![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Using the visible clues these devastations have left behind in the fossil record, The Ends of the World takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Many scientists now believe that the climate shifts of the twenty-first century have analogs in these five extinctions. In The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen dives into deep time, exploring Earth’s past dead ends, and in the process, offers us a glimpse of our possible future. Our world has ended five times: it has been broiled, frozen, poison-gassed, smothered, and pelted by asteroids. One of Vox’s Most Important Books of the Decadeįorbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book of 2017Īs new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes in the planet's history, award-winning science journalist Peter Brannen takes us on a wild ride through the planet's five mass extinctions and, in the process, offers us a glimpse of our increasingly dangerous future ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() “They werenât really learning anything they needed to keep them safe and healthy when they were in adult relationships, so I wanted to address that with This Book Is Gay.“ĭawson said her book covers sex education, relationships, falling in love, dating and family, and was written to “give young LGBTQ+ people hope”.Ī post shared by Juno Dawson anti-trans and anti-drag bills in the US, Republican lawmakers in the US have taken aim at LGBTQ+ literature in schools in recent months.Īccording to a report released last year, almost half of books banned in US schools in the past year contained LGBTQ+ themes or characters. “I felt as a former teacher that sex education for LGBTQ+ teenagers wasnât very good. It has a warning on the back, itâs aimed at teenagers and it says itâs honestly explicit at the back in places,” Dawson said. “I wrote This Book Is Gay 10 years ago next year. In a video, Dawson said her book This Book Is Gay is “one of the most most banned books” in the US, and explained her intentions behind the book, which is a decade old. The Sunday Times bestselling author spoke on Instagram, condemning the banning of inclusive books on Sunday (26 March). Trans author Juno Dawson has hit back at the far-right for its “organised attack on books” after her work, This Book Is Gay was named in a bomb threat against New York schools and an attack on a library in Cork, Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t so much as see a water bottle affixed to her cage. Her words are hoarse, either from fear or-more likely-dehydration. Instead of a simple yes or no, her voice is rough when she asks a question of her own. “Do you know where the keypad is to render you free?” I’m also trying desperately not to be distracted by the insoluble sticky ball still attached to the bottom of my foot, but there’s a tackiness and a slight hesitation every time I shift my weight. Not letting go of her hands, I look around, pressure building up behind my sternum every second that she’s caged behind these ugly orangish-red oxidation-coated bars. It’s hard to say what she’s really feeling though. ![]() ![]() “Of course you’re not all right they didn’t leave you with so much as a sanitation wipe dispenser, you poor thing.”Īfter a moment, the shaking thing peeks up at me, her brow dipping low in a manner that I’d normally read as confusion. “Are you… are you all right?” I shake my head at myself. Feeling the strangest tug in the region of my cardiac muscle, I feel for the soft insides of her palms and stroke there with my thumbs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Books Īmy Krouse Rosenthal wrote for both adults and children. She was a contributor to Chicago's NPR affiliate WBEZ, and to the TED conference. ![]() She is the only author to have three children's books make the Best Children's Books for Family Literacy list in the same year. She was a prolific writer, publishing more than 30 children's books between 2005 and her death in 2017. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely. Rosenthal speaking at the TEDx Waterloo conference, February 25, 2010Īmy Krouse Rosenthal (Ap– March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. ![]() |