![]() ![]() ![]() Whether you are an individual, community focused or a national government, Regeneration is a call to arms to mobilise against the degradation of our planet in order to safeguard the future. A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist Paul Hawken, creator of the New York Times bestseller DrawdownRegeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis. The solutions, techniques, and practices detailed are doable, science-based, and comprise a precise and unequivocal course of action. This new book offers a guide to what each of us can do-should do-to make changes in the ecological, social and economic and transform the climate crisis in a single generation.įrom land to ocean, food to industries - Regeneration proposes an extensive menu of actions that provide the means to radically reduce individual and collective impacts. Where Drawdown focused on modelling the most effective, known solutions to global warming. Since its publication in 2017, Drawdown has become a key reference work in environmentalism, around the world. ![]()
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![]() There she meets a tempestuous female jinni who’s been banished from her tribe.īack in New York, in a tenement on the Lower East Side, a little girl named Kreindel helps her rabbi father build a golem they name Yossele-not knowing that she’s about to be sent to an orphanage uptown, where the hulking Yossele will become her only friend and protector. ![]() Park Avenue heiress Sophia Winston, whose brief encounter with Ahmad left her with a strange illness that makes her shiver with cold, travels to the Middle East to seek a cure. Having encountered each other under calamitous circumstances, Chava and Ahmad’s lives are now entwined-but they’re not yet certain of what they mean to each other.Įach has unwittingly affected the humans around them. ![]() Ahmad is a jinni, a perpetually restless and free-spirited creature of fire, imprisoned in the shape of a man.įearing they’ll be exposed as monsters, these magical beings hide their true selves and pretend to be human-just two more immigrants in the bustling world of 1900s Manhattan. ![]() ![]() Featured Book: The Hidden Palace: A Novel of the Golem and the JinniĬhava is a golem, a woman made of clay, able to hear the thoughts and longings of the people around her and compelled by her nature to help them. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the fourth image, when clicked, reveals two different looks at Daredevil. Others include Hulk: Grey, Captain America: White, and Spider-Man: Blue. Daredevil: Yellow by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale is one of a collection of miniseries-turned-graphic novels that retell superheros origins and their early days. The images were released Saturday on the series' official Twitter account along with the caption "#SheHulk: Attorney at Law is full of surprises." The post is in the format of a popular Twitter meme where the image preview features four images that create one picture - in this case the show's logo - however, clicking on each image reveals a peek at some of the characters, including Bruce Banner ( Mark Ruffalo) and Abomination ( Tim Roth). More Details Imprint: Marvel Universe ISBN: 978-0-7851-8831-5 Format: Hardcover Price: 75. Published Daredevil: Yellow stands out among Loeb and Sales Marvel output for how incredible it is. Other striking colors, like yellow and purple, also go with red. Well, in a surprise for fans, Disney has released a series of official images from She-Hulk, including one that features our best look yet Cox's Daredevil in the MCU. 0 comments (Photo: Marvel Comics) Hulk, Volume 1: Red Hulk by Jeph Loeb I Still Love. Last month, a new trailer released for the show at San Diego Comic-Con included a brief glimpse at Daredevil and his new costume for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Following a surprise cameo as Matt Murdock in last year's Spider-Man: No Way Home, Charlie Cox will be reprising his role as Daredevil in the upcoming Disney+ series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was born in 1980 in Weston-super-Mare, England. SKUSE is the author of the Young Adult novels PRETTY BAD THINGS, ROCKOHOLIC and DEAD ROMANTIC (Chicken House), MONSTER and THE DEVIANTS (Mira Ink). Before she dies, she would like to go to C.J. ![]() The movies Titanic, My Best Friend's Wedding and Ruby Sparks were all probably based on her ideas she just didn't get to write them down in time. She hates carnivals, hard-boiled eggs and coughing. ![]() loves Masterchef, Gummy Bears and murder sites. is currently working on adult novel SWEETPEA for HQ/HarperCollins (out April 2017). She has First Class degrees in Creative Writing and Writing for Children and, aside from writing novels lectures in Writing for Young People at Bath Spa University. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sheer scope, range and intensity of their poetry and their conscious engagement with their socio-political context, both in and out of their country, make them a perfect subject for critical investigation. They have been passionate about issues of identity and the stark experience of confinement and bondage. Issues like the volatile nature of politics in Pakistan and its conflicting dialectics, rage against a political dispensation based on discriminatory religious tenets, notions of personal freedom, social roles, and the divide between public and private spheres have engrossed their attention. They have also pondered over immigrant experiences and the individual’s alienation from their motherland. Women poets from Pakistan have been expressing themselves on a variety of themes not just the conventional ones of life, death, love, family, marriage, and religion but deeper introspective and public questions related to ideas of home and belonging in a multicultural world. It thus becomes imperative that they refuse, at some point of time, to remain victims, and choose to educate and define themselves to seek their sustenance. ![]() They do not even enjoy a right to their own body. Most often, women do not have a language and a space of their own, nor do they have economic independence and the confidence to write freely. ![]() It has rarely been easy to be a woman and a writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book would go on to be an international bestseller and catapult its unsuspecting author, Joshua Harris, into the Christian spotlight. In 1997 a 21 year old single Christian wrote a revolutionary book on dating. They have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the film.įollowing is the premise for the project: Together they have decided to produce a film – I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye – which will reassess the book and its influence. She was deeply influenced by I Kissed Dating Goodbye as a teenager, but came to question its message as she matured. That process of reevaluation has broadened since Harris met Jessica Van Der Wyngaard at Regent. ![]() ![]() Studying at Regent College, he says he has been confronted by many new ideas and is reevaluating the outlook presented in his best-seller of 20 years ago. The book sold more than a million copies and some Christians followed it almost as if it were gospel.Ī couple of years ago, Harris left the American megachurch he had been pastoring and moved his family to Vancouver. When Joshua Harris was just 21, he wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye. Joshua Harris and Jessica Van Der Wyngaard met at Regent College and have just launched a Kickstarter campaign for their film I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye. ![]() ![]() "We hope you understand, and we can’t wait for you to get your hands on copies on the 23rd!" "Everyone is working as hard as possible to keep copies moving but with books being shipped around the globe, and with some things (sadly!) out of our control, we’re keen to make the move to help ensure all fans get their copies on time.
![]() ![]() Source & Format: Public Library–eBook (#1-#3) Audiobook (#4) Publication Dates: September 2012 – September 2015 # of Books: 4 # ( Full Reading Order Here)īook Order: Chronological (#1-3) Connected (#4) ![]() But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn’t careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies…. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Synopsis for Alice in Zombieland (from Goodreads): Series Review: Is this series worth your time? Does it get better as the novels progress? Or does it get worse? Find out below: ![]() ![]() ![]() This involved abandoning plot and suspense adopting a shifting point of view and creating a discontinuous narrative which switched from one character and location to another, with few marks of transition or causality in between. In 1922 Virginia Woolf broke with the conventions of traditional prose fiction in her experimental novel Jacob’s Room. The novel sold very well in England and America making its way on to American best-seller lists.Įlizabeth Willson Gordon, Woolf’s-head Publishing: The Highlights and New Lights of the Hogarth Press Subsequent critical assessments have been more mixed. David Garnett said the book “marks her as the greatest master of English” and is “the finest novel she has ever written” ( New Statesman & Nation). The novel met with high praise when it was first published. Its focus is the passage of time as it traces the Pargiter family history from 1880 up to the ‘Present Day’. The Years (1937) was the largest of Virginia Woolf’s novels. ![]() Tutorial, commentary, study resources, plot, and web links ![]() ![]() If you stood it on end, she countered crisply, it would sink.įor the rest of her life, whenever she remembered that remark, she would flush with anguish. But Elizabeth was still stinging from the morning’s argument. If you stood it on end, it would rival the tallest buildings in the world. This had not been her first trip abroad.Įleven stories high, her father commented, seeing the look on Elizabeth’s face. ![]() It was the most beautiful ship she had ever seen, and she had seen several. It was enormous, its four huge funnels marching along the boat deck like giant soldiers on guard. The word that sprang first into Elizabeth’s mind was majestic. But the one whose maiden voyage would carry her and her parents back to New York towered over all of them. There were other, smaller ships there, too. She was still silent when they arrived at dockside shortly before eleven-thirty in the morning.īut the sullen pout left her face when she saw the great ship Titanic anchored in the harbor. During the seventy-nine-mile journey through English villages with names like Surbiton, Woking, and Basingstoke, Elizabeth remained sullenly silent. ![]() on the White Star Line boat train for Southampton. It was an argument she lost as always, and the Farr family left Waterloo Station at nine forty-five A.M. During one last argument, Elizabeth Farr tried desperately to convince her parents to allow her to stay on in London with her cousins, instead of returning to New York. ![]() |