![]() I want to boost everyone’s signal on this issue, so I thought it would be nice to collaborate instead of compete, since that’s part of what we are all proselytizing with these books. ![]() There seems to be a movement afoot, a new wave of nonfiction about how to reduce all this argumentative madness and epistemic chaos. This is the first episode in a three-part series about how to have difficult conversations with people who see the world differently, how to have better debates about contentious issues, and how to ethically and scientifically persuade one another about things that matter – in short, this is a three-part series about How Minds Change (which is also the title of my new book). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She provided the voice actress of Sophie in the English-language version of Howl's Moving Castle (2004), and starred in Scream 3 (2000), Match Point (2005), The Pink Panther (2006) and its 2009 sequel, Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Chaos Theory (2008), Harry Brown (2009), Shutter Island (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Hugo (2011), Mary Poppins Returns (2018), and Relic (2020). She created and wrote the series Doll & Em (2014–2015) and wrote and directed the miniseries The Pursuit of Love (2021). She is also known for playing Mackenzie McHale in the HBO series The Newsroom (2013-2015). In 2003, she won an Independent Spirit Award for her performance in Lovely and Amazing. She began acting in stage productions and has since appeared in several film and television roles. Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer (born 6 October 1971) is a British actress. ![]() ![]() I was pulling for spider characters more than the human side characters. Where’s the fun in a book describing aliens that resemble humans? If you’re going to have aliens, don’t make them Star Trek aliens. Non-traditional in approach, it depicts alien life entirely different from our current society. Yet, I’m drawn to magnificent space operas, and this is certainly one. Commercially successful S-f epics are not polished to the level of the usual hoity-toity stuff I read. I only need to be shown palp-flopping sign language a dozen times to get the point. A few too many speech patterns described. This one is sprinkled with a sloppy dialogue tag and unnecessary gesticulations clutter the dialogue every once in a while. The longer a book is, the more I begin to dissect the sentences, which too often contain extraneous syntax. ![]() ![]() I’m extremely picky when it comes to science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Typical sentence: “In an environment of maximum pressure, I learned to ignore the noise and distractions and instead to push for results that would improve lives.”Įvery political cliché gets a fresh shampooing. Reading this book reminded me of watching a cat lick a dog’s eye goo. Kushner’s fealty to Trump remains absolute. This book is like a tour of a once majestic 18th-century wooden house, now burned to its foundations, that focuses solely on, and rejoices in, what’s left amid the ashes: the two singed bathtubs, the gravel driveway and the mailbox. ![]() Kushner almost entirely ignores the chaos, the alienation of allies, the breaking of laws and norms, the flirtations with dictators, the comprehensive loss of America’s moral leadership, and so on, ad infinitum, to speak about his boyish tinkering (the “mechanic”) with issues he was interested in. “Breaking History” is an earnest and soulless - Kushner looks like a mannequin, and he writes like one - and peculiarly selective appraisal of Donald J. ![]() ![]() The multicultural array of staff and students Walden has created exude a cartoonish brand of over-the-top villainy reminiscent of Austin Powers or James Bond. The foursome conspire to escape their captors, and engineer a plan to return to their old lives. Otto, who has a photogenic memory, quickly befriends Wing Fanchu, a martial arts expert Laura Brand, an expert with electronics) and Shelby Trinity, a dextrous jewel thief. Nero, the institute’s founder, introduces the new students to the institute, located in a sprawling underground complex on a volcanic island. He soon discovers that he and a few hundred other teens have been abducted by the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, a secret school committed to nurturing youth with “a special talent for the supremely villainous.” Dr. ![]() ![]() Otto Malpense, a 13-year-old orphan, awakens aboard a helicopter with no memory of how he got there. ![]() Ischievously talented teenagers star in Walden’s debut novel, which envisions the educational training of future megalomaniacs and criminal masterminds. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whitman understood masculine sexuality as a force to bond men together. It is not possible, however, to say that Whitman was extolling a particular erotic lifestyle. "Calamus," with its depictions of intense male bonding and friendship, was especially shocking to much of Whitman's audience. Whitman was often criticized during his lifetime for the depictions of homosexuality and erotic love in his poetry. The spirit of New York melds with this patriotic military spirit to embody what is best in the American mindset.ĭiscuss Whitman's nuanced understanding of male erotic love. In "Drum Taps," he describes the scene of a patriotic parade in New York in which wounded soldiers march through the streets. Whitman saw this most powerfully during the Civil War. ![]() Through patriotism, individual Americans, concentrating on their individual lives, were bound together in a collective spirit. Death, then, was simply a phase of being and, in Whitman's words, was often luckier than a state of physical and spiritual duality.