![]() A later volume, 1920: The Year That Made the Decade Roar was chosen as one of the best non-fiction books of 2015. He is the only non-academic author to have been so honored twice. Two of them, The Spirits of America (a social history of alcoholic beverages), and The Smoke of the Gods (a social history of tobacco), won the American Library Association's "Best of the Best" award for their years of publication, 20, respectively. Purchase a bookplate signed copy of 1957.Īfter a career of more than 40 years in television journalism, including 8 as a correspondent for NBC News, which Emmy award winner Eric Burns describes as "the best job I ever had," he left the newsroom and found shelter for the archives-a retreat from the present to the past. ![]() ![]() Join Eric Burns as he discusses his new book, 1957: The Year that Launched the American Future. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Williams III (The Sandman: Overture), accompanied by W. Scripted and drawn by New York Times bestselling writer and illustrator J.H. ![]() And when a terrifying creature of ancient myth emerges and rears its serpentine head, Batwoman must team up with another warrior who has experience slaying monsters of old: Wonder Woman! La Llorona, the Weeping Woman of urban legend, is abducting the city’s children for a nefarious purpose. But Alice isn’t the only villain lurking in the shadows. After her promising military career is cut short by bigotry against her sexuality, Kate Kane decides to put her combat training to use as Gotham City’s newest guardian: Batwoman.ĭetermined to dispense her own brand of justice against those who would prey on Gotham’s citizens, Batwoman wastes no time in pursuing the Lewis Carroll-inspired criminal known as Alice, whose incoherent ramblings may reveal more than it seems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She's without feelings," says the Greek king Menelaus of his famous wife Helen. "She can do anything at all, or have the most tragic things happen to her, and not be disturbed in the slightest. ![]() They feel deeply, but there's a callousness to them as well. These two are unlike any of Homer's other characters they're more beautiful, more constantly aware of their own place in myth - and they revel in their power to make things turn around them. The long ordeal suffered by the Trojans and the Greeks in Homer's Iliad is brought about entirely by the fascination exerted by two demigods, Helen of Troy and Achilles. The closest mortals get is loving the offspring of gods, and that, too, has a high, horrible price. They can be momentarily fascinated by mortals, but for any deeper emotions, the mortals in question must be fundamentally changed, raised to godhood in order to be loved. They get abducted, metamorphosed, deceived, torn to pieces, and they can't retaliate in any way - not only because they lack the power, but also because they lack the emotional parity: the gods of Greek mythology have only the simplest, most childish passions. It's a truism of Homeric studies that mortals pay a high, horrible price for their dealings with the gods. ![]() ![]() She decided to explore this individually looking for commonalities and differences in how the kids handled defeat.įor Dweck, this introduced the concept that both intelligence and personality are entities that can be developed and grown, rather than being fixed. In the actual chapter itself, Dweck explores starts by presenting her interest on the issue of how young people deal with failure. (Sign up for Audible and get TWO audiobook for FREE – click here) The Mindset In her book she explores how your mindset affects your work, relationships and success in general whether organizations can also say to have mindsets and how you can change your mindsetif you don’t like your current one. ![]() Her work over many decades has led to what she calls “ mindset theory” – that all people have either fixed mindset, or a growth mindset. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dweck, Ph.D., one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University in her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, presents her research on why people succeed and how to foster success. ![]() ![]() Nick has a type! (I totally didn’t realize this until some of you pointed it out!) *All of Nick’s crushes start with the letter A. * There were (to my utter shock) MANY perfect responses. Originally posted by alexanderlafayette First, some cool info (soft spoilers included, so stop reading here if you need to!): You guys really know Creekwood High School. ![]() I can’t explain how it feels to read about my characters from the perspectives of so many thoughtful readers. Your bonus question responses were genius. You took the time to hunt down answers to the most ridiculously obscure questions I could think of. The amount of effort, care, and love put into every single response is unreal. I know that’s a strange reaction to a bunch of trivia answers, but in this moment, it’s the truest thing I could possibly say. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gebaseerd op het filmscenario van Gerard Soeteman & Paul Verhoeven. Present at the library of the Nederlands Letterenfonds.Ībbink Spaink, Laurens. Bevat: Herman Gorter (1e zang van 'Mei'), Guido Gezelle ('Rijmsnoer om en om het jaar'), Henriëtte Roland Holst- van der Schalk ('De nieuwe geboort') en gedichten van Pol de Mont, Willem Kloos, Hélène Swarth, Frederik van Eeden en Karel van de Woestijne. Original title: Verzamelde beroemde gedichten van de wereld: Noord-Europa en Oost-Europa. from Dutch by Sumitaka Asakura, Sumu Asakura. Present at the library of the Nederlands Letterenfonds. Published with support from the Stichting voor Vertalingen. Bevat: Cees Buddingh', Gerrit Kouwenaar, Lucebert, Remco Campert, Rutger Kopland, Willem van Toorn, J. Published with support from the Literatuur Vlaanderen.Īuteurs, div. Children's Books Picturebook, Original title: Viktor. ![]() Tokyo: Kyuryudo Art Publishing Co., since maart 2023, expected mei 2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As it turned out, the inclusive and weblike structures that women tended to thrive in were a natural fit for the flatter, nimbler and more interconnected organizations that emerged as people began to communicate more directly. The Female Advantage began to change that, helped by the shift to networked technologies and the growing emphasis on the role of knowledge. The kind of inclusive practices we now consider leadership skills–– collaboration, teamwork, listening, communicating across boundaries, mentoring, motivating people, unleashing their creative potential–– these were dismissed as soft stuff. Since it was the first book to focus on what women had to contribute as leaders, rather than how they needed to change and adapt, it landed with a big impact.Īt the time, most experts advocated a competitive, take-no-prisoners approach to leadership, combined with a reverence for hierarchy and a laser-like focus on performance and the bottom line. In 1990, I published The Female Advantage: Women’s Ways of Leadership–– remarkably, it’s still in print after nearly 32 years. ![]() With the women of Petronas Global Energy, Kuala Lumpur, 2019Ī little bit about how I got here. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goyer probably had a tough time crafting an opening episode (with a limited runtime) that focuses on the essentials and forgoes additional story elements until later entries.īut we need some reason to invest in Foundation’s setting and characters, and its opening episode doesn’t elaborate on why we should. Given the complexity of Asimov’s novels, too, showrunner David S. These are questions that are likely to be answered in more detail in future episodes. Who are these people? What are their motivations? Where did they come from? Why are they integral to Foundation’s story? ![]() ![]() It feels like the show is rushing to get its most important plot point – Seldon’s revelation that the Empire is heading for destruction – without investing enough time to introduce us to anything else. As viewers, we’re taken on a whistle stop tour of its main players, key locations and story threads (both mainline and subplots) during its 68-minute runtime without pausing for breath, which doesn’t give us much space to process what’s going on or who these characters are. Despite its seemingly straightforward premise, Foundation’s premiere – called The Emperor’s Peace – is at-times hard to follow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, he is smitten with the new Charlotte in her trend-setting French gowns, and since Alex requires a mother for Pippa, Charlotte is his choice. Charlotte Calverstill, the unmarried Lady Daicheston, can't believe he is impotent-after all, he ""ruined"" her in a garden three years ago before leaving for Italy-but Alex doesn't seem to remember their tryst. Alexander Foakes, earl of Sheffield and Downes, allowed his Italian wife, Maria, to divorce him on grounds that he was impotent, but now he turns up with a baby daughter he claims is his child by Maria, who kept Pippa's birth a secret until she was dying. Is he or isn't he? That's the question on London society's collective mind in this slow-starting but ultimately satisfying Regency romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our tumultuous age.Ī self-described orphan with parents, Bobby Hall began life as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, the only child of an alcoholic, mentally ill mother on welfare and an absent, crack-addicted father. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General InterestĪn explosive memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities.Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]()
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