![]() ![]() No, you can't shake off the effects of a concussion and climb out the window the next day after a minor coma and then walk 12 miles to sit pertly in someone's kitchen drinking a glass of water. No, there is no team sport on earth that can be competently played if its team members are as likely to get into a fistfight with one another as with the opposing team-baseball and the 1979 yankees notwithstanding. No, you probably can't drive a car for hundreds of miles while suffering the effects of a ruptured anything, never mind everything, not even if your kid is in the car with a book of matches and a gas can. No, the human body cannot be reduced to charred bones with gasoline and a couple minutes, not even if it belongs to your crazy mom. No, marginally post-pubescent children wouldn't be able to set their mom's dead body on fire with gasoline and then bury the bones on the beach without getting caught once during the entire multi-hour operation-and who does that, anyway? ![]() No, you don't go from come-down to withdrawal to i-will-fucking-kill-you within four hours of your last crazy-pill. ![]() No, antipsychotics don't actually get you high like that. No, the NCAA would never permit a psychotic player to don a school uniform on the condition he be stoned out of his mind on antipsychotics the entire time. No, teenagers are not typically ushered into nightclubs to knock back shots. ![]()
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![]() Pauling attempted to correlate the theories with descriptive chemistry, the observed properties of substances, to introduce the student to the multitude of chemical substances and their properties.In this extensively revised and updated third edition, the Nobel prizewinning author maintains an excellent balance between theoretical and descriptive material, although the amount of descriptive chemistry has been decreased somewhat, and the presentation of the subject, especially in relation to the nonmetals, has been revised in such a way as to permit greater correlation with the electronic structure of atoms, especially electronegativity.The principles of quantum mechanics are discussed on the basis of the de Broglie wavelength of the electron. Those principles included modern theories of atomic and molecular structure, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it was first published, this first-year chemistry text revolutionized the teaching of chemistry by presenting it in terms of unifying principles instead of as a body of unrelated facts. ![]() ![]() In The Audacity of Hope, the book Obama wrote in 2006 to test enthusiasm for a possible White House run, he describes empathy as both the “heart of my moral code” and a “guidepost for my politics.” Defining it succinctly as a successful attempt to “stand in somebody’s else’s shoes and see through their eyes,” Obama regards empathy not as an exceptional gesture but an organizing principle for ethical behavior and even a preferred way of being. ![]() Obama is not an acknowledged interlocutor of Between the World and Me, but the book may be read as a skeptical reply to the putative power of empathy to transcend racial divisions-a leitmotif of Obama’s two books and a guiding conceit of his presidency. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With vitality and rage, this unapologetic, atmospheric, imaginative and lyrical storytelling takes in race, identity, gender, sexuality, misogyny, religion, motherhood, mental health issues, conspiracy theories, the damning state experimentations undertaken on black bodies. Hunted, the haunted Vern gives birth to twins, Feral and Howling, raised with curiosity at the heart of their unstructured lives. Vern is a 15 year old traumatised and abused albino black girl, 7 months pregnant who flees the Cainland cult for the woods, however, the community have no intention of letting her go. An alternative world that touches on numerous critical contemporary issues, and the hate, brutality, violence, sorrow and tragedies of American history. This is an astoundingly ambitious and harrowing novel from Rivers Solomon, destined to be one of 2021 must reads, a stellar sci-fi fantasy Gothic Horror, although it has to be said in many ways it defies easy categorisation. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the daughter of Frances ( nee Rutledge) and academic and literary critic Denis Donoghue. Currently-lives in London, Ontario, CanadaĮmma Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, the youngest of eight children.Education-B.A., University College Dublin Ph.D., Cambridge University. ![]() Written with all the propulsive tension that made Room a huge bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels-a tale of two strangers who transform each other's lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a story of love pitted against evil. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign, is hired to keep watch over the girl. Tourists flock to the cabin of eleven-year-old Anna O'Donnell, who believes herself to be living off manna from heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. In Emma Donoghue's latest masterpiece, an English nurse brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a miracle-a girl said to have survived without food for months-soon finds herself fighting to save the child's life. ![]() ![]() ![]() On current exhibit at the museum is a display about the new “Peanuts Movie” that debuted in November 2015. ![]() Postal Service recently issued stamps to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. It first aired on December 9, 1965, and half of the country tuned in to watch. ![]() The Apollo 10 lunar module was named Snoopy, and the command module was named Charlie Brown.Įvery December we watch “A Charlie Brown Christmas” television special. Snoopy is so popular that NASA has used him as a safety mascot since 1969. Our favorite Peanuts characters are Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and Lucy. Displays at the museum include Schulz’ drawing studio, nursery wall, tile mural, and comic strip art (click on pictures for more details – especially the nursery wall and tile mural). It is dedicated to preserving and celebrating the art of Charles Schulz and the characters of Peanuts. Schulz Museum is located in Santa Rosa, California (north of San Francisco). Snoopy with Authors Pam and Richard Digitized into Peanuts Characters ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t hesitate to ask his men to do the same, either. He was a warrior who did what needed to be done, when it needed to be done, no matter what was required of him. Damned admirable.īrave men didn’t spill their secrets, and Sabin wanted their secrets. ![]() A few had their shoulders squared, their noses in the air, hatred in their eyes, refusing to back down even in defeat. They’d already been stripped of their weapons, hustled into a corner and bound with rope. Now bodies littered every square inch of the small corridor, the scent of fatality already rising from them.Nine of his enemy had survived the attack. Half an hour ago it had been honey brown, grains sparkling and scattering as they’d marched. The sandy floor was thick like paste, wet and colored black. Walls that were now spattered with vivid red, dripping…pooling. Torches flickered orange and gold, twining with shadows along the stone walls. SABIN, KEEPER OF THE DEMON of Doubt, stood in the catacombs of an ancient pyramid, panting, sweating, his hands soaked in his enemy’s blood, his body cut and bruised as he surveyed the carnage around him. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book includes a brief introductory essay about the history and form of jazz, as well as a timeline and glossary of jazz terms. From bebop to New Orleans, from ragtime to boogie, and every style in between, Jazz takes readers on a musical journey from jazz's beginnings to the present day. biography jazz by walter dean myers aalbc com african american audiobooks for children aalbc com he said she said by kwame alexander aalbc com african poet. In this book that sings with the rhythm and wordplay of jazz, fifteen poems, are paired with bold, stylized illustrations of performers and dancers to convey the history and breadth of this unique musical style. ![]() Originally published 15 years ago, this Coretta Scott King Honoree Jazz now features a new introduction about the ground-breaking author written by his son, Christopher. Walter Dean Myers was one of the best-loved and most influential writers of his generation. A new edition of the award-winning father-son collaboration that celebrates the great American art form. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jenny Zhang analyzes cultural appropriation in nineties fashion, recalling her own pain and confusion as a teenager trying to fit in. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by Zadie Smith as 'lively and vital', editors Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman hand the microphone to an incredible range of writers whose humanity and right to be here is under attack.Ĭhigozie Obioma unpacks an Igbo proverb that helped him navigate his journey to America from Nigeria. An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.įrom Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before Yuki returns home-if he returns home-he'll come face to face with persistent prejudices, grueling combat he never imagined, and friendships deeper than he knew possible. When Yuki and his friend Shig ship out, they aren't prepared for the experiences they'll encounter as members of the "Four-Four-Two," a segregated regiment made up entirely of Japanese-American soldiers. But Yuki isn't willing to sit back and accept this injustice-it's his country too, and he's going to prove it by enlisting in the army to fight for the Allies. Like many other Japanese Americans, Yuki and his family have been forced into an internment camp in the Utah desert. From the author of Soldier Boys and Search and Destroy comes an "immersive and inspirational" ( Booklist, starred review) page-turner based on the little-known history of the Japanese Americans who fought with the 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II.īut it's the start of World War II, and America doesn't see it that way. ![]() |