![]() ![]() The findings call for future investigation to examine the factors that might be working together with or against ozone pollution when health effects are concerned. The spatial dependency of disease prevalence is related to both the spatial patterns of pollution and those of confounding factors. The spatial variation of the relationship between ozone pollution and childhood respiratory disease prevalence indicates health effects of confounding or intervening factors. Moreover, spatial regression analysis suggests the presence of spatial dependence of the prevalence of childhood respiratory diseases. With the guidance from GWR results, the association between ozone pollution and childhood respiratory disease prevalence is proved to be significant in three sub-regions. However, geographically weighted regression (GWR) analysis reveals spatially varied adverse health effect. No significant global relationship exists between ozone pollution and prevalence of childhood respiratory diseases. The study period is June to September of 2001. This paper reports on the investigation of the spatial patterns and variations of adverse health effects of ozone pollution on childhood respiratory diseases in Houston, Texas. ![]()
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![]() This setup remains murky as he begins to conjure the images of Alexandria and the expatriate circle to which he belonged, a circle so small that he knew each of its members by sight. The novel begins intriguingly with the unnamed narrator living on an unnamed island with a child he identifies as that of Melissa, a former lover now deceased. The key to enjoying the work is simply to float with it – relax, don’t struggle and enjoy the prose poetry while waiting for Durrell’s coastguard to rescue you. In other words, he based his Quartet on dimensions in physics and this is therefore experimental fiction.īe not alarmed, for it is quite readable. ![]() Justine, the first volume in The Alexandria Quartet, was published in 1957 and Durrell (1912-1990) intended the four volumes to be read as one, as a “time continuum,” with Justine, Balthazar and Mountolive as interrelated siblings and Clea standing alone as a true sequel. So this review is made without knowing any particulars about the next three volumes, as I prefer to capture my thoughts as they evolve. ![]() ![]() ![]() After some deliberation I have decided to review the Quartet individually as I read them. It’s the Lawrence Durrell Centenary, in honour of which I moved The Alexandria Quartet to the top of my reading list. ![]() ![]() In addition to contemporary fiction, Anderson has published several historical fiction novels, Fever 1793 (2000), Chains (2008), and Forge (2010). Anderson's other young adult works include Prom (2005), Twisted (2007), and Wintergirls (2009). ![]() Three years later, she published Catalyst, her second young adult novel. The novel was added to school curricula across the country and a film version was released in 2004, starring Kristen Stewart as Melinda. It was a National Book Award finalist, a New York Times bestseller, and a Printz Honor Book. In 1999, Anderson published Speak, her most famous work. Anderson is best known, however, for her young adult novels. Many of her picture books are intended to teach children American history. Upon graduation, Anderson transferred to Georgetown University where she earned a Bachelor's degree in 1984.Īnderson began her career as a freelance reporter, but she soon moved to writing children's picture books. ![]() Anderson earned her associate's degree after completing two years at Onondaga Community College, where she worked on a dairy farm. ![]() ![]() This experience encouraged her to attend college when she returned to the United States. During her senior year of high school, Anderson left home and spent thirteen months as an exchange student living on a pig farm in Denmark. Laurie Halse Anderson was born in Potsdam, New York in 1961. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. May include "From the library of" labels. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable).Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. ![]() ![]() I adored the play in this book of a heroine reading werewolf romances, while dealing with her own werewolf romance <3.Ĭan’t wait to see who is up next in Mead Mishaps. /rebates/2fproduct2fdetail2fthat-time-i-got-drunk-and-yeeted-a-love-potion-at-a-werewolf-mead-mishaps-book-2-9798986190303&. I love Lemming’s mix of old school fantasy world and modern day language. ![]() I love that about this fantasy world, it’s pure romcom, doesn’t take itself too seriously but has a ton of fun with any and all types of fantasy magic and characters.Ī quick read, but a delight from start to finish.
