Each less-than-red-letter day of the year is recounted in Farquhar's wry voice and comes with the enduring lesson The Wall Street Journal found in the first volume of this series: Bad Days in History may offer consolation to the great mass of quotidian belly-achers. And that's just in July!įrom the decadent palaces of ancient Rome to the modern Halls of Congress, this illuminating (sometimes disturbing) narrative features an almost endless array of misbehavior, amusing mishaps, and breathtaking misfortune over the ages and across the historical spectrum. In these gleefully gloomy pages, you'll find a politically smeared George Washington, a cranky Colonel Sanders, a homicidal Saint Olga of Kiev, a cuckolded Napoleon, a flame-censored Steinbeck, a treacherous Douglas MacArthur, a weeping Einstein, an exasperated Charles Dickens, a humiliated King Henry II, and a faux-contrite Ted Kennedy.
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It is the unchallenged contemporary reference on the history of New Zealand. This bestselling book by Michael King is the triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment. It shows that British motives in colonizing New Zealand were essentially humane and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a ‘fatal impact’, coped heroically with colonization and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered & settled by European, & the Maori peoples were far from being passive victims of a fatal impact, but coped heroically with colonisaztion. The narrative that emerges is an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. The Penguin History of New Zealand tells that story in all its color and drama. Between those events, and in the century that followed, the movements and conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules.
“ 2010 is easily Clarke’s best book in over a decade. Clarkes is one of the most important voices in contemporary science fiction literature. “Clarke deftly blends discovery, philosophy, and a newly acquired sense of play.” - Time Several of his books, including 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010: Odyssey II, have been adapted into films that still stand as classic examples of the genre. Meanwhile, the being that was once Dave Bowman-the only human to unlock the mystery of the monolith-streaks toward Earth on a vital mission of its own . . . What they discover is an unsettling alien conspiracy tampering with the evolution of life on Jupiter’s moons as well as that of humanity itself. When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was. The crew includes project expert Heywood Floyd, and Dr. Nine years after the ill-fated Discovery One mission to Jupiter, a joint Soviet-American crew travels to the planet to investigate the mysterious monolith orbiting the planet, the cause of the earlier mission’s failure-and what became of astronaut David Bowman. Fourteen years later, fans and critics were thrilled by the release of 2010: Odyssey Two. Clarke’s bestselling 2001: A Space Odyssey captivated the world and was adapted into the classic film by Stanley Kubrick. Clarke 3. The celebrated author continues his Space Odyssey with this Hugo Award winner: “A daring romp through the solar system and a worthy successor to 2001” (Carl Sagan). An edition of 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey 2) (1982) 2010 Odyssey two 1st ed edition by Arthur C. This information is then used for behavioral trends that help advertisers better target customers. The list goes on and on because they know how often you charge your phone or when you go to sleep. They track everything from location to search history to contacts and more. Surveillance capitalists take your data and sell it to advertisers. If you use the Internet, you are engaging with surveillance capitalism. This data is becoming more specific as advanced “smart” devices enter the market and diminish the amount of space not being monitored for behavioral data. This information includes browsing history, phone numbers, email addresses, location history and even a psychological profile based on your social media accounts. Nowadays, there are very few laws that protect your personal data from being collected and sold to advertisers. 1-Page Summary of The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism OverviewĪfter the events of September 11, 2001, efforts to establish online privacy laws were put aside. However, the family is a very dysfunctional one: Kully’s father is permanently penniless, and he drags the girl and her mother from place to place trying to borrow from friends and acquaintances, get advances on books or payments for articles. I wonder what the point is of children in Germany still having to read and write? Then my father didn’t want to be in Germany any more, because the government had locked up friends of his, and because he couldn’t write or say the things he wanted to write and say. When I was in Germany, before, I did go to school, and that’s where I learned to read and write. They cannot return to Germany because Kully’s father is obviously persona non grata because of his writing and his views. Her father is a writer, and he and her mother and Kully herself are on the move in 1930s Europe (the book was published in 1938). The story is told from the point of view of Kully, a nine-year old girl who’s leading anything but a conventional life. The book is translated by Michael Hofmann, who’s also responsible for many translations of Joseph Roth and he provides a useful afterword too. “Child of All Nations” came my way via ReadItSwapIt shortly after, but it’s taken the impetus of WIT month to get me to pick it up… It was, and I reviewed it here, and was keen to read more of her work. I first stumbled across the writing of Irmgard Keun in 2013, when I picked up her book “After Midnight” in (old) Foyles as it sounded excellent. After graduation, Dickinson enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, withdrawing ten months later to return home to Amherst. Dickinson suffered from melancholy and poor health from a young age, taking several breaks from school to stay with family in Boston. For seven years, she studied at Amherst Academy, excelling in English, classics, and the sciences. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was raised in a prominent family of lawyers and politicians alongside two siblings. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” -Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review Read moreĮmily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.įor the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Wise-guy gunslinger Eddie might compare Andy to Star Wars Andy the robot, however, is one character that listeners won't confuse with the others. Using a low, gruff voice that only Clint Eastwood could equal, Guidall aptly captures Roland's rough-edged character, but it's often difficult to distinguish between the tenors he employs for the book's many male characters. Joining them is Father Callahan, who first appeared in King's second book, 'Salem's Lot Roland of Gilead's quest to save all worlds from evil continues in this fifth installment of King's epic tale, which finds the gunslinger and his companions helping the farmers of Calla Bryn Sturgis fight against the terrifying "Wolves" who threaten to kidnap the Calla's children. Fiction DARK TOWER V: Wolves of the Calla Stephen King 's assessment of the audio adaptation of a book and should be quoted only in reference to the audio version. But it hits a new breaking point when Justin spirals out of control, unable to manage his sobriety and the sustained effects of a brain injury. Willa and Justin's relationship has always been strained yet loving, frustrating and close. As Justin tries to connect with the people she's closest to-her landlord, her boyfriend, their mother-she begins to feel exposed. Willa lives a carefully ordered life working as a nurse and making ornate dioramas in her spare time. When they were children, Willa played the role of her brother's protector, but now, afraid of the chaos he might bring, she's reluctant to let him in. The home he's made for himself has collapsed, as has everything else in his life. Opening like a fairy tale and ending like a nightmare, this cannonball of a queer coming-of-age novel follows a young man's relationship with a violent older boyfriend-and how he and his sister survive a terrible crime After years of severed communication, Justin appears on his sister's doorstep needing a place to stay. Paranoia might have made Kaplan wary of accepting three venture capital infusions from Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers, which pressured the company to turn out a product before it was humanly possible. The 200 employees who worked overtime for six years with the hopes that their stock options would make them richĪre working elsewhere, some still harboring resentment toward Kaplan and AT&T.ĭuring an interview this week, Kaplan said his major mistake was "not being sufficiently paranoid." The money EO had raised - $40 million from venture capitalists and large corporations - is spent. Less than 10,000 units of the company's product were ever shipped. Today, everything from GO is gone, with the exception of a few thousand EOs that are gathering dust in AT&T's closets and a couple that Kaplan has kept for note taking. In 1987, Kaplan formed GO, whose major product was the EO (Latin for go) Personal Communicator, a thin, tablet-shaped portable computer. Instead of typing, a user would write on the screen. Working at Lotus Development Corp., Kaplan got the idea that the next generation of computers would be hand-held digital notepads. |