![]() ![]() ![]() Kitai began to feel cold for the first time since spring. ![]() Hard, coarse flecks of snow fled before it, and though the One rode high in the sky, the overcast hid his face. Wind howled over the rolling, sparsely wooded hills of the lands in the care of the Marat, the One-and-Many People. ![]() From the writings of Gaius Secondus, First Lord of Alera Significance is cumulative-but not always obvious. So it is with mankind, as the customs and traditions of our progenitors blended together to form the foundation for our own cities, history, and way of life.īe they dead stone, living flesh, or rolling sea be they idle times or events of world-shattering proportion, market days or desperate battles, to this law, all things hold: So it is with the growth of plants that spring from seeds, as well as with walls built of many stones. If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: large things are made of smaller things.ĭrops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences and sentences combine to express thought. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Here are three stone fruits that are beneficial for reducing blood sugar and cholesterol levels, along with offering other health benefits:Ĭherries, a delectable variety of stone fruit, possess a remarkable nutritional composition. Nevertheless, numerous individuals have reported positive outcomes with alternative treatments and certain supplements and natural remedies for lowering cholesterol might offer benefits. Limited research has been conducted on natural products to establish their clinical effectiveness in reducing cholesterol levels. ![]() These fruits are not only delicious but also highly nutritious, providing a variety of health benefits. Stone fruits, also known as drupes possess a pit or “stone” in the middle of their juicy and tender flesh. In addition to their delightful taste, cherries, peaches and plums share a common characteristic: they are all classified as stone fruits. But thankfully, stone fruits have been reported to aid in eliminating these problems. Elevated cholesterol levels and diabetes pose significant health concerns these days. ![]() ![]() Star Trek #400, edited by Heather Antos (IDW).Moon Knight: Black, White, and Blood #3, edited by Tom Brevoort (Marvel).Mary Jane & Black Cat Beyond, by Jed Mackay and C.Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads (DC).“You Get It,” by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto, in Amazing Fantasy #1000 (Marvel). ![]()
![]() ![]() Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster. In novels and short stories, he created such memorable characters as Psmith and Jeeves, the archetypical Edwardian drone and his butler. A collection of short stories, My Man Jeeves was first published in the UK in May 1919. This unique writer of social comedy, with his outlandish humor and sharp caricatures of English types, was born in 1881 in Guildford, England. He used a mixture of Edwardian slang, quotations from and allusions to numerous poets, and several literary techniques to produce a prose style that has been compared to comic poetry and musical comedy. ![]() Early in his career Wodehouse would produce a novel in about three months, but he slowed in old age to around six months. One of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse created several characters who became familiar in early 20th century England, including the feather-brained Bertie Wooster and his sagacious valet, Jeeves. Exceptionally rare in the original dust jacket. There are only two known examples of the first state dust jacket. Wodehouses Jeeves series, My Man Jeeves is a classic, humorous novel from one of the 20th centurys most. Bertie is an idle rich man, who is always ready to help his friends. Fine in a near fine second state dust jacket. My Man Jeeves by P.G Wodehouse is a collection of comedic work featuring three of Wodehouse’s famous characters. ![]() First edition of this classic collection of short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's going to take a while to get to them all - it's crowded in there.Ĭurrently, Christina Winds spends her days wrangling databases and her evenings as a mother of two teens, mom-taxi driver, cook, handyman, woodworker, dog-toy thrower, cat servant…and prolific reader. When they started to yell loudly enough, Christina gave in and agreed to put them all into their own books. Eventually, they told her that they were tired of being stuck only inside her head. They entertained her, distracted her, and both kept her out of and got her into trouble. ![]() And had absolutely nothing resembling a plot arc.īut the stories and characters stuck around as the girl grew up - her saviors in times of stress or boredom.or work meetings which are often both. That initial story ended up being hundreds of hand-written pages long. Not being the social type, she decided to combat her boredom - and pretend to be working - by writing her own book instead. One day, an introverted young girl sat in her high school classroom, listening to the teacher instruct her about things she had already learned from the books she loved to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is an excellently written account of the history of the white slave trade. The account is supported by the unpublished letters and manuscripts of slaves and the various ambassadors sent to free them. After enduring long periods of torture Pellow converted to Islam and became the personal slave of the sultan for over two decades-including a stint as a soldier in the sultan's army-before finally making a dramatic escape and return to Cornwall. Pellow's purchaser happened to be the tyrannical sultan of Morroco, Moulay Ismail, a man committed to building a vast imperial pleasure palace of unsurpassable splendour built entirely by Christian slave labour. His latest literary adventure, White Gold, is the story of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish cabin boy who was captured at sea by a group of fanatical Islamic slave traders-the Barbary corsairs, taken in chains to the great slave markets of Algiers, Tunis and Salè in Morocco and sold to the highest bidder. Writer and journalist Giles Milton specializes in the history of travel and exploration. ![]() ![]() ![]() The community of Indian intellectuals have been accused of being dominated by left liberals. ![]() Until the Lion Learns to Write, Every Story Will Glorify the Hunter. These travels resulted in The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History.