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To the Ends of the Earth is a trilogy of nautical novels—Rites of Passage (1980), Close Quarters (1987), and Fire Down Below (1989)—by British author William Golding.Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's ...
A Room Called Earth received a mainly positive critical reception [1] and was listed as "New and Noteworthy" in The New York Times and was selected in Bustle's "Top 20 Books of 2020". [2] [3] The Independent praised the novel as "Extraordinary … The dazzling directness of (Ryan's) prose opens thrilling new doors into the female experience of ...
The Earth's outer core is liquid, but it is liquid metal, not rock. [257] The Amazon rainforest does not provide 20% of Earth's oxygen. This is a misinterpretation of a 2010 study which found that approximately 34% of photosynthesis by terrestrial plants occurs in tropical rainforests (so the Amazon rainforest would account for approximately ...
The Sponge Room: BBC Home Service: Edwards By Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall: 1966: Midday Story: A Harbour of Refuge: BBC Home Service: Read by Grant By W. W. Jacobs: 1966: A Man Like That: BBC Third Programme: William By Stanley Eveling: 1966: Saturday Night Theatre: The Cure for Love: BBC Home Service: Harry Lancaster By Walter Greenwood ...
"Four identically-sized square rooms: a bedroom, a living room, a kitchen/dining room, and a bathroom/laundry room. A place to sleep, a place to be, a place to eat, and a place to.. uh.. excrete . . .
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A total of 30 pilot sponge cities were selected in 2015 and 2016. By last year, only 64 of China's 654 cities had produced legislation to implement sponge city guidelines, researchers said in January.
Earth Is Room Enough is a collection of fifteen short science fiction and fantasy stories and two pieces of comic verse by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1957.In his autobiography In Joy Still Felt, Asimov wrote, "I was still thinking of the remarks of reviewers such as George O. Smith... concerning my penchant for wandering over the Galaxy.