![]() Global poverty-and the growing inequality between the rich countries of Europe and North America and the poor ones of Africa, Asia, and South America-has come about because the global economy has been designed over the course of five hundred years of conquest, colonialism, regime change, and globalization to favor the interests of the richest and most powerful nations. It insists that if poor countries would only adopt the right institutions and economic policies, they could overcome their disadvantages and join the ranks of the rich world.Īnthropologist Jason Hickel argues that this story ignores the broader political forces at play. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the development ladder. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. More than four billion people-some 60 percent of humanity-live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. Global inequality doesn't just exist it has been created. ![]()
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![]() As the story develops, the novel moves through the ocean’s vertical zones (sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyssal, hadal), with the growing darkness of these zones and the increasing biological weirdness of their inhabitants reflecting the progression of the narrative, as we see the creeping horror of the ocean brought onto land. The novel is told in two alternating perspectives and voices: Leah’s, narrating her time in a submarine during a deep-sea research mission that left her and two crewmates trapped at the bottom of the ocean after an unexplained system-failure and her wife Miri’s, as she waits and presumes Leah dead until her impossible return six months later. But, like the sea, it has unknown depths and horrors to which they will sink. The lives of Miri and Leah are as complete and furnished as a house, their minute actions and seemingly mundane memories building a complete structure of their relationship. ![]() ‘The deep sea is a haunted house’ is how Julia Armfield’s debut novel Our Wives Under the Sea opens, and the same can be said for the book itself. ![]() ![]() “You’ll laugh and cry and everything in between while reading this daring reimagination of Beauty and the Beast that is pure romance at its best. Last, and most importantly… Once she’s seen the man beneath the scars, he can’t stop her from falling in love… They will have dinner together every evening. Last, and most importantly… Once she’s pregnant with his heir, they need never share a bed again.īut Emma is no pushover. ![]() They will be husband and wife by night only. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar’s daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she’ll do. He needs an heir-which means he needs a wife. Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury’s to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne’er-do-wells by night. When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules… ![]() ![]() ![]() For anybody who is interested in words, Word Freak provides an entertaining and absorbing read. ![]() ![]() As Fatsis goes on his own quest to attain the coveted 1600 rating, we actually get obsessed with him as he lies awake at night pondering moves and memorizing lists of words. Scrabble might truly be called Americas game. He keeps the reader turning the pages as we get involved in the lives of the Scrabble obsessives: men and women who have a point to prove against the world and have chosen Scrabble as their playground and their pulpit. Stefan Fatsis, a Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the games strange, potent hold over them - and him. It's a wacky grab bag of travelogue, history, party journal, and psychological study of the misfits and goofballs whose lives are measured out in Scrabble tiles.įatsis gives us all the facts about Scrabble-from the story of the down-on-his-luck architect who invented the game in the 1930s to the intricacies of individual international competitions and the corporate wars to control the world's favorite word game. This marvelously absorbing book is a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect (San Jose Mercury News). Word Freak is the account of his journey. Like a cross between a linguistic spy and a lexicographic Olympic athlete, journalist Stefan Fatsis gave himself a year to penetrate the highest echelons of international Scrabble competition. ![]() ![]() OK, if I’m going to do 13 DAYS OF THE NEAL ADAMS GALLERY, then I am most definitely going to start with Batman.īecause of that whole “ Neal Adams is the guy whose Batman art had such an enormous impact on Young Dan” thing. For tons more info on the gallery and what you can see - and buy - there, click here.įor the complete 13 DAYS OF THE NEAL ADAMS GALLERY INDEX of stories, click here. Admission is free but you have to call first before you come over ( 21). ![]() The gallery, which is open to the public, is located at 15 W. You’ll see a diverse selection of pages and covers featuring the characters for which Adams is best known. Neal Adams’ permanent art gallery at his Midtown Manhattan studio is now complete and we’re giving you an EXCLUSIVE inside look with 13 DAYS OF THE NEAL ADAMS GALLERY.Įach day, we’re highlighting one of the pieces of art that adorns the walls of the gallery, complete with Neal’s EXCLUSIVE commentary. ![]() PLUS: Adams teases his new Deadman series! ![]() ![]() "I loved A Distant Melody! Sarah Sundin is a master at lyrical writing, and she has that rare talent of being able to combine humor with heart-pounding action. This is not only the best World War II love story I've ever read, but it may be the best book I've ever read."-Cheryl Bolen, Holt Medallion Winner, Best Historical "Sarah Sundin is an extraordinarily gifted storyteller who puts the reader in the cockpit of B-17 bombers as easily as she crafts an achingly emotional World War II romance. ![]() But can they untangle the secrets, commitments, and expectations that keep them apart?īook 1 in the Wings of Glory series, A Distant Melody is an exciting and tender story of love, courage, and sacrifice during World War II. As letters fly between Walt's muddy bomber base in England and Allie's mansion in an orange grove, their friendship binds them together. ![]() Walt and Allie meet and begin a correspondence that will change their lives. Walter Novak-fearless in the cockpit but hopeless with women-takes his last furlough at home in California before being shipped overseas. While Allie has nearly resigned herself to that fate, Lt. ![]() Never pretty enough to please her gorgeous mother, Allie will do anything to gain her approval-even marry a man she doesn't love. Will a chance meeting in a time of war change her life forever? ![]() ![]() With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. ![]() Liesel Meminger is a foster girl who scratches out a meager existence by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist: books. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.
![]() ![]() Gurov, a bank official from Moscow whose marriage offers him no fulfillment and who has had numerous affairs, is attracted by a new arrival in Yalta, where he is on holiday alone. The content of the story is on the surface very conventional, but it is Chekhov's treatment of this content, particularly the kind of concrete detail he supplies, that creates recognition and identification on the part of the reader while also being defamiliarizing, giving the work its power. It is typical of his work in that it combines realism-accentuated by the avoidance of obvious literary devises and of moral or philosophical comment-with an understated symbolic quality, a combination that gives his work its unique atmosphere. "The Lady with the Little Dog" ("Dama s Sobachkoi") is one of the most anthologized of Anton Chekhov's short stories. ![]() THE LADY WITH THE LITTLE DOG (Dama sSobachkoi) ![]() ![]() ![]() The story focuses on questions and worries that child may have before their first day of school including eating school dinners, wearing a uniform and making friends. And of course she has a wonderful first day! ![]() Eventually she agrees to go because her imaginary friend Soren Lorenson is going. ![]() She’s too busy doing important things at home, she doesn’t need to learn to count any further than ten and can talk on the phone instead of learning to write. The Story: Lola is talking to Charlie about why she is still too small to go to school. In I am TOO absolutely small for school we love the conversations between Lola and her big brother Charlie about her thoughts and reasons for not wanting to (or even needing!) to start school! If you have a child who is starting school this year now is the time to start reading picture books about characters who are also going through the same experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() She suspects Ophiuchus-the exiled 13th Guardian of Zodiac legend-has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy. Then when more Houses fall victim to freak weather catastrophes Rho starts seeing a pattern in the stars. But a true Cancrian who loves her home fiercely and will protect her people no matter what Rho accepts. When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens-including its beloved Guardian-Rho is more surprised than anyone when she is named the Houses new leader. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions Rho cant solve for x to save her life-so instead she looks up at the night sky and makes up stories. ![]() Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. ![]() At the dawn of time there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Reseña: The New York Times bestselling novel ZODIAC is the first book in a breathtaking sci-fi series inspired by astrology that will stun fans of The Illuminae Files and the Starbound trilogy. ![]() |