![]() Lesson 2: Predators will rise again and domestic farm animals will be their lunch. With over 5,000 factories to produce nothing but plastic bags just in India, we’d do well to think about when we really need to use them. They usually feed on organic material, but all of the plastic particles passed right through their digestive track and came back out with no effect or harm done.Įventually, even plankton will be able to “eat” plastic, but it’ll stay around forever. Scientists have verified this by feeding such tiny particles to bottom-feeding worms. Eventually, all plastic will be crushed into tiny particles and fibers. Nevertheless, these will stay around, letting plastic reach places its never gone before, thanks to the wind and water carrying it everywhere. Rain, wind and the oceans can erode plastic, just like rocks, but that only makes it smaller, not disappear. Plastic cannot be broken down by microorganisms over time and therefore, will leave an impact on nature forever. Something we humans invented only 70 years ago, but that cannot possibly be biodegraded by nature and turned back into its original form: plastic. However, we’ve managed to create an exception. When we die our bodies decay and even our bones eventually disintegrate and become part of the soil again. ![]() Usually everything that comes from nature is returned back to it eventually. ![]() ![]() If you want to save this summary for later, download the free PDF and read it whenever you want.ĭownload PDF Lesson 1: Since plastic doesn’t biodegrade, it’ll be around forever.Īshes to ashes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall. Beneath both is Hall's own tale - of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. ![]() With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave RevoltsĪ stunning, imaginative work of history that transforms our understanding of slavery and resistance ![]() ![]() ![]() Capitol on January 6, 2021, was a terrible day for American democracy, but many people dared to hope that at least it would break the fever that had overcome the Republican Party and banish Trump's relentless lies about the stealing of the 2020 election. That is not what happened. Instead, “the big steal” has become dogma among an ever-higher percentage of American Republicans. What happened to the Republican Party, and America, during the Trump presidency is a story we more or less think we know. What has happened to the party since, it turns out, is even more disquieting. The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new breed of Republicans-led by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Madison Cawthorn-far from moving on from Trump, have taken the politics of hysteria to even greater extremes and brought American democracy to the edge One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 ![]() ![]() Rose and Thorn came back in Superman #336 (June, 1979, by Len Wein and Curt Swan), and in two issues of Brave and the Bold ( #188 and #189, written by Kanigher, and art by Jim Aparo) with Batman. Kanigher wrote most of the back ups (with Cary Bates writing a few), and other artists on the series included Gray Morrow, Dick Giordano, Rich Buckler and Don Heck by the back-ups end in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #130. This caused Rose to develop the split personality of the Thorn (hiding her short blond hair with a brown wig).and working to take the mobsters down, occasionally making a wild and wacky Lois Lane cover (and co-starring in the main feature). Rose Forrest was a police detective's daughter, traumatized by the death of her dad at the hands of the 100 (an evil crime syndicate based in Metropolis). ![]() ![]() Wonder Woman faces off against alien invaders, foreign terrorists and the occasional super-villain while Steve keeps trying to get her to quit the crimefighting and tie the knot. ![]() We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting at 182.96. Reading the Kanigher era of Wonder Woman, I must say he gives us a stronger WW than I'd thought from occasional reprints. The second Rose and Thorn started in Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #105 (October, 1970) in a story written by Kanigher, with art by Ross Andru (who had worked with Kanigher on Wonder Woman as well). Buy Showcase Presents: Wonder Woman by Robert Kanigher, Ross Andru, Mike Esposito online at Alibris. ![]() ![]() Although she’s mended fences with her mother now, she’s desperate for her parents to reconcile. She’s 21 and although she took the break up of her parents very hard, blaming first Bethanne, and then Grant’s new wife Tiffany. She needs to sort out how she feels about Grant once and for all and a road trip might be a perfect way to do that.Īnnie is Bethanne’s daughter. Bethanne offers to accompany her, thinking that she too could do with getting away for a while. When Ruth runs into Bethanne at a cafe one day, she spills the beans about her trip. Her daughter Robin doesn’t approve though, thinking that Ruth is far too old (at just 68) to do such a trip. Her workaholic husband cancelled holiday after holiday and now that he’s passed on, Ruth is determined to do the cross country trip she has always dreamed of, seeing the sights she’s wanted to see for years. Ruth, Bethanne’s former mother-in-law is planning to drive from their hometown in Seattle to her 50 year high school reunion in Florida. And he’s not making any secret of that fact. He’s repentant and he wants Bethanne back. Now he and his wife are divorced and it seems like Grant has realised that he’s made the biggest mistake of his life. Walked out to be with someone else, who he later married. ![]() ![]() It’s been six years since Bethanne’s husband Grant walked out on her and their two children. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his relative youth, the forty-three-year-old Pope was an old-school West Pointer and a topographical engineer-surveyor whose star had risen with several early successes on western fronts in the Civil War. The previous November, the day after the Sand Creek massacre, Grant summoned Major General John Pope to his Virginia headquarters to put such plans in motion. Grant, the Army’s commander in chief, had long planned such a moment. North of the Platte, it meant killing Red Cloud and Sitting Bull. South of the Arkansas, this meant eradicating the Kiowa and the Comanche, who were blocking movement along the Santa Fe Trail into New Mexico. “raw state militias patrolling the west with seasoned troops better capable of confronting the Indians of the Great Plains. ![]() ![]() History also has come to Sebald’s prose in the form of real documents: receipts, memos, letters, photographs, and many others illustrating the multiple layers of novelistic space and time. Sebald repeatedly wrote about them as a historian of literature. Sebald’s hero is a lone traveler making his journey through the countries and times inheriting the literary pilgrimages of Rousseau and Gottfried Keller, Adalbert Stifter and Robert Walser. The author makes conscious attempts to detect the unmistakable traces of disasters, to understand their complexity and to commemorate them with a power of the word. The subject of the essays and novels by Sebald ( Vertigo, 1990 The Emigrants, 1996 The Rings of Saturn, 1995 Austerlitz, 2001) is a long-standing and recent history of Germany and Europe from the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London in the XVII century until the Holocaust in the XX century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bram’s father describes the bullhook “This is a guide – a liaison between you and your charge, to express your desires to the elephant”. It makes a strong case for the difference between good training and abusive training. Having formed strong opinions on circuses, elephants logging and especially the use of the bullhook on elephants, this book was challenging me from a series of different angles. ![]() It was a book that, above all, made me think. A storm hits them near the coast of India, they are shipwrecked and so begins their adventures through India, where they face bandits, revolutionaries, cruel animal trainers As the circus is sold to an American owner, and Bram, faced with being separated from his best friend, stows on the boat. The two are born on the same day and grow up together forming a close and loyal friendship, Bram’s father is the elephant trainer for the circus in Germany. The story describes the friendship and adventures between a young boy, Bram, and an elephant named Modoc. The first in the series of Elephant books I have been reading was “ Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived” by Ralph Helfer. ![]() ![]() But where, wonders D.D., is 6-year-old Sophie? What’s happened to the daughter everyone says Tessa loves so deeply? And, most importantly, most infuriatingly, why isn’t Tessa more eager to help the police search for her? Was it already too late for Sophie? And could Tessa possibly be complicit? The all but unflappable D.D. She fired them, Tessa explains, and one look at the severe bruising of her face-a broken cheekbone among other injuries-testifies in her behalf: A battered wife has, with considerable justification, shot her abuser. This takes place in Tessa’s kitchen, where her husband has only recently lain dead, three bullets in his chest. In fact, if asked to furnish a list prioritizing life-callings, it’s a no-brainer that both women would rank only one item before it: motherhood, which might, curiously enough, bear directly on the instant hostility that newly pregnant D.D. Tessa, a Massachusetts state trooper, and D.D., a Boston homicide cop, both view law enforcement with high seriousness. She is as stubborn about that kind of thing as D.D. For instance, Tessa believes unshakably in the doctrine of my way or get lost, convinced that her way has been sanctioned by whatever gods there may be and is consequently the only sensible way out of trouble and strife. ![]() Warren, who might well be her mirror image. ![]() Tessa Leoni is smart, brave, resourceful and quirky, among other character traits that bring to mind, yes, D.D. In her fifth case ( Live to Tell, 2010, etc.), Sergeant Detective D.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() We don't allow personal recommendation posts. ![]() We also encourage discussion about developments in the book world and we have a flair system. We love original content and self-posts! Thoughts, discussion questions, epiphanies and interesting links about authors and their work. 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