![]() ![]() He also adapted plays by Calderon, Lope de Vega, Dino Buzzati, and Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun. But his journalistic activities had been chiefly a response to the demands of the time in 1947 Camus retired from political journalism and, besides writing his fiction and essays, was very active in the theatre as producer and playwright (e.g., Caligula, 1944). The man and the times met: Camus joined the resistance movement during the occupation and after the liberation was a columnist for the newspaper Combat. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy (only chance prevented him from pursuing a university career in that field), he came to France at the age of twenty-five. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() It covers two years–19 during which Mitchell’s fictitious band of four British pop musicians rises to fame and vanishes at the height of its success. So what kind of novel is it? Long–just short of 600 pages, but highly readable. This might serve as a warning not to treat Utopia Avenue as mainly realist with a small dose of fantasy largely confined to a later section of the novel, which is what most reviews have done. ![]() As readers we frequently wonder which world we are inhabiting, a reaction fostered by Mitchell. Utopia Avenue is widely described as a realist novel. At the same time a number of reviewers have expressed reservations about his penchant for the supernatural and ask whether he has succumbed to a boyish fascination with benevolent and malevolent spirits at war with one another fighting with psychic weapons. He’s been called “clearly, a genius” ( New York Times Book Review), “a literary magician” ( Esquire), and “the most multi-talented. His large fan base has waited excitedly for his eighth novel, Utopia Avenue, just released. It is five years since David Mitchell released his last novel, Slade House (2015). ![]() ![]() ![]() The small pink heart in the bottom right corner symbolizes the key ingredient to all of her magic: love. The cover shows Strega Nona carrying her magic pasta pot. Set in southern Italy, the gently humorous story focuses on Strega Nona, “Grandma Witch,” who uses magic to help with matters of the heart and to cure her neighbors’ ills. ![]() The first in a series, the book was published in 1975 and received a Caldecott Honor as one of the most distinguished picture books published that year. The stamp art features a detail from the cover of Strega Nona. ![]() Deceptively simple, dePaola’s stories contain layers of emotional meaning that appeal to readers of all ages. Postal Service honors prolific children’s book author and illustrator Tomie dePaola (1934–2020), whose extraordinarily varied body of work encompasses folktales and legends, informational books, religious and holiday stories, and touching autobiographical tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike most of the poets of the seventeenth century, Tukaram did not write in highly Sanskitised Marathi, instead he chose the colloquial language spoken by the common-most people of his times. Tukaram’s reputation as one of the greatest poets born in India resides on his four thousand or so extant poems which he composed in Marathi, his mother tongue. ![]() ![]() One Hundred Poems of Tukaram is a translation of selected poems of this visionary poet who makes his reader see every aspect of life in a new light, enabling them to rethink the whole world in more positive terms. Tukaram's poetry hold its rejuvenating powers even in the turbulent times of our own twenty-first century. Summary Tukaram was a sixteenth century Indian poet who challenged the norms of the day, whether literary, social or religious in his poems that not only energized a decaying society but also influenced the centuries to come. But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! One Hundred Poems of Tukaram Chandrakant Mhatre We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Matt Clancy on Goodreads registered a similarly suspect claim and read the rest of the book wary of works cited that were later unable to be replicated:Īfter Sapolsky mentioned a study that I know researchers have failed to replicate, I waited for him to discuss the subsequent controversy. Luckily, Sapolsky wrote a book ("Behave", 2017) that surveys the field of human behavior comprehensively and serves as a schelling point for discussion of his work. The lecture is from before the replication crisis (lecture circa April 2010, landmark replication study circa 2015, and I thought it’d be worth looking for widely read critiques or reviews of his work. I kept watching the lecture because Sapolsky is charismatic and knowledgeable, but the claim was never supported and it stuck in my craw. I was watching Robert Sapolsky’s “Intro to Human Behavioral Biology” due to the YouTube recommendation algorithm and found an early claim¹ in lecture two pretty surprising. "Intro to Human Behavioral Biology" needs critique ![]() |