![]() Wondrium rebranded earlier this year from its original name as The Great Courses Plus. ![]() Gates has been studying and working on solutions for climate change and energy innovation through his Breakthrough Energy organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Īccording to Wondrium, Gates’ relationship with the company includes having taken dozens of courses from its parent company, The Teaching Company. I hope these projects from Wondrium inspire people to think about the roles they can play in the fight against climate change.” ![]() ![]() “Two of the most important tools we have as we try to solve climate change are education and innovation. “Getting to net zero by 2050 will be the hardest thing people have ever done, but I believe it’s possible,” Gates said in a statement. “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” which is a New York Times Bestseller book, aims to spell out a practical and accessible plan for the way the world can make it to zero greenhouse gas emissions before it’s too late. “We are pleased to help celebrate and share the many ways people are using technology to help transform-and fix-the world around us.” “The story of solving climate change is about taking on new challenges and studying them, and as a company that was built around lifelong learning, partnering with Bill Gates on his inspirational book is a natural fit,” said Wondrium president/CEO Paul Suijk. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even though he has had more than two marriages, today, he seems to be comfortable with his wife, Susan Crow, who takes care of him quite well. How many times has Tony Bennett been married? Like most fans of the renowned musician, you are wondering about Tony's marriage life. How did Tony Bennett and Susan Crow meet, and how is their relationship currently? Singer Tony Bennett and his wife Susan Benedetto attend the 'Exploring the Arts' 20th anniversary Gala at Hammerstein Ballroom on April 12, 2019, in New York City. His current wife of 14 years, Susan Crow, is 40 years younger than the legendary singer. ![]() How much do you know about his private life, mainly his relationships? Tony has married three times, resulting in four children. Septem 9:00am TONY Bennett finally ended his long-dead marriage to Sandra Grant Bennett over the summer and wed his much-younger girlfriend, Susan Crow but his ex-wife remains. Stark is initially depicted as an industrialist, genius inventor, and. ![]() in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name commonly known by his alias, Iron Man. At 95 years old as of 2021, he has a decorated career with remarkable achievements and numerous accolades. Anthony Edward Stark, more commonly known as Tony Stark, is a fictional character primarily portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. ![]() Grammy Award winner and legendary musician Tony Bennett is renowned for his pop, big band, and jazz music. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was honored for his work in this field by being asked by the Nobel Committee of the Swedish Academy to nominate candidates for the Nobel Prize in Literature from 1976-1980. He is also the author of several major literary reviews published in Denmark, India, Britain and the United States. He is a literary critic, a linguist, an anthropologist and has made a name in all three fields.Īs a literary critic, he is the author of Caribbean Writers, a collection of critical essays on the Caribbean novel. During the decade of the 1960s he broadcast weekly from Britain to Africa and the Caribbean. From 1957-1959 he served as a Press and Broadcasting Officer in the Guyana Information Services. He was educated at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University) and the Rutgers Graduate School and holds degrees in African Studies and Anthropology. Ivan Van Sertima was born in Guyana, South America. ![]() ![]() Slugging back sherry, the former nurse is furious that her abiding memory of her once erudite and dapper dad will be a vision of him ‘naked below the waist, purple with rage and covered in faeces’. We meet them in their early fifties as they return home after Kay’s father’s funeral. The characters Shriver charges with assessing the options are Cyril and Kay Wilkinson. ![]() ![]() Should we allow ourselves to shamble, with gentle optimism, into decades when mental and physical decay are statistical probabilities? Or should we Take Back Control, and off ourselves before revolted strangers are required to wash our private parts at great cost to our struggling NHS? It’s how long a person should choose to live. Although she makes merry with the parallels, her subject isn’t Brexit. ![]() Leave or remain? That’s the question hanging like a cartoon sledgehammer over Lionel Shriver’s 17th novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s smart, charming, and wickedly sexy, plus a great father to Vanni. He's unlike any man Grace has met before. ![]() ![]() But even if she’s not pounding the keyboard, she’s still finding beauty and inspiration. ![]() With the three of them sharing the same house, Grace’s writing plans are thrown out the window. Thanks to their annual father and son bonding trip being cancelled, Claudio and Vanni are here to stay. Turns out, this is Claudio’s house, and Claudio happens to be her agent’s ex-husband from long ago. After all, Jana has a lot riding on Grace’s next book, and the last thing she wants is for her reputation as a “super-agent” to be tarnished.