![]() ![]() ![]() To recognize that, for all our diversity, we are humans first, right? They can help us see each other in a new light. You see, stories have a way to … they can change our hearts and our minds. You know, we are a community of storytellers, aren’t we? And in turbulent, crisis-torn times like these, storytelling has always been essential. I’m – I’m so moved to receive this honor. “Thank you all the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But there’s a story we’ve been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry – a story about which voices we respect and elevate, and which we tune out,” Fonda said. “Stories - they really can change people. She ended by calling for better leadership in Hollywood to make sure everyone’s stories are told. DeMille Award to walk down memory lane discussing their numerous career highlights.īut actress Jane Fonda took a different tack when she accepted the prestigious lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes Sunday night.įonda began by exalting storytelling as an art form and praising the work of the actors and directors behind many nominated works this year. It’s common for the winners of the Cecil B. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Long Shot: A Forbidden Basketball Romance Christopher, USA Today Bestselling AuthorĪll 3 Books of Kennedy Ryan’s Award-Winning HOOPS Series! “Kennedy Ryan breaks me apart and puts me back together every time with her gorgeous prose and deeply human characters who tear their hearts out for one another.” PRE-ORDER YOUR HOOPS SERIES BOOK BOX NOW featuring special edition paperbacks, dust jacket hardbacks and thoughtfully curated merchandiseĭownload the Limited Edition Digital Hoops Series Boxed Set for only 99¢, ![]() ![]() Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kennedy Ryan is excited to reveal the gorgeous special edition paperback covers for her award-winning HOOPS series! 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Milne and Shepard collaborated previously for English humour magazine Punch, and in 1924 created When We Were Very Young, a poetry collection. It is the first of two story collections by Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the second being The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Published in 1926, it is a collection of short stories about an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. ![]() Winnie-the-Pooh is a children's book by English author A. ![]() ![]() Its aims are ambitious: To restore ecosystems, reverse the loss of biodiversity, revitalize rural economies, and secure 2.5 million acres of land and 30 percent of the country’s territorial waters for nature by 2115. To remedy this catastrophe, Rewilding Britain-a charity set up by a group of leading environmentalists-was launched on July 14. ![]() Tiggywinkle) and the water vole (Ratty in Wind in the Willows), have become a rarity. Sightings of even the most familiar and beloved creatures, like the hedgehog (Beatrix Potter’s Mrs. ![]() Now, red squirrels, wildcats, horseshoe bats, harbor seals, along with numerous birds, butterflies, and beetles are teetering on the cliff-edge of extinction. has lost 44 million birds since 1966 and, historically, more large mammals-including wolves, lynx, bears, beavers, boars, moose, bison, and wolverines-than any other European country except Ireland. Britain’s most endangered animals and plants have declined by 58 percent since the 1970s, and one in ten is threatened with extinction, according to a recent report. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A glossary, pronunciation guide, and an abundance of illustrations complete this informative and inspiring volume. Readers will also find expert advice on fragrant plants for scenting and protecting textiles, what plant materials to use as tools, how to plan and create a garden containing cotton, flax, indigo, madder, fuller's teasel, woad, and many other useful plants and much more. Thoroughly researched and charmingly written, this practical guide by a veteran botanist and horticulturist provides weavers and gardeners alike with a wealth of information on growing plants for use in weaving and dyeing projects. ![]() Thoroughly researched and charmingly written, this practical guide by a veteran botanist and horticulturist provides weavers and gardeners alike with a wealth of information on growing plants for use in weaving and dyeing projects.īeginning with the history and uses of plant fibers, A Weaver's Garden then offers valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics and how to use soap plants for cleaning textiles. Today, craftworkers creating textiles and other products make use of many of these same resources and methods. Long before the invention of pottery, men and women wove baskets from plant fibers. ![]() ![]() Kadir Nelson’s unforgettable paintings, which won him a Caldecott Honor, are breathtaking, heartbreaking, and ultimately, hopeful. and abroad as the first person to successfully mail himself to freedom. After 27 hours of travel in the crate, some of it upside down, Henry "Box" Brown arrived in Philadelphia safe and sound on March 30, 1849, and became famous in the U.S. This dramatic story is all the more astounding because it is, essentially, true. They mail him from Richmond, Virginia to the doctor's friend in Philadelphia, 350 miles away. Smith, a white abolitionist, to help pack him into a large wooden crate. After his wife and children are sold at the slave market, the grieving man makes a bold plan to free himself. Henry later marries a woman named Nancy and they have three children. ![]() And slaves weren’t allowed to know their birthdays.” On his deathbed, the master gives Henry over to his son to work in his tobacco factory. The text on the facing page states, simply, “Henry Brown wasn’t sure how old he was. Look at the handsome full-page painting of a somber young African American boy, barefoot, sitting on an upturned wooden barrel, his back against a brick wall. ![]() The first page of this eloquent picture book will stun readers and listeners of all ages. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreĬover.jpg TEN BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE By VITRUVIUS POLLIO Translated by MORRIS HICKY MORGAN Students of both classic and modern architecture and engineering will find much of interest in this fully illustrated reproduction of the 1914 edition translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. “Ten Books on Architecture” is not only an excellent historical reference into ancient construction methods and aesthetics but also a manual providing direction and wisdom that can be applied to architecture today. Vitruvius dedicated this work to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, and included information on both Roman and Greek buildings, detailed directions on how to build military camps, his theories on city planning, and guidance on how to construct large public structures, such as aqueducts, public baths, harbors, and buildings, as well as small, more personal items, such as measuring devices and instruments. ![]() ![]() Vitruvius lived during the first century BC and was an important architect, as well as a civil and military engineer, in the Roman Empire. “Ten Books on Architecture”, or “De Architectura”, by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, is the most complete treatise on the subject of architecture to survive from antiquity and has influenced the construction and design of major buildings since the Renaissance. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is about Alice, a nineteen year old college student struggle with being asexual. I love how and this book was informative without being preachy and I think a lot of teens figuring out their sexuality will be able to relate to this. She's the sweetest human being and I just want to wrap her in warm blankets. ![]() I may not be asexual, but I understood Alice's struggles and related to her. ![]() Everything about it was so adorable, informing, sweet, realistic, relatable and made my insides mush.Īlice's girlfriend broke up with her because Alice "doesn't like sex" and that's not true, Alice just doesn't care about sex which she talks about throughout the book. Finally a book about an asexual, biromantic black mc!!! Guys my heart is literally bursting from the cuteness, please read this!!! The friendships are so pure and lovely and Alice is such a realistic and relatable MC and you can't help but loving her. ![]() ![]() He was smartly dressed in a suit and had thinning gray hair with a yellowish tinge. Brian was a red-faced man in his sixties with a walking stick for his bad leg. We were in Sheehan’s, a pub in Dun Laoghaire that wasn’t far from where I worked at the time in Dublin. I had met Brian for the first time only an hour earlier. I had never been asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement in the bathroom of a pub before, so it came as something of a relief to discover that this was all that Brian was asking me to do. The following is an excerpt from Stuff Matters, by Mark Miodownik. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. ![]() ![]() Normal metals have enormous numbers of dislocations which overlap and intersect. This sketch by Mark Miodownik shows only a few dislocations to make them easy to see. ![]() |