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![]() Three of these novels have been adapted into movies: Cotton Comes to Harlem, directed by Ossie Davis in 1970 Come Back, Charleston Blue (based on The Heat's On) in 1972 and A Rage in Harlem, starring Gregory Hines and Danny Glover in 1991. The resulting Harlem Cycle gained him celebrity when he won France's Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for La Reine des Pommes (now known in English as A Rage in Harlem) in 1958. Himes would be the first black author included in the series. In 1953, Himes emigrated to France, where he was approached by Marcel Duhamel of Gallimard to write a detective series for Série Noire, which had published works from the likes of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Jim Thompson. When released, he focussed on semi-autobiographical protest novels. From there, he produced short stories for periodicals such as Esquire and Abbott's Monthly. Chester Bomar Himes began writing in the early 1930s while serving a prison sentence for armed robbery. ![]() ![]() ![]() A thoughtful and moving but unsentimental portrait of life in captivity and a broad introduction to some of its most salient-and intractable-dilemmas. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail. ![]() Tom French did in this book what he always does. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephants, and a primates, and on and on. We are forced to reconsider our notions of freedom and captivity when presented with such scenarios as 11 partially sedated wild South African elephants being moved to U.S. 'This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. The author introduces readers to Herman, the lovable species-confused chimpanzee who has reigned at Lowry Park for three decades Enshalla, whose “family history was like a Greek tragedy,” and her mate Eric, Sumatran tigers whose attempts at mating captivate the zoo staff Ladybug, the black bear who likes oranges and peanut butter Lex Salisbury, the ambitious CEO who holds the fate of the zoo animals and humans in his hands and the trainers who witness the circle of life and death among their charges. Thomas French is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism at Indiana University. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French investigates the life and death struggles of animals at Tampa Zoo, exposing the corporate greed that nearly. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist French goes behind the scenes at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo in this absorbing and balanced account that reveals extinction, conservation, and captivity issues in all their moral complexities and featuring a very memorable cast. ![]() ![]() With visible sadness, Hughes revealed that his earlier enthusiasm for television had waned, even by comparison to print: ![]() In that year a new edition of his book The Shock of the New was issued, bearing a fresh introductory note. As with so much of the modern art he detested, the shock factor becomes boring when it lacks depth. He praised the screen for its ability to communicate enthusiasm, something he clearly thought compensated for its shortcomings.īut by 1991 the novelty of the art doc had clearly worn off. Hughes’, of course, were among the first of their kind. A reader is used to the printed page, and could soon become acclimatized to viewing art in 2D as more art documentaries were aired. ![]() He opened the first edition of his book (originally a mere spin-off of the series ultimately, as Hughes himself said, something that far outlived it) with the confession that television can be no substitute for the true experience of art. ![]() Admittedly, he’d always been slightly sceptical. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Luckily for us who didn’t have that chance, he left a legacy of fantastic teachers, and a mini library of reference texts into which he poured his 75 years of daily yoga study. Students from around the world flocked to Pune, India to study under him. To Iyengar, “Yoga like God, is one.” Yoga For AllĪrguably the most important gift Iyengar gave us in his 95 years as Guruji was the belief that yoga should be, and is, accessible to all. Iyengar himself didn’t like to refer to it as “Iyengar yoga,” as he felt it was wrong to differentiate or brand yoga. You can thank Iyengar for that glorious block in Ardha Chandrasana or for the strap in Janu Sirsasana. ![]() Now referred to as Iyengar yoga, his style and teachings emphasize precision and alignment, planned sequencing, timing, and the use of props. Iyengar was a world-renowned yoga guru who brought the art of yoga to the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.Īn intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. ![]() You go through life thinking there’s so much you need. “Short, poetic and gorgeously written.” –The New York Times Book Review –Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon, #1 bestselling author of The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything– Nina LaCour's award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback! ![]() ![]() ![]() “Discipline and Punish” is an extremely work of philosophy and sociology and anyone who’s interested in either should spend some time reading it.Īlso, it will certainly be of interest to people who are hooked on books such as “ 48 Laws of Power,” since Michel Foucault is the original and most influential theoretician of power and its relationship to knowledge and social control.Īnd “Discipline and Punish” is his most famous book on the subject. ![]() Who Should Read “Discipline and Punish”? And Why? Michel Foucault, in “ Discipline and Punish” claims that, unfortunately, it’s because of the worse – If not the devils. Steven Pinker would say because of the better angels of our nature. Have you ever wondered why public tortures and executions evolved into prisons and penitentiaries? ![]() ![]() TTS is truly behind the scenes as it doesn’t really have appear to have its own website (at least not in the US) or an official logo. ![]() KGīased in Wendlingen, Germany, TTS or Tooltechnic Systems owns Festool (electric and pneumatic tools), Tanos (not to be confused with the guy who destroyed half the universe), Narex, Sawstop, and now Shaper Tools. ![]() More Smaller Power Tool Manufacturers and Companies TTS Tooltechnic Systems AG & Co. This company has acquired a considerable number of well-known tool brands over the past several years, including: Their brands include manufacturers of hand tools, electric tools, pneumatic fastening tools, laser measuring tools, laser radar, tool cabinets, industrial storage cabinets, industrial vacuum cleaners, and more. Who Owns Milwaukee Tools? Techtronic Industries Co Ltd (TTI)Įstablished in 1993, Hangzhou Greatstar Technology Co., Ltd. If you want to see an exhaustive list of SBD subsidiaries, click here. Infastech (rolled into Stanley Engineered Fastening brand). ![]() As of 2022, the company maintains a $16.9 billion business. In late 2021, SBD completed its acquisition of MTD Holdings and Excel Industries, making it a global leader in the outdoor power equipment market. In 2010, it merged with another company that started in 1910-Black and Decker. Dating back to 1843 with a man named Frederick Stanley, the company quickly formed its roots. ![]() Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) turned heads when it bought Craftsman Tools in 2017 after Sears closed 235 stores in 2015. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was hysterical to me how Dan describes Belle in engineering-talk. ![]() It was going swimmingly until the gorgeous Belle showed up. Knowing he hasn’t got a head for business, Dan and his friend Miles go into business, with Miles doing all the accounting and paperwork, and Dan making all the inventions. The year is 1970, and Dan Davis is a brilliant engineer, but a horrible judge of character. Because Pete’s pretty sure that one of these cold winter days, one of those doors will be a door into summer. In the winter, the cat still wants to do his business outside, and will insist that Dan open every door in the house. It spoils the surprise.ĭan’s cat Pete hates the snow. ![]() I need a door into summer.ĭoes that cover art look familiar? if you’ve got this printing, do NOT read the blurb on the back. I need some nice weather, and I need a book that reads like a sunny day, something that’s fun as hell and won’t demand anything of me in return. Books seem to feel the same, not much has grabbed me lately, I seem to have burned myself out on epic fantasy for a while, and damnit, there is still two feet of snow on the ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() His life is a shambles, his marriage a wreck, his career a disaster. Now, after sixty years of federal neglect, the District is set to revert to Alaskan control, and their dream is coming to an end: once again the tides of history threaten to sweep them up and carry them off into the unknown.īut homicide detective Meyer Landsman has enough problems without worrying about the upcoming Reversion. Proud, grateful and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful and complex frontier city that moves to the Yiddish beat. The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer prize-winning ‘The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay’įor sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a ‘temporary’ safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. ![]() |