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![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Dangled Carat is the perfect lighthearted, laugh-out-loud, relatable book for every girl who wondered if she should love him or dump him. In this chick lit memoir, Hilary Grossman digs deep as she explores the good, the bad, and the frustrating of dating and relationships. Will this be the kick Marc needs to pop the question or will their meddling destroy the couple? Tired of waiting for Marc to come to his senses, while on vacation, the couple's friends decide to take matters into their own hands and throw a surprise "engagement" party. Hilary quickly finds out Marc has one big problem - he is beyond afraid of commitment! She is willing to take things slow, but after four long years, some days their relationship seems to be going in reverse. Well, when something seems too good to be true it usually is! She is positive her single days of dating duds are over and her happy ever after is right around the corner. Marc immediately sweeps Hilary off her feet. He's everything she is looking for - handsome, successful, funny, and has a gorgeous home on the beach. ![]() ![]() When twenty-seven year old, Hilary, meets perfect on paper, Marc, she thinks she has finally found the man of her dreams. Diamonds are a girl's best friends unless the carat is dangled. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was his duty to court-martial and execute one Hamish MacLeod, a man who proclaims his innocence and has now taken the form of a ghost inside Rutledge’s head. Yet Rutledge is haunted by more than memories. But knowing what I do, I am not surprised Ian Rutledge returned a haunted man. It is what I learned about trench conditions that gives me nightmares. Apparently, World War I was the conflict that ushered in trench warfare. You’ve heard of mustard gas, but that’s just the beginning. I must confess I did not fully grasp how horrific World War I was until one of my students did a report on it. He’s something of a pariah in the stuffy bureaucracy, suffering from a debilitating case of “shell shock.” In Wings of Fire by Charles Todd, Ian Rutledge is a damaged Scotland Yard inspector, recently returned from the horrific conditions of World War I. Source: White Elephant Sale at the Oakland Museum Book Review: Wings of Fire by Charles Todd Publisher: St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pflanze, author of the major three volume English biography, says: Bismarck "initiated three wars (1864, 1866, 1870-1871) yet afterward successfully strove for two decades to preserve the peace of Europe against great odds.". ![]() He died in 1898 and his last two decades in office had been designed to prevent war." Steinberg quote in 2012 Steinberg said explicitly in 2012: "Can Bismarck be blamed for the First World War? Of course not." (Crankshaw, The fall of the House of Habsburg p 269.) Crankshaw says regarding the 1880s, "Thus an apparently watertight system of treaties designed to secure peace in general and the immediate piece of the Balkans and particular was woven by. ![]()
![]() This is such a powerful episode, and I know you will get a lot out of it! Who Is Rhonda Byrne? We get deep into Rhonda’s life experiences and discuss some of the biggest lessons she’s learned from discovering the Secret. Rhonda Byrne is here with us today on School of Greatness to discuss what the law of attraction is, how you can use it in your daily life to break out of negative thought loops, and how to find truth by leaving the ego behind. In today’s episode, I’m speaking to the woman who discovered the law of attraction and shared it with others in her now-famous documentary The Secret. What I love about this quote is that it speaks directly to something we talk about a lot on this show: the law of attraction. ![]() ![]() There’s a great quote from Neville Goddard that says, “Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.” ![]() ![]() Kyle would not have let Vanessa touch him on the arm, touch his hand, and definitely NOT kiss him, unless he was a d*ckhead weasel who liked to torment his girlfriend into jealousy. ![]() Sorry, but an Alpha wouldn’t wait 2 yrs for his mate, let alone a True Mate. Can he make Kelsey notice him as someone other than her boss and break down the walls she built around her heart? Or will Kelsey do what she has always done - run? For two years he endures her unnecessary formality and daily rejections with a patience he did not know he possessed. Kyle Westin, an alpha male who always gets what he wants, has watched and waited for the little she-wolf he knows is his perfect mate to show any signs of recognition. Can she conceal her growing feelings and her true self from this enigmatic, strong willed man, or will her world fall apart? But when she lands a lucrative job as an administrative assistant to Kyle Westin, CEO of the Westin Foundation, her life changes and everything's at stake. She cannot afford for anyone to get close, or know about the monster within. ![]() ![]() Running away is all she knows and necessary to preserve her deepest, darkest secret. Kelsey Adams is alone, and has been since childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Coates powerfully examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective-the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. ![]() This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period-and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation’s old and unreconciled history. In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”īut the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. “We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. ![]() The National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*-including the election of Donald Trump. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Zucked” is the story of why I became convinced, in spite of myself, that even though Facebook provided a compelling experience for most of its users, it was terrible for America and needed to change or be changed, and what I have tried to do about it. I learned that my trust in Facebook had been misplaced. What I learned in the months that followed shocked and disappointed me. In the beginning, I assumed that Facebook was a victim and I just wanted to warn my friends. ![]() I started pulling on that thread and uncovered a catastrophe. I had spent a career trying to draw smart conclusions from incomplete information, and one day early in 2016 I started to see things happening on Facebook that did not look right. ![]() It would never have occurred to me to be an anti-Facebook activist. In terms of my own narrow self-interest, I had no reason to bite Facebook’s hand. Even now, I still own shares in Facebook. I had been an early advisor to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg- Zuck, to many colleagues and friends- and an early investor in Facebook. Tech had been my career and my passion, but by 2016, I was backing away from full-time professional investing and contemplating retirement. I am a longtime tech investor and evangelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ism’s” are a hallmark of past economic thinking. What is the ‘doughnut’?Ī compass for human prosperity in the 21st century. What can you do today? In this article, we will look at what the doughnut economics model is, why we need it now and what you can do as an entrepreneur, a policy-maker or a civil activist to contribute. It may feel overwhelming, but it is possible to change course. The ongoing Covid-19 crisis served as a wake-up call: The time to act is now. ![]() ![]() The alarming fact that we, as humanity, have been overshooting our planetary boundaries is widely accepted by now. How sweet would it be to loosen capitalism’s grip on our lives? It is no less ambitious what economist, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics model promises. ![]() ![]() The beautiful object renders fairness, an abstract concept, concrete by making it directly available to our sensory perceptions.With its direct appeal to the senses, beauty stops us, transfixes us, fills us with a "surfeit of aliveness. ![]() Scarry argues that our responses to beauty are perceptual events of profound significance for the individual and for society.Presenting us with a rare and exceptional opportunity to witness fairness, beauty assists us in our attention to justice. Taking inspiration from writers and thinkers as diverse as Homer, Plato, Marcel Proust, Simone Weil, and Iris Murdoch as well as her own experiences, Scarry offers up an elegant, passionate manifesto for the revival of beauty in our intellectual work as well as our homes, museums, and classrooms. In "On Beauty and Being Just", Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from the political arguments against it but also argues that beauty does indeed press us toward a greater concern for justice. ![]() ![]() Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us from more important issues that it is the handmaiden of privilege and that it masks political interests. ![]() |