![]() ![]() Al loro inseguimento si lanciano Don Biffero, il priore Zopilote dal segreto diabolico, e Don Bracco, il segugio di orfani, nonché il celebre e cinico giornalista Fimicoli con il fedele scudiero-fotografo Rosalino. Anno 1990 e rotti: Memorino, Lucifero a Alì, gli spiriti più ribelli dell’orfanotrofio dei Celestini, fuggono per poter rappresentare Gladonia al Campionato Mondiale di Pallastrada, organizzato dal Grande Bastardo in persona, protettore degli orfani di tutto il mondo. ![]() ““Le idee sono come le tette se non sono abbastanza grandi si possono sempre gonfiare“Un’oscura e crudele profezia che appare sui muri, scritta da una mano invisibile, incombe sulla ricca e corrotta terra di Gladonia. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Tiny beautiful things book![]() ![]() ![]() “In my 33 years in the market, things do seem probably more positive now than they’ve seemed at any time in that whole period,” said Jeffrey Atherton, an investment manager at Man GLG, a subsidiary of hedge fund giant Man Group. ![]() The indexes have outpaced the United States’ S&P 500 and Europe’s Stoxx 600 benchmark indexes, which have both risen 8% in that time. (N225), which tracks Japan’s blue-chip companies, has leapt nearly 17%. So far this year, the benchmark Topix has jumped almost 14%, and the Nikkei 225 The country’s major stock indexes are trading at highs not seen since 1990, when its infamous asset bubble of the late 1980s was just deflating. Japan’s stock market has waited more than three decades for its moment in the sun. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Dale carnegie how to win friends![]() Be genuinely interested in other people and believe they have something to teach you. The principles are best applied with sincerity.Here’s advice from Dale Carnegie on how to get the most out of the principles in How to Win Friends and Influence People: When you’re in the thick of an argument, you totally forget that you’re supposed to see the other person’s viewpoint, because Becky is being a real nuisance and how can she possibly believe what she’s saying. No one read the 10 commandments and suddenly stopped coveting things. How to Win Friends and Influence People: Advice on CommunicationĬhanging your behavior is hard. Read more about How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie and what you can learn about communication. Using this book, you can learn how to effectively communicate with others, make them like you, and convince them to change their minds and behaviors. What is How to Win Friends and Influence People about? What skills can you learn from the book about communication and more?ĭale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People is a classic about communication. Like this article? Sign up for a free trial here. ![]() ![]() Shortform has the world's best summaries and analyses of books you should be reading. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Four season harvest book![]() ![]() He has served on the California Tree Fruit Agreement research board and has been a member of the Raisin Advisory Committee research board. He was a founding member of California Association of Family Farmers. He is the winner of the UC Davis “Award of Distinction” from the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in 2003. in community development 1982 from the University of California, Davis. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. ![]() His organic farming techniques have been employed by farmers across the nation. David "Mas" Masumoto is an organic peach and grape farmer and author of Epitaph for a Peach (1995), which offers a glimpse of life on a family farm in Central California, Letters to the Valley, A Harvest of Memories (2004), Four Seasons in Five Senses, Things Worth Savoring (2003), and Harvest Son, Planting Roots in American Soil (1998). ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Pleasure unbound series![]() Ione has created a fascinating world of demons and slayers, vampires and werewolves. There are new paranormal series popping up all over the place, so it’s really important to stand out. ![]() This is book one in Ione’s Demonica series and I will definitely be coming back for more. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.Įidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. ![]() ![]() She’s a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Agent: David Black, the David Black Agency. While the story of Churchill’s premiership and the Blitz have been told in greater historical depth, they’ve rarely been rendered so vividly. Juxtaposing monumental developments, such as the Dunkirk evacuation, with intimate scenes, Larson notes that on the night Churchill learned French leaders wanted to make peace with Hitler, he raised his dinner guests’ spirits by passing out cigars, reading aloud telegrams of support from other countries, and “chant the refrain from a popular song.” Larson highlights little-known but intriguing figures, including chief science adviser Frederick Lindemann, who made a multifaceted but unsuccessful case for why tea shouldn’t be rationed, and documents the carnage caused by German bombs, including the deaths of 34 people at the Café de Paris shortly before Mary Churchill was set to arrive at the club. Larson’s profile subjects include Churchill’s 17-year-old daughter, Mary his private secretary, John “Jock” Colville, who kept a meticulous (and likely illegal, due to the national security secrets it revealed) diary Nazi leader Rudolf Hess and, to a lesser extent, ordinary Britons. The 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and. Larson ( Dead Wake) delivers a propulsive, character-driven account of Winston Churchill’s first year as British prime minister (May 1940–May 1941), when the German air force launched “a full-on assault against the city of London” in preparation for an invasion that never came. