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![]() ![]() Purple rainbows are appearing everywhere and they seem to have something to do with gold coins. In this book Amanda and her friends are still after the Moriarty clan, who has caused such havoc throughout the whole series. They are best read in order as the characters grow and the situations continue. This is good because most of the parents are strange.Īlthough each book is complete in itself, it builds smoothly upon the one before it. The children are allowed much freedom and contact with parents is at a minimum. ![]() The school, Legatum Continuatum, is in the Lake District of England. Amanda is rather ashamed of her ancestor but she is nothing like him. This series features 12 year-old Amanda Lester, whose family changed their name from Lestrade, the bumbling Inspector in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Most of them are detectives from literature. These are not just any children in order to enter this co-ed boarding school the student must be descended from a famous detective. Imagine a secret school that teaches children to become detectives. This is the third book in this awesome mystery series of the 21st century. ![]()
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Dancing on Broken Glass by Ka Hancock5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, all their rules are thrown out the window, and the two of them must redefine what love really is.Īn unvarnished portrait of a marriage that is both ordinary and extraordinary, Dancing on Broken Glass takes listeners on an unforgettable journey of the heart. But when Lucy shows up for a routine physical just shy of their eleventh anniversary, she gets an impossible surprise that changes everything. In dealing with their unique challenges, they make the heartbreaking decision not to have children. Like any marriage, they have good days and bad days-and some very bad days. ![]() Lucy promises not to blame him for what is beyond his control. But when their paths cross on the night of Lucy's twenty-first birthday, sparks fly, and there's no denying their chemistry.Ĭautious every step of the way, they are determined to make their relationship work-and they put it all in writing. They're both plagued with faulty genes-he has bipolar disorder and she has a ravaging family history of breast cancer. Lucy Houston and Mickey Chandler probably shouldn't have fallen in love, let alone gotten married. ![]()
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The War on Humans by Wesley J. Smith5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Smith also expresses his opinion on the above-mentioned topics in TV and radio programs, Good Morning America, Nightline, and BBC Radio 4 to name a few. Smith has also contributed to National Review and The Weekly Standard. His writings have appeared in many periodicals, including The New York Times, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post among others. Since then, Smith has authored and co-authored a number of books focused on such topics as law, human dignity, euthanasia movement, animal rights, ethics, bioethics, the morality of human cloning, and other issues. It marked the start of a long collaboration between the authors. ![]() The first book, ‘The Lawyer Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Client Survival’, created in tandem with advocate Ralph Nader was issued in 1986. Ten years later, he abandoned the law practice and devoted himself to writing and public advocacy. Smith’s career can be counted from 1975 when he was admitted to the bar in the San Fernando Valley, California. ![]()
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Books about alan turing and enigma5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany’s air force. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering. In 1954, aged 41, Alan Turing took his own life. Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. However, in 1952 his homosexuality rendered him a criminal and he was subjected to humiliating treatment. Turing's far-sighted plans for the digital era forged ahead into a vision for Artificial Intelligence. Before the war he had invented the concept of the universal machine, and in 1945 he turned this into the first design for a digital computer. But his vision went far beyond this achievement. He then headed the penetration of the super-secure U-boat communications. In 1940 his machines were breaking the Enigma-enciphered messages of Nazi Germany's air force. ![]() ![]() The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film, The Imitation Game, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jomny the alien encounters a variety of characters throughout the book, each one dealing with their own problems. This is not a new idea in any sense, but it’s conveyed here without the heavy handedness that often comes with that territory. ![]() The most important idea presented in Everyone’s a aliebn is that all the people we meet are fighting a harder battle. It takes talent and a degree of restraint that few artists have to express so much through such spare drawings. The illustrations are simple to the point of being childlike, which makes them somehow more impressive at second glance. Some pages have only one or two words on them. One, it is a graphic novel which gives author Jomny Sun nearly unlimited freedom. This is a “novel” in the loosest sense of the word. ![]() ![]() Within ten pages I was absolutely enthralled with this tale of a lonely alien who is trying to learn his place among things. While on Earth, Jomny meets many new friends, and learns a few important lessons about life, loneliness, and nothing at all.ĭue to the deliberately bad spelling and grammar, my inner English teacher was in a mild state of apoplexy when I began this book. He is left alone on Earth in order to research the strange creatures known as humabns. None of his fellow aliebns seem to think or act like him. ![]()
