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![]() ![]() ![]() Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. ![]()
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![]() She was named as one of the ‘3 most important thinkers about innovation‘ by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED. She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and the 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She is a selected fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and of the Italian National Science Academy (Lincei). Her previous posts include the RM Phillips Professorial Chair at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University. She received her BA from Tufts University and her MA and PhD from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. ![]() ![]() Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). ![]()
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The Wild by K. Webster5/12/2023 ![]() But, he works long hours and he needs someone to help out. She left him with their twin boys and he now has custody of them. His ex-wife ran away to Hollywood with her trainer so that she could be a movie star. Quinn Blakely’s life has gotten very complicated. If you haven’t read the other books, I can point you in the right directions.īut, back to Mr. ![]() I won’t point out who the interconnected characters are in this one so you can have your own fun finding them. It’s fun to figure out who the various characters are and how they connect up to other books. ![]() The fun thing is that while each of these books is a standalone, they are all interconnected. Each of the books covers some kind of taboo, and they are all so very good. I don’t know its real name because she’s never given it one that I can remember, so that’s what I call it in my head. B brings us back into K’s little Taboo Town. I have my overall favorite of hers, but generally, my favorite book of hers is whatever I’ve read last. ![]() I am working really hard on owning everything she’s written. ![]()
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Oguz atay disconnected5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Known as being “untranslatable” the work finally made its way into Dutch in 2011 and now finally it is available in English, albeit in a very limited print run of only 200 copies. First published in 1971 & 1972 (as two books due to the publisher not being able to fund a single release), it has entered the Turkish psyche and although the book wasn’t “discovered” until after Oğuz Atay’s death, it has now been reprinted in Turkey at least seventy times. ![]() In 2004 UNESCO listed Oğuz Atay’s “Tutunamayanlar” (“The Disconnecte d”) as an important literary work in need of an English translation. Like my irregular posts here about “Bottom’s Dream” I intend to post about my progress through another work described as “untranslatable”. ![]() I’ve added another “difficult” work to my reading agenda, not happy with slowly working my way through Arno Schmidt’s “Bottom’s Dream” I am now tackling the Turkish “Ulysses”, Oğuz Atay’s “Tutunamayanlar” (“The Disconnecte d”). ![]()
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March by geraldine brooks5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. by Stephen Crane About BookQuotersīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, It feigns a gentle lassitude, yet coiled beneath are currents that have crushed the trunks of mighty trees, and swept men to swift drownings…” In others, it sucks the light down and gives back naught but an inscrutable sheen that conceals both depth and shallows. In places, it roils as if heated below by a hidden furnace. Brown as treacle, wider than a harbor, this is water sans sparkle or shimmer. One wakes and falls asleep to a green sameness, the sun like a pale egg yolk, peering down from a white sky.Īnd the river! Water as unlike our clear fast-flowing freshets as a fat broody hen to a hummingbird. ![]() Here all is obvious, a song upon a single note. I yearn for mountains, or at least for the gentle ridges of Massachusetts the sweet folds and furrows that offer the refreshment of a new vista as each gap or summit is obtained. We go on through Nature to God, and my Northern eye misses the grandeur that eases that ascent. Here, one who wishes his words to make plain sense had better say “white as cotton.” I will not say that I find the landscape lovely. “I have now traveled so far south that I find myself come to a place where our common expression “white as snow” has no useful meaning. ![]()
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Roar carmack5/12/2023 ![]() Legend says that her ancestors first gained their magic by facing a storm and stealing part of its essence. And the people selling it? They’re not Stormlings. When she dons a disguise and sneaks out of the palace one night to spy on him, she stumbles upon a black market dealing in the very thing she lacks-storm magic. But the more secrets Aurora uncovers about him, the more a future with him frightens her. He’ll guarantee her spot as the next queen and be the champion her people need to remain safe. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. ![]() To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora’s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. ![]() But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes. In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them.Īurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. ![]()
