![]() ![]() ![]() Using Kennedy's secret recordings of crucial White House meetings and interviews with key inside players, Sloyan reveals: President Kennedy's complicity in the overthrow and assassination of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem, an event that planted the seed for a decade of jungle warfare and a nation dividedThe secret deal to resolve the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts the popularized "eyeball-to-eyeball" account of Kennedy's dramatic showdown with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev, who outfoxed the American president.Kennedy's hostile interactions with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the president's attempts to undermine the civil rights movement, which he viewed as destroying his reelection chances in the South The Politics of Deception is a revelatory look into a JFK that few will recognize. ![]() As the president prepared for his 1964 reelection bid that never was, he buried the truth and manipulated public opinion. ![]() Sloyan, a young wire-service reporter during the Kennedy administration, revisits the last year of JFK's presidency to reveal a ruthless politician. Beneath the myths of Camelot lies the truth of the presidency of John F. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She wove through the branches like a ghost, leaving the sleeping keep, her family and her future behind. ![]() She was no more than a shadow, flickering with the rest in the dappled moonlight. She knew how to use the dark cloak of night to her advantage. The branches of the canopy were like springs beneath the balls of her feet, making her lighter than air as she leapt from one tree to another, towards her freedom. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. ![]() This novel is entirely a work of fiction. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Helen Scheuerer asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.Īll rights reserved. ![]() ![]() ![]() Every time we bend our wrists, every time we breathe with our lungs, we can thank those fish evolving in streams 375 million years ago. “The transition from life in water to life on land is not some strange event in the history of life, it’s an event that’s embedded in our bodies. And what’s amazing about that is we can trace that fish to amphibians to reptiles to primates, all the way to us. Based on a best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, this scientific adventure story takes viewers from Ethiopia to the Arctic Circle on a hunt. But when you open up the fins you find bones that correspond to the upper arm, the forearm, even parts of the wrist. He has wide expertise in both fossils and biology. The author, Neil Shubin, is Professor of Anatomy at the University of Chicago and Provost of its field museum. “Let’s take a fish we found from the Arctic. A review of Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin. When we put that all together we come up with this wonderful story about how deeply we are connected to the rest of life on our planet.”Īnd Your Inner Fish comes to television starting April 9 and continuing for the next two Wednesday nights on PBS. “Within each of us, in every organ, every cell, every gene, we have over three billion years of the history of life. That’s University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin, author of the 2008 book Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body. ![]() “ Your inner fish is an epic journey inside our own bodies.” ![]() ![]() Woldering, Thomas Woldering, Benjamin Towe, Nils Visser, Greg Alldredge, Johan Klein Haneveld, Marc vun Kannon, Morgan Smith, and Nav Logan. Hawkins, Paul Michael, Leslie Conzatti, Mary R. Young, Guy Donovan, Nimue Brown, Penny Blake, Jaq D. Hawkins, Morgan Smith, Guy Donovan, Nils Visser Dreamtime Fantasy Tales authors are proud of our final result and sincerely hope you'll enjoy each and every page.Īll proceeds of this anthology have been pledged to an animal rescue shelter which we chose knowing that each and every penny raised will benefit the animals, and not a highly-paid CEO.Ĭontent Editors: Hilary Anderson, Jaq D. Gebruikers van een touchscreenapparaat kunnen verkennen met aanraking of swipe. ![]() Gebruik de pijltjes omhoog en omlaag om door resultaten van automatisch aanvullen te navigeren en druk op Enter om een resultaat te selecteren. ![]() No swooning, no male saviors, and only one token chain mail bikini (and that one is a riot!). Ontdek (en bewaar) je eigen pins op Pinterest. The stories range from general fantasy to high fantasy to sci-fi to steampunk to horror. ![]() Neil Gaiman once said: "I like stories where women save themselves."Īsked to work with this as guideline, sixteen authors from Canada, the UK, the USA, Ireland, and The Netherlands contributed sixteen stories about strong women, dangerous women, witty women, resourceful women, and most of all realistic women. ![]() ![]() Yoshida is credited as screenwriter in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS episodes. ![]() Yoshida is credited as storyboard artist in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episodes. Yoshida is credited as screenwriter in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL episodes. Yoshida is credited as screenwriter in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episodes. Yoshida is credited as screenwriter in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episodes. Yoshida is credited as screenwriter in the following Yu-Gi-Oh! episodes. Yoshida is also responsible for the Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL manga's story. He is credited as the screenwriter for the film Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D Bonds Beyond Time. ![]() Yoshida is credited as series composer for Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters episodes 145-224, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX episodes 157-180, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's episodes 27-154, Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL and Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS. Shin Yoshida’s most popular book is Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal, Vol. ![]() Shin Yoshida is a Japanese screenwriter and series composer. 