![]() You might find some parts a bit old but it should not distract you. Recently, I found some references to Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold. ![]() A book that is not directly about our history, but touching some parts deeply was Coders At Work, a really long book including 16 interviews with highly appreciated computer scientists and programmers. Like there was the now seemingly (and sadly) inactive (as of July 2020) channel of Byte Sized. There are some interesting sources, books, initiatives. John Kennedy went more broadly when he wrote “without history, we have no future.” But what is our history as developers? What is the history of computer science? Recently I wrote about Sapiens and I quoted Churchill - you know the guy who pretty much led the fight against Nazis - saying that “a nation that forgets its history has no future”. ![]() If you have been reading my book reviews, you know that I like history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's a program for Indigenous liberation, life, and land-an affirmation that colonialism and capitalism must be overturned for this planet to be habitable for human and other-than-human relatives to live dignified lives. ![]() ![]() The Red Deal is a call for action beyond the scope of the US colonial state. Politicians may or may not follow-it is up to them-but we will design, build, and lead this movement with or without them. Only mass movements can do what the moment demands. It is time to reclaim the life and destiny that has been stolen from us and rise up together to confront this challenge and build a world where all life can thrive. We have barely a decade to turn back the tide of climate disaster. We-Indigenous, Black and people of color, women and trans folks, migrants, and working people-did not create this disaster, but we have inherited it. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical toolkit, the Red Deal is a platform that encompasses everyone, including non-Indigenous comrades and relatives who live on Indigenous land. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. ![]() ![]() The two stumble into a passionate love affair, but it’s more than just a greedy suitor who will try to keep them apart.Īs the Saxons and Vikings go to war, Avelynn and Alrik find themselves caught in the throes of fate. Likewise, he instantly falls for her beauty and courage. The dreaded marriage looming, she turns to her faith, searching for answers in an ancient ritual along the coast, only to find Alrik the Blood-Axe and sixty Viking berserkers have landed.Īlrik is unlike any man she has ever known, strong and intriguing. ![]() With whispers of war threatening their land, her father forces Avelynn into a betrothal with Demas, a man who only covets her wealth and status. She hasn’t yet found a man to make her heart race, but her father has not pressured her to get married. For eighteen years, Avelynn, the beautiful and secretly pagan daughter of the Eadlorman of Somerset has lived in an environment of love and acceptance. Marissa Campbell’s debut novel is a winning combination of romance, history, and adventure sure to appeal to fans of Diana Gabaldon. ![]() ![]() One extraordinary Saxon noblewoman and one fearless Viking warrior find passion and danger in this dazzling and sensuous debut. ![]() By Marissa CampbellPublication Date: September 8, 2015 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Davy’s research in chemistry influenced another Romantic, Mary Shelley, who began reading his book Elements of Chemistry (1812) on October 28, 1816, while she was writing Frankenstein (“Reframing”, 412). Humphry Davy (I778-1829) was, however, an eminent early nineteenth-century British chemist who also dabbled in geological and paleontological science. The sixteenth-century Icelandic alchemist and scholar Arne Saknussemm, who leaves a Runic message leading Professor Lidenbock on his voyage, is entirely fictitious. One scientist never lived the other was very real. In Journey, Verne repeatedly references two scientists to create the illusion that passage into the Earth’s deep interior is possible. One reason I love to read Verne is that he presents his adventurous quests with the credibility of scientific study. Debus’ article “Re-framing the Science of Jules Verne in Journey to the Center of the Earth” (2006).Īs I stated in my last post, this Journey should be viewed as a ‘life-through-time’ where the past comes alive, layer by layer! Having now finished this novel, which greatly surpassed my expectations, I will narrow my focus on the geological/paleontological components with the help of Dr. In my recent post “Journey to the Center of the Earth”, I wrote an overview of Jules Verne’s Science Fiction novel with my pre-reading predictions of this incredible journey. ![]() ![]() In the early 1950s, he raced on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. He graduated from Iowa State University in 1960 with a BS degree in Engineering and is a member of the Iowa State University chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an engineering society for academic excellence. William Dale Bond was born January 2, 1931, in Winterset, Iowa to Dale Bond, an entrepreneur and Myrtle Swedlund Bond, a music teacher. He is most noted for his innovative work on intake manifolds, a three-wheeled concept car, and early electric cars in the 1960s. ![]() Bond (born January 2, 1931) is an American inventor and mechanical engineer who retired from General Motors after spending his entire career with the car maker. JSTOR ( October 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. ![]() ![]() "Westerfeld.establishes several compelling mysteries in this series opener, and Puvilland captures the haunting surreality of the Spill Zonethrough an unearthly pastel/neon palette that oozes a sense of wrongness every moment Addison spends there." