![]() Katrina DeBonis, MD, will join Wil Wheaton in conversation. Equal parts funny and poignant, Still Just a Geekweighs the folly of youth against the pain of experience – and celebrates all the strange, awful, and beautiful adventures in between. In Still Just a Geek, a sequel to his series of blog posts that became the book Just a Geek published in 2004, an older, somewhat wiser Wil not only reexamines his unique life in Hollywood, but also gives an incredibly raw and honest account in which he opens up about love, his mental health challenges of depression, anxiety, trauma, confronting tragedy and the worst parts of himself. From Wil Wheaton, celebrated actor from Stand by Me, Star Trek, The Big Bang Theory, and social media supernova, comes his latest book, STILL JUST A GEEK – AN ANNOTATED MEMOIR, that tackles mental health face on. Wil Wheaton has charted a career course unlike anyone else, and has emerged as one of the most popular and well-respected names in science fiction, fantasy, and pop culture. ![]() ![]() 5:00PM – 6:00PM PT Registration is required for this free live private Zoom event. ![]()
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![]() With Patrizia Zanotti, Pratt's longtime assistant, we are putting together a Pratt presentation at the Society of Illustrators in cooperation with the French Embassy. In the U.S., Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltese are primarily known by professional comics writers and artists, who have eagerly "enlisted" in spreading the word to their fans. I personally consider this one of the most important projects I've ever edited. How will IDW promote such an important series?ĭean Mullaney: Introducing Hugo Pratt to an American audience presents its challenges but we are wholly dedicated to making it a success. PW Comics World: Hugo Pratt and Corto Maltese have been huge in Europe for many years, but are unknown here. ![]() Corto Maltese takes his readers along as he travels from Manchuria during the Russian-Japanese war of 1904 to the Samoa Islands in the South Pacific around 1913 and to places far beyond as he searches for the treasure of Alexander the Great, suffers mutinies, encounters historical figures such as Rasputin and the novelists Jack London and James Joyce-and also manages to find the time to romance beautiful women of every conceivable background. ![]() ![]() ![]() Beginning each chapter with a menu, Chang uses the stories behind key ingredients - where they come from, how they are cooked and consumed, what they mean to different cultures - to explore economic theory. In Edible Economics, Chang makes challenging economic ideas more palatable by plating them alongside anecdotes about food from around the world. Just as eating a wide range of cuisines contributes to a balanced diet, so too is it essential we listen to a variety of economic perspectives. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang first arrived in the UK from South Korea. Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formįor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or does he? An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian-while taking us to places it never dreamed of going. and cousin Cameron asked that I review Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. So, uh Weir is actually he he is a very accessible uh science fiction writer. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery-and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission-and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.Ī CNN Book of the Week: “Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, to be honest, I do have to say I am surprised at how much I in fact ended up liking and appreciating my reading time with Pamela Cox’ third continuation of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers series, as yes indeed, I really did not AT ALL enjoy the first few chapters of Winter Term at Malory Towers, finding the focus on rather problematic new girls Sylvia Chalmers and Olive Witherspoon rather dragging and annoying (with way too much presented negativity) and the new and obviously totally and utterly horrid English and drama teacher Miss Tallant much too typecast and tyrannically villainous.īut indeed, as Pamela Cox’ narrative progresses, the more her textual contents and thematics have certainly rather grown on me, the more I have found Winter Term at Malory Towers increasingly readable and much more to my liking. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, at some point I grew out of it, although sitting here now I cannot remember when that was, and it was only last year when I treated myself to a PS3 that I rediscovered my love of gaming. When I was a teenager I was the proud owner of a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and I used to spend hours playing on it, though nowhere near the amount of time that a lot of my game-loving students seem to devote to their X-Boxes or PS3s. ![]() In this first of a trilogy, Kincaid asks significant questions concerning the use of technology and the value of human life. ![]() But what happens when you start to question the rules?įast-paced and futuristic, INSIGNIA introduces snarky Tom, brutal Elliot and alluring Heather. Equipped with a new computer chip in his brain, it looks like Tom might actually become somebody. Tom Raines is suddenly recruited into the US Army to train as a virtual reality Combatant to see if he is good enough to help fight World War Three. And what if the Government’s secret weapon was you? ![]() What if playing computer games could save the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() That means that Chloe doesn’t have twelve months to live. Then she falls for Chloe… whose number is 16. With only one other person in the world who knows about and shares her gift, Harper is determined to keep her distance from everyone. Nothing she does changes this number, and that becomes especially clear when her mother dies in a car crash. ![]() She has a rare and special gift: she can see how old other people will be when they pass away. This book is touching and engrossing." "Original, beautifully written, a new favorite." Harper has a secret.and it’s not that she likes girls. You will not be disappointed." "Every time I think I can't appreciate Siera Maley more, she releases another book more impressive than the last. I cried along with Harper and I felt the pain so expertly and effortlessly conveyed in this book.Expertly woven storytelling. ![]() Descripción - Críticas "This book, this author, is wonderful. ![]() ![]() Now, wandering the dark, hot bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumbles across the Styx's dastardly plan to exterminate all Topsoilers by unleashing a lethal. Now, wandering the dark, dry bowels beneath the Colony with his best friend, Chester, and his brother, Cal, Will stumvles across the Styx's diabolical plan to decimate London's Topsoilers. Dig DEEPERIn TUNNELS, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father-and discovered a sinister subterranean world. In Tunnels, boy archaeologist Will Burrows went in search of his missing father-and discovered a sinister subterranean world. Will's fake sister Rebecca also has a part to play in the story. Meanwhile, Will's dad makes amazing discoveries in the Deeps, and the boy's biological mother, convinced by the Styx that Will murdered her brother, is helping the Styx hunt him down. Hunted by the Styx, they fall in with the renegade Drake and his protegé, Elliot. The book Deeper chronicles Will, Chester, and Cal trying to survive in the Deeps, find Will's father, and escape. ![]() It has one book preceding it, entitled Tunnels, and three books succeeding it, entitled Freefall, Closer, and Spiral. It was published by Chicken House on May 5, 2008. Deeper is the second book in the Tunnels series, which is written by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prolific historical novelist Holland (The Bear Flag) uses Nancy's own letters as well as archival material to recreate the life of a pioneer woman who was a legend in her own time (she died in 1896). Skirmishes evolve into a rebellion and the settlers rally under the original Bear Flag made from Nancy's petticoats, wresting power individually from each Mexican settlement and conquering California in July 1847 with the capture of Monterey. proprietary interests in the area.The Mexican-Californian landholding nobles are increasingly threatened by the influx of American settlers, especially when the Gold Rush commences. The party's eventual arrival in California heralds the end of the era of Mexican occupation and the beginning of U.S. ![]() ![]() Disastrous weather, hostile Indians, rough terrain and the constant threat of starvation test Nancy's resourcefulness and steadfast will. Part of the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson party, Nancy and her husband, Ben, decide against the meandering Santa Fe Trail in order to take a more direct-and uncharted-course directly across the continent: traversing the Great Plains, the Rockies, the desert and the Sierra Nevadas. Traveling by horse and on foot, 17-year-old Nancy leaves Missouri with a baby on her hip in search of California's holy grail. Frontier adventure and the romance of roughing it are kept in check by the strong historical basis of Holland's fictionalized biography of Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman to reach California. ![]() |