![]() ![]() She convinces Paulo to join her on a trip aboard the Magic Bus that travels across Europe and Central Asia to Kathmandu. There he meets Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find the ideal companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal. ![]() Paulo’s travels take him farther to the famous Dam Square in Amsterdam filled with young people wearing vibrant clothes and burning incense, meditating and playing music, while discussing sexual liberation, the expansion of consciousness, and the search for an inner truth. In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who wants to become a writer and sets off on a journey in search of a deeper meaning for his life: first on the famous “Death Train” to Bolivia, then on to Peru, later hitchhiking through Chile and Argentina. ![]() If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.ĭrawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared to challenge the established social order. ![]()
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![]() All but the specialised geological museums commonly confused archaeological specimens with geological ones and this misapprehension is evidently widely held. With the other collections the lack of appropriate knowledge to assess or use the geological collections was apparent. ![]() The County Museums had little knowledge or practical concern for their geological collections, but a desire for assistance was clear. Excepting the National Museum, the specialised geological museums were mainly directed towards internal functions, with little outreach or community emphasis, and with a resource based lack of curatorial strength. ![]() There were 31 locations with a collection, assessed under three categories: 1) educational or institutional geological department, 2) County Museum/Local authority funded museum and 3) other collections including private ones. The Geological Curator 6(10): 377-388.Ī simple postal survey of 73 museums, heritage centres, individuals and other establishments was conducted to assess the state and status of geological collections across the Republic of Ireland. A survey on the state and status of geological collections in museums and private collections in the Republic of Ireland. FENSCORE Federation for Natural Sciences Collections Research A survey on the state and status of geological collections in museums and private collections in the Republic of Irelandīy Matthew A. ![]() ![]() ![]() He could see them in their cities, in the heat and the light. ![]() ![]() Do you? Outside, he thought, beyond this mountain and its snow, there was a world of countless millions of people. Without looking up, she said, But do you believe in love, Mr Evans? She rolled the cigarette end around in the ash tray. “She took a puff, put the cigarette in the ashtray and stared at it. At such times he had the sensation that there was only one book in the universe, and that all books were simply portals into this greater ongoing work-an inexhaustible, beautiful world that was not imaginary but the world as it truly was, a book without beginning or end.” It wasn't really the great poem of antiquity that Dorrigo Evans wanted though, but the aura he felt around such books-an aura that both radiated outwards and took him inwards to another world that said to him that he was not alone.Īnd this sense, this feeling of communion, would at moments overwhelm him. He found several shelves full of old editions of classical writers and began vaguely browsing, hoping to find a cheap edition of Virgil's Aeneid, which he had only ever read in a borrowed copy. All around him dust motes rose and fell, shimmering, quivering in those shafts of roiling light. “He pulled out a book here and there, but what kept catching his attention were the diagonal tunnels of sunlight rolling in through the dormer windows. ![]() ![]() ** A Siren Erotic RomanceĪbby Morgan is a receptionist in a doctor’s office. Note: This book is written in one point of view. Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings. But hey, this is Midnight Creek in Midnight County after all, where convention is tossed straight outta the window. Nothing is as she had ever known it before. Romance, mystery, and intrigue fill the air around Abby. But when her life is suddenly put into peril, she must rely on the twins to save her. It's something she's never had before in her life, and with them in her bed, it leads to her craving more pleasure from them. ![]() ![]() Abby discovers that everything in Midnight Creek isn't as it seems, and after a couple of hot encounters together, Abby is drawn more than ever to the twins. Shortly after arriving, Abby comes into contact with the ruggedly handsome Mitch Beaumont and is seeing double after she meets Mitch's identical twin brother, Taylor. After her grandmother's untimely death, Abby Morgan returns to the small Southern town that was once her home to handle the affairs that have been entrusted to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many at the BBC wonder why, if he really cared so much about the scandal proving a “distraction,” Sharp waited so many reputation-zapping months to announce his departure: months during which the political independence of the BBC management both at home and abroad was undermined. It says he knew best then and still does now. In announcing his departure, Sharp decided that this “inadvertent” error with its “potential perceived conflict of interest” (as opposed to an actual conflict, presumably) could prove a “distraction from the corporation’s good work” if he carried on.