SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE BRANFORD BOASE AWARDSELECTED AS ONE OF THE NATION'S 100 FAVOURITE STORIES TO SHARE (World Book Day, 2018)"A steampunky tale of ambition, pursuit and revenge." The Guardian"A delightfully badly behaved heroine, enthralling mechanicals and a stormer of a plot." Abi Elphinstone"A glittering clockwork treasure. Too soon Lily realizes that those she holds dear may be the very ones to break her heart. Her father is missing and now silver-eyed men stalk her through the shadows. Some secrets change the world in a heartbeat. What could they want from her?With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination. The first in the bestselling Cogheart Adventures series, where mayhem, murder and mystery meet in a gripping Victorian world of fantastical imagination.
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Life on the street has taught her valuable lessons, like how to fight demons, how to survive, and how love is a weakness she can’t afford to have. Let me start off by saying that my tastes as of late have been drifting closer and closer to the horror aspect of dark fantasy, and this book gave me everything I wanted and a whole hell of a lot more.įirst and foremost, let’s introduce you to the cast of characters: Set against a Victorian-era backdrop, we first meet Andromeda the debtera, which basically means she’s an exorcist. I don’t know if I’ve ever anticipated writing up my thoughts about a novel as much as when I sat down to write this Within These Wicked Walls book review. Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood is a luxuriously dark fantasy that mixes horror and romance in such a way that it will leaving you gasping for more. The secret to extraordinary success is to put in 10 times the relevant effort than most people, and to condition your mind for the success. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Understanding the 10x rule you to accelerate the process.Īll images in the post are clickable! The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone in a Nutshell Now that we're experiencing a global pandemic many have to pivot their business and career. This article is also appropriate for millennials. By amplifying your goals 10X, you'll place yourself in the discomfort zone where genius happens. Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner, who is looking to accelerate his business? If you have ever asked yourself, or wondered, how to grow my business fast, then The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone is for you! If you're not an entrepreneur, or a small business owner, The 10X Rule by Grant Cardone will help you as well. Even an ignorant man who is devoted to his service becomes liberated.” By the sight of him the whole world becomes consecrated. By a touch, a word, or even a glance, he could awaken others to a greater awareness of God's presence, or bestow the experience of superconscious ecstasy on disciples who were in tune.Ī passage in the Upanishads tells us: “That sage who has solely engaged himself in drinking the nectar which is no other than Brahman, the nectar which is the outcome of incessant meditation, that sage becomes the greatest of ascetics, paramahansa, and a philosopher free of worldly taint, avadhuta. I often observed how effortlessly he would enter the transcendent state of samadhi each of us present would be bathed in the ineffable peace and bliss that emanated from his God-communion. Paramahansaji manifested utter mastery of the yoga science of meditation cited by Lord Krishna in the Gita. And of the literary works that flowed so prolifically from his communion with God, the Bhagavad Gita translation and commentary may well be considered the Guru’s most comprehensive offering - not merely in sheer volume but in its all-embracing thoughts. Even if he had left to posterity nothing more than his lectures and writings, he would rightly be ranked as a munificent giver of divine light. Every free soul has to shed on others his light of God-realization.” How generously Paramahansa Yogananda fulfilled this obligation! - scriptural words voiced by him early in his world mission. “No siddha leaves this world without having given some truth to mankind. As Adichie, however, illustrates throughout the course of the book, this discomfort of Americans, namely White Americans, to discuss race-related issues is one of the major roadblocks to racial equality. You’re supposed to pretend that you don’t notice certain things.” In that response, one of the primary issues with American society is succinctly summarized: as a nation, we prefer to ignore topics that make us uncomfortable, especially when those topics pertain to race. After the exchange, Ifemelu, who has only recently come to the U.S., asks Ginika “Why didn’t she just ask ‘Was it the black girl or the white girl?’” Ginika’s response is right on the nose: “Because this is America. The cashier then asks if it was the one with dark hair, and after Ginika just smiles, the cashier says that she’ll just figure out who it was later. The cashier first asks if it was the attendant with long hair, to which Ginika replies that they both had long hair. It describes a scene in which Ifemelu and her friend, Ginika, are asked by the cashier at a clothing store which store attendant helped them. There is a passage on page 155 that stands out to me in particular. and U.K., and personal identity.Īdichie’s observations about race in America are spot on. The novel touches upon an array of important and relevant topics, including race, immigrant experiences in the U.S. There is a lot to unpack from Americanah. TLDR: Americanah is a masterfully written novel about race and identity that you should add to the top of your to-read list. Today’s rapidly expanding interfaith coalition - which includes Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and other faiths - has become a force within the larger “resistance” movement. Throughout our history, the Religious Left has embodied and championed the progressive values at the heart of American democracy-abolition, labor reform, civil rights, environmental preservation.