![]() ![]() ![]() Their mother is June, a sweet woman who meets as-yet-unknown Mick in 1956. The first among these is tall, lithe, altruistic Nina, proud and competent beyond her years, who, at 17, acting in loco parentis, saved her three younger siblings from social-services intervention. ![]() He enters and leaves marriages with impunity, but who can blame a character whose “gravitational pull was such that he had to repel anyone he did not wish to actively attract”? To his credit - and to the credit of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s eighth novel, “Malibu Rising,” which introduces Mick - he has fathered stable, loyal, talented children. Everyone in Malibu knows the four children of Mick Riva, a pop singer of Frank Sinatra-level fame and irresistible, movie-star good looks. ![]()
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![]() That hasn't stopped the billionaire philanthropist from promoting his book, which pushes proposals for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions around the world by 2050, including developing new zero-emission energy technologies and reducing the costs of some existing renewable energy sources. Gates has made plenty of headlines recently, from his recent high-profile divorce to reports that he stepped down from Microsoft's board of directors last year following an affair with an employee. The offer's exact end date was not specified in the press release or on GatesNotes, which did not immediately respond to CNBC Make It's request for clarification. Now what we need is a plan for getting to zero. "As a result, they're making those commitments. ![]() "Young people are holding their governments accountable and insisting that they commit to eliminating their carbon emissions," Gates wrote. ![]() In his post, Gates wrote that the passion he sees from young people fighting climate change is "one of the main reasons" he penned the book in the first place. ![]() ![]() He exposes the disturbing yet colorful history of professional, organized lying, revealing for the first time some of the century’s most significant operations-many of them nearly beyond belief. In Active Measures, Rid reveals startling intelligence and security secrets from materials written in more than ten languages across several nations, and from interviews with current and former operatives. The story of modern disinformation begins with the post-Russian Revolution clash between communism and capitalism, which would come to define the Cold War. But as crafty as such so-called active measures have become, they are not new. More than four months before the 2016 election, he warned that Russian military intelligence was “carefully planning and timing a high-stakes political campaign” to disrupt the democratic process. ![]() ![]() Thomas Rid, a renowned expert on technology and national security, was one of the first to sound the alarm. Spy agencies pour vast resources into hacking, leaking, and forging data, often with the goal of weakening the very foundation of liberal democracy: trust in facts. ![]() We live in the age of disinformation-of organized deception. ![]() ![]() I haven’t experienced grief or the joys of marriage then. I was a different person when I read P.S. It was a book that I thought didn’t need a sequel. The release of this sequel shocked me like how Gerry’s letters probably shocked Holly. More than 15 years later since I read that book, I am now married and Ahern has come out with a sequel, Postscript. ![]() I watched the movie adaptation in 2007 featuring Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank far too many times. I was young and far from getting married then but this book stayed with me. Some of the letters asked Holly to sing at a karaoke, go on a trip with her friends to a destination where they almost had their honeymoon, and plant some sunflower seeds. The letters, which came every month, contained adventures and some meaningful activities that Gerry wanted his wife to embark on after he had passed on. It was about a series of letters left by a husband (Gerry) – who died of brain tumor at 30 years old – to his grieving wife (Holly). ![]() We earn a commission every time you shop through the affiliate links below. This review also contains some spoilers. ![]() Editor’s note: #RapplerReads is a project by the BrandRap team. ![]() ![]() ![]() The last time I tried to get an agent, for a different book, I didn’t ask for help and I endured a Chinese water torture of drip-drip-drip rejections that came in at roughly the same slow rate that I was querying. “I got offers from two top literary agents, Richard Curtis and Victoria Skurnick. ” Īuthor of a dozen fiction and nonfiction books including Dispatches from the Front (Henry Holt and Oxford University Press), The 10 Best of Everything (National Geographic), Cricket (New American Library), The Life and Times of Homer Sincere (Peter Mayer/Overlook Press), Mindstyles–Lifestyles (Price Stern Sloan), Blueprinting (Harper Collins), Self Health, The Life Long Fitness Book (Holt, Rinehardt, Winston), The Cigar Connoisseur (Clarkson Potter), While the Music Played (Blackstone Publishing), and Spinning History (Skyhorse Publishing) ![]() ![]() ![]() You just can’t do it alone today as an author. I’ve served as Creative Director of the TIME Incorporated Magazine Group Director of Time World News Service, a Founding Director of TIME-Life Films Executive Producer for both the CBS and NBC Television Networks and Producer/ Director: Movies of the Week: CBS Cinema Center Films and Universal MCA. I now have two different agents for my work, and book deals with both Skyhorse Publishing and Blackstone Publishing. “ Finding Mark has been both a treat and a treasure. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An invaluable book.'-Salman Rushdie Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. This new edition includes the classic introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, in addition to a brand-new foreword by Guardian journalist Gary Younge, which examines the book's continued significance today as we face Brexit and a revival of right wing nationalism. 'A fascinating account of the growth of the black community in Britain over the past centuries.'