įor Whitman, patriotism was a collective affair of the American people. ![]() It is possible to say that Whitman understood being as a cyclical process from which one was created from the natural world, lived in body and spirit, which then returned to its natural state. One cannot say if Whitman was more concerned with life or with death since he holds each state in equality. Is Whitman more concerned with life or with death in his poetry? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (2002) from Stanford University where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Schroeter is a condensed matter theorist. ![]() Schroeter, Reed College, Oregonĭarrell F. He is the author of over fifty articles and four books: Introduction to Electrodynamics (4th edition, Cambridge, 2013), Introduction to Elementary Particles (2nd edition, 2008), Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (2nd edition, Cambridge, 2016), and Revolutions in Twentieth-Century Physics (Cambridge, 2012). was in elementary particle theory, his recent research is in electrodynamics and quantum mechanics. ![]() He has spent sabbaticals at SLAC, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and University of California, Berkeley. In 1997 he was awarded the Millikan Medal by the American Association of Physics Teachers. Griffiths is a Consulting Editor of The American Journal of Physics, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2001–02 he was visiting Professor of Physics at the Five Colleges (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Hampshire), and in the spring of 2007 he taught Electrodynamics at Stanford. He taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, and Trinity College before joining the faculty at Reed College in 1978. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Floor and ceiling effects, unidimensionality, internal consistency using Cronbach’s Alpha, and reliability with item response theory (IRT) information functions were examined. Each domain of the PROMIS-25 Profile was evaluated for reliability and validity. Methods: Data were collected through a multi-center longitudinal study of outcomes after burn injury. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of PROMIS-25 scores in children living with burn injury. Objective: The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS)-25 profile has been validated for use in diverse populations of children with many conditions, though not among burn-injured children. Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes 2023, 7(1): O9 ![]() 5University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA 3Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, USA. Reliability and validity of the PROMIS-25 among children living with burn injuries Dagmar Amtmann 1, Kara McMullen 1, Alyssa Bamer 1, Andrew Humbert 1, Colleen Ryan 2, Jeffrey Schneider 3, Lewis Kazis 4, Barclay Stewart 1, Oscar Suman 5 1University of Washington, Seattle, USA. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And when we lose the battle with temptation, I’ll try and remember I’m just window shopping. A sizzling, standalone, feel-good holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. It is not a part of one of her other series and does not share characters with other books, so there's no need to worry that you might be missing something. I’ll put my heart and soul into dressing his holiday windows. Yes - Window Shopping was written by Tessa Bailey as a standalone. But as a down on her luck girl with a difficult past, I know an opportunity when I see one-and I have to make it last. Now I’m working for that man, trying to ignore that he’s hot. ![]() He asks for a better idea with a twinkle in his eye. It’s a tragedy in tinsel, I say, unable to lie. I’m standing alone in front of the famous Vivant department store, when a charming man named Aiden asks my opinion of the décor. Two weeks before Christmas and all through Manhattan, shop windows are decorated in red and green satin. Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey – Free eBooks DownloadĪ sizzling, standalone, feel-good holiday romance from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer. ![]() ![]() ![]() This had previously been the childhood home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, Thomas Martin of Palgrave (1696–1771). ![]() From the age of three (1865) until 1909 James's home, if not always his residence, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. Sydney James later became Archdeacon of Dudley. He had two older brothers, Sydney and Herbert (nicknamed "Ber"), and an older sister, Grace. His father was Herbert James, an Evangelical Anglican clergyman, and his mother, Mary Emily ( née Horton), was the daughter of a naval officer. James was born in a clergy house in Goodnestone, Dover, Kent, England, although his parents had associations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. Because his protagonists and plots tend to reflect his own antiquarian interests, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". He redefined the ghost story for the new century by abandoning many of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more realistic contemporary settings. ![]() James's work as a medievalist and scholar is still highly regarded, but he is best remembered for his ghost stories, which some consider among the best in the genre. ![]() He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1913–15). Montague Rhodes James OM FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). ![]() |