![]() ![]() ![]() “The short-termism among US policymakers has meant that the gains from globalization have been misallocated in a way that frustrated millions of Americans and spurred the populist reaction witnessed in 2016. A 2016 report by the Institute for Economics and Peace concludes 2014 was the worst year for terrorism in a decade and a half, with attacks in ninety-three countries resulting in 32,765 people killed 29,376 people died the year before, making 2013 the second worst year.5”Įdge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth-and How to Fix It While this study focuses largely on the prospect of natural resource conflicts, water especially, it underscores the political vulnerability of many economies. The Horizon 2025: Creative Destruction in the Aid Industry report cautions that within the next decade more than 80 percent of the world’s population will live in fragile states, susceptible to civil wars that could spill into cross-border conflicts.4 The US National Intelligence Council has published a similarly dire forecast of more clashes in decades to come. ![]() Nevertheless, the forecasts of increasing fragile states, mounting conflicts born of natural resource scarcity, and the rising risk in the incidence of terrorism around the world all point to an increasingly politically volatile world, one that is worsened by economic uncertainty. “The world has enjoyed a notably long period marked by relative peace and security. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It is the third and penultimate instalment in the series of Spud Milton's schoolboy diaries, following on the best-selling Spud and Spud - The Madness Continues. Spud - Learning to Fly transports the reader on an authentic tragicomic journey, deep into the sublime and ridiculous world of being a teenager. He attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat. ![]() Spud's world has never seemed less certain. ![]() ![]() Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Subjects Trending Library Explorer Lists Collections K-12 Student. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncomfortable redemption, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Spud - Learning to Fly by John Van de Ruit, 2011, Penguin edition. The script - by the author of the books, it should be noted - is less focused than previous and jumps around all over the place, but still has its moments. The year is 1992 and, as always in South Africa, radical change is in the air. 'I'm practically a man in most areas,' writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. As Spud Milton continues his diabolical stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: when dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Carter and Evie are both thirtysomething professionals-so why can’t they act like it?Ĭan Carter stop trying to please everyone and see how their mutual boss is really playing the game? Can Evie put aside her competitive nature long enough to figure out what she really wants in life? Can their actor clients just be something close to human? Whether these two Hollywood love/hatebirds get the storybook Hollywood ending, or just a dramedy of epic proportions, you get to enjoy Christina Lauren’s heartfelt, hilarious story of romance in the modern world. ![]() What could have been a beautiful, blossoming romance turns into an all-out war of sabotage. 'Smart, sexy and feminist, Dating You / Hating You will delight contemporary romance fans.' Shelf Awareness 'Lauren’s standalone brims with authentic characters and a captivating plot.' PW on Roomies (starred review) 'Christina Lauren is back in top form in this light, funny and unflinchingly honest stand-alone novel about growing up. Even the realization that they’re both high-powered agents at competing firms in Hollywood isn’t enough to squash the fire.īut when their two agencies merge-causing the pair to vie for the same position-all bets are off. But these two will learn that sabotage is a dish best served naked.Ī sexy, compulsively readable romantic comedy that dives headlong into the thrill and doubt of modern love, Dating You/Hating You by New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren is the story of what two high-powered agents will-and won’t-do to get everything they ever wanted.ĭespite the odds against them from an embarrassing meet-awkward at a mutual friend’s Halloween party, Carter and Evie immediately hit it off. Everyone knows that all’s fair in love and war. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Yet, do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong, / My love shall in my verse ever live young."īut even if you don't listen to me, Time, and you make my love grow old and die, through my poetry he will be immortalized as a young man. "Him in thy course untainted do allow / For beauty's pattern to succeeding men."Īllow him to remain beautiful, to serve as a paradigm of beauty for all generations. Time, do not make my love's face grow old and wrinkly "O! carve not with thy hours my love's fair brow, / Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen " "To the wide world and all her fading sweets / But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:"Įverything in the world is a subject to the passing of time, but Time, there is one thing I won't let you do: Time brings the changes of seasons and emotions and does whatever it wants, "Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st, / And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time," Tigers grow old and lose their teeth, and phoenixes burn in their own blood ![]() "Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws, / And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood " ![]() ![]() In time, even lions become weak and lose their powerful claws, and everything dies "Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, / And make the earth devour her own sweet brood " ![]() ![]() ![]() Philology was a tremendously influential discipline in the late 19th century, part of a range of historical theories of the era including the historical materialism of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and the theory of evolution from Charles Darwin (1809-1882). He studied philology as an undergraduate and Masters student in the Columbia University Germanics Department. His later work combining ideas from linguistics, cultural anthropology and psychology has had a critical influence on current linguistic anthropology.