![]() ![]() Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. ![]() He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs-from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse-who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 18. The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal).įirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She first details the food industry before his work, when dangerous chemicals were used without regulation to cut, mimic, or enhance the flavor of foods with little regard for effects on human health. ![]() In The Poison Squad, author Deborah Blum tells the story of Harvey Washington Wiley and his dogged pursuit of government regulation for food safety and purity at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century ( Figure). Ketchup was a soup of “waste products from canners, like coal-tar colors or starch paste.” Thus was the status of the foods the US public ate during the late 1800s. ![]() The yellow coating of children’s candies often contained arsenic. Ground coffee was more than likely ground chicory. The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Centuryįormaldehyde made spoiled milk taste tolerable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Legendary colorist Dave Stewart helps hammer home the brooding tone of Bone Orchard: The Passageway. But even at his most experimental, he continues to push the story forward. At one point, Sorrentino even arranges a landscape to create the golden ratio. ![]() These spirals are a constant visual theme throughout the graphic novel. ![]() When John and Sally are peering into the pit, Sorrentino fills the two-page spread with recurring spiral patterns to create a sense of depth and to give the audience a better understanding of the characters' perspectives. His depictions of the hole in the island are particularly striking. Every element of each page seems to be designed to complement the narrative. The minimalistic nature of Lemire's writing leaves a lot of the storytelling heavy lifting to Sorrentino, whose gorgeous art leads the reader through the surreal world of Bone Orchard: The Passageway. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It will help you understand what this scientific milestone means for you, for your children, and for humankind. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from the applications of gene therapy to the horrors of eugenics, Matt Ridley probes the scientific, philosophical, and moral issues arising as a result of the mapping of the genome. By picking one newly discovered gene from each pair of chromosomes and telling its story, Matt Ridley recounts the history of our species and its ancestors from the dawn of life to the brink of future medicine. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. From Huntington's disease to cancer, from. Questions that will affect the rest of your life. Genome offers extraordinary insight into the ramifications of this incredible breakthrough. A new study found 10,000 virus species in baby poo. Questions that will profoundly impact the way we think about disease, about longevity, and about free will. And the wild history of chicken domestication and the surprising science of chicken intelligence. ![]() Arguably the most significant scientific discovery of the new century, the mapping of the twenty-three pairs of chromosomes that make up the human genome raises almost as many questions as it answers. ![]() ![]() Along the way, he interviews dozens of experts about the fascinating psychology and science behind the benefits of becoming an adult beginner and shows how anyone can get better at beginning again-and, more important, why they should take those first awkward steps. ![]() ![]() Rapturously singing Spice Girls songs in an amateur choir, losing games of chess to eight-year-olds, and dodging scorpions at a surf camp in Costa Rica, Vanderbilt tackles five main skills but learns so much more. Why do so many of us stop learning new skills as adults? Are we afraid to be bad at something? Have we forgotten the sheer pleasure of beginning from the ground up? Inspired by his young daughter’s insatiable curiosity, Tom Vanderbilt embarks on a yearlong quest of learning-purely for the sake of learning. “Vanderbilt elegantly and persuasively tackles one of the most pernicious of the lies we tells ourselves-that the pleasures of learning are reserved for the young.” -Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of Outliers ![]() An insightful, joyful tour of the transformative powers of starting something new, no matter your age -from the bestselling author of Traffic and You May Also Like ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book list features many of my favorite sibling stories, along with two that I look forward to reading, as they come highly recommended. Why is that, and how does it happen? These are the questions I enjoy seeing novelists answer in the pages of a good novel. And yet most siblings are very, very different from each other. Their life experiences are-to a degree-similar. Siblings share parentage, they often grow up together, often live in the same house. The sibling bond isn’t often featured in fiction, which is a shame because there’s so much to explore in those early childhood bonds. I don’t think I even realized I enjoyed reading about siblings until Ann Patchett’s The Dutch House, but ever since enjoying that book, I’ve kept my eye out for novels that make the sibling relationship-and not romantic love, marriage, or parent-child bonds-primary. My own reading logs reflect my love of fiction about complicated families, including stories focused on the complexities of sibling relationships. Reading is personal we are all drawn to different sorts of stories, themes, and styles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two sisters turn to each other for comfort as their survivalist father prepares for disaster.Those affected by the illness, doctors discover, are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, higher than has ever been recorded before. A young couple tries to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. When a second girl falls asleep, and then a third, Mei finds herself thrust together with an eccentric classmate as panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. Neither can the paramedics, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Good HousekeepingOne night in an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a first-year student stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep-and doesn't wake up."A startling, beautiful portrait of a community in peril."-Entertainment Weekly NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Glamour.An ordinary town is transformed by a mysterious illness that triggers perpetual sleep in this mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of The Age of Miracles.NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His teacher, Fraa Orolo, discovers that an alien spacecraft is orbiting Arbre – a fact that the world government ( Sæcular Power) attempts to cover up. The narrator and protagonist, Fraa Erasmas, is an avout at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. ![]() The avout are normally allowed to communicate with people outside the walls of the concent only once every year, decade, century, or millennium, depending on the particular vows they have taken. The avout (intellectuals separated from Sæcular society) are banned from possessing or operating most advanced technology and are supervised by the Inquisition, which answers to the outside world. Thousands of years before the events in the novel, the planet's intellectuals entered concents ( monastic communities) to protect their activities from the collapse of society. Plot summary Īnathem is set on the fictional planet of Arbre. Major themes include the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the philosophical debate between Platonic realism and nominalism. Anathem is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 2008. ![]() ![]() ![]() which hung about her in long heavy folds, and which she wore as an empress wears her drapery. ![]() Her dress was very plain: a white ribbon a dark silk gown, without any trimming or flounce a large Indian shawl. Thornton was a good deal more surprised and discomfited than she.Instead of a quiet, middle-aged clergyman,-a young lady came forward with frank dignity,-a young lady of a different type to most of those he was in the habit of seeing. She felt no awkwardness she had business to her father and, as he was one who had shown himself obliging, she was disposed to treat him with a full measure of civility. "Margaret opened the door and went in the straight, fearless, dignified presence habitual to her.North and South is the second industrial novel published in 1855 - sometimes categorised as a social novel - and the fourth overall by English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. ![]() ![]() ![]() With unprecedented access to the SAS secret files, unseen footage and exclusive interviews with its founder members, SAS: Rogue Heroes tells the remarkable story behind an extraordinary fighting force, and the immense cost of making it a reality. And so begins the most celebrated and mysterious military organisation in the world: the SAS. Despite the intense opposition of many in British High Command, Winston Churchill personally gives Stirling permission to recruit the toughest, brightest and most ruthless soldiers he can find. 'A master at setting the pulse racing' Daily Mail_In the summer of 1941, at the height of the war in the Western Desert, a bored and eccentric young officer, David Stirling, has a vision for a new kind of war: attacking the enemy where they least expect it - from behind their own lines. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERTHE BOOK BEHIND THE HIT BBC SERIES SAS: ROGUE HEROES, STARRING CONNOR SWINDELLS, JACK O'CONNELL, ALFIE ALLEN AND DOMINIC WESTFrom the secret SAS archives and bestselling author Ben Macintyre: The first ever authorized history of the SAS. ![]() |