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "Expect some stunning sci-fi spectacle when Addison ventures into the Spill Zone." -A.V. "If Katniss Everdeen’s your gal, you’re going to want to meet Addison Merritt." - Entertainment Weekly “Puvilland, an animator for DreamWorks, has a rough, kinetic style that brings to life the rough, kinetic world of Spill Zone.” - Los Angeles Review of Books ![]() Reading it feels like binge-watching a great cable series, complete with the same feeling of despair you get when you finish the final episode and realize you’ve got a long time to wait for the next season." -The New York Times "As frightening as Spill Zone can be, though, its greatest asset is its muscle-tensing suspense. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A little dark, a little twisted, and completely enthralling.” -Marissa Meyer, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles and Heartless ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That's not to say that other methods of inquiry are without merit -the Harvard Business Review makes pretty darn good use of case studies, for example- but way too often Collins's great truths seemed like square pegs crammed into round holes, because a round hole is what he wants. It's not, in short, scientific in any way. It's not systematic, it's not replicable, it's not generalizable, it's not systematic, it's not free of bias, it's not model driven, and it's not collaborative. Collin's brand of research is not my kind. I've got several problems with this book, the biggest of which stem from fundamentally viewpoints on how to do research. The balance of the book is spent expanding on pithy catch phrases that describe the great companies, like "First Who, Then What" or "Be a Hedgehog" or "Grasp the Flywheel, not the Doom Loop." No, no, I'm totally serious. ![]() ![]() They also present for each great company what they call a "comparison company," which is kind of that company with a goatee and a much less impressive earnings record. Collins and his crack team of researchers say they swam through stacks of business literature in search of info on how to pull this feat off, and came up with a list of great companies that illustrate some concepts central to the puzzle. This book by Jim Collins is one of the most successful books to be found in the "Business" section of your local megabookstore, and given how it purports to tell you how to take a merely good company and make it great, it's not difficult to see why that might be so. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. ![]() ![]() Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, and Anne Rowling (née Volant), on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. In a 2012 interview, Rowling noted that she no longer cared that people pronounced her name incorrectly. During the Leveson Inquiry she gave evidence under the name of Joanne Kathleen Rowling. She calls herself Jo and has said, "No one ever called me 'Joanne' when I was young, unless they were angry." Following her marriage, she has sometimes used the name Joanne Murray when conducting personal business. As she had no middle name, she chose K as the second initial of her pen name, from her paternal grandmother Kathleen Ada Bulgen Rowling. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. Rowling, pronounced like rolling, her name when her first Harry Potter book was published was simply Joanne Rowling. Although she writes under the pen name J.K. ![]() ![]() "'I can imagine few things more beautiful or intellectually profound than finding the basis for our humanity. Your Inner Fish is science writing at its finest-enlightening, accessible, and told with irresistible enthusiasm. Shubin makes us see ourselves and our world in a completely new light. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria. Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Bialik-the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006-tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources: worms, flies, and even fish. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kid's birthdays are a time when family and friends gather together, gifts in hand, to sing Happy Birthday, watch a little one blow out some candles, and open presents. Kindergarten Kids Love to Read Birthday Books Send a birthday gift from The Lollipop Book Club with a monthly children's book subscription! ![]() Our kids are loved just for being their own unique selves and their birthdays are the one day of the year that we celebrate them! Reading birthday books for kindergarten kids (and up!) is a fantastic way to get them excited for the big day. And it's not tied to any specific accomplishment or milestone other than simply making it another rotation around the sun. It is the one day that is exclusively about a very special child. The Best Birthday Books for Preschool, Kindergarten and Upīirthdays should be celebrated in a big way for every single child. Your birthday child will feel like the most special person in the world every time you read this keepsake book together. Kids are taken on a wild birthday adventure in Katroo where the guest of honor is treated to a party like no other. Seuss classic that embraces celebrating everything that is unique about YOU on your birthday and every single day of the year. ![]() A quintessential birthday book for kids of all ages! A true Dr. ![]() |