![]() ![]() ![]() The Case Against Having Children by Anna & Arnold Silverman Scottīaby Not on Board: A Celebration of Life Without Kids by Jennifer L. Two Is Enough: A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice by Laura S. Morellīeyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children by Jeanne Safer Unwomanly Conduct: The Challenges of Intentional Childlessness by Carolyn M. by Corinne MaierĬheerfully Childless: The Humor Book for Those Who Hesitate to Procreate by Ellen Metter, Loretta Gomez No Kids: 40 good Reasons Not To Have Children. Lunneborg, Marilyn Mei-Ying Chi, Clara C. The Chosen Lives of Childfree Men by Patricia W. Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness by Laurie Lisle Women Without Children: The Reasons, the Rewards, the Regrets by Susan Schneider Lang Why Don't You Have Kids?: Living a Full Life Without Parenthood by Leslie Lafayette Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity by Mardy S. I Hate Other People's Kids by Adrianne Frost ![]() Pride and Joy: The Lives and Passions of Women Without Children by Terri Casey The Baby Boon : How Family-Friendly America Cheats the Childless by Elinor BurkettĬhildfree and Sterilized: Women's Decisions and Medical Responses by Annily Campbellįamilies of Two: Childfree and Beyond by Laura Carroll Here are the books I know of so far (they can be found on Amazon): I thought with all of the people here who either are childfree or who are thinking about it that it might be useful to have a reading list anyone can add to as they find new material. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Level 1 sustainability is essentially duplicating Earth’s basal ecosystem. sources of energy) defining four levels of sustainability, each with increasing supply chain requirements. The theory describes the limits of space settlement ecosystems necessary to sustain life based on sufficient area and availability of resources (e.g. ![]() “Stated simply, sustainable development of a human settlement requires a basal ecosystem to be present on location with self-restoring order, capacity, and organization equivalent to Earth.” Their theory sheds light on the challenges and conditions required for self restoring ecosystems to sustain a healthy growing human population in extraterrestrial environments. The pair use the laws of thermal dynamics and the effects of gravity upon ecosystems to analyze the evolution of human life in Earth’s biosphere and gravity well. To ascertain just how difficult human expansion off Earth will be, a new quantitative method of human sustainability called the Panscosmorio Theory has been developed by Lee Irons and his daughter Morgan in a paper in Frontiers of Astronomy and Space Sciences. The forces of nature conspire against humans outside their comfortable biosphere and normal gravity conditions. Its a given that space travel and settlement are difficult. Artist’s impression of the interior of an O’Neill Cylinder space settlement near the endcap. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Part writing retreat, part connection with other women over dinner, part digging deep with an award-winning panel of writers including Aya de Leon ( Uptown Thief, The Boss), Nayomi Munaweera ( Island of a Thousand Mirrors, What Lies Between Us) and Julia Park Tracey ( Tongues of Angels). This event is called "Opening the Circle: A Day of Radical Hospitality & Exploration" and will be amazing. ![]() * The Programming Branch: we produce events that you can attend! Events like salons and workshops and performances! Events like the one we're hosting on June 17th, in collaboration with Hedgebrook, the celebrated women's writing residency. Some people call us a "consulting firm." Like a slingshot of awesomeness, there are two branches to MRP: We create stuff, we help YOU create stuff, and we produce stuff. MRP (as the cool kids on the block call it) is a create-produce company. Here are some answers to what Moxie Road Productions is.and isn't. But a lot of people had a lot of questions! And I don't want people to be confused. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first issue was one of the best selling comic issues of 2015. Recently, he has become the writer of the massive cross-over project, BATMAN/TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, bringing two of the most successful franchises together for the first time. ![]() This work would culminate in James serving as the showrunner of two consecutive weekly comic series, BATMAN ETERNAL and BATMAN & ROBIN ETERNAL. James' comics career began with co-writing the back-up stories on Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's character defining run on BATMAN, which would lead to his making his own name on a number of Bat-Centric series. Tynion IV, James: - James Tynion IV is a comic book writer, best known for his work on the Batman franchise for DC Comics. ![]() ![]() Not Earth's feeble thirty-six hundred Stars visible to the eye - Lagash was in the center of a giant cluster. Whereas at the end of the story we find out there are far more visible stars than in Earth's night sky: Say that there were a lot of suns that far off a dozen or two, maybe. ![]() ![]() The astronomers are imagining a relative few stars being visible: So part of the problem is that their illusion was not convincing enough, but we don't ever actually find out if the psychologist, Sheerin 501, had the right idea. It was just a roof with holes in it, and that's just what it looked like. The caps fell away and the roof glittered all over with little dots of light-" ![]() In the story Faro 24 and Yimot 70, who constructed the makeshift planetarium, say that when they opened the holes in the roof, what they saw was just a dimly lit roof: ![]() ![]() ![]() But just as fate unexpectedly brings these life mates together, malevolent forces threaten to destroy them and their fragile love. Engulfed by despair, fearful of never finding the mate who can save him from the encroaching darkness, his soul cries out in loneliness - until the day that a beautiful voice full of light and love responds, softly soothing his pain and yearning.