![]() ![]() As you relive that fateful day in September 2001 alongside Michael and Roselle, you'll learn:The ways that grief and loss can lead the way for changeHow the rare trust between a man and his guide dog can inspire your own unshakeable faithThe healing power of telling your own storyPraise for Thunder Dog:"Chapter by chapter of this intriguing work will keep you spellbound. In that moment, Michael chose to trust Roselle's judgment and not to panic. Blind from birth, Michael could hear the sounds of shattering glass, falling debris, and terrified people flooding all around him.īut Roselle sat calmly beside him. When one of four hijacked planes flew into the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson, a district sales manager for a data protection and network security systems company, was sitting down for a meeting. An instant New York Times bestseller, Thunder Dog tells the true story of a blind man, his guide dog, and the life-changing power of faith and trust in the face of terror. ![]()
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![]() Then there is a subculture of people called "stalkers", who go into the zone illegally to gather artifacts for sale on the black market. The population of this town breaks down into roughly two central camps, the first being legitimate scientists studying the artifacts the aliens left behind - though no one is really certain that such mysterious beings actually "left", or even that they were "there" in person in the first place. ![]() Roadside Picnic is set in a small town close to a zone in North America (given the bleak tone and character attitudes, the authors undoubtedly had good reason not to use their own country). ![]() People who go in run a high chance of being killed (or being unkilled, in the case of corpses that come back to life). The zones are very hazardous places, full of dangerous substances and weird phenomena, many of which defy all current human understanding of physics and even causality. The story begins about a decade after aliens of some sort landed on Earth, bringing several strange "zones" into existence. It's as gripping as any recent book, and, with a few minor updates, could have easily worked in the present day. I was impressed with this short 1970s Russian science fiction novel, which still feels pretty fresh and original. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rooted in Lewis’ personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement.īook One spans John Lewis’ youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Now, to share his remarkable story with new generations, Lewis presents March, a graphic novel trilogy, in collaboration with co-writer Andrew Aydin and New York Times best-selling artist Nate Powell (winner of the Eisner Award and LA Times Book Prize finalist for Swallow Me Whole). ![]() His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president. ![]() Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The sausage, the porcupine and the agreeable Mrs. Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319) Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Why doesn't Viagra help women, or, for that matter, pandas? In this book she shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more satisfying place The author devoted the past two years to stepping behind those doors. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R & D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic. The study of sexual physiology, what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better, has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps I have become too old for stories in which the physical attraction of a body consumes one’s soul. ![]() Much of their story made no logical sense to me. However, I failed completely at feeling any connection or even concern for the two main characters. ![]() I was vaguely interested in the developing relationship between Celia and Brother Stephen and Seton draws an intriguing picture of life for Catholics in the chaos of changing loyalties during the reigns of Edward, then Mary, and finally Elizabeth. Unfortunately, that tidbit might have been the only reason I kept reading. We are told at the outset, so no spoiler, that the original Celia was walled up alive in a castle called Ightham Mote, after becoming pregnant at the hand of a monk, and this tidbit keeps the reader plowing ahead, after all, anyone would want to know how and why such a thing should happen to a young girl. The Tudor story is three quarters of the novel and the modern day story only one quarter, which suited me well, since I usually seem to have more interest in the earlier time frames when reading such novels. It has been sung of, though I know not where…Īnya Seton has written here a dual-time tale of a girl, Celia Bohun, living in 1550’s Tudor England, and her reincarnated counterpart, Celia Marsdon, living in 1968. It has been died for, though I know not when, ![]() Thy face remembered is from other worlds, ![]() ![]() HUGE CALL: Cooper Cronk's verdict on Jarome Luai and Nicho Hynes Discussing the situation on NRL 360 on Tuesday night, leading journalist Paul Kent revealed Lomax and Liddle hadn't been given any feedback about their axings.ĬRUSHING BLOW: Jake Trbojevic news leaves NRL fans saddened Lomax has struggled this season after he was switched from right centre to left by Griffin, but Liddle has been one of the Dragons' best players despite being given limited minutes in favour of Moses Mbye. Lomax and Liddle have paid the price for the Dragons' four consecutive losses, left out of the 17 to face the Wests Tigers in Magic Round. ![]() Image: GettyĪnthony Griffin has been taken to task after reportedly offering no feedback to Zac Lomax and Jacob Liddle over his decision to axe them from the Dragons team this weekend. Anthony Griffin has dropped Jacob Liddle, Zac Lomax and Toby Couchman. ![]() ![]() ![]() After a little, it drifted to the bank and El-ahrairah dragged it out and waited a while before pushing it in again. The pike rushed at it, bit it and left it in disgust. El-ahrairah combed himself until he had enough fur to cover a clay rabbit, which he pushed into the water. Once, so they say, he had to get home by swimming across a river in which there was a large and hungry pike. For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. ![]() Uncle Remus might well have heard of him, for some of El-ahrairah's adventures are those of Brer Rabbit. ![]() What Robin Hood is to the English and John Henry to the American Negroes, Elil-Hrair-Rah, or El-ahrairah - The Prince with a Thousand Enemies - is to rabbits. Here's how the text describes him the very first time his name appears: El-ahrairah is much more legendary than mythical, more like a hero than a god. ![]() ![]() ![]() This grim existence is compounded by bullies at school who make fun of his mother's baldness, and an actual nightmare that wakes Conor, screaming, on a recurring basis. ![]() His mother is being treated for cancer his father, Liam, has remarried and lives in America and Conor is left in the care of a grandmother who cares more for her antique wall clock than her grandson. Make trouble.' " What Ness has produced is a singular masterpiece, exceptionally well-served by Kay's atmospheric and ominous illustrations. "I felt and feel as if I've been handed a baton, like a particularly fine writer has given me her story and said, Go. In his introduction to this profoundly moving, expertly crafted tale of unaccountable loss, Ness explains how he developed the story from a set of notes left by Siobhan Dowd, who died in 2007 before she had completed a first draft. ![]() ![]() ![]() The unrest of the 1960s brought about the invention of the SWAT unit–which in turn led to the debut of military tactics in the ranks of police officers. ![]() Today’s armored-up policemen are a far cry from the constables of early America. The consequences have been dire: the home is no longer a place of sanctuary, the Fourth Amendment has been gutted, and police today have been conditioned to see the citizens they serve as an other–an enemy. But according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several decades, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground troops. As a result, our country has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. ![]() ![]() Bush in the 2000 presidential election, saying that he “looks like a guy I could have a beer with.” What a criterion to elect someone for the most powerful political office in the world! I remember a lot of Americans voting for George W. Otherwise, voting in elections becomes like voting in a talent show. So, in a capitalist society, democracy is meaningless unless every citizen knows at least some economics. I am not a monarchist, but what a demeaning way to defend an institution that you think is at the foundation of your society. I have even met some British people trying to justify the monarchy in terms of the tourist revenue it allegedly generates. Economics is in jobs, mortgage payments, and taxes, but also libraries, the teaching of ancient languages in universities, and the preservation of cultural heritage. However, we all need to learn at least some economics because, in a capitalist society, nothing is free from it. ![]() Everyone needs to learn economics.Ī lot of people think economics is boring, difficult stuff, only needed by professional economists. Listen to the audio version-read by Ha-Joon himself-in the Next Big Idea App. ![]() His books include Economics: The User’s Guide, Bad Samaritans, and the international number one bestseller, 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism.īelow, Ha-Joon shares 5 key insights from his new book, Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World. Ha-Joon Chang is a Professor of Economics at SOAS University of London and one of the world’s leading economists. ![]() |