![]() ![]() ![]() It has an extensive network of maritime transportation across very favorable waterways, including optimal access to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. įor instance, across all sectors, he expects the US to fare relatively well. If a country is anticipated to do well in one sector, it is often likely to do well in several other sectors as well. Very often there are some relations or correlations between the prospects of a country across the six sectors. Within each of the above sectors, the author investigates the prospects for a number of developed nations. This book's analysis covers six different economic sectors: What is currently referred to as deglobalization has been the focus of much of the author's research since 2012, when he left Stratfor and founded his own consulting firm. The book was published by Harper Business in June 2022. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization is a nonfiction book written by Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical strategist who formerly worked for the geopolitical intelligence firm Stratfor. ![]()
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![]() A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity,Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee changed forever our vision of how the West was won, and lost. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the series of battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them and their people demoralized and decimated. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold over four million copies in multiple editions and has been translated into seventeen languages. Now repackaged with a new introduction from best-selling author Hampton Sides to coincide with a major HBO dramatic film of the book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.īury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's classic, eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is universally recognized as one of those rare books that forever changes the way its subject is perceived. ![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to placing the cap on, the hair must be moisturized and secured into a style that can withstand even the most restless of sleepers. “In my family, when the sun goes down, our hair goes up!” starts the story, which transforms a routine practice for multigenerations of Black families into a piece of art, and a comforting story. I’ve been wrapping my hair since I was a wee little girl, but explaining to my 5-year-old the importance of keeping her hair protected at night has been quite the arduous task, until the arrival of Bedtime Bonnet, a children’s book by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Redd. Like clockwork, after changing into comfy jammies, we brush teeth, wash faces, moisturize hair, and tuck our precious follicles beneath a satin cap (a “durag” for the spouse who insists this is the secret to a head full of waves). ![]() But before drifting into dreamland, there’s a nightly routine that we must never forget. At the end of each long day, my family look forward to our heads hitting the pillow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m also liking the intriguing hints of a future timeline catastrophe, and even though I don‘t know much about Drax or Phyla-Vell acting as Quasar, their storyline was also very well done. There’s several story threads going on here, and I particularly enjoyed the parts with Rocket leading the Guardians while Quill deals with a situation in the Negative Zone. Because when you need a team of universal champions, who better to lead them than a heavily armed talking raccoon?Īs the Guardians get a warning of an alien threat that will eventually destroy humanity in a future timeline, Star-Lord ends up in the Negative Zone facing an old enemy, Adam Warlock tries to make a deal with the Universal Church of Truth and a couple of other team members get killed. Now Quill has vanished and some Guardians are off running personal missions, but the universe still needs saving regularly so Rocket Raccoon has pulled the remaining members back together as well as adding some new ones. ![]() ![]() The Guardians of the Galaxy had a falling out among themselves after learning that their leader Peter Quill (a/k/a Star-Lord) had used an underhanded tactic when recruiting them. Thanks to the trailer for the upcoming movie adaptation I was singing Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga the entire time I was reading this. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were plenty of ambitious men about-men with the boldness and the drive to create farms, build houses, and accumulate fortunes in land and slaves in the wilderness of the mid-Atlantic.Īs a surveyor and a planter, Peter Jefferson thrived there, and his eldest son, Thomas, born on April 13, 1743, understood his father was a man other men admired.Ĭelebrated for his courage, Peter Jefferson excelled at riding and hunting. Money was to be made, property to be claimed, tobacco to be planted and sold. The first half of the eighteenth century was a thrilling time to be young, white, male, wealthy, and Virginian. There, along the Rivanna, he built Shadwell, named after the London parish where his wife, Jane, had been baptized. An imposing, prosperous, well-liked farmer known for his feats of strength and his capacity for endurance in the wilderness, Peter Jefferson had amassed large tracts of land and scores of slaves in and around what became Albemarle County, Virginia. Peter Jefferson, the father of Thomas Jefferson It is the strong in body who are both the strong and free in mind. ![]() ![]() “The biggest difference between me and Ingrid was that she was in Louboutins every day,” she tells me. Currently, she tends toward laid-back looks (like “sneakers, Levi’s jeans, a white shirt, and a cute bag”), though she does love a Chanel moment and her platform Saint Laurent boots. “I always considered YouTube my creative playground,” she recalls.