5/11/2023 0 Comments Cadillac desert book![]() ![]() Army Corps of Engineers, in the competition to transform the West. He documents the bitter rivalry between two government giants, the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. In his landmark book, Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner writes of the earliest settlers, lured by the promise of paradise, and of the ruthless tactics employed by Los Angeles politicians and business interests to ensure the city's growth. ![]() It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruption and intrigue, of billion-dollar battles over water rights, of ecological and economic disaster. The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. "The definitive work on the West's water crisis." -Newsweek ![]() He worried that the West’s success with irrigation could be a mirage - that it took water for granted and didn’t appreciate the precariousness of our capacity to control it.” – Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, January 20,2023 “I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the pouring heavens, seems likely to remain in the grip of a severe drought. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What to Read First: Maybe In Another Life ![]() Reid previously worked as a casting assistant, and later wrote part-time while working at a high school before landing her first book deal. Taylor Jenkins Reid is best known for her works of historical fiction like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but her earlier works were more in the vein of Hoover’s works, focusing on women’s fiction with characters in their late twenties. As he falls hard for her, the secret he’s been keeping threatens the only place she’s ever felt at home. Cooper can’t stand the trust-fund kids who come and go from his town, but he soon realizes Mac is different. Mac’s gotten good at repressing her impulses over the years, but that ability is tested when she meets the local bad boy, Cooper Hartley. At 20, all she really wants is to focus on her online business, but her parents insist she go to college, and send her to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, where she’ll attend Garnet College. In Good Girl Complex, we meet people-pleasing good girl Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot. ![]() ![]() ![]() While he seems to genuinely regret his cowardice, and he ultimately pays for what he's done, I still had difficulty liking Leo as much as I wanted to. But then he just forgets about her? For years? There's also the fact that in the end, Leo is proven a coward, and he decides to marry a girl he admits he doesn't even care about. Sure, Leo put Rosie under his personal protection and got her a job as a palace servant - which, while not the ideal position, was way better than her life on the mountain. But then Leo had a bad tendency of just forgetting about Rosie, and that's something no true friend would do. I could understand his want and need to pursue his own life, rather than simply accept the role that was laid out for him from the beginning. Half of the time I liked him, as he continued to stand by Rosie while everyone else was cruel to her. ![]() ![]() She's a fighter, and I really appreciated that, especially after reading Heartless, where Una did nothing to help herself. Rose Red is in distress alright, but she doesn't let it get her down. She may not be able to do much about her situation, or really help anyone else, but at least she tries, rather than playing the victimized damsel in distress. You really see the character impersonator's face, and I like how her image is in a mirror, held (clearly) by the Dragon.Ĭharacters: Rose Red is a much better protagonist than Una in Heartless. Cover Blurb: Yes or No? Even though the girl looks nothing like Rose Red, I do like the cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sequel came out the next year, and the fourth book Something So Unscripted was released for readers to enjoy in 2018. The series kicked off for the first time in 2016 with the release of the debut novel, titled Something So Right. ![]() Natasha Madison is the creator and the author of the Something So series. However, there is always the satisfaction of the written word when her Labrador doesn’t want to listen. When it comes to listening, even her dog tends to tune her out. She says that she enjoys writing and that it is good that her characters at least can do as she directs them. When she is not busy running around with her kids, she can probably be found hanging out with her husband and even helping to schedule business trips. ![]() Even though she spends a large part of her time driving her kids around in the car as chauffeur, she still manages to get everything done in heels. She also enjoys being in her kitchen and whipping up some new gourmet meals to eat. When she is not busy with a book, she is occupied with writing one of her own. Natasha Madison is an American published author of fiction. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments The man in the queue josephine tey![]() ![]() At a girls' physical education college, which is described with fascinating details of programs of study, sport activities, and employment inquiries, Miss Pym undertakes the discovery of the murderer of an unpleasant student. ![]() In Miss Pym Disposes a former French teacher who has casually and flippantly written a popular psychology book begins to believe in her ability to understand the human psyche. Tey's amateur detectives are each different from the other. Tey wrote several non-series examples of detection and mystery in addition to her creation of the gentleman-police officer Alan Grant, whose shoes never revealed his status as CID investigator. Her style is pure, her plots and characters carefully wrought, and her adherence to the classical traditions dependable. While her work differs from theirs in several respects, it undoubtedly belongs to the Golden Age of detective fiction. ![]() Josephine Tey's novels of mystery and detection are often categorized with those of Dorothy L. ![]() ![]() ![]() Don't miss the epilogue to the whole series as well: Desperately Seeking Duke: The Ultimate Epilogue. The third book in the Desperately Seeking Duke series, following About a Rogue and A Scot to the Heart. Unfortunately, she’s also more and more certain that Will is keeping secrets that could break her heart. The more time she spends with Will, though, the more she likes him… trusts him… even loves him. She means to teach Will how to run the estate properly and love Carlyle as she does. Philippa is just as shocked…but also, somehow, charmed.