-Guardian 'For this retrieval of the lost histories of black Britain, Mr. By rewriting black Britons into the British story, showing where they influenced political traditions, social institutions and cultural life, was - and is - a deeply effective counter to a racist and nationalist agenda. ![]() Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of. Stretching back to the Roman conquest, encompassing the court of Henry VIII, and following a host of characters from Mary Seacole to the abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, Peter Fryer paints a picture of two thousand years of Black presence in Britain.įirst published in the '80s, amidst race riots and police brutality, Fryer's history performed a deeply political act revealing how Africans, Asians and their descendants had long been erased from British history. Staying Power is recognised as the definitive history of black people in Britain, an epic story that begins with the Roman conquest and continues to this day. Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. Staying Power is a panoramic history of black Britons. ![]() ![]() ![]() "One of the best parts about writing Shine Bright was to merge the memoir with the biography," Smith says. Smith has, in her own way, been leading others down that path for over 30 years, in her work as a writer and editor for several publications, including Vibe and Billboard, and currently as the host of the podcast Black Girl Songbook, a show that Smith says, "exists to give Black women the credit that we deserve." Shine Bright, which releases on April 19, is part memoir, part history of musical icons like Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin, but it also shines light on some of music's more unheralded figures like The Dixie Cups and Deniece Williams. "I feel a commonality with women who try to make things, women who are loud, women who say things, women who write things, talk about themselves, sing about themselves," Smith says in an interview with NPR. ![]() ![]() This path she describes is one that positions the music not just as entertainment, but as an integral part of Smith's life and kinship with other Black women. That question is an acknowledgement of the countless Black women who have shifted and shaped American popular music, and whose influence on Smith makes up the subject of Shine Bright. In her forthcoming book, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith writes, "Who else but a Black woman would lead me, or at least take me on trial runs?" Maureen Mahon's Black Diamond Queens, Danyel Smith's Shine Bright and Daphne Brooks' Liner Notes for the Revolution celebrate Black women's role in popular music. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Contrary to claims from the political right, the purpose of the series was never to literally demand that “1776” be erased as a landmark, nor to make every white person feel like the villain in our collective narrative. In this medium, the game was already changed - showrunner Shoshana Guy worked on Netflix’s High on the Hog, another probably superior predecessor - and The 1619 Project is just a participant.įor those who missed out, the premise of the series is that the arrival of the first slave ship in the colonies is a national origin story of sorts. ![]() On the page, The 1619 Project cast a long intellectual shadow, but on TV it’s in the shadow cast by Raoul Peck’s pugnacious Exterminate All the Brutes, by Sophia Nahli Allison’s lyrical E yes on the Prize: Hallowed Ground, by several shows from print transplant Sacha Jenkins ( Everything’s Gonna Be All White) and by more PBS documentaries than I care to count. Discovery Deal Sends Max Series, DC and 'Harry Potter' Universe to Canada's Bell Media ![]() ![]() The two just read the Rot books tonight and, yes, another gold-filled mine. ![]() Our son read each book to his little sister and they laughed, laughed, laughed. The Narwhall and Jelly series is absolute gold. His big sister has read through most of Dav Pilkey and Mo Willems so when I found, through Scholastic, Clanton’s Narwhal and Jelly books I thought he’d give them a chance. ![]() I stumbled upon his books when I was looking for a grip of books for my newly-independent reader, our 7-year-old son. His website might be my favorite because it looks like it’s been typed on a fresh piece of really good paper. That is the just one part of the Clanton’s sense of humor. “Mud between my toes! Mud in my nose!” - Rotīen Clanton is a writer and illustrator or, as he calls himself, an “authorstrator”. Clanton and why you should request all of his books from your local library or splurge and buy them through my Bookshop. I was only going to review one out of the five Ben Clanton books, but I could not decide which one I enjoyed the most! So, rather than review a specific book, I thought I would just introduce you to Mr. ![]() ![]() I decided to make a conscious effort to focus on physical beauty in the world around me, instead of thinking about how much I missed home. A few years ago, when I moved to France I suffered badly with home-sickness. The idea of getting a happier, healthier mind from our physical world struck home with me. ![]() Pops of bright colour, curves and circles, abundance, symmetrical shapes and lightness. Finding joy in our physical worldĪs Fetell Lee looked she started to find patterns in the things bringing us joy. Universally joyful items include: flamingoes, confetti, swimming pools, rainbows, bubbles, google eyes, ice-cream cones with sprinkles, fireworks and cherry blossoms. In addition she found that some items that bring joy transcend age, gender and ethnicity. Something that makes us smile or want to jump up and down.As a result of her research Ingrid found that we humans find joy in inanimate objects. ![]() She defines joy as a strongly positive feeling felt in the moment. She calls this the Aesthetics of Joy sensations of joy felt through physical design. In her talk Ingrid Fetell Lee discusses how tangible items can give us the intangible feeling of joy. The Aesthetics of Joy: An Inspirational TED Talk This talk really chimed with me as some of the principles I have already been applying in my own life without really realising it. “Where Joy Hides and Where to Find It” by the author and designer, Ingrid Fetell Lee. I want to share with you a TED Talk I watched last year. ![]() |