Bill does a great job of explaining the challenges associated with climate change. This is a problem that needs to be solved, and Bill Gates has a plan. It’s efforts like this from someone as well known and influential as Bill Gates that could make a real difference as we try to tackle climate change. I certainly learned a lot while reading, as well as an increased sense of empowerment over my own contribution to climate change. Many of the required changes will require willingness from government and big business, but he also highlights the things ordinary people can start doing today to help directly, as well as change the behaviour and attitudes of politicians and CEOs. The climate change problems and implications are presented clearly, as well as many of the potential solutions. He is also not afraid to admit his own shortcomings when it comes to climate change. Gates does a great job of boiling down a potentially complex topic to make it accessible and easily memorable, in a pithy and meaningful way. This is a well written and thought provoking book.
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A graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a minor in Political Science. Her motto, borrowed from Hurston, is “I do not weep at the world, I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” La Toya is a North Carolina native currently residing in Raleigh. Her literary influences include Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Mosley, Anne Rice, and Pearl Cleage. She’s an active supporter of LGBT issues and health disparities that affect her community. La Toya serves as co-chair of Shades of Pride–organizer of the annual Triangle Black Pride. and the short story Three Is the Magic Number. Hankins is the author of the novels K-Rho: The Sweet Taste of Sisterhood and SBF Seeking. Each author will do a short reading from their book and all books will be available for sale. LGBT authors discuss their books and provide an insight to their motivation as well their inspiration for writing. Crochet continues to grow in popularity, and this guidebook offers a new take on the timeless classic, one that readers won’t be able to find anywhere else. The Tunisian Crochet Handbook introduces this fascinating and rewarding technique with a wide array of stitches and design possibilities. In this way, author Toni Lipsey is reintroducing crochet and encouraging makers to explore the craft further with each new design. Kindle Edition Books By Toni Lipsey All Formats Kindle Books Paperback Sort by: Popularity The Tunisian Crochet Handbook: A Beginners Guide 1 by Toni Lipsey ( 857 ) £10.99 £17. The book includes instructional sections and patterns, complete with the necessary schematics and styled, chic photographs.Įvery shawl, garment, and accessory featured takes makers beyond the basics, introducing new stitches to expand their skill sets. 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My mother was a sample machinist that is, she worked with designers on the prototypes (models or samples) of garments. Then, when the council bought the house from us to build a road, my grandfather retired and my father went and worked for the Post Office. It was built on the site of the old Roman cemetery, and the land had been constantly inhabited, being in the centre of town. It was an old house and most definitely haunted, but I didn’t find out until I left that my great uncle had hung himself in the living room! But I think our ghost might have been older than that. I was born in Leicester, England, and lived in our cobbler’s shop with my parents and sister. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. If the results of the proposed experiment show that a large percentage of tardigrades remain viable after exposure to microgravity, it is possible that. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.Īvery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how-scientifically. Islam, the basics Introduction to the Middle East & North African library collection by Dr. transformation: The Ottoman Empire, 16 th – 18 th centuries. 52-77, and Jane Hathaway, “The Military Households in Ottoman Egypt,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 27 (1995), pp. Howard, “Ottoman Historiography and the Literature of ‘Decline’ of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” Journal of Asian History, 22, 1 (1988), pp. 1-3 also in e-reserves & the course pack: Douglas A. Required reading: Cleveland, History, introduction to Part One and chaps. The “classical” Ottoman state and its transformation. Start reading for next week and familiarize yourself with the course website. (Three lectures this week Friday discussion sections begin in week 2.) Introduction to the course, the Middle East, and Islam.Ĭourse introduction peoples and cultures of the Middle East, present and past. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & AccessibilityĪ. Brown, who will be far more valuable to her employer than he could ever know. He finds support from an unlikely kindred soul, his stenographer, Mrs. There in the land of his birth, Shepherd believes he might remake himself in America's hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. Meanwhile, to the north, the United States will soon be caught up in the internationalist goodwill of World War II. When he goes to work for Lev Trotsky, an exiled political leader fighting for his life, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, newspaper headlines and howling gossip, and a risk of terrible violence. He discovers a passion for Aztec history and meets the exotic, imperious artist Frida Kahlo, who will become his lifelong friend. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers who put him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The Lacuna is a poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as they invent their modern identities.īorn in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico-from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City-Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Doesn't he realize how much Ro wishes she could be in his place? As the two face bullying, grief, and their own differences, Benji and Ro try to piece together clues to some of the biggest questions in the universe. But Benji hesitates, which infuriates Ro. Though Ro and Benji were only supposed to be science class partners, the pair become unlikely friends, and Ro even figures out a way to reunite Benji and his dad. Too bad his dad walked out years ago, and Benji has no way to contact him. When he finds a sketch that suggests that his dad created the comics, he's thrilled. Benjamin Burns doesn't like science, but he can't get enough of Spacebound, a popular comic book series. When he dies unexpectedly, all Ro has left of him is an unfinished model rocket they had been working on together. The only thing Rosalind Ling Geraghty loves more than watching NASA launches with her dad is building rockets with him. This stellar debut about losing and finding family, forging unlikely friendships, and searching for answers to big questions will resonate with fans of Erin Entrada Kelly and Rebecca Stead. The story becomes mythical and destined for retelling for new audiences, new challenges, and new generations. Young man grows up in poverty on the frontier, splits rails, self-educates, and becomes a lawyer and the statesman who saved the union before a dastardly actor assassinated him during the play Our American Friend. In many ways Meacham tells an oft-told story. Who was where when? Who wrote what letter to whom, residing in an obscure library? The insights made the story more complex and compelling than the old-method historical narratives.Īnd There Was Light, by Jon Meacham, is the latest in this string of “new” histories in my library. Kerns Goodwin made connections regarding the politicking around the formation of Lincoln’s cabinet, connections impossible for a mere card deck. The reality of the impact of this information revolution on historical scholarship became real to me when Doris Kerns Goodwin released her Team of Rivals. Card catalogs left libraries, and research decks left researchers – all to be replaced by the internet and digitized data. In the intervening years, much has changed. Tales of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman times thrilled me and led me to learn to read and use indexes (my parents had a World Book Encyclopedia whose index pointed me to every entry, and that opened Roman and Greek history to me). I stumbled across ancient history in the sixth grade. In the material world, nothing is done by leaps, all by gradual advance. Shannon knows her friend has no intention of giving up Marigold and is proud of Raphael for sticking to his guns. Raphael's old business partner arrives in town with a grudge and a plan to steal him away from his important new passion project. It's an exciting time in Lighthouse Cove as Raphael hosts the first ever global conference inviting big thinkers from every area of industry to give presentations on eco-living. He's started the Marigold Foundation that helps fund small companies and individuals who do humanitarian work around the world. Shannon's good friend and retired tech billionaire, Raphael Nash, is loving his new retired life but he can't stay unoccupied for too long. Contractor Shannon Hammer is measuring murder motives in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of A Wrench in the Works and Eaves of Destruction. |