When he was bored his mind pondered the patterns he saw. Once when his teacher gave the class ten minutes to solve a math problem, he knew the answer in two seconds. Everyone else does.” He goes on to reveal that he acquired that nickname because he loved to think about numbers. Leonardo Fibonacci introduces himself this way: “You can call be blockhead. A good place to start is with today’s book! Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci Written by Joseph D’Agnese | Illustrated by John O’Brien To celebrate, learn more about this sequence and then observe patterns in nature. These precise compositions allow each leaf to get enough sunlight, make room for the correct number of petals, or squeeze in as many seeds as possible. This sequence is found again and again in nature in such arrangements as leaves on a flower stem, seeds in a sunflower, the tapering of a pinecone, the swirl of a seashell, and manys. First appearing in Indian mathematics and linked to the golden triangle and the golden ratio, the number pattern states that each consecutive number in the series is the sum of the two preceding numbers: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…. Today’s holiday is dedicated to the man-Leonardo of Pisa, today known as Fibonacci-who promoted awareness throughtout Europe of the number sequence that now bears his name.
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Chéri has been to the war, and is trying to fit in, live his married life, but is increasingly alienated from his wife, mother and the new, changed world. The Last of Chéri takes place after World War I. As they try to deal with the separation, they realize it meant more than they thought - but it was doomed as they were at different points in their lives and they must let go. They have long lived and loved together, but Chéri must get on with his young life, and must marry. Chéri describes the ending of the relationship between Léa, an older but still beautiful courtesan at the end of her sexual carreer, and Chéri, a young, supremely beautiful but shallow man. The two novels are separated by six years. An older woman can keep a beautiful boy as a lover Colette is not afraid to write about men as sex objects, possessed by their women. She tosses aside conventional mores - her women are courtesans, free to marry or not marry, they make and invest their own money, live their sexual lives as they want. She creates spaces full with sensations, sketches of people, closely observes their faces, movements, emotions, moods. Colette’s writing is intimate, sensual, absorbing, flowing. These two novellas were pure joy to read. In these Plato examines the figure of the philosopher, metaphysics, and epistemology, an extended investigation that culminates in the allegory of the vision, visibility, and the sun as symbol of the good, or justice. But the middle books belong almost exclusively to pure philosophy. There is first of all the mundane, represented in the first books by the refutation of proverbial morality and traditional society. In a word, what is justice? From this common origin, however, the book divides at a broader level. It has as its central problem the nature of justice. Although certain inconsistencies have been subsequently discovered, philosophical and otherwise, there can be no doubt that The Republic is a work of genius. Plato's Republic has long defied classification: it is a philosophical masterpiece it is acute political theory it is great literature. Shakespeare knew it, and Hannah Capin does, too. But for men of a certain background, with certain privileges, violence has no consequence. The conversation grows more complex when race enters in-men of color, and especially Black men, are often victims of violence, and face much higher consequences for perpetrating it than white men. When women are given the opportunity to be violent, it’s often sexualized and on behalf of the male gaze (Nikita, Black Widow, the femme fatale-all play to the camera) or they’re monsters, and punishment is inevitable (Medusa, Lilith, Lady Macbeth). Slasher movies of the 1970s reacted to a growing cultural acceptance of women’s sexuality and autonomy by violently ripping apart female bodies onscreen. In crime fiction, women are, most often, the victims in superhero stories, they’re frigid. This is the pairing that’s given the most attention: it’s what’s in the headlines, what’s in our entertainment. When we think of violence and women, most of us probably tend to picture violence against women. The past is never far behind, even in wide-open California: “I could never shake my ghosts, never, never.” But the future feels limitless having decided that “nothing but blazing brilliance” would be enough to prove her worth, she dreams of running her own Ivy League lab, winning a Nobel Prize, curing addiction and depression and “everything else that ails us.”