![]() ![]() Magellan’s skills as a soldier and apparent lack of fear in promoting his aims-if matched by a deeply provisional knowledge of the world beyond Iberia-eventually won him the exclusive contract to find the fabled Spice Islands and claim the lands he found for Christianity and Spain. Considered a tyrant by some, a traitor by others, and often in trouble with one legal authority or another, Magellan seemed driven by a need both to serve the powerful and to make himself rich and/or famous in the bargain he also had a habit of tripping himself up and making powerful enemies, racking up charges of selling provisions to the Arab enemy in one war and earning mistrust for abandoning his native Portugal for the chance to command an expedition for archrival Spain. A vivid account of Magellan’s star-crossed voyage around the world nearly five centuries ago.įond of epic adventures and odd ducks alike, Bergreen ( Voyage to Mars, 2000, etc.) finds a nice blend of the two in Ferdinand Magellan’s life and career. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They’ve been rushed to the Australian desert to investigate a potentially lethal pathogen that crashed to Earth on the remnants of Skylab, America’s first space station. Trini and Roberto work for the Pentagon’s Defense Threats Reduction Agency (DTRA). And you probably won’t like what happens when it does.Ĭold Storage by David Koepp (2019) 304 pages ★★★★★Ī biological thriller about a lethal fungus grown in space But then it will suddenly all come together. It won’t seem to make a lot of sense for awhile. Trini and Roberto will show up again a lot further along. Much later you’ll meet Travis (Teacake) Meacham and Naomi Williams, two young people who work as security guards at a storage facility in Missouri. Trini Romano and Major Roberto Diaz are on assignment in the desert of Western Australia. The first two you’ll encounter are officers in the U. You’ll meet a lot of people in Cold Storage, but four are key. Warning: this novel is a biological thriller that might keep you up at night. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He traces how, during eight key thresholds, the right conditions have allowed new forms of complexity to arise, from stars to galaxies, Earth to homo sapiens, agriculture to fossil fuels. How did we get from the Big Bang to today's staggering complexity, in which seven billion humans are connected into networks powerful enough to transform the planet? And why, in comparison, are our closest primate relatives reduced to near-extinction?īig History creator David Christian gives the answers in a mind-expanding cosmological detective story told on the grandest possible scale. A compelling history of everything' Washington Post 'Nails home the point: Life is a miracle. David Christian, creator of Big History ('My favourite course of all time' Bill Gates), brings us the epic story of the universe and our place in it, from 13.8 billion years ago to the remote future ![]() ![]() ![]() Shadow Me, a e-novella from Kenji Kishimoto's point of view, was published March 5, 2019. The fourth book, Restore Me, was published on March 6, 2018. Unite Me contains the two e-novellas, Destroy Me and Fracture Me, and features an exclusive look into Juliette's journal. Unite Me was released for the first time along with the publication of Ignite Me. ![]() ![]() The third book in the series, Ignite Me, was published on February 4, 2014. After the publication of the second book, another e-novella, Fracture Me, from Adam Kent's point of view, was published on December 17, 2013. The second book in the series, Unravel Me, was published on February 5, 2013. The first book of the series was published on November 15, 2011. An e-novella, Destroy Me, told from Warner's point of view, was released on October 6, 2012. The series centers on Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch. Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian hexalogy written by Tahereh Mafi. ![]() ![]() ![]() And he grapples with a question that should concern every US citizen: When a president appears to favor personal and Russian interests over those of our nation, has he become a national security threat? In Compromised, Strzok draws on lessons from a long career - from his role in the Russian illegals case that inspired The Americans to his service as lead FBI agent on the Mueller investigation - to construct a devastating account of foreign influence at the highest levels of our government. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander in chief had fallen under the sway of America’s adversary in the Kremlin. ![]() His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia’s election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to lay bare the threat posed by President Trump. ![]() ![]() ![]() And while she’s struggling to imagine her future, the violent rebels that are determined to overthrow the monarchy are growing stronger and their plans could destroy her chance at any kind of happy ending. Just when America is sure she’s made her choice, a devastating loss makes her question everything again. With the group narrowed down to the Elite, the other girls are even more determined to win Maxon over-and time is running out for America to decide. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the palace, and is overcome with memories of the life they planned to share. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. ![]() And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea.Īmerica still isn’t sure where her heart lies. Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. The hotly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Selection. ![]() ![]() What this does is open a discussion about attraction and $exuality. Secondly, I’m intrigued with the choices of Finley to take a “straight” hero and challenge his “straightness” as we find with Rainn, the $exy bartender of Vino & Veritas. This happens over and over again in Finley’s Headstrong. ![]() What happens is…as the seriousness of the story progresses, the sunshine of one hero creates moments of hilarity and ease in contrast to the tension of their love affair. ![]() And I’m also a sucker for a sunshiny hero who brightens the life of the grumpy hero. For one, I am a sucker for a grumpy hero, one who lives with a little cloud above his head. There are a couple of reasons for my love of this book. And of the three newest books, my favorite to date is Eden Finley’s Headstrong. Thus far, there have been three books released into the romancelandia wild for Vino & Veritas in the World of True North. ![]() ![]() Therefore, it is important to understand the fundamental workings of culture, and how media, like folk-tales, can affect people. In the introduction of Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen: A Dual-Language Book, Stanley Appelbaum, the editor and translator of the text, specifies that “it has inspired retellings and adaptations in all public media and it has become an integral part of the childhood experience of millions”. ![]() There is no doubt that the Kinder- und Hausmärchen had a profound cultural effect on the world. It is valuable to begin by discussing why it is important to analyze “Rapunzel” and other folk-tales with regards to feminism. ![]() The focus is particularly on the function of the tale within a feminist framework, and how it perpetuates conservative gender-representations, misogyny, and other problematic ideologies. ![]() With specific attention to the Brothers Grimm iteration from their seventh version of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The aim of this essay is to deconstruct the classic folk-tale “Rapunzel/Rampion” ![]() ![]() ![]() He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire. He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. Other travel books include the massive bestseller Notes From a Small Island, which won the 2003 World Book Day National Poll to find the book which best William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. ![]() It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson's hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother's Chevy around small town America. He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK. William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am predisposed towards biochemistry, and physical chemistry just doesn't work for me. If it did, then it would just be printed with nothing really being said about it, but I'm expected to apply it. I'm not there yet! The homework used equations or forms of the primary equation that were not introduced and not listed in the end-chapter formulas list. I was doing Ch 15 homework, and the equation I was supposed to use for one of them was from Ch 16. I will go through a passage, feel like I understand it, and then I see an example using definitions that it had not previously introduced. As I read it, and especially towards chapters 17,18,19,20,21, things feel really jumbled around. I have gone through this whole book over the last year. Here is why I give this book a low rating: I saw some reviews that were bewildered to see the low ratings. ![]() |