![]() ![]() ![]() He worked closely with other scientists and agencies to develop aquatic assessment tools for statewide evaluations. He was a well-respected expert in the field of water quality data collection and analysis, and aquatic systems management. ![]() Following graduation, David moved to Kyle, Texas and secured a career with the Lower Colorado River Authority in Austin where he served as an Aquatic Scientist protecting the Colorado River, its reservoirs, and tributaries for over 20 years. ![]() He went on to complete his master's degree in biology from Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. From there he came to Texas and worked building ropes courses used for experiential education, which involved travel to other areas of the nation, including time spent working in Ohio. David will be remembered as a truly loyal friend, and for his love of cats and his annual crawfish boils.įollowing graduation from Ruston high school in Ruston, Louisiana, he enrolled and then graduated from Louisiana Tech with his undergraduate degree. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 29th of May 1968 to Mary Ellen and Donald Douglas Bass, David was one of four children. On Sunday evening, July 11th, 2021, at the age of 53, David Allen Bass of Kyle Texas, passed away unexpectedly following a chronic onset of anemia. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Shah provides deep explanations of how pathogens cross species barriers and transform animal diseases into human diseases, and she describes her experience with an infection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in her son. Factors such as growing means of locomotion, increasing crowding of people into cities, and failure to deal with "filth" are relevant in understanding today's emerging diseases, as well. Bringing together personal, journalistic, historical, and scientific information, Pandemic analyzes the sweeping history of infectious disease and the rise ofepidemicsover thepasttwocenturies. This is contrary to beliefs expressed in the mid-twentieth century, when epidemiologists, medical historians, and experts were convinced that infectious disease had been conquered and that noncommunicable diseases would become the primary medical concern. ![]() The author's premise is that we should be worried about pandemics, and she makes the cogent case that pathogens will continue to challenge our health systems and the global community. Investigative journalist Sonia Shah's new book, Pandemic, arrives at a key time, as the global health community is sorting through lessons learned from the spread of Ebola in West Africa, the cholera epidemic in Haiti, and concerns about emerging new viruses in different parts of the world. PANDEMIC: TRACKING CONTAGIONS FROM CHOLERA TO EBOLA AND BEYOND By Sonia Shah New York (NY): Sarah Crichton Books, 2016 288 pp., $26.00 ![]() ![]() ![]() As someone with anxiety, I was really able to relate to Ava the most. I also was so pleased to find out this story is own voices x2! Allison & Ava have both dealt with OCD and anxiety for most of their lives. Internet girls (TTYL/TTFN/L8R G8R series I loved in elementary school! There were times when I had wished conversations had been more finished as opposed to just jumping from one to another, but all around, it was a fun format. ![]() Having some background on the authors was definitely an asset to the story.Īs this is told in texts and emails only, I was slightly worried about the format, but I found it to be a nice change of pace! I do not feel like I missed much by not having it in a normal format, and it suited the story well. ![]() It felt as if the characters truly embodied the authors – You could tell me these were actual text conversations between Gaby & Allison during their freshman year of college, and I would believe it in a heartbeat. Martins Press for sending me a review copy!Īs someone who has been a fan of Gaby & Allison’s YouTube videos in the past, I think anyone who is a fan would enjoy this book. I really had fun with this one! Thanks to St. 4.5 Stars! This was a super-fast paced, light-hearted read. ![]() ![]() In this provocative book she explores how adults mistreat children, focusing on adults not only as hostile characters in fairy tales themselves but also as real people who use frightening stories to discipline Released on: Octo. Off with Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood: Author: Maria Tatar: Edition: illustrated: Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2020: ISBN: 0691214816, 9780691214818: Length: 332.
![]() ![]() Imagine that two doctors in the same city give different diagnoses to identical patients – or that two judges in the same court give different sentences to people who have committed matching crimes. ‘An absolutely brilliant investigation of a massive societal problem that has been hiding in plain sight’įrom the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and Nudge, the next big book to change the way you think. A genuinely new idea so exceedingly important you will immediately put it into practice. ‘Noise may be the most important book I’ve read in more than a decade. Wherever there is human judgement, there is noise. ![]() ![]() ‘A monumental, gripping book … Outstanding’ Sunday Times Author: Kahneman, Daniel/ Sibony, Olivier/ Sunstein, Cass ![]() ![]() "Bouchet skillfully melds the genres while crafting a sexy, emotional romance. An adventurous tale filled with action, Ancient Immortal beings, bloody battles, political intrigue, and of course slow burn romanceIt’s kind of got a little of everything Cat and Griffin are two great MC’s to get behind, and feel incredibly well fleshed out with relatable flaws and clashing personalities. Cat fights him at every turn, but Griffin's fairness, loyalty, and smoldering advances make him increasingly hard to resist and leave her wondering if life really does have to be short, and lived alone. He wants her as a powerful weapon for his newly conquered realm-until he realizes he wants her for much more than her magic. ![]() Griffin knows Cat is the Kingmaker, the woman who divines the truth through lies. A Promise of Fire (The Kingmaker Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition by Amanda Bouchet (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 6,168 ratings Book 1 of 4: The Kingmaker Chronicles Editors' pick Best Romance See all formats and editions Kindle 6.98 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. That is, until Griffin, an ambitious warlord from the magic-deprived south, fixes her with his steely gaze and upsets her illusion of safety forever. She is perfectly content avoiding the danger and destiny the Gods-and her homicidal mother-have saddled her with. ![]() ![]() ![]() KINGDOMS WILL RISE AND FALL FOR HER… BUT NOT IF SHE CAN HELP ITĬatalia "Cat" Fisa lives disguised as a soothsayer in a traveling circus. "I can say, without a doubt, that A Promise of Fire is going on my keeper shelf.I cannot remember the last time I wanted to both savor and devour a book." - Smart Bitches, Trashy Books ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It travels over a vast and wondrous ancient landscape, an ever-changing arid garden of rich flora and fauna over the important sacred sites of the traveling creation story, in rock holes, sand hills, sand plains, creeks, soaks, gullies, caves, anthills, grasslands, spinifex landscapes and in the desert winds of this ancient country that is forever changing and is always alive and powerful. The Seven Sisters sacred songline, the depth of which is known only by the traditional land owners, is a mighty story, linked with the night sky, that has lived forever and can be read in its sacred places over thousands of kilometers. Their story was part of a songline, or “Dreaming track”-one of many pathways that lead across the continent connecting the people to the land and its traditional laws-and it would remain in my memories. He was a shapeshifter who showed up in different places, always in pursuit. I can remember my family members pointing out the Seven Sisters star cluster and telling me how the sisters had fled to the sky to escape a bad man who was endlessly chasing them. When I was a small child, my family would often come together and talk for hours under the brightly lit stars in the yard around my grandmother’s place on the edge of town in North West Queensland. Waanyi writer Alexis Wright draws out the enduring message of the Seven Sisters songline: a timeless and universal story of a flight from danger that runs across the Australian continent, connecting land to sky. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contemporary story of political intrigue occurs from 1833 to 1840, in the time of Jacksonian democracy, years after the treason trial. ![]() President, and, by procedural default, named Burr as the U.S. To break the tied electoral vote, the House of Representatives-dominated by Alexander Hamilton-voted thirty-six times, until they elected Jefferson as the U.S. The enmities were established, when, despite Burr's initial victory in the voting, the presidential election of 1800 was a tied vote in the Electoral College, between him and Thomas Jefferson. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802)īurr (1973) portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr, to whom he almost lost the presidency in the 1800 United States presidential election and Alexander Hamilton is a bastard-born, over-ambitious opportunist whose rise in high politics was by General Washington's hand, until being fatally wounded in the Burr–Hamilton duel (July 11, 1804). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is simply one hell of an uplifting and beautiful read from a gifted writer, who also championed conservationism and environmental causes throughout his life – this is a legacy ongoing to this day. He spent his childhood growing up on the island of Corfu, and although he liberally changes details about his family’s antics on the island, it doesn’t matter a jot. The British author lived a hectic life from 1925 until his death in 1995. I remember feeling like the sunshine from Corfu positively radiated from the pages of Gerald Durrell’s comedic masterpiece, and went into my third year feeling extremely cheerful due to it. Not as part of my English course (which, over three years, offered little of interest for me – Beowulf, anyone?), but more as a means to discover new writers.īack in 2005, this one was perfectly timed for the sunny summer months. University had ended for the second year and there were two months of peace and quiet before the onslaught of the third year began – I used this time to opportunistically cram in a few extra novels. I first read My Family and Other Animals in the summer of 2005. ![]() ![]() But her confidence is shaken as an even greater challenge looms ahead. Tara ’s self-esteem grows through the therapy program as she begins to work through her shyness and reservations. ![]() Trouble trusts Tara, and Tara in turn finds hope and acceptance as well as the will to love and trust again herself. She pushes aside her fear and a special relationship is formed as she alone manages to calm him, much to the surprise of everyone at the farm. At first she’s afraid of Trouble, until she realizes he’s as misunderstood and untrusting as she is. Trust only got her heart broken, perseverance only gets her put down, and no one respects or wants to team up with the misfit foster kid.Īt the therapy horse farm, Tara meets Trouble, an angry and defiant horse, bent on destroying everything and everyone around him. Horse therapy “will teach trust, perseverance, respect and the value of teamwork,” or so says the program’s instructor. At thirteen she finds herself skeptic and suspicious, with no family, no friends, and forced to participate in horse therapy. ![]() ![]() Abandoned by her mother at the young age of seven she’s been passed from foster home to foster home not wanted anywhere by anyone. A troubled teen must overcome her abusive past to save the defiant horse that has taught her to love and trust again. ![]() |