![]() ![]() Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst – that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined – also gives the story added depth. As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott in The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). ![]() The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch (superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopian colony founded by John and other superhumans. Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The science is fascinating, the plot moves along, he obviously knows military tactics, the characters are one dimensional bores, every female mentioned is "stacked", and Ringo has a nasty habit of injecting ridiculous political agenda into the weirdest bits of his story. John Ringo is not a great author he isn't even a good one. Eventually he makes a prototype Death Star. With this fortune, he begins to create lasers. Funny, but still not as well delivered as the aforementioned Douglas Adams. A human entrepreneur finds out another group of aliens love Maple Syrup. ![]() ![]() We give them our rare precious metals they don't nuke more cities. Shortly later, aliens nuke cities and take over the world. Gate pops up in the general region of earth, aliens fly through and gave a brief humorous description of what the gate exactly provided: namely, the ability for anyone who could pay (aggressor/trader made no difference to it) a trip through. Live Free or Die starts with a near Douglas Adams' flair for comedy. My requirements were thus when I set out to read this novel (which is really a series of three novellas packed into one larger work): ![]() ![]() ![]() Rather, it’s about how well or poorly our multiple channels of communication - facial expressions, posture, movement, vocal qualities, speech - cooperate. Judging a person’s honesty is not about identifying one stereotypical reveal, such as fidgeting or averted eyes. In an interview with the New York Times, psychologist Charles Bond, who studies deception, said the stereotype of what liars do “would be less puzzling if we had more reason to imagine that it was true.” It turns out that there’s no “Pinocchio effect,” no single nonverbal cue that will betray a liar. People also tend to list other allegedly telltale signs of lying, such as fidgeting, nervousness and rambling. Let me start with a question: How do you know if a person is lying? If you’re like most people, your first response will be something like “Liars don’t make eye contact.” In a survey of 2,520 adults in sixty-three countries, 70 percent of respondents gave that answer. Amy Cuddy digs into what our faces and bodies do when we tell a lie. ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century. ![]() 100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also fears that, if left alone, humanity will destroy itself again. He understands the desire to fight for the independence of humanity. The first of his kind, Akin is more powerful than any other being. ![]() But there are those who resist the Oankali and the salvation they offer. The Oankali saved humanity years before, compelled by the desire to create an extraordinary new race of children. His family live together on Earth, but not in complete peace. ![]() Lilith's son Akin looks like an ordinary child. Frightened and alone, Jodahs must come to terms with this new identity, learn to master lifechanging powers and bring together what's left of humankind - or become the biggest threat to their survival. But Jodahs is approaching adulthood, a metamorphosis that will take him beyond gender and family, and into a great but dangerous unknown. Jodahs is a child of the Earth and stars, born from the union between humans and the Oankali, who saved humanity from destruction centuries before. ![]() ![]() ![]() The writing wasn’t terrible, but it was very “paint by numbers.” I thought the story was very predictable, the characters were one-dimensional, and the action scenes fell flat. ![]() I loved the cover, I thought the story line sounded intriguing, but somewhere between that and actually reading the book I lost interest very quickly. I wanted to love this book, I really did. I read this book as part of the Kindle First program. Inspired by the events and people of World War II, writer Rhys Bowen crafts a sweeping and riveting saga of class, family, love, and betrayal. Can he, with Pamela’s help, stop them before England falls? But Pamela has her own secret: she has taken a job at Bletchley Park, the British code-breaking facility.Īs Ben follows a trail of spies and traitors, which may include another member of Pamela’s family, he discovers that some within the realm have an appalling, history-altering agenda. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham’s middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. Goodreads Synopsis: World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. Title: In Farleigh Field: A Novel of World War II ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His post-mortem encounter with Therriault exacts a high price on Jamie, who now finds himself more haunted than ever, though he never gives up on the everyday experiences in which King roots all his nightmares.Ĭrave chills and thrills but don’t have time for a King epic? This will do the job before bedtime. Now that she’s seen what Jamie can do, Liz takes it on herself to arrange an interview in which Jamie will ask Kenneth Therriault, a serial bomber who’s just killed himself, where he’s stowed his latest explosive device before it can explode posthumously. His uncanny gift at first seems utterly unrelated to his mother Tia’s work as a literary agent, but the links become disturbingly clear when her star client, Regis Thomas, dies shortly after starting work on the newest entry in his bestselling Roanoke Saga, and Tia and her lover, NYPD Detective Liz Dutton, drive Jamie out to Cobblestone Cottage to encourage the late author to dictate an outline of his latest page-turner so that Tia, who’s fallen on hard times, can write it in his name instead of returning his advance and her cut. Not for very long-they fade away after a week or so-but during that time he can talk to them, ask them questions, and compel them to answer truthfully. ![]() ![]() Horrormeister King follows a boy’s journey from childhood to adolescence among the dead-and their even creepier living counterparts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Handsomely designed, 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic record of The Beatles’ first transatlantic trip, documenting the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964. “Beatleland,” an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass culture phenomenon.Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the “Eyes of the Storm,” plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964.A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit.Featuring 275 images from the six cities―Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami―of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes: Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. ![]() ''Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget.'' -Paul McCartney ![]() ![]() ![]() Cressida lives in Hammersmith with her husband and three children.Ħ. ![]() Also the author of picture books, Cressida has won the Nestle Children's Book Prize 2006 and has been shortlisted for many others. A DreamWorks Animation feature film is out in March 2010. How to Train Your Dragon is now published in over 30 languages. The unique blend of child centred humour and sublime prose made Hiccup an instant hit. Cressida has written and illustrated eight books in the popular Hiccup series. Cressida loves illustrating her own work, but also loves writing books for other people to illustrate as the end result can be so unexpected and inspiring. She has a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, a BA in Graphic Design from St Martin's and an MA in Narrative Illustration from Brighton. She was convinced that there were dragons living on this island, and has been fascinated by dragons ever since. Cressida Cowell grew up in London and on a small, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland. ![]() ![]() ![]() While there he saw the coming of the National Party government, and the implementation of its policy of apartheid, which led to the ethnic cleansing of blacks from Sophiatown, which Huddleston opposed. ![]() ![]() For 12 years, from 1944-1956, he served as the parish priest of Sophiatown, a black suburb in western Johannesburg. Trevor Huddleston was an Anglican priest, and a member of the Anglican monastic order, the Community of the Resurrection (CR). It is also an affectionate portrait of Sophiatown, an anomalous black suburb of Johannesburg where Huddleston worked and where – much to the chagrin of the authorities – the black population had freehold rights. This book is a sombre meditation on the nature of apartheid, in which Huddleston deconstructs the political ideology of Hendrik Verwoerd (ironally addressed throughout as “Dr Verwoerd”) and exposes the “sub-Christian” theology of the Dutch Reformed Church of the 1950s. ![]() |