![]() ![]() “It got interpreted as me saying that you should do the things at the top and shouldn’t do the things at the bottom. “The mistake I made in the first version is with the league table of influences,” Hattie admits. John Hattie takes on his Visible Learning critics.Ofsted “doesn’t care about learning”, says Hattie. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() The negotiations for his release took place over 14 months in multiple countries, including meetings in Tehran. They quietly hired former Bush administration official Pierre Prosper and his Los Angeles firm ArentFox to negotiate his release, the Wall Street Journal reports. ![]() Taghavi’s family chose to avoid widespread publicity. Unlike the case of the three American hikers held for over a year in the same Tehran prison – one of which, Sarah Shourd, was released in September – Mr. The freed prisoner, Orange Country businessman Reza Taghavi, says he transported the $200 to them unwittingly. Iran released on Saturday an Iranian-American prisoner held for two and a half years (without being charged) for bringing money to an Iranian rebel group that claimed responsibility for a deadly 2008 mosque bombing in Iran. A daily summary of global reports on security issues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamal Campbell, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (BOOM! Studios) Far Sector (DC).Out of sixteen the confirmed new members of the Hall of Fame include: Ruth Atkinson, one of the first female American comic book artists and was the co-creator of Millie the Model and Patsy Walker for Marvel predecessor Timely Comics Dave Cockrum, comic book artist best known for co-creating high-profile X-Men characters including Colossus, Storm, Nightcrawler, Krakoa, Black Tom Cassidy, and Lilandra Scott McCloud, cartoonist whose non-fiction works on the medium ( Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics) have been internationally influential and Neil Gaiman, prolific comic scribe and winner of 15 Eisner awards, he reinvented Sandman for DC's Vertigo Comics and also penned Marvel 1602, Eternals, and Miracleman.Ĭheck out the full list of Eisner winners below! ![]() The 2021 Eisner Awards judging panel consisted of comics retailer Marco Davanzo (Alakazam Comics, Irvine, CA), Comic-Con Board member Shelley Fruchey, librarian Pamela Jackson (San Diego State University), comics creator/publisher Keithan Jones (The Power Knights, KID Comics), educator Alonso Nuñez (Little Fish Comic Book Studio), and comics scholar Jim Thompson (Comic Book Historians).įour additions to the Eisner Hall of Fame were also confirmed during the ceremony. ![]() ![]() Yes, a little more angst would have been better, but, sometimes you just want an easy read and this is it. The creator really took her time to develop the main characters' relationship as much as can be done in a oneshot and the art style is very pretty. Chiaki and Kazuma have been brought up like brothers, but as they get older, their relationship starts to change. So, while this story isn't groundbreaking and will most likely be forgotten after a while it's still worth a read when you need a break from whatever heavier stories you're currently reading. The expressions on Chiaki's face were so sexy. It isn't very deep just your typical friends to lovers trope, with little to no angst, but the art work and the sweetness of the story really won me over. ![]() ![]() I actually only started reading it on a whim, but, ended up liking it. just what seems to be what's happening) and wasn't sure how much I'd enjoy this. I've sort of started gravitating away from yaoi set in high school (not on purpose or anything. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nomadland is a modern Grapes of Wrath, depicting the dystopian economic dispossession of an aging population for whom retirement is an out-of-reach dream.īruder's book centers on Linda May, a 64-year-old grandmother living out of a secondhand Jeep who dreams of building a sustainable " Earthship" dwelling. ![]() For years, Bruder lived with and reported on these itinerant laborers, traveling the American West in her own van (christened Van Halen) and working grueling jobs alongside them everywhere from an Amazon fulfillment center to a sugar beet harvesting plant. ![]() Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director, Nomadland is directed by Chloe Zhao, starring Frances McDormand as a fictional protagonist alongside the real-life nomads featured in Bruder's book, who appear as themselves. Almost four years out from the book's publication, Nomadland has become a feature film, as well as an awards season darling. ![]() When Jessica Bruder was reporting Nomadland, her award-winning gonzo investigation of transient American seniors who follow seasonal employment while living out of their vans, she never imagined that the nomads with whom she was up to her elbows in campground toilets would become movie stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() The chapters alternate between Lexie's present, past, dreams, and journal her therapist asks her to write. Author Cynthia Hand creates very realistic scenarios for Lexie and her family, which make for a compelling, moving story. Her grief puts a strain on all her relationships: her friends, her boyfriend, and her parents. And even though Lexie feels she should be strong enough to help her family heal, she's a kid harboring her own guilt at not being home to stop her brother from killing himself. The depth of her mother's sorrow is raw, real, and heartbreaking. In many books, it can be frustrating to see characters shut themselves off, but Lexie's character is well-fleshed-out, so we understand why she tries a rational approach to an emotional problem. ![]() ![]() She doesn't want anyone to see her cry, but her efforts to avoid dealing with her grief start to have terrible effects on her emotionally and physically. She mistakes dealing with her grief alone for being strong. People don't know how to talk to her, and she feels like an outcast, when in reality she's casting herself out. When her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, her world is completely changed forever. ![]() Lexie Riggs is a mature and responsible teen and a relatable protagonist. THE LAST TIME WE SAY GOODBYE is a well-written and heartrending story. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are publishing them at a rate of about one per year in a limitation of 100. Remaining to be published are The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun and The Castle of the Otter. They are now halfway through the series having published The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, and The Sword of the Lictor. This series was one of my favorites back in my late teens when I read a LOT of science fiction. I was happy to stumble upon them right when they started publishing Gene Wolfe’s Book of the New Sun a few years back. Centipede Press mainly concentrates on the horror, crime, and science fiction. Others I can think of are the Subterranean Press and Tartarus Press. The Centipede Press is one of the presses I’ve run across that make a living outside the mainstream bubble, specializing in science fiction, horror, gothic, and supernatural titles. I guess Virginia Wolfe is perceived as much less risky that Gene Wolfe? Maybe because novels tend to be larger and thus more risky than other things like poetry, presses seem fairly conservative in the titles they choose to publish. So it is always nice to see more eclectic titles outside of that bubble and in other genres. ![]() Often it is a classic title and other times a less well known novel by a “classic” author. When it comes to fine print editions of novels and longer works, it is common to see the “classics” of literature. ![]() ![]() Getting Ghoulish in Germanyīut even in places without a Celtic connection, the sugary trappings of Halloween are taking hold. and Canada, is home to many people descended from the Celts, an ancient people that celebrated Halloween's predecessors. ![]() ( See pictures of England's goth festival, which takes place every October.) consumers spent money on Halloween in 2016, shelling out a total of 310 million pounds-a number that's expected to rise in 2017. But to the chagrin of some in the United Kingdom, it has grown immensely: Forty-six percent of U.K. Rogers grew up in Bristol, England, where Halloween was once little noticed. ![]() "And, of course, social media really encourages this kind of thing.” "It's a day of festive license, transgression, and a certain lack of inhibition," says Nicholas Rogers, a historian at York University in Toronto and the author of Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. Halloween is spreading around the globe like a zombie outbreak.įrom Germany to Japan, young adults are embracing the holiday-particularly its costume parties-as they escape the status quo for a night. ![]() ![]() ![]() So when he’s offered the chance to go straight, he takes it. But it’s not so easy to sling dope, finish school, and raise a child. Suddenly he has a baby, Seven, who depends on him for everything. ![]() Until, that is, Maverick finds out he’s a father. Life’s not perfect, but with a fly girlfriend and a cousin who always has his back, Mav’s got everything under control. ![]() With this money he can help his mom, who works two jobs while his dad’s in prison. ![]() As the son of a former gang legend, Mav does that the only way he knows how: dealing for the King Lords. If there’s one thing seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter knows, it’s that a real man takes care of his family. International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood. You can read this before Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) written by Angie Thomas which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Concrete Rose (The Hate U Give, #0) by Angie Thomas ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Phillips, Utopia and Hellas basins, Mars: Twins separated at birth, Geophys. Zuber, New Perspectives on Ancient Mars, Science, 307, 1214-1220, 2005. Zhong, Internal structure and early thermal evolution of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor topography and gravity, Science, 287, 1788-1793, 2000. Phillips, eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 797-844, 1997. Banerdt, An Overview of Venus Tectonics, in Venus II, S. Phillips, eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1125-1162, 1997. Arkani–Hamed, The Venus gravity field and other geodetic parameters, in Venus II, S. Phillips, eds., University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, 901-930, 1997. Zuber, Plains tectonics on Venus, in Venus II, S. Tralli, A prediction of Mars seismicity from surface faulting, Science, 258, 979-981, 1992. ![]() |