![]() ![]() While halfheartedly attempting to prove Max's innocence-and pursuing Charnwood's disappeared millions as well as his deceitful daughter-Guy is drawn into an international conspiracy involving murder, money and war. With this event, Goddard's lightly cynical buddy story becomes a political mystery. ![]() When Guy supplants Max as the main object of Diana's affections, a jealous brawl results in a second death-Max's. But their plans go awry when Max falls in love with Diana Charnwood and enlists Guy's help in an elopement that will ultimately leave her financier father dead, and Max accused of his murder. Aboard ship after narrowly escaping prosecution for a financial scam in America, Guy Horton and Max Wingate meet a beautiful heiress, who they think is ripe for their particular brand of seduce-and-extort scheme. Goddard's seventh novel (after A Debt of Dishonor ) about two dapper English con men in the 1930s, gets off to a droll and snappy beginning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But the big canine who Travis calls “Old Yeller” proves his worth by defending the family from danger. Living in Texas Hill Country during the 1860s, Travis comes to face new, unanticipated, and often perilous responsibilities in the frontier wilderness.Ī particular nuisance is a stray yellow dog that shows up one day and steals food from the family. ![]() ![]() When his father sets out on a cattle drive toward Kansas for the summer, fourteen-year-old Travis Coates is left to take care of his family and their farm. A timeless American classic and one of the most beloved children’s books ever written, Old Yeller is a Newbery Honor Book that explores the poignant and unforgettable bond between a boy and the stray dog who becomes his loyal friend. ![]() ![]() And on both worlds, someone was trying to assassinate him. Proton is a science fiction world, where everything works in a logical and scientific manner. Here two worlds exist side by side: Proton and Phaze. On Phaze, where only magic worked, he was the Blue Adept, trying to master the powers of sorcery. Split Infinityis the first book in Piers Anthonys Apprentice Adept series. ![]() On the science world of Proton, he was a serf, trying to prove his right to exist by competing in the Great Games. In this brilliant continuation of the epic adventure that began in Split Infinity, Piers Anthony again proves himself a master of both fantasy and science fiction For Stile, life was a matter of shuttling madly between two worlds, with the problems growing greater on each. ![]() ![]() Piers Anthony Blue Adept (Book Two: The Apprentice Adept)ĭel Rey, June 1991. ![]() ![]() Will I be able to use my Karma points for anything? Karma points are public visible in you profile, but normally we will use a rank to show how active you are in the community. Get your recommendations backed (per agree) Karma points from making recommendations Action Show others that you have bought a product (per bought) Karma points from showing your relation to product Actionĭeclare your love for a product (per loved) In the following tables you can see how you are rewared* for contributing.Īdding a relevant** ingredient (per ingredient)Īdding a relevant** nutrient (per nutrient) You get Karma points from recommending products, making requests and by interacting with other peoples contributions. If you engage a lot with certain products and topics, you can become an influencer to others. Your Karma points signal to others that you a credible, knowledgeable source within the topics you engage with. What you do will come back to you in the future. Your Karma points are a testament to your efforts of changing the world around you for the better. ![]() That is why we keep score with karma points. ![]() When you engage with products and producers you help not only yourself, but others too – and we feel like you should be rewarded with some seriously good vibes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lawyers, managers, doctors, civil servants, business owners - you name it - are encouraged to think and act like “designers” and organize their work like design teams do. Design thinking has become very popular during the last decades, and has expanded to many new areas of business and society - such as law - with a promise of driving innovation and positive transformation. ![]() Our main focus in this episode is on designing for a better world and what’s law got to do with it. Don has authored many design classics, such as The Psychology of Everyday Things, and his latest book, Design for the Better World is coming out this March.ĭon shares his interesting career stories and we talk about writing books. ![]() We talk to the legendary Don Norman, also known as the godfather of design, who started his interesting career life as electrical engineer, ended up to be a psychologist, cognitive scientist and computer scientist, and eventually a designer. Today, we have a very special guest joining us. ![]() ![]() ![]() He thrives on maintaining control, but when he lets that façade slip, he can become a cruel judge, jury, and executioner to those who cross him.