6/10/2023 0 Comments The end of power by moisés naím![]() Modern tools of war, cheaper and more accessible, make it possible for groups like Hezbollah to afford their own drones. CEO's are more constrained and have shorter tenures than their predecessors. Examples abound in all walks of life: In 1977, eighty-nine countries were ruled by autocrats while today more than half the world's population lives in democracies. Naim deftly covers the seismic changes underway in business, religion, education, within families, and in all matters of war and peace. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naim shows how the antiestablishment drive of micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge monopolies, and open remarkable new opportunities, but it can also lead to chaos and paralysis. Those in power today are more constrained in what they can do with it and more at risk of losing it than ever before.In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moises Naim illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. But power is not merely dispersing it is also decaying. ![]() Power, we know, is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. ![]() Mark Zuckerberg's inaugural pick for his "Year of Books" challenge, The End of Power updates the very notion of power for the 21st century. ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments Bury me at wounded knee book![]() Only after many years of such treatment were they allowed to leave the worthless piece of land they had been forced onto after many of their elders and children had died. Destroyed where their fields of grain, herds of cattle and horses, and peach orchards. The first such story is that of the Navaho, who were abused and persecuted by a General from California during the period of the Civil War. Most chapters, aside from the first which is summarizes the story of the Indians from 1429 to about 1860, tells the story of the conquest of one group of Indians. The book is the story of the conquest and subjection of the American Indians of the west from about 1860 to 1890. This review covers the 1990 republication, which includes a new preface. The book was originally published in 1970. It is painful because it is shameful, bloody or horrible. ![]() It is not painful because it fails in its prose or in its ability to tell a story. ![]() ![]() "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is a painful book to read. ![]() Stephen Vincent Benét, from Bury My Heart at wounded Knee, Dee Brown. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Tears of the Neko by Taylor Ryan![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So thank you all!Īlso, if you want to read more about me, Cia interviewed me for the November 2014 CSR, so you can read more here : And coming to GA with all the wonderful people here has just fueled my desire to write. But having expanded my reading repertoire in the last couple years, I have found a new area of writing that I am very passionate about. I read it all, so odds are, I might write about it at some point too.īefore writing the Tears of the Neko (my first m/m fiction which is available now on Amazon), I primarily wrote young adult fiction, some of which are already published. The genre of the story isn’t as important to me as the development of the characters therefore, stories will fall into just about any genre– modern, historical, fantasy, sci-fi, shifter, slave-fic, etc. ![]() As anyone who has read All In or Tears of the Neko can tell, my stories delve into the emotional side of the characters and relationships are built over time. My writings are usually rather angst-ridden. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Little You by Richard Van Camp![]() ![]() That’s 44 years of reading and meditating on the craft of writing illustrated literature. ![]() ![]() I’ve been collecting comics since I was 7 years old. ![]() This medicine man put Fort Smith, NWT, (my hometown) on the map for so many families as they returned home to their loved ones healed and blessed to have more time with their loved ones. As you can imagine, my heart was won as a listener and as a storyteller. Years ago, I was a guard for the RCMP and I heard a story one night from a corporal who told me about a medicine man in our community who was famous for his healing abilities. This medicine man was curing people, and he had the ability to shapeshift. I’m a “waiter” so I want the whole day to just be about celebrating and reflecting on how this series and book 2 “As I Enfold You in Petals” came to be. Great news: my author copies of Book 2 in our The Spirit of Denendeh series arrived last night so we will open the box of books tonight after supper. Mahsi cho for joining me here in our home as the sun rises in the East. “Dene” means “The People” and Dendendeh means “The Land of the People”), and I live in Edmonton, Alberta. I was born and raised in Fort Smith, NWT (Denendeh is what we call The NorthWest Territories. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Defy me epub español![]() ![]() Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, raved: "A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young-adult literature-or. Juliette’s world is packed with high-stakes action and tantalizing romance, perfect for fans of the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard and the Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken. And perhaps these new allies can help her shed light on the secret behind Adam’s-and Warner’s-immunity to her killer skin. Juliette will finally be able to actively fight against The Reestablishment and try to fix her broken world. ![]() ![]() She and Adam were able to escape Warner’s clutches and join up with a group of rebels, many of whom have powers of their own. El mundo est muy ocupado vinindose abajo para prestarle atencin a una chica de diecisiete aos. Mientras ella no lastime a nadie ms, a nadie le importa. La ltima vez que lo hizo fue en un accidente, pero El Restablecimiento la encerr por homicidio. But his mysterious immunity to her deadly power has left her shaken, wondering why her ultimate defense mechanism failed against the person she most needs protection from. Shatter Me Sinopsis: Juliette no ha tocado a nadie en, exactamente, 264 das. It should have taken Juliette a single touch to kill Warner. ![]() The thrilling second installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Stain by ag howard![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If it sounds interesting to you despite what I’ve said, then go ahead and read it. Take everything I say with this knowledge. If I love a book or simply like a book, you may hate it. If I do not like a book, that doesn’t mean you’ll dislike it. I may not always be the target audience for a book sometimes I am. My thoughts and feelings are not your thoughts and feelings. That’s the whole review.