![]() ![]() ![]() Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired-and so profitable.Īs a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture-but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, “an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible.”įor nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Storytrilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation-into the meetings, postmortems, and “Braintrust” sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. TITLE: Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspirationįrom Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business-sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Miles Blackwell seeks to redeem himself in the eyes of his CEO father by capturing Juneau, but he’s instead pulled into her attempt to find her people. “In this series opener, Plum (the Die for Me books) introduces a resilient, crossbow-wielding, part-Chinese heroine, then forces this driven survivor to cooperate with a spoiled rich kid. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past. But while she’s trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. ![]() Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. They′ve survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.Īt least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. ![]() ![]() The events take place from the time the oldest daughter was adopted as an infant until all three children have marriages and children of their own and their mothers have died. There’s one neighbor who’s bigoted and doesn’t like the family but all the other neighbors are friendly. There are also two cats that appear in the wonderful illustrations but they’re not mentioned in the story itself. The mothers have adopted all three children, and it’s an inter-racial family too one child appears to be African-American and one child appears to be of Asian descent. She writes about her family: her two mothers, who are lesbians and who are very accomplished in their careers and home skills both, her little brother and sister, their two dogs, their house, their neighbors, their extended family, their traditions, and their lives. The story’s narrator is the oldest child in the family. I’m sure there are plenty of books with this subject matter but I think this is a particularly excellent one. ![]() ![]() The fictional family she writes about here are residents of Berkeley, California. I concur, and I think she did a remarkable job with it. ![]() In the back of the book in the author biography section (where I finally see a photo of her) it reveals that Polacco wrote this book specifically for children she met during her speaking engagements at schools, children from untraditional families, because she saw the need for a book such as this. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lofthus is eventually aided in his quest by Chief Inspector Simon Kefas, who at one time had been his father's closest friend, and his newly acquired partner, Kari Adel. He crafts an escape.īut this is a Jo Nesbo thriller, where things are rarely as they seem. One day, Sonny hears a confession that turns his life upside down again. He practically replaces the prison pastor. When he discovered his father's dead body and a suicide note confessing to be the inside man for a gangster, he renounced this life by becoming a heroin addict, eventually landing in prison convicted of murder.įor the next twelve years, Sonny becomes a revered inmate, his ability to put fellow prisoners at ease and listen to their confessions earns him respect as a Buddha. When Sonny Lofthus was a teenager, all he ever wanted was to be just like his policeman father. ![]() ![]() ![]() She works a spell to meet kindred souls and continues to devour every fantasy and science. Adrift, outcast at boarding school, Mori retreats into the worlds she knows best: her magic and her books. Devastated, Mori flees to her long-lost father in England. One day, Mori and her mother fight a powerful, magical battle that kills her sister and leaves Mori crippled. ![]() I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.' Fifteen-year-old Morwenna lives in Wales with her twin sister and a mother who spins dark magic for ill. Fifteen-year-old Morwenna lives in Wales with her twin sister and a mother who spins dark magic for ill. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of theĬharacters in the book would be instantly recognisable to them as they wereīased on people they knew, in and around Oxford. Of the Reverend Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church. The Aliceīooks were based on stories he told to entertain the three eldest daughters Them with puzzles, games and stories he had devised. He was extremely fond of children and loved to entertain Lewis Carroll was the pseudonym of the ReverendĬharles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), a shy mathematics don at ChristĬhurch, Oxford. Surprising that the satirical and witty Alice books flourished,īeing enjoyed by adults as well as children. Instructional or were dry tales with a pious moral message so it is not Sold extremely well, with 15,000 copies being bought in the first seven ![]() It is the sequel to the immensely popularĪlice's Adventures in Wonderland (Macmillan, 1866). ![]() at Christmas, 1871 but post-datedġ872 on the title page. Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found March 2000 Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking Please note that these pages are from our old (pre-2010) website the presentation of these pages may now appear outdated and may not always comply with current accessibility guidelines. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miranda and his sister grew up in a music-oriented family - both siblings took piano lessons and were encouraged by parents who loved the music of Broadway (Luis particularly adores the show The Unsinkable Molly Brown). Miranda, Jr., settled in the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan. His clinical psychologist mother, Luz Towns-Miranda, and his political consultant father, Luis A. Miranda was born on January 16, 1980, in New York City, the son of Puerto Rican parents. ![]() Miranda also scored a Grammy Award and an Oscar nomination for composing the song "How Far I'll Go" from the 2016 animated film Moana and starred in 2018's Mary Poppins Returns. With Miranda in the titular role, the production was a phenomenal success commercially and critically, winning the Pulitzer Prize and 11 Tony Awards in 2016. Founding Father with hip-hop/R&B musical forms and a Black and Latino cast. Inspired by reading Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton, Miranda eventually developed the musical Hamilton, a groundbreaking work that tells the story of the U.S. He wrote and starred in the Tony-winning 2008 musical In the Heights before working on additional Broadway productions and making screen appearances. Lin-Manuel Miranda developed a devotion to musical theater and hip-hop before attending Wesleyan University. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When an enormous pumpkin falls off a truck and smashes in her yard, she shovels dirt over the pieces and forgets about them. Rebecca Estelle has hated pumpkins ever since she was a girl when pumpkins were often the only food her family had. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() Kenneth Hindle-May I found the exact same thing. Explicit psychological tampering through AI programming, human "re-education", and the creation of ancillaries from dissidents and prisoners of war). ![]() Threat of physical harm to the ships, humans, and those they care about.ģ. Appeals to abstract principles: justice, propriety, benefit, and civilization.Ģ. And thus understanding how the Radchaai compel obedience in humans would also answer the question of how they compel obedience among ships (who are also sentient beings, with feelings and free will, who choose obedience over the alternatives). ![]() that you’re slaves?” could just as easily be posed by Breq or any ship AI to any of the humans subject to the rule of the Lord of Radch. What stops you from killing them all and declaring yourselves free? I’ve never been able to understand how the Radchaai can keep the ships enslaved.” The officers inside are at your mercy every moment. “Doesn’t it bother you,” Strigan continued, “didn’t it ever bother you, that you’re slaves?” Fred Baba Looking back a sentence, the exchange goes: “Doesn’t it bother you,” Strigan continued, “didn’t it ever bother you, that you’re slaves?” “Who?” “The ship …more Looking back a sentence, the exchange goes: ![]() ![]() ![]() I also vaguely recall Kyp Durron books (in the Imperial designer of Sun Crusher storyline) possibly referring back to X-Wing events when discussing Wedge Antilles and possibly Corran Horn, but it's been years since I read them so that one's hazy. But I'm not sure if any other books have similar links to the rest of EU. ![]() I know that such links DO exist, because Book 7 ("Solo Command") at the very end indicated that "Courtship of Princess Leia" is a direct sequel to it. Significant references are made to the events of the first book or a dependency on a backstory detailed in that book.Takes place after a book in-universe (but not necessarily right after). ![]() I'm reading the X-Wing series of Star Wars books, and trying to see if I need to cover any other EU material before/between/after those books, to go in correct "mentioned in" order.Īre there any sequels or prequels of those books (which aren't part of the series)?īy a "sequel" I mean something that is probably different from usual meaning. ![]() |