![]() ![]() The two feuded over an insignificant matter before his trip and Quackenbush assumed that it was related to his father's death. His father died in a traffic collision several days before Christmas while on a business trip when Quackenbush was nine years old. His father, Roy, worked as an engineer his mother, Virginia (Arbogast), was employed as a secretary. His ancestors immigrated to New York from the Netherlands during the 17th century. Quackenbush was born in Los Angeles on July 23, 1929. ![]() He is noted for creating the characters Henry the Duck, Detective Mole, and Miss Mallard. He authored 110 books and illustrated 60 more by 1999. Robert Mead Quackenbush (J– May 17, 2021) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Her supervisor attempts to unnerve her by showing her his torture chambers, but she barely reacts. ![]() With a cover as a madam running a brothel, her official mission is informing on loose lipped politicians. Meanwhile, Aleksei’s illegitimate daughter, Tamara, has secured a post with the Tsar’s secret police, The Third Section. When Dmitri discovers two dead soldiers, whose wounds match those witnessed thirty years earlier, he knows the creatures he helped his father hunt have returned. ![]() His son Dmitri is in Sevastapol, fighting off the French and the English. Taking place 30 years after the events of Thirteen Years Later, The Third Section (the third book in Jasper Kent’s Danilov Quintet) follows the children of Aleksei Danilov. Why I read it: Enjoyed immensely the first two books in the series Twelve, and Thirteen Years Later Where I got it: received a review copy from the friendly folks at Pyr ![]() ![]() In this essay, I intend to elaborate on the role of institutions in the performance of economies and illustrate my analysis from economic history. Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and. Institutions provide the incentive structure of an economy as that structure evolves, it shapes the direction of economic change towards growth, stagnation, or decline. They evolve incrementally, connecting the past with the present and the future history in consequence is largely a story of institutional evolution in which the historical performance of economies can only be understood as a part of a sequential story. Norths institutions, institutional change, and economic performance - Author: Charles N. Together with the standard constraints of economics they define the choice set and therefore determine transaction and production costs and hence the profitability and feasibility of engaging in economic activity. Discovery, transaction costs, and growth: Essay on Douglass C. Throughout history, institutions have been devised by human beings to create order and reduce uncertainty in exchange. ![]() They consist of both informal constraints (sanctions, taboos, customs, traditions, and codes of conduct), and formal rules (constitutions, laws, property rights). ![]() Institutions are the humanly devised constraints that structure political, economic, and social interaction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Another posthumous release, and only very recently, is Everything On It – again combining over 100 poems with delightful drawings. In 2005, Runny Babbit: a Billy Sook, was released – apparently Silverstein had been creating this collection of spoonerisms for over 20 years. Leaving behind an astounding legacy of words, written, sung, and performed in theatres, Shel Silverstein died in 1999. Silverstein began his creative life as a cartoonist and only well into that career began to add writing for children. While the words captivate and amuse in his written collections, the charming illustrations are just as entertaining. Award nominations came his way for writing chart-topping songs like A Boy Named Sue and The Unicorn (bet you know the words yourself to those classics!) as well as many other more serious ones performed by musicians like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Marianne Faithfull, and Peter, Paul & Mary. ![]() Collections of his poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up and A Light in The Attic, are nostalgic favourites of several generations now. Shel Silverstein is an icon of the written word – poetic, lyrical or prosaic. ![]() ![]() The reason Cilfford is red? Well, Norman Bridwell just happened to have a large supply of red paint on hand! Clifford, the Big Red Dog went on to become a series of books that have delighted toddlers and young children even since. ![]() The author says that as a child he had always dreamed of having a dog large enough to ride, the publisher’s encouraged him to make the dog even bigger. She was the name of Norman’s Bridwell’s own daughter. In the story, Clifford’s owner and best friend is named Emily. He was 86.Ĭlifford, the Big Red Dog first made an appearance in bookstore in 1963. There I learned that, Norman Bridwell, the creator of Clifford the Big Red Dog, died this past December. ![]() I went to a used bookstore (surprise, surprise) this past week which had a section featuring authors who passed away in 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() E.1557-2007, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London/Estate of Curtis MoffaĬecil Beaton began to pursue photography at a very early age. A premier portrait photographerĬecil Beaton by Curtis Moffat, Gelatin silver print, about 1930. Photographs, diaries, personal letters and press cuttings combine to tell the fascinating story of a magnificent collaboration between crown and camera. In 1987 she, in turn, bequeathed the archive to the V&A. His detailed diary accounts reveal the complexities of each sitting, from the intense planning and excitement beforehand to the pressures of achieving the perfect shot.