![]() ![]() One is the publisher’s problem: how do you distribute pieces to readers and get paid for doing so? Another is the journalist’s: how do you build an audience over time? Without a reliable readership, every piece you publish is a fresh peril: it may go viral or be entirely unread. The Substack boom is more likely to be in its infancy than at its end, for a simple reason: it may provide the best answers to some of the perennial problems of journalism. Two years ago, fewer than 300,000 readers paid for a subscription on Substack. ![]() ![]() In reality the new economy created by the platform just keeps getting bigger. Is Substack the future of media? It’s a question the industry has been asking itself for at least two years – long enough for some to start declaring that the “Substack boom” of 2020 is already over. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book, along with an accompanying website, may be the first to provide the insight and inspiration, backed by empirical research and data, that could enable companies, governments and citizens to attack the climate problem in a holistic and aggressive way. Hawken is quick to point out that the book’s seemingly brash subtitle is a bit tongue in cheek: this is the only "comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming," he said. The book contains 80 solutions - "techniques and practices" - that are ready today, and 20 additional "coming attractions" - innovations just over the horizon - that collectively can draw down atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases in order to solve, not just slow, climate change by avoiding emissions or sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. (Full disclosure: I played a very small unpaid role in reviewing parts of the manuscript, and am included among the 120 or so advisors listed in the book.) "Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming" (Penguin Books), was edited by the author and entrepreneur Paul Hawken along with a self-described "coalition" of research fellows, writers and advisors. This week marks the publication of an ambitious new book with the audacious goal of showing how to reverse the warming of the planet through a myriad of innovations, many of them led by business for profit. ![]() ![]() ![]() David Branthwaite, Viscount Delacourt, has just almost compromise a young lady and he is determined to make an honest woman of her. The story to this problem is a both amusing a horrifying. ![]() I was very excited to read this story since “A Woman Scorned” ended with Delacourt needing a parson. Can a profligate knave persuade a virtuous woman that he is worthy of her trust - and her love? Read more When treachery closes in, only he knows how to guard Cecilia from the consequences of her own principles. But he's a man who honors his wagers - and one result lands him in his brother-in-law's godforsaken mission, face-to-face with the woman who has long haunted his dreams. ![]() It's whispered that the womanizing Delacourt is vain, vindictive, and merciless. Just six years earlier, Delacourt had proven himself to be the immoral rake society called him, nearly ruining her reputation in the bargain. But when the dashing Lord Delacourt takes control, she feels an uncharacteristic urge to flee. ![]() In the lonely months since her husband's death, Cecilia Lorimer has hidden her emptiness by devoting herself to a charity mission for the unfortunate women of London's slums. From the grandeur of regency Mayfair to the dark danger of London's East End, Liz Carlyle sweeps you away with a powerful story of a love born against all odds, as an honorable young widow stands fast against the cynical rogue who seems determined to consume her, heart and soul. ![]() ![]() ![]() That's one of my pet peeves with graphic novels: when they depict females as ridiculously proportioned pin ups. The people aren't depicted like normal every day people (especially the faeries) but, for the most part, I don't think the artist over-sexualized the women. The story contains (non-explicit) drug use, rape and kidnapping. This book deals with surprisingly dark themes so I wouldn't let my tween read it. Sometimes we glamour wood to take on their appearance or we abandon a faerie in their place." pg 36. ![]() I enjoyed the faerie lore in this graphic novel: "If an older mortal is beautiful or good at riddles, we might take them, but we always leave something behind in exchange. And those moments are stretching wider and wider." pg 5. "You know how sometimes, when you glance at something out of the corner of your eye, it looks different for a moment? Well, sometimes when I look straight at a thing, it looks weird too. Where has her mother gone and is Rue going crazy? But then, one day when her mom disappears, Rue begins to see strange things- creatures with horns in the coffee shop, a winged girl hanging out in the high school hallway- and she realizes that she's different too. Rue knows her mother is not like other parents. ![]() ![]() She talks to plants, hangs out naked in the yard and seems ageless. Rue's mother has always been a little different. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. His mother Mary was engaged to marry Joseph, but before they married, she learned she was pregnant by the power of the Holy Spirit. By AUTHOR Jane Austen Eric Carle Lewis Carroll Roald Dahl Charles Dickens Sydney Hanson C. By Max Lucado, Sergio Martinez, Karen Hill, ISBN: 9781581342192, Board Book. Cast of Characters - Max Lucado Cast of Characters Chapter One Joseph This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about.Indestructubles Little Golden Books Magic School Bus Magic Tree House Pete the Cat Step Into Reading Book The Hunger Games ![]()
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