Hatfield, now senior conservation biologist for the nonprofit’s endangered species program, remembers thinking, “How could we do a better job gathering data for the purposes of conservation decision making?”īefore Hatfield’s tenure at Xerces, a number of studies indicated that several species of bumblebees were experiencing significant population declines. He realized a pile of data on bumblebees he’d been handed to assess the extinction risk of North America’s bumblebees forced him to make inferences that made him uncomfortable. Rich Hatfield, who has studied bees all his adult life, says the idea for the atlas was born about 10 years ago when he began working at the nonprofit Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, in Portland, Oregon. The atlas is a terrific example of how partnerships between government, nongovernmental organizations, private landowners and volunteers have contributed to preventing the extinction of so many animals and plants over the course of the Endangered Species Act’s first 50 years. Over the last five years, the Bumble Bee Atlas project has grown from an idea on how to get volunteers involved in collecting data on native bumblebees in the Pacific Northwest to a nationwide quest to learn as much as we can about these vital pollinators.
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Punchinello doesn’t want any stickers on him either so Lucia tells him to visit their maker, Eli. One day he meets a Wemmick named Lucia who doesn’t have any gold stars or gray dots because they don’t stick to her. A Wemmick named Punchinello always tries his best to receive gold stars from the other Wemmicks but only receives gray dots for not doing well enough. The Wemmicks walk around all day and give each other either a gold star or a gray dot sticker. If you haven’t read this book, here is a brief summary from Teaching Children Philosophy…In a village, there live many different Wemmicks. I believe it will resonate wildly with your little yogis. You Are Special by Max Lucado is an amazing book, one to be considered for sharing in yoga class. I am excited to learn that this book is related to the last three books, and hopeful it will both be good and promising for more books in the series. “Susan Carroll, The Huntress, Ballantine (Catriona O'Hanlon, a pagan Irishwoman accused of witchcraft, must foil a plot against Queen Elizabeth)" The fourth book in this series, The Huntress is slated to be released in summer of ’07.” And this from : The novels combine fictional characters with real events and personages such as the enigmatic Catherine de Medici and the lusty Henry of Navarre. A blend of history, magic, romance and intrigue, these books relate the saga of the Cheney sisters, three women of extraordinary abilities who live in constant peril of being accused of witchcraft. The Courtesan: A Novel is written by Susan Carroll and published by Ballantine. Carroll launched a new series with the publication of the The Dark Queen, The Courtesan, and The Silver Rose set during the turbulent days of the French Renaissance. For those, like me, wondering what this book is about because none of the the book sites (last I checked) had an info, someone filled me in on my comments and I thought I would share. Celehar, though successful in his commission, took no delight in it, nor did he really want any tangible reward the emperor could offer him. Readers of The Goblin Emperor will remember Thara Celehar, the shy and retiring prelate of Ulis to whom the emperor Maia (reigning as Edrehasivir IV) turned to investigate who killed his father and half-brothers. Fans have long awaited a sequel, or at least another volume in the same universe, and The Witness for the Dead does not disappoint. But despite its altered milieu, it has a similar flavour, with an intimate, personal emotional register and a thematic concern with duty and ethics, loneliness and connection, choices and consequences.s Sarah Monette, Katherine Addison has written a tetralogy ( Mélusine, The Virtu, The Mirador, Corambis) and co-written a trilogy with Elizabeth Bear ( A Companion to Wolves and sequels), but she is best known for the award-winning The Goblin Emperor (2014), a novel about an isolated young man who succeeds unexpectedly to the rulership of an empire about his loneliness and his struggle to do right by his responsibilities, his role, and what remains of his family: a struggle to be a kind man and an ethical emperor. The Witness for the Dead isn’t a sequel, focusing as it does on an almost entirely different cast of characters and set as it is far away from the imperial court. The Witness for the Dead, Katherine Addison ( Tor 978-2-4, $25.99, 240pp, hc) June 2021. Such a ploy invites interaction from the reader – you want to whip up her recipe for Key Lime Pie while you roundly curse her feckless husband and his too-tall lover. I have a particular weakness for novels that scatter their text with recipes and cooking tips – and Ephron's text combines both epicure and epithet. Her world is thrown into turmoil and she attempts to retain a modicum of control through the comforting certainty of cookery. The heroine is Rachel Samstat, a