Albert einstein his life and universe6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. Based on the newly released personal letters of Albert Einstein, Walter Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk - a struggling father in. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. ![]() By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Biography/MemoirThe definitive, internationally bestselling biography of Albert Einstein. ![]()
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No more excuses bible study6/12/2023 ![]() Challenge yourself to be a man of character and commitment. ![]() See hard circumstances as opportunities for growth.Overcome setbacks and obstacles on the path to spiritual growth.Learn from the examples of men in the Bible.Become the man God has called you to be.Personal-study opportunities for ongoing spiritual growth.Videos and session previews featuring author Tony Evans.Despite your setbacks, failures, and pressures, you can still find purpose, meaning, and direction in life and become the man God has called you to be. Exploring the examples of men of God throughout the Bible, this study will challenge you to lay down your excuses, stop compromising, and fight to be a man of character and commitment. But Tony Evans urges men to stop looking at their circumstances as excuses and instead to see them as challenges and opportunities for success. ![]() Sometimes circumstances in life make it difficult for men to be all God wants them to be. Be the Man God Made You to Be - Tony Evans ![]() The lipstick laws by amy holder6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() But one lunch spent at Britney's table, and April is basking in the glow of popularity. April is so unpopular, kids don't even know she exists. For April Bowers, Britney is also the answer to her prayers. Just ask the unfortunate few who have crossed her. She dates whomever she likes, rules over her inner circle of friends like Genghis Khan, and can ruin anyone's life with a snap of perfectly manicured fingers. And now I shall bring the deets!Īt Penford High School, Britney Taylor is the queen bee. Today, my featured book is THE LIPSTICK LAWS, by my cosmic twin and Class of 2k11 buddy Amy Holder. Anyway, there's a whole group of us who like to gush about our recent reads, and we are going to be giving a LOT of things away throughout the month, so please scroll down and read all about it. Me eat book later and get indigestion." Or something like that. ![]() Happy Bookanista Thursday! If I was the Hulk, I would describe the Bookanistas as follows: "Me read book! Me like! Me tell you. ![]() ![]() ![]() They were waiting patiently for celery soup, hands folded in laps and eyes dreamy. Excellent cuisine”) is like: “she leaned forward in the taxi, looking from side to side of the wide, frightening road, almost dreading to read the name Claremont over one of those porches.” Once inside, she discovers that the Claremont is less gentlewoman’s hotel than residential home:Īt other tables sat a few other elderly ladies looking, to Mrs Palfrey, as if they had been sitting there for years. As the book opens she is in a taxi, apprehensive about what the Claremont (“Reduced winter rates. Mrs Palfrey is a recently widowed lady who decides to move into a London hotel to see her days out. In the Virago Modern Classics edition of the last novel published in Taylor’s lifetime, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (1971), Paul Bailey distracts us from the awful movie tie-in cover by saying in his introduction: “I envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time.” Elizabeth Jane Howard on the back cover adds: “How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time!” There is also praise from writers as diverse as Jilly Cooper and Sarah Waters, though they don’t say how they feel about readers coming to her books for the first time. But the massed ranks of the literati are out to correct that. ![]() Elizabeth Taylor had the unenviable role of sounding very well known but in fact being almost entirely obscured by her namesake. ![]() Kailey by Amy Goldman Koss6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I would have liked more illustrations of the tied pool and its creatures. ![]() Wonderful escape story for a cold winter day. I really enjoyed visiting the beach with Kailey, riding the waves with her, watching the tide pool creatures, feeling the sun on my face, remembering the experience of digging my toes into the sand. I'm not sure big developers would be so affected by the pleas of the people.Īs this is one of the early books, you can see how the style and story constructs have changed over the years allowing authors to more fully develop the characters and stories into two short chapter books instead of being restricted to one. This one, like other American Girl stories finishes in a nice neat package. Their cove and tide pools are endangered by a developer so they do their best to correct the situation. Young Kailey and her friends love spending time at the beach Kailey particularly takes pleasure in visiting the tide pools. Her story is one from the southern California beach scene. Kailey was the second Girl of the Year commissioned by American Girl. I really liked it, it was well written, it was a quick read, and the illustrations were well done. ![]() Distancia de rescate book6/11/2023 ![]() "The genius of “Fever Dream” is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether." The New Yorker review of Fever Dream suggests that this novella represents a new genre of storytelling-the reviewer writes: Always though events are closely anchored to one or another universally human fear: the fear of paralysis the fear of abandonment the fear of dying the fear that one's children are in danger the fear of being trapped. The novel asks you to banish any thoughts like "what is going on?" from your mind as you read, and to yield to its unhinged and unexplained storytelling style.Īs in a real fever dream-as in a nightmare-the events in the novel move in shuddering and unpredictable ways, from the mundane to the terrifying and back again. The story is told in dialog, and neither of the participants in the conversation are fully connected with a rational world of cause-and-effect. ![]() ![]() As I read I was gripped by a suffocating sense of dread that never let up. I finished the story last night and I'm still magnificently unsettled. ![]() Dante the new life6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Autobiographical in nature, The New Life portrays Dante coming to terms with his grief, praising the deceased Beatrice, and turning friends and acquaintances into figures populating his poems. Despite this debt to tradition, however, Dante wrote The New Life in the Tuscan vernacular as opposed to Latin, making his work more accessible to readers. Dante, who believed that romantic love could lead to a development of the soul, subsequently bringing one to the love of God-a concept central to The Divine Comedy-divided his work into prose commentaries and poems in verse, a popular style known as prosimetrum. ![]() Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language.Ĭompiled and published following the death of Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved from the age of nine when he saw her on the streets of Florence, The New Life translates his personal grief into a moving and universally recognizable work on the nature of love. Made up of alternating commentaries, sonnets, and canzoni, the work is an essential expression of Dante’s poetic gift, and a foundational work for the dolce stil novo literary movement to which Dante was a central figure. ![]() Composed in the prosimetrum style, The New Life explores the popular medieval theme of courtly love. ![]() The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. ![]() No more excuses by tony evans6/10/2023 ![]() Despite your setbacks, failures, and pressures, you can still find purpose, meaning, and direction in life and become the man God has called you to be. ![]() But Tony Evans urges men to stop looking at these things as excuses and instead see them as challenges and opportunities for success. But Tony Evans urges men to stop looking at their circumstances as excuses and instead to see them as challenges and opportunities for success.Įxploring examples of men of God throughout the Bible, this study will challenge you to lay down your excuses, stop compromising, and fight to be a man of character and commitment. Sometimes hard circumstances in life make it difficult for us to be all that God wants us to be. /rebates/2fbook2f3545708792fNo-More-Excuses-Updated-Edition-Be-the-Man-God-Made-You-to-Be&. ![]() Sometimes circumstances in life make it difficult for men to be all God wants them to be. No More Excuses Bible Study Book includes printed content for eight sessions, personal study between group sessions, applicable Scripture, “How to Use This Study,” tips for leading a group, and a guide for D-Groups. ![]() Babylon hollywood book6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Straczynski has continued expanding the story of Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long space station seen as neutral ground for various alien species to interact amid the backdrop of a threat of war. Stephen Franklin, Piotr Michael as David Sheridan, Andrew Morgado as G’Kar and Rebecca Riedy as Delenn.īabylon 5 began life as a film that aired on TV in 1993, and the ratings were strong enough that Warners ordered a series that ran five seasons and 110 episodes. The voice cast also includes Paul Guyet as Zathras and Jeffery Sinclair, Anthony Hansen as Michael Garibaldi, Mara Junot as Reporter and Computer Voice, Phil LaMarr as Dr. Sam Register is the executive producer on the project. Matt Peters, known for Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons, directs, with Rick Morales serving as supervising producer. Straczynski wrote the film and executive produces. Returning Babylon 5 castmembers include Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley and Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander. Milt Larsen, Co-Founder of The Magic Castle in Hollywood, Dies at 92 ![]() Commonwealth summary ann patchett6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Inside this Instaread Summary of Commonwealth by Ann Patchett | Includes Analysis PLEASE NOTE: This is summary and analysis of the book and NOT the original book. Bert offers to take Franny and leans in toward Beverly, and they kiss…. Fix asks Bert to find Franny, and Bert wanders around until he finds the baby in a bedroom with Beverly. When Bert Cousins, Fix’s acquaintance from the district attorney’s office, shows up uninvited with a bottle of gin, the two men’s lives become forever intertwined.īy the end of the party, everyone’s a little drunk from the gin Bert brought. LA cop Francis “Fix” Keating and his wife, Beverly, are hosting a christening party for their infant daughter, Franny. The novel opens on a summer day in the quiet Los Angeles suburb of Downey. At the center of the novel is a traumatic loss that profoundly affects each family member in a different way. Summary of Commonwealth by Ann Patchett | Includes AnalysisĬommonwealth by Ann Patchett is a story of two families that unfolds over the course of 50 years. ![]() |