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![]() Apart from his world-famous science fiction, Asimov also wrote highly successful detective mystery stories, a four-volume History of North America, a two-volume Guide to the Bible, a biographical dictionary, encyclopaedias, and textbooks, as well as two volumes of autobiography. ![]() He won the Hugo Award four times and the Nebula Award once. ![]() Asimov wrote hundreds of short stories and novels, including the iconic I, Robot and Foundation. Thereafter he became a regular contributor to the leading SF magazines of the day. Asimov's career as a science fiction writer began in 1939 with the short story 'Marooned Off Vesta'. The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. After a short spell in the army, he gained a doctorate and worked in academia and chemical research. He grew up in Brooklyn and attended Columbia University. Foundation began as a series of short stories in Astounding Science Fiction magazine in the 1940s and eventually became a trilogy of books published in the 1950s. ![]() Biography: Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in Russia and was brought to the USA by his parents three years later. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant Bowler as Lord Damiano Montague, patriarch of the nouveau riche House Montague and Romeo's father who seeks to increase his family's prestige by any means necessary, including undermining House Capulet.As the two try to prevent the marriage and the destruction of their warring families, a secret society known as "The Fiend" attempts to depose the beleaguered Prince Escalus by inciting war between the two families.Ĭast and characters Main Plot įollowing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, Rosaline Capulet is betrothed against her will to Benvolio Montague. ABC canceled the show after one season in June 2017. ![]() ![]() The series is produced by Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland and ABC Studios, and aired on ABC during the 2016–17 television season. Still Star-Crossed is an American period drama television series developed by Heather Mitchell and based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Melinda Taub. ![]() ![]() ![]() An original copy of the poem Moore wrote and signed for an acquaintance in 1860 sold for $280,000 to a Manhattan CEO in 2006 who later read it to guests-in a protective plastic sleeve-at his holiday party.Ħ. Nicholas” until 1844 when he included it in a book of poetry.ĥ. First attributed to Moore in 1837, he didn’t publicly claim authorship of “A Visit from St. ![]() Donner was actually Dunder’s second name change-he was also called Donder.Ĥ. ![]() Donner and Blitzen were originally named Dunder and Blixem. The poem first appeared uncredited in the Troy Sentinel on December 23, 1823.ģ. A friend visiting from upstate New York was so impressed, she sent it to a newspaper editor (without permission) who published it the following year.Ģ. ![]() Nicholas,” he read it to his children on Christmas Eve. After Moore wrote the poem he named “A Visit from St. Here, a few things that you may not know about it-including a long-standing controversy questioning authorship.ġ. Originally a simple poem written by biblical scholar and professor, Clement Clarke Moore for his children in 1822, “The Night Before Christmas” is the most well-recognized, iconic holiday poem in American pop culture. Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…” “'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house ![]() ![]() ![]() To celebrate, we're showcasing Censored 2017 at a 25% off online discount and offering 50% off Censored backlist titles (from Censored 1996 to Censored 2006), along with select Seven Stoires books on media literacy, including titles by Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky.Ĭheck out our discounted Project Censored and media literacy collection! They also just hosted a jam-packed Media Freedom Summit and co-founded the Global Critical Media Literacy Project in partnership with the Action Coalition for Media Education and the graduate program in Media Literacy and Digital Culture at Sacred Heart University. For the past forty years, Project Censored has been unearthing the buried stories that corporate media deem unfit to print. That's because these and countless other news items are suppressed or ignored by our nation's "free press" every day. planned to instigate civil strife in Syria as early in 2006? What about the chronic problem of medical neglect in private, for-profit, U.S. ![]() ![]() military is deployed in 70% of the world's nations? Or that leaked State Deptartment cables show that the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I spent the next eight months in a hospital, some of it in an isolation ward. ![]() Literally overnight, I went from being a strong, fit and highly energetic child, to being almost completely paralyzed. Parents everywhere lived in terror of their children catching the