Moving into his Brooklyn brownstone to live along with his Hurricane Sandy-traumatized, illegal-gun-stockpiling, optimized-soy-protein-eating, bunker-building roommates, Aretha finds that her dreams of making partner are slipping away, replaced by an underground world, one of selling guns and training for a doomsday that’s maybe just around the corner. The single life is starting to grate on her married-with-2.5-kids ambitions. Aretha is a working-class Wisconsinite in Brooklyn, a black corporate attorney with a killer competitive streak. In the wake of her parents’ death, Aretha, a habitually single Black lawyer, has had only one obsession in life-success-until she falls for Aaron, a coffee entrepreneur. Kashana Cauley’s The Survivalists: A Novel is a smart, sharp story about lawyers, guns and money, and life hitting the fan. Novel:Ī single Black lawyer puts her career and personal moral code at risk when she moves in with her coffee entrepreneur boyfriend and his doomsday-prepping roommates in a novel that’s packed with tension, curiosity, humor, and wit from a writer with serious comedy credentials Book The Survivalists by Kashana Cauley is available to download free in pdf epub format.
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The whole film is black and white, shot on a single 16mm camera.Ī small amount of color footage of Kon-Tiki does exist. Thereafter it is a film of the crew on board, shot by themselves, with commentary written by Heyerdahl and translated. The movie has an introduction explaining Heyerdahl's theory, then shows diagrams and images explaining the building of the raft and its launch from Peru. The Academy Film Archive preserved Kon-Tiki in 2013. The Oscar officially went to Olle Nordemar. The movie, which was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar, received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1951 at the 24th Academy Awards. To prove it, Heyerdahl sets out to make the trip himself, using methods and materials like those available to pre-Columbian Incas, and naming his balsa-wood raft Kon-Tiki, after an Incan sun. Kon-Tiki is a Norwegian documentary film about the Kon-Tiki expedition led by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, released in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark in 1950, followed by the United States in 1951. Amid stellar explosions and bouncing universes, Mack shows that even though we puny humans have no chance of changing how it all ends, we can at least begin to understand it. Our universe could collapse in upon itself, or rip itself apart, or even - in the next five minutes - succumb to an inescapable expanding bubble of doom.This fascinating, witty story of cosmic escapism examines a beautiful but unfamiliar physics landscape while sharing the excitement a leading astrophysicist feels when thinking about the universe and our place in it. Drawing on cutting edge technology and theory, as well as hot-off-the-presses results from the most powerful telescopes and particle colliders, astrophysicist Katie Mack describes how small tweaks to our incomplete understanding of reality can result in starkly different futures. But what's next? The End of Everything is a unique exploration of the destruction of the cosmos. So too, our Sun will eventually shine its last. When will it take place? How is it likely to happen? How do scientists know? An acclaimed theoretical astrophysicist explores the end of the Universe. Seizing the opportunity to make her mark on the world, April now has to deal with the consequences her new particular brand of fame has on her relationships, her safety, and her own identity. News quickly spreads that there are Carls in dozens of cities around the world-from Beijing to Buenos Aires-and April, as their first documentarian, finds herself at the center of an intense international media spotlight. The next day, April wakes up to a viral video and a new life. Delighted by its appearance and craftsmanship-like a ten-foot-tall Transformer wearing a suit of samurai armor-April and her best friend, Andy, make a video with it, which Andy uploads to YouTube. Roaming through New York City at three a.m., twenty-three-year-old April May stumbles across a giant sculpture. In his wildly entertaining debut novel, Hank Green -cocreator of Crash Course, Vlogbrothers, and SciShow -spins a sweeping, cinematic tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined. But beneath its effervescent tone, more complex themes are at play.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Sparkling with mystery, humor and the uncanny, this is a fun read. Spending time with happy and positive friends can elevate your mood and boost your outlook. While developing and maintaining friendships takes time and effort, healthy friendships can: Whatever your age or circumstances, though, it’s never too late to make new friends, reconnect with old ones, and greatly improve your social life, emotional health, and overall well-being. Many of us struggle to meet people and develop quality connections. One Swedish study found that, along with physical activity, maintaining a rich network of friends can add significant years to your life.īut close friendships don’t just happen. Lack of social connection may pose as much of a risk as smoking, drinking too much, or leading a sedentary lifestyle. Developing close friendships can also have a powerful impact on your physical health. Good friends relieve stress, provide comfort and joy, and prevent loneliness and isolation. Friends bring more happiness into our lives than virtually anything else.