A developer is betting that people will pay top dollar for up-close views of one of the city’s most unloved sites: AT&T’s Long Lines Building in Tribeca, a windowless, 29-story hulk from the 1970s that routinely makes lists of New Yorkers’ least-favorite buildings.The plan, which was put... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2024-03-04 18:30:46 UTC ]
Columnist lashes out after climate change minister makes speech during Cop28 declaring ‘profound respect’ for Indigenous people’s care for landFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails,free app or daily news podcastChris Bowen has called on... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-12-14 05:53:25 UTC ]
Last week, when the White House announced that Joe Biden would hold his first formal press conference as president on March 25, the pre-game hype began. Reporters excavated the history of White House press conferences, then shared their questions for Biden with the public, and each other. There... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-03-26 11:54:27 UTC ]
My assignment was to offer a survey course on the history of English literature in northeast China. I was paired with a young American teacher sponsored by the United Nations who was to teach phonetics and oral expression. We taught six days a week, and every Wednesday afternoon our students... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-01-15 09:49:40 UTC ]
Two years into its work, the book program for children devised by the United Nations and IPA gets a lusophone wing. The post SDG Book Club for Young Readers: A Portuguese-Language Expansion appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2020-09-23 13:02:41 UTC ]
Asked whether, back in 2006, he could have possibly envisioned that the tech review blog he co-founded, using rented office space above an Oregon furniture store, would one day grow into a profitable digital media enterprise spanning three offices on two coasts and attracting talent from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-03-31 17:01:10 UTC ]
SOCKS, REFRIGERATORS, PILLS, and potatoes. The Object Lessons series from Bloomsbury Publishing makes us consider the ordinary in new ways. These elegant, concise books take deep dives into things we might see every day but never really notice. In High Heel, for example, Summer Brennan writes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-02-16 16:00:56 UTC ]
The 'Create Your Revolution' campaign is this year's cooperative effort for Frankfurter Buchmesse with the United Nations. The post UN Sustainable Development Goals: Frankfurter Buchmesse’s ‘Create Your Revolution’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-07-02 13:20:25 UTC ]
Works by Ángela Lago, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, and Omaima Ezadeen are on the first reading list announced by the United Nations' new SDG Book Club. The post SDG Book Club Issues First Reading List on Sustainable Goals at Bologna appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The launch titles of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Book Club were revealed at Bologna, all of which explore the topic of poverty. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first selection of children's books in the International Publishers Association's SDG Book Club with the United Nations is due on April 2 at Bologna Children's Book Fair. The post IPA’s Sustainable Development Goals Book Club Welcomes Bologna, Others appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The United Nations is this week launching a children’s book club with organisations including the International Publishers Association and the International Board on Books for Young People. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The SDG Book Club–a new collaboration between the International Publishers Association and the United Nations' Outreach Division–will curate young readers' books correlating with each of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals over 17 months. The post IPA and UN Unveil ‘SDG Book Club’ Promoting... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Murray is publishing a memoir by the former secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Actors Gal Gadot and Lynda Carter on Friday made appearances at the Hall of Justice to commemorate the naming of the DC Comics character they've both portrayed as the ambassador for the empowerment of women and girls worldwide.Er sorry did I say Hall of Justice? Silly me. I meant the United... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The United Nations has come under fire for appointing comic book character Wonder Woman as its new Honorary Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
The United Nations (UN) is to name comic book character Wonder Woman as its new honorary ambassador for the empowerment of Woman and Girls. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2016-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
In collaboration with Reading With Pictures and a number of publishers, the United Nations is planning The Comics Guide to Global Goals, a series of 17 comics that address the world's toughest development problems. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Here we go again. Maybe. Ten years ago Colin Powell publicly presented the United Nations with formerly top-secret information about a Middle East tyrant and weapons of mass destruction to justify military action against him. The tyrant was Saddam Hussein and the briefing turned out to be a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-08-30 00:00:00 UTC ]