įrom the moment they meet, Raven and Mikhail are helpless to resist the desire that sparks between them. Dark Challenge Paperback Januby Christine Feehan(Author) 4.7 out of 5 stars2,979 ratings Part of: Dark (Carpathian Novels) See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. ![]() ![]() Mikhail Dubrinsky is the prince of the Carpathians, the powerful leader of a wise and secret ancient race that thrives in the night. In need of rest and rejuvenation, she embarks for a vacation far from home. Two strong very territorial males find themselves in close quarters protecting the woman they love. But her work keeps her from getting close to others, and has drained her body and spirit. Enter the enchanting world of the Carpathians, where dark adventure, mystery, and love await, and the desires of two daring hearts unite in one irresistible passion.Ī telepathic hunter of serial killers, Raven Whitney helps to catch some of the most depraved criminals. ![]() ![]() We found it had more propulsion as a series.” ![]() “But the character was so strong that his journey warranted a series as opposed to a movie. “My friend Danny Strong did a pass,” Grazer said. While he confirmed the book –– which focuses on the mysteries of the Freemasons –– was in development for another film sequel, Grazer said they had a hard time cracking the narrative into a concise enough script. It was expected that Brown’s third Langdon novel, The Lost Symbol, would be the next adapted for the big screen, but today at the Peacock virtual Television Critics Association panel for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol series, executive producer Brian Grazer told reporters that another path presented itself. ![]() Author Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books have been global bestsellers for two decades, featuring five novels that have been adapted into three blockbuster films starring Tom Hanks as the Harvard symbologist who can crack just about any historical puzzle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And they will go, quite literally, wherever the wind blows their flimsy boat, Artt assuring them he’ll know their destination when he sees it. ![]() For this he recruits two monks: Cormac, an elderly but competent builder and gardener who bears the scars of war and of the plague that took his family, and Trian, a spindly youth with a complementary talent for hunting and scavenging.įlattered by Artt’s invitation, they need no convincing. Artt has received orders from God - in that most reliable of forms, the dream - to establish a monastery in Ireland’s western sea. The year is 600, so Christianity is, relatively speaking, still fresh out of the oven. The novel’s trio of characters are essentially living en plein air and yet they’re undoubtedly confined: by the fact that they’re on an island, by the latter’s scant resources, by the religion to which they have devoted their lives and by the zealotry of their leader, Artt, a.k.a. Her latest, “Haven,” doesn’t involve rooms or wards. (“Confinement” is also, of course, an outmoded term for childbirth.) Her bestselling novel “Room” is the most obvious example, but her last book, “The Pull of the Stars,” did something similar in the confines, if you will, of an Irish maternity ward at the time of the Spanish flu. Emma Donoghue has a thing for confinement. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, Simon, runs a ghost tour business. Dominican American Lucely Luna lives with her family. Augustine, Florida, Lucely Luna works to restore the city with the help of friend Syd and the spirits of her family. Agent: Suzie Townsend, New Leaf Literary. After unwittingly unleashing dead spirits on St. References-a nod to Ghostbusters, a clowder of cats named for Goonies characters-add humor, but it’s the personal touches, such as Lucely’s opinionated, ever-present ancestors her dedication to those she loves and an emphasis on Latinx food, love, and folklore, that gives this debut its distinctive spirit. With this delightfully spooky adventure, Ortega draws upon her Dominican heritage to craft a heartwarming story with a strong focus on family genetic and found. Augustine-one that they must reverse to defeat the evil that seeks to destroy them all. ![]() Borrowing a book of magic from Syd’s grandmother, who owns an occult store, they cast a spell that unleashes malevolent forces upon the town of St. ![]() ![]() When her grandmother’s spirit warns her of a coming darkness before falling dormant, Luna and her best friend, Syd Faires, seek to revive Mamá. When Dominican-American Lucely Luna, 12, learns that her single father might lose their house, her primary concern is for the myriad ghosts of her family, who inhabit the willow tree out back as fireflies, at least when they’re not manifesting in human form. ![]() ![]() “ Words of Radiance may be the most accomplished followup to a popular first novel in the last 15 years.”- Buzzfeed on Words of Radiance Words of Radiance is a must-read.”- io9 on Words of Radiance ![]() It embraces the fantastic, and does so with an astonishing amount of creativity. “Absolutely revels in its fantasy world, one of actual gods, bizarre magic, knights with superpowers, spirits and sorcery, monsters, demons, and magic sword called Shardblades. Yes, this is a series worth following to the end.”- Tor.com on Words of Radiance cranks up the level of intrigue to dizzying extremes…Sanderson’s experiment is working, and he gets better with every book. Successfully balances introducing new elements and satisfactorily resolving some threads, leaving fans to eagerly await the next in the series.”- Publishers Weekly on Oathbringer “Classic Sanderson, with multiple story lines and unexpected twists and turns. Includes The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, and Rhythm of War Roshar is shared by humans and the enigmatic, humanoid Parshendi, with whom they are at war. ![]() Welcome to the remarkable world of Roshar, a world both alien and magical, where gigantic hurricane-like storms scour the surface every few days and life has adapted accordingly. Experience Brandon Sanderson's groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, in this hardcover box set of the first four epic volumes. ![]() |