![]() ![]() ![]() survivorship, mortality rates) 5)recognition of a "lost world" of polar-adapted dinosaurs and co-naming a half dozen dinosaurs including Guanlong (a fully-feathered tyrannosaur), Anchiornis (a miniature four-winged gliding raptor) and Ugrunaaluk (a polar duck-billed dinosaur). rex 3) revealing that Archaeopteryx (the first bird) was physiologically more like a dinosaur than a modern bird 4) pioneering studies on dinosaurian population biology (e.g. ![]() Notable discoveries include: 1) determining the growth rates of dinosaurs showing they were likely warm-blooded 2) discovering the age, growth rates and evolution of giantism in T. He has also participated in over fifty expeditions, including trips to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, Romania and the Alaskan Arctic. He has published over 100 scientific papers, many appearing in top journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Erickson’s research focuses primarily on dinosaur growth, life history and feeding biomechanics. ![]() Erickson received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and conducted post-doctoral research at Stanford University and Brown University before joining the faculty at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasuresĭr. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Like most m/m books, this one had a lot of sex, but that’s pretty typical for guys, and I like that Lauren changed her style a bit to accommodate that. ![]() Until one particular trip, when the attraction comes to a head (pun intended). These two have been secretly attracted to each other for a while, but Stone thought Jackson was straight, and Jackson wouldn’t want to mix work and play. ![]() We have met Stone in Lauren’s sexy menage romance One Night Only, but now she brings us a rock star romance featuring Stone Zenith and his bodyguard Jackson Pearce. And after LOVING A Guy Walks Into My Bar, I couldn’t wait for One Time Only. I am not usually a big m/m reader because A- I like to imagine myself as the heroine, and B- they tend to be a little more sex than story. One Time Only by Lauren Blakely Narrated by Jacob Morgan and Teddy Hamilton Standalone male/male Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Presenting here are Arthur Rackham’s Peter Pan in Kensington Garden wonderful illustrations. Many of his work are still in print today. He was one of the most prolific and most loved illustrator of children’s book. This was often followed by a more modestly presented octavo edition in subsequent years for particularly popular books. Many of Rackham’s books were produced in a deluxe limited edition, often vellum bound and sometimes signed, as well as a larger, less ornately bound quarto ‘trade’ edition. During that period, there was a strong market for high quality illustrated books which typically were given as Christmas gifts. Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939) was an English book illustrator.Īrthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the ‘Golden Age’ of British book illustration which encompassed the years from 1900 until the start of the First World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() The memoir has been translated into 25 languages and was adapted into a Broadway play that, in 2015, earned five Tony Awards, including Best Musical.īut Bechdel wasn’t always a marquee name, as Self-Confessed! reminds us: decades before achieving commercial success with Fun Home, she was rejected from art graduate schools. ![]() The MacArthur Genius’s best-selling 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - titled after the Bechdel family’s nickname for their funeral business - explores the author’s relationship with her closeted gay father, his unexpected death, and her own coming out. In order to make it as interesting as fiction, truth needs to be compressed.ĥ8-year-old Bechdel has achieved great success compressing her life’s story. ![]() In her “A Story about Life” (2009) board game, featured in Self-Confessed! The Inappropriately Intimate Comics of Alison Bechdel, on view at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Bechdel writes that truth, compared to fiction, can be dull. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - There’s a fine line between graphic novel and graphic memoir. Alison Bechdel, “The Rule,” from “Dykes To Watch Out For” (1985) (Courtesy of the Artist) ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book that, once it gets going, is a rollercoaster ride of vengeance and violence.įoul is Fair is a novel unlike anything I have read in a while. I have to say thankyou so much to the peeps at St Martin’s Press for thinking of me for this blog tour. Golden boys beware: something wicked this way comes. And she and her coven have the perfect way in: a boy named Mack, whose ambition could turn deadly.įoul is Fair is a bloody, thrilling revenge fantasy for the girls who have had enough. She’ll take their power, their lives, and their control of the prep school’s hierarchy. She plots to destroy each boy, one by one. Sworn to vengeance, Elle transfers to St. ![]() The night the golden boys choose Elle as their next target. Until the night of Elle’s sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Every party is theirs and the world is at their feet. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Publisher: Wednesday Books/St Martin’s Pressīlurb: Elle and her friends Mads, Jenny, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His works are highly philosophical and thus appeal to children and adults alike. His first play aimed at adolescents, Wild Girl, Wild Boy, toured in 2001 and was published in 2002. ![]() His subsequent novels are: Kit's Wilderness (1999), Heaven Eyes (2000), Secret Heart (2001), The Fire Eaters (2003) and Clay (2005). His first children's novel, Skellig (1998), set in Newcastle, won the Whitbread Children's Novel of the Year Award and also the Carnegie Medal. He started out as an author of adult fiction before finding his niche writing literature for young adults. When he was young, he found his love of writing when some short stories of his were published in a local magazine. He was born and raised in Felling and Newcastle in post-industrial North East England and educated at the University of East Anglia. David Almond is a British children's writer who has penned several novels, each one to critical acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Patrice, the class valedictorian, has no desire to wear herself down with a husband and kids. Since graduating from high school, Pixie Paranteau has insisted that everyone call her Patrice. How can the government abandon treaties made in good faith with Native Americans “for as long as the grasses shall grow, and the rivers run”? The bill is a “termination” that threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land and their very identity. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom Congress is fed up with Indians. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather, who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D.C. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I love Angela Dawe! I just want to say that upfront but it is hard for me to wrap my head around different narrators picking up characters that I already have in my head with another narrator. Overall I adore Dali and Jim and hope we get more stories from them in the future. Overall Thoughts: OH Jim! Way to ease into it □ <-that ending quite frankly had me fist pumping and going “WAIT! I need the rest of that scene”. Penguin, Aug 16, 2016- Fiction- 98 pages. Note: Only listened to Magic Steals by Ilona Andrews ![]() NOTE: These “reviews” are as simple as it gets (and mostly for tracking purposes)! They will have a rating, first thought, narrator thought (quick), and will officially be filed □Īudio Rating: 3.50 (not part of the overall rating) Magic Steals Ilona Andrews INTERMIX NEW YORK INTERMIX Published by Berkley An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014 Copyright © 2014 by Andrew Gordon and Ilona Gordon Excerpt from Magic Binds copyright © 2016 by Andrew Gordon and Ilona Gordon. ![]() More Information:Īlso by this author: Magic Bites, On the Edge, Bayou Moon, Fate's Edge, Burn for MeĪlso in this series: Magic Bites, Magic Bites, Magic Burns, Magic Strikes, Magic Mourns In #1 New York Times bestselling author Ilona Andrews’ novella, Magic Steals, when people start going missing, shapeshifting tigress Dali Harimau and jaguar shifter Jim Shrapshire must uncover the truth about the mysterious creatures responsible. ![]() ![]() ![]() These two features come together in the new edited volume, Rousseau and Revolution, which probes the many ambiguities in Rousseau's political writings to explore whether or not he is properly understood as a muse for revolutionaries, whether in France or elsewhere. He can be found advancing ancient and modern devices, celebrating the solitary life while insisting on the social, condemning the arts while writing novels and operas, and insisting that freedom involves being forced against one's evident will. Among more familiar readers, he is known for the many paradoxes and ambiguities that cover most corners of his oeuvre. The popular image persists of Robespierre quoting passages from the Social Contract while simultaneously ordering executions. Among casual readers, he is known as the muse of the Jacobins in the French Revolution. Jean-Jacques Rousseau is perhaps most famous or even infamous for two features associated with his work and its influence. ![]() ![]() Kyōka was born Izumi Kyōtarō on Novemin the Shitashinmachi section of Kanazawa, Ishikawa, to Izumi Seiji ( 泉 清次, Izumi Seiji), a chaser and inlayer of metallic ornaments, and Nakata Suzu ( 中田 鈴, Nakata Suzu), daughter of a tsuzumi hand-drum player from Edo and younger sister to lead protagonist of the Noh theater, Kintarō Matsumoto. Like Natsume Sōseki and other Japanese authors with pen names, Kyōka is usually known by his pen name rather than his real given name. He is also considered one of the supreme stylists in modern Japanese literature, and the difficulty and richness of his prose has been frequently noted by fellow authors and critics. He is best known for a characteristic brand of Romanticism preferring tales of the supernatural heavily influenced by works of the earlier Edo period in Japanese arts and letters, which he tempered with his own personal vision of aesthetics and art in the modern age. ![]() Many of Kyōka's works are surrealist critiques of society. Kyōka's writing differed greatly from that of the naturalist writers who dominated the literary scene at the time. ![]() Izumi Kyōka ( 泉 鏡花, Izumi Kyōka, 4 November 1873 – 7 September 1939), real name Kyōtarō Izumi ( 泉 鏡太郎, Izumi Kyōtarō), was a Japanese author of novels, short stories, and kabuki plays who was active during the prewar period. ![]() |