5/19/2023 0 Comments A brief history of humankind![]() ![]() To put it into today's terms, the pursuit of an easier life often generates greater hardships. So why did we invest time and energy into farming anyway? According to Harari, farming fulfilled our biological needs by helping communities settle down, give birth to more babies in a shorter amount of time, and feed a larger number of people on a smaller space of land. ![]() Yet some of our evolution's disadvantages heavily outweighed the advantages.įor instance, in the development of the agricultural revolution, humans found that wheat was incredibly difficult to farm, not economically secure, and not even that nutritious. ![]() The early developments of Homo sapiens were entirely biological, centered around sustaining and creating life. Self-preservation is a biological instinct that greatly impacted the course of humankind - and explains some of our problems today. ![]()
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5/19/2023 0 Comments Gage by J.M. Dabney![]() ![]() Results Children aged 0 to 5 years had a normal or near-normal gait, whereas 5 of 10 children aged 6 to 12 years and 8 of 9 children aged 13 years or older had crouch gait. Main Outcome Measures Classification of the sagittal gait pattern and foot posture, assessment of muscle extensibility and joint range, and rating of functional mobility. Interventions Assessment via video gait analysis, physical examination of the lower limbs, use of the Functional Mobility Scale, and radiographs of the pelvis and feet. ![]() ![]() Twenty-three patients had mutations of the sodium channel α1 subunit gene, SCN1A. Patients Twenty-six subjects with Dravet syndrome, aged 2 to 34 years. Objective To characterize changes in gait by age in patients with Dravet syndrome.ĭesign Prospective, cross-sectional study. Shared Decision Making and Communication.Scientific Discovery and the Future of Medicine.Health Care Economics, Insurance, Payment.Clinical Implications of Basic Neuroscience.Challenges in Clinical Electrocardiography. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Awaking Wonder by Sally Clarkson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() understanding how to open your children's hearts and minds to the grand design, beauty, and goodness scattered throughout the universe.cultivating wonder all around you, alongside your children.If you are exhausted, confused, ill equipped, or unsupported in your journey as a parent, you will find relief through the countless ideas in this book.Īwaking Wonder will inspire you, delight you, provide laughter, and bring tears through the heartfelt stories of four lively children and the wondrous life they grew up in together. If you are idealistic and hopeful about the process of raising your children to be healthy and vibrant, you will find encouragement through the Clarksons' story. This book is thirty-six years in the making and provides a deep dive into Sally's most profound legacy: nurturing and guiding her four children into a wonder-filled life. They want to know how the Clarksons launched their children to live such vibrant, flourishing lives as adults.Īwaking Wonder is Sally's answer to those questions. For years, parents worldwide have asked beloved author Sally Clarkson how she and her husband have ignited a love for learning and a deep faith in their children. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had declared myself a Wesleyan Methodist. ![]() ![]() Earlier, when he was teaching in Egypt, the university registrar had called him in and objected to his answer, on a personnel form, to the question “Religion”: The controversy made the front page of the Singapore newspaper, and became known as “The Enright Affair,” but it was by no means the only such run-in that Enright had had. ![]() You will be packing your bags and seeking green pastures elsewhere if your gratuitous advice on these matters should land us in a mess. We have no time for asinine sneers by passing aliens about the futility of “sarong culture complete with pantun competitions” particularly when it comes from beatnik professors…. You have arrogated to yourself functions and duties which are reserved only for citizens of this country and not visitors, including mendicant professors…. Your duties were to supervise the teaching of English at the University…. Enright, during his inaugural university lecture on Robert Graves, had called for freedom of cultural expression, and criticized confected displays of governmentally acceptable “culture.” The ministerial document reads in part: Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor * is his witty and often appalling account of that life, its title derived from the official reproof he received in 1960 from the minis-ter for labor in Singapore. Dennis Joseph Enright, a British poet born in 1920 and still writing, spent his active life as a professor of English literature, mostly abroad. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Meg mason sorrow and bliss![]() Her novel You Be Mother ( HarperCollins) followed in 2017. Her first book Say It Again in a Nice Voice ( HarperCollins), a memoir of early motherhood, was published in 2012. ![]() She has written humour for The New Yorker and Sunday STYLE, monthly columns for GQ and InsideOut and is a regular contributor to Vogue, Stellar,marie claire, and ELLE. Her work has since appeared in The Sunday Times, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sunday Telegraph. Meg Mason began her career in the UK at the Financial Times and The Times. Something that broke when a little bomb went off in her brain, at 17, and left her changed in a way that no doctor or therapist has ever been able to explain.