![]() But actually meeting a physical or psychological twin is another matter in which the 8 billion works against ever encountering him. There just aren’t that many genetic and cultural variables to ensure the reality of a conceit like uniqueness. Among the almost 8 billion people in the world, the chances that there is someone else who looks like you, talks like you, and even thinks like you if fairly high. ![]() ![]() Combining hands-on experience with the theoretical underpinnings of contemporary fads in efficiency improvement, empowerment & strategy, Stewart knows his stuff, & thus he lays bare how little consultants have really done for the business of others-while making a killing for themselves.Ī sentimental aphorism has it that we’re all unique. ![]() Alongside his devastating critique of management “philosophy” from Frederick Taylor to Tom Peters, Stewart provides a bitingly funny account of his own days in a management consulting firm. Striking fear into the hearts of clients with his sharp analytical tools, Stewart lived in hotel rooms & got fat on expense account cuisine-until, finally, he decided to turn the consultant’s merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself. ![]() But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies. Study philosophy.įresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy & no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. ![]()
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![]() Recommendations of popular series and films to enjoy.Breakdowns of how anime and manga are made.History and importance of anime and manga. ![]() Written by anime and manga fans, writers, and reviewers Samuel Sattin and Patrick Macias, A Kid's Guide to Anime & Manga includes chapters on: ![]() Whether they're watching anime on Netflix and Crunchyroll or bringing home stacks of manga from the library or bookstore, there is no denying that young fans need a guidebook to help them navigate this geeky space. ![]() An accessible, inclusive guide aimed at helping young fans celebrate their okatu spirit by sharing the history of anime and manga while giving young readers advice on how to explore and interact with this fandom. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Preference will be given to authors who have completed their doctorates. Both transgender and cisgender contributors are welcome. First drafts of full chapters (8,000 words) are due by September 1, 2016, and final versions are due November 1, 2016. Interested authors should send a 300-word abstract, 200-word biography, and sample of a previously published chapter or article to by March 1, 2016. This volume will explore the intersection between transgender studies and ecology, with contributions from an international group of scholars representing a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to such fields as gender studies, environmental studies, literary criticism, history, philosophy, religious studies, women’s studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, geography, and political science. Chapter proposals are invited for the edited book Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment, due by March 1, 2016. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not wanting to stir up unnecessary trouble for Daniel or for word to get out about his disappearance to adversely affect the business, Thea doesn’t call in any help she doesn’t even tell her parents because she doesn’t want to worry her father – but by the fifth day she is practically frantic and berating herself for not trying to find him sooner. Between them, Daniel and Thea now run the family business, but Daniel had begun behave oddly of late, and now hasn’t been home for five days and Thea is worried. Her father has been unwell for some time following a stroke a few years back, and her mother – who holds Thea partly responsible for her husband’s illness – spends almost all her time caring for him and has little time to spare for her children. Miss Dorothea Markham (Thea) is the daughter of a successful glass manufacturer who lives with her parents and brother, Daniel, in Worcestershire. Rather like his brother, Vernon meets his match in a most unexpected place and falls in love with a young woman not from his social class but unlike the previous book, there is less drama and angst and the story – a road-trip romance – feels more cohesive and its events less episodic. ![]() Scandal and Miss Markham is the second book in Janice Preston’s Beauchamp Betrothals series, and picks up the story of Lord Vernon Beauchamp, the younger brother of Leo, the Duke of Cheriton whose romance was featured in the previous book, Cinderella and the Duke. ![]() ![]() ![]() I felt like I was prepared for what I was in for pretty well so nothing came as an unpleasant shock. Some books try to get cute with their warnings and use them to sell books. But Stavros gets off on the whole thing and they end up becoming attracted to each other and when a rival cartel lord frees Stavros to level the playing field, Stavros decides it's only fair to pay Daniel back.Īll the trigger warnings for this book are pretty accurate. He kills all Stavros's men and then takes him prisoner, torturing him slowly. Stavros is the man who gave Daniel his scars and killed his wife, so Daniel decides that he's going to get revenge. I picked this book up on impulse because it was available through Kindle Unlimited and I've been on a binge of really dark reads lately, since those are what I enjoy.