Alex & Me by Irene M. Pepperberg5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Pepperberg doesn't go into great depth about the training or the conclusions as a result of Alex's abilities but she does discuss them superficially. This memoir of Alex, his accomplishments, and the training he underwent to learn to speak and comprehend as well as he did is very definitely written for the lay reader. ![]() She makes the conscious decision not to bond too closely with Alex in order to maintain a needed distance in training and to ensure that her scientific results were unquestionable. He was a young bird whom Pepperberg chooses randomly to be the subject of her biological language studies. Starting with Alex's death and the numbness Pepperberg, the scientist who worked with Alex for more than 30 years, felt afterwards, the narrative then shifts backwards in time to Pepperberg's childhood love of birds, her marriage, and education. And when he died, unexpectedly, at a young age for a parrot, his obituary ran in the biggest newspapers and magazines of our time, highlighting his importance in our understanding of language formation and acquisition and in just far how our previous assumptions about human only language were incorrect. Alex the African Grey parrot was justifiably famous in the scientific community. ![]()
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Gates of fire by steven pressfield5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Not those actually involved in the battle of course but those related to the primary characters in the book. ![]() I found it very hard to read but, at the same time, found myself reluctant to put it down until I had heard what happened to those involved. Steven Pressfield has clarified that term in great detail and this book will stay with me for some time to come. I had, of course, first heard about Sparta when in Elementary School and had my first formal presentation of the story in High School history class but, after reading this book, I have to say that I had no real idea at that time what the term "harsh upbringing" really meant. The result is that most of the book concerns not the battle itself, but the lives of those living in Sparta, both citizens and non-citizens, and hence gives us a view of what life was like growing up in this most military of states. While it is that, most of it concerns the life of the narrator of the story, the (fictional) single Spartan survivor of the battle, as he relates it to the Persian King Xerxes after the battle. I bought this book thinking that it was the story of the Battle of Thermopylae. ![]() Season for surrender theresa romain5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Your heroine Jane Tindall is one of my favorite kinds of heroines, one who must survive on her wits and courage. So I hope it’s fun for readers to see these secondary characters get their own chance to find love. The hero and heroine of SEASON FOR SCANDAL-Edmund and Jane-both turned up in the previous Holiday Pleasures book, SEASON FOR SURRENDER. They’re all set in the same Regency world, so there are continuing characters even though every book stands on its own. Vanessa, thank you for welcoming me today! What’s the thread that connects these stories? Your new book, Season For Scandal, is the 3rd book in your wonderful Holiday Pleasures Series. She’s here today to tell us about the new book in her bestselling Christmas romance series. Theresa writes witty, emotional, truly beautiful Regency-set historical romance. I’m so happy to welcome the lovely and talented Theresa Romain to the blog today. ![]() Marriage in madison avenue5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. ![]() One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “ 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() Dorothy strachey5/31/2023 ![]() Art education and European influence įrom about 1899/1900 to 1906, Grant lived with his aunt and uncle, Sir Richard and Lady Strachey and their children. ![]() He attended St Paul's School, London (as a boarder for two terms), 1899–1901, where he was awarded several art prizes. During this period, Grant spent his school holidays at Hogarth House, Chiswick, with his grandmother, Lady Grant. ![]() Along with Rupert Brooke, Grant attended Hillbrow School, Rugby, 1894–99, where he received lessons from an art teacher and became interested in Japanese prints. During this period, Grant was educated by his governess, Alice Bates. Between 18, the family lived in India and Burma, returning to England every two years. Grant was born on 21 January 1885, to Major Bartle Grant and Ethel Isabel McNeil in Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Scotland. Grant was also the first cousin twice removed of John Grant, 13th Earl of Dysart (b. He was a grandson of Sir John Peter Grant, 12th Laird of Rothiemurchus, KCB, GCMG, and sometime Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. ![]() His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major in the army, and much of his early childhood was spent in India and Burma. Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – ) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes. ![]() |