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I have discovered my own special brand of beauty and the uniqueness of my personal blend of great qualities. I thank God for ordering my steps to embark upon this journey of self-discovery and renewal of my spirit and identity. I have found freedom through setting boundaries within my life.

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Drawing from the Desiderata and his favorite prayer, Good Morning God, he uses an engaging discourse form to deliver the message that our stories, individually and collectively, written or unwritten, is the culminant of the world's story. In this book, he shows that inspiration is not farfetched and that from effecting liveability in our immediate surrounding we can shape our story to effect "points of contact and communication" that will eventually give "the world story, the great Story, The challenges presented by technology have long been central in these issues, but how can we take advantage of the opportunities it provides to shape a better twenty-first century?

The most important division of our age is between the 'tomorrows', those who believe that the future can be better than the past, and the 'yesterdays' who harbor a nostalgic desire to return to a rose-tinted past.

This division is encapsulated by how we answer a simple question: can we trust the future? In Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays, Andrew Keen discusses the issue with some of the most influential thinkers of our time. The book is split into four sections. The first identifies the challenges of our digital age.

The second focuses on the failure of the internet revolution to realize its ambitious goals. The third untangles the complex relationship between populism and digital media, before the final part presents possible solutions to the challenges of our age. The result is an insightful examination of the most important issues facing us today, and essential reading for anyone interested in the impact of the digital revolution.

Kosemen, All Yesterdays is scientifically rigorous and artistically imaginative in its approach to fossils of the past - and those of the future. All Yesterdays; All Your Yesterdays. Irregular Books. Extraordinary Books on Extraordinary Subjects.

Worse, she has to pursue and kill the boy she loves to change the future. They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire. Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century Three generations linked by crime and punishment--cops and heroes, fathers, sons, and lovers united at last by revelations that could bring a family to its knees The Velvet Underground, among the most influential bands of all time, are credited with creating a streetwise, pre-punk sensibility that has become inseparable from the popular image of downtown New York.

All Yesterdays' Parties gathers for the first time almost all of the published writings contemporary with the band's existence-from sources as mainstream as the New York Times to vanished voices of the counterculture like Oz, Fusion, and Crawdaddy! The book is a revealing snapshot of an era by trailblazing rock writers such as Lester Bangs, Robert Greenfield, and Paul Williams. With photographs, posters, and other visual evocations of the period throughout, All Yesterdays' Parties is an invaluable resource, a trove of lore for anyone interested in the VU, their roots, and legacy.

It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher. But she must leave school to help support her family, moving to the city to work as a maid in a wealthy doctor's home.

As the deadly Spanish Flu sweeps across the city, members of the household fall ill one by one. With the doctor working night and day at the hospital, only Meredith and the doctor's children, Maggie and Jack, are left to care for them. Every day the newspapers' lists of "Yesterday's Dead" add to Meredith's growing fears.

When Jack becomes gravely ill, Meredith must stop fighting with Maggie so they can work together to save him. As Meredith wrestles with questions of duty and responsibility, she opens the door to a future that she thought had been closed forever.

Bighearted and trenchantly observant, The Bookshop of Yesterdays is a lyrical story of family, love and the healing power of community.

This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy from to , from the anxious months before the country entered the war, through the war years, to the allied victory with its trailing wake of anxiety, disappointment, and grief.

In the foreground are the members of two families. One is rich, the other is not. In All Our Yesterdays, as in all of Ms. But seemingly less overwhelming events, like a family quarrel, adultery, or a deception, are given equal space, as if to say that, to a victim, adultery and air raids can be equally maiming.

All Our Yesterdays gives a sharp portrait of a society hungry for change, but betrayed by war. During the period described in the novel, Natalia Ginzburg was married to the writer Leone Ginzburg. When the Ginzburgs later moved to Rome, Leone was arrested and tortured by the fascists, and killed, leaving Natalia alone to raise her three children. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more.

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Above and Right, Obsolete but meaningful: These dinosaur paintings by Charles Knight are now scientifically outdated, yet they remain impostant as artistically beautiful and inspiring portrayals of prehistoric life. Among the best-preserved fossils in the world,1 Sciurumimus sports a similar, squirrel-like tail.

These animals bore very thick, dome-like skulls, which may have been used for defense, combat for social dominance, or both. This male Prenocephale looks especially flamboyant with its colorful skull dome, facial patches and its thick coat of filamentous integument.

While feathered theropods, the bird-like, meat eating di- nosaurs, have been more-or-less common in palaeoart for the last decade, Alessio Arena is one of the few artists who have been restoring the plant-eating ornithischian dino- saurs with an equally extensive covering of filaments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 29 : Italian artist Alessio Ciaffi highlights the grim reality of disease with this poignant drawing of a female Deinonychus infected with facial tumors.

It seems rational to assume that dinosaurs would also suf- fer from tumors in various locations. Prehistoric mammals and amphibians are only slightly less-commonly represent- ed in artwork, and invertebrates, barring some spectacular forms such as gigantic sea scorpions, usually come the last when it comes to artistic popularity. This is a pity, because fossil invertebrates, such as the ancient trilobites shown here, come in a great diversity of interesting forms.

Trilobites are a completely extinct group of arthropods that lived in the primordial seas. At a centimeter long, Palaeo- lenus is one of the most common fossil trilobites of the Cambrian period.

It is usually discovered in mass aggrega- tions, which has led the artist to portray it as a camouflaged bottom dweller. In this picture, two Palaeolenus sport pat- terned carapaces that mimic the texture of the seafloor and frond-like antennae that resemble sea plants.

Artist Alessio Ciaffi imagined that two or more individuals could come together to form cryptically-shaped units that help disguise them even more. As a final note, we can see tiny, fish-like animals known as Haikouichthys swimming around the trilobites. These crea- tures are some of the earliest known free-swimming chor- dates, members of the group which later gave rise to fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs and ultimately ourselves.

Such roles were occupied by pterosaurs. Eventually, however, birds increased in diversity while only the largest flying pterosaurs remained alive by the end of the Mesozoic era. Paleobiology 35 3 : — Most animals in this group had mouths that were devoid of all teeth, except for two spike-like pro- tuberances on the mouth roof. Needless to say, this arrangement elicited a lot of hypoth- eses about the oviraptorosaurian diet from the day these animals were discovered.

Initially, they were thought to be egg-eaters from the way one skeleton was discovered next to a nest of eggs, almost as if caught in the act. Here, Alvaro Rozalen is continuing the debate by illustrat- ing Citipati, one of the largest oviraptorosaurs, in the act of crushing a crab which it has caught from a freshwater lake.

The animals are using their sharp mouthparts to crack open shellfish instead of eggs. Shellfish, hard fruits, bones have all been suggested as parts of the oviraptoro- saur diet. Perhaps these strange animals ate a bit of every- thing. This could be an artifact of preservation, or it could be a specialized adapta- tion, especially if one considers that related species such as Scansoriopteryx and Epidendrosaurus both have extremely long fingers, which may have been used in probing trees for insect larvae and other food items.

Alvero Rozalen has noticed the similarity between these mystifying anatomical features and the anatomy of a living primate, the Aye-Aye. Daubentonia madagascarensis This famous denizen of Madagascar also has long, grub-probing digits and large eyes adapted for a nocturnal life.

Inspired by the Aye-Aye, Rozalen has rejected traditional recon- structions of Epidexipteryx, which look like tiny birds with fingers and no tails bimbling about on the forest floor.

He has drawn this animal as a nocturnal tree dweller with bright eyes that reflect the moonlight. Adaptations for an arboreal lifestyle can force animals to assume deceptively scary forms with large eyes, long limbs, sharp, insect- crunching teeth and cryptic body shapes. This could have been especially true for bird-like dinosaurs with large brains, such as Troodonts. Usually hailed as the smartest dinosaurs, these animals may have had complicated behaviors and elaborate social displays.

Such advanced cognitive skills would have necessitated a relatively long period of infancy and learning. This stunning portrait shows two hatchling Troodons, smart and bird-like meat-eaters, in their tree burrow nest as they wait for their parents to return from a foraging trip.

Like hatchlings of certain birds today, they have a mottled, cam- ouflaging pattern of feathers. The developing remige, or flight feathers, are clearly visible on the arm of the hatch- ling which is shielding itself from the sun.

When they grow, these feathers will get longer, and their arms will resemble wings. The hatchlings are scanning their surroundings with wary, intelligent eyes, on the lookout for potential danger or the return of their parents. Science : —8. PMID Swiss artist Andrea Gassler has come up with a novel interpretation of these animals.