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Once Upon a Rose by Laura Florand![]() Praise for Laura Florand’s novels “A poignant, lovely, moving, authentic story.” – Virginia Kantra, NYT bestselling author “Sweet, sexy, and all around delicious. When an enemy invades his valley and threatens his home, heart, and livelihood, Matthieu Rosier really knows only one way to defend himself. Even if she does have all those curls and green eyes and, and, and…what was he growling about again? Or maybe he just wants her. Matt didn’t mean to growl at her quite that loudly. She certainly doesn’t expect the most dangerous threat to her heart to pounce on her as soon as she sets foot on the land. ![]() ![]() That old, half-forgotten heritage in a valley of roses seems like a good place to soothe a wounded heart. Fleeing the spotlight, burnt out rock star Layla-“Belle”-Dubois seeks refuge in the south of France. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was also included in the Herbert collections Eye and The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert. in the October 1966 issue of Analog Science Fiction Science Fact, “By the Book” was reprinted in 1971 in The Worlds of Frank Herbert and again in The Best of Frank Herbert. ![]() ![]() Dune has been filmed twice, once for theatrical release while Herbert was still alive and later as a miniseries. Herbert’s masterpiece, Dune, spawned five sequels written by Herbert and several additional novels written by his son, Brian Herbert, and Kevin J. In 2006, Herbert was a posthumous inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Herbert’s novel Hellstrom’s Hive won the Prix Apollo in 1978. Dune would eventually also win the Seiun Award in 1974. Herbert won the inaugural Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1966 for Dune, which also tied for the Hugo Award that same year. Frank Herbert was born on Octoand died on February 11, 1986. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Doon arbus and marvin israel![]() The quality that defines her work and separates it from almost all other photography is her ability to empathize on a level far beyond language. She captured the complexity and the art in reality. What made her pictures great was everything that happened before she pressed the button."-Douglas Davis, "Newsweek," 1984 "Diane Arbus is one of our legends. That would be merely adjusting a lens and pressing a button. Diane Arbuss poignant black-and-white portrait photography captured life at the margins of American society. No one can go into the street tomorrow and take a Diane Arbus photograph. They are the product of something beyond the camera, the result of a long, complex and intensely human process. ![]() Her real subject is no less than the unique interior lives of those she photographed."-John Szarkowski, 1972, Director, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art "I have never seen pictures like them before, and I am sure I will never see their equal again. Her pictures are concerned with private rather than social realities, with psychological rather than visual coherence, with the prototypical and mythic rather than the topical and temporal. She loved photography for the miracles it performs each day by accident, and respected it for the precise intentional tool that it could be, given talent, intelligence, dedication and discipline. ![]() Her concern was not to buttress philosophical positions but to make pictures. "Diane Arbus was not a theorist but an artist. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Rise of empire riyria![]() ![]() I’ve no idea how I misread that first chapter, but I did, and as such I lost my faith in Michael J. ![]() Not only is the character I was reading about not 16 years old (or even under 20), but he is only one of five characters from whom we experience this story. This is where my aforementioned two lessons come into play. I did read the opening chapter, but for some reason I came away thinking that this was going to be another book about a 16-year old saviour of the world. ![]() I received my review copy of this book from Michael himself some time ago, but it arrived at a time when I wasn’t in the healthiest of places. Make sure you always read the words on the page, and not your perceived words.Sullivan’s latest book, Age of Myth, the first book in a new series called The Legends of the First Empire – a series set in the same world as Sullivan’s Riyria series – I learned two lessons: ![]() |