In Search of the Sun by Leza Lowitz5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984 and her M.A. She was accepted into the first year of NYU's School of Dramatic Writing at age 18, and attended NYU for two years before transferring to U.C. Lowitz grew up in San Francisco and Berkeley, and attended Berkeley High School, from which she graduated in 1980. She has written, edited and co-translated over twenty books, many about Japan, its relationship with the US, on the changing role of Japanese women in literature, art and society, and about the lasting effect of the Second World War and the desire for reconciliation in contemporary Japanese society. Leza Lowitz (born December 29, 1962, San Francisco) is an American expatriate writer residing in Tokyo, Japan. ( January 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. ![]() Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. ![]() This biography of a living person includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. ![]()
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The Twentieth Century by Albert Robida5/29/2023 ![]() La Vie électrique by Albert Robida, translated as Electric Life, was serialized in La Science Illustrée from 28 November 1891 to 30 July 1892 and published in book form by La Librairie Illustrée in 1892. The original French edition included multiple illustrations drawn by the author which are executed in a satirical style reflecting Robida's other occupation as a caricaturist. The novel is written in a lively tone and contains many comic situations. A great emphasis is put on how the new technology has transformed the French society and individual lives of people. Robida weaves the scientific work and technological advances made by the illustrious French scientist Philox Lorris into his plot. It aims to describe various aspects of life in France in 1955. ![]() ![]() La vie électrique (1890) is a science fiction novel written by the French author Albert Robida. ![]() Heroes of the computer revolution5/28/2023 ![]() So they were the ones who got computing and the hacker ethos out into the world.Īnother thing that I kept running into: I'd be excited about the hackers' excitement, totally understanding that sense of flow.and then: ugh, thoroughly unpleasant people. And of course the gamers were out to make money. Whereas the hippies - or at least some of the influential folks in that scene - actually cared about the rest of the world. (There's some interesting moments of cognitive dissonance of the radical openness within the lab vs the military funding for the lab.) Which meant they were doing fascinating crazy stuff, but it didn't necessarily have any effect on the masses. Those MIT guys really got to lock themselves away from everything, and they really liked it that way. My pet theory is that it relates to engagement with the rest of the world. ![]() ![]() Shockingly, the hippie hacker community actually manage to get more shit done. The first section is all MIT hackers, the other two are west coast focused (hippie hackers and the gaming biz). Note: this is a really long and somewhat rambling review.Ī few themes stick out, notably West coast vs East coast. (the goodreads entry says this has more pages than the copy I have, btw.) ![]() All the status updates I posted are notes I wrote on paper while I was reading, alas I ran out of scraps while sick in bed, somewhere around pg 350. I'm still sort of processing this book a week later. ![]() ![]() Schuyler Miller found The Dreaming Jewels "compulsively fascinating. fresh, creative imaginative literature.". ![]() Francis McComas praised it as "a warm and beautifully human story. Science fiction anthologist Groff Conklin characterized it as "a moving and brilliant piece of imaginative writing." Science fiction editors Anthony Boucher and J. She knows that Horty is the key to executing Monetre's destructive plan, and the only one powerful enough to stop him. Zena, a carnival performer, takes Horty under her wing. ![]() Having discovered intelligent nonhuman life in the form of crystal-like jewels, Monetre works to unlock the source of their great power and, ultimately, destroy mankind. The owner of the carnival, Pierre Monetre, is a disgraced doctor and scientist with a deep hatred of mankind. ![]() Disguised as a girl, Horty takes refuge among the "strange people" in a traveling circus. It was his first published novel.