6/9/2023 0 Comments Transparency by Ethan Stone![]() ![]() ![]() Paul Mussenden: Thank you Malka, and thanks to the Office of Policy Analysis for putting this together. Last but not least, Veronika Kohler, the Director of International Policy at the National Mining Association. Danielle Brian is the Executive Director for the Project on Government Oversight. Marty Flex the Deputy Director, Bureau of Energy Resources for the State Department, and Marty may just be making a cameo appearance, and then turning things over to Claire Murphy, also Transparency Advisor at State Department. Our distinguished panel today includes Paul Mussenden, Interiors Deputy Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources Revenue Management. We're looking into a special field of transparency in minerals, both energy and non energy minerals. We're focusing in on an important initiative of the administration, government transparency. Policy analysis always had a speaker we featured, this time we have a whole panel for you. We're going to do something a little different this year. ![]() I'd like to welcome you all to the first of this year's seminars. The Benefits of Transparency in Mineral Extraction Malka Pattison: Good afternoon, I'm Malka Pattison. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They misbehave only up to the point that it serves the comic anecdote.īut these are not, somehow, cheerful books. The children are precocious: one oft-cited passage describes Jackson’s son Laurie’s elaborate tales of “Charlie”, a classmate who does not exist. The setting is bucolic: a ramshackle house in the woods of Vermont, which we are told over and over again has four tall white pillars, though these are presented as absurdities rather than crowning decorations. ![]() They have all the markers of the sort of peacock-parenting that is now the scourge of your social media feeds. Originally published in the 1950s, at the height of conformist fetishization of the home and particularly of the woman who keeps it, Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons are packaged as light fare. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nosy Noodles: The Curious Cow by Susan PurkapileĮmma, the Big Red Cow by Penny S. Maggie, the Color-Blind Cow by Joy Dawson ![]() Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea (Golden Kite Honors (Awards)) by Lisa Wheelerįarmer McPeepers and His Missing Milk Cows by Katy S. Something to Tell the Grandcows by Eileen Spinelli Today seems like the perfect opportunity to create a comprehensive list of Square Cow Movers‘ favorite picture books for children featuring cows! Without further ado, here is THE LIST!Ĭlick Clack Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin 1866-1953 Jensen, No Moon No MilkChris Babcock, Back to Basics: Science for 9-10 Year Olds Bk.1Godfrey. Fortunately there are many contemporary works that feature cows as the main subject. No Moon, No Milk Chris Babcock, Mark Teague (Illustrator) 4.05 130 ratings24 reviews Rob comes out one morning to find that his cow Martha is udderly bored with her life. The North-European and Greenland LycodinAd S. In the past cows have been a historically underrepresented group in literature. Reread a passage in one of your favorite novels, or spend some time with your kids by reading a picture book out loud to them (don’t forget to make the voices for all the different characters). Today is National Book Lover’s Day! Today is a great day to remember to take some time out to sit down and lose yourself in the pages of a book. In this hilarious tale, Rob comes out one morning to find that his cow Martha is udderly bored with her life. ![]() Friday August 9 National Book Lover’s Day: Our Favorite Books Featuring Cows ![]() ![]() ![]() As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. ![]() “CAPTIVATING…DELIGHTFUL.” - Christian Science Monitor * “EXQUISITELY WRITTEN, CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING.” - The New York Times * “MESMERIZING…RIVETING.” - Booklist (starred review)Ī dazzling love letter to a beloved institution-and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries-from the bestselling author hailed as a “national treasure” by The Washington Post. “A constant pleasure to read…Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book.” - The Washington Post A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKĪ WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR * A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 ![]() 6/8/2023 0 Comments Detective manon bradshaw![]() ![]() (I am the co-publisher of these books.)Īmong those three standalones is a straight-up chunk of genre fiction-a darkly comic suburban noir called The Circumstantial Man. It follows nine novels in Reilly’s Asphalt Warrior series, a trilogy based on Gary’s experiences in the Vietnam War, and three other standalones. Paradise Lurks marks Reilly’s 16th posthumously published novel. When he died, we had been close writing pals for about seven years, but Paradise Lurks was one of the few books that he and I did not discuss. I don’t know what Gary’s objectives were when he wrote Paradise Lurks because Gary died in 2011, leaving behind 25 unpublished novels. The story is also full of Charley Quinn’s keen observations on the world around him, including his somewhat blunt opinions on the transactional nature of male-female relationships. ![]() The story in a nutshell: Earnest writing teacher Charley Quinn has his world upended by a new female student who brings him sex, intrigue, and puzzles about her past. But it’s got crime fiction bones and ample literary touches. ![]() I don’t know what Gary Reilly was thinking when he wrote The Paradise That Lurks in Female Smiles. “Genre” fiction can be every bit as inventive and arty and revelatory as something dubbed literature. But fans of genre fiction know there is as much powerful commentary on the human condition in a good mystery as there is in any novel up for the Booker or Pulitzer. ![]() ![]() Brickman will stop at nothing to track them down for dark reasons of her own. Soon, they are wanted by the law, and they know that Mrs. ![]() Frost, it's the catalyst for a series of events that will send Odie, Albert, and Mose to rescue Emmy and flee down the river in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi, leaving a dead body in their wake. And they find another ally in Cora Frost, a widowed teacher who is raising her little girl, Emmy, by herself. The two boys' best friend is Mose, a mute Native American who is also the strongest kid in school. ![]() Brickman, are often in trouble for misdeeds both real and imagined. The only two white boys in the school are orphan brothers Odie and Albert, who, under the watchful eyes of the cruel superintendent Mrs. This beautiful, tender land."