In The Ride of a Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he’s learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including: Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger―think global―and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.įourteen years later, Disney is the largest, most respected media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Morale had deteriorated, competition was intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
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With breathtaking command of her brilliantly conceived material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, she projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. This is Margaret Atwood at the absolute peak of her powers. From Booker Prize–winner and #1 national bestseller Margaret Atwood, The MaddAddam Trilogy is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. Classics is proudly republishing this fantastic novel now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.ĭavid Herbert Lawrence was born on 11 September 1885 at Eastwood, a small mining town in the North of England. Other notable works by this author include: “Women in Love” (1920), “The Trespasser” (1912), and “Sons and Lovers” (1913). Although he was considered little more than a pornographer until his untimely death, he is now hailed as a significant writer of classic English literature. Lawrence’s works mainly explore the effects that industrialisation had on people and society through looking at issues including vitality, emotional health, sexuality, and instinct. David Herbert Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English poet and writer. Lawrence’s 1920s “Women in Love” is the sequel to this book and continues to follow the lives of the Brangwen Sisters. It follows a Nottinghamshire farming family through the transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial age, with a particular focus on the young and aspiring Ursula who dreams of a more fulfilling life. Juxtaposition with masterfully drawn, often abstract images holds ourĪttention and demands interpretation as narrative.Īs the title suggests, the previously published zines collected Sequential structure is harder to pin down, and the stories do without HerĮxperimental pieces can be called comics insofar as they are containedīy a grid on the page (usually) and combine text with images. Koch's visual and textual vocabulary is full of palimpsests,įragments, snippets of conversation, and partial landscapes. Memory and amnesia, speech and silence, comics and "fine art." Of six zines exist in the space between the seen and the obscured, Toronto: Koyama Press, 2016.ĪIDAN KOCH'S exquisitely drawn comics in this collected volume Retrieved from Īfter Nothing Comes, by Aidan Koch. APA style: Enter the void: Danica Novgorodoff on Aidan Koch's After Nothing Comes.Enter the void: Danica Novgorodoff on Aidan Koch's After Nothing Comes." Retrieved from 2016 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. MLA style: "Enter the void: Danica Novgorodoff on Aidan Koch's After Nothing Comes." The Free Library. But Detective Lily (one of two flower-named women we meet, who knows, maybe there were more to come!) is ignored by THE PATRIARCHY and must investigate on her own! Maybe it would seem more feminist if Dylan literally didn’t mansplain her entire backstory and motivation for existing like some weird omniscient narrator! Way to take all the fun out of learning who Lily is in the most mansplainy way possible.ĭylan continues to mansplain his way through his killing decisions – an interesting philosophical problem on his hands, for sure, but it would be more interesting if said ethical conundrums came about within the story than being expositioned to death with literal walls of text. The demon character has basically retreated to the background – and understandably sometimes in fantasy, the actual trope is meant as a backdrop for human stories (like Thor, or Walking Dead when it isn’t sexist), but instead the most interesting character is gone. By an extremely boring dude with a terrible haircut and for some dumb reason, a shotgun.īrubaker and Phillips take Dylan’s once-a-month killing spree to the next logical level – a detective has found obvious similarities between Dylan’s killings and is on his tail. Because I have a lot of great comics waiting on my shelf and who knows if I’m going to die tomorrow. This is one of very few trades – and maybe my first review for one – that I didn’t finish (DNF). In 2013-14 he was the William Pitt Professor of American History at Cambridge University, UK, and in 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th-Century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. In his capacity as director of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale, Blight organizes conferences, working groups, lectures, the administering of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and many public outreach programs regarding the history of slavery and its abolition. As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. At Yale University he is Sterling Professor of History, joining that faculty in January, 2003. David W. Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. However, I know from working in public libraries that there are lots of kids who love scary stories and want more of them. If I do ever get a chance to read some of these stories to a class of schoolchildren, I will have to be a little careful which ones I choose. Not the ones like I was who scare easily. Since they are so short, the stories tend to be the sort of thing you'd find in The Twilight Zone, but they all tend toward the scary side, especially if you think about them too long! Especially the first story, by Lemony Snicket, about the quiet man who watches you every time you sleep. Now, they make me laugh with their delightful creepiness. I have to admit, most of these stories would have scared me too much when I was a little girl with an overactive imagination. It was perfect for reading at traffic lights, and would also be perfect for reading to a class of schoolchildren to get them interested in the library. The many, many stories in here, by stellar children's authors, are really short enough to be read in half a minute. Well, except the parts I read aloud to people when I first checked out the book. I read this book entirely waiting at traffic lights. Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse. Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventureįact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Super Teacher Worksheets has added new supplemental worksheets to go along with the Chapter Book, Christmas in Camelot from the Magic Tree House series. Can they succeed even though Camelot's greatest knights have failed?įormerly numbered as Magic Tree House #29, the title of this book is now Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #1: Christmas in Camelot.ĭid you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? What they don't know is that the invitation will send them on a quest to save Camelot. When Jack and Annie receive an invitation to spend Christmas Eve in Camelot-a magical place that exists only in myth and fantasy-they know they are in for their biggest adventure yet. The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She's endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there's a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Note from the author: due to strong language and sexual content, this book is recommended for mature audiences. Kate Sedgwick's life has been anything but typical. And when secrets are revealed, they may heal you, or they may end you. So, when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall hard for Keller Banks. She’s never bought into it, never believed in it. The one thing that escapes her optimism is love. She’s quick witted, endlessly passionate about music, the first to offer a smile, and the kind of loyal that most friends only dream about. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). The journey that began in top-rated, best-selling Bright Side, continues This is the story of Gus. Amazon Top 20 Bestseller Book 1 of 3 in the Bright Side series Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. Heart-wrenching.” -Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author From international bestselling author KIM HOLDEN comes an inspiring, life-changing story about the power of love in all its forms, having the courage to live life to the fullest, and always looking on the bright side. ©2003 Cornelia Funke (P)2003 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, a division of Random House, Inc. This is Inkheart, a timeless tale about books, about imagination, about life. Somehow they must change the course of the story that has changed their lives forever. Somehow, Meggie and Mo must learn to harness the magic that conjured up this nightmare. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about in books. This is the story of young Meggie, who lives a quiet life alone with her father Mo, a bookbinder, until one cruel night when Mo reads aloud from Inkheart, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Then imagine if those characters brought their world into ours. Imagine they could actually climb out of the pages and into our world. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom.but for real. The books chronicle the adventures of teen Meggie Folchart whose life changes dramatically when she realizes that she and her father, a bookbinder named Mo, have the unusual ability to bring characters from books into the. Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. The Inkheart series is a succession of four fantasy novels written by German author Cornelia Funke, comprising Inkheart, Inkspell, Inkdeath, and The Colour of Revenge. |