![]() This means we must address current human needs, not future existential threats, real as they are, with initiatives that include but go well beyond solar, electric vehicles, and tree planting to include such solutions as the fifteen-minute city, bioregions, azolla fern, food localization, fire ecology, decommodification, forests as farms, and the number one solution for the world: electrifying everything." - Back cover. Regeneration describes how an inclusive movement can engage the majority of humanity to save the world from the threat of global warming, with climate solutions that directly serve our children, the poor, and the excluded. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Regeneration offers a visionary new approach to climate change, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, equity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It promises new hope in place of setbacks, mistakes and missed opportunities. If you permit me, I wish to refer to the courses as ‘recipes.’ For the Merriam-Webster dictionary says the original use of the word recipe “was not in cooking instructions but in prescriptions, where it was used to preface a list of medicines to be combined.” Thus, I wish to show that today’s web-based learning has prescriptions for every need in life. They literally cover every subject under the sun. ![]() In particular, I am referring to the daily assault by invitations to online courses. This observation reminds me of an ongoing concern, namely, the virtues and vices of competition. In one installment, however, he makes this laconic note: “You can’t persuade a 9-month toddler to water ski, so the first step is to do a reality check whether the other person has enough knowledge, competence, and self-confidence to do what you wish.” He has a lively column entitled “How to Get Anyone to Do (Almost) Anything You Want.” Bruce Kasanoff is one of my admired writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien’s attitude prevailed: Narnia is casual.Īccording to Ward, Tolkien’s assumptions were neither consistent with Lewis’s other literary works nor his character. (Why is Father Christmas, Father Time, the White Witch, English kids and centaurs all in the same story?) Tolkien didn’t read all of the books and he wasn't fond of the stories that he did read. Since Tolkien is so well-known, his opinion of the Chronicles of Narnia became well-known too. ![]() He wondered what was unifying all of them. Tolkien was confused by all the characters in Narnia. On the surface, The Chronicles of Narnia can seem to be a “hodgepodge” of characters, Ward said. C. Lewis scholar, shared his theory that Lewis used the medieval cosmos’ seven heavens to symbolize Christ throughout The Chronicles of Narnia. Michael Ward, senior research fellow at the University of Oxford and C.S. ![]() ![]() But they discover something even more scary! 'By far our best writer for the young' - Daily Telegraph "Whoo-ooo-ooo!" It's midnight at the station and the three skeletons climb aboard the ghost train for a spooky ride. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! The Ghost Train is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Eventually the pet shop owner gives them a box to take home with a surprise pet inside. They start off with a goldfish but soon get tired of him and swap him for a parrot - but soon they get bored of him too. In this FUNNYBONES story, the big skeleton and the little skeleton are fed up with the dog skeleton and decide to swap him at the pet shop. In a dark dark street ,There is a dark dark house. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1993, after four years at TSR, Brom returned to the freelance market, still specializing in the darker side of the roleplaying game, card game, and comic book genres. Brom's paintings, along with Frank Frazetta's, were used in the development of the visual look of the game series Warlords. His paintings have been published in collectible card games such as Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering and Last Unicorn Games' Heresy: Kingdom Come. I've been fortunate to be involved in the development end of a lot of projects I've worked on, from role-playing games to computer games." According to Shannon Appelcline, Brom "contributed the unique illustrations for Dark Sun that helped to set it apart from the other TSR games with their more typical fantasy drawings". I was very involved in the development process. ![]() I'd do a painting or a sketch, and the designers wrote those characters and ideas into the story. I was doing paintings before they were even writing about the setting. ![]() Brom contributed to all of TSR's game and book lines, particularly the Dark Sun setting: "I pretty much designed the look and feel of the Dark Sun campaign. ![]() hired Brom on full-time in 1989 at the age of 24. By age twenty-one, he had two national art representatives, and was doing work for such clients as Coca-Cola, IBM, CNN, and Columbia Pictures. At the age of 20, Brom started working full-time as a commercial illustrator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Haroun often wonders where his father gets all these stories since “stories can’t simply come out of thin air.” His father will only say that all his stories come from the great Story Sea. His stories are fantastical, full of strange characters and dramatic situations. Rashid travels a lot because his cheery