![]() ![]() Shortly after graduating from Princeton, Preston published First Light: The Search for the Edge of the Universe (1987), a non-fiction book about astronomers and the Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain. He wrote his dissertation on 19th century American narrative nonfiction writing. After his undergraduate work, Preston attended Princeton University where he earned a Ph.D. As an English major at Pomona, Preston was inspired intellectually and ultimately graduated summa cum laude. Not to be dissuaded, Preston contacted the Dean of the University on a weekly basis until he was finally accepted. Preston became determined to attend Pomona College in Southern California, despite having missed the application deadline by several months. Preston graduated from Wellesley High School in 1972 but was initially rejected from every college to which he applied. ![]() I read, at age ten, about astronomer Edwin Hubble’s discovery that the galaxies are moving away from one another, that the universe is expanding, and that it began with the Big Bang. ![]() He grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and was drawn to books throughout his childhood, particularly scientific works. Richard Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on August 5, 1954. ![]()
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![]() Whether reinterpreting Japan's momentous 1889 constitution, or exploring the significance of the first constitution to enfranchise all adult women on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific in 1838, this is one of the most original global histories in decades. ![]() ![]() Throughout, Colley demonstrates how constitutions evolved in tandem with warfare, and how they have functioned to advance empire as well as promote nations, and worked to exclude as well as liberate. Both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia, with her remarkable Nakaz, to Sierra Leone's James Africanus Horton, to Tunisia's Khayr-al-Din, a creator of the first modern Islamic constitution. ![]() Starting not with the United States, but with the Corsican constitution of 1755, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen moves through every continent, disrupting accepted narratives. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that-with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels-retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Today Will Be Different is going to delight the many, many fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” “Truly smart and deep and funny - worthy of laughing out loud.” “Brisk, amusing and engaging… Semple is a champion observer of the human condition.” – Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl and Dark Places I’ve started quoting it as if it’s already a classic–which, no doubt, it will be.” I’ve scribbled exclamation points and underlined passages on almost every single page so I can go back and savor. “ Today Will Be Different is so unique, so smart, so funny, so beautifully humane, so utterly of our times, it’s astonishing. This author is on her way to becoming a national treasure.” “Few will be indifferent to this achingly funny and very dear book. – Cover of New York Times Book Review (full review here) “ poetic, seriously funny and brainy dream of a novel - ‘Mrs. – Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies ![]() This book is searingly honest and hilarious and dark and neurotic. “I had the uncanny feeling, while reading Today Will Be Different, that Maria Semple had somehow snuck into my house when I was asleep, took an x-ray image of my heart, then painted it by hand in neon colors. ![]() About a woman who wakes up determined to be her best self… but then life happens. Today Will Be Different The instant international bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That gunshot in the night killed Stuart Kofer, a county sheriff’s deputy. Then his old friend and mentor Judge Omar Noose (whose name sounds like he wandered out of a Dickens novel) hands him another of those apparently unwinnable, and probably utterly unprofitable, cases. Jake is suing on behalf of the infant daughter who wasn’t in the car that night his witnesses say the crossing signals weren’t working. ![]() His highest hopes for a solid payday rest on a lawsuit he’s pursuing involving a collision between a car and a train that left a family of four dead. This book is set in 1990, just five years after the events of A Time to Kill, and Jake is still hustling for cases in Clanton. Grisham wrote Sycamore Row, a sequel to A Time to Kill, in 2013, and he’s brought Jake back for a third act in A Time for Mercy. Its lawyer hero, Jake Brigance, took on a seemingly unwinnable case boiling with issues of race that split the fictional small town of Clanton, Miss., and nearly cost him his life. ![]() His first novel, A Time to Kill, published in 1988 and made into a hit movie in 1996, grew directly out of his practice of law in a small town in Mississippi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosie’s only hope for salvation may lie in a far more dangerous place, where she must become her own myth and the woman she never knew she could be. He's very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason-Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery…a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. ![]() But leaving her husband, Norman, for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. "What woke her up was a single drop of blood, no larger than a dime."Īfter surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels finally summons the courage to flee for her life. Relentlessly paced and brilliantly orchestrated.fueled by an air of danger immediate and overwhelming” ( Publishers Weekly). The #1 national bestseller about a woman who escapes an abusive marriage is “one of Stephen King’s most engrossing horror novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The more than 1600 varieties are divided into extant and extinct groups, and all known facts concerning the history and description of each apple are given, plus a listing of synonyms.Īppendices include a bibliography, a description of nurseries, which sell old southern apple varieties, and an index of more than 3,600 apple names and synonyms. ![]() ![]() This is followed by an exhaustive compilation of apple varieties grown in the South before 1928. Old Southern Apples opens with an overview of apple history, culture, and uses in the agrarian South. It is truly astonishing to learn that Southerners developed more than 1300 apple varieties and grew another 300 varieties of northern and European origins. Through the selection and grafting of wild seedlings, Southerners developed unique apple varieties adapted to the climate and soils of the South and suited to specific uses such as drying, cider, apple butter and winter keeping. ![]() Although apples became a major commercial crop in parts of the South in the late 1800s, for three hundred years southern farm families grew apples as an important, year-round food source. Old Southern Apples is a delightful and definitive review of the history and uses of apples in the South from Maryland to Texas and Florida to Arkansas. ![]() ![]() Using that measurement, I made one really long trapezoid out of cardboard to lay on top. Then I used a flexible measuring tape to measure how much cardboard I would need for the top. I then clipped them to a heavy duty iPad stand, so that it could hold all the weight. The sides are just two large pear shapes about 2.5 feet long that are made out of cardboard. I first found someone that did something similar here, and then just made my own template. I had some extra time so I thought it would be even better to make the mouth 3D!! It was surprisingly simple to make. I thought it would be fun to do some sort of ball toss into a dinosaur’s mouth. You can download a copy of the Red Ted Art tea cup template here, you just need to give them your email and they’ll give it to you for free! ![]() For that I used some edging or pattern scissors. This one I got directly from a great website called Red Ted Art–all I did was add the big dinosaur bite out of the cup. ![]() You can pick up a copy of the instructions and coloring sheet here. ![]() ![]()
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