Journey to the center of the earth verne5/11/2023 When it comes to classics from the 1800s, Reddit loves The Count of Monte Cristo…and not much else (sometimes I see Frankenstein or Dracula mentioned favorably, but that’s about it-that is, these are the classics I see mentioned alongside contemporary novels and outside of classics-focused threads). If you’re interested in reading Verne, the North American Jules Verne Society seems to be a reliable source for finding faithful translations, though they don’t review all of them.) Note that early translations of Jules Verne’s work-the ones now in the public domain and unfortunately still reprinted by publishers- famously bastardized his novels by generously abridging them, cutting out the “boring” science, changing character names and backgrounds, and in some cases completely rewriting entire chapters by adding new content to insert some good old Victorian melodrama. (I read Frank Wynne’s translation, first published by Penguin in 2009, and would highly recommend it.
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Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Charles Marion Russell (Ma– October 24, 1926), also known as C. Blood Heir by Ilona Andrews5/10/2023 But for Aurelia, facing disaster is easy it's relationships that are hard. One small misstep could lead to disaster. She expected danger, but she never anticipated that the only man she'd ever loved could threaten everything. If Aurelia's true identity is discovered, those closest to her will die. So her plan is simple: get in, solve the murders, prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled, and get out without being recognized. An ancient power is stalking her adopted mother, Kate Daniels, an enemy unlike any other, and a string of horrifying murders is its opening gambit. 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This is a very good-plus copy in the original antique-rose cloth: there is virtually no wear or soil at all, but this set suffers from what always afflicts this color cloth - fading of the spines (and of parts of the covers, to a lesser degree). On an imaginary island near Australia over which the English had renounced their sovereignty, a government had been established, one of whose leading principles was the doctrine of the "Fixed Period." This law sought to solve the problem of old age, by "depositing" all inhabitants at the age of sixty-seven in a "college" where they would be comfortably housed until, at some time before their next birthday, there would be euthanasia. First Edition of one of the strangest of all of Trollope's novels, about the imaginary, dystopian, former British colony of Britannula in the mid-20th Century. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Fire Inside by Kristen Ashley5/10/2023 His moral code is strong and he sticks to it. 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In fact, in Motorcycle Man, he is a bit of a cheating cheatypants. I guess in part, this was because Lanie’s backstory was caught up in Motorcycle Man (Tack!). As much as I enjoyed Shy and Tabby in Own The Wind, I preferred this book. Tack is still my favourite but Hop is next in line from the Dream Man/Chaos series so far. But that was before I had my mouth between the legs of a lady. What worked for me (and what didn’t): Hop. Real, lasting peace requires giving power to local citizens. Contrary to what most politicians preach, building peace doesn't require billions in aid or massive international interventions. With examples drawn from across the globe, she reveals that peace can grow in the most unlikely circumstances. But what strategies have worked to build lasting peace in conflict zones, particularly for ordinary citizens on the ground? And why should other ordinary citizens, thousands of miles away, care? In The Frontlines of Peace, Séverine Autesserre, award-winning researcher and peacebuilder, examines the well-intentioned but inherently flawed peace industry. At turns surprising, funny, and gut-wrenching, this is the hopeful story of the ordinary yet extraordinary people who have figured out how to build lasting peace in their communities The word "peacebuilding" evokes a story we've all heard over and over: violence breaks out, foreign nations are scandalized, peacekeepers and million-dollar donors come rushing in, warring parties sign a peace agreement and, sadly, within months the situation is back to where it started-sometimes worse. Garfield destiny of the republic5/10/2023 The killers and would-bes, as a group, took the stage in Stephen Sondheim's Assassins, a 1990 musical (book by John Weidman). 3īracketed by the murders of Lincoln and Kennedy, those of Garfield and McKinley, too, have their following. One author took an “assassination vacation” to shadow places and things associated with these events. Indeed, at the time of this writing, there were current nonfiction books on Presidents Lincoln ( Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard) and Kennedy ( Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero by Chris Matthews and Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard). 2 We seem obsessed with reworking scenarios of these lives cut short. So do what you dare.” -from Assassins by Stephen Sondheim 1Īmerican presidential assassinations continue to be a source of fascination for various reasons, not the least of which is attempting to understand the mentality of the perpetrator. Divergente by Veronica Roth5/10/2023 To be factionless is to live a menial, impoverished existence with no sense of belonging, and this is regarded as a fate worse than death. This is not a choice to be made lightly, as the faction to which a person belongs is seen to be a critical part of who they are and is deemed more important than family. This will be followed by a choosing ceremony, in which she will make the ultimate choice: to stay with her family in Abnegation or transfer to a new faction in which she will spend the rest of her life. However, she finds its uniformity confining and does not believe that she is sufficiently selfless to belong in this faction.Īt the start of the novel, Beatrice, like other people her age, is due to undergo an aptitude test which is supposed to indicate the faction to which she is best suited. She recognizes that this faction must look ideal from the outside, as it offers a peaceful existence and everyone helps one another. Beatrice has spent her whole life living with her parents and brother in Abnegation, but she has never felt as though she fits in. Reza aslan zealot review5/10/2023 Aslan repeats the old but unverifiable claim that forgery was not considered dishonest in antiquity he goes further still in arguing that the evangelists had no intention of imposing upon their readers. Even if this were demonstrable, the inference that they are forgeries would be unwarranted unless we knew that the authors themselves had attached false names to them. In fact we would know nothing if it were true, as he asseverates, that none of our Gospels was written by the man whose name it bears (p. The first sentence in Reza Aslan’s The Zealot declares it a miracle that we know anything of the life of Jesus. These books have little in common but their failure to offer a satisfactory antidote to honest bibliolatry. Reviewed by Mark Edwards (Faculty of Theology and Christ Church, University of Oxford) New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Made to stick by chip & dan heath5/9/2023 This book delineates just how to package and present ideas so that they stick – they stay in your head and you actually act on them. We could have used this book back then, but no one had the nerve to state what is stated so eloquently here. A few hundred years ago I studied the history of ideas, which treated ideas as sacrosanct and objective in the extreme. This book is one of the first to deal with what one day soon will be an acknowledged academic subject: how information works in a world we recognize. Made to Stick is a useful primer for how to “pitch” an idea so that it sticks in the minds of its hearers. The brothers Heath know how important the pitch is. Does anyone still believe that there are efficient markets for ideas in organizations? Imagine a virtual meritocracy where ideas rise and fall purely on their own merits, regardless of how they are presented and who is pitching the idea. |