![]() The result: the birth of ABSURDIMALS – humor, thoughtful lessons, creative characters as drawn by illustrator Melissa Aker Spears – in a debut book that is so very successful it surely will be followed by many others. ![]() ![]() Finding reinforcement in paintings created in high school she has elected to combine art and philosophy in a manner that will allow children to grow into world citizens who appreciate and respect one another, regardless of differences, while learning to love themselves, absurdities and all. While she is a lawyer by trade, by spirit she is a humanitarian whose mission is finding ways to promote love, acceptance of individuality, and cherishing uniqueness. Humanist author Gwendolyn Javor is Hungarian by birth and moved to the US to attend university and law school in New York City. ‘I’m proud that I’m an Absurdimal because I’m proud to be a Belephant’ ![]()
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The New York Times bestselling book, a brilliant companion to the mega-selling classic Press Here, is now gently compressed into a toddler-friendly board book. gently.” A page turn reveals the spot with the blue rubbed in it’s green now, but imperfectly mixed, so the original yellow and blue are still visible. ![]() “With one finger take a little bit of the blue. : Mix It Up (9781452140575) by Tullet, Herve and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]() ![]() Smudges of red, yellow, and blue paint are seen on the left, with another spot of yellow on the right all are in vivid close-up and look wet to the touch. Herve once again displays his unique genius and vision, creating a work that is a glorious and richly satisfying companion to Press Here. Tap, tap, tap.” This time, though, Tullet has something to teach readers. 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With dedications throughout this volume to Clark Ashton Smith, Edgar Allan Poe, K.A. ![]() At 18 she started practicing Soo Bahk Do, a Korean karate, where she stayed for four years, getting her black belt and taught as an instructor for a brief period of time before leaving. When she was 12 she started practicing a shotokan Japanese karate mix (called 'American' karate) and Judo at Red Dragon until she reached 3rd class brown belt at 15. With this new treasure trove of horror and weird authors, she began to broaden her writing.Īside from writing, her other passion is martial arts. Lovecraft, George Sterling, Donald Sidney-Fryer, and David Park Barnitz. With a nudge from a new friend, she discovered a new kind of horror, dark fantasy, and weird work from authors such as Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. She wrote up until her senior year of high school and then took a break before starting up again after college in 2011. ![]() ![]() Tolkien, Piers Anthony, and Brian Jacques who also influenced her work. ![]() Her favorite authors of horror and fantasy at that time were Stephen King, Dean Koontz, J.R.R. Upon discovering the macabre work of Edgar Allan Poe, she took a borderline obsessive interest in writing horror and dark fantasy poetry and even a few fantasy novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century. Shoshana Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads. How will this fusion of capitalism and the digital shape our values and define our future? Profits now depend not only on predicting our behaviour but modifying it too. ![]() Tech companies gather our information online and sell it to the highest bidder, whether government or retailer. Technologies that were meant to liberate us have deepened inequality and stoked divisions. ![]() ![]() In ARU SHAH AND THE NECTAR OF IMMORTALITY, the Pandavas are in series trouble. There are so many fantastic messages in this story as all the Pandavas face trials to recover their celestial weapons - about finding inner strength, harnessing fears instead of hiding from them, trusting your instincts, and really showing up for your life, especially when things get tough. All other mature content is pretty mild, with one kiss and some innuendo. ![]() Many are killed in a final battle, including one character close to the main characters, but there's less fighting in this volume of the series overall and no gore. Their quest to stop the world from ending brings them to the heavens of the Otherworld and back and involves fighting against supernatural animal creatures. ![]() Five of the characters are reincarnated Pandavas - demigod warrior princes - and are girls between 12 and 16 years old. Even then, you may need the glossary in the back to keep all the Hindu gods and terms straight. Definitely read the first four books in the series before tackling this one, especially if you're unfamiliar with the vast world of Indian mythology. ![]() This imprint was started by the hugely popular Percy Jackson author and aims to bring a wider variety of mythological fantasies to kids, written by authors who grew up in a particular tradition. Parents need to know that Roshani Chokshi's Aru Shah and the Nectar of Immortality is the fifth and final book in the Pandava series published by Rick Riordan Presents. ![]() ![]() ![]() But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was.Īrranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. ![]() Could it be that we know so little of the radical King because such courage defies our market-driven world?” -Cornel West, from the IntroductionĮvery year, Dr. The response of the radical King to our catastrophic moment can be put in one word: revolution-a revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life, and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens. “The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. ![]() King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm X ![]() |