Dangerous ground josh lanyon6/29/2023 What I found so unexpected was the blatant unprofessional behavior exhibited by the two main characters. Another reviewer has already commented on the thin plotlines of these stories so I won't say any more than agree with that. Unfortunately I was deeply disappointed in this series. I have enjoyed several other of Josh Lanyon's books so I was thrilled to get 5 stories with only one credit. It may be that the manner of speaking that ruined the recording for me sounds just fine, or even attractive, to you. With one exception, his female voices are pretty good. Non-American accents are problematic though-even I can tell that the French accent is awful-and the narrator struggles to keep the accents consistent. Generally, speaking, the narrator does a decent job keeping all voices distinct from one another, which is a definite strength. Since this affectation is part of the author's style of reading, it's there in the narration and both character's voices, although the pitch of the voices is quite different. There are brief, voiced vowels added to the front and back of many words, so that instead of "Will" it's "uhWill" or Willuh." Sometimes there is a sort of "ng" added in there, too. It was hard to finish because the narrator has a very stylized way of reading. Props to her for finding federal security officers most of us have never heard of. Point Blank is not atypical of her work, but the novellas are less polished than her recent work.
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Nausicaä of the valley of the wind vol 16/29/2023 As of December 2020, the cumulative circulation of books has exceeded 17 million. It received the 23rd Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize (大賞, Taishō) in 1994 and the 26th Seiun Award Comic Category in 1995. It was serialized with an English translation in North America by Viz Media from 1988 to 1996 as a series of 27 comic book issues and has been published in collected form multiple times. Production was delayed four times due to Miyazaki focusing on film production. The manga began serialization in the February 1982 issue of Animage magazine and was completed in March 1994. Miyazaki was also strongly inspired by French comic artist Jean Giraud Moebius' Arzach (1975), as seen in the documentary, Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple. The story itself was inspired by the 1971 comic Rowlf by American cartoonist Richard Corben, while the name Nausicaä was derived from the Greek epic Odysseus. The first volume was adapted into the film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind in 1984 and a Kabuki stage play in 2019. It tells the story of Nausicaä, a princess of a small kingdom on a post-apocalyptic Earth with a bioengineered ecological system, who becomes involved in a war between kingdoms while an environmental disaster threatens humankind. 17 million Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ, Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a manga by Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki that was first serialized on Tokuma Shoten's Animage magazine from 1982 to 1994. Empire by Default by Ivan Musicant6/29/2023 In his gripping account based on primary sources, Ivan Musicant re~creates the experiences of the men who served: daring feats that have become the stuff of military lore, unsung day~to~day duties, successes and failures. It concerns most of all the men sent to maintain order in remote locales~the military governors, generals, and officers~and also the State Department officials, congressmen, and Presidents who pulled the strings back home. The Banana Wars is the first history of the rise of the United States as a military power in this hemisphere~ from the Spanish~American War in 1898 to the recent Grenadan and Panamanian interventions. Until now, no comprehensive military history has documented this controversial, evolving chapter in the story of our nation. expeditions have taken our military into the unfamiliar and turmoil~stricken terrains of Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Grenada. military involvement has proved more extensive than the one arising from our commitment to maintain LatinAmerican and Caribbean stability. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). top edge has faint fox spots, other edges clean. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. Black and british forgotten history6/29/2023 It’s a book I read at university and that has been part of my life for 30 years. What led you to get behind this republication of Equiano’s memoir? Anticipating this year’s Black History Month (October), he has contributed a foreword to the republication by Hodder & Stoughton of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the memoir of an 18th-century formerly enslaved man that is also widely recognised as a foundational text of Black British literature. H istorian and broadcaster David Olusoga has been the face of a decolonial turn in British broadcasting that, in recent years, with series including the Bafta-winning Brit ain’s Forgotten Slave Owners, A House Through Time and Black and British: A Forgotten History, has inspired new conversations about injustice in the story of Britain and Britishness in living rooms across the country. Marco polo the legend of kublai khan6/29/2023 He recorded numerous phenomena that astonished him. Here Polo began his documentation of the rich social fabric of India: “The climate is so hot that all men and women wear nothing but a loincloth, including the king – except his is studded with rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other gems.” He made landfall at Tanjore, and entered the kingdom of the Tamil Pandyas. Polo soon found himself sent on many diplomatic missions throughout the Great Khan’s empire, including to India, where he visited the southern tip of the subcontinent – specifically, modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala – between 12 – arriving on the Coromandel Coast in a merchant ship with some three hundred men at his disposal. Khan was so impressed by the younger Polo’s intelligence and humility that he decided to appoint Marco to serve as his emissary to India and Burma. In 1271, the three men embarked on an epic journey to Asia, travelling largely along the Silk Road until they reached Cathay – modern day China – where they were received by the royal court of Kublai