Lost Love Letters An Indie Chicks Anthology Compiled by Cheryl Shireman, 2014
Love letter - what phrase conjures up more intense feelings than that simple phrase? Most of us have received a love letter. Many of us have written a love letter. Some of those letters were tucked away in the bottom of a drawer. Others were ripped to shreds or destroyed in symbolic flames. Whatever their fate, the one characteristic all love letters share is their raw and intense honesty.
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life’s Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. Cech, 2024
How did life begin? What makes us human? Why do we get sick and grow old? In The Catalyst, Cech finally brings together years of research to demonstrate that RNA is the true key to understanding life on Earth, from its very origins to our future in the twenty-first century.
Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present by Johanna Drucker, 2022
The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies. Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet.
"The enormity of the degree of inhumanity, immorality & vicious drive for death & destruction displayed by the Israeli occupation cannot be encompassed by words or even real images. The human mind, like the human conscience, is in despair.
The ramifications will be felt for a long time."
UNRWA ran 183 schools in Gaza before Israel’s war on the territory. Those schools were converted into shelters after the start of the war in October, with approximately one million people seeking refuge in school buildings in the early months of the war.
An estimated 455 internally displaced people have been killed while sheltering at UNRWA facilities in Gaza since October.
A tree leans at an eroded riverbank on the southern part of Ghoramara Island in the Sundarbans, West Bengal, India, May 18, 2024. Situated 150 kilometres (around 94 miles) south of Kolkata, media has dubbed Ghoramara the 'sinking island'. It has lost nearly half of its area to soil erosion in the last two decades and could completely disappear within a few more decades.
A saguaro cactus is seen during a 27-day-long heat wave with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, July 26, 2023. A Flir One ProThermal camera registered a surface temperature of 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48 degrees Celsius), with an air temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius). REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Residents with their dog walk in front of a canoe sitting on a cracked ground at a Sau reservoir, as the Iberian peninsula is at its driest in 1,200 years, in Sant Roma De Sau, Spain, January 31, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce
Jewell Baggett, 51, sits on a bathtub amid the wreckage of the home built by her grandfather, where she grew up and three generations of her family lived, and which Hurricane Idalia had reduced to rubble, in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, August 30, 2023. "Mama didn't have much, but God dammit, it was hers," Jewell said. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
A firefighter looks on during the efforts to control fire in a rainforest located in the municipality of Canta, Roraima state, Brazil, February 29, 2024. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly
Hassan Kassar, 69, who said he lost his daughters, two of his sons and his granddaughter when a deadly storm hit the city, sits inside his damaged house, in Derna, Libya, September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori