![]() ![]() Moalem explains why genetic females outperform males when it comes to immunity, resilience, stamina and much more. The answer, he reveals, lies in our genetics: the female's double XX chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage. Why? And why are we taught the opposite?Drawing on his wide-ranging experience and cutting-edge research as a medic, geneticist and specialist in rare diseases, Dr Sharon Moalem set out to understand why women are consistently more likely than men to thrive. These are the facts they are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. They live longer, and even see the world in a wider variety of colours. They do better at surviving epidemics and famines. From an award-winning medic and scientist, the game-changing case that genetic females have greater resilience, immunity, endurance and more, compared with males'A powerful antidote to the myth of a "weaker sex"' Gina Rippon, author of The Gendered BrainFrom birth, genetic females are better at fighting viruses, infections and cancer. ![]()
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Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek-two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. What begins as just reporting on the event ends up saying a lot about racism and criminal justice, told in a very accessible style of texts, comics, letters, and more." - Seira Wilson, Amazon Editor ![]() " Breakout is the story of a prison break narrated by three girls who live in the neighborhood surrounding the prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() Identical twins, indistinguishable genetically, nevertheless grow to become different, each furthering his/her uniqueness, yet always remaining in some ways identical to the other. Perhaps it's because twins provide a good paradigm for society. Barbara Kingsolver's latest, The Poisonwood Bible, carries on this trend with a story of a Baptist missionary family in the Congo in the 1950's. Twins showed up in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things. What is it about the subject of twins that make them such a common subject for authors? Toni Morrison's recent novel centered around twins. Review Copyright © 2000 Garret Wilson - Janu5:20 p.m. ☰ Review: The Poisonwood Bible Title The Poisonwood Bible Author Barbara Kingsolver Publisher HarperPerennial, New York, 1999 ISBN 0-06-093053 ![]() ![]() Review: The Poisonwood Bible Garret Wilson ![]() ![]() ![]() As parents descend upon Deepdean, decades-old grudges, rivalries and secrets begin to surface, and soon Deepdean’s future is at stake. Then the girls witness a shocking incident in the woods close by – a crime that they’re sure is linked to the Anniversary. ![]() Daisy has lost her crown to a fascinating new girl – and many of the Detective Society’s old allies are now their sworn enemies. ![]() But all is not well, for in the detectives’ long absence, Deepdean has changed. Plans for a weekend of celebrations are in full swing. 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The national identities of Mexico and America are forged as Shepherd’s life is narrated through a compilation of journal entries, excerpts from memoirs, newspaper clippings – both real and fake – congressional testimony, and notes from Shepherd’s archivist. You will never look at rhubarb the same way again.) “The Lacuna” may be her most ambitious novel to date. (In between, she also published a bestselling memoir, “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” about her family’s efforts to eat locally for one year. Kingsolver (“The Poisonwood Bible”), a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, explores those gaps and the way they can alter people’s lives in The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years. That piece, as author Barbara Kingsolver helpfully explains, is known as a lacuna. “The most important part of the story is the piece you don’t know,” he is fond of saying. The gap in Harrison William Shepherd’s personal narrative is big enough for a grown man to swim through. ![]() Everyone has plot holes in his life story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why has this historical figure’s life inspired such interest today, in a nation that looks so different from the one that Hamilton (and his enemies) knew? Where does the musical diverge from the history, and what does that say about our memory and use of the past? Does the musical offer an inspiring, multiethnic vision of U.S. Hamilton's America, the documentary film that brings history to vivid life through the lens of Lin-Manuel Miranda's pop culture Broadway phenomenon Hamilton. This webinar will give participants an opportunity to learn about Hamilton the musical, attempting to account for its extraordinary resonance during the presidencies of Barack Obama and, now, Donald