![]() That Dr Begg should find himself so enthused by the technology should not be surprising given his background. ![]() ![]() The performance you have to get out of bearings is absolutely staggering – the quality of the steel we use, the quality of the surface finish, or the knowledge of the lubrication and surface conditions that we have." Indeed, he says: "The more you get into it, the more you realise how many really advanced technologies there are. When someone is head of technology for one of the world's leading bearing companies, it comes as something of a surprise to hear them say: "When I was first approached for the job and I started thinking about bearings, I must admit that I thought 'Well surely there can't be very much technology in bearings?'" Naturally, this is not an attitude Dr Alan Begg, senior vice president group technology development & quality at SKF, still holds. ![]()
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![]() They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers-they discover a massive topographic anomaly and life forms that surpass understanding-but it's the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. ![]() An environmental disaster zone, Area X is home to strange biological forces that have begun gathering strength. ![]() ![]() The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist a surveyor a psychologist, the de facto leader and our narrator, a biologist. In Jeff VanderMeer's haunting Southern Reach trilogy, an American wilderness has become a shadowland, concealed by the government for more than thirty years. In Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition. The members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within weeks, all had died of cancer. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape the second expedition ended in mass suicide the third expedition in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. ![]() Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her current project, generously funded by INET, continues these concerns and focuses on the twentieth-century economic philosopher and translator, Wang Yanan, and the worlds of economic thinking in 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s China. Her work to date has explored the intersections of Chinese intellectual-cultural history, global change, and conceptual histories so as to understand the ways in which China’s violent integration into the global capitalist world system of economics, culture, and society transformed China and the world from the late-nineteenth century onwards. Karl teaches History at New York University. ![]() ![]() ![]() No more exceptions for today, she told herself as she stepped over rusting junk and debris. ![]() He was too young to be running with a gang in the slums of Ba Sing Se. The way his stupid babyface tried to arrange itself in a mask of hardness, his obvious need for the approval of his sworn elder brothers. Speaking of which, she’d taken a risk by not incapacitating the boy like she’d done his elders. The gang’s wire man had been stealthy, but not at the level of the company she used to keep in her daofei days. The garrote had been coated in ground glass, and though she’d managed to avoid getting cut too deeply, sharp little fragments still vexed her skin. ![]() (And if you haven’t yet, you gotta check out the first book, The Rise of Kyoshi!) The Shadow of Kyoshi hits shelves on July 21st. And she does so in truly epic fashion… just see for yourself, you can read the full excerpt below. Taking place in Ba Sing Se, Kyoshi moves to confront a gang in a high density residential block. ![]() Specifically, it’s from Chapter One: Unfinished Business. We have our first excerpt from the second book in the Avatar Kyoshi YA novel series, The Shadow of Kyoshi. 18-year-old Avatar Kyoshi is a total badass in the first excerpt from The Shadow of Kyoshi ![]() ![]() ![]() Other favorite classic books from Eric Carle include The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, From Head to Toe, and many others. To find out more about Eric Carle and his books, please visit. Eric Carle's classic, colorful collages of baby animals and their mothers will delight and comfort young readers.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? is a warm and approachable book to use in the classroom, to cuddle up reading with a little one, and to give as a baby shower or Mother's Day gift. Swim with a baby dolphin calf in the deep blue sea. Watch little cubs prance around mother lion. Meet the little joey bouncing in mother kangaroo's pouch. Bright collage illustrations and simple text reinforce the theme that everyone has a mother, and every mother loves her child. ![]() From Eric Carle, the New York Times bestselling author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Grouchy Ladybug, comes a reassuring tale of a mother's love for her child.ĭoes a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too? answers curious kids who wonder whether lions, bears, and monkeys have mothers, too. ![]() ![]() when a civilization begins to reinterpret its mythology in this way, the life goes out of it, temples become museums, and the link between the two perspectives is dissolved. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. "Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science," Campbell writes, "it is killed. He then makes the strong suggestion that it's dangerous to interpret myths solely as manifestations of historical events and circumstances. home to the living no boon or community benefit as does the traditional hero, according to Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces ( 1968 ). Since the publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theory has been consciously applied. He discusses how over time, the core myths have evolved to incorporate symbols and meanings more relevant to those that hear them. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (first published in 1949) is a work of comparative mythology by Joseph Campbell, in which the author discusses his theory of the mythological structure of the journey of the archetypal hero found in world myths. "The Keys" Campbell begins this brief conclusion with a summary of the Hero's Journey, complete with references to all the previously discussed variations on purpose, complication, support of supernatural powers, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() How to build cold frames, high tunnels, and mobile greenhouses.Planning and preparing your garden site.He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. ![]() ![]() If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Learn season-extending techniques and eat the best food-garden fresh and chemical free-all year long, with little effort or expense. "There is hardly a more well-known or well-respected name among organic farmers than Eliot Coleman."-Civil Eats I've followed that path because Eliot made it possible, and exciting, to farm in the four seasons."-Dan Barber, chef ![]() ![]() ![]() Ackerman is also known as the editor-writer of the magazine " Famous Monsters of Filmland", as well as an occasional author, actor, producer (" Vampirella"), and literary agent.Īckerman or, "Mr. ![]() Ackerman, known as "Forry" or "4e" or "4SJ", was influential not only in the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, but was also a key figure in the wider cultural acceptance of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre. Birthdate = birth date and age|1916|11|24įorrest J Ackerman (born November 24, 1916) is an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thyme loves her brother, and knows the trial could save his life-she'd give anything for him to be well-but she still wants to go home, although the guilt of not wanting to stay is agonizing. Owens accepts a full-time position in the city, Thyme has to face the frightening possibility that the move to New York is permanent. After Val's treatment shows real promise and Mr. ![]() The island of Manhattan doesn't exactly inspire new beginnings, but Thyme tries to embrace the change for what it is: temporary. But it also means the Owens family has to move to New York, thousands of miles away from Thyme's best friend and everything she knows and loves. “Conklin successfully weaves together the shifting dynamics of a loving family under crisis with the less dramatic but equally heartfelt turmoil of coming of age in a new environment.”- Publishers WeeklyĪbout Counting Thyme : When eleven-year-old Thyme Owens' little brother, Val, is accepted into a new cancer drug trial, it's just the second chance that he needs. “ sweet book that will strum the heartstrings of readers.”- School Library Journal ![]() “Thyme’s remarkable perseverance and resilience will inspire readers of Conklin’s compassionate tale.”- Kirkus Reviews ![]() Melanie Conklin discusses her debut middle grade novel Counting Thyme ![]() ![]() ![]() Cohn is attracted to Brett, but she leaves the club with Jake. The group goes dancing at a nightclub, where a woman named Brett (also known as Lady Ashley, because she is, by marriage, a titled British aristocrat) appears. Later, Jake picks up a prostitute named Georgette, and the two of them join a group including Cohn, Frances, and some others. It is the mid-1920's.Ĭohn visits the story's narrator and main character, Jake Barnes, in the Paris offices of the newspaper for which Jake works. When Cohn's wife left him, he became involved with a woman named Frances Clyne, and they traveled together to Paris, where they are living at the start of the novel's action. ![]() Chapter I of The Sun Also Rises introduces us to the novelist Robert Cohn, a graduate of Princeton University who married a wealthy woman and founded a literary journal soon after college. ![]() |