5/22/2023 0 Comments It's Earth Day! by Mercer Mayer![]() ![]() ![]() Also, the book was printed on 100% post-consumer waste paper. I think most five-year-olds would enjoy this book, and it’s easy to break it down for those unable to sit for this much text. I am not too proud to admit I learned s a few new things and had a few good laughs along the way with the books little bits of humor also. The book itself takes the reader through the complete process from crude oil to bottle and then to synthetic fleece. It’s not aimed at two-year-olds at all, but he did like to open it to the page with the recycling truck and point out all the parts to me. The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling by Alison Inches is incredible! I only wish that my son was old enough to enjoy it as much as I did. ![]() The text would be far too long for the younger crowd, but Kindergarten on up would be an appropriate age range for an unedited reading. It touches on recycling, deforestation, air pollution, and more. The Berenstain Bears Don’t Pollute (Anymore) by Stan and Jan Berenstain provides an excellent overview of a whole bunch of concerns for our world. Earth day books? Yes, but they are everyday books too. They focus on real ways kids can change their habits and help the environment, on how and why we should recycle, and provide cautionary tales about what could happen if we don’t. Earth Day is April 22nd, but these books work year-round. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments 20s the defining decade![]() ![]() Lucius Aelius Sejanus begins to dominate the Roman Senate and Tiberius, after the death of Drusus.From that point forward, he seems to lose interest in the Empire and occupies himself with the pursuit of pleasure. ![]() Emperor Tiberius' son Drusus Julius Caesar dies.Greek geographer Strabo publishes Geography, a work covering the world known to the Romans and Greeks at the time of Emperor Augustus – it is the only such book to survive from the ancient world.Manning (2008) tentatively estimates the world population in AD 20 as 246 million. ![]() Geographica, an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge created by Strabo, was finished no later than AD 23. In 27, Christianity was born as a Jewish sect in Jerusalem. Major disasters of this decade include a fire in Rome, and the collapse of a poorly built amphitheatre in Fidenae, which killed 20,000 of the 50,000 spectators. In science, the 20s saw the manufacture of pens and metal writing tools in Rome. In Korea, Daemusin of Goguryeo annexed Dongbuyeo and killed its king Daeso. In China, the Xin dynasty collapsed and the Eastern Han dynasty was established. In North Africa, Tacfarinas, a Numidian Berber deserter, led the Musulamii tribe and a loose and changing coalition of other Berber tribes in revolt, before being defeated in AD 24. ![]() In Europe, the 20s saw revolts by the Aedui, Thracian tribesmen, and the Frisians against the Roman Empire. The 20s decade ran from January 1, AD 20, to December 31, AD 29. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the gale, it is the sweetest which means that when there are minor challenges ahead, hope is so soothing and empowering. Words represent the actual method or process of how you’ll succeed, but the hope is just the feeling of getting over the difficulties. Hope just makes you believe that you will. There is no blueprint for why you’ll succeed. What does this mean? Hope is not a plan or strategy. Hope sits somewhere deeper, somewhere we cannot locate. Remember that hope is not a thought and it never comes to your brain, because then it would be rejected by the worries and uncertainties. ![]() ![]() Hope is like a bird that sits nowhere but the soul. While with one quick read, one can understand what Dickinson is trying to convey, it is the detailed reading that brings the poem to its true shining form. Hope is compared to a bird that sings sweet tunes. There is metaphorical magic in the poem, created by the magical use of metaphors. ![]() ![]() These delivery times are the maximum delivery periods that a purchase can take to reach our customers. 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After a one-month break, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will continue its West Coast tour with the Motul Course de Monterey at Laguna Seca. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The Two Chambers by Pedro Puech![]() Regarding gender, 11 (73.3%) patients were women. We evaluated sympathectomy levels of resection, technical difficulties, surgical complications preoperative quality of life, response to treatment and quality-of-life improvement 30 days after each surgery. This is a retrospective study, evaluating 15 patients from an initial group of 2300 patients who underwent resympathectomy after failure of the primary surgical treatment. None of the studies have objectively evaluated the degree of response to surgery or the improvement in quality of life after resympathectomies. ![]() Few studies have previously analysed exclusively the results of these resympathectomies in patients with primary hyperhidrosis. Despite this high success rate, some patients are unresponsive and eventually need a resympathectomy. ![]() Video thoracoscopic sympathectomy is the recommended surgical treatment for primary hyperhidrosis and has a high success rate. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Benjamin franklin walter isaacson![]() ![]() ![]() ISAACSON: Well, you know, at first we have that maxim-spouting old codger saying, "A penny saved is a penny earned," and the guy he created in his autobiography. How did you even know where to begin with Benjamin Franklin? WOODRUFF: He is so much than the man the schoolchildren see in their history textbooks - layers and layers of complexity. ![]() Everything we are as a nation you can sort of derive that to Benjamin Franklin, I think, His homespun humor, his ingenuity, his sort of urban industriousness. But also, everything he did helped create what we are. WALTER ISAACSON: He is so quintessentially American. JUDY WOODRUFF: Walter Isaacson, it's Benjamin Franklin, and you put in the title, "An American Life." Why did you do that? The following is an edited transcript of the interview: I talked with Isaacson this week about the book and what Franklin might think of America today. The book, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, takes an in-depth look at how the man considered one of the greatest and most accomplished of American founders helped define the kind of society America would become. His subject is the writer, philosopher and scientist Benjamin Franklin. The author is former TIME magazine and CNN executive Walter Isaacson. WASHINGTON (CNN) - A biography hitting the bookstores this week shines new light on one of the more famous and more misunderstood of America's Founding Fathers. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Author of god is not great![]() ![]() But should we be surprised? A man willing to attack God Himself is presumably not driven by excessive restraint. Not even Mother Thresa escaped the unrelentingly harsh judgment of the Hitchens' pen. Bush all came in for the Hitchens treatment. Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and George H. In cuttingly sharp prose Christopher has publicly flagellated the powerful while defending his contrarian views with relish. In order to appreciate Peter's volume, it is important to first make note of Christopher's flamboyant and wildly successful career. What of the case of Christopher and Peter? How could two brothers, raised in the same home and presumably under similar conditions, end up approaching the most fundamental questions of life so differently? And on a more voyeuristic level-what impact has the disagreement had on their relationship? We know how the divergence of opinion ended in the case of Cain and Abel. ![]() Our interest in sibling disagreements of a religious nature goes all the way back to Cain and Abel. ![]() That his journalist brother, Peter, has now produced a volume in opposite is by its very nature the stuff of drama that drives considerable interest. Everything? Apparently so, in the eyes of Christopher Hitchens. Christopher 1 is, among other things, the author of the 2007 work God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Standish September/October 2011īy now most of us are familiar with Christopher Hitchens. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Illusions 2 richard bach![]() I thought you had reached this major knowing.") But Richard does finally get it, thanks to Donald's show-and-tell and thanks to a magic book of illuminated verses, verses like "The/original sin is to/ limit the Is. ![]() Most of all, he doesn't know that everything's an illusion, and he's a slow learner. Richard doesn't know how to fly a plane without gas, how to walk on water, how to work the off-on switch for celestial music, how to conjure up "thought-forms," or how to heal the crippled. ![]() The Kahlil Gibran of the Me! generation called his last hero Jonathan, but now he's in full, self-y swing with a narrator named Richard who sells $3 rides on his biplane and learns to become "one messiah in a world of others." Richard starts all this learning in an Illinois cornfield the day that Donald Shimoda, the crowd-shy "Mechanic Messiah," lands his plane nearby and says: "There are somethings you do not know." And Donald's not kidding. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments 20 hours 40 minutes book![]() Shipping to Canada is a flat rate of $14.99 and all other countries are $19.99 and there is also no extra charge when shipping more than one item.Īll orders are shipped promptly using the United States Postal Service. ![]() We can ship to virtually any address in the world. 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