![]() ![]() This end, and the escaping craft, are witnessed by another ancient race, which laments the loss, but finds its own resolve to help prevent such tragedies strengthened. They embrace, the craft launches, and ironically enough, that act is the trigger for their world's destruction. Helpless to prevent the coming tragedy, the couple hopes to survive it, in a sense, by launching their own vessel, which will carry every aspect of their culture to a distant planet, actualized in the form of a child. In one, an alien couple gazes out upon their technologically advanced world, while one tells the other that each exploratory probe the planet launches brings their doom that much closer, their manipulation of gravity increasing the instability of the black hole at planet core. But behind each seemingly innocuous object lies a story, and a tragedy. ![]() These objects are a complete mystery to the Planetary personnel who discover them while digging through the abandoned New York laboratory of the sinister group known as The Four. ![]()
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![]() This immersive collection captures the whimsy and drama of steampunk as well as its flaws. Nisi Shawl’s “Sun River” is atmospheric and sensuous, making full use of its locale. ![]() In Zan Lee’s “Ushabti,” a dying pharaoh grapples with his own mortality. In Tiffany Trent’s “The Lights of Dendera,” science and magic collide when a singer is asked to perform for Nikola Tesla at a new Egyptian art exhibit and comes face to face with Anubis. In Jonathan Green’s action-packed “Worthless Remains,” set in 1998, adventurer and detective Ulysses Quicksilver learns that an old acquaintance is programming mummy automatons to murder. In Gail Carriger’s “The Curious Case of the Werewolf That Wasn’t, the Mummy That Was, and the Cat in the Jar,” Alessandro Tarabotti, a Templar, discovers a strange mummy and plenty of danger in bustling Cairo. His fiction has appeared most recently in Tor.com. Clockwork mummies, thieving deities, airship pirates, psychic queens, mechanical scarabs, unrepentant scoundrels, mysterious museums, trickster djinns, suspicious werewolves, abducted scientists, fearless spies, and vengeful gods. ![]() Buy a discounted Paperback of Clockwork Cairo online from Australias leading. Matthew Bright Welcome to the land of the Pharaohs. ![]() Bright’s collection of steampunk stories set in Egypt notably includes no Egyptian authors, instead serving as an introduction to several popular Western steampunk authors and series. Matthew Bright is a writer, editor and designer whos never quite sure what order those titles should go. Booktopia has Clockwork Cairo, Steampunk Tales of Egypt by Matthew Bright. ![]() ![]() ![]() In short, 2023 will likely see a slight expansion of remote employees. Such trends show that the forced return to office may reverse in the next few months. Moreover, many employees are pushing back strongly on the return to office mandates, leading to a rise of worker power and even unionization as a response to these top-down dictates. He embraced remote work by closing Twitter’s Seattle and Singapore offices, telling all staff to work remotely. After initially ordering all Twitter staff back to the office, he now reversed course. For example, consider Elon Musk at Twitter. Amazon, Disney, and Starbucks belong to that 3%.īy contrast, 5% said they would expand it. In fact, of the CEOs from the US, a tiny proportion – 3% – indicated they would decrease the availability of remote work in their companies. ![]() After surveying 1,100 corporate executives across several industries around the globe, including 24% from the US, The Conference Board revealed that Amazon, Disney, and Starbucks represent the exception, not the rule. Recent survey data from The Conference Board provides a surprising insight into how companies are approaching the hybrid workplace policy. Yet do such headlines represent the reality of a new wave, or are they just clickbait for anxious workers who want to avoid the threat of a forced office return? Given the extensive headlines about Amazon, Disney, and Starbucks ordering employees back to the office, you might think that the back-to-office return is inevitable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Baum published this, the second book of the Oz series, in 1904, and in some ways it is even better than its much more famous predecessor. They must recapture the Emerald City, defeat Old Mombi (who allies herself with Jinjur), and most of all, discover the true secret of unassuming young Tip. ![]() Woggle-Bug, T.E.) flee the city and head west to the land of the Winkies, now ruled by the Scarecrow's old friend the Tin Woodman. The Scarecrow, Tip, Jack, and some other oddball characters (notably, Mr. The epic continues Fresh off their landmark THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF OZ, superstars ERIC SHANOWER (Age of Bronze) and SKOTTIE YOUNG (X-MEN) return with L. He goes to the Emerald City, now ruled by the Scarecrow, but unfortunately a female Army of Revolt, 400 strong and led by General Jinjur, captures the city. One day Tip escapes, after creating a walking stick figure with a jack-o-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead with a magic Powder of Life stolen from the witch. Not long after the events in _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz_, a young boy named Tip is the unhappy servant Old Mombi, a wicked Sorceress in the Land of the Gillikans (in the north of Oz). ![]() ![]() ![]() The Tony Award-winning play by William Gibson is based upon Keller's autobiography "The Story of My Life." The theater traditionally offers a classic American play in their season, and this one fits the bill perfectly. Surfside Playhouse tells the inspiring story in "The Miracle Worker," on stage through Jan. The two remained friends for the rest of their lives. Sullivan helped Helen overcome her limitations and communicate about the world around her through hand signals. The Kellers turned to a tenacious young teacher, Annie Sullivan, who recognized Helen's bright mind hidden beneath her violent, frustrated outbursts. ![]() With no way to communicate, Helen grew up wild - almost feral - until her family was desperate. Many of us are familiar with Helen's story of optimism, determination and sheer willpower.