In The Sixth Extinction, she explored the ways in which our capacity for destruction has reshaped the natural world. One way to look at human civilization, says Kolbert, is as a ten-thousand-year exercise in defying nature. Along the way, she meets scientists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single, tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. The question we now face is: Can we change nature, this time in order to save it?Įlizabeth Kolbert, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction, takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. The New York Times bestselling author of The Sixth Extinction and Field Notes from a Catastrophe returns to humanity’s transformative impact on the environment in Under a White Sky. AudioFile Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2021
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" -Greg Boyd, Princeton Theological Seminary "This book tells Austin Fischer's story, and I hope you read it, and I hope you get a bunch of friends to read it together. Just as importantly, however, Fischer helps readers discover the humble, other-oriented, self-sacrificial God revealed in Jesus Christ. With a disarmingly laid-back style, Fischer crafts a series of clear and astute arguments that demonstrate the unbiblical and irrational nature of each of the central claims of Calvinism. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University "By sharing his own journey in and out of Calvinism, Fischer provides readers with an honest, interesting, insightful, and very compelling critique of the self-absorbed 'black-hole God' of Calvinism. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, especially to people interested in the 'new Calvinism' and why a biblically committed young Christian might bid it adieu." -Roger E. This is his story, including his well-articulated reasons for that transformation. Here is a young, dynamic, evangelical pastor, well-educated theologically, who discovered the fatal flaws in Calvinism and reluctantly shook it off. " Young, Restless, No Longer Reformed fills a gap in contemporary literature about Calvinism. I'm going to miss reading these guys, no matter how unrealistic their tight group of super sweet male friends & lovers might be in the world. The emotion was definitely present to make up for any alteration in voice, if there were any. I'm sure some weren't exactly the same as they'd been in previous books, except perhaps Josh, since he has the strongest accent of the bunch, but I didn't have any issue with it. I listened to the book as part of the Significant Brothers collection & I do not envy the narrator one bit for having to voice 10 different guys. However, minus that, it was a love fest of friends (aka brothers) and couples. It was something I'd noticed when he was present in a couple of the previous books too. Is this the best timing ever, or the worst timing ever Now available in this bundle, a novella about the first Significant Brothers wedding Wintersweet. By correlating the differential gene expression profile with the observed differences in VOC profiles, they attempt to identify the genes that regulate the fragrance of wintersweet. I enjoyed it, though I felt like Dean's character changed a lot over the series from his original book character, that he was made even fussier, less snarky & prone to innuendo than he was in the first book. (2019) compare the transcriptomic and proteomic profiles of a scented genotype of wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox) with a non-scented one. This cannot be read without reading the previous books - it's basically a happy reunion of characters as they gather for the wedding of one of the couples in the series. Nell is a bisexual Swedish woman married to the love of her life, a proud mama of a grown daughter, and is approaching 50 faster than she’d like. Nell believes passionately in equality for all regardless of race, gender or sexuality, and wants to make the world a better, less hateful, place. She loves words, bullet journals, poetry, wine, coffee-flavored kisses, and fika (a Swedish cultural thing involving coffee and pastry!) She’s a bona fide bookworm (learned to read long before she started school), wouldn’t dream of going anywhere without something to read (not even the ladies room), loves music (and singing along at the top of her voice but she’s no Celine Dion), and is a real Star Trek nerd (Make it so). Nell is a bisexual Swedish woman married to the love of her life, a proud mama of a grown daughter, Nell Iris is a romantic at heart who believes everyone deserves a happy ending. She loves words, bullet journals, poetry, wine, coffee-flavored kisses, and fika (a Swedish cultural thing involving coffee and pastry!) Nell believes passionately in equality for all regardless of race, gender or sexuality, and wants to make the world a better, less hateful, place. Nell Iris is a romantic at heart who believes everyone deserves a happy ending. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.Ĭlear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. You do not rise to the level of your goals. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. 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This is the “urge” of the world which calls to him. Instead, he rejects talk of the past or future for an experience in the now. Whitman says that he has heard “what the talkers were talking, the talk of the / beginning and the end,” but he refuses to talk of either. Instead, he seeks to “go to the bank by the wood” and become naked and undisguised where he can hear all of nature around him. Whitman then describes a house in which “the shelves are / crowded with perfumes” and he breathes in the fragrance though he refuses to let himself become intoxicated with it. He is thirty-seven years old and “in perfect health” and begins his journey “Hoping to cease not till death.” He puts all “Creeds and schools in abeyance” hoping to set out on his own, though he admits he will not forget these things. He says that he celebrates himself and that all parts of him are also parts of the reader. Whitman begins this poem by naming its subject – himself. What inspired you and motivated you to write this entire 6-book series?ĭave Matthes: Originally, I wrote the book Mercy, the chronological third book in the saga, as a standalone novella. The Saga as a whole takes place around two-hundred years following the collapse of society in which humanity has fallen into an age similar to that of 1800’s to early 1900’s old westernism. The story of Horizon Vengeance involves the family of the main protagonist, Rancid Mahoney, as it attempts to pull itself together during a time of political and wartime strife in a post-apocalyptic Caribbean Sea and its islands, including parts of Havana, Florida, Texas, and Mexico. It takes place about a year after the events of the first book, Leave My Ashes on Blackheart Mountain. Please tell us about your wonderful upcoming new book “Legend of the Horizon Vengeance.”ĭave Matthes: Legend of the Horizon Vengeanceis Book II in a planned 6-book series called The Two Revolvers Saga. Welcome to Just Fame! How are you doing?ĭave Matthes: I’m doing okay, another typical Friday, which is not actually Friday for me like it is for most people. Just Fame got a chance to interview Dave Matthes in regard to his upcoming book “Legend of the Horizon Vengeance.” We got insights into his new book, his inspiration, upcoming projects and much more! William Shakespeare was in his mid-30s and at the height of his dramatic powers when he wrote Twelfth Night, his culminating masterpiece of romantic comedy. More obvious miracles are needed for comedy to exist in a world in which evil also exists, not merely incipiently but with power. After Twelfth Night the so-called comedies required for their happy resolutions more radical characters and devices-omniscient and omnipresent Dukes, magic, and resurrection. Having solved magnificently the problems of this particular form of comedy, Shakespeare was evidently not tempted to repeat his triumph. But the play also looks forward: the pressure to dis-solve the comedy, to realize and finally abandon the burden of laughter, is an intrinsic part of its “perfection.” Viola’s clear-eyed and affirmative vision of her own and the world’s rationality is a triumph and we desire it yet we realize its vulnerability, and we come to realize that virtue in disguise is only totally triumphant when evil is not in disguise-is not truly present at all. The effects and values of the earlier comedies are here subtly embodied in the most complex structure which Shakespeare had yet created. Twelfth Night is the climax of Shakespeare’s early achievement in comedy. Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night From interviewing important officials, learning skills beneficial to future careers, making job contacts for the inevitable search which ensues upon graduation, to the simple gratification one feels upon the completion of this book-each person who helped in the production of it made a litde piece of this dream happen. The staff of the Pandora has realized a few dreams of their own in the process of creating this year ' s book. The 1 997 Pandora has worked to capture the attempts students have made to realize their dreams. However, one of the objectives of a yearbook is to ensure that people and issues of a year are remembered. Text from Pages 1 - 512 of the 1997 volume: “ Features Academics Athletics i ii 1 Josh Freeman i Tale Maciiueen Worldbeat Classes Organizatio ics Greek Life Q itioii j i Ads In a university which numbers over 30,000 students, individuals and their dreams often seem lost in the crowd. |