this quick, so she chose a time where she would have an excuse to cut any belabored discussion short by the urgency of rushing off to work. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inspired by the National Garden Bureau’s declaration of 2021 as the Year of the Sunflower, this weeks-long project aims to help beautify the community and engage residents of all ages in the joys and healthful benefits of gardening. The Sunflower Project will kick off with free seedlings, an inaugural planting of flowers, and a reading of The Sunflower House by Eve Bunting at the first Art in the Park, in conjunction with the Waterville Farmers’ Market, on Thursday, June 17, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. ![]() In conjunction with National Garden Week (June 6-12, 2021), Waterville Creates announces the Sunflower Project, a collaborative community-wide initiative designed to engage everyone from novice gardeners to experienced horticulturists in creating moments of sunshine in the urban landscape, feeding local birds and wildlife, and providing pollinating stations for bees. ![]() ![]() ![]() While I've decided young adult fractured fairy tales are more my style, I would still read the next two books in this series.Ĭlassroom application: This novel is appropriate for 5th grade and up. ![]() Likewise, younger readers will likely delight in the children who are wiser than their foolish parents. The plot is full of fun, humor, and unexpected twists, but the interrupting narrator got on my nerves (younger readers might find it entertaining). Why I liked it: I usually love fractured fairy tales, and I mostly liked A Tale Dark & Grimm (it's the first in a series). ![]() As readers follow the siblings through a forest brimming with menacing foes, they learn the true story behind (and beyond) the bread crumbs, edible houses, and outwitted witches.įairy tales have never been more irreverent or subversive as Hansel and Gretel learn to take charge of their destinies and become the clever architects of their own happily ever after. The basic plot from Amazon: In this mischievous and utterly original debut, Hansel and Gretel walk out of their own story and into eight other classic Grimm-inspired tales. ![]() ![]() His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote Viewing helped determine that nonlocal perception is not an electromagnetic phenomenon. ![]() In addition to over 40 peer-reviewed technical papers and reports he has written four books on the subject: The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover. ![]() Schwartz is part of the small group that founded modern Remote Viewing research, and the principal researcher studying the use of Remote Viewing in archaeology. He is a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, and previously founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory, and Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center. Schwartz, is a founding member, past president, and currently serves on the board of directors of the International Remote Viewing Association. ![]() ![]() Rhode Island, distrustful of a powerful federal government, was the only one of the 13 original states to refuse to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention. Rhode Island boycotted the Constitutional Convention.Īmerica’s littlest state had a big independence streak. Pennsylvania delegate Gouverneur Morris died in 1816 after a ghastly bit of self-surgery in which he unsuccessfully attempted to dislodge a urinary tract blockage with a piece of whale bone, while New York’s John Lansing mysteriously vanished in December 1829 after leaving his Manhattan hotel room to mail a letter. Four years later, Virginian George Wythe died of arsenic poisoning, likely at the hand of a debt-riddled grandnephew and heir. In 1802, North Carolina delegate Richard Spaight was mortally wounded by a dueling pistol fired by sitting congressman John Stanly. Constitution to die in a duel with a political rival. Was there a curse of the Constitution? Alexander Hamilton was famously killed by Aaron Burr in 1804, but he wasn’t even the first framer of the U.S. ![]() Several framers met with untimely deaths. ![]() |