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Her comics address a range of pressing contemporary issues, from climate change and the refugee crisis to women’s rights. ![]() Kate Evans’s work operates at the intersection of several of the most exciting genre developments in comics in recent years, including graphic memoir and biography, graphic reportage or comics journalism, and educational comics. ![]() ![]() The dramatic story of Long-Term’s fall is now a chilling harbinger of the crisis that would strike all of Wall Street, from Lehman Brothers to AIG, a decade later. But after four years in which the firm dazzled Wall Street as a $100 billion moneymaking juggernaut, it suddenly suffered catastrophic losses that jeopardized not only the biggest banks on Wall Street but the stability of the financial system itself. When it was founded in 1993, Long-Term was hailed as the most impressive hedge fund in history. Drawing on confidential internal memos and interviews with dozens of key players, Lowenstein explains not just how the fund made and lost its money but also how the personalities of Long-Term’s partners, the arrogance of their mathematical certainties, and the culture of Wall Street itself contributed to both their rise and their fall. ![]() In this business classic-now with a new Afterword in which the author draws parallels to the recent financial crisis-Roger Lowenstein captures the gripping roller-coaster ride of Long-Term Capital Management. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you haven’t yet experienced the literary delight that is Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, this new beautiful edition is the place to start. He captures the surreal imagination of the story as only he can. 1920s illustrations of Alice depict her as a flapper! My favorite are from artist Salvador Dalí. In addition, there are over 100 remarkable illustrations. The notes add historical context and explain the political and social environments that influenced Carroll while he was writing Alice. Simply reading this book is fun enough, but the notes contained in the new annotated edition help define what mathematician Carroll had created in his fantasy world. It’s all action and emotion rolled into a fun story that expands the reader’s imagination while it entertains. ![]() ![]() After multiple readings of this classic adventure, I still find it fresh and rewarding. Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde were both fans of the book. But did it ever leave?Īlice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been popular since its publication in 1865. “Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall.” When Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane wailed those lyrics in 1967, she brought Lewis Carroll’s famed White Rabbit to the consciousness of the changing American society in the late 1960s. The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll edited by Martin Gardner expanded and updated by Mark Burstein: Original illustrations by John Tenniel. The Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll By MPL Staff on 12:56 PM Trostel Collection of German Theater Scripts. ![]() ![]() For now it seems enough to say that I am a real person. I suppose I have a lot of thoughts about art and aesthetic, style and theory, and someday I’ll probably express them. We have to live fully and find the poetry. I say it is the anagogic understanding that touches the truth, and for that we have to dive deep. We all know the pain is real, but is it the point? I say no. ![]() To an outside observer (merely breathing but not quite alive) it can seem a terrible burden. Human life can be brutally hard, this is undeniable. ![]() They can be found in heartbreak and loneliness, and in perseverance through pain. ![]() They are visible in parents everywhere, and in those friends who always seem to be there, wherever you are. You’ll notice them in the eyes of young couples (who don’t notice anything but each other’s eyes) but also in the knowing glances of older couples (who know each other better than I know anything). ![]() ![]() So here I am, waiting, my body hyperaware and my heart pounding his name. The two previous fighters are exiting the ring now, one of them assisted by his team, and my heart pounds as I sit motionless in my seat, in the first row, at the very center, just where my man wants me. The air is charged with excitement and scented with perfume, beer, and sweat. He’d told me he’s the “draw”-that most everyone in the arena is here for him. His assistant, Pete, sits tense and alert to my right. The audience in the Washington, D.C., fighting arena consists of about a thousand people, and when the winner of the current match is announced, the crowd grows restless. He’s more ripped than ever, and I know this season