![]() from Will Durant & Ariel.” The recipients, Douglas and Mary Lee Fairbanks, were pioneers in the American film industry and two of the most popular actors of their time. 19, 1966”, and to the flyleaf of The Age of Louis XIV, “To Douglas & Mary Lee enjoying their hospitality. The inscription on the half-title page of The Life of Greece reads, “To Douglas + Mary Lee with love from Will Durant 5-6-69 A great evening!”, to the flyleaf of The Age of Voltaire, “For Douglas & Mary Lee affectionately, from Will Durant & Ariel At the Bolton’s Sept. Presentation copies, each volume (with the exception IV and X) inscribed by William and Ariel Durant to Douglas and Mary Lee Fairbanks on various dates. Royal octavo, 11 volumes, cartographic endpapers, illustrated. Rare complete set of Durant’s monumental achievement with 10 volumes inscribed by him to “The King of Hollywood” Douglas Fairbanks. ![]() The Story of Civilization.ĭURANT, William and Ariel. ![]()
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Empty planet book7/8/2023 ![]() The script is intelligent and thought-provoking, while once the momentum gets going the story is very absorbing and makes the most of an initially odd but actually fascinating and beautifully done concept of bringing literature into life. The music is suitably haunting and melancholic. As always (with a few exceptions like "The Thirteenth Step", "Hopeless" and "The Fight") with 'Criminal Minds', "Empty Planet" looks great, being beautifully shot and made with a lot of style and atmosphere. The beginning doesn't immediately draw one in either and feels on the strange and lacking in momentum side. Didn't really feel either of those with this unsub, who came over more bland than threatening and too one-dimensional and shallow. Was expecting a much better developed and interesting unsub, 'Criminal Minds' have some great unsubs and often do a great job fleshing them out, making us truly hate them or feel sorry for them. It's hardly the worst though, being better than "Aftermath" and especially "Honor Among Thieves" (somewhat of the odd one out in a strong season). "Empty Planet" is not among the best episodes of Season 2, like "Profiler, Profiled", "Revelations", "The Fisher King Part II", "North Mammon" and "The Boogeyman". ![]() Lynn sherr swim7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Anthony in Her Own Words and co-author of Susan B. She is the author of the memoir Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News, published in September 2006 the biography Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. ![]() Prior to that, she reported for WCBS-TV in New York, The Associated Press in New York, and Condé Nast Publications. Sherr also reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986, anchoring almost every mission from launch to landing.īefore going to ABC in 1977, Sherr was a reporter for WNET-TV in New York and WETA-TV in Washington, DC, both public television stations. Prior to her assignment at 20/20, Sherr was a national correspondent for ABC News, where she was also part of the network's political team for every election cycle through 2000. She has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, a Gracie Award, and a George Foster Peabody Award. She has covered a wide range of stories, specializing in women's issues and social change, as well as investigative reports. Award-winning broadcaster and author Lynn Sherr recently left ABC News after more than 30 years, including more than 20 as a correspondent with the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. ![]() Fish Out Of Water by Ros Baxter7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() įish Out of Water was recorded in the spring and summer of 1975 in two studios: New Pipers, Chris Squire's home studio in Surrey, and Morgan Studios in London. Squire offered to give him co-writing credits, but Jackman declined. Over the course of their collaboration, Jackman also contributed significantly to the writing. When Squire started work on his, he contacted Andrew Pryce Jackman, a childhood friend and keyboardist/composer, who assisted with the album's conception and orchestration. ![]() In early 1975, between the US and UK legs of Yes's tour in support of Relayer (1974), the band agreed to take time off for each member to record a solo album. ![]() Despite it being well received by critics and fans, Squire would not record another solo album until 2007, releasing an album of Christmas music entitled Chris Squire's Swiss Choir. Squire's former bandmate in The Syn, Andrew Pryce Jackman, played all the keyboards not performed by Moraz (excepting the cathedral pipe organ performed by Barry Rose) and orchestrated the material.įish Out of Water reached No. Some of the musicians Squire hired for the project were former Yes drummer Bill Bruford, then-Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz, King Crimson saxophonist Mel Collins and Canterbury scene flautist Jimmy Hastings. The album was recorded during a period in which each band member of Yes had taken down time to produce a solo album. Fish Out of Water is the debut studio album by English bassist and songwriter Chris Squire, released in November 1975 by Atlantic Records. ![]() ![]() ![]() The 11th-brightest star dropped in magnitude two-and-a-half-fold. That eventual explosion explains why astronomers got excited when Betelgeuse started dimming dramatically in 2019. Someday, the star will explode as a supernova and give humanity a celestial show before disappearing from our night sky forever. Today, astronomers know that Betelgeuse varies in brightness because it’s a dying, red supergiant star with a diameter some 700 times larger than our Sun. Aboriginal Australians may have even worked it into their oral histories. A bright red dot called Betelgeuse