īorn in Lauenberg, Germany, and New York City-raised, Sapir was fluent in languages including English, German, and Yiddish. He was also known as an elegant prose writer, a talented poet, and an accomplished musician. ![]() It may be treated as history or it may be studied comparatively as form.” Reflecting this, his work included traditional 19th century historically-oriented philology, 20th century synchronic study of linguistic form, and exploring the relationship between the individual and culture. ![]() Writing for American Mercury magazine in 1924, Sapir argued, “There are two ways, it seems, to give linguistics its requisite dignity as a science. ![]() Linguistic anthropologist Edward Sapir (1884-1939) negotiated between multiple worlds of linguistic study. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The slaying prompted a three-year manhunt. Wood was shot in the back outside his San Antonio home. ![]() Wood had been scheduled to preside in a drug conspiracy trial involving Chagra’s brother, Jimmy Chagra. Two passengers in Chagra’s vehicle, 61-year-old Ambrosio Issaios Serrano and his son, 39-year-old Jorge Ambrosio Serrano, both of El Paso, were killed.Ĭhagra served 6 1/2 years of a 10-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to murder conspiracy in the 1979 assassination of U.S. He was 50.Ĭhagra was critically injured Friday when his 1992 Toyota Landcruiser went out of control and flipped several times on Interstate 10 northwest of downtown El Paso. EL PASO, Texas (AP) _ Joe Chagra, a former defense lawyer who plotted to kill a federal judge to save his brother from a harsh drug sentence, died Sunday of injuries he suffered in a car crash. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second, it is the world where Loki finds and captures Andvari to seize his cursed gold. In the first, the gods go to that realm to find chains strong enough to hold Fenrir, Loki’s monstrous wolf son. Svartalfheim is mentioned in only two instances, both in the collected stories of the Prose Edda. ![]() Beyond this, however, little is known about these races or their homelands. The svartálfr, which translates as “black elves,” were held separate from the “light elves,” who were called ljósálfar or hvítálfar. In most writings, the world of Svartalheim is known as the homeland of the dark elves. So who were the svartálfar who lived in this underground world? Who Lived in Svartalfheim? While the concept of light and dark elves is popular in modern fantasy, however, the descriptions of Svartalfheim and its residents in the few surviving stories set there do not seem to align with our concept of elves. The world’s name translates as “home of the black elves” and it is described as a dark, subterranean realm. They believed that there were Nine Worlds, each of which was the home of a different race of beings. The Prose Edda, a collection of Norse legends from 13th century Iceland, details the cosmology of the Norse people. ![]() ![]() ![]() That little girl is me, and I’m going to burn this City to the motherf*cking ground. That little girl is all grown up, and now she’s the Academy’s newest scholarship student. Series by Elizabeth Dear Blackstone Academy (3 books) by Elizabeth Dear (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating 5,008 ratings A Knight's Revenge (3 books) by Elizabeth Dear (Goodreads Author) 4. That little girl has been hiding just across the river, right under their noses. ![]() Only what Bennett Spencer, Noah Hargraves, and Zach Ferrero don’t know-what the Families have failed to realize after all these years-is that Jolie Knight didn’t die that night. Seven years later, the remaining Heirs have taken their place at the ultra-exclusive Holywell Academy where the City’s elite strive to earn a coveted place in the Families’ kingdom by rubbing elbows with the exalted sons. And the other Heirs-three sons-were only twelve as they watched their best friend die on the floor of a soulless beige conference room next to her parents. Their daughter was only eleven years old. At least, there were Four Families, and there were four Heirs-until three of the Families banded together to murder the Knights in cold blood one fateful summer night. Each Family has an Heir, and they are raised together to one day assume control of their respective empires, trained to crush anyone who stands in their way under the heel of their unmeasurable power. The Spencers, the Hargraves, the Ferreros, and the Knights rule the City together with their exorbitant wealth and iron fists that no one dare challenge. ![]() ![]() But a few scientists realized that these injuries were an opportunity for studying brain function at its extremes. ![]() An injury to one section can leave a person unable to recognize loved ones some brain trauma can even make you a pathological gambler, pedophile, or liar. In many cases survival was miraculous, and observers could only marvel at the transformations that took place afterward, altering victims’ personalities. Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike-strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidents-and see how the victim coped. You can read this before The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.įrom the author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery written by Sam Kean which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery by Sam Kean ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gore Verbinski’s 2002 adaptation of Hideo Nakata’s 1998 horror film “Ring” (AKA “Ringu”) was a groundbreaking movie - “The Ring” is often credited as bringing about a newfound interest in Japanese horror amongst Western moviegoers. ![]() The history of Western adaptations of Japanese animation is filled with romantic partners turned into “cousins ” and love turned into “grace.” A backlash is only just now emerging around this kind of systematic erasure in anime, but considering the West’s extremely limited (and often distortedly fetishistic) views of Japanese media, I can’t help but wonder: where else do queer plots exist that Americans simply haven’t seen? Nay, come, let's go together.” - Hamlet, William ShakespeareĬW: Rape, murder, hate crimes, suicide, homophobia, transphobia, AIDSĪmerican Japanophiles have recently become aggressive about calling attention to the various ways that queer subtexts or storylines in Japanese media are completely eradicated when adapted for non-Japanese audiences. And still your fingers on your lips, I pray. ![]() |