![]() A longtime guitarist who still plays some fifty shows a year, he has toured for more than two decades with an evolving cast of venture capitalists, technologists, and career musicians such as Pete Sears, of Jefferson Starship. If the founders of Big Tech were a family, McNamee might be its eccentric uncle. In the early two-thousands, McNamee helped create a private-equity firm, Elevation Partners, which invested two hundred and ten million dollars in Facebook in 20, two years before it went public. The businesses in Silver Lake’s portfolio now produce two hundred and thirty billion dollars in annual revenue and employ three hundred and seventy thousand people. He invested in those companies, too, and a few years later he co-founded Silver Lake Partners. In 1991, he partnered with the venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins, where he listened to pitches for Netscape and Amazon. ![]() ![]() He invested in Electronic Arts (now a leading video-game maker) and Sybase (a pioneering database firm), among others, eventually running one of the most successful funds in the industry. The personal-computer revolution was just beginning. ![]() ![]() Roger McNamee started his career in 1982, as a twenty-six-year-old analyst at the investment firm T. Rowe Price. ![]()
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![]() ![]() |a A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions. |a 1 volume (unpaged) : |b color illustrations |c 24 x 29 cm ![]() ![]() |a Harvesting hope : |b the story of Cesar Chavez / |c Kathleen Krull illustrated by Yuyi Morales. This books tells the real-life journey of Cesar Chavez, who moved with his childhood family of Mexican heritage from farm to farm. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The heroism of an entire nation reminds us that there was pride and human decency in the world even during a time of terror and war.Ī modern classic of historical fiction, Number the Stars has won generations of fans and continues to speak to today's readers. 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Chandler’s writing was unique - tough, gritty, violent and sarcastic, steeped in liquor and firmly set in 40s Los Angeles.īut you need all those elements – and without them a film called Marlowe is going to struggle. What made Marlowe Marlowe was something specific. But he set the scene for other great Marlowes like Robert Mitchum and Dick Powell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A girl named Rose dreams of a mysterious actress whose life she chronicles in a scrapbook. This is what makes the book so enjoyable and authentic.Īn overview: A boy named Ben longs for the father he has never known. ![]() What makes it different from other books about the d/Deaf experience written by hearing authors? Simply this: Selznick approached the project not as a writer who wanted to write about characters with disabilities, but as a writer delving into an historical novel about Deaf Culture and language. Selznick published The Invention of Hugo Cabret in 2007, winning the Caldecott Medal and achieving a major movie adaptation years later, Selznick came back with Wonderstruck, which seems somehow even deeper and more multilayered. It is, to date, the most creative and ambitious novel about the d/Deaf experience in America I’ve ever come across. ![]() ![]() George's extraordinary storytelling abilities shine in her portrayal of Helen as both a conflicted woman who abandoned her homeland and child for true love, and as a legendary figure whose beauty and personal choices had epic consequences. Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles: A Novel:. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. The mythic war, which, in less capable hands, might be over-romanticized, is portrayed with an enthusiasm that rings true to the period without verging on stagy-no small feat when dealing with such a sweeping conflict. Buy Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles: A Novel by George, Margaret from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. ![]() Barely into her 20s, Helen escapes with Paris to Troy, but finds the Trojan royals welcome her with less than open arms. Helen's years of seclusion in Sparta lead to a frigid marriage to Menelaus before she connects with Paris, the Trojan prince with whom she forges an inextricable bond. Helen's noble Spartan parents try to defy the fates when a seer foretells the tragedy Helen and her legendary beauty will cause, but, as the myth of Helen demonstrates, destiny cannot be altered. The author's research into Mycenaean culture, coupled with Trojan War mythology's larger-than-life heroes, enliven a bold story pulsing with romance and sacrifice, omens and battles. ) depicts with bravado, grace and eloquence the grand spectacle surrounding Helen of Troy. ![]() ![]() That emotional bond is especially important if the endangered animal isn't immediately appealing. we do have a personal connection with these creatures, and we do this work because we love it, and because we just couldn't bear to let them vanish." "You're supposed to be cold and scientific. "People I've talked with perhaps come from a discipline where it's not considered scientific to have any kind of empathy with the animal you study," Goodall says. Goodall says one of the most important factors in saving a species is the emotional bond that develops between scientists and their subjects - like her attachment to the chimpanzees she studied in Tanzania. ![]() Goodall tells Weekend All Things Considered Host Guy Raz that "if we think about only the downside of it, then we lose all hope, and then we are so discouraged that we don't do anything." The book is a collection of stories about those species and a celebration of the spirited efforts that saved them. There are discoveries yet to be made."Īnd, she says, there are species that have been pulled back from extinction by dedicated environmentalists. In her latest book, Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink, she writes, "There are surely plants and animals living in the remote places beyond our current knowledge. ![]() But famed biologist Jane Goodall says she refuses to give up. ![]() ![]() Thousands of species go extinct every year, and climate change is closing in. Sometimes, it seems like there's no hope for the planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author is trying to convey that moving isn’t bad, as it may lead to something bigger and better. It is believed that technology is behind this 100 day thing. Romance and its many twists are shown through out the book. Another theory is a teenager copes with the divorce and separation and learns to handle this in a better way. One major theme is conspiracy plots that Shackleton is trying to wipe out the human race except the town Phoenix. It also set the scene for the next book, “contact.” ![]() This book is about the first 12 day of the count down until the end of the world. Luke and friends are aware that something is strange in the town and are determine to uncover the truth. ![]() Luke knows something is up but hasn’t quite figured it out. There is only a mild degree of violence in the book, with one battle scene which I found a little to disturbing, but most readers would not find this section of the book too graphic and gory.Ī boy called Luke finds himself moving to a remote town called Phoenix. This unconventional approach to writing, works well with the genre of Phoenix Files: Arrival, given that it is a Science Fiction and Adventure book of appeal to older children, teenagers and young adults. Little does he know, that the entire human race will be destroyed in 100 days. ![]() When Luke Hunter’s parents divorce and he moves with his mother to a remote town called Phoenix, he thinks his world has ended. Just when you think you think your world has ended, You find out that everyone is in the same boat. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Catch all the action before Firefight, the exciting sequel to Steelheart, hits the shelves. Mitosis: A Reckoners Story Read the e-novella from the 1 New York Times bestselling Recokners series: Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity Brandon. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, co-author of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson, comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in a HB collector's edition. ![]() Catch all the action before Firefight, the exci. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back. Mitosis is the name of the Epic that features in this little story, and even the dumbest high school student should be able to get an idea of what his power set. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her writing often took precedence over her three children, whom she entrusted to the care of hired help. Even though she never had a university education, she was interested in history and psychology, in classics and mythology, reading them on her own. Notwithstanding her extraordinary lineage, du Maurier was fiercely independent and eschewed conventions throughout her life. After leaving military services, Browning would go into the service of the British royal family. In 1932, Daphne du Maurier married Sir Frederick Browning, a distinguished officer of the British army, who played a significant role in both the World Wars. The Scottish novelist and playwright JM Barrie, known for his timeless classic, Peter Pan, that was first produced as a play in 1904, and, later, as a novel in 1911, is said to have been inspired by du Maurier’s first cousin Peter Llewelyn Davies in creating his beloved character. Her grandfather George du Maurier was the author of the bestselling novel, Trilby (1894), besides being a cartoonist for the Punch magazine. ![]() Thanks to the artistic legacy that she inherited and her own versatile writing, du Maurier occupies a unique position in 20th century cultural history. Daphne du Maurier was born in 1907, in London, the second of noted theatre actor and manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and his wife, stage actor Muriel Beaumont’s three daughters. ![]() |