We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of-or has the courage to ask. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour.
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Years before she stole her sister Kanwar's fate and sailed across the world from India to Canada, before she became Bibi-ji, she was Sharanjeet Kaur. Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? weaves together the personal and the political - and beautifully brings the reader into the reality of terrorism and religious intolerance. The tide of anger and violence spills across borders and floods into distant Canada, and into the lives of neighbours Bibi-ji and Leela. The assassination sets off a wave of violence against innocent Sikhs. Then, in October of the same year, Indira Gandhi is murdered by her two Sikh bodyguards, an act of vengeance for the assault on the temple. While they are there, the temple is stormed by Indian government troops attempting to contain Sikh extremists hiding inside the temple compound. In June 1984, just as political tensions within India begin to spiral out of control, Bibi-ji and Pa-ji decide to make their annual pilgrimage to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines. Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? elegantly moves back and forth between the growing desi community in Vancouver and the increasingly conflicted worlds of Punjab and Delhi, where rifts between Sikhs and Hindus are growing. With wit and intelligence, Rankine strives toward an unprecedented clarity-of thought, imagination, and sentence-making-while arguing that recognition of others is the only salvation for ourselves, our art, and our government.ĭon't Let Me Be Lonely is an important new confrontation with our culture, with a voice at its heart bewildered by its inadequacy in the face of race riots, terrorist attacks, medicated depression, and the antagonism of the television that won't leave us alone.Ĭlaudia Rankine is an American poet and playwright born in 1963 and raised in Kingston, Jamaica and New York City. The award-winning poet Claudia Rankine, well known for her experimental multigenre writing, fuses the lyric, the essay, and the visual in this politically and morally fierce examination of solitude in the rapacious and media-driven assault on selfhood that is contemporary America. or our American optimism the sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter. The sadness is not really about George W. In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century. If Tris can win "Can You Cut It," the cutthroat competitive kids' cooking show, he can get the cash to buy the machine. There's only one solution: The Belshaw Donut Robot. Petersville needs to become a tourist destination, and his shop could be a big part of it, if Tris can keep up with demand. Folks keep moving away and if they can't get people to stay, Petersville may disappear. And that's not the worst part, Petersville has its own supply problem-it doesn't have enough people. His doughnut business has a major supply issue. But just when things are looking up, problems start rolling in. Tris Levin thought moving from New York City to middle-of-nowhere Petersville meant life would definitely get worse.only it actually got better. Doesn't everyone love a good baking competition? If you or the kids in your life are into the hit show Nailed It! and if those kids have the entrepreneurial spirit, then this book is for you! When Tris tries to save his doughnut business and town by competing on a cooking show, will he have what a takes to win, or will he lose it all? Hirsch Award has recognized excellence in snowsports reporting, emphasizing journalistic creativity and editorial or artistic content. A list of the past winners of the Harold S. Hirsch Awards recognize creativity and excellence in editorial and artistic content in both print and broadcast journalism.īe sure to check out the story behind the Hirsch awards, written by Honorary Member Vicki Hoefling Andersen. The North American Snowsports Journalists Association presents a number of distinguished awards to NASJA members and outstanding individuals in the snowsports industry.Ĭreated by the founder of the White Stag clothing to promote professionalism in winter sports coverage, the Harold S. I have some on-lineĬlamshell, insert, not much different. Retailers like Gamestop and Sam Goody soon. I picked these up at EBGames for $12 each, and they should be hitting Sabbaticus, Bethany Bled, Tom Requiem, and Mary Slaughter. Fetter's Family of FreaksĪnd the Golem Elijah, both reviewed tonight, and four others - The The line includes six figures, including Dr. But those were caricatures, not realistic Sure, there have been carnival freak figures before, most recently This time they hook up on a weird group ofĬarnies, with the background story supplied by Barker. The new Infernal Parade line is a group of twistedĬarnival freaks, done in grand Mcfarlane and Clive Barker tradition.īarker and Mcfarlane have gotten together twice before, both times for Leave it to Mcfarlane Toys to come up with unique ideas, or at least unique With the long-lived asparagus recently planted, fruits and fields established, all we needed to do was brush off our boots, raise a family and learn how to care for our piece of the Earth.Īnd we needed a farm name! Our three children were young and fell easily into new rhythms with all the space, freedoms and animals. Our search for a rural homestead with space to plant, grow, tend and harvest, led us to a sweet spot on high rolling hills near Madison, WI. We're not farmers by accident, though never would have predicted we 'd be commercial asparagus farmers and graziers. Her Blue Body Full of Light impacted me greatly as it stares down the possibility of losing a sibling to cancer, something I have myself faced, with the subsequent poems of grief providing a devastating window into the loss which could have been. Home’s moving monologue brims with a painfully powerful candour it should be compulsory reading nation-wide. Shire’s striking command of form is seen in the wonderfully illustrative structure of Backwards. The delicate thread of family – particularly the mother-daughter relationship – runs throughout, as tender as a nerve. Through her exceptional poems Shire explores Black womanhood, the experiences of being an immigrant in Britain and the reconciliation of family and trauma. Warsan Shire’s bold and heartfelt descriptions of flawed family relationships in her poetry collection, Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head, have taken root in my soul. “Dear Uncle, Is everything you love foreign / or are you foreign to everything you love?” Parents and Guardians Guide to University. The RamĪn obvious difference from the sin offering is that, in the case of the trespass offering, there was only one grade of sacrifice. We shall see this especially in chapter six. So it is not so much sin and what it reveals of me and my need before God, as an offering for the consequences of my sin. The stress in the trespass offering is upon “the harm that he hath done” (5:16). But in the sin offering, it would appear that it is the awareness of my sin and that it springs from a nature that is sinful. The awareness of an act of sin appears to trigger the need for each of them. This would embrace sins of omission as well as sins of commission.Ī question immediately arises as to the distinction between the sin and trespass offerings. The trespass might involve failure in the “holy things.” It could also involve trespassing against the commandments of the Lord (5:17). Thus both portions of the law were violated – God and his neighbor. There were two spheres in which a man might commit a trespass: it could be against God (5:14-19) or as a result of something done to a neighbor (although still against the Lord, 6:2). The law of the trespass offering is given to us in Leviticus 7:1-7. The trespass offering occupies the section from Leviticus 5:14 through chapter 6:7. Matthew Lamont explains the origins of the cult J-Horror film MIKADO ZOMBIE and also takes a look back at the forgotten NBC special THE BIG STUFFED DOG. Trevor Snyder gives a rundown on 1992's unborn SUPERMAN REBORN, where the Man of Steel battles Brainiac and gets stranded in Kandor! Stan Hyde concludes his in-depth look into War of the Worlds adaptations that didn't happen, including a musical version. This issue celebrates the lost films of famous ape suit performer Charles Gemora, who starred in INGAGI-banned for the last 90 years! Also covered are Gemora's unmade projects, like THE BIG THAW where Ice Age monsters run amuck during a polar shift. Tumors of the Jaws (Classic Reprint)Charles Locke Scudder, French Verbs. THE LOST FILMS FANZINE is the premiere digest fanzine specializing in lost films, un-produced scripts, and obscure movies long forgotten.until now. And Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the Wests PastJohn M. |