īeaton bequeathed his archive of royal portraits to his devoted secretary Eileen Hose. ![]() The most memorable of Beaton's images combine the splendour of historic royal portrait painting with an intimacy that only photography and film can convey. ![]() Over the next three decades he would be invited to photograph the Queen on many significant occasions, including her Coronation Day in 1953. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton in 1942. The photographs of the British royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) were central to shaping the monarchy's public image in the mid-20th century. Cecil Beaton: about the Exhibition 8 February - 22 April 2012 ![]() ![]() In 1998, Javaka Steptoe was won the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award for In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall. This was particularly significant for the artist because he is the son of the late children’s book author, illustrator, and Caldecott Medalist, John Steptoe (1949-1989). Publication of this book also marked the debut of Javaka Steptoe as a children’s book illustrator. ![]() While focusing on the work of African American poets, In Daddy’s Arms I Am Tall is intended as a tribute to all fathers, no matter what their racial or cultural backgrounds. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly described Javaka Steptoe’s stunning collage illustrations as “akin to strolling through an art gallery: wooden floor boards, burlap, buttons, pennies, seashells, tin, and basketball leather are among the ingredients assembled here.” The innovative and award-winning illustrations by Javaka Steptoe bring the poems to life and support the potpourri of voices resonating throughout the book. ![]() The poems reflect the contributions of both new and established African American writers whose outlooks on fatherhood vary widely. Exuberance, grace, honor, pain, and humor all have their place in these intergenerational works. The 12 poems in this book deliver an important message to all readers about the powerful bonds between fathers, children, and grandchildren. ![]() TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR: In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he’s ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Winner of the AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competitionīefore the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix-a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. A deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering cyberpunk novel that predicted our obsession with the Internet-part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman ![]() ![]() ![]() The space of exchange would make breathing space and breathing space is what the capitalist subject, in all of her ambition, is trying to attain-the good life. Exchange value was supposed to leaven the subject through the handoff of value to another, who would return something in kind. ![]() ![]() Under capitalism, money is power and if one has only surplus amounts of it, sovereignty is infinite and yet a weight that cannot be borne. Thus, Berlant writes of the "cruel optimism and its mode of slow death," specifically speaking of the way that capitalism promises so much to the liberal subject and delivers so little, particularly in terms of commodification and exchange of goods in the market. Optimism in this view is the affective dimension of liberal ideology. It is "cruel" because there never was any hope of the kinds of redemption that liberal capitalism promises (the promise of fulfillment, of happiness, of safety and riches). "Cruel" optimism in particular is seen as a force that holds political subjects to the vagaries of liberal capitalism, using a false form of hope to keep people yoked to the system that oppresses them. ![]() Thanks in great part to Lauren Berlant's book Cruel Optimism, optimism has come in for a lot of criticism and bad press of late. Introduction: can pessimists change the world? ![]() ![]() ![]() “Everything from how we fill a pothole to the quality of the snow removal in the winter.”Īsked what he’d forgo in the city’s budget to spend more money on those city services, Smiley said Providence could hold third-party vendors accountable without spending more money. “Everyone’s concerned about these basic quality-of-life issues in the neighborhoods,” Smiley said. His top priorities, Smiley says, are improving city services, education and public safety. He’d previously worked in Mayor Jorge Elorza’s office after dropping out of the 2014 mayoral race to endorse Elorza. Gina Raimondo’s chief of staff before becoming director of the R.I. A theme running through most of Smileys work-including A Dangerous Business-is that lives are a mixture of good. ![]() “And I think we need someone who’s ready to get to work on day one.” “To actually run the city of Providence, a city with over 4,000 employees, a half a billion dollar budget, it’s a big job,” Smiley said in an interview for ’s Pulse of Providence. (WPRI) - Coming off a stint as Rhode Island’s director of administration - overseeing an entire state’s budget and purchasing during a pandemic - Brett Smiley says his experience sets him apart from his two rivals in the race for Providence mayor. ![]() |