thirty-something, heavily pregnant Jewish food writer who seems to have it all until she discovers her partner is planning to move in with another. It will come as no surprise to the reader that Heartburn is one of Nigella Lawson's favourite books. Summary: A thinly-disguised fictionalisation of the breakup of her marriage to Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein delivers epicure and epithet. We learn what the material world is like from the smallest quark to the largest galaxy and at all the levels in between. It is, in the best sense, learned." -"Winnipeg Free Press", "Stylish stunningly accurate prose. You can't help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind." -"Ottawa Citizen" "Wonderfully readable. a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world's biggest story." -"Seattle Times" "Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable." -Simon Winchester, "The Globe and Mail" "All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations." -"National Post ""Bryson is a terrific stylist. destined to become a modern classic of science writing." -"The New York Times" "Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science." -"People" "Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent. "Stylish Ýand¨ stunningly accurate prose. The author takes pains to keep the reader informed of Jamaica's developing history she pins the structure on quotations from Sun Tzu's ancient Chinese manual of military strategy. The story is a fragmented chain of brief episodes, in which we see Pao struggle for dominance and fulfilment in a violent society. Young's is a narrative of confusion and conflict, both in the political world and within the self. The author takes Pao through the major events of the second half of the 20th century, from independence to the Rasta Revolution. Growing up under the protection of his "Uncle", Pao becomes his heir. In 1938 Young's unheroic hero fled the chaos of his revolutionary homeland to thrive under the wing of the legendary Zhang, who runs a protection racket in Kingston's Chinatown. The first-person narrator, writing in a version of local patois, is of Chinese descent, belonging to a community of Chinese immigrants that began in the mid 19th century and came to be resented by black inhabitants in proportion to its business success. K erry Young's heartfelt, sparky and affecting debut novel is a chronicle of multicultural Jamaica, both in its cultural richness and in its strife and tensions. Titles in the Sunfire series listed in order of publication: The cover art always featured the main character flanked by her two potential lovers, along with scenes from the historical event or period that was the setting for the book. The girl was typically ahead of her time in ideas and actions and the suitor she almost always chose was the one who approved of or accepted her actions. At the same time, with very few exceptions, the girl was torn between two potential lovers. Each book featured a teenage girl who experienced a particular period or event in American history. The Sunfire books contained two themes: history and romance. Ransom (6), Mary Francis Shura (6), Jeffie Ross Gordon (2), and Willo Davis Roberts (3). The books were written by a group of authors, including Vivian Schurfranz (9), Jane Claypool Miner (6), Candice F. Sunfire is a series of young adult historical romance novels published by Scholastic Books in the 1980s. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. The novel, set in the early 1980s, introduces us to American student Richard Papen as he enrols in a liberal arts college, Hampden. Published in 1992, Donna Tartt’s The Secret History is celebrating its 30 th anniversary and, to date, has not been adapted into a film. Some classics embed themselves into the history of cinema itself (Dracula, Frankenstein, Sherlock Holmes), and more recent franchises have stalked the bestseller lists for inspiration (the Harry Potter series made around $7 billion).īut a creative leap from page to screen isn’t destined for every bestseller. When it comes to adapting a novel for the big screen, it’s undeniable that some books just have the X Factor. From book adaptations to book reviews, this will be a place for readers of SQ to engage with the oldest form of entertainment, the written word. Book Nook is a little corner of Screen Queens dedicated to books. “My life is over,” my neighbor’s 30-year-old daughter Fiona* said to me over socially distanced glasses of wine on my porch two weeks later. In an effort to prevent the spread of Covid-19, they not only shut down bars, beaches, and restaurants, they even established checkpoints so that no one could enter the island chain unless they could prove residency. My husband and I were eating lunch at one of our favorite burger joints in Key West, Florida, where we’ve lived for 15 years, when the news broke that county officials had decided to close the Florida Keys. Ahead of the release of her latest novel, No Offense, Cabot reflects on the neighborhood romance that restored her faith in love in the time of coronavirus. Meg Cabot is the bestselling author of over 80 books, many of which center on romance. |