ġ932: Located on the banks of the Gilead River in Minnesota, Lincoln School is home to hundreds of Native American boys and girls who have been separated from their families. Sure this is hard work, but it's good work because it's a part of what connects us to this land. ![]() In the dirt, the rain, the sky, the trees, the apples, the stars in the cottonwoods. The acclaimed author of Ordinary Grace crafts a powerful novel about an orphan's life-changing adventure traveling down America's great rivers during the Great Depression, seeking both a place to call home and a sense of purpose in a world sinking into despair. ![]() 6/7/2023 0 Comments Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson![]() ![]() The lyrical spill of words, the sharply honed dialect, and the 'I know them' characters that existed on the pages breathed an immersive experience into this anthology and I find myself still within these pages walking with June-Plum as she anxiously pleads with Riva Muma, listening to Sookoo tell of La Diablesse, and standing with the villagers of Whitesands Bay wondering what became of that most extraordinary fish. Each author picking up the call, answering the summons, and spinning webs of time and place that are rooted within our people, our folklore, and the islands. The anthology was divided into sections that called upon memory, tradition, sayings, proverbs, lore, visions, and the crafted stories effortlessly brought the vision for the anthology to life.Ĭaptured within every story is history and culture and meaning. I wanted to devour every story immediately but knew I needed to spend time with each of them, to absorb the inherent specialness.īecause each of them in their own way spoke deeply to me as a Jamaican, to the talent of Caribbean people, and also to the absolute uniqueness of our existence within our regional space. In Skin Folk, with works ranging from science fiction to Caribbean folklore, passionate love to chilling horror, Nalo Hopkinson is at her award-winning best, spinning tales like 'Precious,' in which the narrator spews valuable coins and gems from. How do I begin to explain my experience with this anthology? Nalo really stuck her whole entire foot into this endeavour because the stories and excerpts included were just spectacular. The SFWA Grand Master's award-winning collection 'combines a richly textured multicultural background with incisive storytelling' (Library Journal). ![]() ![]() ![]() Kuang’s Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution won the first-ever Barnes & Noble Speculative Fiction Book Award. ![]() The bookstore chain also announced that R.F. “This blockbuster debut is not only charming, funny, and whip-smart but proves that life, like science, is unpredictable.” ![]() “Our booksellers are most proud to make Lessons in Chemistry the 2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year,” Barnes & Noble said. In a starred review, a critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “A more adorable plea for rationalism and gender equality would be hard to find.” Garmus’ debut novel, published in April by Doubleday, follows a scientist and single mother in the 1960s who becomes the host of a popular cooking show. Barnes & Noble announced that Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry is its Book of the Year. ![]() ![]() The result is a collection of stories that speaks to the strength of Aboriginal identity in Australia today, as well as the diversity of voices in the long marginalised Aboriginal literary community.įor this episode of Speaking With, Professor Jacinta Elston, pro vice-chancellor (Indigenous) at Monash University, spoke with Heiss about the process of making the selections for the anthology, the main themes explored in the essays and how she envisions the book being used as a reference tool in classrooms across the country. Anita Heiss Childhood stories of family, country and belonging What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia This anthology, compiled by award-winning. ![]() Rearsby, Leicestershire : Wavesound Audiobooks, 2020. There’s even an essay by an opera singer, Don Bemrose, about his experience as what she calls a “double minority” – he’s both Aboriginal and gay. Growing up Aboriginal in Australia sound recording / edited by Anita Heiss. The anthology includes 52 essays from First Nations writers spanning the breadth of society, from rural to urban, young to old, coastal regions to the country’s interior, well known authors to emerging writers. ![]() ![]() Booksįor her latest book, Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia, Heiss traded the role of writer for editor. ![]() 6/6/2023 0 Comments Madame butterfly short story![]() Well, here it is! Since they will not have the insidious poem, they shall tell it themselves-and have both the blame and the praise. ![]() Now be sensible, they say, or words to that flattering effect, "and tell the plain people plainly how the story was born how it went out into world and touched the great universal heart, as ready to be touched as some rare instrument and as difficult how it became a play-grand opera (the very first American story any European composer has set to music, according to those who are wise in such matters-though I don't believe it) what the people have said about it,-et cetera." But they have detected and scorned it, and it is now returned with the reproach that eight pages are thus left by my default to be filled or something will happen to the book and to the public-and to me. It was, and still is, a poem of the most obscure and exalted nature, concealed in prose dithyrambics. I had hoped to have the happiness of never writing a preface (for which the prelude is the publisher's cunning disguise), but one disobeys one's publishers at a certain distinct peril.īeing thus constrained, I had sent them a prelude, indeed. SINCE Cho-Cho-San is to have a reincarnation on the way to the literary Nirvana, my publishers, who, in this rebirth, represent the Great First Cause, beg me for a prelude. THE GOOD CONSUL'S COMPASSIONATE LYINGīIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH MADAME BUTTERFLY INTRODUCTION ![]() A SONG OF SORROW - AND DEATH - AND HEAVEN ![]() |