ĭaniel and Stavros are both crime lords with terrible reputations. ![]() ![]() It's the type of book that could have been a dismally insensitive fail, but ended up working pretty well. CALL THE CORONER is a really weird book because the first 50% is torture porn and the second 50% is angsty romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are hundreds of novels written on the lives of artists, poets, painters, but none of them reaches even to the height of the second book, what to say of the first. Although he failed, the book stands second – not to any other but to his own. Perhaps Stone was thinking that he would be able to create another Lust for Life, but he failed. It is The Agony and the Ecstasy, again based on another life in the same way. ![]() I count it second because it is secondary, not of the quality of Lust for Life. The book is written so beautifully that the possibility that even Irving Stone will be able to transcend it is remote.Īfter that book he wrote many others, and my second book today is also by Irving Stone. It is spiritual in my sense, because to me all dimensions of life have to be incorporated into a single synthesis only then one is spiritual. ![]() Lust for Life is not just a novel, it is a spiritual book. Nobody has written so intimately about somebody else, as if he is writing from his very own being. Stone has done such a tremendous work that I don’t remember anybody else doing the same. It is a novel based on the life of Vincent van Gogh. The first book today is Irving Stone’s Lust for Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() He writes not in "Americanese" but with the dialects and flavors of Olde England. ![]() Children enamored of legend and fantasy, especially those for whom an army of complicated characters offer a challenge, will like Mr. The evil sprits however, seize the bracelet and Susan and Colin, aided by their "friends", embark on a weird search through caves and woods over hill and dale, in an attempt to recover it for the Wizard. To Susan's amazement the weirdstone appears on her charm bracelet making her the object of attention in both camps. But the Wizard guarding the precious gem has, alas, fallen asleep and the prize has disappeared. The weirdstone is a magic stone which keeps a band of knights asleep until the appointed day when they must awaken to conquer Nastrond and all his evil spirits. Goblins, dwarfs, demons and witches all with strange and ancient names, coming from equally alien sounding caves and hills, enter the lives of Colin and Susan, two quite modern children who, on a visit to a farm near Alderley Edge, England, are sucked into the legend of the Weirdstone of Brisingamen, recounted as an introduction to the main story. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may find that some of these books are out of print. ![]() (Thanks to all of the people who have contributed to this list: Patricia Bauer, Nancy Bo Flood, Margaret Hall, Paula Huddy, Susan Oleanna, Ramona from Slice of Life, Carmela McCain Simmons, and Tricia Springstubb.) And, as with most good children’s books, these are good reading for adults as well. There are books suggested for many age ranges from picture books to books for teens. They are presented in alphabetical order by title. Our members around the country put their heads together to make recommendations of books they felt are excellent stories and discussion starters for families. Several of our librarian members stated that they receive many requests from patrons for books that help children understand death. We’ve updated this list with newer books in October, 2022. ![]() Our Chapter & Verse Book Clubs read three books about death, written for children, in April of 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The inclusion of these works will add immeasurably to the visual and scholarly distinction of Second Street Gallery’s exhibition,” says Executive Director and Chief Curator, Kristen Chiacchia. The Untitled works, a painting and a work on paper both dated 1957, are important compositions from a significant year in Joan Mitchell’s oeuvre. ![]() The highlight of the exhibition was the inclusion of two rarely seen original works of art by Joan Mitchell, on loan to Second Street Gallery from The Fralin Museum at the University of Virginia. Artists participating in the exhibition included: Isabelle Abbot, Karen Blair, Janet Bruce, and Priscilla Long Whitlock of Virginia, as well as Molly Herman, a native of Alexandria, Virginia who now lives and works in New York City. Taking its title from the 2011 biography by Patricia Albers, this exhibition examined the lasting influence that Joan Mitchell has had on women artists who continue to work in the abstract expressionist style of painting. A leading figure in the New York School and second generation Abstract Expressionist movement, Mitchell is known for the compositional rhythms, bold coloration, and sweeping gestural brushstrokes of her large and multi-paneled paintings. Joan Mitchell is recognized as one of the most significant artists in Post-War American Art. This show, Lady Painters: Inspired by Joan Mitchell, was on view from June 7 to July 19 in the Main Gallery. Second Street Gallery presented its first exhibition honoring one of the principal figures of the second generation of Abstract Expressionism. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thrown together against all odds, Elise and Thornton couldn't be from more different worlds. The conditions to win? Be the first to build a sustainable community along the Illinois Central Railroad and find a suitable wife. When their ailing father puts forth a unique challenge to determine who will inherit his railroad-building empire, Thornton finally sees his chance. Born into elite New York society, Thornton Quincy possesses everything except the ability to step out from his brother's shadow. ![]() But the promise of the society's orphan trains is not all that it seems. She finds a glimmer of hope when the New York Children's Aid Society starts sending skilled workers to burgeoning towns out west. Could Following the Opportunity of a Lifetime Cost Them the Love of Their Lives? One of the many immigrants struggling to survive in 1850s New York, Elise Neumann knows she must take action to care for her younger sisters. ![]() |