To Respect the Earth’s Limits — or Push Them?

This notion of balance, of limits that should not be pushed, would undergird the increasingly shrill alarms Vogt issued in his books and articles, and from various insecure perches in the global conservation hierarchy, where his disdain for economic growth cost him one post after another. He committed …

Morpurgo explained how it didn’t occur to him to write a book about autism until his grandson was born, which isn’t totally surprising – as autistic characters in books are few and far between. Fiction plays a significant role in shaping how people understand and respond to autism. And in this way, books are …

In “Binge-Reading Disorder,” an article for The Morning News, Nikkitha Bakshani analyzes the meaning of this statistic. “Reading is a nuanced word,” she writes, “but the most common kind of reading is likely reading as consumption: where we read, especially on the internet, merely to acquire information.

The new firm has fewer senior portfolio managers running books of $1 billion or more, because many of the most senior people have left the firm in recent years. Point72 initially anticipated raising as much as $10 billion in outside cash for the new fund, people said. Instead, the firm will start — in one of the …

As people gear up for the “Black Panther” movie, acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates wants them to check out the original source, Marvel’s Black Panther comic book, where he’s booting up a massive outer space adventure for the king of Wakanda. (Marvel Studios/Disney via AP) The Associated Press.

Shadows from the Walls of Death, printed in 1874 and measuring about 22 by 30 inches, is a noteworthy book for two reasons: its rarity, and the fact that, if you touch it, it might kill you. It contains just under a hundred wallpaper samples, each of which is saturated with potentially dangerous levels of arsenic.

He had interviewed her for a Hollywood Reporter article published Jan. 26. Conway is mentioned dozens of times in Wolff’s book, including in scenes in which he quotes her directly and describes her thoughts. Neither Spicer or anyone else on the White House communications staff ever raised any alarms …