![]() Why choose 1495? Because we’re about the same distance into our revolution, the one kicked off by digital technology and networking. Printing shaped and transformed societies over the next four centuries, but nobody in Mainz (Gutenberg’s home town) in, say, 1495 could have known that his technology would (among other things): fuel the Reformation and undermine the authority of the mighty Catholic church enable the rise of what we now recognise as modern science create unheard-of professions and industries change the shape of our brains and even recalibrate our conceptions of childhood. Hindsight is the only exact science in this business, and in that long run we’re all dead. And the problem with living through a revolution is that it’s impossible to take the long view of what’s happening. W e’re living through the most profound transformation in our information environment since Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of printing in circa 1439. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Christopher Skaife for an upcoming live or virtual event. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Anne Glenconner, John Guy, Sam Kashner, Victoria Johnson and Tristram Hunt. The title of Ravenmaster, therefore, is a serious title indeed, and after decades of serving the Queen, Yeoman Warder Christopher Skaife took on the added responsibility of caring for the infamous ravens. Christopher Skaife generally travels from LondonUK and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. ![]() The estimated speaking fee range to book Christopher Skaife for your event is available upon request. ![]() For more information on how we work and what makes us unique, please read the AAE Advantage.Ĭhristopher Skaife is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics. 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She even adapts some of P&P’s popular lines to new situations. ![]() Her works explore different plot elements that deviate from the course of Jane Austen’s original, the “what-ifs” that builds upon the situations and motivations of the protagonists, but will inevitably conclude with a happily-ever-after ending of Elizabeth and Darcy getting married. ![]() One such fan is Abigail Reynolds, a Massachussetts-based physician who started writing P&P fan fiction, posting her work in Jane Austen fan sites and later expanding her reach through self-publishing. Through their exciting repartee and their dealings with other characters, the readers see the development of their feelings for each other to overcome their differences and get the happily-ever-after ending of marital bliss.Īs with all fiction that truly engages with their audience, Pride and Prejudice inspired works from its fans that expands upon the original. Initially titled First Impressions, the novel set in Georgian Era England depicts the courtships, manners and concerns of the landed gentry through the romantic developments between protagonists Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Author Jane Austen produced a timeless masterpiece in her novel Pride and Prejudice. ![]() ![]() It felt downmarket enough to still feel working-class. It felt a little bit like it was being reclaimed from the ‘70s. ![]() … It’s one of those neighborhoods where all the old queens roll their eyes as straight white kids move in. It felt like one of those not-quite-gentrified outposts. Why did you set the book in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn? ![]() I wish I knew, I wish I could bottle it, I wish I could repeat it. I worked just as hard on this one as the books that have launched into the toilet. Why do you think readers are connecting to what you’re doing with “Hawkeye?” Check back for Part Two of the interview tomorrow. ![]() In the first of series of interviews with the “Hawkeye” creative team, Parallel Worlds spoke with Portland, Ore.-based writer Matt Fraction. “Hawkeye” has been one of the Marvel’s best-reviewed titles since it debuted last year, and it’s one of those rare word-of-mouth hits to gain fans and momentum as the series has gone on. Instead of fighting Doctor Doom or staving off the world’s destruction, Barton can be found in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood trying to save an injured stray dog or coping with the effects of Hurricane Sandy. Even if you don’t read any other Marvel titles, you can pick up, understand and enjoy “Hawkeye.” Writer Matt Fraction and artist David Aja have crafted a series of self-contained, street-level tales about what archer Clint Barton does during his downtime from the Avengers. ![]() ![]() ![]() But in all of my studies for four years we didn't even spend five minutes on the territories. And in the Caribbean, there's Puerto Rico and the U.S. North of the Equator, in the western Pacific, there's Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. In the Pacific, there is American Samoa, which is in Polynesia, south of the Equator. To let people know, there are five territories. ![]() and has an office and serves on committees but can't vote on the floor of the House. They have a congressperson, but that person just goes to D.C. ![]() They vote in the presidential primaries, but they don't vote in the general election. So the territories don't have the full protection of the Constitution. MACK: A territory is something that is very much like a state, except it doesn't have the same number of rights or the same number of services as a state. WLRN: What is a territory and how is it different from living in a state? But what does it mean to be part of America - but not one of the 50 states?