![]() People are discovering energy and efficiency where they may have been least expected - in slowing down. The Slow philosophy can be summed up in a single word - balance. This is a modern revolution, championed by cell-phone using, e-mailing lovers of sanity. Here you will find no Luddite calls to overthrow technology and seek a preindustrial utopia. ![]() Why are we always in such a rush? What is the cure for time sickness? Is it possible, or even desirable, to slow down? Realizing the price we pay for unrelenting speed, people all over the world are reclaiming their time and slowing down the pace - and living happier, healthier, and more productive lives as a result. In Praise of Slowness traces the history of our increasingly breathless relationship with time and tackles the consequences of living in this accelerated culture of our own creation. Living on the edge of exhaustion, we are constantly reminded by our bodies and minds that the pace of life is spinning out of control. ![]() ![]() Consider these facts: Americans on average spend seventy-two minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car, a typical business executive now loses sixty-eight hours a year to being put on hold, and American adults currently devote on average a mere half hour per week to making love. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has pushed us to a breaking point. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. ![]()
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![]() His work remains an important influence on artists and illustrators at work today. Eric Carle passed away in May 2021 at the age of 91. In 2002, Eric and his wife, Barbara, cofounded The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (in Amherst, Massachusetts, a 40,000-square-foot space dedicated to the celebration of picture books and picture book illustrations from around the world, underscoring the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of picture books and their art form. Hurry up Time is flying Step on it heres so little time just to be with friends, to watch a sunset or gaze a a star-filled sky. ![]() In 2003, Carle received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (now called the Children’s Literature Legacy Award) for lifetime achievement in children's literature. Carle illustrated more than seventy books, many best sellers, most of which he also wrote, and more than 170 million copies of his books have sold around the world. ![]() His best-known work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, has been translated into 70 languages and sold over 55 million copies. Eric Carle is acclaimed and beloved as the creator of brilliantly illustrated and innovatively designed picture books for very young children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the twenty four, he was the sixth son, hence he was named, Sixtus. His father had had twelve children from a previous marriage and Sixtus was the fourteenth of Duke Robert's twenty four children. Sixtus was the eldest son of the last Duke of Parma, Robert I (1848–1907) and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (1862–1959), daughter of King Miguel of Portugal. Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma ( German: Sixtus Ferdinand Maria Ignazio Alfred Robert von Bourbon-Parma 1 August 1886 – 14 March 1934) was a member of the House of Bourbon-Parma, a Belgian officer in World War I, and the central figure in the Sixtus Affair, an attempt to negotiate a treaty to end Austria-Hungary's participation in the Great War separate from its Central Powers allies. Sixtus Ferdinand Maria Ignazio Alfred Robert ![]() ![]() Then violence erupts and Ethan finds himself crashing into the heart and soul of an alpha wolf. Assigned as part of the security force at a world-first symposium, he carries a dark agenda tied to the power-hungry and murderous Consortium. Numb and disengaged from the world, he’s loyal only to himself. That currently includes the empaths who’ve flowed into her city for a symposium that is a security nightmare, a powder keg just waiting for a match.Įthan Night is an Arrow who isn’t an Arrow. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her breathtaking Psy-Changeling Trinity series with a mating that shouldn’t exist…Īlpha wolf Selenka Durev’s devotion to her pack is equaled only by her anger at anyone who would harm those under her care. Genres: Paranormal Romance, Shape Shifting, Psychic Abilities Series: Psy Changeling Trinity,, #19, #19 ![]() Alpha Night by Nalini SinghĪlso in this series: Silver Silence, Ocean Light, Wolf Rain, Last Guard, Storm Echo ![]() This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from Berkley Publishing Group in exchange for an honest review. ![]() ![]() ROWLING is the author of the enduringly popular, era-defining Harry Potter seven-book series, which have sold over 600 million copies in 85 languages, been listened to as audiobooks for over one billion hours and made into eight smash hit movies. ![]() Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom, and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny.But each of these seem minor annoyances when the real trouble begins, and someone - or something - starts turning Hogwarts students to stone. ![]() But just as he's packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange, impish creature named Dobby who says that if Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.And strike it does. The Dursleys were so mean and hideous that summer that all Harry Potter wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. Award-winning artist Jim Kay illustrates year two of Harry Potter's adventures at Hogwarts, in a stunning, gift-ready format. ![]() ![]() Tati’s sister-in-law plots to oust her brother’s widow and take over the family homestead. Tati lives with her father-in-law who abuses her. Yet, as Theroux notes, The Widow, published the same year as Camus’s The Stranger, is a deeper and more profound work. ![]() Most scholars dismissed Simenon as a commercial writer and hack. Theroux points out that Simenon distrusted critics and scholars. It becomes clear after the first page of Theroux’s Introduction that he’s read plenty of Simenon and admires the prolific writer. Theroux provides an insightful Introduction to The Widow and puts the novel in context with the hundreds of other novels Simenon wrote. ![]() Simenon’s story of a stranger called Jean who arrives in a small French town and enters into a relationship with Tati, a widow, fascinated critics like Andre Gide and Paul Theroux. 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Riggle’s book covers a great deal of ground: we find him developing a nuanced taxonomy of awesomeness and suckiness presenting vivid examples of the awesome in art, sport, and civic life mapping the cultural history of awesomeness and arguing for the vital importance of not sucking. It’s an ethical system that emphasises expressing oneself as an individual in creative and novel ways while also learning to recognise and appreciate the individuality of others. This outlook differs from more traditional ethical outlooks, which focus on rightness, fairness, or duty instead, the ethics of awesome is fundamentally about cultivating and appreciating individuality. In this book Nick Riggle presents an accessible, entertaining introduction to the “ethics of awesome” – an ethical outlook which Riggle claims is latent in our culture, and can readily be understood if we reflect on our usage of the antonyms “awesome” and “sucks”. On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck, by Nick Riggle (Penguin, 2017), £14.99, $20 ![]() ![]() ![]() How long do you think it'll be before people are able to have a conversation without talking about the pandemic as the central thesis? I feel like every conversation I've had for the past year has been just about this disease. My conversation with Evan was no exception. ![]() ![]() Far too many conversations start by talking about pandemics, disappointing politics, and anxiety about the future. Excerpts from this long, digression-filled, and thoroughly enjoyable conversation are presented here. In advance of his forthcoming Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory series, co-written with frequent collaborator (and wife) Sarah Dyer, featuring art by Benjamin Dewey and letters by Nate Piekos, I spoke with Evan Dorkin about the new book, his recent slight shift in focus, thirty years in the comics industry, and the recent re-surfacing of art from his teenage years. Features “I Consider Myself Very Lucky That I Don’t Really Have To Listen To Anybody”: A Conversation with Evan Dorkin ![]() |