Interview: Nancy Pearl, author and librarian, offers some great opening lines to booksSTEVE INSKEEP
Hosted by TEDWomen speakers Mary Robinson and Maeve Higgins, each episode features women offering powerful solutions to climate change — from the grassroots to the courtroom, the front lines to the boardroom — all over the world.If you’ve not already listened to The Aspen Institute’s The ...
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I continue my search, heading north to Maceio, a fisherman's beach. Boats lie on their sides while net s hang out to dry on lines between fishermen's houses. We eat on the beach and later rest near the table. It's a great day, but I have one final place to visit. A few hundre...
Most of us know something about the weird and somewhat tragic tale of the Dionne quintuplets, raised from infancy before the public gaze and exploited to sell everything from dolls and books to soap and toothpaste. When E.B. White made this brief mention in his “Notes and Comment,” the...
Results of the previous “three major transformations” of socialism fueled Mao Zedong’s ambitions to further intensify socialist reconstruction in China, hoping to overtake the UK and catch up with the United States by realizing communism as quickly...
Travelers like me love it due to its small size and long battery life.The “Paperwhite” version allows you to easily read in the dark, plus there’s no glare from the sun when reading on a beach (unlike trying to read on your phone). You can fit thousands of books on it — a ...
The great fear in that movie, and I think you mean Rear Window rather than Vertigo was on James Stewart’s face as the guy threw him out and he tried to hang on. Maybe that’s why people often like movies better than books, but then a lot of people who see a movie after reading...
-- There are more functions, as you suggested, so that customers will be able to transfer funds to an account in another bank. I’m going to make a presentation about these changes at the Paris, conference and would like to talk to you about that. There are some things I can do my...
Why It Works: Combine an appealing opening statement with a call to action to create a compelling offer. 3.James Clear @jamesclear James Clear has become a popular influencer who recently released the bookAtomic Habits. The email newsletter signup at the bottom of his landing page does a...