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If you and your young reader would like to do a book club, I’ve provided some questions (and resources for additional book club ideas). Red gets involved and you’ll absolutely fall in love with the characters – from the crow, to the babies who live in Red’s hollows, to Samar and her neighbors. People in the neighborhood have come to the wishtree on May Day for decades, writing their wishes on slips of paper or fabric and tying them to the tree.Ī new family has moved in and they are not being welcomed the way other families have in the past. The book is narrated by Red (the wishtree) and tells the story of the tree’s neighborhood and friends. ![]() ![]() Wishtree by Katherine Applegate is a truly lovely book and I hope you know some kids who are reading it! ![]() ![]() Rachel Jones had automatically adjusted her habits to the weather, taking it easy, either doing her chores early in the morning or putting them off until late afternoon. IT WAS A hot night, even for mid-July in central Florida. He rolled onto his back and rested for a few minutes before he began the slow, agonizing process of swimming to shore. ![]() It might take a while, but unless a shark got him, he was damned well going to make it to shore. He wasn’t going to give up he could float, and he could manage to swim for short periods of time. Grimly Sabin pushed both sensations away, staring fixedly at the stars in an effort to orient himself. It was a clumsy bandage at best, but his head was swimming, and deadly lethargy was creeping into his limbs. Then he folded the remnant of his cutoffs into a pad and slipped it under the loop, positioning it over the wound. The best he could manage was to sling the strip over his back, bring it around under his armpit and tie it in a tight loop over his shoulder. ![]() He began chewing again, tore off two more strips, then tied them to the other two. Even tied together, the two strips weren’t enough. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to his groundbreaking four-year New X-Men run, Morrison's Marvel credits include Fantastic Four: 1234 and Marvel Boy. Morrison then shifted focus to Marvel Comics, where he had already made a brief pit-stop co-writing 1995's bizarre Skrull Kill Krew with Mark Millar. Subsequent DC projects included Kid Eternity, Sebastian O, Flex Mentallo, Kill Your Boyfriend, Aztek, Invisibles, DC One Million, Flash and a hugely popular revamping of DC's JLA. ![]() In 1989, he wrote the best-selling Batman graphic novel Arkham Asylum and began a memorably surreal run as writer of the freakish heroes of DC's Doom Patrol. After co-creating the popular strip Zenith with artist Steve Yeowell in 2000 AD, Morrison made his mark in America with DC Comics, where he revived an obscure hero to critical acclaim in his Animal Man series. One of the most original and widely respected writers in comics, Glasgow-born Grant Morrison got his start with British indie comics during the late 1970s and early 1980s before working on Marvel UK features such as Zoids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spent 500$ for a workshop with a guy called ‘Mystery’. Spends too much time thinking about the woman, wants to master this to grow into different areas It’s a thick 550 pages and harnessing these techniques will give you a lot of power. This book is a weapon, both physically and emotionally. All skills are learnable and confidence is the key. Don’t view this as a bible, but as an interesting insight into another world. ![]() Most girls will say it doesn’t work on them. It’s hard to believe in some parts, but it’s real. He learned the techniques, grew in confidence, and got to the point where he could seduce just about any girl that he wanted decided to write The Game. Until he stumbled across the underground sub-culture of Pickup Artists. He thought that some guys had it, and some guys just didn’t. He rated himself physically as a 5/10 at best. Neil Strauss had only ever had one girlfriend and slept with six girls. “The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists” – by Neil Strauss ![]() ![]() ![]() First there is the author's dawning realization that the platform is being manipulated by some very bad actors. ![]() It's a story that begins with a series of rude awakenings. ZUCKED is McNamee's intimate reckoning with the catastrophic failure of the head of one of the world's most powerful companies to face up to the damage he is doing. Still a large shareholder in Facebook, he had every good reason to stay on the bright side. He had mentored many tech leaders in his illustrious career as an investor, but few things had made him prouder, or been better for his fund's bottom line, than his early service to Mark Zuckerberg. ![]() Summary: "If you had told Roger McNamee even three years ago that he would soon be devoting himself to stopping Facebook from destroying our democracy, he would have howled with laughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing about British Politics, of course, is that it is so ripe for points of divergence and the road not taken, which is something that people like Ed Thomas have been so successful at using (a letter implementing the Prince of Wales in a divorce case leading, fifty years later, to a Syndicalist Revolution after a failed Anglo-Russian invasion of the German Empire is an utter classic of this). I was, of course, the sort of nerdy teenager who devoured Yes Minister, The Thick of It, and watched various clips of the old Spitting Image on YouTube, which came alongside my first foray into counterfactual history as well. Of course, experience breeds knowledge, so I think that's inevitable that I'd be drawn (even somewhat against my will) to writing about the corridors of power. I have worked in and around Westminster since I was a student, either as a parliamentary researcher, at a think tank, and now as a civil servant. I think, however, that British politics has ended up being a draw for me because of proximity. I would rather like to set my mind to doing a properly researched timeline about a surviving Anglo-Japanese Alliance post-World War I, or a different route for the Industrial Revolution under the Tsars (perhaps the Decembrists are a little more successful?). ![]() ![]() My academic background (such as it is) is as an economic historian - with my primary areas of interest are Russia and the Far East. This is something that I've always been a bit annoyed with myself about. ![]() ![]() ![]() Raw materials are sourced from one country, products are manufactured in another country, and the final goods are transported to customers all over the world. Silk was produced in China, and then traded across India, Persia, Arabia and Rome where it was considered a luxury good, dating as far back as the 1 st century BC.įast forward to 2016, where we live in a highly connected and globalized world where the Panama Canal can now cater for vessels that can carry up to 13,000 TEU (previous maximum size was 5,000 TEU). Trade between countries and continents has been occurring for thousands of years, using the silk road as an example. ![]() Supply chains naturally take advantage of efficiency and cost advantages and over the centuries, as transportation methods, technology and global knowledge improved, there has been a drive to take advantage of each and every step. Globalization and supply chains have been tied at the hip over the course of history. ![]() |