Years ago at Stanford, I would notice that if I was walking to class, no matter how stressed I was, birds were the one thing that could cut through that no matter what. It’s also a very present perspective – the bad kind of presence, being very wrapped up in whatever is happening right now, or what everyone is talking about on Twitter. And it ties into this idea that everything is a machine, and it just needs to be fixed, or made more efficient. Anything that detracts from that is too expensive, from the time-is-money perspective. It’s this perspective in which time is money, and you should have something to show for your time – either getting work done, or self-improvement, which I would still count as work. Where is our perspective stuck right now? What is the attention economy? Your book encourages a broad shift in perspective. The stakes, she argues, are high: “In a time that demands action, distraction appears to be a life-and-death matter.” Odell acknowledges that participating in this system is, for most people, not optional, and the book is dotted with examples of standing against the tide while remaining more-or-less in it – artists, labor movements, Oakland’s last old-growth redwood tree.
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You don't want to air all the dirt on your childhood heroes. STAN LEE is obviously biased in that it is very much pro-Stan Lee. I guess there are some controversies over how much of the effort was his versus, say, Jack Kirby's, and I found a pretty great Vulture article called Why Is Stan Lee's Legacy in Question?that does a pretty good job discussing the subject, whereas this book, STAN LEE, kind of glosses over it. I had no idea that he was involved with so many of the Marvel superheroes - X-Men, The Fantastic Four, Thor, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Spider-Man, The Hulk. But the best part is his contributions to the Golden Age of Comics, before the Comic Code snafu. It shows his contributions to the war effort with colorful cartoony instructional pamphlets for the soldiers. STAN LEE shows how Stan Lee became involved with Marvel, how the Depression made him desperate and hungry (a familiar tale with many comic book authors and illustrators). It would be really cool, I thought, to see the Marvel side of things. I've read several comic book histories, about Wonder Woman and Superman, and they were all good. Apart from that slight disappointment due to some questionable labeling choices (*cough*), STAN LEE is a pretty fantastic book. But STAN LEE is not a graphic novel - it is merely a biography about a man who wrote them. When I first saw this book on Netgalley, I was super excited because I thought it was going to be a graphic-novel style biography of Stan Lee's life, because some fool had slapped it with the "graphic novels" label. James Doucet-Battle begins with a historical overview of how diabetes has been researched and framed racially over the past century, chronicling one company’s efforts to recruit African Americans to test their new diabetes risk-score algorithm with the aim of increasing the clinical and market value of the firm’s technology. But has science gone so far in racializing diabetes as to undermine the search for solutions? In a rousing indictment of the idea that notions of biological race should drive scientific inquiry, Sweetness in the Blood provides an ethnographic picture of biotechnology’s framings of Type 2 diabetes risk and race and, importantly, offers a critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research. Decades of data cannot be ignored: African American adults are far more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than white adults. Overall, this would make a decent intro for novice horror and ghost story fans - and indeed a few of the stories here seemed written for a younger audience - but longtime fans will more likely be thinking "Been there, done that." "The Echo" -about Anne and Oliver, old friends who reunite after 6 years only to have Oliver accuse Anne of being a doppelganger - is another above-average, creepy entry worth mentioning. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes aka Angus Campbell. Se Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes aka Angus Campbell. Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes was an author, best known for his ghost stories. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man From The Bomb in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including The Grange, The Haunted Grange, And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God. Several of his short works were adapted into anthology style movies in the United Kingdom, including The Monster Club and From Beyond the Grave. Chetwynd-Hayes' book The Monster Club contains references to a film-maker called Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave. Gilmour 5.00 1 Ratings 2 Want to read 0 Currently reading 0 Have read Overview View 1 Edition Details Reviews Lists Related Books Publish Date 2001 Publisher Scholastic Language English Pages 308 Previews available in: English This edition doesn't have a description yet. OL8120838W Page_number_confidence 91.98 Pages 326 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20201119205139 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 529 Scandate 20201117144651 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780439981545 Tts_version 4. An edition of The power of two (2001) The power of two by H. