![]() ![]() ![]() The potential value of genetic insights into the past became clear in 1987 when Allan Wilson and his colleagues at Berkeley sampled mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) – a mere 0.0005 per cent of the genome, inherited solely along the maternal line – from living populations and analysed it to show that Homo sapiens, rather than having a multi-regional origin, evolved in Africa 200,000 years ago or later, then dispersed throughout the world, displacing existing populations. The extraction and analysis of ancient DNA from human skeletal remains, the field in which David Reich is a leading researcher, is a technical advance that eclipses the advent of radiocarbon dating in the 1950s, and is already transforming our knowledge, not only of human biological evolution, but also of human history and culture. ![]() A scientific revolution is underway in the way we investigate and understand the past. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Later he became design director for the Olivetti Corporation of America, and then art director for Fortune magazine. When he moved to America in 1939, Lionni was hired by a Philadelphia advertising agency as art director. It was there that he met the contacts who were to give him a start as a professional graphic designer. ![]() Having settled in Milan soon after his marriage in 1931, he started off by writing about European architecture for a local magazine. ![]() Lionni's business training gradually receded into the background as his interest in art and design grew. He was born in Holland in 1910 of Dutch parents, and although his education did not include formal art courses (in fact, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of Genoa), he spent much of his free time as a child in Amsterdam's museums, teaching himself to draw. Leo Lionni has gained international renown for his paintings, graphic designs, illustrations, and sculpture, as well as for his books for children. Leo Lionni died in October of 1999 at his home in Tuscany, Italy, at the age of 89. He received the 1984 American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal and was a four-time Caldecott Honor Winner-for Inch by Inch, Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse. Leo Lionni wrote and illustrated more than 40 highly acclaimed children's books. ![]() ![]() The Problem: Eventually, both women find themselves married to a man for convenience, and the ever-growing conflict in their country affords them few options for escape. But her mother can only grieve over the absence of her sons and their participation in the continuing conflict. The idea of Laila becoming an educated and accomplished woman excites her father, a former teacher. Laila is a fortunate woman in that, under the communist regime that has taken control of the country, women are encouraged to go to school and educate themselves in order to obtain important jobs. She is not the only child, but her brothers have gone off to help fight the war. Many years later, Laila lives with her mother and father in the city. Now, Mariam's father only visits once a week, but has nothing to do with either of them otherwise. Why is mom so bitter? She had a brief affair with Mariam's father, in whose house she was a maid, and because of her pregnancy, she was cast out to the outskirts of town. Until the age of 15, Mariam lives with her bitter and extremely caustic mother. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Situation: A Thousand Splendid Suns is told from the point of view of two women living in Afghanistan, Mariam and Laila. If it is anything like his first two, it will definitely be worth checking out. Ultimately, I hope to read Hosseini's newest book, And the Mountains Echoed, which is scheduled to come out in May. ![]() Naturally, I would follow-up Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner with his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. ![]() ![]() ![]() But he was also youthful and spirited, and it was easy to believe that everything was fine, that he was fine and that if she were to take care of him some day, it would be occasional and in a distant future. In hindsight, there were warning signs that her father’s health could upend Schofield’s life. Until his leg recovered from the surgery, he would not be able to walk without assistance. The collision splintered the bone in his left thigh down to his knee three days later, a metal rod held the broken pieces together. Then, that month, she received the news that medics were pulling her father out of his car. This would be the year she bet on herself. She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about. In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge. Produced by Jack D’Isidoro and Aaron EspositoĮngineered by Sophia Lanman and David Mason Listen and follow The Daily Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher ![]() ![]() ![]() All this mayhem is like blood in the water, and Nadya isn’t the only one swimming in it: Serefin, the High prince of Tranavia and a powerful blood mage, has scant interest in anything unless it involves alcohol but now finds himself forced to constantly look about him in trepidation for those who might be in a position to oppose his succession, including his father, the king. But a sudden Tranavian attack on the monastery sends Nadya’s destiny spilling out into the air. Nadya, a Kalyazi cleric who can commune with an entire pantheon of gods, is training in secrecy in the holy mountains by priests who sought to wield the power that sheltered inside her into the one thing that could save Kalyazin from sinking to its knees. Your most anticipated book of the year doesn’t live up to your expectations and you have to cancel your plans for the day to be angry about it.