he’s ready to take what’s his. ![]() The first fight of the new Underground season. ![]() It has been even longer than that since thousands of women, men, and fans across the world watched him fall. A thousand four hundred eighty-eight hours of wanting, longing, and needing him. ![]() IT’S BEEN TWO months, exactly sixty-two days, since I returned to him. ![]() ![]() ![]() During that time, he rode a Harley, sold trinkets at rock festivals, went to Mexico, and worked as a jailer at the King County Youth Center. At the University of Washington, he finally found he had a passion for literature. A "terrible student" in high school, Finley spent eight years as an undergraduate. ![]() into the Northwest's largest chain of independent movie theaters.īeginning in 1970 with the Movie House, a shoebox-size theater in Seattle's U-District, Finley's entrepreneurial zeal and genius for promotion helped him acquire 16 theaters, including the Guild 45th in Wallingford, the Varsity and Seven Gables in the U-District, the Broadway on Capitol Hill, the Ridgemont in Phinney Ridge, the Lakewood in Tacoma, the Crest in North Seattle, as well as theaters in Portland.Īlong with Jim O'Steen, who founded the Harvard Exit on Capitol Hill in the late 1960s, Finley was responsible for igniting a passion for independent, foreign, and art house films in Seattle. "I had no money and no idea what I was doing, but one thing I am is stubborn," Finley said of his start in the film business.įinley was born on July 30, 1942, and grew up in Olympia, the son of Robert Finley, a Washington State Supreme Court justice from 1951 to 1976. ![]() Randy Finley - who became known to a generation of Seattle moviegoers for his long black beard, a habit of wearing an army jacket with his name sewn on it, and his innate ability to generate hype - built the Seven Gables Corp. ![]() ![]() ![]() This changed when an eighth grade teacher gave him Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly.īrandon was working on his thirteenth novel when Moshe Feder at Tor Books bought the sixth he had written. As a child Brandon enjoyed reading, but he lost interest in the types of titles often suggested to him, and by junior high he never cracked a book if he could help it. ![]() This collection features The Emperor’s Soul, Mistborn: Secret History, and a brand-new Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer.Įarlier this year he released Calamity, the finale of the #1 New York Times bestselling Reckoners trilogy that began with Steelheart.īrandon Sanderson was born in 1975 in Lincoln, Nebraska. ![]() Brandon’s major books for the second half of 2016 are The Dark Talent, the final volume in Alcatraz Smedry’s autobiographical account of his battle against the Evil Librarians who secretly rule our world, and Arcanum Unbounded, the collection of short fiction in the Cosmere universe that includes the Mistborn series and the StormlightĪrchive, among others. ![]() ![]() ![]() Laurie is thirty six, heartbroken and suddenly single. ![]() Laurie and Jamie are just so wonderfully written that I fell for them. I have devoured every one of her novels and I tried really hard to eek this one out but I failed miserably. Oh Lordy, I loved this book! I’m not exactly shy in my love for Mhairi McFarlane’s writing. ![]() When Jamie, a Jilly Cooper-esque cad of colleague (this is actually how he is described (much to my eternal delight)), suggests to Laurie that they embark on a fake relationship to a) make Dan jealous and b) increase his chances of being taken more seriously at work and possibly bag him a promotion to Partner she agrees. That is until Dan tells her that actually he doesn’t want a baby, he doesn’t want a future with her and that she makes him “feel like he is in a tunnel.” It’s over. Laurie and Dan have been together for nearly twenty years, they both work at the same law firm in Manchester and are about to start trying for a baby. ![]() ![]() One author uses his birth name to foreshadow the life that lies ahead one paints a simple sketch of his parents one talks about the beliefs that shaped him and one reflects on the influence of chance.Įach opening is different, and each is just right for its subject. Here are excerpts showing four interesting ways that have been used to open an autobiography. How to start an autobiography: 4 examples If you’d like to hire a ghostwriter to help you with your autobiography, contact Barry Fox & Nadine Taylor. The key is to find the one that works best for your story. There is no single “best” way to start an autobiography. ![]() How about beginning with the first notable thing you did? Or starting off with the biggest crisis point in your life, and then going back to the beginning? ![]() Do you begin with your birth? With a description of your parents, or maybe even your grandparents? ![]() |