Īrden occasionally teases the idea of reviving her channel, which includes gems like Arden Style, an assortment of photo shoots and outfit breakdowns that would feel right at home on TikTok’s discovery page. Agents of Secret Stuff would go on to rack up tens of millions of views on YouTube, securing Arden a burgeoning fan base and entry into a community of like-minded content creators who encouraged her to keep uploading videos, from vlogs to covers of her favorite songs. This book had it all drama, conflict, passion and a great romance. The romance between Jolie and Cole though complex was completely believable and well written. ![]() LOVED THIS BOOK The Man She Loves to Hate is among my top 10 releases of 2011. ![]() She of course landed the role, which sees her playing a high school student tangled up in a spy espionage plot interspersed with plenty of butt jokes and absurdities. The Man She Loves To Hate by Kelly Hunter My rating: 5 of 5 stars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is a former Program Director of the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali. She has a Masters in Writing, and an M Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. Catriona directed, shot and edited a thirty-minute documentary of the Bookwallah tour, which screened in India and Australia. ![]() Bookwallah won an Australian Federal Government arts award in 2013. In 2012 Catriona co-created the Bookwallah train tour which took Indian authors, Australian authors and a portable, pop-up library of Australian books through South India by train for a month, and delivered live events at every stop along the way. Since then, she has had an ongoing engagement with JLF (in her mind the most vivid event on the planet), which continues to fuel her deep interest in contemporary Indian literature and culture. In 2009, she received an Asialink Arts Residency with Teamwork Arts and Jaipur Literature Festival ( JLF) to conduct research into the work of twenty-four contemporary Indian authors. Catriona Mitchell is a writer, editor and literary events programmer who fell in love with India initially through its literature when in her teens, and later via her first actual visit in 2007. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lara van Lelyveld, Rose, Bree Hill, Esme Brett, and B.andherbooks Linksįamous for being pressed to death in the Salem Witch Trials less famous for beating one of his indentured farm workers to death. Scifi and fantasy romance, romance novel discussion Does fate exist? Can ghosts get boners? Do you believe a self-professed cold New Englander can learn to love Romance Novels? Listen to find out. In this sometimes frightening, but ultimately uplifting holiday episode, Andrea digs deep into Becky’s unromantic psyche, and also into the lore of Salem, MA where Becky lived for 10 years. Halloween Boo? by Sarah Spade - with my BFF BeckyĪndrea and her non-romance-reading friend Becky read Halloween Boo by Sarah Spade and it does not go according to plan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Growing among black folks as among white, Or I guess the grass is itself a child, the produced babe of the vegetation.Īnd it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Or I guess it is the handkerchief of the Lord,Ī scented gift and remembrancer designedly dropt,īearing the owner’s name someway in the corners, that we may see and remark, and say Whose? I guess it must be the flag of my disposition, out of hopeful green stuff woven. How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read the full text of “A child said, What is the grass?” below:Ī child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands.In reply, what Whitman told the child is the essence of this beautiful and innocent free verse. In this piece, a child comes asking for what the grass is. The poetic speculation regarding the nature and form of the grass starts from this section and encapsulates the work. Through the title of this piece, it becomes clear that this poem is featuring the main idea of the overall poetry collection, “Grass”. It is included in his collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass. “A child said, What is the grass?” appears in the sixth section of Walt Whitman’s widely known poem “Song of Myself”. ![]() ![]() In the course of things, Hans is himself diagnosed with tuberculosis, and remains on the titular mountain for seven years, before leaving to fight in the Great War. The novel’s story, briefly, though I suspect if you are interested in this novel you already know the outline: a young orphaned bourgeois German engineering student, Hans Castorp, intends to have a brief visit with his soldier cousin, Joachim Ziemssen, in the Berghof, an Alpine tuberculosis sanatorium administered by Dr. We are lazy nihilists, without even the courage of our privilege, who write in miserable, metaphysically spiteful fragments as we nervously eye the horizon for the army of our liquidation. As the older Georg Lukács (whose younger self turns up on Mann’s mountain in the guise of the Jew-Jesuit-Communist-Terrorist Leo Naphta) so notoriously complained, the imperial bourgeoisie has in its decadence abandoned Mann’s Herculean and forbiddingly successful efforts toward holistic meaning. I will do my best to say something, nevertheless. ![]() ![]() I would love to write 1000 or 2000 words in dismayed praise of The Magic Mountain, this magisterial 1924 classic of world fiction whose preface threatens that it may take the reader seven years to read, the same number of years that it narrates it took me five long weeks, and I feel as if Thomas Mann has used up all the words there are or ever will be, that I must simply sit, having finished this Alpine ordeal, in mute, awed disquietude. ![]() |