![]() She currently divides her time between Ojai and the San Francisco Bay Area and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom and Europe. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer.Ī regular contributor to journals covering international education, Jacqueline has published articles in women's magazines and has also recorded her essays for KQED radio in San Francisco. Following higher education at the University of London’s Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK. ![]() Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England. ![]()
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![]() Poor Americans, people of color, and immigrants have regularly worked in close proximity to dangerous chemicals or other pollutants. ![]() ![]() But well before the publication of Carson’s book, many Americans were already intimately familiar with the dangers of pollution and the extraction of resources. Silent Spring introduced environmental concerns to new audiences, leading to a strengthened environmental movement. Eight years later, on the first “Earth Day,” Americans joined in protests over the degradation of the country’s air and water, launching an environmental movement that continues today. ![]() ![]() In 1962, marine biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a chilling account of the damage done to the environment by pollution, particularly in the form of chemicals and pesticides. In this lesson, students will analyze a series of songs articulating a connection to nature and the environment-a longing to “get ourselves back to the garden”-and examine the ways in which they reflect a growing attention to environmental issues in American culture. ![]() ![]() Police would be able to punch in a location and watch it in real time or wind back the clock. ![]() It was an angry crowd, and police officers flanked the sides of the room, ready to push everyone out if things got out of hand. Several hundred people packed Oakland’s ornate high-domed city council chamber. A large group of people milled near the entrance, a few of them setting up what looked like a giant papier-mâché rat, presumably intended as a symbol for snitching. A line of parked police cars ran down the block, and news anchors and TV camera crews scampered about, jockeying for position. Even from a distance, I could see that something unusual was going on. I approached Oakland’s city hall on foot. Two police cruisers raced through a red light, sirens blaring. ![]() The streets were deserted, save for a couple of homeless men slumped in a heap against a closed storefront. It was February 18, 2014, and already dark when I crossed the Bay Bridge from San Francisco and parked my car in downtown Oakland. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Reasoner, an HBJ fan and a wildly prolific neo-pulpster himself, recommends the Wildside H. If you're looking to just dip your toe into the water, Roy Glashan's Library has most of Bedford-Jones' popular "John Solomon" stories free as extexts. The epic collection, Ships and Men, looks pretty damned cool as well. Books of particular note to DMR readers would be the novels They Lived By the Sword and The Cross and the Hammer. ![]() I don't know where he found the time to do any research.įor several years, Altus Press has been publishing HBJ's entire corpus of work in quality uniform editions. His plots move right along and he generally nails historical details surprisingly well. HBJ's writing style is lean and economical and his characterization is good. Despite cranking out his stories at an awesome rate, the man could write a quality adventure tale. While I can't be called a Bedford-Jones scholar, by any means, I have read some of his fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Lean Startup provides a scientific approach for creating and managing successful startups in an age when companies need to innovate more than ever. ![]() This is what Randy Komisar founding director of TiVo said about this book. If you are an entrepreneur, read this book, If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book, If you are just curious about entrepreneurship, read this book. Even big companies can take important lessons from this book and implement them. The title of the book might make you assume that this book is just for startups. ![]() And, The Lean Startup had great reviews and recommendations. I wanted to read a book in the entrepreneur genre. This approach is being adopted across the globe. But most of those failures are preventable.” And his book, The Lean Startup is a guide, a new approach for changing the ways the companies are being built and the way the new products are being launched. Eric Ries believes, “Most new businesses fail. The Lean Startup proposes a lean startup strategy for startups and businesses. Genre: Entrepreneur, Startup, Business book ![]() ![]() ![]() It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, abbreviated as Ghost Wars, is a book written by Steve Coll, published in 2004 by Penguin Press. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA’s role in Afghanistan (including its covert operations against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989), the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. ![]() To what extent did America’s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising thread of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Deeply satisfying.” - The New York Review of Booksįrom the award-winning and bestselling author of Directorate S, the explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan. “The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before long, Han finds himself in possession of a secret believed to be lost to history, a discovery powerful enough to unite the people of the Fells. ![]() His only ally is the queen, and despite the perils involved, Han finds it impossible to ignore his feelings for Raisa. Navigating the cutthroat world of blueblood politics has never been more dangerous, and former streetlord Han Alister seems to inspire hostility among Clan and wizards alike. But that enemy might be the person with whom she’s falling in love. With surrounding kingdoms seeking to prey on the Fells’ inner turmoil, Raisa’s best hope is to unite her people against a common enemy. ![]() Tension between wizards and Clan has reached a fevered pitch. For young queen Raisa ana’Marianna, maintaining peace even within her own castle walls is nearly impossible. Now, once again, the queendom of the Fells seems likely to shatter apart. A thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed- Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love. ![]() ![]() It includes an appendix with information detailing the dresses featured in the Work and identifying those on display at Kensington Palace. Chapters are arranged according to the various dresses worn by Diana. It includes foreword by Meredith Etherington-Smith, who played a mayor role in arranging the sitting in 1997, and a testino interview conducted by Hamish Bowles, and contribution by Hamish Bowles. The book is edited by Patrick Kinmonth, long-term collaborator and friend of Testino's. The selection of about seventy photographs includes many unseen images which, alongside previously published images, fill in the untold story of the shoot? Also included is an interview with Mario Testino about his recollections of the sitting and as well as a contribution from Hamish Bowles, European editor-at-large of American Vogue. The book brings together the most beautiful images from this last portrait sitting, displaying Diana in a state of relaxation and intimacy unlike any other. Just five months before her tragic death in August 1997, Diana Princess of Wales was photographed by Mario Testino for Vanity Fair. ![]() Inside Princess Diana's last portrait session. ![]() ![]() Marten and Brandon Sanderson, it would be a good time to start hunting for new authors to obsess about. It was a sort of last minute, end of the year decision to start reading along with their book picks – I mean, my to-read pile is so large already I don’t need to add more – but I figured now that The Wheel of Time is finished, and I am (mostly) caught up on George R. Last year, however, my friend took me to a Geek & Sundry panel at WonderCon (a comics/general nerdiness convention), wherein I found The Sword & Laser Podcast and online book club. Reading has always been fun, and I never want to make it feel like a task. Normally I don’t set out reading goals like I do for sewing and skating. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But what if Bastien’s intrusion isn’t just a visit? What if this man is here to awaken something new inside her…and change the course of her existence forever? On a quest to return Bastien back to the time in which he belongs, Raegan already knows she will be forever changed by this arrogant duke and his irresistible passions. It’s a time travel device, and it’s just brought this stunning warrior forward by over two hundred years. ![]() The cabinet is no normal piece of imposing furniture. The rising star of fashion stylists is dealing with both a bad break-up and a creative slump, so apartment sitting for her lovebird friends feels like a way to realign karma-until fate has its say.Īs soon as Bastien De Leon steps out of the giant wardrobe in his brother’s master bedroom, Raegan knows what kind of complication has just struck her life. Even optimists have bad days, but Raegan Tavish’s streak has lasted for weeks. ![]() |