virus. In the early fifties, Europe and the United States suffered a rampant epidemic of polio. But as a young child, I spent a lot of time on my own. I grew up in a large, close- knit family that was also tremendously sociable and funny. I was born in 1950 in Liverpool, England. When I was very young, I would never have guessed that this would be my Element and nor would anyone who knew me. I’ve spent a lot of my time traveling around the world presenting to hundreds and often thousands of people, and, through the media, sometimes to millions. I know now that my Element is communicating and working with people. ![]() ![]() ![]() His wife Cora is consumed by caring for their daughter. Ernt Allbright is a Vietnam POW who has returned home with PTSD, suffering sleepless nights, flashbacks, nightmares and a volatile behavior. In a wild, remote corner of the state, they find a fiercely independent community of strong men and even stronger women. At first, Alaska seems to be the answer to their prayers. The daughter Leni hopes that this new start will lead to a better future for her family since her father can never keep a job. The plot begins with the Allbright family moving to Alaska after a Vietnam buddy willed them a cabin by the Kenai River. It is an adventure story where readers feel they are put in the middle of the Alaskan frontier it is a relationship story that also confronts abuse and obsession and it is a love story between a mother/daughter, father/son, and two young adults as well as the land and those who live on it. There are not enough adjectives in the English language to describe the greatness of this novel. ![]() ![]() The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah is another winner from the author of the bestseller The Nightingale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hopkins reprised the role for the 2001 adaptation of the 1999 novel Hannibal, which sees Lecter evading recapture, and for a second adaptation of Red Dragon in 2002. Lecter had a larger role in The Silence of the Lambs (1988) the 1991 film adaptation starred Anthony Hopkins as Lecter, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. ![]() Lecter first appeared in a small role as a villain in Harris' 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon, which was adapted into the film Manhunter (1986), with Brian Cox as Lecter (spelled "Lecktor"). Before his capture, he was a respected forensic psychiatrist after his incarceration, he is consulted by FBI agents Will Graham and Clarice Starling to help them find other serial killers. Lecter is a serial killer who eats his victims. ![]() Hannibal Lecter is a fictional character created by the novelist Thomas Harris. ![]() ![]() ![]() Besides, his mentors were cunning teachers. Belfort then pounced, selling the stock stashed in the ratholes to produce most of his profit.īelfort thought he was too clever to get caught by what he describes as bumbling investigators with the U.S. Then he used the power of his boiler room operation at Stratton Oakmont to drive up the price of Madden's stock to around $20 a share. A big chunk of the shares of the offering went into what Belfort describes as ratholes, or accounts held by his cronies at $5 or $6 a share. In the initial public offering of shoe company Steven Madden Ltd., Belfort pocketed some $20 million. ![]() Instead, he paid his rowdy salesmen handsomely to pump up the prices of small stocks with fraudulent pitches. ![]() ![]() He said he could have made even more if he had run the Long Island brokerage legitimately. In his twenties, Belfort made millions of dollars a year taking companies public. Half of Belfort's monthly income goes toward restitution and US District Judge John Gleeson has ordered Belfort to file an affidavit with the court detailing the financial arrangements surrounding the book and a movie deal. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As they struggle to find safety, Sophie learns that Finn has suffered his own heartbreak but instead of playing it safe, Finn’s become the kind of guy who goes surfing in the eye of the hurricane. ![]() But when a hurricane forms off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks and heads right toward their island, Sophie realizes nature is one thing she can’t control.Īfter she gets separated from her family during the evacuation, Sophie finds herself trapped on the island with the last person she’d have chosen-the reckless and wild Finn Sanders, who broke her heart freshman year. With nothing but pain in her past, all Sophie wants is to plan for the future-keep the family business running, get accepted to veterinary school, and protect her mom and sister from another disaster. The one that left Sophie’s older sister, Meredith, barely able to walk at all. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. From award-winning author McCall Hoyle comes a new young adult novel, Meet the Sky, a story of love, letting go, and the unstoppable power of nature. ![]() |