Ĩ-year-old Horton "Horty" Bluett runs away from his abusive family, carrying only a smashed jack-in-the-box named Junky. The Dreaming Jewels, also known as The Synthetic Man, is a science fiction novel by American writer Theodore Sturgeon. ![]() The atlas six original cover5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games By POPULAR SERIES Chronicles of Narnia Curious Geoge Diary of a Wimpy Kid Fancy Nancy Harry Potter I Survived If You Give.By TOPIC Award Winning Books African American Children's Books Biography & Autobiography Diversity & Inclusion Foreign Language & Bilingual Books Hispanic & Latino Children's Books Holidays & Celebrations Holocaust Books Juvenile Nonfiction New York Times Bestsellers Professional Development Reference Books Test Prep.By GRADE Elementary School Middle School High Schoolīy AGE Board Books (newborn to age 3) Early Childhood Readers (ages 4-8) Children's Picture Books (ages 3-8) Juvenile Fiction (ages 8-12) Young Adult Fiction (ages 12+).BESTSELLERS in EDUCATION Shop All Education Books. ![]() Making Movies Black by Thomas Cripps5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Cripps contends that from the liberal rhetoric of the war years-marked as it was by the propaganda catchwords brotherhood and tolerance-came movies that defined a new African-American presence both in film and in American society at large. Making Movies Black shows how movies anticipated and helped form America's changing ideas about race. ![]() It covers the period from World War II through the civil rights movement of the 1960s, examining this period through the prism of popular culture. This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive history of African-Americans in Hollywood. (This is the second volume of Thomas Cripps's definitive h.) Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era ![]() Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson PhD5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Howard Gardner, author of Five Minds for the Future Ken Robinson is the world's most potent advocate of global education transformation his clarity, passion and insight have inspired millions, including me. Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica vividly describe the disruptions that are needed if we are to have quality education in our time. Pasi Sahlberg, author of Finnish Lessons 2.0 Forget the chatter about disruptive technological and economic forces in education. Andy Hargreaves, author of Professional Capital This book is a wake-up call to the emerging global human resources crisis. Inspiring and so readable you will feel Sir Ken is talking directly to you. Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Prize Laureate A comprehensive and compelling statement of why creativity matters for everyone, what it looks like in action, and how to get there. Tristram Hunt Guardian Wonderful and enjoyable. Creative Schools brings together his classroom experience and policy ardour in an elegant, powerfully written manifesto for change. Brene Brown, Ph.D., author of Daring Greatly Ken Robinson's thesis is compelling. This is a global game-changer and I'm in. ![]() One of those rare books that not only inspires and brings a new sense of possibility to the goal of transforming education, but also lays out an actionable strategy. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you wish to rely on it, please specify in the image description the research you have carried out to find who the author was. 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Loneliness and a secret yearning for this man she thought she'd never have led her to spend the night with Tate. For Abby, it's a struggle just to fill her belly and keep a roof over her head. As the daughter of the town whore, people either avoid her or think she's like her mother. There's only one problem.he has to tell his fiancée. Once again, Tate must take responsibility for his actions, and makes plans to marry his child's mother. Now, six weeks later, she's pregnant, alone, and broke. ![]() Until the night he gets drunk and sleeps with a woman he barely knows. 1 What Price Paradise By Katherine Allred What Price Paradise By Katherine Allred All his life Tate McCullom has been taught to be responsible, and he is the very model of what a respectable man should be. ![]() Coyote by Kelly Oliver5/27/2023 ![]() Trying to overcome his reputation as a spoiled slacker, David wants to impress his brother and earn Jessica’s respect. Corrupt Richard Knight has assigned his younger brother David to oversee fracking operations in on the Blackfeet reservation. Kimi’s not about to accept help from Jessica or anyone else, but she’s resolved to find her missing sisters, even if it kills her. ![]() “Kimi” means “secret” in Blackfoot, and the reticent Kimi keeps hers until it’s almost too late. Her roommate, Kimi RedFox is determined to stop powerful Knight Industries, headed by Cheneyesque billionaire Richard Knight, from drilling oil on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation. ![]() After her cousin dies in a gruesome accident at the lumber mill, Jessica is pulled into a fight against the corruption and greed ignited by the oil frenzy on the Montana plains. In this fun and funny sequel, after her first disastrous year in graduate school, Jessica James returns home from the big city to the backwaters of Montana for a summer job at an historic railroad lodge in spectacular Glacier Park. ![]() |