![]() ![]() "Absolutely riveted to the book for the time it's taken to read it. I couldn't put it down and was on to the next book as quick as I could get my hands on it." - ***** Reader review I was swept away by the world that Manda creates with her writing. "This book captured my imagination from the first page. Breathtakingly good, it reveals the best and worst in all of us." - Val McDermid "Manda Scott has created a fictional universe all her own, but close enough to our reality for it both to warm and break our hearts. ![]() ![]() massively impressive." - Scotland on Sunday "Every so often, a book comes along that totally remoulds a historical figure for our own times. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. ![]() From THE SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Manda Scott, this the first instalment of a brilliantly imagined epic series that will leave you desperate for more. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Beveridge Report is the bestselling government report apart from Lord Denning's account of the Profumo scandal. Social Insurance and Allied Services by William Beveridge (1942) Now coming back into fashion after being out in the cold in the 1980s and early 90s.ħ. Shaped the views of two generations of economists, helped finance the second world war, and create the welfare state. The classic exposition of 'Keynesianism', which advanced the view that governments can, in certain circumstances, spend their way out of trouble. ![]() The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936) How the female mind can complement the male mind what literature has lost by the barriers erected against women how these barriers can be overcome.Ħ. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf (1929) The book that helped make logical positivism probably the most influential philosophical movement of the 20th century and, at the same time, accounts for our fascination with the position of language in experience.ĥ. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922 in English) The first step on the road to relativism.Ĥ. Proving that primitive man was not so primitive after all. ![]() The Mind of Primitive Man by Franz Boas (1911) ![]() ![]() ![]() Very much in an academic style, which works for some people and doesn't for others. The Virtue of Unfaithful Translations by Minsoo Kang 3/5. ![]() The premise left me intrigued, but there were just too many unanswered questions and I ended up lost. Good enough for what it's trying to do and a good opener. Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias S.I JUST finished reading it, and while there are a few stories I remember, I know they won't stick with me in the future. connections, violence) and it got a little boring to read after a while. They all seemed to focus on similar themes (treatment of women, sexuality, romantic/familial/etc. Normally, in a short story collection, I expect there to be a fair amount of variation in the quality of the stories and some that I like better than others, but none of the stories in this collection really grabbed me. It seemed very long (17 stories, which doesn't seem like much when I see the number, but really dragged on when I was reading them) and the stories themselves seemed to drag on. Unfortunately, while I was looking forward to reading this, I didn't end up liking it that much. ![]() ![]() The gadgets seemed to be just a little bit magical. But it wasn’t until the 1920s that electricity, along with a growing middle class and consumer culture driven by advertising and mail order catalogs, made home appliances possible, desirable, and easily obtainable - for those who could afford them. Likewise, many home appliances had already been invented, such as the vacuum cleaner (1901), electric iron (1905), washing machine (1907), and electric toaster (1908). In that decade - now 100 years in the past - innovations in home appliances promised to make life easier and better.īy 1920, telephones, gramophones, and automobiles had been around for decades. The TV show is fictional, but the technological changes during the 1920s were real. Patmore replaces the icebox with a refrigerator? Or when the Downton household gathers around the radio to listen to a broadcast of the king’s speech? ![]() Remember the scene in Downton Abbey where Mrs. ![]() ![]() (Photo from the FDR Presidential Library via Wikimedia Commons. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t matter if you read the books out of order, but if you want to start at the beginning, Warrior Cats book one is Into the Wild - the story of how Rusty a house-cat (or kitty-pet) joins ThunderClan after an epic battle with a wild cat.įans can also enjoy Warrior cats games, quizzes and more on the website, as well as a Warrior Cats’ clans family tree (warning: contains spoilers!). The fifth book in Erin Hunters number-one nationally best-selling Warriors series Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunters Warriors series a best-selling phenomenon. There are also four series of Warrior Cats manga. ![]() There are six books in the original The Prophecies Begin series, but the cats’ adventures continue in the other Warriors sub-series (see all eight Warriors series in order below). Warriors began with The Prophecies Begin series which follows the adventures of the ThunderClan as epic battles for territory and honour are played out amongst the wild cats. Buy a cheap copy of A Dangerous Path book by Erin Hunter. Written by several authors under the pseudonym of Erin Hunter, there are over 40 Warrior Cats books in the universe. These thrilling feline fantasy adventures are full of battles, action, treachery and cliff-hangers. ![]() ![]() Warrior Cats is a gripping series of books about the adventures of competing clans of wild cats, for readers 9+. ![]() ![]() ![]() She looks to John Le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O'Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail. Written with passion, humor, and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart - to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel she is deeply moved by the brilliant characterization in George Eliot's Middlemarch. In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. ![]() ![]() ![]() ↑ Table of Contents ↑ How Do We Become Indistractable? In this article, we’re going to dive deeper into this topic, including what it is, and the steps you can take to get there. It doesn’t mean you never get distracted it means developing a skill where you make it a habit to not let distracting forces pull you from your goals. It’s about being protected against distractions. ![]() Nir coined the term indistractable to mean living with integrity, being honest with yourself and others, and being able to do what you say you are going to do. He is a best-selling author and his newest book is Indistractable. Nir has had writing featured in many major publications, such as the Harvard Business Review. Nir writes, consults, and teaches about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I was lucky enough to sit down with my friend Nir Eyal. ![]() ![]() Her music genres range from but are not limited to: Rock, Alternative, Soul, Blues, Electronic, Dubstep, country etc. She was always humming to herself and singing out loud or just in her head as a child.Harley Flamez also mixes and produces music and is very versatile with her music. She was Raised in Milton Florida where her family is originally from.She has had a love for music and writing since a small child.Writing is her passion from song lyrics, poetry and stories/books but singing is just something that always followed her around. ![]() Harley Flamez, was born on September 28th 1976 as Stephanie Lynn franks which changed to Bradley a few years later due to an adoption)Born in Ocean Springs Mississippi. ![]() ![]() However, after purchasing new clothes it learns through the feed that Doctor Mensah has disappeared and it is immediately panicked. ![]() We can definitely see that Murderbot is becoming more human like both in appearance and in the way it is acting but it falls back to its SecUnit way of interacting when it is uncomfortable or overly anxious which seems to be all the time right now.Īs we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Murderbot witnesses a ton of armed guards surrounding ship from the company, Palisade and they have been hired privately to specifically search ship for a rogue SecUnit, so Murderbot is now aware that it is being hunted down. Before Murderbot even gets back from Milu, Ship is diverted and Murderbot wisely exits Ship and makes his way through the station thinking of how best to get the information it has back to Doctor Mensah, possibly without having to see her again. ![]() Title: Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries Book 4) by Martha WellsĪfter finishing Rogue Protocol, I couldn’t wait to jump into Exit Strategy and see Murderbot return to PreservationAux and Doctor Mensah. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, - who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering: which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going à la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. ![]() |