![]() ![]() But did government regulators and corporations? Ten years later, there is good news. ![]() The ease with which ordinary activities caused dangerous levels to build in their bodies was a wake-up call, and listeners all over the world responded. ![]() To expose the extent of this toxification, environmentalists Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie offered themselves to science and undertook a series of over a dozen experiments to briefly raise their personal levels of mercury, BPA, Teflon, and other pollutants. Daily life was bathing us in countless toxins that accumulated in our tissues, were passed on to our children, and damaged our health. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans, thermometers, and tuna sandwiches. It's amazing how little can change in a decade. The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tämä värillinen erikoispainos perustuu Magia d’Invernoon, vuoden 1961 italialaiseen painokseen, jolle Tove Jansson loi kuusi värikuvitusta ja uuden kannen. Taikatalven tarinassa Muumipeikko voittaa hämmästyksensä ja eristyneisyytensä, ja alkaa viisaan Tuu-tikin ja pelottoman Pikku Myyn avulla tutkia kimaltelevaa talvista maisemaa. This edition has two additional images – the first cover image painted for Puffin – and the wonderful panorama showing events and characters in the book first used on the cover of the 1972 French Nathan edition. In Moominland Midwinter we follow Moomintroll as he overcomes his amazement and isolation and, with the help of the wise Too-ticky and the fearless Little My, begins to explore the glittering new landscape. This special edition of Moominland Midwinter with colors is based on Magia d’Inverno, the 1961 Italian edition of the book, for which Tove Jansson created six color illustrations and a new cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “You can’t Apparate to somewhere you’ve never been and how would anyone get to the Moon in the first place?” “Go to the - it’s just a -” His finger pointed at the little pale thingy in the sky. It was pretty clear the thought had never occured to the boy. Have wizards ever been to the Moon? You know, that thing?” Harry pointed up to that huge and distant globe. “Anyway,” Harry said, “I’m saying that you don’t seem to have been paying much attention to what goes on in the Muggle world.” Probably because the whole wizarding world seemed to regard the rest of Earth as a slum, deserving around as much news coverage as the Financial Times awarded to the routine agonies of Burundi. You should read the whole thing, but here are some of the best quotes: In chapter 7 Harry introduces Draco to the beauty of scientific advancement, and it actually moved me to tears. science is at least as beautiful as magic Spoiler warning: no plot held back in this review. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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"Tearing through one after the other, as I did, allows instant gratification it also lets you appreciate how masterfully they're constructed. ![]() By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Armistead Maupin's bestselling Tales of the City novels-the fourth, fifth and sixth of which are collected in this second omnibus volume-stand as an incomparable blend of great storytelling and incisive social commentary on American culture from the seventies through the first two decades of the new millennium. ![]() ![]() ![]() An irritatingly appealing threat.Īs Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he’s concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and…Jamie. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. She thinks no one will take it seriously.īut someone does. ![]() And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules…with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family–and a new love–changes the course of her life.Īs one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I will go onto say that, toward the end – the book is broken into sections titled with the stages of grief – but somewhere almost three quarters of the way through “Depression” and pretty far off from “Acceptance” the whole book came together for me in a way that really only Grady Hendrix has managed to do for me since I read Fear Street books as a tween/teen in the 90’s, which is to say that while I was already enjoying the story as a horror novel (a straight-up supernatural horror for the Oregon Trail Generation now in their early 40s) I hadn’t really gotten the emotional impact of what the novel was presenting. ![]() … and that’s really all I’ll say about that. Suffice it to say: I had no idea about the puppets. It’s really that simple, and that’s how I ended up with How to Sell a Haunted House though I had promised myself I wouldn’t buy any new books until all the books I already had were read. He is, to me, a guaranteed book buy if I’m happening by a bookstore and I see a title of his on a table display. ![]() The books of his I haven’t read are ones that I just haven’t made time for. It is enough for me to see his name on the cover when Quirk Books posts about an upcoming release or I’m on my Netgalley and a new title of his pops up on my available ARCs. The thing about Grady Hendrix novels is that I read them without bothering to read the synopses anymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() True, the author was only 26 yes, the story took place in an Ireland where Catholicism no longer mattered, and everyone was a digital native and the narrator, Frances, was a new graduate who started the book in a modishly fluid friendship/relationship with the avowedly lesbian and definitely woke Bobbi. O f all the praise lavished on Sally Rooney’s first novel, Conversations with Friends – that it was glittering, witty, addictive, elegant, heartbreaking – only the insistence that it was especially contemporary, and “could sit with Lena Dunham’s Girls”, as the Sunday Times put it, didn’t seem entirely applicable. ![]() |