6/30/2023 0 Comments Do nothing headlee![]() Why do we measure our time in terms of efficiency instead of meaning? Why can't we just take a break? ![]() We strive for the absolute best in every aspect of our lives, ignoring what we do well naturally and reaching for a bar that keeps rising higher and higher. So why are we so miserable? This manifesto helps us break free of our unhealthy devotion to efficiency and shows us how to reclaim our time and humanity with a little more leisure.ĭespite our constant search for new ways to optimize our bodies and minds for peak performance, human beings are working more instead of less, living harder not smarter, and becoming more lonely and anxious. ![]() We work feverishly to make ourselves happy. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments The sands of time michael hoeye![]() And they had so much money!") keep the pages rapidly turning. The Sands of Time (English) 0 references. Language Label Description Also known as English: The Sands of Time. Hoeye's galloping plot, evocative descriptions ("The papyrus was the bleached yellow of September hay") and exuberantly sophisticated wit ("Tucka was happy. The Sands of Time (Q7762240) From Wikidata. Birch, Hermux and the mouse of his dreams-the lovely aviatrix Linka Perflinger-race to find the ancient tomb of Ka-Narsh-Pah, and its cat-and-mouse secrets. Soon they are off, with the odious playboy scholar (and revisionist historian) Hinkum Stepfitchler III and his fiancée, hilariously self-serving cosmetics millionaire Tucka Mertslin, on their collective tails. "We're going to discover once and for all if cats actually existed or this has just been a horrible hoax," Mirrin determines. He reappears unexpectedly with another old scroll, and mouse history may never be the same. No one knows that better than Mirrin's old chipmunk flame, Birch Tentintrotter, who was run out of town decades ago when he deciphered an ancient map to the kingdom of cats. ![]() ![]() Long presumed to be mythical creatures by the urbane small rodent population of Pinchester, cats are a taboo subject. Fresh from his first adventure ( Time Stops for No Mouse), Hermux Tantamoq, watchmaker, amateur sleuth and intrepid mouse about town, finds himself drawn into another intrigue when his artist friend Mirrin Stentrill's exhibit of cat paintings incites a riot. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Arkham asylum new edition![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Now, where was I? Where am I? Where will I be? You must be feeling quite fragile by now, I expect. And all the other regular inmates are on hand to scare what passes for the daylight out of Batman including the Scarecrow, Two-Face and, here, the Hatter: McKean was still in his BLACK ORCHID post-Sienkiewicz stage, using both pencil and paint but little photography, and his exploded, expressionist artwork brings the Joker to cackling life, Day-Glo green hair flowing like sea-grass, his speeches slashed freely across the page in bright red ink, unconstrained by speech bubbles. ![]() I loved this dark, sexually charged Bat tale in which The Joker taunts Batman into Arkham Asylum (where both of them belong) through sadism and psychology, then pinches his bottom. But now: all the different covers over the years including the Japanese hardcover, an illustration for The Face, another for UKCAC '88, the clay mask used as the base for McKean's photo-painterly jiggery-pokery and convention painted "sketches" in a completely different style. Still here: Morrison's complete script and original notes, annotated by both himself and Karen Berger, many of Morrison's original thumb-nail breakdowns (like Bendis and Moore, he's not a bad artist, either), and lots of other behind-the-scenes tomfoolery. The new, new POST-25th Anniversary edition comes packed with even more extras than last time. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Scenes from an impending marriage![]() ![]() Payment Delivery Customer Service About Us Unfortunately we are currently unable to provide combined shipping rates. Please note, the shown RRP under the buy price is the New RRP for this particular book, shown by eBay. We all like the idea of saving a bit of cash, so when we found out how many good quality used books are out there - we just had to let you know! Can't find what you're looking for? 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General Interest Scenes from an Impending Marriage: a prenuptial memoir Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 0571277705 Title: Scenes from an Impending Marriage: a prenuptial memoir The Cheap Fast Free Post Author: Tomine, Adrian Publisher: Faber & Faber Year Published: 0414 Number of Pages: N/A Book Binding: Hardback Prizes: N/A Book Condition: VERYGOOD SKU: GOR002795275 Item description Please note, the image is for illustrative purposes only, actual book cover, binding and edition may vary. ![]() We appreciate the impact a good book can have. ![]() Item: 301999898601 Scenes from an Impending Marriage: a prenuptial me. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments The nutcracker book eta hoffmann![]() ![]() In tales like The Nutcracker, Hoffmann's characters come to vivid life in settings that move from the firm ground of reality to a world of enchantment, mystery, and romance. ![]() One of the world's greatest fantasy writers and a major figure in late German Romanticism, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 1822) created extraordinary works of poetry and supernatural fiction. His mixed success leads to the lasting enmity between the Nutcracker and seven-headed Mouse-King - Dame Mouserink's son - a conflict that only Marie can help resolve. The vengeful queen casts a curse on an innocent princess, forcing Drosselmeier to undertake an arduous quest to break the spell. Godpapa Drosselmeier, who once served as the royal court's inventor, recounts to Marie a tale of the trickery of Dame Mouserink, the Queen of Mice. Here is the original tale of seven-year-old Marie and her beloved Nutcracker, beset by a dark mystery that surrounds this story within a story. This 1816 story is perhaps best known as the basis for Tchaikovsky's popular ballet, but Hoffmann's holiday legend is where the spell begins. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Yours in Books by Julie Falatko![]() Throughout, the pen-and-ink sketches with watercolor show a multitude of feathered, furry, and shelled neighborhood children, continuously-and sometimes rambunctiously-interacting with a bird who repeatedly declares a desire for solitude. Owl’s next request-for a handbook on moving to a remote island-is instead met with a gift: a book promoting life in the woods. ![]() ![]() Squirrel signs the formal, regretful reply that the book is out of stock. ![]() The following double-page spread follows this format, with a bespectacled squirrel searching colorful stacks on the verso. The formal letter appears opposite, on the recto. When Owl pens the initial letter from “Top of Oak / Near the Clearing / and the Noisy Small Animals,” the letter details why Owl requests that particular book: “so that I might read in peace, alone.” The bird sits at the writing table, amid books and a quill pen in its inkwell, with large pillows deployed to muffle the noise. Distinctive voices and a large format make it perfect for reading aloud. ![]() This very funny sendup of epistolary novels combines understated text with hyperbolic yet charming art. Fencepost’s adventure begins when the fusty bird attempts to order How To Soundproof Your Forest Dwelling from the catalog of a nearby, squirrel-owned bookshop. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Mediocre author ijeoma![]() ![]() elegans neurons and their connections have been mapped out and its cells are accessible for genetic manipulation. elegans has only 302 neurons (rather than billions) and only six serotonin receptors (rather than the 14 found in people). elegans, but to a more manageably limited degree. ![]() These same complexities that scientists face in people are all afoot in the nematode worm C. ![]() ![]() There are many different types of serotonergic neurons with widespread projections throughout the brain and serotonin acts through many different receptors, which are often activated in concert to change the way that neural circuits work.” “There have been major challenges in rationally developing psychiatric drugs that target the serotonergic system,” says Steve Flavell, associate professor in the Picower Institute and MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and senior author of the study in Cell. In a new study, researchers at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT working in a simple animal model present a comprehensive accounting of how serotonin affects behavior from the scale of individual molecules all the way to the animal’s whole brain. To improve those drugs and to invent better ones, scientists need to know much more about how the molecule affects brain cells and circuits both in health and amid disease. Because serotonin is one of the primary chemicals the brain uses to influence mood and behavior, it is also the most common target of psychiatric drugs. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Bean ivy and bean![]() They are still seven in the Ivy and Bean movies, which Netflix released in September. Ivy and Bean remained seven for the entire 16 years it took me to write the 12-book series. Then we’d argue about the definition of work, and then, after about 15 minutes, she’d trot away, completely satisfied by the outcome of her efforts, and I would put my head down on my desk. ![]() ![]() And then I’d yank open the door and tell her Yes, I did work, I most certainly did, and if she would just go downstairs and play, I could get my work done. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Sarah parcak tanis![]() ![]() Zusammen mit ihrem Ehemann,, leitet sie Untersuchungen im Fayum, auf dem Sinai und im östlichen Nildelta. Sie ist Dozentin für Anthropologie und Leiterin des Labors für globale Überwachung an der University of Alabama at Birmingham. Unter anderem konnte sie in Ägypten und auf dem Gebiet des Römischen Reichs Siedlungsgebiete identifizieren. ![]() Sarah Helen Parcak (* 1979 in Bangor, Maine) ist eine amerikanische Ägyptologin, die Aufnahmen aus dem Weltraum (Bilder und Strahlenmessungen) auswertet, um mögliche Ausgrabungsstätten zu finden. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications some include illustrations of historical interest. Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ![]() |