He postulates that the long finger, understood by many artists and researchers as an adaptation to probe for grubs and insects under tree bark, was actually the support for an extensive, wing-like mem- brane. Bats and the flying reptiles known as pterosaurs also have wings derived from similar adaptations. As one can expect, portraying a dinosaur with membra- nous protowings results in a truly bizarre beast, and this pterosaur-mimic reconstruction has to be appreciated as food for thought rather than a genuine hypothesis.

A similar idea has been proposed by the Italian palaeontolo- gist Andrea Cau and illustrated by the palaeoartist Lukas Panzarin in Retrieved This odd morphology was possibly used for consuming durable prey items, possibly shellfish.

Its beak could have probed into carcasses and with its jaws it could have crushed bones to obtain nutritious bone marrow. It is thus highly possible that their mat- ing habits made use of visual signals as well. In fact, sexual selection may have been the driving force in the evolution of exaggerated crests on pterosaurs and dinosaurs.

As in birds and most reptiles, the male is the more colorfully-ornamented member of the couple and he is doing his best to impress the larger, drably-colored female. Seeing that the males of many modern-day animals sport colorful crests, sacs and wattles which would not be preserved in the fossil record, Elbein has also adorned the male pterosaur with bright, inflatable sacs on his face and throat.

Does mutual sexual selec- tion explain the evolution of head crests in pterosaurs and dinosaurs? Lethaia 45, Their transformation from land-living animals to gigantic swimmers is one of the most extraordi- nary stories in the history of mammal evolution.

The earli- est whales resembled deer-like animals with short necks and long, thick tails. Soon after, they diversified into more aquatically-adapted forms, such as the large-headed, al- most crocodile-like Ambulocetus seen here. About the size of a person, Ambulocetus is usually illus- trated as a naked, semiaquatic lurker in swamps or lakes. Bethany Vargeson has broken this tradition, not only in illustrating Ambulocatus as a furry, cute yet still believable animal, but also depicting it like a gigantic sea otter, able to venture into more open waters.

In the past, most sauropods were reconstructed as slow, swamp-dwelling titans which could not even stand up properly on land. Later on, ad- ditional discoveries and new theories of dinosaur evolution revised our image of sauropods. No longer consigned to the swamps, they were seen as fully-terrestrial animals. Ultimately, however, this view also turned into a sort of orthodoxy. Sauropods are now drawn as sleek, unadorned land-dwellers with monotonous regularity.

With this one image of Diamantinasaurus, a sauropod dinosaur that lived at the end of the Cretaceous, California- based palaeoartist Brian Engh has challenged the conven- tional wisdom of how these animals are represented, on multiple fronts.

To begin with, we see the animals in an otherworldly cave, with strange geologic formations and colonies of bioluminescent bacteria that light the ceiling like stars.

By picturing the large sauropods inside a cave, Engh successfully draws attention to the fact that in nature, animals often do extraordinary things and venture into unlikely places. This is a speculative feature never before illustrated in such animals, yet it is not any more or less-likely than a traditional, reptile-headed reconstruction. What is less commonly known is that there was not one species Smilodon, but three or possibly more, the largest of which was markedly different from others with its heavy struc- ture, long front legs and hyena-like sloping back.

Like albinism, it affects many different species of animals, including deer, lions, snakes, owls, salamanders and others. In the past, similar individuals must have appeared among Smilodon populations as well. Palaeoartist Christian Masnaghetti has thus depicted Mira- gaia, the extraordinary armored stegosaurian dinosaur with a long neck, with an associated pack of smaller, opportun- istic herbivorous dinosaurs known as hypsilophodonts.

Looking like a gigantic porcupine with dangerous spines on its flexible tail, Miragaia was certainly a tough adversary for any predator. The hypsilophodonts would not only find the larger beast useful for safety, but would also help them- selves to the small prey it stirs up, or even find sustenance in its parasites or droppings. Besides suggesting a plausible behavior, Masnaghetti has also distinguished this work by illustrating both Miragaia and the opportunistic hypsilophodonts actually distant relatives, with bodily integument.

