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Alpha bully sam crescent6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The rest of their pack would follow, and if she didn’t control herself, it would be another spectacle she really didn’t want to be part of. Perching on the edge of another fallen tree, she held her side and swiped at her cheeks as the tears started to fall. The moment she realized what was happening, she’d taken flight. The pain she’d gotten from running past a torn branch was already starting to heal, but that was beside the point. There was no way the fates could be so cruel. Mabel Little came out of the clearing, grasping her side while tears filled her eyes. ![]() Even if it means breaking down the wall she’s built around her heart. He wants Mabel by his side for the rest of their lives. Now he’s a man intent on winning his mate, and it isn’t a game. Mabel has no choice but to follow the rules, and Lucas is a changed man. She’s his mate, and against all odds, they are destined to be together. He wasn’t good to her, but he wants the chance to make it right. As the leader’s son, Lucas knows every loophole and demands the chance for reconciliation. When Lucas’s dad interferes as the Alpha and tries to reunite the two, she attempts to sever all ties with Lucas and deny him as her mate. Instead, she runs away to the city, hoping never to bond with him. ![]() So discovering he’s her mate is the cruelest twist of fate. Lucas has been cruel to Mabel for as long as she can remember. Mated to Her Bully - The Alpha Shifter Collection ![]()
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Diane ackerman a natural history of love6/29/2023 ![]() The first: as the older partner’s body and mind begin to wear away, the younger’s most pressing role will become that of caregiver. To love – to marry – a partner older by many years contains, implicit within the commitment, two nearly inevitable provisos. This triumphant book is both a humane and revealing addition to the medical literature on stroke and aphasia and an exquisitely written love story: a magnificent addition to literature, period.” ![]() Diane soon found, however, that by harnessing their deep knowledge of each other and her scientific understanding of language and the brain she could guide Paul back to the world of words. When he regained awareness he was afflicted with aphasia - loss of language - and could utter only a single syllable: ‘mem.’ The standard therapies yielded little result but frustration. ![]() “One day Ackerman’s husband, Paul West, an exceptionally gifted wordsmith and intellectual, suffered a terrible stroke. ![]()
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Rage book woodward6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the speech, Biden proclaimed that Americans "will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this winter of peril and possibility." This contrasts with Woodward's previous books about the Trump administration, Fear and Rage, which took their titles from Trump's comments made during a March 2016 interview conducted by Woodward. The book was published on September 21, 2021, by Simon & Schuster.Ĭonsidered the culmination of Woodward's reporting on the Trump Administration, Peril takes its title from an excerpt of Biden's inaugural address. Peril is a book by American journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa about the last days of Donald Trump's presidency, as well as the presidential transition and early presidency of Joe Biden. 2021 nonfiction book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa ![]()
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Poetics by aristotle6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() For tune and rhythm alone are employed in flute-playing and harp-playing and in any other arts which have a similar function, as, for example, pipe-playing. ![]() ![]() For just as by the use both of color and form people represent many objects, making likenesses of them- some having a knowledge of art and some working empirically-and just as others use the human voice so is it also in the arts which we have mentioned, they all make their representations in rhythm and language and tune, using these means either separately or in combination. Epic poetry, then, and the poetry of tragic drama, and, moreover, comedy and dithyrambic poetry, and most flute-playing and harp-playing, these, speaking generally, may all be said to be "representations of life." But they differ one from another in three ways: either in using means generically different or in representing different objects or in representing objects not in the same way but in a different manner. ![]()
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Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, there’s a lot going on: A witch deals with clan politics (Adarlan’s king makes them his wyvern-riding airborne cavalry), Chaol attempts to protect Dorian from his own magic, a healer falls for Dorian and more. ![]() Celaena, grieving, goes through dark emotional times and must confront her scarred psyche in order to return to the unapologetically awesome heroine readers know and love. Celaena seeks out the Fae Queen Maeve for information cunning Maeve refuses until Celaena proves herself (with the help of a prickly, elite warrior Fae trainer) by embracing her hated demi-Fae heritage and magic. Celaena-the presumed-dead rightful queen of the conquered Terrasen-plans on finding a way to destroy the king of Adarlan’s sources of power, in fulfillment of a vow made on Nehemia’s grave. Magic, painful truths and dangerous military escalations characterize this series continuation.Ĭelaena Sardothien’s in Wendlyn, ordered by the villainous king of Adarlan to assassinate Wendlyn’s royals, or he’ll execute her ex and the family of her dead best friend, Nehemia. ![]()