īut if you want more, I guess you can keep going.Ĭustomary warning: This is a reminder that these are my personal opinions. I wrote a long synopsis to give myself a clear picture of what to write later, and I’m too lazy to do that now. It is intimidating compared to what I say for likes and thoughts on it all. The synopsis for this might be the longest synopsis I have written. It is going to take me a minute to do so, as I have to get used to writing a lot again for these. Please forgive me as I get back into the swing of these. Book reviews? Turns out I had a lot just in my write up folders. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The queens thief![]() ![]() This was first pushed back to spring 2020 before the book was published on October 6, 2020, concluding the series. In July 2018, Turner announced the March 2019 publication date of Return of the Thief. Turner was the 2013 Literary Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker at the Life, the Universe, & Everything professional science fiction and fantasy arts symposium. ![]() The subsequent books in the series are The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves, and Return of the Thief. The first book in the series, The Thief, won a Newbery Honor award. Turner has no official name for the series herself, sometimes referring to it as "The Geniad", but fans have coined it The Queen's Thief. Turner is best known for her series of young adult novels primarily revolving around a character named Eugenides. She published the stories as Instead of Three Wishes: Magical Short Stories in 1995. Turner began writing a collection of short fantasy stories after moving to California in 1989. Before becoming an author, she worked as a children's book buyer for bookstores in Chicago and Washington D.C. Turner received her BA with honors in English language and literature from the University of Chicago in 1987. In 1997, The Thief was named a Newbery Honor book. She is best known for her novel The Thief and its five sequels. ![]() Megan Whalen Turner (born November 21, 1965) is an American writer of fantasy fiction for young adults. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Poirot one two buckle![]() ![]() ![]() I don’t know if she finished writing before 3 September 1939, the day Great Britain and France declared war upon Germany. It was published in November of 1940 which means (due to the enormous lag between writing and publishing) that Agatha wrote it well before the Blitz began. ![]() ![]() Where the novel gets really interesting is in the politics. This mistake is even more glaring in the film. That plot point never got explained, by the way. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe is a complex novel, and not merely because of a convoluted plot involving accidents of fate and knowing which dentist a stranger would visit. Read more of Teresa’s Agatha Christie movie reviews at Peschel Press.Īlso, follow Teresa’s discussion of these movies on her podcast. I’m also very unsure about that opening sequence: It’s atmospheric, creepy, explains the nursery rhyme to everyone who’s forgotten it, and reveals too much. Teresa reviews “One Two Buckle My Shoe” (1992) and finds the unfortunate opening spoils an otherwise faithful adaptation.ĭropped characters to streamline the text for film, a minor adjustment in date, and a very different opening that reveals critical aspects of the plot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cover illustration is by Geoffrey Martin. Reissued March 1963 with a foreword by Brian Aldiss. Last and First Men (1875) by Olaf Stapledon The next two thousand years', thus selling it short by a factor of a million. Sadly, the blurb on the book's back cover was not so generous and described it as a 'history of In his foreword to the new editionĪldiss wrote that it was a tatty Pelican which had introduced him to Stapledon's novel when he was serving in the British army during World War Two, adding that theĮncounter was later to influence his own work as an sf writer. Stapledon's Last and First Men, which was one of the books that had launched Penguin's Pelican imprint in 1937. In 1963 Penguin launched a separate sf series with Brian Aldiss, as the series editor, recommending titles for inclusion in the series. Spree: The History of Science Fiction (1973). Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. The Art of Penguin Science Fiction: Memory of the future ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Surprise kill vanish![]() ![]() president may go, covertly but lawfully, to pursue the nation´s interests. From an American history point of view this was very interesting and sheds light. With unparalleled access to former operatives, ambassadors, and even past directors of the Secret Service and CIA operations, Jacobsen reveals the inner workings of these teams, and just how far a U.S. A highly readable account of the clandestine and secretive world of covert assassination and team’s performing this. At the end of the day, it is the President, not the C IA, who is singularly in charge.įor the first time, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author Annie Jacobsen takes us deep inside this top-secret history. Despite Hollywood notions of last-minute rogue-operations and external secret hires, covert action is actually a cog in a colossal foreign policy machine, moving through, among others, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the House and Senate Ѕelect Committees. ![]() ![]() Before that time, responsibility for taking out America´s enemies abroad was even more shrouded in mystery. ![]() Since 1947, domestic and foreign assassinations have been executed under the C IA-led covert action operations team. government-sponsored assassinations, from the author of the Pulizter Prize finalist The Pentagon´s Brain The definitive, character-driven history of CIA covert operations and U.S. ![]() |