In Miragaia, this takes the shape of dense, protective quills, whereas in the smaller hypsilophodonts the same structures have evolved into a dense, bushy covering of fur-like fibers. Here, a gigantic spider purposefully spins a web in be- tween the horns of a Diaboloceratops, a large, horn-faced plant eating dinosaur, to feed on insects buzzing around its head. While this arrangement seems unlikely, a very similar situ- ation was observed with an impala in by the wildlife photographer Frank Solomon.

While this looks like a complete work of fantasy, it might be surprising to know that polycephaly, or the presence of more than one head in a single organism, is a very real phenomenon in nature.

Polycephaly is a birth defect that occurs when two embryos fail to separate properly and end up as a single fetus with two heads or two front halves of the body.

This condition is almost always fatal, but certain individuals can man- age to survive for long periods under captive care or other favorable conditions. There are even people with this condi- tion: Abigail and Brittany Hensel of Minnesota, USA, have been sharing a single body since they were born.

Polyceph- aly is also known from past eras; there exists a million year-old fossil of a juvennile aquatic reptile named Hyphalo- saurus with two heads. All this being said, it would have been extremely unlikely for any dinosaur or other prehistoric animal to remain alive for long if born with polycephaly. Predators, exposure or other environmental factors would limit the life of any polycephalous hatchling.

Considering all these disadvantages, this these? Zupaysaurus must have been very lucky to have survived into maturity. Famous zoologist Darren Naish contributes to this collection with a parade of unusual forms, all representing one such lineage, the therizinosaurids. Since their discovery, this lineage of long-clawed dinosaurs were as- signed a succession of different identities.

A reconstruction of Alxasaurus, an early therizino- saur species. Discovered in the s with a reason- ably complete skeleton, this animal revealed a lot of anatomical details about the group.

It also established therizinosaurs as aberrant theropods and not a dis- tinct lineage as suggested before. It is restored here as a reptilian dinosaur, as the fashion was in the s. We now know that therizinosaurs were covered extensively in feather-like integument. They lived earlier on in the age of the dinosaurs, whereas therizinosaurs ap- peared later on.

The segnosaurian dinosaurs: relics of the prosauropod-or- nithischian transition? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 4, Known from scrappy remains, these animals were ascribed a lot of unusual characteristics such as a toothless beak, webbed feet and fish-eating habits.

They were believed by some researchers to be dig- gers, and their long claws were seen as adaptations to tear open insect nests. A more modern, but featherless view of therizino- saurs, namely the giant species Therizinosaurus, known only from its seventy-centimeter-long claws.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Without going too much into details, suffice it to say that nature is full of acts and practices that one might call depraved. It would be wrong to assume that similar acts did not take place in the age of dinosaurs.

Here, a male pterosaur of the species Caviramus is seen bru- tally raping the corpse of a rival which it has killed in an aerial duel of dominance. Before assuming that the artist, Elia Smaniotto, has a particularly disturbing imagination, however, you must realize that the exact same act has been documented by scientists among ducks, 1 and this work is merely an adaptation of that behavior.

Moeliker Her animals are exceptional for looking first and foremost like birds, creating an unexpected surprise for viewers who are used to outdated reptile or dragon-like representations. In the overleaf picture, a Microraptor is seen feeding on fruit - a definite surprise in palaeoart. The second Microraptor shows a very angry or scared individual, puffing up its feathers to look bigger to poten- tial aggressors. The Inner Bird: Anatomy and Evolution.

ISBN Here, a decidedly non-Hollywoodian Utahraptor is seen on a beach, with members of its pack in the background. Instead, her animals are calm, reserved and at peace with their surroundings, much like a lion or tiger today.

They look less like reptiles and more like the birds they were related to. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21 3 : 36A. Raptor Red. Bantam Books. The answer, Schmunk speculates, is that males of many species engage in seemingly pointless acts designed to show off their strength - to potential rivals as well as the members of the opposite sex.

From dueling reindeer to hu- man males working out in gymnasiums, males rely on such exercises of power to establish their social dominance and mark themselves as suitable mating partners. Schmunk continues his line of speculation by imagining the male pushing the fallen tree to a location where a poten- tial mate can easily find it. These details, of course, are all speculative. However, nupi- tal gifts feature strongly in the behaviors of many animals, ranging from spiders, Pisaura mirabilis, 1 to shrikes, Lanuis excubitor,.