ĭrawing on his years of reporting, Jenkins examines the re-emergence of progressive faith-based activism, detailing its origins and contrasting its goals with those of the Religious Right. Constituting an amorphous group of interfaith activists that goes by many names and takes many forms, this coalition has operated since America’s founding - praying, protesting, and marching for common goals that have moved society forward. Since the ascendancy of the Religious Right in the 1970s, common wisdom holds that it is a coalition of fundamentalist powerbrokers who are the “moral majority,” setting the standard for conservative Christian values and working to preserve the status quo.īut, as national religion reporter Jack Jenkins contends, the country is also driven by a vibrant, long-standing moral force from the left. American Prophets: The Religious Roots of Progressive Politics and the Ongoing Fight for the Soul of the Country Posted on Jby PLT Staff He said this blueprint for how to think “factfully” is especially relevant for college graduates, but that “everyone should read it. “I hope you take Hans’s advice to heart,” Gates wrote in a blog post announcing the gift. If every graduate were to download the book and Gates were covering the full retail price, it would put the value of his gift at nearly $55 million. Graduates can access it here.Īs many as 3.6 million such college degrees will be awarded this year, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. The book can be downloaded for free by anyone receiving an associate’s, bachelor’s, or post-graduate degree in the U.S. The divisions between people are based on instincts and assumptions - which can be done away with if we face them head on. Progress is being made but overlooked, it says. Gates is strong on why it will be so hard to get to zero emissions not least the inertia in the energy industry which he identifies and explaining how much more there is to do beyond. The optimistic book, which Amazon lists for online download at $14.99, rejects doom-and-gloom descriptions of the status quo. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has called it “one of the most important books I’ve ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.” The international best-selling phenomenon loved by BARACK OBAMA and BILL GATES is now available in a gift edition with the illustrations in color throughout. The volume is Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World-and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Bill Gates is giving one of his favorite books to every 2018 college graduate in the United States. But an extended family camping trip in the desert brings the luxury-loving Sultana and relatives closer to their nomadic roots, and gives her the strength to carry on the fight for women's rights in all Muslim countries.This book paints a horrifying reality for women of the desert kingdom. Princess Sultana's cause is given an extra sense of urgency against the background of increased dissent against the Al Sa'uds, and the looming spectre of Islamic fundamentalism. The forced marriage of Sultana's niece to a cruel and depraved older man, and Sultana's discovery of the harem of sex slaves kept by a royal cousin, makes this brave royal princess more determined than ever to fight the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia. With Princess Sultana's Circle, the extraordinary story of Princess Sultana continues. Read Or Download Princess Sultana's Circle (Princess Trilogy) By Jean Sasson Full Pages. It is my theme here too, and not just in the personal sense but in a cultural sense as well. “My theme is memory,” Waugh has his narrator, Charles Ryder, say at one point. The 11-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s great novel aired weekly on PBS in 1981. And while my initial attraction was the usual aesthetic one-the accents, the clothes, the vintage motorcars-the novel’s deeper strands wove themselves indelibly into my own story. The book soon became a beloved talisman as well. The 11-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s great novel aired weekly on PBS, the main supplier of my Brit fixes, and I sat gape-jawed at it, drinking it all in, even as its narrative took turns I didn’t understand at the time (some of which I still wrestle with, in different ways). It was in that impressionable state that “Brideshead Revisited” entered, and changed, my life. When “Chariots of Fire” surprisingly won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1982, it felt like a personal triumph. The summer of my first teen year, I didn’t just wake up in the wee hours to watch the televised wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer I dutifully recorded the audio of some of it on a small tape deck for easy replay. I am not quite sure how it happened, but by the age of 13 I was a blissfully indiscriminate Anglophile-a devotee of Jane Austen, “Doctor Who,” Monty Python and the Beatles. ONLY CULTURES THAT TAKE THEMSELVES SERIOUSLY TRANSLATE, only consistent and resistant cultures, with their own durations, nature, (self) hyperculture, interiority and even (self) religion, which believe in their own illusion (Bourdieu), which, meaning, take not just their own game, but the big game, the game-world, the culture as man’s self-creation game, of the permanent hominization of man seriously, translate, meaning, they feed, they are alive, they participate in a metabolism, as intermediary and as spaces of mediation, of creating, exactly, a proper intermediary space for the de-animalization of man, making possible the negotiation and the continuous creation of passage ways and of the infra-, micro-, macro- and supra- circulation etc.Ī CULTURE IS A (BUNK) SPACE FOR TRANSLATION (IN ALL ITS MEANING). Noua paradigmă (un manifest), Cartea Românească, 2015, pp. Sursa: Bogdan Ghiu, Totul trebuie tradus. If you missed his article about Milles Plateaus, by Deleuze and Guattari, you can read it here. Bogdan Ghiu’s manifesto on the perpetual act of translation: as a political, economical, social and cultural act. |