![]() ![]() ![]() The looting now is accelerating as never before. This catastrophic social disintegration is not merely a continuation of Africa’s past as a colonial victim. The ground beneath their feet is as precarious as a Congolese mine shaft their prosperity could spill away like crude from a busted pipeline. ![]() And the vagaries of resource-dependent economies could pitch Africa’s new middle class back into destitution just as quickly as they climbed out of it. The oil, copper, diamonds, gold and coltan deposits attract a global network of traders, bankers, corporate extractors and investors who combine with venal political cabals to loot the states' value. In his first book, The Looting Machine, Tom Burgis exposes the truth about the African development miracle: for the resource states, it's a mirage. ![]() While Africa accounts for about 30 per cent of the world’s reserves of hydrocarbons and minerals and 14 per cent of the world’s population, its share of global manufacturing stood in 2011 exactly where it stood in 2000: at 1 percent. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging markets” have transformed their economies, Africa’s resource states remained tethered to the bottom of the industrial supply chain. The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. ![]()
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![]() ![]() On that occasion, the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart was elevated to a basilica to become the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart. ![]() ![]() During Pope John Paul II’s visit to the United States in 1995, he celebrated evening prayer at the Cathedral. Construction did not begin until 1898 and, when completed in 1954, the cathedral became New Jersey’s largest church-and the most expensive Catholic church ever built in America. He traces the project to its origins in the late 1850s and the great expectations held by the project’s prime movers-all passionate about Gothic architecture and immensely proud of Newark-that never wavered despite numerous setbacks and challenges. ![]() Gothic Pride sets Sacred Heart in the context of American cathedral building and, blending diverse fields, accounts for the complex circumstances that produced it.Ĭalling upon a wealth of primary sources, Brian Regan describes in a compelling narrative the cathedral’s almost century-long history. Rising from Newark’s highest ground and visible for miles, it spectacularly evokes its historic models. Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart is one of the United States’ greatest cathedrals and most exceptional Gothic Revival buildings. ![]() ![]() with insights that apply to the rest of us." - The Wall Street Journal "The book covers a lot of ground through meticulous reporting and deft analysis, presenting a wide range of case studies. ![]() He takes readers from inside the cockpit of a crashing plane to the writing room of Disney's Frozen." - Chicago Tribune "Duhigg pairs relatable anecdotes with the research behind why some people and businesses are not as efficient as others. 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In addition to the tensions involved in solving murder cases, the series is built on clashes of personality, gender and class: Lynley is a polished man and a peer of the realm, and Havers is an untidy woman from a working-class background. ![]() The protagonist, Detective Inspector Thomas "Tommy" Lynley, 8th Earl of Asherton ( Nathaniel Parker), who is assigned to Scotland Yard, finds himself paired with Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers ( Sharon Small). The Inspector Lynley Mysteries is a British crime drama television series that aired on BBC One from 12 March 2001 to 1 June 2008, consisting of six series and 24 episodes. ![]() ![]() Since then, he hasn't wanted to be best friends, so she's been palling around with other kids. Back in October, her best friend, Sal, got punched in the gut by another boy on the way home from school. There's a crazy old guy who hangs out on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue, yelling, laughing, doing sudden kicks, and sleeping with his head under the mailbox. Miranda's favorite book is A Wrinkle in Time, which she reads over and over. Perfect, are helping Mom practice for her appearance in three weeks (on April 27, 1979) on the TV game show "The $20,000 Pyramid," hosted by Dick Clark. She and Mom's boyfriend, Richard, AKA Mr. ![]() Things That Are Normal: Sixth grader, Miranda, lives on the Upper West Side with her single parent mom, a paralegal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: Jennifer Laughran, Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Layered supporting characters (readers will empathize with Anna, who suffers her own humiliation as a result of Butter's dishonesty) provide the novel the depth that the timely subject matter deserves. Even at the height of Butter's mistreatment, his despair doesn't overshadow his awareness of the world's beauty. My first book, Butter, is now a movie mom, wife, writer, traveler, listmaker Bookss profile picture. Lange's emotionally expansive first novel is dark, funny, painful, and powerful. As the days count down, Butter has to choose between social and actual suicide. However, Butter's Web site, where students suggest foods to add to his last meal, brings him instant popularity and reasons to live. ![]() It's the same night that he's agreed to reveal himself to Anna, his chat-room crush although they know each other from school, he has lied to her about his identity. Bullying incidents and being voted "most likely to have a heart