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:32:40 Associated-names Reisfeld, Randi Boxid IA1999202 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier It is in the solitude of a tiny rock chamber high in the side of an Arizona cliff-"a cleft in the heart of the world"-that Thea comes face to face with her own dreams and desires, stripped clean by the haunting purity of the ruined cliff dwellings and inspired by the whisperings of their ancient dust. But as her path to the world stage leads her ever farther from the humble town she can't forget and from the man she can't afford to love, Thea learns that her exceptional musical talent and fierce ambition are not enough. Thea Kronberg, a minister's daughter in a provincial Colorado town, seems destined from childhood for a place in the wider world. In this powerful portrait of the self-making of an artist, Willa Cather created one of her most extraordinary heroines. Is the wallpaper bright and cheerful? Does it lift your mood, or darken it? I could tell you that “the wallpaper is yellow,” and yes, that counts as visual imagery, but it’s hardly describing the experience of that wallpaper. Of course, good imagery examples are not merely descriptive. However, internal experiences and emotions also count, and later in this article, we dive into how to properly write organic imagery. Imagery definition: language that stimulates the reader’s senses.įor the most part, imagery in literature focuses on concrete senses-things you can physically experience. By evoking those senses through touch, taste, sound, smell, and sight, the writer imparts a deeper understanding of the human experience, connecting with the reader through a shared sensory experience. Imagery refers to language that stimulates the reader’s senses. Kinesthetic Imagery and Organic Imagery. For achieving goals, there are two sets of mindset which people have. While thinking of The 10X rule it is also important to anticipate all the possible challenges which can be faced in the achievement of the goals. So, rather than focusing on other aspects or reducing the targets, we should focus on reaching towards the goals and making our actions more strong. They do not anticipate the challenges and only focus on the rosy side of the achievement of the goals. They focus on competing with others rather than their own actions for the desired results. People underestimate themselves in terms of money, actions, or other resources they have to meet their requirements to achieve goals. People set low goals that do not motivate them enough for taking action. Did you ever imagine what are the reasons why we are able to achieve our goals? Check the following: This rule applies to every part of life because challenges cannot be anticipated properly. It leads to massive and the desired results you are looking for. You are looking for big results and your efforts planning also should be 10 X more than what you will usually put. When you set your goals 10 times higher than what you want. The book is telling us to aim at least 10 X bigger goals than what you expect to achieve and accordingly also to put 10 X more efforts to get the desired results. You grew up in Michigan and DC and studied literature at Harvard. To celebrate both Black History Month and the 25th anniversary of "XXX's and OOO's," I'm honored to have her share her own unique history, and offer insights into the African-American experience as it relates to country music. While at Vanderbilt, I was able to take one of Professor's Randall's courses, Country Lyric in American Culture. Randall is also a professor at Vanderbilt University, where she teaches courses on the intersection of African-American culture with literature, film, food and country music. She would eventually parlay her songwriting career into success as a New York Times bestselling author with her first novel The Wind Done Gone, followed by two more acclaimed novels and an award-winning cookbook, Soul Food Love. ASCAP member Alice Randall is one of the first black females to write a #1 country song (“XXX’s and OOO’s,” recorded by Trisha Yearwood in 1994). So here I am going to list a few instances of a writer being famous for the wrong book, and my suggestions for where their greatest achievement really lies. Gabriel Josipovici says that it is not Kafka's The Trial or "Metamorphosis" – not any of his novels or stories – which "form most sustained meditation on life and death, good and evil, and the role of art", but his aphorisms. Geoff Dyer takes the view that it is John Cheever's journals, not his stories, which represent his " greatest achievement, his principal claim to literary survival". If someone reads Kurt Vonnegut's most famous book, Slaughterhouse-Five, and doesn't like it, I'll want to shout to them, "But it's rubbish! Cat's Cradle is much better! That's the one you want to read!" It's not just me, I'm sure. You would? Great, there's a space for you in the comments below.) (After all, who would dispute that Middlemarch is George Eliot's peak?. W hy is it that the book for which an author is best known is rarely their best? If history is the final judge of literary achievement, why has a title like Louis de Bernières' Captain Corelli's Mandolin risen to the top, overshadowing his much better earlier novels such as Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord? It's not, I hope, the simple snobbery of insisting that the most popular can't be the finest. |