stories are in demand. ![]() “To his admirers he was Rashid the Ocean of Notions, as stuffed with cheery stories as the sea was full of glumfish but to his jealous rivals he was the Shah of Blah.” Haroun and his family live a happy life in the city, until one day, when something goes wrong. His father, Rashid, is a famous storyteller. Haroun Khalifa lives in the middle of this city with his father and mother. The city stands “by a mournful sea full of glumfish” and all the people are full of sadness and melancholy. The novel opens in the “saddest of cities” in the country of Alifbay. ![]() ![]() ![]() It took time for me to settle back into this world, understanding the war politics, who was allied with whom, the strategies, reacquainting myself with the characters, the jargon, for which reason I think a glossary would have benefitted the reader as I wasn’t following the goings on – particularly from the Blood Shrike’s POV. The content in Helene’s chapters could be become tiresome to read, the war intrigues constant, and there was at times too much information that I wasn’t following, and not enough of what I wanted. I did however find that this book brings out the better aspects of her personality, and I really look forward to seeing where the next book takes her. Never being quite so partial to her character in previous books because of her bigoted views of the enslaved and lower classes, I’ve always struggled with finding the heart in her character when she has only ever had a heart for her own race. She is a force to be reckoned with, but even that holds no bars to the sacrifices required of her. ![]() These are trying times for Helene, and it doesn’t get easier for her in this instalment. Thwarting attacks to the Empire, engaging in the politics of war, ploys for power, plays for it too, the Blood Shrike competes with Keris for ascendancy and the trust of the Empire because forces are wishing and watching them fall. ![]() ![]() ![]() I loved watching them move with their surroundings. They were raised for very different roles so that is to be expected, but they were both clever and adaptable. ![]() ![]() Can’t say much else about this character without spoilers.Īgain, with the two sisters, I can’t say much without spoilers but I’ll try! Their characters were so different. Vasher was a strange character and his sword (also being a character…) was a wonderful twist on the magic sword trope! I love it when a trope is taken and made new and fun again. His story was the most surprising for me but I loved it all the same. Lightsong was hilarious but also full of life and kindness. Brandon Sanderson has a way of moving POV characters near one another without actually letting them reveal secrets to each other which I find frustrating but fantastic. Lightsong is the God who doesn’t believe in their own religion. This was told from the POV of a few characters so I will review Warbreaker by talking about them. As always, the last 50-100 pages in Warbreaker wouldn’t let me put it down! Brandon Sanderson had me hooked and he knew it! ![]() ![]() ![]() And then the puppets, a man, a woman and a field all around them which ran down to a rippling sea. Beside the caravan, a fire, like the one I’d seen so long ago in the puppet theatre-strips of scarlet silk, with threads of violet fluttering amongst them. At first, I thought it was this I was seeing in the water, a memory coming up through the strange clouding in my vision-a caravan, painted in a shimmering crimson, with shutters of ocean blue and puffs of grey wool smoke coming from the chimney. The puppeteers were Roma, and the tale their theatre told was of a young maid who left her family to travel the wider world, and how this had led to her tragic downfall. He had taken me the second night of their performance and I had been wonderstruck with all of it. Long ago, a travelling puppet show had stopped in our village, and I had begged my father to allow me to attend. ![]() That's just to give you a bit of context, before I plunk you into the centre of a scene). ![]() She's using a pan of water as a scrying glass, essentially, and hoping to summon someone to her aide, as she's in a bit of a crisis situation. (Just a small preface to this excerpt- this is part of Yevgena's story and the glimpse today is from when she's about seventeen years old. ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Langdon looked out the window of the private jet as it prepared to land in Washington. ![]() Aha, he thought, within hours I will have the secrets of the universe. We must be deep in the heart of the Freemason's Hall, only yards from Capitol Hill in Washington, where an unnamed initiate is drinking wine from a skull. The race against narcolepsy had begun.Ģ.30pm: A rash of italics mysteriously appears across the page. The courier stepped back, his face blanched with fear. Instead I drew a hand, the Hand of Mysteries. So what difference should an extra three and a half hours have made? And yet I sensed there was not a minute to lose if I was to save the free world from the Rogue Freemasons. "I was being followed."įive long years have I been waiting for this moment, years in which the Christian church has been strangely indifferent to the news that the body of Mary Magdalene has been found under the pyramid outside the Louvre. One leg of his trousers is rolled up to the knee. 12.01pm: The motorcycle courier arrives at the door. ![]() |