![]() ![]() ![]() He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. ![]() He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours.He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical - though not most profound - political thinkers. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Because there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. ![]() ![]() A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life-and perhaps even love-again.īut then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. Josie Silver The Two Lives of Lydia Bird: A Novel Paperback Maby Josie Silver (Author) 5,570 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 9.29 Other new, used and collectible from 1. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. On Lydia's twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. They'd been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. Is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life's crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them. Written with Josie Silver's trademark warmth and wit, What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us."-Jodi Picoult From the #1īestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() “Situated in the center of family values debates is an imagined traditional family ideal. ![]() Its antithesis, its Other, would be Black, female, and lesbian, a fact that Black lesbian feminist Audre Lorde pointed out some time ago.”īlack Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism This mythical norm is hard to see because it is so taken-for-granted. In essence, to be completely "normal," one must be White, masculine, and heterosexual, the core hegemonic White masculinity. In this context, ideas about "normal" race (whiteness, which ironically, masquerades as racelessness), "normal" gender (using male experiences as the norm), and "normal" sexuality (heterosexuality, which operates in a similar hegemonic fashion) are tightly bundled together. A master binary of normal and deviant overlays and bundles together these and other lesser binaries. It views race through two oppositional categories of Whites and Blacks, gender through two categories of men and women, and sexuality through two oppositional categories of heterosexuals and homosexuals. Such thinking relies on oppositional categories. Racism and heterosexism both share a common cognitive framework that uses binary thinking to produce hegemonic ideologies. Few question them and the social hierarchies they defend. “When ideologies that defend racism and heterosexism become taken-for-granted and appear to be natural and inevitable, they become hegemonic. ![]() ![]() ![]() V-groove cutter vhm, Hero motocorp new advertisement 2014. Definitely not for the squeamish or sensitive. Martina birlinger, Trocadero club los angeles, Death certificate application pakistan. 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Bizarre Deaths | Famous Individuals and Others Who Died In Horrific Circumstancesįirst published in 2021 this is an abridged version of their major publication Untimely and Tragic Deaths of the Renowned The Celebrated The Iconic | Featuring Ordinary Individuals Who Died In Bizarre Circumstances. In July 1087, his horse reared, and he was thrown onto the pommel, rupturing his internal organs. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, as I got farther along, I concluded that this book (supposedly Rand’s best) is nothing but a hopeless pile sludge. ![]() The book’s first one tenth wasn’t too bad at least Rand seemed to begin a coherent, linear plot, and her prose, while undistinguished, was straightforward and understandable. How Bad Can Bad Writing Be (quote: Sunset Blvd) I will not read her "Atlas Shrugged" as I think it would bring me to suicide. I watched a documentary about the author and was reminded of the "fame" regarding this book. Sadly the most frustrating was the constant parade of conflicting dialog from her characters, the multi analogies given to useless points and the most insane of all was the continious use of a kind of bait and switch gadget in her writing style. 300 pages would have got the point across. The book is 700 pages long and there was no need for it. ![]() I think she lacked any understanding of psychology and that leaves a lot to be desired in the motivations and actions of her characters. First I must say that I did not live in the 1930's when this book was written and my understanding of life at that time is not extensive, that said, I find her characters to be quite unrealistic. I am very confused about all the hype surrounding this novel. ![]() I have found this book to be one of the most frustrating books I have ever read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ned Land impresses the crew with his abilities. Part 1, Chapter 4: Ned LandĪronnax gives is account of Captain Farragut, Ned Land, and the the capabilities of the Abraham Lincoln Part 1, Chapter 5: At Random Part 1, Chapter 3: As Master WishesĪronnax feels compelled to hunt the monster. The narrator is invited to join an impending expedition. Different theories are debated as to the cause of the recent shipwrecks. The narrator introduces himself to the reader. The public becomes concerned with a series of shipwrecks. Talk spreads throughout Europe and America about the sighting of a huge sea creature. It is about the fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (French: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, published in 1870. ![]() ![]() And she most definitely would have informed him he should take his blunt back to Mayfair where it, and he, belongs…had he not kissed her. She would have told the arrogant Lord Lindsey as much had he not attempted to bribe her. ![]() But when he decides he wants to marry her to anger his father and condescending brother, she refuses to take part in his schemes. Penelope Sutton has long considered Lord Aidan Weir her unlikely friend. He vows to do everything in his power to stop the mésalliance from occurring. ![]() When his foolish younger brother declares his intention to marry a devious East End fortune hunter, Garrick is appalled. Every lady on the marriage mart wants him as her prize, and every young fop wants to be him. ![]() With his impeccable reputation and undeniable good looks, Garrick Weir, Viscount Lindsey, heir to the Duke of Dryden, has earned his place at the apex of fashionable London society. A perfectly proper duke's heir and a fiercely loyal East End lady clash in this steamy Regency romp from USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They were taken and she really was A Writer. They asked for more and Margaret sent them one hundred - fifteen years of unpublished work. In 1968, an American publisher spotted one of her stories published in a journal issued to New Zealand schools. She brought up her two daughters alone, which at the time meant life was often tough. She studied philosophy at university in Auckland and Christchurch, and then qualified as a librarian, specialising in children's reading. She was a solitary little tomboy, living in her own world and talking out loud to herself. Margaret Mahy was born in New Zealand in 1936, the eldest of five children, with a huge extended family in the surrounding neighbourhood, and from the beginning her vivid imagination and love of storytelling sometimes confused reality and fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Intuitions vs Strategic Reasoning Story 1: Eating dog The Righteous Mind provides the key to understanding the miracle of human cooperation, as well as the disadvantages of our eternal divisions and conflicts. ![]() Haidt’s investigation also shows why liberals, conservatives, and libertarians have disparate intuitions about right and wrong, and why each party is right about many of its primary concerns. But the main message of the book is ancient – it is the realisation that we are all self-righteous hypocrites.ĭrawing on his 25 years of research on moral psychology, the author Jonathan Haidt explains that moral judgements shouldn’t arise from reason, but rather from gut feelings. ![]() This book draws on the latest research in neuroscience, genetics, social psychology and evolutionary modelling. The Righteous Mind examines why it’s difficult for us to get along and understands why society is so easily divided into hostile groups (each so certain of its righteousness). This week, Jonesy and Ashto explore the concept of human nature and history from the perspective of moral psychology. What You Will Learn from The Righteous Mind ![]() ![]() Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before the war is on his doorstep. 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