įorced to return to her childhood home to live with her dysfunctional, bohemian parents (but without the help of her devoted, foul-mouthed sister Ingrid), Martha has one last chance to find out whether a life is ever too broken to fix – or whether, maybe, by starting over, she will get to write a better ending for herself. ![]() Or maybe – as she has long believed – there is something wrong with her. Maybe she is just too sensitive, someone who finds it harder to be alive than most people. So why is everything broken? Why is Martha – on the edge of 40 – friendless, practically jobless and so often sad? And why did Patrick decide to leave? ![]() A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Silver sparrow book review![]() ![]() ![]() But some have hinted at a devastating twist at the end.I'm waiting. More like a Hallmark movie than a Tony Morrison manuscript. I'll be done tomorrow and while a dialogue heavy story is breezy and enjoyable it hardly reaches the level of greatness I look for in books of new ideas, themes, and literature. Now to the more heretical.everyone seems to be falling over themselves for this book.I started it 2 days ago and am going though it like a hot knife through butter. An ereader is a distant second choice for me, nook in particular. Even though I freed myself from lugging 10 books on an overseas trip, the battery life is short enough that it quit before the 16 hour plane ride was over,leaving me with no thing to read.not a problem with print, and it takes all night to charge ( I heard this is not the case with Kindle), you turn it off for take off and landing, its web browsing is laughable compared to my iPhone and uploading library books is tedious. I hate to always be the dissenting voice but even though I've had a Nook since christmas I am still not sold. Not to usurp Mistinguettes, but in the Unburnable thread she mentions she got a Nook as have I. Mod Andre wrote: which e-reader did you get, may I ask ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments My fake rake![]() ![]() ![]() Yet when he’s faced with losing her forever, Sebastian will do whatever it takes to tell her the truth, even if it means risking his own future-and his heart. Sebastian is in love with brilliant, beautiful Grace, but their bargain is complete, and she desires another. If only she hadn’t asked him to help her marry someone else. Between secret lessons on how to be a rogue and exaggerated public flirtations, Grace’s feelings for Sebastian grow from friendship into undeniable, inconvenient, real attraction. ![]() To further his own research on English society, Sebastian agrees to let Grace transform him from a bespectacled, bookish academic into a dashing-albeit fake-rake. Grace’s colleague, anthropologist Sebastian Holloway, is just the blank slate she requires. My Fake Rake : Eva Leigh : 9780062932402 - Book Depository In the first book in Eva Leighs new Union of the Rakes series, a bluestocking hires a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real My Fake Rake by Eva Leigh - FictionDB My Fake Rake. ![]() Her solution: to “build” the perfect man, who will court her publicly and help her catch his eye. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns from abroad, Grace wishes, for once, to be noticed. Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. ![]() ![]() ![]() Constitution and how thousands of Scottish immigrants left their homes to create the American frontier, the Australian outback, and the British Empire in India and Hong Kong. Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. ![]() Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. ![]() An exciting account of the origins of the modern world ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments The last battle cs lewis![]() Shift hides his work from prying eyes (birds overhead) and presents his work to Puzzle when the donkey returns. Shift sends Puzzle to town for food and commences working on the skin.Īfter minor alterations the skin is ready. Puzzle does not like the idea but is convinced that he is not clever enough to see the benefit of such an idea. Narnians would believe that Puzzle is Aslan and would obey his every command (as Shift gave them). Immediately, Shift states that Aslan has sent this skin and that Puzzle should wear it. Puzzles struggles to bring the object back and delivers a lion skin (a remnant from a hunting excursion beyond the edge of Narnia) to Shift. Using guilt tactics, Shift manipulates Puzzle into jumping into the pool and retrieving the item. As the two sit, a strange object rolls over the falls falling into Caldron Pool. Puzzle has been convinced that he is not a clever donkey and that Shift should make all decisions in every matter of life. ![]() The story of The Last Battle begins with a donkey, Puzzle, and an old ape, Shift, sitting on the banks of Caldron Pool on the Western Edge of Narnia beyond Lantern Waste. ![]() 5/18/2023 0 Comments Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger![]() ![]() Further, as a Lipan Apache, she develops her stories with Apache characters and themes. As an author, she specializes in speculative fiction, especially horror, science fiction and fantasy. Rather than running the risk of the justice system failing her family and letting her husband’s murderer get off scot-free, Lenore decides to take a bigger risk: wake up Trevor’s ghost, and let it do the dirty work. Darcie Little Badger (born 1987) is an author and an Earth scientist. Lenore tries to purposely disturb Trevor’s grave because she “wants him to come back for vengeance” (266). Darcies short fiction, nonfiction and comics have appeared in multiple places. ![]() Her critically acclaimed debut novel, Elatsoe, was featured in Time Magazine as one of the best 100 fantasy novels of all time. Trevor’s widow, however, wants to take a different approach. Darcie Little Badger is a Lipan Apache writer with a PhD in oceanography. ![]() She decides to launch her own investigation to bring justice to her cousin’s murderer. Ellie knows that the likelihood of someone like Abe Allerton facing actual consequences for his crime is low because he is well-connected and privileged. She hopes that “it happen through a police investigation that led to an arrest that resulted in a successful trial by jury and a murder conviction” (50), but she also recognizes that the American justice system is deeply flawed. ![]() When Ellie learns that Trevor has died and there might have been foul play, she becomes hyperfocused on ensuring that Trevor’s murderer faces justice. ![]() |