įriendships have a huge impact on your mental health and happiness. But research shows that friends are actually even more important to our psychological welfare. We think that just finding that right person will make us happy and fulfilled. Our society tends to place an emphasis on romantic relationships. I was highly intrigued by journalist Meg Mason’s latest novel, especially as it came with a five star recommendation from a close friend. Sorrow and Bliss is a novel that claims to be both sad and funny and it immediately caught my attention. Or maybe it will turn out that you can stop loving someone and start again from nothing – if you can find something else to want. It is too late to get the only thing she has ever wanted. He said he didn’t mind either way because he has loved her since he was fourteen and making her happy is all that matters, although he does not seem able to do it.īy the time Martha finds out what is wrong, it doesn’t really matter anymore. Martha told Patrick before they got married that she didn’t want to have children. He says everyone has something, the thing is just to keep going. She knows there is something wrong with her but she doesn’t know what it is. This novel is about a woman called Martha. Meg Mason is a searing talent.’ Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure I inhaled it in a single weekend, unable to put it down. It was filled with such eviscerating compassion and rage I couldn’t get enough of it. It’s timely and dark and poignant and funny. A brutal, hilarious, compassionate triumph.’ Alison Bell, The Letdown For fans of Sally Rooney, Taffy Brodesser-Akner and Fleabag. Spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark and tender, full of pathos, fury and wit, So rrow and Bliss by Meg Mason is a dazzling, distinctive novel from a boldly talented writer. “ As the sixteen-year-old Karl Rossmann, sent to America by his poor parents because a maid had seduced him and had had a child by him, was sailing into New York Harbour on board the gradually slowing ship, he caught sight again of the Statue of the Goddess of Liberty, which appeared to be lit up by a burst of sunshine.“ In his novel, Kafka writes about displacement, social decline in the foreign country, and the longing for Heimat (home). Today, it might be more relevant than ever before. You might not like Kafka, but even so, you may want to give his novel, Amerika, a second read. On the night of the show, Ellwood booked a babysitter to watch one Thalia while he watched the other one! Our esteemed colleague, Ellwood Wiggins, likes the preeminent theater of Hamburg so much that one of his daughters shares its name: Thalia. Have you been missing the boundary-pushing theater scene of Germany? Fortunately, Thalia Theater Hamburg recently visited the great Nature Theatre of Cascadia! Their production of Franz Kafka's Amerika came to the stage in Seattle on November 16. Vanderbilt, the “first great corporate tycoon in American history,” would actually “overshadow democratic government,” writes historian T.J. Critics failed to stop him, while smart politicians scrambled to get out of his way. Perhaps more than anyone else, he ushered in a new era of corporate power in which only fools adhered to strict morals.įrom steamboats to railroads, he controlled the way that Americans moved and created an empire in a country that had just tried to escape one a few decades earlier.Ĭorporate leaders feared, envied, and idolized him. Vanderbilt, a walking ball of intensity, saw to that. No big business, no tycoons.īut then things changed. And for good reason: neither did great industry, cutthroat competition, nor fantastic wealth. When a man named Cornelius Vanderbilt started his career as a lowly boatman in the early 19th century, the word “tycoon” didn’t exist. The overall 14-fold change reflected regulation of the total abundance of the subunit as well as the fraction of the subunit protein in the cleaved form. This increased by 8.5-fold with Na depletion and decreased by 40% with Na loading. The biochemical parameter most strongly affected by dietary Na was the abundance of the 65-kDa cleaved form of gamma-ENaC at the surface. When the animals were fed a high-Na (5% NaCl) diet for 1 wk, the surface expression of beta-ENaC increased by 50%, whereas that of the other membrane proteins did not change, relative to controls. The increases in ENaC subunits were mimicked by administration of aldosterone for 1 wk, but the increase in NCC was not. The amounts of the luminal Na/H exchanger (NHE3) and the luminal Na-K-2Cl cotransporter (NKCC2) did not change significantly. When animals were fed an Na-deficient diet for 1 wk, the amounts of epithelial Na channel (ENaC) beta-subunit (beta-ENaC) and gamma-subunit (gamma-ENaC) and Na-Cl cotransporter (NCC) protein in the surface fraction increased relative to controls by 1.9-, 3.5-, and 1.5-fold, respectively. The abundance of Na transport proteins in the luminal membrane of the rat kidney was assessed using in situ biotinylation and immunoblotting. Police quickly identify a suspect, the boyfriend of one of the victims, who flees and is never seen again.įifteen years later, more teenage employees are attacked at an ice cream store in the same town, and again only one makes it out alive. But at a Blockbuster Video in New Jersey, four teenagers working late at the store are attacked. Y2K is expected to end in chaos: planes falling from the sky, elevators plunging to earth, world markets collapsing. "The night was expected to bring tragedy." So begins one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers in recent years. From the author of the breakout thriller Every Last Fear, comes Alex Finlay's electrifying next audiobook The Night Shift, about a pair of small-town murders fifteen years apart-and the ties that bind them. |