įor a century, Kalyazin and Tranavia bled great gouts of men into a holy war that served no greater cause than one country’s fear, and one empire’s hubris. But seriously-being this sensitive is really inconvenient. ![]() ![]() Ah yes, the place I truly dwell, a damp and cold eternity of endless disappointment.įine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book delves deeply into relationships between the sexes and between social classes – not solely the relationship between the couple, but those between other family members and wider society. The book can be read as a stand-alone but I recommend that you pick up the first book to get the most of this most emotional and page turning read. I just loved this latest release from Lorna Peel! A Suitable Wife, set in 1881, continues the story of the Dublin doctor Will and his wife Isobel who we first meet in A Scarlet Woman. A stirring and heartfelt read with colourful characters ![]() ![]() ![]() The purpose of the poems is to demystify American life in the countryside and in small towns. Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short poems in free verse that collectively tell the epitaphs of the inhabitants of Spoon River, a fictional town that takes its name from the river of the same name, which passed near the hometown of Masters, Lewistown, Illinois. Ah … good times, when you still knew the emotions of other teenagers (and flirted with them) through poetic verses found in a book and not with hashtags or “pics”! Spoon River Anthology: work overview We bought the volume in a bookshop, as it was done two or three decades ago (you can comfortably buy it on Amazon) and we were inspired to compose epitaphs in abundance. If we think of a work for today October 31st, Halloween, the day in which the dead are traditionally “brought out”, which one could be more suitable than Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River Anthology?Īmong other things, this collection of poems brings to the Zoa Studio team’s mind an episode from high school, in which Spoon River Anthology was used as the basis for a creative writing exercise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SO on that note, realize that my thoughts aren’t necessarily on the full story – just what i’ve come across so far. There’s something i should say though – i didn’t quite remember that this was book 2 of a series until i was part way into it and realized that maybe there’s a decent back story that i’m missing. I’m usually drawn to specific types of cover art, and this isn’t it, but i’m glad that i read it. Accompanied by a Tebori master and a new detective with her own secrets, Ina must find a way to free Sam without exposing his role in the investigation, or getting herself killed in the process.įirst i need to thank the folks at Red Moon Book Tours for getting me a copy of this one – i think that there’s something very interesting going on in this series and i can’t say that i would have discovered it on my own. After Sam is kidnapped by the Yakuza crime syndicate, Ina must hide her own defect to go undercover as a human trafficking victim. But when a murdered Impure is discovered in the projects with only a business card in his pocket, the clues lead them into the shadowy underworld of black market trade and human trafficking. In an uncertain future where the Impures–genetic defectives–are banished to a ghetto territory, Detective Ina Stone and her rookie partner, Sam Fujimoto, constantly fight for survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zed desperately wishes to join the ranks of the Mages Guild, where his status as Freestone’s only half elf might finally be an asset. In one of the last cities standing after the world fell to monsters, best friends Zed Kagari and Brock Dunderfel have high hopes for the future. Here’s a little about the book: About The Adventurers Guildįew ever asked to join the Adventurers Guild. All thoughts are my own.ĭo you have a middle-grade reader who LOVES fantasy and adventure? Then I’ve got the perfect new book for you! I’m excited to introduce a book by two first-time authors, Zack Loran Clark and Nick Eliopulos (more on these two best friends below), that was just released yesterday! The Adventurers Guild is an exciting novel for kids ages 9-12 (and beyond!) and the first in a series that I guarantee kids and adults alike will be eager to read more from. ![]() Disney-Hyperion sent me a copy to check out, and is partnering with me for the giveaway below. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second part, Skáldskaparmál, presented as a dialogue between Ægir, the God of the Sea and Bragi, the God of Poetry, is a fascinating textbook on skaldic poetry, including the uses of alliteration and kennings. The first part of the Prose Edda is the Gylfaginning (The Tricking of Gylfi), dealing with the creation of the world and the major elements of Norse mythology. The two Eddas have had a profound effect on European literature in both style and content, not least on J.R.R. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a half-century earlier, the Prose Edda is a major source of much older Norse mythology as it had evolved through the generations. (Translated by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur.)Īlso known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. LibriVox recording of The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) by Snorri Sturleson. ![]() |