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Csikszentmihalyi creativity5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Each culture consists of different domains and also differs in its hierarchical recognition. In this context, this psychologist refers to a culture as a system of connected domains. Thus, if thoughts, knowledge, values, emotions, or actions of people in a cultural community are not changed, according to Csikszentmihalyi it is not a creative achievement. The result is the transformation of a symbolic domain of culture: “What we call creativity always involves a change in a symbolic system, a change that in turn will affect the thoughts and feelings of the members of the culture“ (Csikszentmihalyi 2004: 316). a field of experts who acknowledge and confirm this innovation. the individual who brings something new into a symbolic domain, and 3. ![]() a culture that includes symbolic rules, 2. THE EVOLUTION OF THE CREATIVITY CONCEPT Part 3: the systemic Creativity Model of CsikszentmihalyiĪccording to Csikszentmihalyi, creativity arises from the interaction of three elements, which together form a system: 1. This is the third post regarding the evolution of the creativity concept, a project of Mindshake.Īfter a first approach from the psychological research perspective, last week I introduced the systemic perspective of creativity, which today will be augmented by the Creativity Model of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a Hungarian-American psychologist and recognised creativity researcher. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Green image A ROC BOOK ROC Published by New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2Y3, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth Hell to Pay The Man with the Golden Torc Simon R. ![]() ![]() GREEN Blue Moon Rising Beyond the Blue Moon Blood and Honor Down Among the Dead Men Shadows Fall ACE BOOKS THE NIGHTSIDE SERIES Something from the Nightside Agents of Light and Darkness Nightingale’s Lament Hex and the City Paths Not Taken GREEN THE DEATHSTALKER SERIES Twilight of the Empire Deathstalker Deathstalker Rebellion Deathstalker War Deathstalker Honor Deathstalker Destiny Deathstalker Legacy Deathstalker Return Deathstalker Coda THE ADVENTURES OF HAWK & FISHER Swords of Haven Guards of Haven ALSO BY SIMON R. The Man with the Golden Torc Ebook converted by Winterborn The Man with the Golden Torc ALSO BY SIMON R. ![]()
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Gene wolfe shadow of the torturer5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() One is not born into the torturers' guild, one is adopted there from the children of its victims. ![]() ![]() In a stunning blend of the lyric extravagance of fantasy and the keen edge of science fiction, meeting in a future so distant that it seems like the ancient past, Gene Wolfe begins his chronicle of Severian the Torturer, in this the first volume of The Book of the New Sun. Nebula Award nominee 1980, Tähtivaeltaja award nominee 2013, Tähtifantasia award nominee 2013. World Fantasy Award 1981, British Science Fiction Association Award 1982. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I am very weak, and oh! so miserable, so miserable and tired-tired. It will, at least, spare me that final horror… …. This! Jesus, forgive me, but I cannot live, cannot, cannot! I dare not! I am beyond all help-there is nothing else left. God, Thou knowest, Thou must know, that death is better, aye, better a thousand times than This. ![]() I have looked again-with the strangest of feelings. Yet, a thought has come to me, born of a sight of the gun-rack, on the other side of the room. I shall become a terrible mass of living corruption. It has covered all my right arm and side, and is beginning to creep up my neck. I feel ever the burning of this dread growth. Ah, God! I wonder have any ever felt the horror of life that I have come to know? I am swathed in terror. ![]()
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Heroes of the computer revolution5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Computers were suddenly everywhere, but they remained unfamiliar enough to inspire a host of popular books to ponder the personal and social transformations triggered by the microchip. Unlike Kidder, Levy had to make people reconsider what they thought they already knew. By 1984, in contrast, the computer geek was a prominent part of popular culture. Kidder's assumed readers had never seen a minicomputer, still less designed one. 32–37), but a lot had changed during the interval. Hackers was published only three years after Tracy Kidder's The Soul of a New Machine, explored in my last column (January 2021, p. (The most common current meaning of hacker, online thieves and vandals, was not established until a few years later). Levy locates the origins of hacker culture among MIT undergraduates of the late-1950s and 1960s, before tracing its development through the Californian personal computer movement of the 1970s and the home videogame industry of the early 1980s. 11 Hackers were a subculture of computer enthusiasts for whom programming was a vocation and playing around with computers constituted a lifestyle. Its march from obscurity to newspaper headlines owes a great deal to tech journalist Steven Levy, who in 1984 defied the advice of his publisher to call his first book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Credit: Andrij Borys Associates, Shutterstockįorty years ago, the word "hacker" was little known. ![]() |