![]() ![]() Stated another way, the selfish gene concept holds that natural selection takes place at the gene level. From there, Jarvis describes Dawkins’s selfish gene concept - the idea that a gene can be seen as a “selfish unit” that exploits an organism to carry out its own process of replication. Here, he outlines four key points in The Origin of Species, while paying special attention to one challenge Darwin faced: the Cambrian explosion. He first describes the origin of the universe and the history of Earth, and moves on to Darwin’s theory of evolution. ![]() Jarvis, who holds a PhD in biology from the University of Cape Town (where he focused on zoology), takes his reader on a historical journey. Michael Jarvis considers that question, asking whether recent findings in biology match the predictions of Dawkins’s selfish gene concept. In his recent book, Selfish Genes in ICU?, Dr. Nearly half a century later, we’re entitled to wonder how the work has held up. ![]() Photo credit: Mufid Majnun, via Unsplash.īiologist Richard Dawkins came to prominence in 1976 with his book The Selfish Gene. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jevick is, “…from the blue and hazy village of Tyom, on the western side of Tinimavet in the Tea Islands,” and is the son of a wealthy pepper farmer. I quickly fell under the spell of this novel, whose subtitle is, “Being the Complete Memoirs of the Mystic, Jevick of Tyom.” In the map of this book, there is a mainland which is identified as the Empire of Olondria and, far to the Southwest, the Tea Islands. I had enjoyed Samatar’s story collection, Tender (I often think about the story, “ Honey Bear,” which you can read at Clarkesworld), so I wanted to check out her novel. When I heard that Book Moon was starting to reopen for browsing, Britt and I visited, and one of the books I bought was A Stranger in Olondria (Small Beer Press, 2013). **Spoilers aplenty, if you care about that sort of thing!** ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() * Moving through the obstacles that keep us feeling separate from the Divine * Recalibrating our vision of spirituality and living in alignment with our heart's truth With insights from her own journey informed by the wisdom of her beloved teacher, life, Sky explores: This is the invitation of A Ceremony Called Life.įor anyone searching for a greater sense of purpose and connection, Tehya Sky deconstructs our most common spiritual ideas and empowers us to participate whole-heartedly in the magic and mystery of our human incarnation. ![]() Imagine how our lives might change if we brought the same loving attention to every "ordinary" moment. When we gather in ceremony-to welcome a newborn, celebrate a marriage, or bid farewell to those we've lost-we are fully present to our experience and in touch with the deep meaning that feeds our souls. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Psychic Vampire Codex, Michelle Belanger, author and psychic vampire, introduces readers to the fascinating system of energy work used by vampires themselves and provides the actual codex text widely used by the vampire community for instruction in feeding and other techniques. They are mortal people whose need for energy metaphorically connects them to the life-stealing predators of vampire myth. we could use our inborn abilities to help people heal." Psychic vampires are people who prey on the vital, human life energies of others. ![]() No longer were we parasites or predators. It freed us to look at ourselves in a new light, and it also helped those outside our community to view us differently. A fellow psychic vampire writes in the foreword that Michelle Belanger’s system "introduced a breath of fresh air into the vampire subculture. The Psychic Vampire Codex is the first book to examine the phenomenon and experience of modern vampirism completely from the vampire’s perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() She came late to the game at penning novels, never suspecting her non-fiction brain could jump into fiction easily. And Summer definitely would if it wasn't for the fact she's maybe a tiny bit in love with the impossible woman. Lee Winter is a full-time writer and part-time editor who was formerly an award-winning journalist and sub-editor bouncing around Australia for almost thirty years. Now the so-called British Bitch has the audacity to ask Summer to pretend to be her girlfriend to get her a role? Elizabeth doesn't even like Summer! Oh, how she'd love to tell her no. Summer Hayes is devastated when her co-star shuns her for accidentally sparking rumors that they're lovers. The only problem is that the eccentric French film-maker offering it insists on meeting her "girlfriend," Summer, first. ![]() If she could just get her dream movie role, life would be so much better. As a closeted actress, that's the last thing Elizabeth needs. Now, she's been romantically linked to her perky, new co-star, Summer, due to the young woman's clumsiness. America's most-hated villain stars in a top-rated TV medical drama that she hates. in cart add to cart add to wishlist GET THE AUDIO BOOK. Life has become a farcical mess for icy British A-lister Elizabeth Thornton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, this means he breaks Junior's nose. His only friend is Rowdy, an Indian boy with an anger problem, and when Junior decides to leave for Reardan Hogh, it breaks Rowdy's heart. Junior is not a "movie Indian." He's short, skinny, wears coke-bottle glasses and is prone to being beaten up by his classmates. Their mascot is an Indian, which makes Junior the only other Indian in the school. He lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA with loving parents and a brilliant sister who have not taken charge of their destinies as Junior is so desperate to do. In beginning of his first year in high school, Junior makes the fateful decision to switch schools to attend the all-white high school off the reservation. (Junior)who is about to be a freshman in high school who decides to make some changes to his destiny. Semi-autobiographical, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (2007) is the story of Arnold Spirit Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() You really don’t often get books like this anymore, which is a shame, but publishers tend to prescribe a standard 400 pages to a long novel nowadays, as opposed to the 800 to 1000 we used to be able to lose ourselves in. ![]() A great big brick of a book, more than 900 pages, it’s a stunning story, a real sweep you off your feet and take you to another time and place sort of story. ![]() I loved The Shell Seekers, and in a moment of serendipity that seems to happen so often to me when it comes to books, pretty much as soon as I finished The Shell Seekers and decided to look for more books by Rosamund Pilcher, I found Coming Home in a discount bin at Big W. The book was The Shell Seekers and the author was Rosamund Pilcher. A very dear friend of mine once lent me a book by an author she loved, whom I had never read, or even heard of. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The 150-million-year reign of the dinosaurs ended when an asteroid impact generated more than a billion times the energy of an atomic bomb. But to individuals who knew better - scientists like Benjamin Schwartz, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies - the threat this eight-kilometer comet posed to the survival of the human race was unthinkable. When dark comet UD3 was spotted near Jupiter’s orbit, its existence was largely ignored. I spotted Claire Holroyde‘s upcoming new novel, The Effort in a catalogue. Pitched as “For readers of Station Eleven and Good Morning, Midnight” this sounds pretty interesting: ![]() ![]() ![]() In SMALL WORLD Gabriel's artwork and Joe's imagination/writing is pure gold but I need to be perfectly honest-this was waaaaay too short. I'm utter trash for anything that Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez put out collaboratively. the writing by Joe Hill is pleasant and breezy the art by Gabriel Rodríguez is excellent as usual. gotta give the kids what they want, I suppose. it is full of amusing banter and offhand sweetness, shivery adventure and goofy physical humor, brave children and eerie shadow servants, a cat that saves the day (finally!) and, I'm afraid to say, boogers. ![]() and so into your own house, transformed into a giant menace, now stalking your own house's hallways - now stalking you!Īlthough the wondrous Locke & Key series and its standalones have all featured children, this is perhaps the sole entry so far that is actually suitable for children. now imagine a spider has made its way into this dollhouse. stick your hand through a window and watch as your family members cope with these giant fingers that have come from nowhere. a dollhouse that replicates that house - and the people in it! you can watch your family as they move about the house, in and out of rooms, living their brief lives and none the wiser that your beady little eyes are fixed upon them. Picture if you will a dollhouse, exquisitely detailed and true to life, true to the actual house that contains it. ![]() |