attack" spark Butter's plan to commit suicide live online on New Year's Eve. ![]() Despite his sense of humor and musical talent, his classmates and parents can't see beyond his weight, and he's feeling the same way. At 423 pounds, 16-year-old "Butter" is sinking, both mentally and physically. ![]() ![]() His father, John Steinbeck, served as Monterey County Treasurer for many years. John Ernst Steinbeck, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, was born in Salinas, California February 27, 1902. Awards-Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, 1940.Education-Studied marine biology at Stanford University,. ![]() A masterpiece of Steinbeck’s later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis. One boy thrives, nurtured by the love of all those around him the other grows up in loneliness, enveloped by a mysterious darkness.įirst published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love’s absence. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. ![]() Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families-the Trasks and the Hamiltons-whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel.Īdam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new, rich land. In his journal, John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. ![]() ![]() His stained white kitchen apron still clung to his narrow hips, the front dangling to his knees, and he smelled strongly of fryer oil. I told you she was fine," her father said impatiently, giving her a cursory once-over. "Ai-ya!" Her grandmother began speaking rapidly in Cantonese, waving her hands. Mom, Dad, Daniel and Poh-poh took her in with dark, wide eyes. The rings on the curtain railing clattered as the partition was yanked aside. Sighing, she propped herself up in the hospital bed, smoothing the blanket over her knees. But there was no avoiding the inevitable. "Tiffany?"įor a moment, she considered pretending to be comatose, or ducking away and hiding somewhere until they left. Shadows streaked into her cubicle from beneath the partition. With her family hovering on the other side of the curtain, the pleasant buzz of the painkillers evaporated, and her stomach churned. Tiffany grabbed the edges of the pillow and stuffed them against her ears. "No, Grandma, she's not dead." She heard Daniel reassure in that too-smooth voice of his. "Say joh may-ah?" Poh-poh's voice creaked. Tiffany knew the exact moment when her family arrived in the E.R. ![]() ![]() ![]() The business end of the fer-de-lance, tied to a tree in the middle of camp to impress upon everyone the risk of venomous snakes. Docile enough during the day, but when one slithered into camp under the cover of darkness, it caused an understandable panic. The deadliest? A pit viper called the fer de lance. “They were either man-made or the world’s most intelligent gophers were out there, doing things they’d never done before,” Benenson said. ![]() A LIDAR-scanned map of the jungle in Honduras. The LIDAR made visible what looked like rectangular structures, including two perfectly linear lines, and a right angle. What the LIDAR revealed - once that jungle canopy was removed - shocked everyone on the team. “It seemed like a valuable gamble.”Ī gamble that soon paid off. “This technology could see through the jungle canopy and potentially reveal the contours of what might be underneath it,” Benenson said. The problem? It was expensive, and Elkins needed a backer.Įnter documentary filmmaker Bill Benenson, who agreed to foot the million-dollar-plus bill if he could capture the adventure on film. Peering through a hole cut in the bottom of an old Cessna Skymaster, it could scan hundreds of square miles of dense jungle in a matter of days. ![]() Read an excerpt from Douglas Preston’s “The Lost City of the Monkey God”īut this time Elkins had something no previous expeditions to the area did: a piece of impressive technology called LIDAR, a laser mapping system. ![]() ![]() ![]() Honest, intelligent, and deeply moving, The Boy in the Moon explores the value of a single human life. As Brown gradually lets go of his self-blame and hope for a cure, he learns to accept the Walker he loves, just as he is. The Boy in the Moon A Fathers Search for His Disabled Son Author Ian Brown. In his journey, he offers an insightful critique of society’s assumptions about the disabled, and he discovers a connected community of families living with this illness. Brown travels the globe, meeting with genetic scientists and neurologists as well as parents, to solve the questions Walker’s doctors can’t answer. At age thirteen, he is mentally and developmentally between one and three years old and will need constant care for the rest of his life. ![]() ![]() Ian Brown’s son Walker is one of only about 300 people worldwide diagnosed with cardiofaciocutaneous (CFC) syndrome-an extremely rare genetic mutation that results in unusual facial appearance, the inability to speak, and a compulsion to hit himself constantly. “n intimate glimpse into the life of a family that cares around the clock for a disabled child, that gets so close to the love and despair, and the complex questions the life of such a child raises.It is a beautiful book, heartfelt and profound, warm and wise.” -Jane Bernstein, author of Loving Rachel and Rachel in the World The Boy in the Moon: A Fathers Search for His Disabled Son Hardcover International Edition, Septemby Ian Brown (Author) 79 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 7.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 5.17 15 Used from 2.99 1 New from 5.17 Paperback 28.51 18 Used from 2.39 2 New from 19. ![]() |