![]() The solutions, techniques, and practices range from solar power, electric vehicles, and tree planting to bioregions, azolla fern and forest farms they are all doable, science-based, and comprise a precise and unequivocal course of action. In Regeneration Paul Hawken has flipped the narrative, bringing people back into the conversation by demonstrating that addressing current human needs rather than future threats is the only path to solving the climate crisis.įrom land to ocean, food to industries - Regeneration proposes an extensive menu of actions that collectively can reverse the overheating and degradation of our planet. For three decades, scientists and the United Nations have urged us to address future existential threats. The dangers of climate change and a warming world have been in the public eye for fifty years. A radically new understanding of and practical approach to climate change by noted environmentalist and creator of Drawdown, Paul Hawken ![]()
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![]() People who dwell on their deficits may envy and resent others who have more than they do. If starved for love and companionship, you'll have trouble building self-esteem. If starved for food, you're unlikely to feel secure. Hierarchy of needs: Humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow held that people who haven't met their most basic needs will have difficulty maturing. Even if the psyche fully develops its ego (source of self-control) and superego (conscience), Freudians say the id still dwells underneath, and it wishes for many selfish things - so it would love to be supervillainous. ![]() Wish fulfillment: Sigmund Freud viewed human nature as inherently antisocial, biologically driven by the undisciplined id's pleasure principle to get what we want when we want it - born to be bad but held back by society. ![]() ![]() ![]() Previous AMAs | Previous Roundtables Featuresįeature posts are posted weekly. 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Be Nice: No Racism, Bigotry, or Offensive Behavior. ![]() Downvote and Report comments that are unhelpful or grossly off-topic. ![]() Upvote informative, well sourced answers.New to /r/AskHistorians? Please read our subreddit rules and FAQ before posting! Apply for Flair ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, in his first alternative history epic, Sansom doesn't just recreate the past - he reinvents it. Sansom's literary thriller Winter in Madrid earned Sansom comparisons to Graham Greene, Sebastian Faulks, and Ernest Hemingway. Hard on his heels is Gestapo agent Gunther Hoth, a brilliant, implacable hunter of men, who soon has Frank and David's innocent wife, Sarah, directly in his sights.Ĭ.J. The keeper of that secret? Scientist Frank Muncaster, who languishes in a Birmingham mental hospital.Ĭivil Servant David Fitzgerald, a spy for the Resistance and University friend of Frank's, is given the mission to rescue Frank and get him out of the country. As defiance grows, whispers circulate of a secret that could forever alter the balance of the global struggle. The British people find themselves under increasingly authoritarian rule - the press, radio, and television tightly controlled, the British Jews facing ever greater constraints.īut Churchill's Resistance soldiers on. The global economy strains against the weight of the long German war against Russia still raging in the east. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.ġ952. ![]() ![]() ![]() Needless to say, with THAT summary, I had pretty high expectations. Shocked to find that Torchwood India is still going strong after he shut it down himself over 80 years ago, he is even more surprised to find that its members, including his old flame the Duchess, haven't aged a day. ![]() Jack discovers that the field centres on an old colonial mansion, Torchwood India. As the field grows, they witness the simultaneous disappearance of hundreds of people. The Torchwood team are led to Delhi on the trail of a dangerous energy field. Here's the synopsis of Golden Age as given by the BBC website where you can download it: James Goss, I would like to take this moment to formally let you know that following my listening to Golden Age, I have decided that you are one of the most fierce people who ever lived, and that you and I should go dancing at the gay clubs together, possibly shoe shopping on the weekends. In short, sir, I am in big gay love with you. So, naturally, your expectations of fabulous for anything that he writes should be high. For those of you who haven't read Almost Perfect, just trust me when I say it was full of so much fabulous that when you're done reading the book, you find you've somehow become covered in glitter. However, I had great hope for the one released today, as it was written by James Goss, the man who wrote the tie-in novel Almost Perfect. The first one which became available yesterday, Asylum, was. In the run up to series 3, the BBC is releasing 3 Torchwood radio plays. