The deluge the great war5/24/2023 A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Historyįinalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle.
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Buy who moved my cheese5/24/2023 I cherish this book like a treasure ever since tenth grade. Moving on has ever been a tough thing to do for me, but with this book by my side, I accept to change a lot more gently and sensibly. But once I finished reading this wonderful book, I realized why they say “books can transform lives”. Until that day, I read books for leisure. And that’s when my friend gifted me a book as a farewell present Who moved my Cheese? by Dr. It was hard for me to move on from the very haven that had nurtured me for thirteen long years. So, you could imagine the state I was in, on our farewell day. If you know me, you should how attached I am to my school, even to this day nine years after having left it. I received this book as a gift from a special person in my life. Appointment with death5/24/2023 Out in the great beyond your soul will live somewhere forever! Death does not end it all. Death is more than simply pushing up daisies from the ground above the buried body. If the funeral were final and the grave were the end of everything and a human being died like a dog, we could not blame people for living like beasts of the field. Every one of us is on his way to the cemetery (barring the return of Christ). But one day your heart will forget to beat your knees will buckle under your tired body the hearse will back up to your door the undertaker will notify the newspaper and your name will appear in the obituary column. God has taken people all around you, and yet your heart is still beating. The epitaph of all generations is: He was born he lived he died. Most of our names are mentioned in the newspaper at least three times: Our birth is noted, our marriage, and finally our death. We are all marching in the long parade of death. And yet most people do not fear death, they simply ignore it.īut the fact remains that death is very real. Many try and hide the “king of terrors” (Job 18:14) by the embalmer’s art, beautiful flowers, and comforting words. At the funeral they place artificial grass over the rough clods and line the grave with flowers to hide the hideous fact of death. People seek to avoid death they do not want to face death. There is no experience in life so generally dreaded as death. Not Without You by Harriet Evans5/24/2023 Although it needs some work, My Second-Best Bed has the potential to be a real film. Inspired by Eve’s film A Girl Named Rose, Sophie’s determined to shepherd through the system her own independent film. Sixty years later, Sophie still has to change her name and endure not only arranged dating, but also a paparazzi-fueled public that turns a little sweat into Armpitgate. After discovering their tryst, Gilbert arranges to have Don eliminated from her life. Yet, the industry can’t erase her memories of her sister Rose’s drowning or her own inconvenient love for Don Matthews, a powerless, alcoholic, yet loving screenwriter. Eventually, she’s even told to marry the much older, more powerful, but very dangerous actor Gilbert Travers. Hollywood producers changed Eve’s name, her wardrobe and even her hairline to generate cinematic hits. Like her idol, Eve Noel, a 1950s starlet, Sophie has little control over her career-not if she wants to make money for the box office, that is. A-list movie star Sophie Leigh has had enough of cheesy chick flicks, but her agent won’t hear of her turning down The Bachelorette Party, not with gorgeous Patrick Drew already signed on to co-star. The American and English officers there were also very nice to me, although they themselves were, without them knowing it, the cause for which I stopped believing in Santa Claus. When I was just seven, I began spending a lot of time with Colonel Anderson, the head of the American Red Cross in Romania, and I was very proud to be an interpreter when distributing supplies and organizing charity events in cities and villages. I followed closely my mother’s work with the people in the hospital, so I managed to get close to them in a way that would not have been possible under normal circumstances. “I also have more beautiful memories from those days spent in Iași. This was the case with Princess Ileana, who later wrote in her diary: The most affected were, as was normal, the children. During the First World War, when the whole of Muntenia was in exile in Iași, Christmas was not celebrated the same as before, especially because of the bad news on the front, but also because of the lack of food. Usually, dinner was held at the palace followed by church, but the people in need were not forgotten, members of the Royal Family offering them gifts. Christmas was an important celebration for the Royal Family of Romania, even during the reign of Carol I. The author's latest release The Dragon Grammar Book is an Amazon Bestseller in Teens/Language Arts. Diane writes fantasy/adventure children books and children/teen non-fiction books. Sir Princess Petra's Mission - The Pen Pieyu Adventures (book #3)ĭiane Mae Robinson is an international multi-award winning author with 15 international book awards and 1 prestigious provincial book award. Sir Princess Petra's Talent - The Pen Pieyu Adventures (book #2) Sir Princess Petra- The Pen PieyuAdventures (book #1) Life lessons of courage, friendship, and believing in yourself will charm and entertain in these dragon stories for kids 7 - 11 years. Join Sir Princess Petra, the endearing dragon Snarls, and the other quirky characters on their zany adventures in this fun-loving fantasy series for kids. But who could have guessed what Sir Princess Petra's Talent would be? This, however, does not please the king and queen-they want her to behave like a princess and forget this silly knight nonsense of hers!