Īs with all heroes of his archetype, however, Dante has a softer side underneath his mask of arrogance. ![]() As the title implies, Dante Russo runs his business with a ruthless iron fist. I was delighted that King of Wrath incorporated various forms of these tropes, but found a way to sidestep many of the stereotypes of these stories. After all, there are very few of us who don’t dream of suddenly coming into money and finding most (but certainly not all) of our worries swept away amidst the rush of cash and caviar. On top of that, I love a good arranged marriage/marriage of convenience story, and I’ve been getting more into billionaire romances as of late. ![]() I used to be obsessed with knowing all of them, probably in part from the episode of Charmed that turned the Halliwell sisters (plus Leo!) into their personifications. I was intrigued by the Kings of Sin series because each one is based on one of the Seven Deadly Sins. This is my first Ana Huang book, and I can easily say that I think she just found a fan for life. ![]() This King of Wrath book review is sure to pique your interest if you’re into billionaire romances or arranged marriage stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() To her surprise, Veronika finds herself drawn to the confinement of Villete and its patients, who, each in his or her individual way, reflect the heart of human experience. The story follows Veronika through the intense week of self-discovery that ensues. While the overdose didn't kill Veronika immediately, the medication has damaged her heart so severely that she has only days to live. Naturally Veronika is stunned when she does wake up-at Villete, a local mental hospital, where the staff informs her that she has, in fact, partially succeeded in achieving her goal. ![]() She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. Inside her is a void so deep that nothing could possibly ever fill it. Description: Twenty-four-year-old Veronika seems to have everything she could wish for-youth and beauty, plenty of attractive boyfriends, a fulfilling job, and a loving family. ![]() ![]() Socialization refers to the lifelong process of inheriting, interpreting, and disseminating norms, customs, and ideologies.This is contrasted with the previous strategy of regulating bodies but not seeking complicity. Discipline is a power relation in which the subject is complicit. Michel Foucault argues that the eighteenth century introduced a new form of power: discipline.Ivan Nye argued that youth may be directly controlled through constraints imposed by parents, through limits on the opportunity for delinquency, and through parental rewards and punishments. Jackson Toby argued that individuals engaged in non-delinquent community activities felt as thought they had too much to lose by joining delinquent groups and, hence, had a “stake in conformity “.Through external means of control, individuals conform because an authority figure threatens sanctions if the individual disobeys.Internal means of control, such as an individual’s own sense of right and wrong, decrease the likelihood that one will deviate from social norms.Social control theory argues that relationships, commitments, values, and beliefs encourage conformity. ![]() ![]() Instead of neat puncture marks in the neck showing where the blood has been drained from the body, these corpses are mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. When strange attacks erupt within the club drug-trafficking network and draw the attention of the police, Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. ![]() Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons-predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. ![]() Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. ![]() ![]() * Fast and Furious Action-readers better hold on to their seats!įans wanted more and now they've got it! In this special author's edition of Minion, readers will uncover more intrigue, more heat, and most importantly, more Damali Richards, vampire huntress.Īll Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. In this exciting new edition of the first book in the Vampire Huntress Legend series, both fans and newcomers alike will experience a Minion that includes: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I demand reparations for my ancestors’ fall from graceīest read individually with only a guttering candle for illumination, and with a gusty wind rattling the shutters, these tales are intended for the sophisticated modern reader who has lost, abandoned or forfeited the need or ability to be thrilled, shocked, amazed or bewildered. All new, never before seen, original stories by Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Elmore Leonard, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers et al. Well, never fear, McSweeney’s here with 20 contemporary takes on these supposedly long-lost and forgotten genres. Where today, he asks - and here one has to wonder how hard he actually looked - is the ghost story, the horror story, the detective story, the story of suspense, terror, fantasy or the macabre? Where, he ponders, is the sea adventure, the spy, war or historical story? ![]() Introducing the first true Dave Eggers’ McSweeney production (and it is a production - jacket, binding, illustrations, chapter headings and all) to be published here, Michael Chabon explains that the starting point for this eclectic collection is the notion that all the short genre fiction which once supported American magazines of the Fifties should be considered no less valid a part of the present literary landscape as the ‘sparkling, plotless and epiphanic’ stories of which it is all too often currently comprised. ![]() |