![]() ![]() ![]() Nurse writes with delight at life’s richness and with a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. He introduces the scientists who made the most important advances, and, using his personal experiences in and out of the lab, he shares with us the challenges, the lucky breaks, and the thrilling eureka moments of discovery. It is a shared journey of discovery step-by-step Nurse illuminates five great ideas that underpin biology-the Cell, the Gene, Evolution by Natural Selection, Life as Chemistry, and Life as Information. In What Is Life?, he takes up the challenge of describing what it means to be alive in a way that every reader can understand. ![]() The renowned biologist Paul Nurse has spent his career revealing how living cells work. Harvard Division of Science, Cabot Science Library, and Harvard Book Store ![]()
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Alasdair gray's lanark6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Clearly Lanark had already been designated an "important" novel by the TLS (even now it would be virtually unheard of to grant a full page to a first novel) and it had been decided to give it due prominence. I still have the diligent notes I made on that first reading - they run to three and a half closely written pages. Indeed, as a tyro novelist myself, I was flattered to be asked to review it at such length. However, I can detect no trace of bitterness or chippiness in my analysis of Gray's novel. ![]() My novel had been reviewed in the TLS on January 30 that year, somewhat patronisingly ("engaging", "amusing"), by DAN Jones, in a review that was one-third the length of my review of Lanark. Looking back now, it seems even more interesting that I came to review Lanark - Gray's first novel - a month after my own first novel, A Good Man in Africa, had been published. ![]() ![]() Then my last seven years before retirement, writing snuck in like a welcome surprise. I was passionate about teaching and lived and breathed it most of my life as a fourth grade teacher. No, I did not always want to be a writer! Writing is hard. Question 2: Did you always want to be a writer? Tell us a little bit about your writing journey. What a wonderful example of being intentional and ever on the look-out for story sparks. I think you were meant to be sitting in that exact spot. I wonder if I hadn’t been in that exact seat or not heard this child’s “You know what?” would I have picked it up somewhere else? I think catching the right story idea is a miracle! ![]() The story wasn’t planned, it came to me like a gift. That day I began brainstorming, more of a cause and effect exercise with every sentence beginning with, “You know what?” But when I returned home and began the real work on that draft, it developed into a conversation between a mother and son where Oliver uses the repeated, “You know what?” to postpone his bedtime. I heard the child in front of me say to his parents, “You know what?” And my fingers immediately started typing a new document. My laptop was on the tray and I was working on a story. So there I was, in August 2014, on an airplane to meet my grandson two days after he was born. I love writing on planes…the confinement, the focus…my mind flies off into its best creative space. ![]() What inspired you to write YOU KNOW WHAT? ![]() Question 1: First of all, welcome, and congratulations on this latest book. ![]() Intuition goodman6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Page by page the story shimmers with insights into the subtlety and complexity of human psychology and relationships. ![]() A truly humanist novel from the supposedly antiseptic halls of science."-"Publishers Weekly "This brilliant novel shows a world of labs and researchers which seems unfamiliar to some of us, yet it's a world intimately relevant to our existence-our fallibility and vulnerability. ![]() ![]() extremely engaging novel that reflects the stops and starts of the scientific process, as well as its dependence on the complicated individuals who do the work. A."-"-Entertainment Weekly "This is a story of love and science both gone wrong, and Goodman handles the narrative and its wide web of details with efficiency and grace, bringing a novelist's eye to bear on a realm too often ignored."-"O Magazine "Powerful. It's a tricky operation that Goodman performs with a precision of a scientist, and the flair of an artist at the top of her game. a delicate analysis of how an ethics scandal filters through the sensibility of brilliant and brilliantly realized characters. ![]() Needful things book review6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And no one takes heed of the little sign hanging on the wall: Caveat emptor. Everyone in town seems willing to make a deal at Needful Things, but the devil is in the details. The heart’s desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities…in exchange for a little money and-at the specific request of Leland Gaunt-a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. ![]() Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things…interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. ![]() The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that’s just opened for business here. Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire-but not without exacting a terrible price in return. Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine ![]() Freshwater by akwaeke emezi6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() They have been lauded as 'one of our greatest living writers' (Shondaland) and 'a once-in-a-generation voice' (Vulture) and are represented by Jacqueline Ko at The Wylie Agency for books, as well as by Manal Hammad at Verve Talent & Literary Agency for film/TV.Ī National Book Foundation '5 Under 35' honoree, Emezi was born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria. Emezi's art practice is deeply rooted in the metaphysics of Black spirit, using the lens of indigenous ontologies to focus on embodiment, ritual, and rememory. Featured on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah as well as on the cover of TIME Magazine as a Next Generation Leader, Emezi has given talks at Princeton University, Meta, MoMA, the Schomburg Center, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, etc and is represented as a public speaker by the Tuesday Agency. Akwaeke Emezi (b. 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist and writer based in liminal spaces. ![]() The design of everything don norman6/6/2023 ![]() Human perception and cognition play a role Norman discusses the role of human perception and cognition in design.This means designing with the user in mind, rather than simply focusing on aesthetics or functionality. User-centered design is essential Norman stresses the importance of considering the user's needs and perspectives when designing products.Here are 20 important learnings from this book: He discusses the role of human perception and cognition in design and highlights the importance of considering the design of everyday objects, such as doors, light switches, and telephones. ![]() Norman argues that good design is not just about aesthetics or functionality but it should be focused on the user and their experiences. The book explores the concept of design and how it affects our daily lives. "The Design of Everyday Things" is a classic book written by Don Norman and published in 1988. ![]() Fulghum all i really need to know6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are currently more than 16 million copies of his books in print, published in 27 languages in 103 countries. Throughout this collection, subtitled "Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things," Fulghum expounds his down-home philosophy of seeing the world through the eyes of a child. He came to prominence in the US when his first collection, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on the New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years. ![]() Previous to his professional careers, he also worked as a ditch-digger, newspaper carrier, ranch hand, salesman for IBM, and singing cowboy. He was a founding member of the authors' collective rock-and-roll band, "Rock Bottom Remainders". He sings, and plays the guitar and mando-cello. Fulghum is an accomplished painter and sculptor. He has worked as a Unitarian Universalist minister (at the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960–64, and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington amongst other communities well into the 1980s).ĭuring this same period he taught drawing, painting, and philosophy at the Lakeside School in Seattle. Robert Lee Fulghum (born June 4, 1937) is an American author, primarily of short essays. ![]() Blood sweat and pixels chapters6/5/2023 ![]() In the case of Naughty Dog's highly anticipated Uncharted finale, it required firm hands at the tiller and thousands of hours of crunch to achieve. ![]() The Uncharted 4 chapter deals with the issue of expectations and what happens when a project becomes unwieldy, struggling to find a way forward. This story was inspirational as it showed how to adapt, play to your strengths and use your moxie to forge your own path. It kicks off with Obsidian's last ditch effort to save itself when it pitched Pillars of Eternity pitch on crowd funding site Kickstarter. Using my backlog of Audible credits I bought the audio books and dived in.Įach chapter of the book focussed on the story of a particular game and they were all engaging, entertaining, emotional and enlightening in equal measure as we hear of teams and solo developers overcoming (for the most part) some extreme adversity. He was the writer who uncovered the unhealthy attitude to crunch at Naughty Dog, the mismanagement at Bioware with Anthem and the inappropriate behaviour of management of several high ups in big gaming companies. ![]() He is a video game fan but was also not afraid to research where there were problems or issues in the industry. ![]() ![]() I knew the author, Jason Schreier, from his long form investigative games journalist work from sites like Kotaku and magazine like Edge. ![]() Blackout book candace owens6/5/2023 ![]() From dependency, from victimhood, from miseducation-and the Democrat Party, which perpetuates all three. Instead, Owens offers up a different ideology by issuing a challenge: It's time for a major black exodus. She contends that the Democrat Party has a long history of racism and exposes the ideals that hinder the black community's ability to rise above poverty, live independent and successful lives, and be an active part of the American Dream. In Blackout, Owens argues that this automatic allegiance is both illogical and unearned. ![]() Seeing no viable alternative, they have watched liberal politicians take the black vote for granted without pledging anything in return. Black Americans have long been shackled to the Democrats. ![]() Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It's time for a black exit. ![]() |