Īt the heart of the novel is the relationship between Gifty and her aging mother, who - suffering another bout of depression - has come to stay with Gifty. “I’ve seen enough in a mouse to understand transcendence, holiness, redemption,” she insists. For years, Gifty has kept people at a distance, more attached to lab mice than colleagues and partners. It is a path chosen, in large part, to make sense of the traumas of her childhood back in Alabama: the death of her beloved older brother, Nana, from opioid addiction and the crippling depression of their mother in its wake. A sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at Stanford University, she is studying the neural circuits of reward-seeking behavior. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Īt 28, Gifty, the narrator of Yaa Gyasi’s revelatory new novel, “ Transcendent Kingdom,” thinks she’s figured things out. That’s how long Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. Winner of the 2019 CYBILS Award for Middle Grade Fiction Your heart needs this joyful miracle of a book.” ―Katherine Applegate, acclaimed author of The One and Only Ivan and WishtreeĪ 2019 Parents’ Choice Award Gold Medal Winner The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise is Dan Gemeinhart’s finest book yet ― and that’s saying something. “Sometimes a story comes along that just plain makes you want to hug the world. The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart Purchase The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise by Dan Gemeinhart for your child today! She continues to work away on two more graphic novels, and is excited to bring more comics to share with readers. French Milk Paperback Illustrated, Octoby Lucy Knisley (Author) 172 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback 10.69 73 Used from 2.25 27 New from 8.99 1 Collectible from 35. (First Second Books, April 2013.) It won an Alex Award from the American Librarian Association, was a NYT and Amazon bestseller, and a Goodreads top graphic novel of 2013.Īn Age of License and Displacement are paired travelogues about youth and family, coming out this year (Fantagraphics Books, 2014). Relish, from First Second Books, is about growing up in the food industry. (From Touchstone Publishing from Simon and Schuster), August of 2008. Check out her blog and web comic essay series on !įrench Milk, from Touchstone Publishing, is a drawn journal about living (and eating) in Paris with her mother. She lives in Chicago, where she makes comics, does freelance illustration, and teaches the occasional comics workshop. She then studied at the Center for Cartoon Studies, where she received a scholarship to pursue her MFA (completed in June, 2009).īeginning with a love for Archie comics, Tintin and Calvin and Hobbes, she has been making comics in some form or another since she could hold a pencil. Lucy is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she went to study painting, and ended up making comics. I'll bet you're wondering how to pronounce her name (the K is silent). Lucy Knisley is an illustrator, comic artist and author. In this explosive new work of archaeological detection, bestselling author and renowned explorer Graham Hancock embarks on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a mythical lost civilization hidden for thousands of years beneath the world’s oceans. Synopsis: What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found-until now. Panska symbolizes language as a connecting force, one that challenges political and cultural boundaries. The time period and geopolitical structures of Tawada’s science fiction world remain vague, which places greater emphasis on the book’s ideas about friendship, borders, and language. From there, the two wander through Europe, making friends who join them as they try to understand a new linguistic and political landscape. They travel to Trier to attend an umami festival in hopes that Hiruko can meet someone who speaks her childhood language. She speaks Panska, a Pan-Scandinavian language she invented that somehow everyone can understand. Knut, a Danish linguistics student, sees Hiruko, a survivor from this lost country, on television and decides he must meet her. Set in a futuristic, dystopian world reshaped by climate change, Yoko Tawada’s Scattered All Over the Earth celebrates cross-cultural, crosslinguistic friendships.Īn unnamed country, presumably Japan, has disappeared. I love the premise of this book, the author plays with difficult topics and, for the most part, executes them quite well. I wasn’t expecting a whole lot because I got on the ‘Books for under 2$ section’ and I thought the blurb was interesting. My feelings for this book are all over the place, at times I was loving it and at other times I wanted to chuck my nook out the window. Thoughts: I must admit, this is a difficult review to write. As they begin to spend time with each other, what started as a blossoming friendship eventually grows into something neither expected. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year at Coral Hills High School, these two teens are thrust into each other’s lives. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Blurb: Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can’t walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. |