Īt first the villa is a dream come true for Grace – that is until Claudio Romano shows up one day with his ten-year old son, Vanni, in tow. She can stay at her villa in Tuscany for a month, soak in the sunshine, relax, and find her confidence again. After the death of her best friend and writing partner, Grace Harper is struggling both with grief, and with her next novel, the first one she’ll have to write alone.įortunately, her new powerhouse agent, the formidable Jana Lee, has a solution for her. ![]() ![]() The first thing that called my attention from this book (besides its more-than-beautiful cover) was the summary. I think the summary was pretty self-explanatory, so I’ll skip that part. Reading this book was quite a ride! Action-packed, full of strong and badass women, with an unique worldbuilding and a magical setting, Bone Crier’s Moon easily makes it to my best reads list of this year. But when her best friend Ailesse is taken captive, Sabine will do whatever it takes to save her, even if it means defying their traditions –and their matriarch– to break the bond between Ailesse and Bastien. ![]() Sabine has never had the stomach for the Bone Crier’s work. ![]() Ailesse’s ritual has begun and now their fates are entwined –in life and in death. Yet when he finally captures one, his vengeance will have to wait. But first she must complete her rite of passage and kill the boy she’s destined to love.īastien’s father was slain by a Bone Crier and he’s been seeking revenge ever since. And that promise comes at the cost of the Bone Crier’s one true love.Īilesse has been prepared since birth to become the matriarch of the Bone Criers, a mysterious famille of women who use strengths drawn from animal bones to ferry dead souls. ![]() But their power to ferry the spirits of the dead into goddess Elara’s Night Heavens or Tyrus’s Underworld comes from sacrifice. They alone can keep the dead from preying on the living. ![]() ![]() His excessive drinking has overshadowed his entire life. ![]() Geoffrey is a former British consul and has come to Quauhnahuac in Mexico. She comes back to try for the last time on the day of the Dead, but he ignores her just for him to go drinking the whole day. ![]() Geoffrey is a minor diplomat in Mexico, and his wife Yvonne has left him due to his excessive drinking. The novel is the story of Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul in Mexico in 1938, drowning himself in alcohol. Before going to the university, he worked as a deckhand and trimmer for six months. He was raised in a wealthy and famous family and put under his parents’ expectations. Malcolm Lowry was a literature and fiction British writer and poet whose Under the Volcano novel was one of the most outstanding books of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() Now Batman must race to stop his archnemesis before his reign of terror claims two of the Dark Knight's closest friends. ![]() ![]() And he's going to use Gotham City's top cop, Commissioner Jim Gordon, and his brilliant and beautiful daughter Barbara to do it. Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke (30th Anniversary Edition) DC Comics Amazon. Freed once again from the confines of Arkham Asylum, he's out to prove his deranged point. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as The Joker, that's all that separates the sane from the psychotic. Absolute Batman: The Killing Joke collects Batman: The Killing Joke and stories from Batman: Black & White 4, Countdown 31, Who's Who in the DC Universe 13 and with bonus material that includes Brian Bolland's new coloring from the Deluxe Edition, the original John Higgins coloring, all 128 pages of the script that has never been published. Batman: The Killing Joke is Alan Moore's unforgettable meditation on the razor-thin line between sanity and insanity, heroism and villainy, comedy and tragedy. In Batman: The Killing Joke, he takes on the origin of comics' greatest super-villain, The Joker-and changes Batman's world forever. ![]() One of the bestselling graphic novels of all-time finally gets the Absolute treatment, as BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE is presented in a 30th Anniversary hardcover slipcase edition! Critically acclaimed writer Alan Moore redefined the super-hero with Watchmen and V for Vendetta. ![]() ![]() ![]() She came to prominence with her first book, The Stranger Beside Me, about the Ted Bundy murders. She was a former Seattle Policewoman and was well educated in psychology and criminology. Raised in a law enforcement and criminal justice system environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. A lifetime of sociopathic manipulations and lies had been expertly hidden behind her façade of perfection - as was her rage to destroy any obstacle to her ultimate happiness, even if it was the man she vowed to love forever.Īnn Rule was a popular American true crime writer. Her controversial trial stunned all who thought they knew her. But crime scene evidence led detectives to wonder if Liysa was a killer, not a victim. Liysa soon revealed herself as a victim of domestic abuse that culminated at the campsite, where she shot Chris in self-defense. 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