![]() ![]() Creating a vast collection of specimens, he filled his boyhood home and adult estate with insect collections and mounted animals. His favorite activities included hiking, rowing, swimming, riding, bird-watching, hunting and taxidermy. Roosevelt was bookish and sickly as a child, but quickly discovered a passion for the outdoors. ![]() Tiernan Photography.Īs the only president born in New York City, it may seem odd that Theodore Roosevelt is remembered as a nature enthusiast. In honor of his birthday, check out some great Roosevelt stories and quotes below.Ī Life Long Passion Roosevelt's library at his Sagamore Hill estate in New York displays many nature scenes, mounted animals and books on many topics. Along with others like John Muir and Rachel Carson, Roosevelt’s words and actions continue to affect how we approach and appreciate the natural world. There are six national park sites dedicated, in part or whole, to our conservationist president. ![]() Today, the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt is found across the country. After becoming president in 1901, Roosevelt used his authority to establish 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, four national game preserves, five national parks and 18 national monuments on over 230 million acres of public land. Enthralled by nature from a young age, Roosevelt cherished and promoted our nation’s landscapes and wildlife. President Theodore Roosevelt was one of the most powerful voices in the history of American conservation. ![]()
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![]() But for those who, millennia ago, had no choice… this is the hour of their final, inescapable destiny. ![]() For Captain Ezri Dax, whose impetuous youth is balanced by the wisdom of many lifetimes, the choice is a simple one: there is no going back – only forward to whatever future awaits them. Haunted by the memories of those he was forced to leave behind, he must jeopardize all that he has left in a desperate bid to save the Federation. Riker, that choice has already been made. For Captain Jean-Luc Picard, defending the future has never been so important, or so personal – and the wrong choice will cost him everything for which he has struggled and suffered. An audacious plan could stop them forever, but it carries risks that one starship captain is unwilling to take. ![]() Summary From the book jacket The soldiers of Armageddon are on the march, laying waste to worlds in their passage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Next Big Idea Club selection-chosen by Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, and Adam Grant as one of the two most groundbreaking new nonfiction reads of the season! This book has the power to change everything! Writing with depth, wit, and insight, Ingrid Fetell Lee shares all you need to know in order to create external environments that give rise to inner joy. Book Synopsis Make small changes to your surroundings and create extraordinary happiness in your life with groundbreaking research from designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee. But what if the natural vibrancy of our surroundings is actually our most renewable and easily accessible source of joy?-Dust jacket flap. ![]() Increasingly, experts urge us to find balance and calm by looking inward. About the Book Have you ever wondered why we stop to watch the orange glow that arrives before sunset, or why we flock to see cherry blossoms bloom in spring? Is there a reason that people-regardless of gender, age, culture, or ethnicity-are mesmerized by baby animals, and cant help but smile when they see a burst of confetti or a cluster of colorful balloons? We are often made to feel that the physical world has little or no impact on our inner joy. ![]() ![]() Three questions at the beginning of each topic engage and focus the attention of the reader: 'Why do you need to know this material?', 'What is the key idea?', and 'What do you need to know already?' ![]() Significant re-organisation of the material within each chapter into discrete 'topics' makes the text more readable for students and more flexible for instructors to teach from ![]() The coupling of the broad coverage of the subject with a structure and use of pedagogy that is even more innovative will ensure Atkins' Physical Chemistry remains Atkins' Physical Chemistry of choice for studying physical chemistry. The mathematics support for students has also been significantly expanded, with the addition of new Chemist's toolkit boxes, which provide useful reminders of essential mathematical concepts and techniques. The extensive learning support provided throughout Atkins' Physical Chemistry now includes new checklists of key concepts at the end of each topic, to reinforce the main take-home messages in each section. This restructuring increases the digestibility of the text for students, while making it more flexible for lecturers to teach from. Material within chapters has been radically reorganised into discrete topics, to give the text an inviting modular feel. The exceptional quality of previous editions has been built upon to make the tenth edition of Atkins' Physical Chemistry even more closely suited to the needs of both lecturers and students. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book requests must be specific and request something that cannot be found with a simple search of the sub.“What was that book called” posts are exempt from this rule, as they are unlikely to show up in future searchesīook requests must be specific and contain detail.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. ![]()
