![]() ![]() The Guardian has named her as “ one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation”. She is a member of the Club of Rome and serves on several advisory boards, including the Stockholm School of Economics’ Global Challenges programme, the University of Surrey’s Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, and Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute. Over the past 20 years, Kate’s career has taken her from working with micro-entrepreneurs in the villages of Zanzibar to co-authoring the Human Development Report for UNDP in New York, followed by a decade as Senior Researcher at Oxfam. Her book, Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21 st century economist was published in 2017 and has been translated into 18 languages. Her internationally acclaimed framework of Doughnut Economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses and political activists, and she has presented it to audiences ranging from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. ![]() She is a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges and is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My hope is that young readers find the exchange emotionally stirring, although tears are optional.Įqually, I hope readers share the feelings of anguish and sorrow as each character expresses these sentiments. Recognizing the children’s cynicism is essential to the story. It was a heart-wrenching scene to write, and I confess that I cried a little as it played itself out. It comes in the middle of the book and is between David and five of his foster-children, Sebastian, Eva, Tommy, Benedict, and Micah. This is a snippet of the dialogue in a pivotal scene from my novel, The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch. “If you can’t forgive and move on, then your feelings will grow and fester and they will eat you alive.” ( The Destiny of Sunshine Ranch) You need to forgive them for what they did and did not do, and you need to move on.”ĭavid thought a moment before answering. You need to tell yourself that it doesn’t matter anymore. “You can be mad all you want, but at some point, you need to let it go. “No…no, you can be mad at them,” David said. “Don’t do what? Be mad at them?” Benedict asked. ![]() “Take care of you…they just didn’t have it in them. “Your mothers and fathers, for some reason or another, couldn’t do it right.” “It’s true,” David insisted, looking back at the boys. “Oh David!” Benedict protested and was about to walk away. “You are here because God sent you to me.” “You are here…” he began to say, and then wondered how much should really be said. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We are all beneficiaries of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, establishment of the EPA, and much more.įast forward five decades. No matter what any of us might think about the key players or their politics, the elected leaders across the 1970 political spectrum - from Gaylord Nelson to Richard Nixon - ultimately ensured a cleaner environment with a strong economy and improved health. The message: policymakers at all levels of government will be held accountable by voters for their records on environmental stewardship and protection. There’s no Planet B.įorty-nine years ago, twenty million Americans came together on the first Earth Day and launched another first: putting environmental issues front and center on the national political agenda. ![]() Today we need to work together to end climate change for our planet. Earth Day: Fighting climate change requires political collaboration and immediate action This Earth Day, we remember those who started a movement. ![]() ![]() Cardinal Sins: Is the face in the water his last chance at love? A virus is spreading through the city, targeting the humans with mutations. ![]() But the trip into the killer’s mind opens a door to evil long forgotten and it’s coming for them next. ![]() When an official’s daughter goes missing, Shane asks for Misaki’s help. Shane’s presence in his life sometimes means gruesome murder cases and memories that give him nightmares, but he can’t help being drawn to the gruff detective. A psi, hiding in plain sight, Misaki spends his days pleasing men for money and basking in beautiful shoes. His only safe haven is a hustler with the ability to see other people’s pasts. He uses his heightened senses to track down the missing or murdering dredges of humanity. ![]() ![]() Can he help the man he loves solve a slew of rage killings before he’s next? Shane contracted the mutation during the third World War, a corruption of the blood that forces him to violently shift into an animal every month. The complete Hidden Gem series includes angels, werecreatures, vampires, mermen, witches, zombies, and dragons, oh my! Hidden Gem: He can dive into the memories of others, including murder victims. Omnibus features three novels, a novella, and two shorts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something lurks between the abbey's stones, causing rumors of demons and curses. The abbey is falling apart and money aren't enough to even get some proper food for winter, let alone spend on reparations. Hélas, the boring and mundane existence does not continue for long. Will is still helping the monks with everyday chores, while finding the time to practice playing the flute and dreaming of becoming a traveling musician. Life is peaceful once again in the Crowfield Abbey. No, you'll be surprised because Crowfield abbey is a rather dark book, yet, the magic and the otherworldly are always present throughout the story. We don't get a school for witches and wizards in the Scottish highlands or a hidden camp for demi-gods in the States. Crowfield Abbey is not your typical kids series such as Harry Poter or Percy Jackson. I don't know why I'm addicted to middle-grade children horror books. Step 4: Post fanart and random comics instead. Step 2: Finish the book and celebrate my achievement with imaginary fans! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though researchers may understand what vitamins are on a basic level - scientists have names for them, know humans need them to survive, and have a general sense of what purposes they serve - Price notes that no one fully understands exactly what they do, nor the potential negative consequences of saturating our bodies with huge quantities of them. ![]() According to journalist Catherine Price in her new book Vitamania: Our Obsessive Quest for Nutritional Perfection, this gap in knowledge has allowed an expensive - and potentially dangerous - delusion to take hold. And yet despite the fact that scientists have been researching them for over a century, vitamins are still poorly understood by nutritionists - not to mention laypeople. Americans drink vitamin-enriched sports drinks, eat vitamin-fortified foods, and spend billions of dollars yearly on multivitamins. Now “taking our vitamins” is almost automatic for a big chunk of the population. Armstrong Roberts/Getty Images, Shutterstockįor many Americans, taking vitamins - often fruity Flintstones-themed ones - before heading off to school was a regular part of daily childhood life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since signing up as an author with Orion, I seem to spend most of my time hunched over my laptop in various cafes and coffee bars sipping lattes, tapping keys and watching the ebb and flow of shoppers outside on the street. ![]() For those of you who like their computer games, here are some of the titles I've worked on: I spent the first 10 years out of college in the music business chasing record deals and the next 12 years in the computer games business as a graphic artist and eventually a games designer. more I live a nomadic existence with my wife Frances, and son Jacob. As I write this, I'm awaiting the launch of my next book - the sequel. Water world, Evolva, The Thing, Spartan, Gates of Troy, Legion Arena ![]() I live a nomadic existence with my wife Frances, and son Jacob. ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is, Eve has had a worse day - one that lingers in her nightmares and the cybernetic implant where her memories used to be. If she's ever had a worse day, Eve can't remember it. Worst of all, she's discovered she can somehow destroy machines with the power of her mind, and a bunch of puritanical fanatics are building a coffin her size because of it. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble - she's too busy looking over her shoulder. On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. From the coauthor of the New York Times best-selling Illuminae Files comes the first book in a new series that's part Romeo and Juliet, part Terminator, and all adrenaline. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet it seems that anything new and strange poses a threat to the mountain people, who are proud of their way of life. After all, who can explain Bob Allens' mysterious accident on his way to bring Christy to Cutter Gap? Or the lightning strike that sent a tree through the school window? Will fear and superstition triumph? Will Christy be driven out of Cutter Gap forever? Or will Christy overcome and win the hearts of the mountain people? The Angry Intruder: Headstrong and independent, Christy is determined to change the lives of the children in Cutter Gap. ![]() Silent Superstitions: Strange things are happening in Cutter Gap and everybody is convinced that Christy is cursed. There she meets the doctor who needs her help to save a life and the handsome minister who helps her face the challenges of teaching and loving the mountain people. Join Christy as she crosses from the familiar world of parties and pretty things to the different world of Cutter Gap, located in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. ![]() The Bridge to Cutter Gap: Christy Huddleston's dream is to teach poor mountain children. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time the smiling man is playing for keeps. ![]() Brian, Coco and Phil will risk everything to rescue Ollie-but they all soon realize this game is much more dangerous than the ones before. Meanwhile, Ollie is trapped in the world behind the mist, learning the horrifying secrets of the smiling man's carnival, trying everything to help her friends find her. The traveling carnival is coming to Evansburg. Now it’s Coco, Brian, and Phil’s turn to make theirs. Game on! The smiling man has finally made his move. How the man agreed to let him go on one condition: that he deliver a message. He tells anyone who'll listen about the mysterious man who took him. ![]() A boy who went missing at a nearby traveling carnival appears at the town swimming hole, terrified and rambling. The smiling man promised Coco, Brian and Phil, that they’d have a chance to save her, but as time goes by, they begin to worry that the smiling man has lied to them and Ollie is gone forever. ![]() It’s been three months since Ollie made a daring deal with the smiling man to save those she loved, and then vanished without a trace. New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden thrills once again in the finale to the critically acclaimed, bone-chilling quartet that began with Small Spaces. ![]() |