![]() ![]() (For example, we now know that at least four human species once roamed the earth.) Plus, here is the remarkable, controversial story of how our genes made their way to the Americas?one that?s still being written, as ever more of us have our DNA sequenced. ![]() Acclaimed science writer Adam Rutherford explains exactly how genomics is completely rewriting the human story?from 100,000 years ago to the present.Ī Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived?will upend your thinking on Neanderthals, evolution, royalty, race, and even redheads. ![]() Who are our ancestors? Where did they come from? Geneticists have suddenly become historians, and the hard evidence in our DNA has blown the lid off what we thought we knew. In our unique genomes, every one of us carries the story of our species?births, deaths, disease, war, famine, migration, and? a lot?of sex.īut those stories have always been locked away?until now. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Will he risk his reputation to defend two women labeled as traitors to the Crown? Or will a wealthy beauty, untainted by scandal, capture his affections? Then a worthy hero steps forward, rekindling a spark of hope. Yet joy still comes knocking, and hope is often found in unexpected places. Dependent upon a distant cousin with meager resources, Marjory dreads the future almost as much as she regrets the past. Her mother-in-law, Marjory Kerr, is a woman undone, having buried her husband, her sons, and any promise of grandchildren. She is unafraid of work and gifted with a needle, but how will she stitch together the tattered remnants of her life? And who will mend her heart, torn asunder by betrayal and deception?Įlisabeth has not come to Selkirk alone. Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune. BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rooksgrave Manor’s protections for its unusual patrons are failing, the wards are crumbling, and Esther’s new and exquisitely pleasurable life may all come tumbling down. But the risk of disappointing her new gentlemen isn’t all that’s threatening Esther’s new position. Temptations lurk around every shadowy corner and Esther has never been a girl able to resist. There are rules to be followed, expectations to meet, and Esther is afraid she might be too wicked even for a place like Rooksgrave. Upon arrival, the men and the daily decadence of the manor feel too good to be true for a girl of Esther’s station. ![]() Underwood, a delicate gentleman with a ferocious alter ego who knows exactly what he wants from Esther. Even better, the invitation comes by the hand of the handsome Dr. On the brink of losing her position as a maid and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor - a house of ill and unusual repute - sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther’s inclinations. Synopsis: On the brink of losing her position as a maid and with no prospects to go on, the offer of a place at Rooksgrave Manor-a house of ill and unusual repute-sounds like a perfect fit for a young woman with Esther's inclinations. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the two big awards to Anderson and Garner in 1978 marked a shift in readerly tastes and the beginning of something more like equality in the writing, publishing, and reading of fiction in Australia. ![]() There were isolated exceptions, most notably Christina Stead, Elizabeth Harrower, and Thea Astley, all now regarded as major Australian novelists. Both of these books have since become classics of Australian literature, rarely out of print and regularly rediscovered by new generations of readers.Īustralian fiction, both in its production and in its critical reception, had been dominated by male writers since the end of World War II. ![]() In 1978, Australia’s two most coveted national literary prizes of the time were both won by women: Helen Garner’s first novel Monkey Grip (1977) won the National Book Council Award for fiction, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award was won by Tirra Lirra by the River (1978), Jessica Anderson’s fourth novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements-and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind.įrom this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial-each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. ![]() Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes-and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. "Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."įrom the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London-a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, I became so smitten with Alexa and Drew’s love story that I read the book, from start to finish, cover to cover, in six hours. An invitation for a fake date to–you guessed it–a wedding seemed to be the start of a happily ever after, but of course, complications arise.Īs author Roxanne Gay aptly said in her review, Guillory’s debut is “a charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel,” and I couldn’t agree more. Within the first few pages, I could tell I would be hooked after a stalled elevator led to sparks flying between the two main characters who have demanding occupations and an even more intense attraction to each other. The 322-page-turner hit shelves in January when the former lawyer turned writer decided to put down her legal pad and pick up a pen to tell the story of Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Information about the book Creativity Inc, written by Ed Catmull About the bookĬreativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration “What does it mean to manage well?”įrom Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business-sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. ![]() The file contains more than 368 pages … Title Creativity Inc : Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspirationĭownload the book Creativity Inc pdf written by Ed Catmull and published by Random House in 2014 in PDF format. ![]() ![]() Later, Davis asks whether I’d like to get a drink at Dumont’s tavern, a Hells Angels hangout on El Cajon Boulevard. It’s a history of local sleaze, in "the most corrupt city on the West Coast," beginning with His Highness of Corruption, Alonzo Horton, and ending with Her Majesty of Folly, Susan Golding. The author of City of Quartz and other books about L.A.’s past and future woes has, with two local authors, just written a new book, Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See. Though he’s fidgety about being back, he seems at home in East County, especially since he’s been writing about the place that made him. Having lived in Los Angeles, London, New York, and Hawaii, he has once again settled in San Diego. With hat and sunglasses, I’m burning up head and eyes uncovered, Davis beads a lone ball of sweat. ![]() For an hour, the most famous social historian of southern California has been walking me through Bostonia, a two-square mile enclave just north of El Cajon, where he grew up in the ’50s and ’60s. It’s 100 degrees, and the sane people are in the shade, keeping still. It’s an August mid-afternoon in El Cajon. ![]() ![]() ![]() perceptions of such matters as geopolitics, race, socialized medicine, and the patient-shrink relationship are razor sharp and more than a little cutting." "Gracefully developed.extremely inventive. ![]() ![]() "A rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion." Edwards Award. She received lifetime achievement awards from the World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles Times, Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and Willamette Writers, as well as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award and the Library of Congress Living Legend Award. ![]() Le Guin was also the recipient of the Association for Library Service to Children’s May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award and the Margaret A. In 2014, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and in 2016 joined the short list of authors to be published in their lifetimes by the Library of America. Le Guin (1929–2018) was the celebrated author of twenty-three novels, twelve volumes of short stories, eleven volumes of poetry, thirteen children’s books, five essay collections, and four works of translation. Her acclaimed books received the Hugo, Nebula, Endeavor, Locus, Otherwise, Theodore Sturgeon, PEN/Malamud, and National Book Awards a Newbery Honor and the Pushcart and Janet Heidinger Kafka Prizes, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() The other world of the novel is a desolate London, further into the future after a hazily described apocalypse known as “the Jackpot” has wiped out 80% of the population. And playing video games is, for lots of people, a proper job. Most of what you need you either buy at Hefty Mart or get “fabbed” at a 3D-print shop (which is where our heroine, Flynne, works). “Homes” (aka Homeland Security) is the main power in the land. ![]() The only real money in the economy comes from “building” (a perfect Gibsonian tweak) drugs. There are wounded veterans from foreign wars. We are in a smallish town in the US, where everything is more or less like it is now, only more so. The future containing Hefty Mart is just about shouting distance from our own. ![]() ![]() In this book, there are two futures to be deciphered and I should warn fans for whom the deciphering from scratch is going to be a prime pleasure that the paragraphs which follow contain some spoilers with regards to the set-up. The reader’s work is hard at first but richly satisfying. It makes them both plausible and pleasurably strange. One of the great pleasures of Gibson’s fiction – though he is canny enough to include periodic expository info-dumps to help the confused catch up – is that sense of not being spoon-fed: his futures convince because the reader arrives in them as a tourist and learns their languages by immersion. ![]() |