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Jun 3, 2021 Udayan has been in HarperCollins since 2017, and in a career spanning over 24 years, led various functions within publishing successfully managing editorial teams and publishing many award winners and critically acclaimed books. He has edited and published some of India’s finest including Amitav Ghosh, Ram Guha, Sudha Murty, Ruskin Bond, Gulzar, Devdutt Pattanaik and Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi to name just a few. Our literary, translation, non-fiction and business lists are among...

Helping preschool children discover the joy of reading and the basic reading skills needed to enter school is what the Bookcase Project is all about. Officially known as Ashland County Bookcase Project for Every Child, the program is run through the Ashland County-West Holmes Career Center. This year, 80 bookcases are being constructed and filled with books to make up for missing last year due to the pandemic. In past years, 60 bookcases were given out. Dr. Julia Wright started the program ...

The Ledger Free books will be available Saturday to children at two Polk County locations. The giveaway is a First Book event, sponsored by the Polk Education Association, Florida’s Young Remarkable Educators, the Florida Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. Since 1992, national nonprofit First Book has distributed more than 185 million books and educational resources to programs and schools serving children from low-income commun...

The Weirdest, Wildest, and Most Wondrous Timepieces From Watches and Wonders These five styles stood out from the pack. Courtesy Welcome to Dialed In, Esquires column bringing you horological happenings and the most essential news from the watch world since March 2020. This week, were working with the Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie as Media Partner of Watches and Wonders Geneva. Visit Watches and Wonders website for news and video panels daily, and keep checking back here for all the updates...

But now it’s a Hollywood superhero of a watch brand, too. To launch its new long-term collaboration with Marvel Entertainment, the Le Brassus brand flew to Los Angeles for a one-hour publicly broadcast live show. This was big thinking from one of the watch world’s biggest hitters. It was also fun, knowingly OTT and refreshingly unstuffy. (Can you imagine one of the other ‘big three’ watch manufacturers doing anything like this?) The show started with Audemars Piguet Chief Executive Offi...

Audemars Piguet and Marvel Launched a Watch and What This Means Share Ever since Audemars Piguet CEO François-Henry Bennahmias appeared with Don Cheadle in a virtual presentation to tease an upcoming Audemars Piguet x Marvel collaboration, the internet has been ablaze with what this could be. Was it a War Machine-inspired Offshore model? Or an Iron Man? Was it a unique piece? A limited-edition? The secret’s finally out and there’s much to unpack here. Unveiled on Saturday, the collabor...

Cheadle wearing his Audemars Piguet Royal Oak Offshore Credit: Matt Barnes What links one of the grandest old Swiss watch brands to Stan Lee’s comic book superheroes? Until now, not much. So Audemars Piguet signing a deal with Marvel to produce timepieces that feature the likes of the Hulk, Captain America and Iron Man on its expensively fettled dials is not what you’d expect from a watch company that has been very serious about its watches since 1875. But that’s all changed, thanks to Ho...

In this Article Audemars Piguet has revealed a Black Panther-themed Flying Tourbillon, the brand’s first watch to result from its new partnership with Marvel. The 42mm sandblasted titanium Royal Oak Concept features a black ceramic bezel, satin-brushed titanium inserts, black PVD coated white gold hour markers and a hand-painted white gold figure of Marvel’s Black Panther superhero in relief on the dial. Powering the Royal Oak Concept Black Panther Flying Tourbillon, which is water resistan...

Ford Fund Encourages You to #VaxWithFacts Photo: Ford Ford Fund has launched a new public service announcement with a very simple, very important message: Stop listening to the stupid things your brother Steve posts on Facebook and just get the COVID-19 vaccine. The #VaxWithFacts PSA brings together high-ranking folks representing 11 organizations, including the NAACP, Hispanic Federation, and Ford Fund. People like Rev. Jesse Jackson and Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt take turn...

Jury selection began this week for the conviction…Oops, sorry: I mean the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin on charges that he murdered the Holy Blessed Martyr George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. As I write, here we are in Day Five of the jury selection, with half of the jurors selected. Ive been following Andrew Brancas coverage of the jury selection at Legal Insurrection with side trips to Scott Johnsons coverage at PowerLine blog. Branca is a seasoned attorney in Massachuset...