Khan. Polo trained as a merchant, learning the trade from his father, Niccolo, and his uncle, Maffeo, themselves ambitious travellers who had previously set up trading posts in Constantinople, Crimea, and the western part of the Mongolian Empire. Here they met Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, and ruler of the Mongols. Image by Krzysztof Golik Creative Commons 4.0 As ever, his love life was complex, his treatment of women “unforgivably callous”. “The years under consideration are some of the most tumultuous in Picasso’s long and twisty life,” said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. This volume is as “clever, amusing, flamboyant” as ever. Despite being written in testing circumstances – Richardson’s eyesight was failing – there isn’t the slightest “let-up” in quality. And so this final instalment breaks off in 1943, with Picasso aged 61 – and destined to “live, paint and love for another 30 years”. Richardson wasn’t even midway through the fourth when he died, aged 95, in 2019. The first three volumes of Richardson’s “monumental biography”, covered Picasso’s life till the age of 50. What Do Men Want? – a ‘provocative and rigorous’ book.Book review: French Braid by Anne Tyler. Hannah capin6/28/2023 (Borrowed from the author’s personal website) Buy Foul Is Fair: | Bookshop | Libro. Hannah Capin has wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember. she holds degrees from Columbia University and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. When she isn’t working on her next manuscript, you can find her sailing, singing, or scheming with her friends. THE DEAD QUEENS CLUB and FOUL IS FAIR are out now, and her third novel is forthcoming from Wednesday Books in 2021 (title and release date to be announced soon!). With a powerful, bomb-shell attitude, a new name and look, and her coven of friends who would do anything for her, Jade changes schools to attend St. Thousands of pages later, she’s still writing about smart girls and vengeance. It starred a girl detective and a brilliant villain seeking revenge on her enemies in the FBI. Hannah Capin wrote her first “novel” when she was 11. Purple lacey fabric comes into the pic at the bottom and right side. There is also a masquerade style mask, a jade roller, and some makeup scattered about. A black velvet gloved hand with a jade ring reaches into the frame at the bottom left and hovers over a lot of blood. Image Description: A flat lay featuring the e-book version of Foul Is Fair as seen on the screen of an android tablet. Not only do our societies prohibit certain acts, such as trespassing, driving too fast, and smoking in restaurants, they also compel us to do certain acts we would otherwise have no desire for, such as paying taxes, serving on juries, and registering for the draft. Yet despite this capacity for deep freedom, we find ourselves living in societies that everywhere impose constraints on our exercise of freedom. Indeed, Rousseau thinks our species is distinguished from all other animals not by our rationality or compassion, both of which animals also possess to a degree, but by our possessing free will. On the contrary, we choose for ourselves what our ends will be and how we will pursue them. Unlike other organisms found in nature, we are not under the full control of instinct or appetite or any other automatic biological force. Human beings are free beings, not just in the superficial political sense of desiring not to be dominated by tyrants, but also in the deep metaphysical sense of living as the will in each of us leads. “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.” Thus begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s classic political treatise, The Social Contract, the aim of which is to offer a solution to the puzzle so memorably stated in its opening line. The topic of his dissertation is the epistemological roots of conservatism. He is mainly interested in political philosophy. candidate in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. Last chance saloon showcard marian keyes6/28/2023 Until he gets ill and he has to ask himself: what have you got if you haven't got your health? All three are drinking in the last chance saloon and they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you. Katherine, on the other hand, is a serial singleton whose neatness fetish won't let a man mess up her life. Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Sushi for Beginners, Angels, The Other Side of the Story, Anybody Out There, This Charming Man, The Brightest Star in the Sky, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Woman Who Stole My Life, The Break and her latest Number One bestseller, Grown Ups. But what have they got to show for it? Sure, Tara's got her boyfriend - but she loves retail therapy so much more. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. ' Tara, Katherine and Fenton have been best friends since they were teenagers. In my decrepit, thirty-one-year-old state, I'd probably never get another man. Katherine, on the other hand, is a serial singleton whose neatness fetish won't let a man mess up her life. On Monday, June 11, Rubin joins an elite group of area garden leaders and legends when he is honored as 2018 Horticulturist of the Year by the San Diego Horticultural Society. The duo followed that bestseller with the plant-centric “Drought-Defying California Garden” three years later. In 2013, he poured his science-based approach and expertise into his first book, “The California Native Landscape,” co-authored with Lucy Warren. “I have been called Reverend Rubin on occasion,” he acknowledges with a chuckle. While building his business, now credited with some 700 native landscapes around Southern California, Rubin passionately promoted California’s diverse flora to anyone who would listen - from garden clubs to landscape pros and horticultural societies. But in the mid-’90s, with a contractor’s license, handful of credit cards and support from his mentor, Las Pilitas native nursery founder Bert Wilson, Rubin took the leap, switching careers to start California’s Own Native Landscape Design ( ) in Escondido. For a few more years, horticulture and garden design remained hobbies while the California-born aviation buff pursued a successful engineering career. The native plant garden he ultimately created for his parents became his first award-winner, placing in a Sunset magazine contest. |