īut when the king writes a new rule in the royal rule book that requires her to attend Talent School and acquire a princess talent certificate or suffer the spell of the royal magician, Petra, reluctantly, agrees to go. Sir Princess Petra has already proven she is a kind and noble knight. Book # 2 in the Multi-Award-Winning Humorous Fantasy Series for Kids. Krishna and his philosophy5/24/2023 At least in Western countries, aspiring yogis, intimidated by the Gita's Sanskrit terminology, set the book aside to be studied later. The sad truth is that most people are not studying the Bhagavad-gita, traditionally seen as a yoga-sutra, a treatise on yoga. Most people get beyond that and see that it's much, much more." As supermodel Christy Turlington, pictured on the cover as an ardent practitioner, is quoted as saying, "Some of my friends simply want to have a yoga butt." Patricia Walden, a prominent yoga teacher who has made a fortune producing instructional videos, responds to what many would consider a shallow approach to yoga: "If you start doing yoga for those reasons, fine. When Time magazine ran a cover story on the science of yoga, it reported that "fifteen million Americans include some form of yoga in their fitness regimen-twice as many as did five years ago." Yet one wonders if any of the fifteen million are getting out of yoga what they should. Lord Krishna discusses the major forms of yoga, setting up a hierarchy and saying clearly which one belongs at the top. Shiva trilogy the secret of nagas5/24/2023 The Immortals of Meluha, Tripathi's first novel and first in the Shiva Trilogy, was published in February 2010. Xavier's College, Mumbai and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is an alumnus of Cathedral & John Connon School St. Early life and education Īmish Tripathi was born in Mumbai and grew up near Rourkela, Odisha. In addition, he is a host for TV documentaries, most recently for Discovery TV, in Legends of the Ramayan and also The Journey of India with co-host Amitabh Bachchan. He is also Minister (Culture & Education) at the High Commission of India in the UK and Director of the Nehru Centre, London. He is known best for his Shiva Trilogy and Ram Chandra Series.Īmish's books have sold over 6 million copies in the Indian subcontinent since 2010. Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an Indian author and diplomat. Horrible terrible no good day book5/23/2023 (This book was reviewed digitally with 10-by-20-inch double-page spreads viewed at actual size.) Garoche’s drawings are impressively detailed, from the nest’s many small bits to the developing first feathers on the chicks and the wall smudges and exposed wiring of the renovation. The text suggests the strong bond built by this Afro-Latinx father and daughter with their ongoing project without needing to point it out explicitly, a light touch in a picture book full of delicate, well-drawn moments and precise wording. Rosen uses lively language and well-chosen details to move the story of the baby birds forward. Renata witnesses the birth of four chicks as their rosy eggs split open “like coats that are suddenly too small.” Renata finds at a crucial moment that she can help the chicks learn to fly, even with the bittersweet knowledge that it will only hasten their exits from her life. Rather than seeing it as an unfortunate delay of their project, Renata and Papi decide to let the avian carpenters continue their work. One warm night, after Papi leaves the window space open, two wrens begin making a nest in the bathroom. Renata and her father enjoy working on upgrading their bathroom, installing a clawfoot bathtub, and cutting a space for a new window. A home-renovation project is interrupted by a family of wrens, allowing a young girl an up-close glimpse of nature. Milne wrote most of these poems at the request of friend and fellow poet Rose Fyleman, who was planning a new children’s magazine. “Although Alan Alexander Milne wrote novels, short stories, poetry and many plays for adults, in addition to his work as assistant editor for Punch from 1906 to 1914, it is his writings for children that have captured the hearts of millions of people worldwide and granted Milne everlasting fame” (Silvey, 461). An exceptional set, most rare and desirable with Winnie the Pooh signed by Milne. Each are fine in very good dust jackets with some loss and wear to the extremities and light toning. When We Were Very Young if a first edition, second issue as usual with page ix numbered. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt. $20,000.00 Item Number: 95227įirst editions of each work in Milne’s wonderful Pooh quartet. The Four Pooh Books: When We Were Very Young Winnie-The-Pooh Now We Are Six The House At Pooh Corner. |