![]() ![]() Museum visitors find the Mayflower II, a recreation of the original, on the waterfront in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where she reiterates the symbolism of her predecessor. The original of 1620 remains for us the symbol of the tidal wave of colonization that flooded in its wake. This is the third “Mayflower” to arrive in Wampanoag territory. ![]() It was immediately accepted as a work of enlightenment that flew off book store shelves, received many positive reviews, and made it onto the New York Times best-seller list. Ironically, it was the new moon in May last year when Nantucket author Nathaniel Philbrick published his newest book, Mayflower. The new moon in May is the time of the Wampanoag New Year, when Mother Earth brings forth new life and new light after a dark winter season. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War ![]()
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![]() ![]() In addition, Asimov added two new words to the English language through these stories. Robotics is now recognized as a field of study, and computer-controlled machines are now in industrial use. Prejudice against machines and technology is in fact the constant background, if not the subject matter, of the robot stories… Asimov’s robot stories also have predicted certain real developments. ![]() ![]() “I, Robot is by most critical accounts one of the most influential books in the history of modern science fiction because it established new conventions for writing robot stories… Asimov did much in his stories to counter the Faustian image of science that had arisen in the public imagination. Isaac Asimov.”Īsimov’s robot stories were among his most successful and popular, and helped establish his reputation as a pioneer of the science fiction genre. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition, first issue, of Asimov’s influential collection of nine robot stories, inscribed in the year of publication by the author, “For: Lester Mayer with best regards and crossed fingers against boredom. Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. ![]() ‘WITH BEST REGARDS AND CROSSED FINGERS AGAINST BOREDOM”: FIRST EDITION OF I, ROBOT, INSCRIBED BY ASIMOV TO “FIRST FAN” LESTER MAYER IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATIONĪSIMOV, Isaac. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His father, Landreaux Iron, accidentally shoots LaRose's best friend and neighbor, Dusty Ravich, also 5 years old, in a hunting accident, when the buck Landreaux had aimed at suddenly moved from in front of the boy.ĭusty's parents, Peter and Nola, are devastated by his death. Bush and 9/11." The novel's protagonist is LaRose Iron, a young Native American boy. LaRose is set in North Dakota on an Ojibwe reservation in the "era of George W. The novel features the same setting as Erdrich's 2012 novel The Round House. It won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction. ![]() Club, The Sydney Morning Herald, USA Today, and The Chronicle Herald. The book received positive reviews from multiple publications, including The New York Times, The Kansas City Star, Winnipeg Free Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The A.V. LaRose is a novel by the Ojibwe author Louise Erdrich, published in 2016 by HarperCollins. ![]() ![]() And every last one of them is covered in a soft dusting of white sand. They look like tiny confections, babies who’ve eaten too many sweets, wings gone still against their backs. I find a cluster of cupids resting near the lazy chocolate river, little muttering sounds slipping from their cherry lips. Hot chocolate left cold beside their limp fingers, heads slumped against shoulders, eyes sunk closed, babies dozing in their strollers while their parents lie on the cobblestone sidewalk, also fast asleep. You are not an outsider in Dream Town… you’re home. ![]() We have loved you long before you came here, long before you knew who we were. Still, I know they are trying to help me understand they want this place to feel like home. And now, as queen, I am simply a title, a doll they must dress up and make into something new- shiny and suitable and worthy. But the others? They hardly noticed me before I married Jack. But even as I say it, I’m not entirely sure that’s true. Where you truly belong.” “I was loved in Halloween Town,” I counter. It’ll be difficult at first, but I think you can be happy in Dream Town, among your own people. I know it’s hard to lose the ones you care about in Halloween Town, but you are safe here. “This is where you belong, my dear.” “You have been missing for so many years.” My mother squeezes my hand like she’s afraid to let go, afraid I’ll slip from her grasp all over again. ![]() It always has been.” My father nods, lifting his gaze from the fireplace. ![]() ![]() Town was never your home,” she says gently, creeping closer to the truth. ![]() ![]() She was paid $100,000 ($850,000) in 2013, and she received 5% of the film’s gross earnings. Travers wrote iconic children‘s book character Mary Poppins is up for sale in London for £4.85 million. However, after the film Mary flopped, she never embraced the role in the film and never worked for Disney again. Travers earned $100,000 (7250,000 in 2013) in 2013, with 5% of the film’s gross income going to her. How Much Did Pl Travers Make From Mary Poppins? ![]() Despite not being invited, Travers attended the premiere. Although she was complimentary of the film’s direction and many of its actors, she felt that it lacked much of her original story. Travers was not a fan of the film adaptation of Mary Poppins and felt her character was unfairly portrayed. Travers’ Complaints About The Mary Poppins Movie Banks,Pamela Lyndon Travers was born Helen Lyndon Goff (also known as Lyndon to her family). According to the true story, titled Saving Mr. Although their relationship is strictly platonic, he has been Mary Poppins’ friend for many years. This demand is suggested to have originated with the fact that her father coughed up blood as a child however, it was more likely an arbitrary one intended to irritate the team.