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was when Sabar began his own career as a journalist and then became a father himself that the formidable challenges his father had faced began to earn his respect. My Father’s Paradise is Sabar’s quest to reconcile an ancient past with his own life today – and to knit his father’s story to his own. ![]() the odd-looking, funny-talking man with strange grooming habits who lived with us and who may or may not have been my father, depending on who was asking.” t some point, as a teenager, I even stopped calling him Abba or Dad. ![]() I kept my distance,” he writes of his father. If this sounds exotic or thrilling to the rest of us, it was nothing but mortifying to the youthful Sabar who was raised in Los Angeles. Sabar, who until recently covered the 2008 US presidential campaign for The Christian Science Monitor, is the son of an Iraqi Jew from Kurdistan, a gentle scholar forced from his homeland by politics, a man who grew up in a corner of the world so isolated that he was raised speaking the ancient Aramaic of Jesus. “Ours was a clash of civilizations, writ small,” writes Ariel Sabar of his relationship with his father. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his account Mark Twain assumes two alternate roles: at times the no-nonsense American who refuses to automatically venerate the famous sights of the Old World (preferring Lake Tahoe to Lake Como), or at times the put-upon simpleton, a gullible victim of flatterers and "frauds," and an awestruck admirer of Russian royalty. The Innocents Abroad (1869), based largely on letters written for New York and San Francisco papers, narrates the progress of the first American organized tour of Europe-to Naples, Smyrna, Constantinople, and Palestine. The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (sometimes called The Innocents at Home ) were immensely successful when first published and they remain today the most popular travel books ever written. ![]() ![]() This Library of America volume contains the novels that, when published, transformed an obscure Western journalist into a national celebrity. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are just sloppy and not relatable, or even believable. ![]() As a third strike, quite a few characters do the exact same thing. Then he completely 360s his opinion and thinks the exact opposite of what he was dead set on for no apparent reason. In one instance, we have a character who shows up and is never explained very well. Also, a lot of those changes don't make sense. pretty much just say "Wow, I think I changed and here's how" but we never really see that change. We don't see the development slowly happening over time, or through actions. Some characters develop(not all), but they do so very artificially. All in all we have three main characters, and a handful of side characters. We'll start with characters, because they were almost as disappointing as the story itself. The concept this time is evolution, and boy did they mess this one up. The concept of immortality, reincarnation, lucid dreams, and basically any concepts that I, as a reader, find interesting. If you've read any of my reviews, you know that I put a lot of stock into story concepts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Did the final instalment give us a satisfying ending? Let’s find out.ĭeath Sets Sail already has the incredible, Agatha Christie-ode setting of Egypt and as our detectives embark on a cruise across the Nile, they realise once more that foul play follows them wherever they go. We have finally reached the conclusion of the Murder Most Unladylike series with the publication of the 9th book and this wonderful series is reaching the end. But there is danger all around, and only one of the Detective Society will make it home alive…Īs I sit down to write this review, I have to admit I’m feeling a bit emotional. And within the society, everyone has a reason to want Theodora dead…ĭaisy and Hazel leap into action and begin to investigate their most difficult case yet. It soon becomes clear to Daisy and Hazel that Theodora’s timid daughter Hephzibah, who is prone to sleepwalking, is being framed. Three days into the cruise their leader, Theodora Miller, is found dead in her cabin, stabbed during the night. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two what they get, instead, is murder.Īlso travelling on the SS Hatshepsut is a mysterious society called the Breath of Life: a group of genteel English ladies and gentlemen, who believe themselves to be reincarnations of the ancient pharaohs. Death Sets Sail by Robin Stevens Middle Grade, Mystery, Historical Goodreads | Amazon | Book Depositoryĭaisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). ![]() Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. ![]() |