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Poor Man's Rpg by George B. Dmitrieff5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Guerrilla's Arsenal: Advanced Techniques For Making Explosives And Time-Delay Bombs by David Harber DemarcoĮvaluation of Improvised Shaped Charges by Desert Publications Improvised Home-Built Recoilless Launchers by F. For what its worth, I highly recommend this book. ![]() If an individual wanted to have the knowledge required to construct an anti-armor weapon in their garage, this book would be one of many that are required reading. ![]() Instructions for re-enactors to construct realistic and functional living history props that do fire projectiles are included, and further research from other sources indicate the information in this book is accurate. What the book does not do is hold the reader by the hand and tell them step by step how to blow up anything. It explains the basics of rocketry as it applies to the bazooka and LAW. It explains the basics of the recoilless principle as it applies to the Panzerfaust and RPG-2. ![]() If you have and interest in how anti-armor weapons work this book is an excellent start. ![]()
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Heaven by Alexandra Adornetto5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Blame the angel in him? Molly was one of my favorites and I felt really disappointed not to see what really happened to her in the end, the beach wasn't enough. And Xavier.why didn't he fall to his knees crying, fainting.I don't know, sometimes he was a bit to cool i think. I like the world AA build and I liked most of the characters.In the end I felt like AA had a deadline or something.I wanted a big reunion after our little angels 2 years in heaven away, not just Xavier. ![]() ![]() So I audioed this, heard the whole trilogy in a couple of days. Turns out she is a pretty good narrator as well, reads her own books as a pro. I honestly couldn't tell that she was that young. SPOILERS!!!SPOILERS!!!SPOILERS!!!DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK!!!I'm very impressed by Alexandra Adornetto, 20 years old and already written a YA trilogy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She calls it The Rumpelstiltskin Problem. Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale summary: (Jump to the fairy tale.). The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde is a chapter book for upper grades/young. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem has 985 ratings and 139 reviews. Summary of Rumpelstiltskin: A young woman wants to marry the King, but is told that first she must spin straw into gold or die. Rumpelstiltskin Rumplestiltskin Masters Thesis Research - Writing. One Response to “The Rumpelstiltskin Problem” Michael Says:įATIMI ESTAR: Synopsis of Rumpelstiltskin (Brothers Grimm Version) Here is a summary of King Midas and the Golden Touch. ![]() Summary-Rumpelstiltskin, the Classics Illustrated Junior version, is a graphic novel written for students in 4th to 8th grade. Chapter Summaries Feedback: Characters Question: Chicago Format. Statement of the Problem Hypothesis Thesis. Rumpelstiltskin Rumplestiltskin dissertation writing. Rumpelstiltskin Essay Writing Services, Persuasive Research Papers. Rumpelstiltskin: Fairy Tale from the Brothers Grimm Name Origins of Rumpelstiltskin Summary of The Boscombe Valley. ![]() overcome my students' essay writing problem. third day and she revealed his name, Rumpelstiltskin. The Rumpelstiltskin Problem by Vivian Vande Velde - Reviews. The rumpelstiltskin problem chapter summariesīecky's Book Reviews: The Rumpelstiltskin Problem (MG) ![]()
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Fooled by randomness review5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Fortunately, the experience and pain need not all be personal you can also learn from the experience of others, avoiding the aggravation of seeing everything first-hand. Good project management is based on experience. The expanded PERIL database serves as the basis for the book’s second edition, scheduled to be published in early 2009. This database formed the foundation for Identifying and Managing Project Risk (Kendrick, 2003), a reference book used extensively by practitioners and for project risk management courses. ![]() The analysis is based on a collection of about 650 specific project failure modes collected from all over the world over the past decade and assembled into the Project Experience Risk Information Library (PERIL) database. This paper examines some of the many causes of catastrophic project failure, dubbed by some “black swans,” seeking some of the principal sources of project risk. This becomes more and more common with the increase of project complexity, geographic distribution of project teams, and time pressures. Many projects fail for reasons that appear unlikely when they begin. ![]() |