7/4/2023 0 Comments We are the water protectors![]() ![]() So when you slather them on, you're not only protecting your skin from UVA and UVB rays, but you're also adding an extra layer of hydrating, brightening, and smoothing benefits. Plus, both feature ingredients found in your favorite serums and moisturizers, like Centella asiatica (known as cica for short), allantoin, ceramides, hyaluronic acid, and niacinamide to name just a few. Korean sunscreens of the chemical variety tout an equally transparent, grease-free finish. Their mineral sunscreens, no matter how much zinc oxide they contain, are completely transparent on all skin tones without the telltale, annoying thickness. In South Korea, sunscreen formulas are advancing rapidly due to quicker approval times. since 1999," according to cosmetic chemist Stephen Ko. In fact, "there hasn't been a new approved for use in sunscreens in the U.S. Because sunscreen is considered a drug according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and its chemicals and components must undergo formal drug approval processes, stateside beauty brands are limited by what they can spike their formulas with. ![]() ![]() We've said it once, and we'll say it again: Korean sunscreen is just better than Western sunscreen. ![]()
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7/4/2023 0 Comments Foundation asimov novel![]() ![]() None were able to stand up to his mutant powers, capable of manipulating the minds and emotions of men. The Mule has achieved virtually all of his goals, boiling down to the destruction of the Foundation and the conquest of the galaxy. Moving onward, the third novel in the series begins not too long after the second one. ![]() If you’d like to, take a look at our Foundation review, as well as our Foundation and Empire review to check out the earlier chapters. While I suppose you could make your way through this book as a standalone without being aware of the story prior to it, I would highly recommend you start with the previous entries if you aren’t familiar with them. Unlike many of its counterparts from the day, this trilogy has stood the test of time and very much holds up to today’s more stringent standards, which is especially true for the third novel, Second Foundation. ![]() The Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov is something you’ve undoubtedly heard of if you’ve searched for classic pioneering stories in the science-fiction genre. Isaac Asimov Concludes the Fate of his Universe ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. ![]() With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas in The Jew of Malta, and the humiliation of Edward II in his fall from power and influence, Marlowe explores the shifting balance between power and helplessness, the sacred and its desecration. The complete plays of Christopher Marlowe, in which the lure of dark forces drives the shifting balances between weak and strong, sacred and profane Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. Print Christopher Marlowe - The Complete Plays ![]() ![]() ![]() Whittington explodes and tells Tuppence to leave after paying her rather handsomely. The next day she arrives and things seem to be going smoothly enough until she gives the false name of Jane Finn as her own. No unreasonable offer refused."Īs luck would have it, after leaving Tommy a man called Whittington follows Tuppence out of the restaurant and asks for her help, if she would just come to his office tomorrow. While nibbling away at a rather meagre tea Tuppence decides that they should do something about this destitute situation they are in immediately and form a joint venture, she likes the sound of that: "Two young adventurers for hire. ![]() Tuppence only thinks about money morning, noon, and night, as does Tommy. Since the end of the war they've both fallen on hard times financially. They've been friends forever but have fallen out of touch since they last saw each other when Tommy was sent home from the front to hospital and Tuppence was the nurse sneaking him out to late night picture shows. ![]() When Tommy and Tuppence run into each other outside a tube station it's fate. ![]() Book Review - Charlaine Harris's Dead Ever After.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Aff.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Secret Adversary.Book Review - Agatha Christie's The Murder on the.Book Review - Agatha Christie's Poirot Investigates. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Olivia by olivia![]() ![]() ‘ I must feed on beauty and rapture in order to grow strong.’ “Dorothy Strachey (1865-1960) was the sister of the novelist Lytton Strachey and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group…….Olivia, originally published under a pseudonym, is her only novel.”. In 1999, Olivia was included on the Publishing Triangle’s widely publicized list of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of the 20th Century. ![]() Colette wrote the screenplay for the 1951 film adaptation of the novel. Olivia was dedicated to the memory of Strachey’s friend Virginia Woolf and published to acclaim in 1949. Marie Souvestre, whose influence lived on through former students like Natalie Barney and Eleanor Roosevelt. “Although not strictly autobiographical, Olivia draws on the author’s experiences at finishing schools run by the charismatic Mlle. Julie and the other head of the school, Mlle. Julie, and through this screen of love observes the tense romance between Mlle. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. “Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments Dead end in norvelt series![]() ![]() and possibly murder.Įndlessly surprising, this sly, sharp-edged narrative is the author at his very best, making readers laugh out loud at the most unexpected things in a dead-funny depiction of growing up in a slightly off-kilter place where the past is present, the present is confusing, and the future is completely up in the air. ![]() ![]() As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launced on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels. However, a bullet somehow flies out, causing a nosebleed. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack's way once his mom loans him out to help a fiesty old neighbor with a most unusual chore-typewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. Dead End in Norvelt takes place during the summer of 1962, after the American schoolboy Jack Gantos fires his father's war trophy, a Japanese sniper rifle, at a war movie playing at a drive-in movie theater thinking it is unloaded. Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is "grounded for life" by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. Dead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year's best contribution to children's literature and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction! ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The gene siddhartha![]() ![]() swaddles his medical rigor with rhapsodic tenderness, surprising vulnerability, and occasional flashes of pure poetry" ( The Washington Post). "Mukherjee expresses abstract intellectual ideas through emotional stories. ![]() In this biography Mukherjee brings to life the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices. That achievement was evidently just a warm-up for his virtuoso performance in The Gene: An Intimate History, in which he braids science, history, and memoir into an epic with all the range and biblical thunder of Paradise Lost" ( The New York Times). Siddhartha Mukherjee dazzled readers with his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Emperor of All Maladies in 2010. ![]() "Sid Mukherjee has the uncanny ability to bring together science, history, and the future in a way that is understandable and riveting, guiding us through both time and the mystery of life itself." -Ken Burns Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ' s new book Song of the Cell!įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies-a fascinating history of the gene and "a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingeniously picked apart what makes us tick" ( Elle). The basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate History ![]() 7/3/2023 0 Comments Abnkkbsnplako book![]() The movie lacked some scenes from the book, while some scenes that are not from the book were added to the film. Yes, they showed some of the things I have read and made me say, “I’ve read that part.” I don’t know if it’s a good thing, but it only made the viewers appreciate the book more than the film. Since the movie was adapted from a bestselling book, everyone (including me) is expecting that the movie would come close to the book’s charm. The movie ABNKKBSNPLAko?!, directed by Mark Meily, was adapted from Bob Ong’s bestselling book, ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (Mga Kwentong Chalk ni Bob Ong) with Jericho Rosales as Roberto Ong, the main character with his BFFs, Vandolph Quizon and Meg Imperial and of course Andi Eigenmann as “Special Someone”. No, it’s not Thursday, but a time for reminiscing the 80s, 90s and our high school days. ![]() It seems like somebody’s shouting this inside the cinema as soon as the film started. ![]() ![]() “You know what it is! It’s Throwback time!” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1919 he was able to return to Italy where he established the first anarchist daily paper, Umanità Nova ("New Humanity"). ![]() In all he spent only about half his life in his native country.ĭuring the First World War he argued strongly that anarchists should not take sides between the capitalist imperialist powers. Repeatedly forced into exile because of his political opinions he spent long periods in exile in various European countries, in Argentina and in the United States. It fastens itself to the causes of evil or strikes close by, it is conscious or instinctive, it is humane or brutal, generous or narrowly selfish, but it always grows and extends itself."īorn in southern Italy in 1853, into a growing mood of republicanism, Malatesta soon saw the need for a more profound change in society, and in 1871 joined the Italian section of the International, where he linked up with the anarchist faction of the International. Here it is the expression of an idea, and there the result of a need most often it is the consequence of the intertwining of needs and ideas which mutually generate and reinforce each other. Marxists’ Internet Archive Errico Malatesta 1853 – 1932 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A principal prophet of the "modern" movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the "International School," he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp Swiss dormitory at the Cité Universitaire, Paris Unité d'Habitation, Marseilles and many more. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the "mass-production spirit," and much else. The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond "style," to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established "emotional relationships by means of raw materials." ![]() |