![]() Second is the need to maximize renewable energy. ![]() Societies should also deploy systems aimed at collecting and recovering the value of these materials following their use. Industries should produce materials that could be reused perpetually. ![]() First is the elimination of the concept of waste. Nevertheless, it is fundamentally a criticism of the popular corporate phrase “cradle to grave,” which describes traditional production and consumption models within a linear economy characterized by the life cycle of a product beginning as a raw material extracted from nature and ending as waste materials in landfills.īraungart and McDonough laid down key tenets for integrating the C2C approach within the economy. It also sees wastes as everlasting resources that could be reintroduced back into the economy. ![]() Understanding the Principles of Cradle to CradleĬradle to Cradle or C2C is a design approach to production and consumption based on biomimicry or processes found in nature that considers resources and materials as “nutrients” circulating indefinitely within the economy in a feedback-rich closed-loop. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Women of the upper class sat hidden in murky rooms, behind curtains, screens, and sliding doors. ![]() One reason that physical contact between men and women is hardly ever described in “Genji” is that courtly lovers almost never saw one another clearly, and certainly not naked full nudity is rare even in traditional Japanese erotic art. A “morning after” poem was an essential part of etiquette. More poems would be exchanged as soon as the approach bore fruit. Quite literally so: the proper approach to a desired lady was through poems, written on scented paper of the finest quality, delivered by an elegantly dressed go-between of appropriate social rank. What counts in the seduction scenes is the art, the poetry. Things are suggested, alluded to, often nebulously. Not that any sexual act is ever mentioned very little in Murasaki Shikibu’s prose is plainly stated. Much of “The Tale of Genji,” the eleventh-century Japanese masterpiece often called the world’s first novel, is about the art of seduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead the collection reflects Miller’s multifaceted career and demonstrates why she remains so relevant and important today. ![]() Refusing to fit into definition in her lifetime, Conekin’s beautifully constructed photographic book does little to categorise her in her death. Surrealist artist, muse of Man Ray, photographer, fashion model and Vogue war correspondent - Lee. It was her great beauty, however, that stunted her artistic growth, and her striking features encouraged others to place her in front of the camera rather than allowing her into her preferred position behind it.Īlthough highly influential as a fashion model during her lifetime, she has previously received little recognition for her expert ability to capture both artistic Vogue covers and sensitive subjects such as the liberation of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Price AUD64.95 Price CAD51.00 Price 37.95 Price 32.95 Price T45.00 Price USD45.00. Conekin available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. She became unemployable thanks to a scandal. Accidently falling into the arms of Condé Nast after a near car crash in New York, Miller’s career at Vogue was launched at the young age of 19. Lee Miller was the it girl of 1927, a gorgeous model who embodied elegance, refinement, and flapper chic. Scherman as the nearest thing he’d ever seen to a “renaissance woman”, Lee Miller defied expectations by balancing a career as a model and an incredibly talented photographer. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has her own website,, and can also be found on. Her Facebook page has over 34,000 “likes.” She uses Twitter and makes appearances at events such as Comic Con in San Diego and lends her story-telling expertise and life experiences as a keynote speaker at various events. At her young age, Veronica Roth is no stranger to social media and she uses it to reach her ever-growing group of readers all over the world. She was born on Augand grew up in the Chicago suburb of Barrington, Illinois. ![]() Veronica Roth wrote her first novel, “Divergent” while studying creative writing at Northwestern University in Illinois. However, ask a teenager and the answer is sure to be a definite “yes.” Most adults find however, that after reading just one of Veronica Roth’s novels, they, too, have found characters they can identify with, and a story that is both captivating and intriguing. Ask an adult if she has heard of Veronica Roth and the response may not be immediate. “The Divergent Trilogy,” as it is known, is Veronica Roth’s first set of novels that have already made it to the New York Times Best Sellers list. Veronica Roth is emerging as a prominent and best-selling author in her own right. ![]() Stephenie Meyer and Suzanne Collins – authors of “The Twilight Series” and “The Hunger Games Trilogy,” respectively – are not the only authors to read when it comes to books for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But on re-reading the book ahead of the release of the series, I realised that it doesn’t hold up quite as well as I thought. Pratchett passed away 2015, leaving the future of any Good Omens adaptationwhich Gaiman had previously said he didn’t. The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the coming of the End Times. Neil Gaiman WAS RELUCTANT to adapt Good Omens without Terry Pratchett. I didn’t read Good Omens as often, but like any true cult-classic fan, I held on to my much borrowed, much battered copy across two masters degrees, three jobs and three states. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch is a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. There were other funny books, yes, but I already knew and loved Pratchett’s storytelling and the arc of his ethical universe-and that familiar mix of humour and earnestness was especially comforting at a time when my personal sense of right and wrong seemed at odds with the world around me. Humour was my only coping mechanism through depression, and reading Discworld made me laugh when little else did. He wrote the screenplay for the original BBC TV series of ‘Neverwhere’ (1996) the feature film, ‘ Mirrormask’ (2005), the script to Robert Zemeckis’s ‘ Beowulf. When I went through a particularly bleak personal phase a couple of years later, rereading Discworld obsessively (especially the Witches and Vimes books) helped me feel like I hadn’t entirely lost the parts of myself that made me who I was-my nerdiness, my love for trivia and books, and my propensity for terrible puns and wordplay. Gaiman is active as a television and screenwriter. ![]() ![]() there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark'. The lighthouse is the potent metaphor structuring the novel, on the principle that 'the continuous narrative of existence is a lie. ![]() ![]() It's to the lighthouse - 'a still point in motion' and 'known point in darkness' - that Winterson (self-professed heir of Virginia Woolf) steers Silver. Salts is 'a hollow town, its life scraped out', emotionally and linguistically sterile, like Muck House in The PowerBook. This disconnected, rootless emptiness, though, is the magical space from which Winterson's characters distil their elixir. So precarious is the ground beneath their feet that mother and daughter must be roped together, but when her mother slips over the cliff's edge, the orphaned Silver plummets into emotional freefall and begins her quest for a safety net. ![]() This fairytale form of the hills where Jeanette's mother preached in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit represents the precipitous psychological states of these unbalanced characters. ![]() Silver, the 10-year old, fatherless narrator, lives with her mother in Salts, 'a sea-flung, rock-bitten, sand-edged shell of a town', in a house cut into a slope so steep that 'the chairs had to be nailed to the floor, and we were never allowed to eat spaghetti'. ![]() ![]() Chapter 5: Of the Wings of Atalantaĭu Bois discusses the significance of the city of Atlanta. Chapter 4: Of the Meaning of Progressĭu Bois reflects on his experiences teaching in a school in the hills of Tennessee. ![]() Washington had on the American Negroes and whites. Washington and Othersĭu Bois analyzes the effect Booker T. Chapter 2: Of the Dawn of Freedomĭu Bois discusses the period of history from 1861 to 1872, as it relates to the American Negro. Chapter 1: Of Our Spiritual Strivingsĭu Bois introduces the struggles and strives of the Negro over the course of history. The author gives the reader some insight to into the purpose of his book. Outside of its notable place in African–American history, The Souls of Black Folk also holds an important place in social science as one of the early works to deal with sociology.ĭu Bois, W. ![]() Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work on being African–American in American society. ![]() The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of African–American literature by activist W.E.B. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what takes his breath away isn’t the architecture or the scope or the grandeur or the stars in the sky or the isolation. The moon base is a “breathtaking site,” according to Zack. ![]() “If you aren’t familiar with the works referenced here, that stretch of writing is gibberish. Instead they make Armada feel even more like a failed attempt to recapture the cleverness of Cline’s debut.” - AVClub. But put against such a lackluster backdrop, they can’t drive the novel the way they did in Ready Player One. “Plenty of the references and geeky arguments in Armada are hilarious, from Star Wars-themed insults to debates about the relative merits of fantasy weapons. “While the aims of the novel are onanistic rather than malicious, Armada nonetheless demands to be bronzed as the perfect embodiment of the impulses that so often make games-and gaming culture-boring, self-indulgent, and regressive.” - Slate. ![]() ![]() History has shown that putting a group of misfits together and seeing them evolve into a family always works out. We've all got different experiences, but we're used to needing help. We're here to help you with whatever you need, whether it's this or games or general stress. Note: All rights belong to the different artists that have created the (fucking amazing) fanart attached to this review. Pretty sure everyone needs one of you in their life <3 Clara, you're the best kind of person and thanks for putting up with my shit. ![]() I buddy read this with my heart and my damn soul. I loved so many elements of it and although the overall components helped boost my love for the characters - I still felt like it ran short in some facets. ![]() ![]() The Raven King was by far better than it's predecessor. This review has been a long time coming, it feels like I've been trying to reading this book for the longest time, and then I fell sick for a while so I couldn't actually function properly. They were worth every cut and bruise and scream.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty. In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young creatives in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. ![]() A group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, a hotly charged, deeply satisfying new work of fiction from the author of Booker Prize finalist Real Life ![]() |