![]() ![]() Taking advantage of a British decision to allow companies to claim North Sea oil drilling rights with little money down, Metcalfe creates Prospecta Oil, a paper company designed to look good and bring in investors, to be left hanging out to dry when the bottom drops out. Over 40 years, he has mastered the shady deal, and by the 1960s is a multi-millionaire. ![]() Harvey Metcalfe, a Polish immigrant to the United States, rises from messenger boy to corporate magnate, combining business skills with little loyalty and much ruthlessness. It was said to have been inspired by Archer's real-life experience of near- bankruptcy. Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less was Jeffrey Archer's first novel, first published in 1976. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the more rigid members of the congregation in Jolo, such as the ailing matriarch Barbara Elkins, do not approve of Covington’s participation.Ĭovington brings his family to a service at Carl Porter’s church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, during which his daughter appears to be very enthusiastic about the services and Covington has his feet ritually washed. For the first time, he entertains the reality of the Holy Ghost. Up in Jolo, the desire to testify seizes Covington. ![]() A testament to their newfound trust in Covington, Brother Carl invites Covington and his photographers to attend their 20th annual homecoming in Jolo, West Virginia, over Labor Day weekend. Covington begins to participate actively in the services himself, rather than as a journalist and observer, and earns the name Brother Dennis. Dyal, and Charles McGlocklin would be preaching under a brush arbor. After the church in Scottsboro shuts down, Covington is invited to attend services on Sand Mountain where three snake-handling preachers named Carl Porter, J.L. ![]() ![]() Suddenly a vile green monster, Jenny Greenteeth, appears in the water. While playing by the river near her home, she sees two tiny blue, kilted men who warn her of a "green heid" in the water. Tiffany Aching is a 9-year-old girl who literally sees things differently from others. While Terry Pratchett's first Discworld book for children, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents had swearing translated to rat language, in this book it is in the dialect of the Nac Mac Feegle which is taken from Scots and Scottish Gaelic.Īn illustrated edition of the novel, with pictures by Stephen Player, appeared in print on 2 October 2008. ![]() The final book in the series, The Shepherd's Crown, was released in 2015. A sequel, A Hat Full of Sky, appeared in 2004 (both books were republished in a combined edition, The Wee Free Men: The Beginning, in August 2010) a third book called Wintersmith appeared in 2006 and the fourth, I Shall Wear Midnight, was released in September 2010. It is labelled a "Story of Discworld" to indicate its status as children's or young adult fiction, unlike most of the books in the Discworld series. The Wee Free Men is a 2003 comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, which takes place in his Discworld setting. ![]() Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book 2004.Center for Children's Books' Blue Ribbon. ![]() American Library Association's Best Book For Young Adults 2004. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Said Keri Putnam, Sundance Executive Director, in a statement, “The unique gathering of independent voices, for the first time in a multi-Lab setting, allows our artists to collaborate across different creative practices and focus on experimentation in storytelling. Individual Lab Fellows will participate in portions of the other labs, giving these Sundance programs an interdisciplinary flavor. But the format is not just an alteration of the calendar. For the first time, these labs will run concurrently in a “multi-Lab” format at the Sundance Resort in Utah. ![]() The Sundance Institute today announced the anticipated rosters for its Screenwriters Lab, Documentary Edit and Story Lab and new Theatre-Makers Residency as well as a major now presentation change. Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab, Sundance Institute, Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Sundance Theatre-Makers Residency ![]() ![]() ![]() Her parents died when she was only eighteen and left to look after her ten year old brother, Jess, so she had to grow up fast and become ‘the parent’. Miranda, who I liked instantly, is my favourite kind of heroine: feisty, independent, a woman who on the outside seems prickly and hard, but is really soft as putty with a kind heart and just needs the right man to bring out that side of her nature. ![]() I was pulled into the story from the get go. ![]() But when Mandi called out for a reviewer, I thought, why not? And I’m glad I did, because Can’t Stand the Heat was a really fabulous read. He’ll just have to give the tempting redhead a few private lessons of his own-teaching Miranda what it means to cook with passion.Ĭan’t Stand the Heat is not usually the kind of book I read. The trouble is, she never expected Adam to find out her most embarrassing secreT: this critic has no idea how to cook.Īs for Adam, well, he’s not about to have his reputation burned by a critic who doesn’t even know the difference between poaching and paring. Surely Miranda can find a way to cut the hotshot chef down to size once she learns what really goes on at his trendy Manhattan restaurant. I am so happy to have one of my favorite bloggers and owner of my favorite pink hair, Book Chick City here to guest review today!įor sharp-tongued Miranda Wake, the chance to spend a month in Adam Temple’s kitchen to write an exposé is a journalistic dream come true. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Following the success of his international blockbuster Built to Last, where he and co-author Jerry Porras discovered the secrets of companies that were outstanding at their founding and then sustained greatness, Collins wondered what could be done for the company that is good or mediocre at best? He questioned whether there have been companies that started weak and finished strong, and if so, what can be said about these companies that might help managers turn a mediocre organization into a great one? So Collins and his research team undertook a massive five year study of every company that has made the Fortune 500 since the advent of that listing in 1965, and has crafted a book as practical and insightful as BUILT TO LAST. ![]() In Good to Great, the most widely anticipated management book of the year, Jim Collins presents nothing less than a recipe book on how to make a good company great. Filled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master blueprint for building organizations that will prosper in the 21st century and beyond. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But her journey won't be complete until she makes one final choice…which guy to love. When Kylie's most powerful enemy returns to destroy her once and for all, there's only one way to stop him-to step into her full powers and make a stunning transformation that will amaze everyone around her. A place where your two best friends can be a witch and a vampire…and where love doesn't happen the way you'd expect. When Kylie Galen entered Shadow Falls Camp, she left her old life behind forever and discovered a world more magical than she ever imagined. Don't miss this magnificent final chapter in the breathtaking Shadow Falls series! Kylie's epic journey is about to lead her exactly where she belongs… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each street is placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death. The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.įirst, a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town and its outlying districts, a prohibition to leave the town on pain of death, the killing of all stray animals the division of the town into distinct quarters, each governed by an intendant. Translated from the French by Alan Sherida. ![]() Originally published in France as Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison. The full text is available online, here we share a segment from the chapter Panopticism (pp195–200.) To comprehend the meaning and the gravity of the Hungarian government's decision of declaring a state of emergency, one should revisit Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish. "(.) in order to see perfect disciplines functioning, rulers dreamt of the state of plague." Hoover Archives Research Assistance Scholarship. ![]() ![]() ![]() He asserts that "history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become" (p. Along the way, he indicts the authors and publishers of these textbooks for what he sees as the sorry state of American history education in the nation's high schools. Through his sometimes light-in-tone but unusually hard-hitting narrative, the author provides information and insights that all Americans would do well to consider, especially those without college-level training or the equivalent in American history. ![]() Loewen describes his survey of twelve high school American history textbooks published between 19, inclusively. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. ![]() ![]() It starts weird, and gets weirder, so it's more important to just appreciate the unbridled creativity that Jodorowski and Moebius bring to life. My suggestion for tackling The Incal is to leave your expectations of traditional storytelling at the door. Lewis's Space Trilogy-not a connection I was expecting to make as I read this. ![]() In a weird way, this story reminded me of C.S. In a lot of ways, The Incal does what Jodorowski wasn't able to do with his film adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel.Īs far as I can tell, The Incal is about.proto-scientific neo-spiritual existentialism? That sounds about right. I think that seeing the documentary Jodorowski's Dune helped prepare me for this book, since I knew what I was getting into. ![]() |