She expects to find a personal grudge or a drug deal gone wrong, but instead stumbles upon a conspiracy that could tear the ship in two. But when one of her subordinates is murdered while out on a job, Laura takes it as her responsibility to find out what happened. To Laura Stein, they’re morons and, other than a small handful of friends, she’d rather spend time with her meat plant than with any of her fellow passengers. They join groups such as the Markers and the Breeders, have costumed orgies, and test the limits of drugs, alcohol, and pain just to pass the time. columnist Chris Bucholz mines humor, desperation, and a generational ship in his science fiction debut novel Severance.Īfter 240 years of traveling toward Tau Prius and a new planet to colonize, the inhabitants of the generation ship Argos are bored and aimless.
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Zweig's writing and examples are clearer than Graham's in my opinion. Each chapter in this particular Revised Edition has been updated by Jason Zweig with newer examples th at extend to 2003. However the advice itself, as Buffett notes, is timeless. The Intelligent Investor was originally written in 1949, so many of Graham's examples are very dated. Buffett's investment firm, Berkshire Hathaway, is the 9th largest company on the SP500, so he must know something investment, right? As Buffett points out in numerous public places (including clips of him being interviewed, see Youtube), Chapter 8 (on market fluctuations and how to intelligently deal with them) and Chapter 20 (on the risk of catathrophic loss and how to intelligently deal with it) are the most important chapters. Warren Buffett's pick - as the best book written on his sort of investment approach to the market. The Sugar Act, the Proclamation of 1763, or the much-hated Stamp, Townshend, and Tea Acts became hot topics. In the American colonies, pamphlets became especially popular after the end of the French and Indian War in response to parliamentary and royal actions. Should a merchant in Boston want a slave trader in Charleston to know his opinion, for example, he published a pamphlet. From weather to advice on planting crops to discussions of politics, pamphlets were a vital communication tool. Ranging from five to forty-eight pages, pamphlets flew off the earliest presses in the American colonies and covered just about any topic. How, though, did colonial Americans get their information? While newspapers were the main source of news, their content was often limited to local happenings and news from London. According to a Pew Research Center study, nearly one in three Americans get their news from social media. Her young people also represent a diverse array of sizes, shapes, colors, and notions of attractiveness. Using minimal detail, the artwork realistically portrays the characters’ relatable emotions and wide-ranging reactions. Johnson ( Jeremiah) presents an eclectic group of middle schoolers who are exploring issues of gender identity, sexuality, ethnicity, mental health, and more. Faith also finds escape in her own inner life, which Johnson represents as a series of dreams with a warrior named Mathilda, with whom Faith visits a king and prepares to build a castle. Her teammates are other misfits who are more preoccupied with personal struggles than with soccer, and Faith gradually wins over many of them as friends. Tricked into joining the soccer team on her first day in middle school, Faith, a loner who is looking for somewhere to fit in, stumbles through practice and lands on the C team. 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From Charlottesville to the policies of child separation at the border, his administration turned its back on the promise of Obama’s presidency and refused to embrace a vision of the country shorn of the insidious belief that white people matter more than others. Glaude Jr., in a moment when the struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. “In the midst of an ugly Trump regime and a beautiful Baldwin revival, Eddie Glaude has plunged to the profound depths and sublime heights of Baldwin’s prophetic challenge to our present-day crisis.”-Cornel West In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. “History is so fascinating that it never has to be presented in a boring way,” she explains. Herman offers a rare combination of skills for a historian – her research is intensely scholarly, yet she writes the story in a colorful, witty manner. Think royal palaces were beautiful places to live? Think again! And I say, with all the things that really h New York Times best-seller Eleanor Herman's new non-fiction book, The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul, is set to come out in June 2018. Sometimes people ask me if I plan to write novels. “These were flesh and blood people, just like you and me, facing war and plague, falling in love, living among splendid art and gut-wrenching poverty. Think royal palaces were beautiful places to live? Think again! Herman offers a rare combination of skills for a historian – her research is intensely scholarly, yet she writes the story in a colorful, witty manner. New York Times best-seller Eleanor Herman's new non-fiction book, The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul, is set to come out in June 2018. Some may enjoy digging into the book’s philosophical layers (good vs evil, light vs darkness, freedom vs bondage, the nature of man, religion etc) but for the rest of us the book stands as terrifically comic, surreal fiction. There’s lots of info online about the book so no need for spoilers here! Just to say it’s an unforgettably absurd book that deserves to read if only for the demonic talking cat. Īs well, the novel’s parallel story of Pontius Pilate inspires the next verse: but the subject of your learned discussion is so interesting that. “Please, excuse me,” he said, speaking correctly, but with a foreign accent, “for presuming to speak to you without an introduction. …with the first words of the devil (Professor Woland) when he shows up at Patriarch Ponds… Just compare the opening lyrics of ‘Sympathy’… Jagger went on to write ‘Sympathy for the devil’ soon after reading the book and it shows… Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers, perhaps the greatest Independent. Marianne Faithful gave him a copy in 67′ (the book was published in 66′, 30 years after Bulgakov’s death). Mikhail Bulgakovs devilish salute to artistic freedom, now in a beautiful clothbound edition. It’s uniquely bizarre, brilliantly funny and like nothing I’ve ever read.įor Stones fans out there (aren’t we all?) - important things first: The Master and Margarita is Mick Jagger’s favourite book. Mikhail Bulgakov’s ‘The Master and Margarita’ is a dark, satirical comedy set in 1930s Moscow. They first burned a witch at the stake in 1571.Īccording to Jimmy Fyfe, around 2000 witches stood trial in Denmark. It led to witch hunts around the country. The Danish witch-hunts went back to their conversion from Catholicism to Lutheranism in 1536.Ī Lutheran bishop painted Catholics as witches to cement the country’s conversion. It’s possible that James’ first trip to Denmark started his obsession with witches. The Catholic Church also came under fire in Scot’s book for encouraging superstitious beliefs. After doing so, that neighbour could make accusations to ease their own guilty conscience. Scot pointed at neighbours turning away an old woman in need. This was an era in which people were encouraged to be charitable. And he included non-magical reasons for things happening. He offered psychological causes for ‘magical phenomena’. Yet Scot’s goal was debunking belief in witchcraft and magic. It’s hardly surprising that suspicion often fell on old women. He’d described witches as being old, pale, wrinkled, deformed and miserable. Reginald Scot had already published his witchcraft text, A Discoverie of Witchcraft, in 1584. He didn’t buy into it enough to make them the true villains of the play.īut Daemonologie wasn’t the first book about witches. Shakespeare may have just been paying lip service to witchcraft to curry favour with King James. Macbeth and Banquo encounter the witches, by Théodore Chassériau via Wikimedia Commons BERKLEY and the "B" design are trademarks belonging to Penguin Putnam Inc. World Wide Web site address is ISBN: 0-7865-5852-0 A BERKLEY BOOK® BERKLEY Books first published by Berkley Publishing Group, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014. 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