![]() ![]() ![]() Despite her husband Linden's geniune love for her, and a tenuous trust amoung her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape - to find her twin brother and go home.īut Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. ![]() What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb - males only live to age twenty-five and females only live to age twenty. The third book in The Chemical Garden Trilogy, following on from WITHER and FEVER. ![]()
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![]() ![]() "Kubrick and Clarke had met in New York City in 1964 to discuss the possibility of a collaborative film project. This is in contrast to the human astronauts, who speak in terse monotone, as do all other actors in the film" (Wikipedia article on HAL 9000, accessed 05-24-2009). ![]() He is, however, portrayed with a soft voice and a conversational manner. "HAL is never visualized as a single entity. HAL is depicted as being capable not only of speech recognition, facial recognition, and natural language processing, but also lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting emotions, expressing emotions, reasoning, and chess, in addition to maintaining all systems on an interplanetary voyage. HAL is usually represented only as his television camera "eyes" that can be seen throughout the Discovery spaceship. "HAL ( Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer) is an artificial intelligence, the sentient on-board computer of the spaceship Discovery. Perhaps the star of the film was the HAL 9000 computer. Clarke, captured imaginations with the idea of a computer that could see, speak, hear, and “think.” In 1968 the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, written by American film director Stanley Kubrick in collaboration with science fiction writer and futurist Arthur C. ![]() ![]() ![]() All of Carlsen’s early works are uncommon, particularly in the first edition and in this condition. This title is very difficult to find, especially with the dust jacket. This is a very solid volume that would be a great addition to any collection of books for young readers. Evidence of a previous water spot spanning front flap and front panel (upper right corner), about 3” in diameter, but has only minor effect on the jacket and no impact on the book. ![]() Fully intact DJ with minor chips and tears. Stated first printing and date of 1967 included on title page, confirming first edition per Houghton Mifflin standard. No other marks throughout the rest of the book. Owners inscription on FFEP (written by a child) and name also written on page ends (please see photo). The spine is very tightand in great shape. ![]() “Monty and the Tree House” by Ruth Christoffer Carlsen Illustrated by Leonard Shortall Published in 1967 by Houghton Mifflin Co 1st edition 183 pages Book condition: Very good. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a former economist, I find their division and specialisation of labour fascinating. If you’re like me and curious about the behaviour of eusocial groups and superorganisms, the leafcutter ants are a wonderful place to start. This post will summarise the lessons that I took from Wilson’s work, focusing more so on evolutionary complexity than on his response to meaning on existence itself. He contends that the study of biology and pre-history is fundamental to understanding modern history and cultural evolution and that the study of super organisms, eusocial species and ecology can teach us a lot about human nature. As the title suggests, Wilson approaches several existential topics from his viewpoint as a biologist and naturalist. ![]() Biologist Edward Wilson wrote a wonderful book in 2014, The Meaning of Human Existence. ![]() ![]() The title story of the book is about the family relationships between three generations: the father, his daughter, Ruma, and her son, Akash. Four of the eight stories ("Hell-Heaven", "Nobody's Business", "Once in a Lifetime", and "Year's End") were previously published in The New Yorker Part One "Unaccustomed Earth" The title of the collection is taken from a passage in "The Custom-House," the preface to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book was Lahiri's first to top The New York Times Best Seller list, where it debuted at #1. As with much of Lahiri's work, Unaccustomed Earth considers the lives of Indian American characters and how they deal with their mixed cultural environment. ![]() It is her second collection of stories, following Interpreter of Maladies (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). ![]() Unaccustomed Earth is a collection of short stories from American author Jhumpa Lahiri. ![]() ![]() This event is free and open to the public, but proof of purchase of The Black and the Blue from Left Bank Books will be required to enter the signing line. ![]() Telling this story demonstrates nothing but raw courage for a black police officer who wants the truth to prevail." -John Lewis "This is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the intersection of race and police brutality in America. Using gut-wrenching reportage, on-the-ground research, and personal accounts garnered by interviews with police and government officials around the country, Horace presents an insider's examination of police tactics, which he concludes is an "archaic system" built on "toxic brotherhood." Yet it was after seven years of service when Horace found himself face-down on the ground with a gun pointed at his head by a white fellow officer, that he fully understood the racism seething within America's police departments. Matthew Horace was an officer at the federal, state, and local level for 28 years working in every state in the country. ![]() Left Bank Books welcomes law enforcement and security contributor Matthew Horace, who will sign and discuss his new book, The Black and the Blue: A Cop Reveals the Crimes, Racism, and Injustice in America's Law Enforcement, with co-author Ron Harris! ![]() ![]() Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Each page is checked manually before printing. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. NO changes have been made to the original text. ![]() Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Formidable heroines and a thoughtful feminist myth-ology distinguish debut author Forna’s West Africa–inspired fantasy trilogy launch. Deka enlists, relieved to find a place where she might finally belong, but the more she learns about deathshrieks and alaki, the more she questions Otera’s patriarchal tenets and the emperor’s true intentions. After two months of torture, a mysterious woman, White Hands, extends an invitation: come to the capital, where the emperor is assembling an army of quasi-immortal “alaki” like Deka to combat deathshrieks. ![]() Multiple attempted executions reveal that Deka is both gold-blooded and seemingly unkillable. When the ceremony is interrupted by deathshrieks-vicious monsters with agonizing screams-Deka miraculously repels the creatures, only to be dubbed a demon. Sturdy brown-skinned Deka is an outcast in Irfut, where villagers skew thin and blond, and she craves the rite’s validation. ![]() Those who bleed red when cut are judged fit for marriage and motherhood those who bleed gold are deemed impure and banished. All 16-year-old girls in Otera must endure the Ritual of Purity. ![]() ![]() ![]() "This was a GREAT read - the main characters are flawed and imperfect. But to do so, she must betray both her family and her Amish past-and expose a dark secret that could destroy her. Kate vows to stop the killer before he strikes again. She's certain she's come to terms with her past-until the first body is discovered in a snowy field. Her Amish roots and big city law enforcement background make her the perfect candidate. ![]() Now, a wealth of experience later, Kate has been asked to return to Painters Mill as Chief of Police. Kate Burkholder, a young Amish girl, survived the terror of the Slaughterhouse Killer but came away from its brutality with the realization that she no longer belonged with the Amish. In the aftermath of the violence, the town was left with a sense of fragility, a loss of innocence. But sixteen years ago, a series of brutal murders shattered the peaceful farming community. In the sleepy rural town of Painters Mill, Ohio, the Amish and "English" residents have lived side by side for two centuries. Now the subject of the Lifetime original movie, An Amish Murder A killer is preying on sacred ground. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile Leon's questioning his professional future, his marriage and his fashion sense (he buys a Harley and starts dressing "like a chubby old hip-hopper"). With her three kids in college, Marilyn works part-time at a crafts store, feeds her neglected creative muse with various artsy projects, and jaws with her friends in their good-natured regular "Private Pity Party." Having always been there for others-her engineer husband, Leon her drug-addicted sister, Joy, and Joy's two kids her live-in mother-in-law, Arthurine and her mother, Lovey-Marilyn wonders what it would be like to think of her own needs for once. ![]() Her candid, spirited narrator is Marilyn Grimes, a 40-something wife and mother who's beginning to feel unappreciated by her family and underwhelmed by her 25-year marriage. ) does what she does best in her long-awaited sixth novel. Bestseller McMillan ( A Day Late and a Dollar Short ![]() |