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May 8, 2024 · The novel begins with a description of train passengers, full of hopes and dreams, heading to Shanghai in 2040.
May 15, 2024 · Book Review Indexes. Reflecting nearly eight decades of H.W. Wilson’s Book Review Digest, this Retrospective database provides excerpts from and citations to reviews of adult and juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Virtually every major idea that shaped the 20th century found expression in books.
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1 day ago · Anthony Bourdain. Anthony Michael Bourdain ( / bɔːrˈdeɪn /; June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author, and travel documentarian. [1] [2] [3] He starred in programs focusing on the exploration of international culture, cuisine, and the human condition. [4]
2 days ago · Speculative design. TRL. Technology scouting. v. t. e. The technological singularity —or simply the singularity [1] —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. [2] [3] According to the most popular version of ...
1 day ago · Ethan Hawke. Ethan Green Hawke (born November 6, 1970) is an American actor, author and film director. He made his film debut in Explorers (1985), before making a breakthrough performance in Dead Poets Society (1989). Hawke starred alongside Julie Delpy in Richard Linklater 's Before trilogy from 1995 to 2013.
May 19, 2024 · Ernest Hemingway (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho) was an American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life.
May 14, 2024 · Jane Dawson’s new biography of the Scottish Reformer John Knox is titled simply John Knox. The eschewal of a subtitle is an indication of the ambition of a work which has already been hailed as definitive. This is a biography of the entire man, not a facet of his life or thought.
