![]() ![]() In these pages, John Keel displays the keen observational skills and investigative tenacity that made him the enfant terrible of ufology for decades. ![]() Written in Keel’s engaging trademark style, they are sure to delight fans with their fresh, unparalleled insights into the nature of reality. New Saucerian proudly presents "Flying Saucer to the Center of Your Mind," a collection of magazine articles and lectures by John Keel, the man many consider to have been the 20th Century’s premiere investigator of all things unusual and “Fortean.” Many of the articles in this anthology and its companion volumes, "The Outer Limits of the Twilight Zone," "Searching For the String," "The Great Phonograph in the Sky," "The Passionate Percipient," and "The Perspicacious Percipient" were revolutionary. ![]()
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"In Matthew Venn, Ann has created a complex, daring, subtle character." -Louise Penny A complex mystery full of surprises. New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves returns with The Heron's Cry, the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call, now a major TV series, alongside her two hit TV shows Shetland and Vera. ![]() ![]() The Way of Kings VR being short in and of itself isn’t a huge problem, but I’m just not sure anyone other than die-hard Sanderson fans are going to pay for an experience like this. You can see some glimpses of gameplay down below: In a unique turn of events, The Way of Kings VR isn’t based on an existing movie, TV, or video game at all, but is actually created directly from the original book source material itself. Sanderson is three books deep into the world (Oathbringer just released very recently) and this extremely brief experience, for all of its eagerness, is little more than a tech demo. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains is a very short VR experience from Arcturus Studios that’s centered on the first entry in Brandon Sanderson’s sweeping epic fantasy novel series, The Stormlight Archives. ![]() ![]() ![]() She holds honorary doctor of letters degrees from the University of Bath, in England, and Middlebury College, Vermont, both awarded in 2002. Sobel attended Antioch College and the City College of New York before receiving her bachelor of arts degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969. A 1964 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science, Ms. Her most well kno Dava Sobel is an accomplished writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. In her four decades as a science journalist she has written for many magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker, served as a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni, and co-authored five books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dava Sobel is an accomplished writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. ![]() ![]() ![]() On understanding anger as a force for positivity ![]() And we end up being powerless in that situation.” They are not penalized in the same way as when women do it, it actually transgresses, so we violate gender norms. And so there are rewards for doing that, they gain power from doing that even if it’s ugly and uncomfortable and causes people distress. I mean, study after study after study shows that when men display anger, it reaffirms gender norms, it reaffirms masculinity. We’re not misunderstanding the situation. “We really understand from a very early age what the risks and costs of our displaying full emotions, and particularly this emotion, are. On the double standard when it comes to expressing anger and displaying emotion Soraya Chemaly, writer, activist and author of “Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger.” Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, which aims to curb online abuse, increase media and tech diversity, and expand women’s freedom of expression. ![]() We’ll have it with author of the new book “Rage Becomes Her.” Open started a conversation about women’s anger. ![]() The Serena Williams firestorm at the U.S. ![]() |