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The book dr jekyll and mr hyde6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() So, Utterson decides to spy on the strange house, the scene of the crime. He has nightmares of Jekyll being woken in his bed by this blackmailing fiend. ![]() Hyde, causing Utterson to worry even more about Jekyll’s safety. Lanyon, an old friend of Jekyll's who has had a falling out with Jekyll over what he considers to be his old friend's unscientific methods. ![]() Jekyll, has recently made a will and has left everything to a Mr. Enfield agree that it is best not to talk any further about the matter but Utterson is deeply affected, because he knows the person that Enfield describes who trampled the girl. He disappeared into this very house and revealed a check signed by a well-known and respected name. Enfield tells the story of a horrible incident, in which a man trampled a young girl and, when apprehended, seemed remorseless but agreed to pay a large check when threatened by the police. One Sunday, as the pair is taking a walk, they come across a somber looking door belonging to a house that Enfield knows well. He is reserved but kind and is known for loyally sticking by his friends even when they do wrong. ![]()
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Secret Six, Vol. 1 by Gail Simone6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Simone did, however, return to pen the concluding arc to Agent X, some months after the series' initial cancellation.Īfter the dispute with Marvel, Simone moved on to DC Comics, where she was given the Birds of Prey title (beginning with issue #56) featuring the all-female group consisting of Black Canary, The Huntress and Lady Blackhawk. When Deadpool was canceled and relaunched as Agent X, Simone continued as writer, but eventually left the series after a conflict with the series' editor. Simone also penned many Sunday strips for the syndicated Simpsons comic strip.įollowing her Simpsons work, Simone entered the comics mainstream with a run on Marvel Comics' Deadpool. Her contributions include stories for Simpsons Comics, an annual Treehouse of Horror special, and regular scripts for Bart Simpson Comics. Simone worked for Bongo Comics, scripting many of their comics based on The Simpsons. Topics ranged from short, satirical summaries of comic books ("Condensed Comic Classics") to fan fiction parodies. Her column You'll All Be Sorry! appeared weekly on Comic Book Resources. The site brought her into contact with many people working in the comics industry. A former hairdresser who had studied theater in college, Simone first came to fan attention with her Web site Women in Refrigerators, listing many instances in which female comic book characters were the victims of violent attacks because of their gender (rape, miscarriage, murder) or whose attacks were used as a plot device for a male character. ![]()
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Malcolm gladwell 100006/29/2023 ![]() So in their research, which was published in the journal Intelligence, they reanalyzed data from 14 studies of top chess players and musicians. It helps that both skills are amenable to such analysis because players can be ranked almost objectively. In an attempt to answer some of these questions, and to delve further into how practice leads to mastery, Zach Hambrick, associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University, and his colleagues decided to study musicians and chess players. And is there magic in that 10,000th hour? It’s clear that not just any practice, but only dedicated and intensive honing of skills that counts. It was just a matter of putting in the time.īut in the years since Gladwell first pushed the “10,000-hours rule,” researchers have engaged in a spirited debate over what that rule entails. With enough practice, he claimed in his book Outliers, anyone could achieve a level of proficiency that would rival that of a professional. ![]() ![]() Follow are many roads to greatness, but logging 10,000 hours of practice to help you perfect a skill may not be sufficient.īased on research suggesting that practice is the essence of genius, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of appropriately guided practice was “the magic number of greatness,” regardless of a person’s natural aptitude. ![]()
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Thinking fast and slow goodreads6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Arguably the most important psychologist in history, Kahneman has reshaped cognitive psychology, the analysis of rationality and reason, the understanding of risk and the study of happiness and well-being." - Janice Gross Stein, The Globe and MailĮveryone should read Thinking, Fast and Slow. He stands among the giants, a weaver of the threads of Charles Darwin, Adam Smith and Sigmund Freud. It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Daniel Kahneman's contribution to the understanding of the way we think and choose. is a monumental achievement." - Roger Lowenstein, Bloomberg/Businessweek "I will never think about thinking quite the same. This is one of the greatest and most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have read." - William Easterly, Financial Times ![]() That masterpiece is Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. "There have been many good books on human rationality and irrationality, but only one masterpiece. ![]() So impressive is its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and Tversky's work 'will be remembered hundreds of years from now, ' and that it is 'a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.'" - Jim Holt, The New York Times Book Review "It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of intellectual surprises and self-help value. ![]()
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Lovesickness junji ito story6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. ![]() For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. ![]() ![]() Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() |