ĭoug Mack set out to find out and wrote about what he found in a new book, "The Not-Quite States of America." He recently sat down with WLRN's Nancy Klingener to talk about his findings. had bought three of the Virgin Islands and they eventually became a territory. ![]() One century ago - on Maon the Caribbean islands of Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, Danish flags were lowered and the Stars and Stripes were raised. ![]() ![]() The book affects the way we think about superintelligent systems in a negative way. Intelligence explosion and its effects, benefits, and dangers How to develop a superintelligent system and what are the types ![]() Past developments and today’s capabilities The book achieves this purpose by creating scenarios in which certain points are accepted. The main purpose of the book is to inform the reader about the dangers of artificial intelligence and the ways we can avoid them. “…As the fate of the gorillas now depends more on us humans than on the gorillas themselves, so the fate of our species would depend on the actions of the machine superintelligence. However, I should warn, if you are very early in the artificial intelligence concept, this book may not be for you.Īnother warning about the book is, if you do not want to be frightened about our future, you would not want to read that sort of book. ![]() ![]() ![]() It may sound intimidating, but in fact, it is a book that can be read comfortably as it does not overwhelm the reader with knowledge but emphasizing the philosophical structure. As the name suggests, the book contains the state, dangers, and strategies of artificial intelligence today. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. The award-winning Dear America series is one of the most popular book series in America and includes another by McKissack, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl. ![]() The dignity and courage of the Love family provides a model for all families, regardless of ethnic or cultural background. ![]() Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award winner Patricia McKissack writes the kind of historical fiction that will have history students and even reluctant readers and clamoring for more. ![]() DuBois and Marcus Garvey's writings, Nellie and her family gradually discover a place for themselves in their new circumstances, and ultimately find hope and triumph. But through family unity and integrity, and education by way of W.E.B. Delighted with the seemingly endless opportunities in the big city, Nellie is blindsided by the more insidious forms of prejudice that northerners practice: hatred within their own race. After the white racism in their town becomes too brutally overt to ignore, Nellie and her family pack up and move to Chicago. In a year of tumultuous change, victory, and tragedy, she records her thoughts and feelings in a diary given her by her mother. Nellie Lee Love is an 11-year-old African American girl living in the rural South at the end of World War I. Twelveyearold Nellie Lees family moves north to Chicago in hopes of escaping the. They think being light-skinned is better than being dark! Mama says that's nonsense and I think so, too." McKissack Book 18 of the Dear America Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon it transpires his room’s previous occupant is watching him from beyond the grave, and is envious of the very flesh on his bones.
![]() ![]() ![]() Michael Fuller was born to Windrush-generation Jamaican immigrants in 1959, and experienced a meteoric career in policing, from the beat to the Brixton inferno, through cutting edge detective work to the frontline of drug-related crime and violence on London's most volatile estates. 'Michael Fuller is an extraordinary man with a remarkable and interesting story' - Helen MirrenĪ story about race, identity, belonging and displacement, Kill the Black One First is the memoir from Michael Fuller - Britain's first ever black Chief Constable, whose life and career is not only a stark representation of race relations in the UK, but also a unique morality tale of how humanity deals with life's injustices. There are pleasures here, and lessons to be learnt, whatever colour you are' - The Sunday Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only are they splendid in themselves, but they support a vast number of other species – at least 400 in total. Luckily, even though much of the estate had been ploughed to death they had retained quite a number of these wonderful and huge native trees. In the UK, the only female birds that sing are robins and dunnocks – but not at this time of year!Īlthough Knepp has only been on the Rewilding journey for 20 years, one of the most striking things about it is the large number of mature oak trees. I was surprised to learn that all the singing birds we were hearing were males. We’d barely stepped out of our ‘safari’ vehicle before hearing the cuckoo, a nightingale and most endangered of all a turtledove, which makes a sort of purring noise. Our guide, Laurie Jackson, helped us identify birds singing. Now, I wonder if children even know about this – and cuckoos are on the Red List of endangered species. ![]() ![]() When I was a child I relished the story about their guerrilla approach to egg-laying in other bird’s nests. I realised with a pang that I can’t even remember how long it’s been since I last heard this familiar and evocative sound. With actors playing the younger versions of the couple, it will show how they transformed their intensively farmed land into a wildlife haven.Ī cuckoo called. Isabella Tree and her ground-breaking book, ‘Wilding’ has become so famous that Netflix is making a docudrama about her and her husband Charlie Burrell. ![]() |