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Feb 26, 2024 | 
nature.com | Julia Fine
AbstractMany US residents are worried about the climate crisis, but few are involved in collective climate action. Relational climate conversations are a commonly recommended yet understudied means of encouraging action. This study examines the effects of conversations between US climate activists and non-activists they knew, most of whom were concerned about climate change.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
journals.plos.org | Julia Fine |Leonard Foster |Michael Smith Laboratories |Alison McAfee
Proteomics sample preparation. All queens that were alive at the conclusion of Round 1 (except for 1 PYR-1 queen lost during sampling) were shipped on dry ice to the University of British Columbia, where ovaries were dissected from previously frozen queens (n = 10 queens DIF-1, 10 MET-1, 9 PYR-1, 10 POS-CTRL, and 9 CTRL-1) under a dissecting scope and weighed.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
zukus.net | Julia Fine |John Wray |Ray Nayler |Brandon Taylor
In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure and under their own initiative. In fact, by 2007, I could be confident many of them had read at least seven books for pleasure because 2007 marks the publication year of the final volume of J.K. Rowlings Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Sep 2, 2023 | 
chicagotribune.com | John Warner |Julia Fine |John Wray |Ray Nayler
In the years when I was teaching at Clemson University (2005-2011), it was a virtual guarantee that just about every student had read at least one book entirely for pleasure and under their own initiative.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Julia Fine
Reading Lists Can the rich and the poor actually be friends? There’s not much ordinary humans love more than ogling rich people.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Julia Fine
Sophie Roberts is outstanding as she performs this richly detailed novel of two girls in decadent eighteenth-century Venice. Luisa, a resident at a girls' conservatory, hopes to become a concert violinist under the tutelage of Antonio Vivaldi. When Maddalena, a beautiful young noblewoman is sent to the conservatory, Luisa's life takes a devastating turn. Maddalena has discovered that the sea grants wishes in exchange for an offering. She urges Luisa to wish for her heart's desire.
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Jun 21, 2023 | 
powells.com | Julia Fine |Colin Winnette |Curtis Sittenfeld |Alexandria Bellefleur
Here at Powell’s, we believe that “summer reading” means “read whatever you feel like reading during the summer,” whether that means some good, juicy thrillers or some nonfiction about the (probable) end of the world. On this list, we’ve rounded up some recent bookseller favorites, so whether you’re in the mood for haunted houses, murder investigations, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers-again — we’re here to help.
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Jun 14, 2023 | 
powells.com | Julia Fine
Set at the famed Venetian orphanage and music conservatory the Ospedale della Pietà, Maddalena and the Dark is obviously a book full of music.
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Julia Fine
I’ve always loved art that leans into its medium: literature that resists film or television adaptation, theater that breaks the fourth wall. The economy delights me, no piece out of place, not only structure but form a major pillar of the work. What can one art form do that another cannot? How can an artist harness those faculties and challenges?
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Jun 13, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Julia Fine
(Author) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description "[A] beguiling fairy tale." --Vanity Fair (A Best Book of Summer) "Enchanted...A slow-burn gothic novel that will make you lose track of your surroundings...An atmospheric banger." --LitHub Venice, 1717.
