![]() Reads like a West Coast version of All the President’s Men. Now to be adapted into a film, with Jennifer Lawrence to star. ![]() In Bad Blood, John Carreyrou tells the riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. ![]() The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Book Review: Bad Blood Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup \”unicorn\” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the multibillion-dollar biotech startup founded by Elizabeth Holmes, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end, despite pressure from its charismatic CEO and threats by her lawyers. ![]() WINNER OF THE FINANCIAL TIMES/MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.’ – Bill Gates, ‘5 books I loved in 2018’ ![]()
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While Lady Julia was courageous yet fairly straitlaced, Veronica is eccentric and sexually liberal, but downright fun to read about. ![]() With Veronica, she takes on an entirely different character. ![]() ![]() She is most known for her bestselling Lady Julia Grey mystery series. High jinks, suspense, and sexual tension ensue.ĭeanna Raybourn excels at creating rollicking good reads featuring complex and hilarious characters. When the Baron turns up dead, Veronica and Stoker are launched on a race to discover whether their friend’s death was natural or nefarious. Along the way she meets the enigmatic Baron, who seems to know the details of her personal history, and his friend, the stoic and sometimes downright churlish Stoker. Upon returning to England to nurse her dying foster mother, she soon finds herself embroiled in a complex plot that might mean the death of her. Veronica is an intrepid traveler and natural historian who flouts Victorian morals with relish. A Curious Beginning is the first installment in Deanna Raybourn’s new mystery series featuring Veronica Speedwell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russell in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, “became an international popular and critical success and introduced with a flourish what has since come to be known as the Chicago Renaissance”-a group of writers, including Masters, Carl Sandburg, Vachel Lindsay, and Theodore Dreiser, who disproved the notion held at the time that only on the East coast of the US were there writers capable of producing great literature. When Spoon River Anthology first saw publication in 1915, it caused a great sensation because of its forthrightness about sex, moral decay, and hypocrisy but its cynical view of Midwestern small town values influenced a whole generation of writers and their works. His honors include the Shelley Memorial Award, a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship. The author of 40 books of poetry and prose, Masters is best remembered for his great collection Spoon River Anthology (1915), a sequence of over 200 free-verse epitaphs spoken from the cemetery of the town of Spoon River. Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, and he grew up in the small towns of Lewistown and Petersburg, Illinois. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s lean, mean, slightly more ambiguous, and powerfully effective to this day. The original version of The Exorcist is still clearly the best one. This time Friedkin was amenable to it, and that’s how we got the 2000 release of The Exorcist: The Version You’ve Never Seen, which ended up restoring around 10 to 12 minutes of previously unseen footage, some of it a Holy Grail to aficionados. Some 17 years later, however, Friedkin–whose friendship with Blatty had been damaged by the editing squabble, but who had reconciled with the author in the intervening years–was approached by Blatty about restoring as much of the footage as possible. Over several objections by producer and screenwriter William Peter Blatty (who adapted his own novel), Friedkin pruned away 20 minutes or so, bringing the film in at a tight two hours. When director William Friedkin made The Exorcist in 1973, his initial cut was two hours and 20 minutes. That religious chiller is still renowned as the greatest horror movie of all time, and it starts a run on Netflix this week. That’s what happened with The Exorcist too. But it happens more often than you may think: look at movies like Aliens, The Abyss, or Blade Runner–just to name a handful–where such excisions literally made a movie-defining difference. It’s astonishing to think that a few judicious edits, a deletion of seconds here, or a few minutes there, can sometimes change the entire meaning, theme, and even narrative trajectory of a motion picture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The black-and-white illustrations had the feel of carefully crafted 19th-century woodcuts, some somber or foreboding, others lighthearted or comical. It was a collection of two dozen African-American folktales, ranging from fanciful animal stories to encounters with the supernatural to narratives of runaway slaves, all told in the vernacular of traditional black storytellers. The original "People Could Fly," written by Hamilton and illustrated by the Dillons, was published nearly 20 years ago. Leo and Diane Dillon have taken what could have easily been a retread and instead created something fresh, something transcendent. Not with all these evocative images, vivid, bright and moving, leading us on a new journey through territory we thought we knew. Never seems to lose its power, no matter how many times it is told.Īnd yet, familiar as it is, we have never seen the story like this. Heard it so many times that we can almost join in with the storyteller herself. Familiar because we know the story "The People Could Fly" already. In this coda of a storybook, two more words come to mind: the familiar and the transcendent. Virginia Hamilton sometimes described her writing as a triad of the known, the remembered and the imagined. ![]() ![]() The cover, made by Gene Mollica and Lauren Panepinto of Orbit Books, was revealed on McClellan's official website on February 24, 2014. ![]() On FebruMcClellan wrote on his blog that he had almost finished the third book. Meanwhile, Taniel Two-Shot is hunted by men he once thought his friends, and finds himself the only hope for Adro. Inspector Adamat, still searching for his kidnapped son, finds himself drawn into the very heart of the action, struggling to keep up with the mutiny that has turned the Adran army against itself. ![]() Today, McClellan has graduated from being a mere passionate beekeeper in Cleveland, to an American fiction writer with a remarkable edge of creative fantasy. Reinforcements are weeks away, and friends and foes have become indistinguishable of each other. The Promise of Blood novel introduced the contemporary fantasy reader to a unique yet compelling narrative of an imaginary world of crime and power. For the first time in history, the capital of Adro is in the hands of a foreign invader. Plot įield Marshal Tamas has returned to Adro after being chased for months behind enemy lines. ![]() The audiobook was narrated by Christian Rodska. It is the sequel to Promise of Blood (2013) and The Crimson Campaign (2014) and was released on February 10, 2015. The Autumn Republic is the third book of The Powder Mage trilogy written by American author Brian McClellan. ![]() ![]() ![]() She joined Scientific Reports in January 2019. ORCID 0000-0003-0316-1363 Deputy Editor: Elizabeth MannĮlizabeth has a background in pharmacology and completed her PhD in neuropharmacology at King's College London, UK. He was an editor at Genome Biology for four years before joining Scientific Reports in August 2016. He did his PhD and postdoctoral research in single-cell proteomics at Imperial College London, UK. Rafal's background is analytical and biological chemistry. ![]() In-house Editors Chief Editor: Rafal Marszalek ![]()
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