![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I wouldn’t normally do this at this point in a review, but something weird happened when I was looking at other reviews of The Fold, and I think in this case it’s worth mentioning that this book seems to be extremely divisive among people who have read it and/or listened to the audiobook. It’s not a great pun like Mage Against the Machine, it’s not especially provocative, I just liked it. It’s nothing particularly special, either. Total honesty – I picked the book based 100% on the cover art and the title. One of the books I picked up was a novel called The Fold, from an author I had never read before named Peter Clines. Thankfully I had a very kind friend who gifted me six Audible credits to help me pass the time in the car. Back in 2017 I found myself in the unenviable position of driving back and forth looking for work two states away from where I lived, while also driving for a horrible ride share company that I won’t name (but trust me, you’re über-familiar with how terrible they are…) to try to help make ends meet in the meantime.Įrgo, I was spending a butt-ton of time in my car, and I mean a British/Imperial/long butt-ton of time. ![]()
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![]() She BADLY needs an editor who will help clean up the writing and tighten up the story. My feelings towards Maas as a writer are a bit complicated. Were there parts of this book that could have been edited out? For sure. Meanwhile, peace is fragile in Prythian, and the human queens are up to some mischief that news to be stopped. ![]() Nesta has a lot of trauma to work through, and after her friends stage an intervention, she’s forced to confront her inner demons. I fall more on the love side, though I definitely don’t think these books are perfect.Ī Court of Silver Flames shifts the focus over to Nesta Acheron and Cassian and dealing with the fallout of the war with Hybern. When it comes to the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, better known as ACOTAR in the book world, it seems you either love it or hate it. However, it gave me so many emotions that I felt like I needed to process some of them on paper. I wasn’t planning on reviewing this book at all while I was reading it. Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – GoodreadsĬW: suicidal thoughts, pregnancy, difficult birth, discussion of past sexual assault, flashbacks to sexual assault, PTSD, depression, death, violence ![]() ![]() Series or Standalone: A Court of Thorns and Roses #4 ![]() ![]() His vicar, John Sharp, arranged for Grace to live for two years with relatives in York to learn middle class manners. It was while acting as a curate that he met Grace Taylor, the daughter of a mill hand, then aged fourteen. During 1864, he became the curate at Horbury Bridge, West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1852 he was admitted to Cambridge University, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1857, then Master of Arts in 1860 from Clare College, Cambridge. ![]() His father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour. Here his time was ended by a bronchial disease of the kind that was to plague him throughout his long life. He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at King's College School in London (then located in Somerset House) and then, for a few months, at Warwick Grammar School (now Warwick School). Because the family spent much of his childhood travelling round Europe, most of his education was by private tutors. The eldest son of Edward Baring-Gould and his first wife, Sophia Charlotte (née Bond), he was named after a great-uncle, the Arctic explorer Sir Edward Sabine. ![]() ![]() Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter. ![]() ![]() This is the immensely powerful force of human stupidity. It has global catastrophic effects and can be found anywhere from the world’s most powerful boardrooms to your local pub. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. “A masterly book” –Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan “A classic” –Simon Kuper, Financial Times In the spirit of On Bullshit and Assholes: A Theory, an economist explores the five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. You can read this before The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity written by Carlo M. Brief Summary of Book: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. ![]() ![]() ![]() ― David Foster Wallace, quote from The Broom of the System ![]() No? What now, then? With pencils? No matter. ![]() ![]() And that if what we wanted a broom for was to break windows, then the handle was clearly the fundamental essence of the broom, and she illustrated with the kitchen window, and a crowd of the domestics gathered but that if we wanted the broom to sweep with, see for example the broken glass, sweep sweep, the bristles were the thing’s essence. And I hemmed and hawed, and she swept more and more violently, and I got nervous, and finally when I said I supposed the bristles, because you could after a fashion sweep without the handle, by just holding on to the bristles, but couldn’t sweep with just the handle, she tackled me, and knocked me out of my chair, and yelled into my ear something like, ’A ha, that’s because you want to sweep with the broom, isn’t it? It’s because of what you want the broom for, isn’t it?’ Et cetera. What she did with me-I must have been eight, or twelve, who remembers-was to sit me down in the kitchen and take a straw broom and start furiously sweeping the floor, and she asked me which part of the broom was more elemental, more fundamental, in my opinion, the bristles or the handle. Has she done the thing with the broom with you? No? What does she use now? No. “.that, to repeat what I heard for years and years and suspect you’ve been hearing over and over, yourself, something’s meaning is nothing more or less than its function. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the present day older couples who have children are still running after women of all ages and defiling them to satisfy their selfish needs or desires.ģ. The lion never stops in its pursuit of the Jewel to satisfy its own selfish motives. Another issue to be considered is polygamy. Many people believe that the practice is unsuitable for the contemporary world, but there are some who believe that it is a legitimate tradition that should be kept. Dowry prices are still in use in contemporary Africa. There’s still a struggle between traditional methods and modernity. Question: What is the significance of The Lion and The Jewel in the present day?Īnswer: The play is relevant in our time because:ġ. Therefore, Baroka never paid the bride’s price because Sidi was no anymore a virgin. Because Sidi wasn’t a virgin, it wasn’t necessary for him to contribute to the dowry. Some would argue that she wasn’t an unmarried woman.Īfter Baroka had defiled or deflowered Sidi, Lankule jumped at the chance. But, Sidi told him that she didn’t want to become a laughing stock (to be laughed at) within the community. Lankule was keen to wed Sidi without paying for the wedding cost. Answer Baroka was not able to pay the cost of her wedding. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, what we can gain is not only a set of concrete takeaways for the problems around us, not only a new way to see the elegant structures behind even the hairiest human dilemmas, not only a recognition of the travails of humans and computers as deeply conjoined, but something even more profound: a new vocabulary for the world around us, and a chance to learn something truly new about ourselves. Algorithms to Live By Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths Talks at Google - YouTube Practical, everyday advice which will easily provoke an interest in computer science.In a. ![]() And we will learn about how the mind works, about its distinct but deeply related ways of tackling the same set of issues and coping with the same constraints. We will learn about the fundamental mathematical structure of these challenges and about how computers are engineered-sometimes counter to what we imagine-to make the most of them. ![]() The next pages begin our journey through some of the biggest challenges faced by computers and human minds alike: how to manage finite space, finite time, limited attention, unknown unknowns, incomplete information, and an unforeseeable future how to do so with grace and confidence and how to do so in a community with others who are all simultaneously trying to do the same. Algorithms To Live By (Book Review) - By Brian Christian & Tom GriffithsHave you ever stumbled into some books where you thought that they were going to be j. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jordan (Foreword) 164 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 20. Urn:lcp:christianitysoci00bosw:epub:de73ba7e-ce02-4f59-a645-c93c62682a40 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier christianitysoci00bosw Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7sn0tz6s Isbn 0226067106ħ9111171 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.67 Pages 468 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0260067113 Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century Paperback Illustrated, Decemby John Boswell (Author), Mark D. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:46:52 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA110108 Camera Canon 5D City Chicago DonorĪlibris Edition Phoenix ed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it.Įnter the wizard, Bayaz. But then Glokta hates everyone: Cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Nobleman, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, Captain Jezal dan Luthar has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian - leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. The first novel in the First Law Trilogy and the debut novel from New York Times best seller Joe Abercrombie. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew there were more women like both of my aunts. One was a fashion model in the 50’s in fashion shows and beauty contests and another aunt was an opera singer. ![]() In researching a novel, I saw an array of Black people from all walks of life and I was disappointed but not surprised that I didn’t see more of that in coffee table books. I’d go to any number of bookstores and you’d see awesome books with Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and some of the great socialites like Babe Paley. I came up with the idea because I love coffee table books. I conceived Vintage Black Glamour in 20005 as the coffee table book that it would be. Nichelle Gainer: I started the Tumblr site to generate interest for what I always knew would be a book. We caught up with Gainer to ask what the book and the vision were all about.ī: What gave you the idea for Vintage Black Glamour in the first place? In June, Essential World/Rocket 88 Books will publish her dream come true – a book that proves that style, fashion and sophistication are also a significant part of our history. Gainer’s intent was always to create a lavish coffee table book to showcase that history and that has come to pass. ![]() |