Īs a child in the late 1880s, Helen was locked in a world of darkness and silence after an illness left her blind, deaf and mute. ![]() The story of young Helen Keller is iconic in our culture. Support local journalism by subscribing at Special Offers - USAToday Network. View Gallery: Helen Keller's story comes to life at Surfside Playhouse ![]() ![]() ![]() Jesus and the Disinherited reaches past anger and distrust toward a vision of unity. ![]() Although Jesus was scorned and forced to live outside society, he advocated a love of self and others that defeats fear and the hatred that destroys our souls and the world around us. The example of Jesus' life of suffering, pain, and overwhelming love offers a solution that ends our descent into moral nihilism. Jesus is a partner in the pain of the oppressed, Thurman writes. In this classic theological work, acclaimed theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman demonstrates how the gospel may be read as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re comfortable with the amount of freedom you’ve given your employees, you haven’t gone far enough.ĭrawing on the latest research in behavioral economics and a profound grasp of human psychology, WORK RULES! also provides teaching examples from a range of industries-including lauded companies that happen to be hideous places to work and little-known companies that achieve spectacular results by valuing and listening to their employees. Hire only people who are smarter than you are, no matter how long it takes to find themĭon’t trust your gut: Use data to predict and shape the futureĭefault to open-be transparent and welcome feedback Learn from your best employees-and your worst This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto that offers lessons including: It’s not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing.” So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. ![]() “We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. From the visionary head of Google’s innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. ![]() ![]() Pick up a copy of The Golem and the Jinni from Amazon in paperback ($13), hard cover ($15), Kindle edition ($9), or as an unabridged audiobook ($40).Īlternatively, you can buy it from the iBookstore for $9. She definitely has a gift, and I can’t wait to see what she writes next. I’m also surprised this is Helene Wecker’s first novel, given how excellent the writing is. ![]() Each of them struggles to adapt to American society, the same way any immigrant would.Īlthough I don’t know how the book ends, I’ve found TGATJ’s unique mixture of Jewish and Arab mythologies with American history quite compelling so far. The story revolves around a female golem (Chava) who is marooned in the city after her Polish-immigrant master dies at sea, and a jinni (Ahmad) who is accidentally released from an ancient copper kettle by a Syrian tinsmith, only to find himself mysteriously trapped in human form. TGATJ takes place in late-19th-century New York. ![]() I’m only about a third of the way in as of this writing, and totally hooked. ![]() ![]() Despite all the acclaim for the book I’ve heard and read, it took a potentially* spoiler-ish episode of the Technical Difficulties podcast-wherein they interview the book’s author, Helene Wecker-for me to finally pick up a copy. I’ve had The Golem and the Jinni on my Amazon wish list for a while. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her day-to-day life hits familiar crime fiction beats, as she bickers with her partner from her days as a police detective and is ultimately vindicated. The main character, Vicki Nelson, is a private investigator who has no prior involvement with the supernatural. The beloved read it and said, “You know, instead of writing a vampire book, why don’t you write a Tanya Huff book with a vampire in it.” And so that’s what I did. So I wrote the first chapter of my “vampire book” and it just wasn’t working. ![]() ![]() We were thinking of buying a house in the country and so would need a mortgage and vampire books came with a large-and, as I mentioned, loyal-fanbase built in. ![]() In a desperate search for something decent to read they’ll cross their fingers and pick up just about anything with fangs on the cover. Well, at the time I was working at Bakka-a science fiction bookstore in Toronto-and I noticed that vampire readers are very loyal. Here, Tanya Huff states that she had the idea for the novel back in 1989, and gives the commercially-minded decision behind its conception: Or, more accurately, I’ve been reading the 2006 omnibus edition that also includes the sequel, Blood Trail, and a new introduction by the author. I’ve been reading Tanya Huff’s book Blood Price, published back in 1991. ![]() ![]() Spaeth then analyzes an image of the goddess in a relief of the Ara Pacis, an important state monument of the Augustan period, showing how it incorporates all these varied roles and associations of Ceres. In particular, she examines two major concepts, fertility and liminality, and two social categories, the plebs and women, which were inextricably linked with Ceres in the Roman mind. In this thematic study of the Roman goddess Ceres, Barbette Spaeth explores the rich complexity of meanings and functions that grew up around the goddess from the prehistoric period to the Late Roman Empire. ![]() ![]() New cults are developing around ancient goddesses from many cultures, although their modern adherents often envision and interpret the goddesses very differently than their original worshippers did. “Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. ![]() |