Trump. Geraldo Cadava (Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University)Ī hip hop infused musical, Hamilton is widely considered to have revolutionized the genre of the Broadway musical, just as many saw the American Revolution as a first for the world. ![]() ![]() Then as long as that rating is five stars go ahead and add it. Authors, suppose you have written a book and it has only one rating and that rating is from you. So books with no ratings can be added, but once they get even as many as one rating and that rating is below 4.50 then they are subject to removal. So if a book has no ratings at all it has never been given a chance, at least not by the Goodreads community, and it is among the most obscure books of all. ![]() ![]() For the purposes of this list obscure is defined as 1,000 or fewer ratings and worthy of consideration is defined as having an average rating of 4.50 or greater or having no ratings.Įvery book deserves a chance even if it is a very small chance. ![]() This list was created to promote obscure books worthy of consideration. ![]() ![]() Young SAS trooper, Mark Black, risks his life to capture an Argentine girl spy. The raid went disastrously wrong, several regiment men died, John spared the life of a Lebanese fighter and blames himself for the deaths.ġ982. John Porter was involved in a hostage raid in Lebanon in 1989. SAS Sergeant Geordie Sharp is required to undertake two top-secret missions, in the full knowledge that, if things go wrong, the authorities will deny all involvement. In the wake of the mysterious 'Three Cities' attacks, Josh finds himself on the way to the USA. Yet his disregard for authority has landed him a secondment to MI6's anti-terrorism unit. Alex's task is to track down and eliminate the killer, and to assist him he is assigned an MI5 liason officer - the attractive but abrasive Dawn Harding. Someone has been murdering MI5 officers and it looks as if the killer is an insider, one of the Regiment's own. ![]() ![]() ![]() SAS Captain Alex Temple is on an urgent mission. ![]() ![]() Victor Hugo, in 1853 (February 26, 1802, Besanon, France -May 22, 1885, Paris, France). The intense advertising campaign waged by Carleton resulted in massive sales for Les Misérables, solidifying Hugo's epic in second place (behind only Uncle Tom's Cabin) in pre-Civil War American book sales. Download scientific diagram Victor Hugo and Les Misrables. Wilbour was hired by the Carleton Publishing Company to translate Hugo's grand masterpiece, and he did so very quickly, allowing the first American edition to be published within months of its French release. It anticipates Balzac in its realism, but in its flights of imagination and lyricism, its theme of redemption, and its melding of myth and history, it is uniquely Hugo” (Dolbow, 149, 214). Despite its length, complexity, and occasionally unbelievable plot and characterization, it remains a masterpiece of popular literature. Victor Hugo’s “great novel has been hailed as a masterpiece of popular literature, an epic poem in prose about God, humanity, and Hugo… Hugo hoped that Les Misérables would be one of if not the ‘principal summits’ of his body of works. ![]() ![]() False mention of “Septième Edition” on the title pages of volumes I-III, and “Huitième Edition” on the title page of volume IV, which were spurious and meant to help boost sales. Large octavos, half crushed red morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, marbled endpapers. ![]() Parisian first edition of this classic work of literature, published on April 3rd, 1862 (three days after of first printing in Brussels on March 31st of 1862). ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Grab your copy today to hear Persephone's side of the tale! But it was never Demeter's story to tell at all. It is not the song sung for Demeter by her nymphs as her tears make the seasons turn. ![]() This is not the story passed down from Demeter's priests and priestesses. It started, as many stories do, with a boy and a girl in a meadow. ![]() Kore does not belong in the shadows, and she is not the Goddess of Flowers, spring or otherwise. It was there she found her destiny, one that would shake the world from the top of Olympus to the depths of Hades. But what she liked best was when she was allowed to wander the woodlands and towns of the mortal world alone. ![]() Too useless to sprout the grain with the nymphs, she followed her mother, Demeter, through the fields and made the flowers bloom, and she wasn't even too good at that. Kore lingered at the edge of the feast hall, watching the great gods and goddesses revel. ![]() The least of his sons and daughters, hers was not the moon, or love, or battle.so low that she should have more rightly been numbered among his demigod children. The daughter of King Zeus of Olympus lived a small life. ![]() |