Ĭarlyle cannot be her home forever, but Philippa is determined to leave it in good hands. The horrified duchess wants to sack him on sight. William Montclair is handsome, brash, and scandalously bold. ![]() The arrival of a new estate steward should be a relief, but instead it threatens to upend everything. Preoccupied with the succession of the dukedom and the duke’s health, the duchess has left the estate in Philippa’s hands-and Philippa is determined not to let her down. Philippa Kirkpatrick has been raised at Carlyle Castle by her doting guardian, the Duchess of Carlyle. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has often been said that Tripos mathematics was a collection of elaborate futilities, and the accusation is broadly true. In The Case against the Mathematical Tripos mathematician GH Hardy wrote In elementary school I had the vague idea that professional mathematicians spent their time computing digits of pi, for instance, or perhaps devising and then solving Math Olympiad style problems. ![]() Well, I guess they should be warned that their impressions of what professional mathematics is may be quite different from the reality. high school students and young researchers)? ![]() What advice would you give to young people starting out in math (i.e. In a 2003 interview, Fields Medalist Terence Tao answered the question Furthermore, they've become tied to a misleading mythological conception of "genius." I've collected relevant quotations below.Īcknowledgment - I obtained some of these quotations from a collection of mathematician quotations compiled by my colleague Laurens Gunnarsen. Unfortunately, while math competitions may be more representative of mathematical practice than school mathematics, math competitions are themselves greatly misleading. It's common for bright young people to participate in math competitions, an activity which is closer to that of mathematical practice. As I mentioned in Fields Medalists on School Mathematics, school mathematics usually gives a heavily distorted picture of mathematical practice. ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Annihilation book trilogy![]() ![]() In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape the second expedition ended in mass suicide the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The Southern Reach Trilogy begins with Annihilation, the Nebula Award-winning novel that "reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world" (Kim Stanley Robinson).Īrea X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ALEX GARLAND, STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC ![]() 5/9/2023 0 Comments Pandeymonium![]() ![]() In Pandeymonium, Piyush talks about his influences, right from his childhood in Jaipur and being a Ranji cricketer, to his philosophy, failures and lessons in advertising in particular and life in general. That ability combined with his love, passion and understanding of advertising and of consumers make him the master storyteller that he is. What makes Piyush different is the perspective from which he views the same things you’ve seen, his ability to store all that he sees into some recesses of his brain and then retrieve them at short notice when he needs to. ![]() You’ve seen cobblers, carpenters, cricketers, trains, villages, towns and cities. Subject(s): Pandey, Piyush | Advertising executives-India-Biography | Advertising-India-Biography UDC classification: 659.1PIY(092)(540) PIY/P Summary: What makes Piyush Pandey an extraordinary advertising man, friend, partner and leader of men? How does he manage to exude childlike enthusiasm, and bring such deep commitment to his work? You’ve seen most of the things that Piyush Pandey has seen in his life. Publisher: Gurugram Penguin Random House, 2016 Description: 244p. ![]() Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey on advertising By: Pandey, Piyush. ![]() ![]() ![]() The horror of this prospect is, in the story, linked to the horrors of real history. Whatever then walked the Earth would not be life, let alone human. If the secret got out and (consequently) other things got in, life would become impossible. That last phrase isn’t ironic if people suspected for a moment that the only thing Lovecraft got wrong was to underestimate the power and malignity of cosmic evil, life would become unbearable. Its lesser premise is that if the world contains things that (as Pratchett puts it somewhere) even the dark is afraid of, then you can bet that there’ll be a secret government agency covering them up for our own good. ![]() ![]() Its basic premise is that mathematics can be magic. Its form is that of a horror thriller with lots of laughs, some of them uneasy. “THE ATROCITY ARCHIVE” IS A SCIENCE FICTION novel. Lovecraft, Neal Stephenson, and Len Deighton. Three authors in particular made it possible for me to imagine this book and I salute you, H. ![]() Finally, I stand on the shoulders of giants. Paul Fraser of Spectrum SF applied far more editorial muscle than I had any right to expect, in preparation for the original magazine serialization likewise Marty Halpern of Golden Gryphon Press, who made this longer edition possible. Firstly, I owe a debt of gratitude to the usual suspects-members of my local writers workshop all-who suffered through first-draft reading hell and pointed out numerous headaches that needed fixing. ![]() |