marks Orion’s shoulder, and this star's strange dimming has captivated skygazers for thousands of years. ![]() If you stargaze on a clear winter night, it’s hard to miss the constellation Orion the Hunter, with his shield in one arm and the other arm stretched high to the heavens. ![]() Numbers by rachel ward7/7/2023 ![]() While his girlfriend doesn’t share his gift, she does harbor a secret. He has a huge responsibility, traveling with his unique family: his pregnant girlfriend, her younger brothers and her two year old daughter, Mia. With no way to tell what people want from him, Adam has been on the run for two years. This is a lot of pressure for a 17 year old boy particularly the boy who predicted the Chaos and saved thousands of lives with his warning. Many want to thank him, some want to be privy to his secrets and others wish him harm. Will it be drawn out and painful? Calm and peaceful? Agonizing and humiliating? Everyone in futuristic England (after the world as we know it has ended) knows this about Adam. ![]() Along with this unwanted information, Adam receives a strong feeling, a sense, of how each person will meet his demise. ![]() That number is what Adam sees whenever he looks someone in the eye. ![]() Books like snow crash7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() I started to hear from people in the tech industry who were reading it, and it gradually became clear. And so I started getting the idea that it was well-received. I was on the WELL, which is an early BBS, and there were a lot of tech people there. ![]() I started hearing about it in the mid-90s, as the Internet became a thing. When did you get a sense that the Jeff Bezoses and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world were really influenced by Snow Crash? That this was really meaningful to tech people who were building things? Neal Stephenson You know, maybe people are actually taking this seriously.” Peter Kafka Here’s an edited excerpt from our chat: “Holy shit. We discussed whether the metaverse can exist even if high-end virtual reality goggles never catch on why he’s never been able to turn his work into a movie, TV show, or game and his fear of a looming ecological disaster and the science he thinks could solve it. ![]() ![]() I talked to Stephenson about Snow Crash’s legacy - some of which got auctioned off this week at a Sotheby’s auction - and much more for the Recode Media podcast. People who’ve never written a line of code love his books - and so do bona fide nerds, like the Google Earth developers who used Snow Crash as inspiration, or Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who hired Stephenson to work on his Blue Origin rocket startup. Even if the real-world metaverse doesn’t pan out, Stephenson has had an enormous influence on how we think about tech today. ![]() Come as you are emily nagoski review7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.įor much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently-and far less seriously-than its male counterpart. ![]() ![]() This begins a twisty web of lies, overblown, badly-written angst, and the discovery that her mother isn't dead, but was trapped in the lake, where there is a mermaid jail. Turns out, her mother was a mermaid who gained legs after too much exposure to land. We are then supposed to feel sorry for her as she goes through a mortifying (or supposed to be) drug store run with her father, who buys out the feminine hygiene aisle.Īfter falling asleep in the bath, Jade sprouts a tail. Right after this, Jade gets her period, despite formerly lying about it to her best friend in the world because she felt like the only one who hadn't. Turns out that her phobia is caused by the fact that her mother drowned in a lake while Jade was present. Then, suddenly, she finds the perfect suit, and the designer tag has her mother's name on it. She doesn't want to go, but her best friend is making her try on all sorts of bathing suits. Jade is a teenage girl who we're supposed to feel sorry for (I think) as she is preparing for a pool party despite her fear of water. ![]() It's hard to make me dislike a mermaid character, but this did it. ![]() ![]() I end up getting a random book on my kindle and finishing it, even though I didn't like it. This is what happens when the book I'm currently reading is at the wrong house. ![]() Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Whoever created humanity left in a major design flaw. ![]() But what if winning means inflicting a new King on a city that does very well, thank you, with no King at all? But when Vimes unravels a living (and, in fact, complaining) Coat-of-Arms and finds an unexpected royal clue, he is faced with a new dilemma.įighting crime is one thing. Such strangeness is perfectly normal in normally perfect Ankh-Morpork, the greatest of Discworld's cities, where anything can happen and therefore, naturally, always does. And even when the investigation leads to an out-of-work golem, a vampire dragon, and a vegetarian werewolf. Even when one of the victims is murdered with a loaf of her own Battle Bread (available in convenient throwing slices, guerrilla crumpets, and defensive bagels). With the assistance of, Corporal Cheery Littlebottom, Vimes and his men (and trolls, and such) can get to the, well, bottom of anything. ![]() No matter how many heads you chop off, the roots are still there underground, waiting to spring up again.Ī murderer is stalking Discworld: A prowling perp who leaves behind jaunty corpses and strange-smelling tracks of curious white clay - a grim reaper who belongs to neither the Assassins' Guild nor the Thieves' Guild.Ĭommander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard is determined to stop this unauthorized assassin - and to prove it, he has hired a Dwarf to help him. ![]() |