Īnd that somewhat disdainful statement said everything we need to know about what he really thought of the rigour of a process in which he, perceived by many – including himself – to be the best man for the job, ended up resigning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zazoo's voice is honest and distinct as she tells her story the secondary characters develop with real three-dimensional complexity as well. This is a story of memory and contemplation, not action, with most of the elements unfolding slowly over the course of a year through dialogue and reminiscence., A slow and almost dreamlike exploration of the myriad ways that the pastÂ-especially a cataclysmic pastÂ-informs the present.The slow revelation of the many intertwined personal histories is truly elegant, and the several love stories that emerge are almost painfully romantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers will be swept away by the evocative images and emotive scenes in this story, offering a mix of bitter and sweeet., A slow and almost dreamlike exploration of the myriad ways that the past-especially a cataclysmic past-informs the present.The slow revelation of the many intertwined personal histories is truly elegant, and the several love stories that emerge are almost painfully romantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() The government attempts to introduce a law requiring would-be heroes to register and under go training. The series follows the introduction of a Superhero Registration Act, the kind of document that the X-Men have been dealing with for decades (and in the first Bryan Singer movie) and the kind of law which underpinned Alan Moore’s Watchmen, following a horrible accident which results in the death of 600 civilians. Marvel have produced a lovely deluxe hardcover which contains just about everything you could possibly want from the event, it’s just a shame I’m not overly impressed by the event itself. ![]() ![]() The premise of the series is straight-forward enough – it’s a conflict between the heroes of the Marvel Universe (it’s all there in the title) – and perhaps that is the reason that the series has arguably had more crossover mainstream appeal than the vast majority of comic book crossovers. Get an overview of what I’m trying to take a look at here.Ĭivil War was Marvel’s big event of 2006-7, and – as this lovely deluxe edition loves to remind you – it was “the industry’s best selling series in over a the decade”. With The Avengers planned for a cinematic release in 2012, I thought I’d bring myself up to speed by taking a look at Marvel’s tangled web of modern continuity. ![]() This is the fourth in a series of comic book reviews that will look at the direction of Marvel’s “Avengers” franchise over the past five or so years, as they’ve been attempting to position the property at the heart of their fictional universe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her appetite for cutting descriptions of sex and actual violence make this short, subversive novel terrifying and hard to put down. Her prose, ably translated by Hughes, is dizzying but effective it’s as if she’s holding the reader’s head and daring them to look away from the social problems she brings to light.Ĭoming off her last novel, Hurricane Season, Melchor has proven to be one of Mexico’s most tantalizing writers, and Paradais continues her examination into the metaphysical assault embedded in patriarchy and classism. Like Hurricane Season, this novel is told in long sentences and paragraphs, lending it a fever-dream quality that is, at its most intense, almost sickening… orrifying but never gratuitous Melchor uses shock to lay bare issues of classism, misogyny, and the ravages of child abuse. Impressiveįernanda Melchor has a powerful voice, and by powerful I mean unsparing, devastating, the voice of someone who writes with rage, and has the skill to pull it off. Melchor evokes the stories of Flannery O’Connor, or, more recently, Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings. Paradise is a short inexorable descent into Hell. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, a perfect pitch for orality, and a neurosurgeon’s precision for cruelty. Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() As Nigerian troops advance and the three must run for their lives, their ideals are severely tested, as are their loyalties to one another.Įpic, ambitious, and triumphantly realized, Half of a Yellow Sun is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race-and the ways in which love can complicate them all. And Richard is a shy young Englishman in thrall to Olanna’s twin sister, an enigmatic figure who refuses to belong to anyone. ![]() Olanna is the professor’s beautiful mistress, who has abandoned her life of privilege in Lagos for a dusty university town and the charisma of her new lover. Thirteen-year-old Ugwu is employed as a houseboy for a university professor full of revolutionary zeal. With astonishing empathy and the effortless grace of a natural storyteller, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of the decade. ![]() A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has performed as a professional opera singer. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Jenny Odell 2,903 Hardcover 12. Headlee graduated from Northern Arizona University (NAU) and received a masters degree in vocal performance from the University of Michigan. Her other books include Speaking of Race: Why Everybody Needs to Talk About Racism–and How to Do It and Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Her TEDx Talk sharing "10 ways to have a better conversation" has over 30 million total views to date and is also the subject of one of her books. She also served as co-host of the national morning news show, The Takeaway, from PRI and WNYC. Until 2017, she hosted the daily news/talk show, On Second Thought, on Georgia Public Broadcasting. ![]() Previously, she was a host at NPR, anchoring shows including Tell Me More, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition. She is co-host of the new weekly series Retro Report on PBS and season three of the Scene on Radio podcast – MEN. Hard work has been baked into our culture for so long, but at what cost? Journalist Celeste Headlee explains why we must give our bodies the rest they need, so that we can live fuller lives.Ĭeleste Headlee is a radio journalist, public speaker and author. ![]() Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Work, Play, Rest - Part 3. ![]() |