īert has an unmistakable Cockney accent and is a jack of all trades. Banks, who insisted that the film’s colors, red and green, be omitted. It was Travers, like Disney’s Pamela Banks in Saving Mr. ![]() ![]() A year earlier, he had chosen exile in France. In 2001 Khadra revealed his identity, after many years in the army and a considerable body of work that had generated much speculation about the person behind the name. Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume of Algerian high-ranking army officer Mohammad Moulessehoul, who used a woman’s name to evade the military censors. His latest work, originally published in French in 2002 and rendered into often beautiful and strangely mysterious English by John Cullen, shifs the locus of action from civil war-torn Algeria, the setting of Khadra’s earlier novels, to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. ~~Įarly in The Swallows of Kabul, Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra’s fourth work published in English, the scene is set in “a city in an advance stage of decomposition” where “men have gone mad they have turned their backs on the day in order to face the night.” Khadra is a writer of plagued, decaying places and lives. ![]() Although Khadra’s Swallows of Kabul is not set in Algeria, the review, which was published in the Daily Star/International Herald Tribune, devotes considerable attention to the political background of Khadra’s Algerian novels. The recent success of the film Of Gods and Men, which is set in Algeria in the 1990s when the country was gripped by a civil war between an Islamist insurgency and the government, prompted me to re-read a review-essay I had written in 2004 of the latest novel of the Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A fantastic, weird-as-hell, super funny novel” ( Bustle), Big Swiss is both a love story and a deft examination of infidelity, mental health, sexual stereotypes, and more-from an amazingly talented, singular voice in contemporary fiction. ![]() Her attraction to Big Swiss overrides her guilt, and she’ll do anything to sustain the relationship… While Big Swiss is unaware Greta has eavesdropped on her most intimate exchanges, Greta has never been more herself with anyone. ![]() One day, Greta recognizes Big Swiss’s voice in town and they quickly become enmeshed. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. The house is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. “One of the funniest books of the last few years” ( Los Angeles Times) about a sex therapist’s transcriptionist and her affair with one of the patients. “Wild…hilarious…so good.” - Cosmopolitan, Best Books of the Year * “A laugh-out-loud bad romance for Gen Xers and an ode to misfits who just want to belong.” - Oprah Daily * “Always interesting…too fun to stop.” - Vanity Fair ![]() ![]() ![]() Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity to occur around 2045 whereas Vinge predicts some time before 2030. ![]() ![]() The term was popularized by science fiction writer Vernor Vinge, who argues that artificial intelligence, human biological enhancement, or brain-computer interfaces could be possible causes of the singularity. The first use of the term "singularity" in this context was by mathematician John von Neumann. Because the capabilities of such an intelligence may be difficult for a human to comprehend, the technological singularity is often seen as an occurrence (akin to a gravitational singularity) beyond which the future course of human history is unpredictable or even unfathomable. The technological singularity, or simply the singularity, is a hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence will have progressed to the point of a greater-than-human intelligence. This community studies the creation of superintelligence- and predict it will happen in the near future, and that ultimately, deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that the Singularity benefits humanity. A subreddit committed to intelligent understanding of the hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence progresses to the point of greater-than-human intelligence, radically changing civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. and the loser losing their mind! Who will win the Game of Silence? Who will win the Game of One Digit - Yugi's thumb or a violent criminal's finger on the trigger of a gun? And what about the Game of Air Hockey With Explosives Over a Hot Stove? This exciting mega-hit is printed in the original right-to-left Japanese format. Invisible in the back of the class, 10th-grade loner Yugi always had his head in some game - until he solved the Millennium Puzzle, an Egyptian artifact containing the spirit of a master gambler from the age of the pharaohs! Awakened after 3,000 years, the King of Games possesses Yugi, recklessly challenging evildoers to the Shadow Games, where even the most ordinary bet may result in weirdness beyond belief. 1 (Collectors Edition) Kazuki Takahashi No preview available - 2008. Both new and collector fans will admire this edition. Best selling VIZ series Yu-Gi-Oh!, Volume 1 now reissued in an amazing fan-desirable collector's edition! Special edition features larger trim, sturdy deluxe hardcover binding and protective dust cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has to admit however, that Xal is one fine-looking alien, and a part of her is curious. Seriously? Who would believe that lame excuse? So when Xal tells her the Kordolians are looking for Human females, she thinks he's messing with her. As a hardened journalist, she's seen her share of duplicity and corruption. ![]() Sera Aquinas doesn't trust the charming amber-eyed Prince when he says he doesn't want to take over her planet. But first, he has to gain her trust, and that's not so easy when her presence drives him to distraction. Perhaps this stubborn female journalist called Sera Aquinas, who thinks she can just walk up to his front door and ask for an interview, might be able to help him. It's easier said than done, especially when one's race has a reputation for brutally conquering the Nine Galaxies. Now that the Kordolians have landed on Earth, he somehow has to convince an entire planet of Humans that his people mean them no harm. Prince Xalikian Kazharan has a dilemma on his hands. ![]() |