1) Shin Yoshida has 29 books on Goodreads with 3654 ratings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca the life of Seneca in the time of the stoic age. Publisher: Portfolio (October 18, 2016).Authors: Ryan Holiday (Author), Stephen Hanselman (Author).This is a great book for those beginning meditation, and those who don’t have much time for it, but still want to give it a go. The book is full of quotes from many philosophers from history. Because there are 366 of them, there is at least one for every day of the year. The meditations are short, but effective. The book encourages readers to have a positive outlook on life. The book is separated into categories that follow movements related to these translations: perception, action, and will. The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is full of translations from some of the best stoics: Seneca, Epictetus, and Zeno. It helps us deal with stoicism and the pain that comes with it. Meditation is an important form of relaxation and serenity. ![]() ![]() ![]() While the lengthy (for a light novel) chapters aren’t all about fighting - we learn more about this world’s history, meet Sirius’ son, and more - battles are a bigger presence versus the first volume’s proposals-gone-awry or elderly grandparents. As before, Tinaris’ sections each cover a significant event at ages 8, 10, and 12. ![]() ![]() Yes, if you were hoping to see more battles and learn about Tinaris’ role is in this world, then volume 2 is going to be more engaging. Volume 2 continues to have both food and alchemy as key plot points, but if the slice-of-life easygoing nature was one of the main reasons you enjoyed the first volume, well, you may be slightly disappointed. Despite protagonist Tinaris’ penchant for making healing potions, Reincarnated as the Last of my Kind volume 1 was close to a typical lackadaisical food-centered isekai. ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing is that Alistair and Stephanie are not only fundamentally different, but have fundamentally different backgrounds and expectations. It didn't here, and that's a tribute to Balogh being able to present her characters so strongly that you understand and sympathize even when you want them to behave differently (i.e. ![]() Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.Ī lot of this story was people talking past each other. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() The in-game plot mirrors the real-world conflict, with skirmishes between players and the Non-Player Characters reflecting the real-world battles between corporations. It is seemingly the main form of entertainment for average citizens who buy collectibles and pay subscriptions to several different streams. ![]() The virtual game world replicates the real world they live in, with accurate details of New Liberty City recreated in the game. ![]() From their overcrowded living space, they hold odd jobs, endure nightly power curfews, and stream themselves playing an online game. ![]() Mal and her best friend Jessa live in the slums outside New Liberty City, a super megapolis constructed to accommodate climate refugees, but ruled by two warring corporations. Hypercapitalism threatens individual liberty in Nicole Kornher-Stace’s Firebreak, where two megacorporations have all but replaced the American government and control essential natural resources. Science fiction dystopias have often featured authoritarian governments, yet increasingly in the real world, the nation-state is ceding power to privately held corporations. ![]() ![]() Featuring essays originally written in Italian and published in English for the first time, as well as essays written in English, Translating Myself and Others brings together Lahiri’s most lyrical and eloquently observed meditations on the translator’s art as a sublime act of both linguistic and personal metamorphosis. Lahiri considers the unique challenge of translating her own work from Italian to English, the question “Why Italian?,” and the singular pleasures of translating contemporary and ancient writers. ![]() ![]() She traces the theme of translation in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks and takes up the question of Italo Calvino’s popularity as a translated author. Celebrated for her tales of Southeast Asian immigrants and their American offspring beginning with her Pulitzer Prize-winning story. With subtlety and emotional immediacy, Lahiri draws on Ovid’s myth of Echo and Narcissus to explore the distinction between writing and translating, and provides a close reading of passages from Aristotle’s Poetics to talk more broadly about writing, desire, and freedom. Jhumpa Lahiri clearly believes in the power of change. ![]() ![]() Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. ![]() |