![]() ![]() It is unsupported by the author’s analysis if one takes work to be human energy expended. The thesis implicit in the title is sustainable if one takes work to mean time on task. The central confusion is between time spent at work and energy in a physiological or thermodynamic sense expended on work. Links between the two books are made through several unfortunate confusions that should never have occurred. The other, in its way potentially more significant, is an anti-male, anti-corporate diatribe that is watered down, vague, intrusive, and, saddest of all, unsubstantiated. One is an interesting history of the technologies of home and hearth in America over the past three centuries. ![]() ![]() Without alerting the reader or perhaps even herself, she indiscriminately shuffled them together under one cover. _ The author, an associate professor of history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, has written two books. Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work For Mother, ![]()
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![]() ![]() OFI staff ask that you come with the appropriate permits, check-in with the rangers, observe the orangutans from a safe distance, and do not disturb the scientists conducting research. Visitors are not allowed to overnight at Camp Leakey. Projects have ranged from orangutan, proboscis monkey, gibbon and leaf-eating monkey behavior and ecology, to studies of orangutan sign language abilities and cognition, to leech behavior, and river system ecology.Īs an active research facility, Camp Leakey welcomes day visitors with local guides. ![]() ![]() Like primatologists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey. Over the years, Camp Leakey has supported the research efforts of dozens of scientists and students including undergraduate and graduate students from Indonesia (Univeristas Nasional & Universitas Gajamada) and North America. When Birute Mary Galdikas saw her first image of an orangutan in the wild, she was immediately captivated. Originally consisting of just two huts, Camp Leakey is now an assemblage of permanent wooden structures designed to provide a base for scientists, staff, students, and Park Rangers. It was named after the legendary paleo-anthropologist, Louis Leakey, who was both mentor and an inspiration to Dr. Biruté Galdikas and former spouse Rod Brindamour. Walking With the Great Apes: Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Birute Galdikas. ![]() Located in the Tanjung Puting Reserve (now National Park) in Central Borneo, Camp Leakey was established in 1971 by Dr. ![]() ![]() the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky AlbertalliĪngelfall (Penryn and the End of Days #1) by Susan Eeĭaughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini TaylorĪnna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff The Unexpected Everything by Morgan MatsonĪ Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. ![]() ![]() The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen The Upside of Unrequited by Becky AlbertalliĪ Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. MaasĬhildren of Blood and Bone by Tomi AdeyemiĪ Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass #7) by Sarah J. The Wicked King (Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. ![]() Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is known for having initiated the school strike for climate movement that formed in November 2018 and surged globally after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP24) in December the same year. She has since become an outspoken and world famous climate activist. Her personal activism began in August 2018, when her recurring and solitary Skolstrejk för klimatet ("School strike for the climate") protesting outside the Swedish parliament in Stockholm began attracting media coverage, even though Sweden has already enacted "the most ambitious climat Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who, as a schoolgirl at age 15, began protesting outside the Swedish parliament about the need for immediate action to combat climate change. ![]() Greta Thunberg is a Swedish climate activist who, as a schoolgirl at age 15, began protesting outside the Swedish parliament about the need for immediate action to combat climate change. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Os dias que prometiam paz, tranquilidade e maratonas épicas de Netflix acabam trazendo um turbilhão de sentimentos, que obrigarão Felipe a mergulhar em todas as questões mal resolvidas que ele tem consigo mesmo. Felipe entra em desespero porque a) Caio foi sua primeira paixãozinha na infância (e existe uma grande possibilidade dessa paixão não ter passado até hoje) e b) Felipe coleciona uma lista infinita de inseguranças e não tem a menor ideia de como interagir com o vizinho. Mas as coisas fogem um pouquinho do controle quando a mãe de Felipe informa que concordou em hospedar Caio, o vizinho do 57, por longos quinze dias, enquanto os pais dele não voltam de uma viagem. Os planos envolvem se afundar nos episódios atrasados de suas séries favoritas, colocar a leitura em dia e aprender com tutoriais no YouTube coisas novas que ele nunca vai colocar em prática. Finalmente ele vai poder passar alguns dias longe da escola e dos colegas que o maltratam. ![]() Felipe está esperando esse momento desde que as aulas começaram: o início das férias de julho. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now he gets to deliver the piece of news that will upend Brandt’s carefree life: he very well might be a dad. Like last spring when she convinced him to try skydiving for his birthday-and she walked away with the hot parachute instructor. Shane Travis is used to putting his country music career-and his own happiness-on hold after his sister rolls through his life. It’s a lifestyle that’s served him well…right up until the day he finds a baby on his doorstep. ![]() He’s popular and fun-loving and not at all looking to settle down or form lasting relationships. He’s never met a parachute he can’t repair or a dangerous situation he couldn’t wrangle his way out of. ![]() Three Men and a Baby meets Backdraft with explosive chemistry and heartfelt feels.įreewheeling smoke jumper Brandt Wilder thrives on adrenaline. “A poignant, sexy and satisfying romance featuring likeable, complex characters whose intense emotional connection leaps off the page." - All About Romance on Feel the Fire ![]() ![]() ![]() By 1917, though still an active serviceman, Graves had published three volumes. While convalescing, he published his first collection of poetry, Over the Brazier. He fought in the Battle of Loos and was injured in the Somme offensive in 1916. John's College, Oxford, but in August 1914 he enlisted as a junior officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. In 1913 Graves won a scholarship to continue his studies at St. As a young man, he was more interested in boxing and mountain climbing than studying, although poetry later sustained him through a turbulent adolescence. One of ten children, Robert was greatly influenced by his mother's puritanical beliefs and his father's love of Celtic poetry and myth. His mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, was a relation of Leopold von Ranke, one of the founding fathers of modern historical studies. ![]() His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, was a Gaelic scholar and minor Irish poet. On July 24, 1895, Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, near London. ![]() ![]() ![]() It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing-taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective. ![]() As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.īut that night, Mana's life goes haywire.įirst, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. ![]() She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA Science Fiction series. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The life of the artist and the life of a device in the consciousness of an artist-this is Sirin’s theme.” Khodasevich, although he had not yet read The Gift-purported to be Vladimir Nabokov’s greatest Russian novel-had discovered the most important element of Nabokov’s fiction. his writing is distinguished by exceptional diversity, complexity, brilliance, and novelty.” Khodasevich went on to say that the key to all Sirin’s work was his ability to put all his literary devices on display, with little or no attempt to conceal them, thus entertaining his readers more with the revelation of how the magician performs his tricks, than with the trick itself. ![]() Sirin’s” work, wrote, “Sirin proves for the most part to be an artist of form, of the writer’s device, and not only in that. ![]() In 1937, Vladeslav Khodasevich, an émigré poet and champion of “V. ![]() ![]() ![]() Where is Kenya? Tanzania? Gombe? (there may be a map or globe in the classroom) What kind of animals did Jane watch when she was young? Poacher - one who kills or takes wild animals illegallyĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: Malaria - a serious disease that causes chills and fever and that is passed from one person to another by the bite of mosquitoes Tarzan - a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs he is a feral child raised in the African jungles by the Mangani "great apes" he later experiences civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. Dolittle - the main character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. ![]() ![]() Why do you think she is using binoculars to watch the chimps?ĭr. Follow Jane from her childhood in London watching a robin on her windowsill, to her years in the African forests of Gombe, Tanzania to observe chimps, to her worldwide crusade to save these primates and their habitat. Grade Level: 3rd (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.)Īcclaimed picture book biographer Jeanette Winter has found her perfect subject: Jane Goodall, the great observer of chimpanzees. The Watcher: Jane Goodall's Life with the Chimps Volunteers needed in July! Click here to sign up. ![]() |