![]() ![]() He is an ambassador for Shark Savers’ FINished With FINs campaign and an outspoken supporter of foreign domestic helpers, new immigrants and other minority groups in Hong Kong. ![]() In addition to being a writer, he is also a social activist. Jason speaks frequently at local universities and art festivals. He has been profiled in Time Out, The Sun, SCMP, various other publications and numerous overseas blogs. Jason has been featured at the Hong Kong Book Fair and the Hong Kong International Literary Festival. His social commentary blog As I See It and leisure review site The Real Deal have attracted a cult following. He is a full-time lawyer, a magazine columnist and a resident blogger for the South China Morning Post. Ng is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Italy, the United States and Canada before returning to his birthplace to rediscover his roots. ![]() ![]() Traveling companions that neither of them could foresee join them along the way, and both question whether they are capable of the tasks assigned them. For Jair it becomes a means to help his companions on a quest that he had not known he was to undertake, to save Brin from herself and her wishsong. For Brin, it eventually becomes something that is almost terrifying as she travels with the Druid, Allanon and the Highlander prince, Rone Leah, to destroy an evil book called the Ildatch. Brin and Jair Ohmsford, children of Wil Ohmsford and the Rover girl, Eretria, are young adults with the power of the Elfstones that Wil carried on his journey to help Amberle Elessedil find the Bloodfire and restore the Ellcrys and the Forbidding that held the demons sealed up from the old world, transformed into a different power, that of the Wishsong. But she, too, was in mortal danger, and Ildatch waited for Brin to. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only Druid Allanon held the magic power of wishsong that could make plants bloom instantly or turn trees from green to autumn gold. Another excellent Shannara book by Terry Brooks. Horror stalked the Four Lands as the Ildatch, ancient source of evil, sent its ghastly Mord Wraiths to destroy Mankind. ![]() ![]() ![]() The boys have fun with their plants, treating them like pets, but soon, it becomes obvious that these aren’t normal plants.Įventually, they discover that both of their plants are eating socks from their room at night. Michael is more experimental, dumping plant food on his plant haphazardly and even giving it bits of human food from time to time. Norman is very regular in his habits, watering his plant daily with his squirt gun and giving it the proper amount of plant food. The seeds come with a set of instructions, but Michael soon loses them, and the boys are left to care for their plants themselves. He plants one himself and gives one to his brother to plant. ![]() One day, Michael gets a couple of seeds in the mail that he doesn’t remember sending away for. Often, by the time these things arrives, he’s forgotten what he sent away for. ![]() Michael also likes sending away for random things in the mail, like toys that require him to save a certain number of box tops. Michael’s always saving random things that might turn out to be useful later, although how useful they are is questionable because it’s hard to even find things. Norman is a neat freak, and Michael likes things messy. Michael and his younger brother, Norman, share a room, but it’s not a peaceful arrangement. ![]() ![]() ![]() With lilting dancelike rhythm through word repetition and brightly colored detailed images, this is a timely and worthy addition for every collection." - SLJ, starred review "This inclusive book shows and celebrates all types of bodies in the park, in the pool, at a party-everywhere. ![]() ![]() This is a timely message with universal applications." - Booklist, starred review "With colorful pages of people in all shapes and sizes, this book both serves as a joyous read-aloud for small and large groups and as a book for individual study and discovery. ![]() Depicting societally marginalized human bodies in all their joyful, normal glory, this book is cool." - Kirkus, starred review "With such a joyfully inclusive range of humans, all taking part in community and taking pleasure in each other's company, it's hard to imagine a stronger statement of body affirmation and pride." - Publishers Weekly, starred review "his unabashed promotion of body positivity packs a punch and reminds readers to respect and love every body-including their own. Feder chooses clear and unapologetic language to describe body characteristics, challenging the negative connotations that are often attached to those bodies. "A bustling celebration of body positivity that lovingly features bodies, skin, and hair of all kinds. ![]() ![]() This time, the gifted author shoots an air ball. Few, if any readers, will feel remotely scared by the setup, and Malerman offers little reason to invest in Kit or the other characters. She asks, “Will Daphne kill me?” just before sinking a game-winning shot-and the team victory is quickly followed by the gory murders of several teammates, forcing all to wonder how much of the legend is true. ![]() This story gets new life when Kit Lamb, a member of the girls’ hoop squad, follows a tradition of asking a question while shooting a free throw, with a successful shot signaling an affirmative answer. A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.Gabino Iglesias, author of The. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. ![]() According to local lore, Daphne periodically returns from beyond the grave to kill dozens of teen athletes. 19.13 2 Used from 20.33 6 New from 15.13. Supposedly, Daphne was a seven-foot-tall local teen decked out daily in “KISS makeup” who was continually taunted about her height during high school in the ’90s those torments ended when jocks, angered that Daphne never joined the school basketball team, knocked her out with a baseball bat and left her to die in the toxic fumes of her garage. The inventive plotting, plausible characterizations, and atmospheric prose that marked bestseller Malerman’s Bird Box are wholly absent in this dull horror yarn centered on an urban legend from the unlikely named town of Samhattan. ![]() |