9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Amazon River Thesaurus Wikipedia Related to Amazon River:Nile River The second-longest river in the world and the one with the greatest volume of water, flowing about 6,600 km (4,100 mi) from Peru across...
where a reluctant protagonist completes a quest through what ultimately turns out to be an interior landscape, and emerges transformed. The idea of the “monomyth” has become a tedious self-fulfilling prophecy ever sinceHollywood screenwriters started reading Joseph Campbell. But if you’re aiming ...
The optical microscope has revolutionized biology since at least the 17th Century. Since then, it has progressed from a largely observational tool to a powerful bioanalytical platform. However, realizing its full potential to study live specimens is hind
In other words, subjectivity allows the objective to be grasped while remaining ethereal itself. This chapter argues that the human mind can take a final step in understanding itself. It is a small step within the informational ontology, but a huge step conceptually. Only the brave mind can re...
Individual businesswomen I have spoken with have even expressed doubt that the "terrible" statistics I cite are true, as such things "don't happen in my world". Some academics have warned that the "we've come a long way" narrative leads us to take our eye off the ball: "where there...
When I was pregnant with twin girls, all anyone could talk about was how muchglitterwould be in my life. Our house was going to look like the set ofThe Labyrinthjust from the play dresses alone. I thought ‘Awesome! Iloveglitter!’ Then, I gave birth to two little bear cubs. ...
Meanwhile the Westminster government, struggling with an embarrassing backlog of asylum seekers to process, needs cheap accommodation for them, and the local press, who know a good story when they see one, cite evidence that the government is ignoring the legal injunction and work is continuing ...
“Black Sails” on Netflix and menacing pirates have been fresh in our minds. The storm hit as we explored the city. Huge waves crashed on the white sand beaches. Some of the swells were so large they splashed over the city walls, nearly soaking Jodon and I as we ran along them, ...
and disapproves of those who think it does. The narrative thus constructed is that no structural action is needed because women can achieve parity on an individual basis. Individual businesswomen I have spoken with have even expressed doubt that the “terrible” statistics I cite are true, as ...
Notes 1. Lampugnani (2017, p. 7) lists—in addition to the society in which the respective city is embedded—the following characteristics of a city: “The topography of the place, the nature of the soil, the materials available in the immediate vicinity, the construction techniques, the cl...