‘I’m loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King Get the trilogy that inspired Annihilation, the most anticipated motion picture of 2018, and uncover the dark secrets at the heart of Area X. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens to record all of their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself. Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic. The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSONįor years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.
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I lost the ability to speak, read, and write. I would eventually go to the ER after my doctor discovered a right sided facial droop, fearing that I was having a stroke, I was admitted to the first of 2 hospitals.ĭuring my lengthy stay on the stroke recovery unit (the youngest person by several decades), the doctors would be puzzled by my progressing symptoms and my eventual catatonic state. I began experiencing extreme anxiety, panic attacks, and other neurological symptoms. I had trouble spelling words, remembering passwords and even had trouble speaking with patients I saw as a genetic counselor. And those numbers lead me here, to you, to the Autoimmune Encephalitis community.ĭuring February 2019, I began to experience subtle signs and had an overwhelming feeling that something was “off” with myself. All those numbers were packed into a 31-day hospital stay split between 2 hospitals in the largest medical center in the world. It is how we put our experiences into boxes so that they don’t spill over into every aspect of our lives.įor me it was 1,000 mg of steroids, 7 Plasmapheresis infusions, 6 EEG’s, 5 MRIs, 4 CT scans, 1 PET scan, 1 botched lumbar puncture, 1 traumatizing bedside central line insertion, and countless fascinated residents, fellows, and physicians who had no idea what was happening to me right in front of them. It’s how we organize and make sense of what’s happened to us. Numbers, numbers, numbers – we all have them. With a notebook and night-vision gear, he sits in the streamlike flow of garbage and searches for fabled rat kings, sets out to trap a rat, and eventually travels to the Midwest to learn about rats in Chicago, Milwaukee, and other cities of America. While dispensing gruesomely fascinating rat facts and strangely entertaining rat stories - everyone has one, it turns out - Sullivan gets to know not just the beast but its friends and foes: the exterminators, the sanitation workers, the agitators and activists who have played their part in the centuries-old war between human city dweller and wild city rat. Rats live in the world precisely where humans do they survive on the effluvia of human society they eat our garbage. Robert Sullivan went to a disused, garbage-filled alley in lower Manhattan to contemplate the city and its lesser-known inhabitants - by observing the rat. Summary: Thoreau went to Walden Pond to live simply in the wild and contemplate his own place in the world by observing nature. "Lawlor’s biography captures both Marianne’s spirit and the restrictive norms of the time, which couldn’t hold back this daring naturalist." -Booklist This is an impeccably attuned biography of a woman who broke the rules to the benefit of all." - School Library Journal, Starred Review ★ "The illustrations are beautifully done, with attention and care carrying the spirit of North’s paintings throughout. "Illustrated in rich colors."- The Wall Street Journal The North gallery at Kew Gardens remains open to the public today.īecca Stadtlander's award-winning lush, verdant artwork pairs wonderfully with the natural themes.Ī Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionĪn NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students Laurie Lawlor deftly chronicles North's life, from her restrictive childhood to her wild world travels to the opening of the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens to her death in 1890. The legendary Charles Darwin was among her many supporters. Her technique of painting specimens in their natural environment was groundbreaking. In 1882, Marianne North showed the gray city of London paintings of jaw-dropping greenery like they'd never seenĪs a self-taught artist and scientist, Marianne North subverted Victorian gender roles and advanced the field of botanical illustration. The vibrant and daring life of Marianne North by the award-winning author of Super Women and Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World. Chicago: University of Chicago (Unpublished manuscript).Ĭsikszentmihaiyi, M., & Massimini, R. Talent and achievement: A longitudinal study with artists. New York: Praeger.Ĭsiksientmihalyi, M., Gelzels, J. Neperud (Eds.) The foundations of aesthetics, art, and art education. British Journal of Psychology, 64(1), 91–104.Ĭsiksientmihalyi, M. The personality of young artists: An empirical and theoretical exploration. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 19(1), 47–52.Ĭsikszentmihalyi, M., & Getzels, J. Discovery-oriented behavior and the originality of creative products. New ideas in psychology (in press).Ĭsikszentmihalyi, M., & Getzels, J. Paper presented at the 87th annual convention of the APA, New York.Ĭsikszentmihalyi M (1986) Motivation and creativity: Towards a synthesis of structural and energistic approaches to cognition. Singer (Eds.), The stream of consciousness (pp. Attention and the holistic approach to behavior. New York: Harper & Bros.Ĭsikszentmihalyi, M. Schlipp (Ed.), The library of living philosophers (pp. Monk (Eds.), Social change in developing areas (pp. Variation and selective retention in socio-cultural evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Ĭampbell, D. The social basis of scientific discoveries. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.īloom, B. Davidson (Eds.), Conceptions of giftedness (pp. Cognitive issues in ihe development of musically gifted children. |