6/12/2023 0 Comments Lords of finance by liaquat ahamed![]() ![]() With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men-Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong-whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth centuryĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 23:07:22 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA122318 Camera Canon 5D City New York Curatestate approved Donor ![]() ![]() Gold standard on the booze - The caravans move on - Epilogue Into the vortex - Purging the rottenness - Magneto trouble - A loose cannon on the deck of the world - Gold fetters - pt. A bridge between chaos and hope - The Dawes opening - The golden chancellor - La Bataille - The first squalls - Un petit coup de whisky - pt. Demented inspirations - Uncle Shylock - A barbarous relic - pt. Prologue - A strange and lonely man - The young wizard - A safe pair of hands - L'inspecteur des finances - Money generals - pt. ![]()
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![]() The safest thing is to keep her in the brig and ignore her until she can be handed off to the man who wants her.īut the situation grows more complicated when other bounty hunters show up, wanting to claim Ankari for themselves. ![]() He finds himself admiring her spirit, but according to her warrant, she's a criminal. Captain Viktor Mandrake doesn't usually take on piddling bounty hunting gigs, but when his intelligence officer informs him of a criminal on a nearby planet, he decides it wouldn't hurt to take a shuttle down to collect the woman.īut Ankari Markovich is trouble from the start, nearly eluding his elite forces, then fighting and tricking his people left and right. If she can't figure out a way to escape before she's delivered to the lord's home world, she could be forced into a life of indentured servitude-or worse. ![]() ![]() The captain might be handsome, but he's intent on turning her over to some finance lord who has, for reasons unknown, put a bounty on her head, a ridiculously large one at that. Unfortunately, she has no sooner collected her samples than she's captured by a band of brawny mercenaries. But Ankari Markovich needs a few archaeological samples for her latest business venture, a venture that might prove lucrative enough to move her family off the impoverished planet where she grew up. Skulking around in the ruins on a planet swarming with treasure hunters, slavers, and bounty hunters isn't good for one's health. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Ancient egypt george l hart![]() ![]() Ultimately, the four-headed ram as an iconographic type during the late New Kingdom was applied to both solar and netherworld divinities, constituting a demiurge par excellence. This examination of art applies iconographic and iconological analysis on selected images of tetracephalic ram deities in order to better understand the symbolic message articulated by four rams’ heads as an iconographic form. This thesis engages with New Kingdom representations of four-headed ram deities, appearing in separate entrance scenes preserved inside the individual tombs of Ramesses IX (KV 6), Ramesses X (KV 19), and Ramesses XI (KV 4), as an artistic response to theological and political change in the late Twentieth Dynasty. ![]() Similarly, numbers were another important aspect of Egyptian religion and magic, and the symbolic language of numbers manifested itself in a variety of ways in the art of ancient Egypt occasionally, ram gods, for example, were represented with multiple heads in order to indicate the syncretism of two or, more frequently, four different divinities. The most popular ram deities, each connected with his own temples and cult centers at different geographic locations, were Banebdjed of Mendes, Heryshef of Herakleopolis Magna, Amun-Ra of Thebes, and Khnum of Esna and Elephantine. In ancient Egypt, the ram was regarded as a symbol of protection, male virility, fertility, syncretism, rebirth, and resurrection, which is why ancient Egyptians associated some of their gods with the ram form. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Author joseph heller![]() ![]() Surrounded by all these outward signs of financial and relationship success, Bob is, in fact, miserable and alone. He finds advertising boring and pointless, but again, he refuses to walk away. As if this weren’t enough, Bob hates his job, too. He can’t bring himself to ask for a divorce because he doesn’t want to hurt her, and he doesn’t want to lose the air of respectability that he believes marriage brings. He cheats on her all over Manhattan and he drinks heavily. Although Bob loved his wife once, he despises her now. ![]() To outsiders looking in, Bob has a perfect life nevertheless, Bob is chronically unhappy. He has a fancy house in Connecticut, an attractive wife, and three children. Set in 1960s Manhattan, the story is a satire of the so-called “American Dream.” Protagonist Bob Slocum is a mid-level marketing executive at a corporate advertising firm. American author Joseph Heller’s controversial novel, Something Happened (1974), centers on a character who has everything but happiness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They talk to neighbors, read the news, watch TV, and occasionally have a beer at the bar.īut you only need to read Pearls for a week for the strip’s wry blend of black comedy and pathos-biting social commentary, pure tenderness and some extremely stupid puns-to worm their way into your heart. Its cast of characters are all named for their species: Rat, Pig, Zebra, Goat. The daily comic strip, which is penned by Santa Rosa’s Stephan Pastis and appears in more than 650 newspapers, takes place in a suburb. To the uninitiated, Pearls Before Swine appears deceptively simple. In ‘ What’s on Your Ballot,’ KQED checks in with ten different artists, activists and cultural figures about the issues on their minds and their hopes for the country. Citizens will vote in the midst of a global pandemic, severe climate change, an uprising for racial justice and an administration that has eroded the norms of democracy. In 2020, the United States faces an election like no other. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Intuitive eating by evelyn tribole![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you want to give up dieting forever, make peace with your food and respect your body, regardless of your size or shape, this is your episode. We discuss why body image is in the mind, not the mirror, and how you can dismantle diet culture in your life. Join us this week to learn why diet culture is rooted in systems of oppression such as racism and patriarchy, and why all bodies, regardless of size, race, and gender, are worthy of dignity and respect. She joins me this week to discuss intuitive eating and the benefits of incorporating it into your life. She is passionate about dismantling diet culture and has written ten books on the topic, including her upcoming book, Intuitive Eating for Every Day: 365 Daily Practices & Inspirations to Rediscover the Pleasures of Eating. Today’s guest is here to share what intuitive eating is and how it can change your life, and it is a personal privilege to welcome her to the show.Įvelyn Tribole is an award-winning Registered Dietitian and Co-Founder of the Intuitive Eating movement – a revolutionary anti-diet approach to life. There is a more effective way to live a healthy lifestyle: intuitive eating. But diet culture undermines self-trust and creates the drive to fixate on food. Most of us have tried dieting at some point in our lives, with many of us persistently going on and off of them and struggling to maintain our desired weight. ![]() ![]() I was also secretly hoping that adult readers would enjoy them as well, and that the novels would transport them back to those first books that capture a reader's imagination and fire a love for literature. I was trying to offer a nod to all the books kids of my generation used to read, from the mysteries of Enid Blyton to the great nineteenth-century classic stories of intrigue and adventure from Dumas to Verne to Stevenson and beyond. ![]() When I wrote these books I was aiming to write the kind of novel I would have liked to read when I was twelve or thirteen years old. How young is young when it comes to reading is a tricky question, and one I've never been able to answer. ![]() ![]() The Watcher in the Shadows is the third of the novels I wrote for younger readers at the beginning of my career in the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aria doesn’t know what drove them apart years ago, but she does know Derek’s been acting strange for weeks, sneaking out in the dead of night to who knows where. She aches to investigate it, but the rosebush sits on her ex-best friend Derek Johnson’s front lawn, and she can’t question him because he hates her now. Until a decades old rosebush suddenly dies across the street, convincing Aria that something supernatural is happening in her neighborhood. She used to see them too, but thanks to a special tea brewed by her grandfather, Aria’s connection to the spirit world has been severed. Seventeen-year-old Aria Cayetano dreams of ghosts. ” –Buzzfeedįrom the author of Deep in Providence comes a paranormal young adult romance that follows a teen convinced that her best friend-turned-enemy is possessed by a ghost, perfect for fans of White Smoke and Twilight. “Neilson’s sophomore novel is a haunting love story for the ages, perfectly layered and exquisitely told. ![]() This book will haunt you until the very end and long after you finish.” – Rachel Menard, award-winning author of Game of Strength and Storm & Clash of Fate and Fury “Family secrets, broken friendships, spirit possession, and natural magic. I’m Not Supposed to Be in the Dark by Riss M Neilson (epub) ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Little leaders by vashti harrison![]() ![]() The middle pages of the book are fascinating and powerful in the imagery created. As the story continues, the words take their toll on the girl's confidence, especially the so-called 'helpful' advice she gets that breaks her heart. The illustration showing the girl with the words showing on her skin as she looks in the mirror hit me hard. And as one would expect it hurts, the words are hard to forget. A mishap at the playground leads to mean laughter and teasing even the adults criticize her. As she gets older she starts to hear the word 'big' too often and not in a good way. ![]() When she's first born, the girl is encouraged to dream with words like caring, considerate, smart, creative, graceful, and nimble. ![]() A young black girl learns the power of words in this stunning picture book. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Dillard an american childhood![]() ![]() She’s amazed to discover this, and it teaches her that she can use her imagination, but also master and direct it through reason when she needs to. At five years old in 1950, Annie is preoccupied by the monster in her room, which turns out to be a shadow cast by light from a passing car. ![]() In her privileged community, women stayed home rather than working, and Presbyterians and Catholics (not to mention Jews) remained very much apart from one another. At the time, Annie is reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel, Kidnapped, and she too feels like she is awakening into a world where she can both observe and be observed.ĭillard paints a portrait of Pittsburgh in the early 1950s, in the years after World War II when families seemed to want things to get back to normal. ![]() Annie Dillard begins her memoir by recalling her father’s decision to leave the family for awhile (with his wife’s permission) and take his boat down the Allegheny River to New Orleans-a goal he developed from reading about boat trips in a book. ![]() |