He brings a jaunty righteousness to his vigilantes that satisfies like a well crafted hamburger. Review 2: I always like Warren Ellis’ work. It usually feels like macho, teenage boy drivel. I don't usually dig this gritty, anti-hero stuff. more lenty of topical antagonists (evil bank executives, a dispossessed veteran, a disgruntled cop on a power trip, human traffickers, and ethically dubious researchers). The split personalities gimmick is also not emphasized, which seems odd. The characterization is pretty thin and mostly consists of people saying how crazy Moon Night is and then Moon Knight explaining why he is, in fact, a bad-ass lunatic. There are even some thoughtful moments (showing the mundane conversations of people knowing they are going to die and a very effective page showing a man emotionally wounded by years of disaffirmation). Each issue is a one off story told economically and often uniquely, just as much with pictures as with words. It's like Batman mixed with Spawn but much, much better than that comparison suggests. Review 1: Highly stylized, supernatural, vigilante justice from a street-level anti-hero.
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Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." -Newsweek He worried that the West's success with irrigation could be a mirage - that it took water for granted and didn't appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it." - Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 Description "I've been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. Soon Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her whole world is torn apart when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. With a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, she has earned only the scorn and fear of her father’s kingdom. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Featuring a smart, independent anti-princess who must take her place as queen and a forbidden romance that defies the odds, debut author Roshani Chokshi pairs beautiful writing with a thrilling pace and compulsive plot, using her own Filipino and Indian heritage to create a culturally diverse and vividly imagined world.įate and fortune. Martin’s Griffin April 26, 2016) is a lush and vivid standalone debut young adult fantasy that seamlessly weaves the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone with Indian folklore. We’ve had our eye on this book for a while, and it looks like it could be a lot of fun: We are excited to share an excerpt of THE STAR-TOUCHED QUEEN by Roshani Chokshi with all of you today. Me is a black man who owns a farm in a poor black urban neighbourhood. This is convenient, because the novel is written entirely in the first person. Our protagonist is never fully named, but we are told that his surname is Me. The devices are real enough to be believable, yet surreal enough to raise your eyebrows. Everything about The Sellout’s plot is contradictory. Maybe that’s the point of this whirlwind of a satire. You might even close the book feeling desensitised to one of the most contentious words in the English language. Although the “er” is a harsh and oppressive end to a harsh and oppressive word, his repetitive use comes off with a friendly familiarity. Paul Beatty’s version is the slave master spelling of nigger, not the 90s hip-hop “nigga”. The Sellout is a fast-paced, verbose book, but one particular word crops up again and again. I f there is one thing we know about words you shouldn’t say, it’s that those words end up becoming very alluring. The Book of the Law - or Liber AL vel Legis - is the central holy text of Thelema, a spiritual and social philosophy derived from Western esotericism and founded by magician Aleister Crowley. Other software exists but for this initial phase of the project The Lodge has decided to use ENIGMagick to get the Lexicon up and running. It was later modified and bugfixed by Olav Phillips of the Celestial Lodge of SiriusĮNIGMagick was written as a replacement the excellent but aging and now lost DOS software LEXICON written by Tim Coutu. The software used to do this is called ENIGMagick and was written between 27th andģ0th December 2012 by Anton Channing. Welcome to The Lexicon, an amazing tool for the analysis of English text, phrases and words using New Aeon English Qabala against various texts. Legendary athletes and stirring events are interwoven into a suspenseful narrative of sports and politics at the Rome games, where cold-war propaganda and spies, drugs and sex, money and television, civil rights and the rise of women superstars all converged to forever change the essence of the Olympics. About the Book From bestselling author Maraniss comes a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Rome Olympics.īook Synopsis From the New York Times bestselling author of Clemente and When Pride Still Mattered, the blockbuster story of the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, seventeen days that helped define the modern world. The author does an excellent job of balancing the new world she’s put our favorite characters in and continuing the plot of the story. There’s a fair amount of UST and angst, but there’s also lovely, lovely moments, and it makes up for all the emotions and feels. The romance between John and Sherlock here is absolutely wonderful. Despite the different world she’s put them into, John and Sherlock remain very true to their original characters, while simultaneously growing as MadLori adds her own original ideas to them. MadLori is well known for her spot-on characterization this fic is no exception. MadLori expands upon that notion, creating an acting technique for Sherlock that is shockingly true to character. In canon, it’s clearly stated that Sherlock is an excellent actor. I find it highly likely that Sherlock would act in the way he does. First, the AU is beautifully constructed. Like Alone on the Water, it’s a fandom classic, and there’s several reasons for that. It’s written by the amazing MadLori, so you can already be prepared for one absolutely stunning fic. This is one of the first few fics I read coming into the Johnlock fanfiction scene. When they are cast as a gay couple in a new independent drama, will they surprise each other? Will their on-screen romance make its way into the real world? John Watson is an Everyman actor trapped in the rom-com ghetto. Sherlock Holmes is an Oscar winner in the midst of a career slump. The second doesn’t relate to any cycle in nature - it’s a human invention, and the shortest interval of time most of us use in our daily lives. From the 5,085-foot water journey of a whale’s song to the 50 beats of a hummingbird’s wings to the 300-foot plunge of a peregrine falcon, the charmingly illustrated pages weave a kind of alternative metric system for telling time through the surprising things that happen in a single second - a measure that, as Jenkins points out, is a human invention. We’ve previously explored time and the scale of the universe, but what about the scale of time? Do we fully understand the 2.5 billion seconds most of us will experience in an average lifetime? That’s precisely what prolific science author and illustrator Steve Jenkins playfully probes in Just a Second ( public library | IndieBound), a lovely and refreshing book for kids, doubling as a curious and enjoyable trivia compendium for grown-ups, and a fine addition to the year’s best children’s books. There are also multiple UK editions, which use similar sizing terminology as the US but whose sizes are actually very different! I know, confusing right?! They even have different color spines! There are US trade paperback size (larger format), US mass market size (smaller format), and Canadian paperback size (which are larger than both US editions). My Canadian editions, UK editions, and US editions are all slightly different from one another. If you’re purchasing them through online discount retailers (ie: Amazon or Book Depository), then you might unknowingly be purchasing editions that have been printed by different publishers in different countries. The answer to this question will depend on where you’re purchasing your books! If you’re buying your books through your local independent bookseller, then your books are probably all the same size with lovely matching covers and spines. To be sure, computer-based trading systems and intermediate processing systems make markets far more efficient. The capital markets remind Brown of cars: Investors no longer have any direct contact with people on the floor of an exchange. Today a driver could steer a car with a joystick. Most drivers today have no clue that software mimics old-style road feel even though there are few mechanical connections to the drivetrain. Automotive technology has come a long way in the past 50 years, but despite a host of LED and digital displays, the dashboard of a modern car is not unlike that of a ∦2 VW microbus. The best thing about the vehicle, he recalls, was its road feel the immediate sense that every action he took as a driver had a direct connection to the engine and wheels. Aaron Brown learned how to drive behind the wheel of a 1962 Volkswagen microbus decades before he became risk manager at hedge fund AQR Capital Management. |