Ĭurrently Sanjeev lives in New Delhi where he serves as the principal economic adviser to the Indian government. He also spent the next few years exploring the Indian Ocean rim-Oman, Sri Lanka, Zanzibar, Vietnam, Indonesia, and up and down India’s coastline. Then in 2011, again for no particular reason, he went back to finance and took up a role as the global strategist of one of the world’s largest banks. This resulted in his hugely popular second book, Land of the Seven Rivers. One day in 2008, mostly on a whim, he decided to move back to India and travel all over the country with his family. Sanjeev spent most of his adult life battling international financial markets, a few years in Mumbai and many in Singapore. ![]() These experiences made him a keen observer of rapidly changing societies, an interest that reflects in many of his varied writings. He spent the tumultuous summer of 1993 in South Africa as it transitioned from apartheid, and then extensively travelled through Guatemala as it emerged from civil war. He grew up in Sikkim, Kolkata and Delhi before heading off to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Sanjeev Sanyal is an economist, urban theorist and writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() So how do some bizarre domestic fatalities, dodgy downloads and an international spamming network fit together? The more DI Kavanaugh learns, the less she wants to find out:- Review(s): "Savvy, funny, viciously inventive - a grotesque and gripping page-turner" - Cory Doctorow / "Stross is a grandmaster" - Vernor Vinge / "Cracking near-future crime laced with humour that's exquisitely wrong" - Chris Brookmyre:- (original cost £12.99). But you do wonder who's killing off your potential recruits. But that's OK, because as a distraction, you're project manager of a sophisticated criminal operation. The Toymaker: Your meds are wearing off and people are stalking you through Edinburgh's undergrowth. Although now that you're Consul for a shiny new Eastern European Republic, you've no idea what comes next. Especially as you've landed a legit job (through a shady mate). ![]() Anwar: As an ex-con, you'd like to think your identity fraud days are over. But when a fetishist dies on your watch, the Rule 34 Squad moves from low priority to worryingly high profile. DI Liz Kavanaugh: You realise policing internet porn is your life and your career went down the pan five years ago. 1st UK edition, 4th printing:- Synopsis: Rule 34: If you can think of it, there's porn of it. As many as 6 books written by author Stross have been nominated for the Hugo Award. He was born in Leeds, England, but currently lives in Edinburgh, Scotland. © 2011: 2nd in the Halting State' series of books. Charles Stross is one of the most successful authors from England, The United Kingdom, who likes to write his books based on the science fiction, crime, horror, and thriller genres. ![]() Condition: Fine: Very small signs of wear. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar struggle for control over the fate of Arthur's kingdom, as the Knights of the Round Table take on their infamous quest, as Merlin and Viviane wield their magics for the future of Old Britain, the Isle of Avalon slips further into the impenetrable mists of memory, until the fissure between old and new worlds' and old and new religions' claims its most famou … ( more) From their childhoods through the ultimate fulfillment of their destinies, we follow these women and the diverse cast of characters that surrounds them as the great Arthurian epic unfolds stunningly before us. In Marion Zimmer Bradley's masterpiece, we see the tumult and adventures of Camelot's court through the eyes of the women who bolstered the king's rise and schemed for his fall. An impressive achievement.â?â? The New York Times Book Review reading it is a deeply moving and at times uncanny experience. Â?A monumental reimagining of the Arthurian legends. HTML: The magical saga of the women behind King Arthur's throne. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only a single engineer survives who, a touch improbably, shows two robots transformed by love.Ī 2017 production of RUR by Youth Theatre Ireland for the National Youth Theatre, produced by Alan King. With time, the play gets darker as the robots prove to be stronger and more intelligent than their creators and eventually wipe out virtually all humankind. She is amazed to discover that a plausibly human secretary is a machine and is equally astonished when the factory’s directors turn out to be flesh and blood creatures rather than robots. It starts almost as a Shavian comedy with a do-gooding visitor, Lady Helen Glory, turning up on an island where robots are manufactured out of synthetic matter. Given our fascination with artificial intelligence, it’s high time we gave it another look.īut what kind of play is it exactly? A dystopian drama attacking science and technology? Up to a point, but it’s much more than that. But a play that was hugely popular in its time – its Broadway premiere in 1922 had a cast that included Spencer Tracy and Pat O’Brien as robots – has now fallen into neglect. Every time we use the word “ robot” to denote a humanoid machine, it derives from Čapek’s play, which coined the term from the Czech “robota” meaning forced labour. ![]() ![]() One that did was Karel Čapek’s RUR: Rossum’s Universal Robots that had its premiere in Prague 100 years ago this month. N ot many plays introduce a new word to the language. ![]() |