A magnificent independent ruler in her own right, she lost her power when she married Louis VII of France. As the greatest heiress in Europe, she was in turn Queen of France and Queen of England among her sons were Richard the Lionheart and King John. A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth, as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleanor of Aquitaine s reign as England s stormiest and most ambitious queen has never been matched. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in … More.Ģ64 pages with chart, tables, plates, bibliography and index. 264 pages with chart, tables, plates, bibliography and index.
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When the officer asked what he’d taken, Sunny blurted out in his accented English, “He stole property in his mind. The way Theranos is operating is like trying to build a bus while you’re driving the bus. Hyping your product to get funding while concealing your true progress and hoping that reality will eventually catch up to the hype continues to be tolerated in the tech industry.īy positioning Theranos as a tech company in the heart of the Valley, Holmes channeled this fake-it-until-you-make-it culture, and she went to extreme lengths to hide the fakery. There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work.Ī riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. Audiobook Length: 11 hours and 37 minutes The SGM intends to summon up a dragon to terrorize the city. Carrot's unwelcome arrival - and his baffling insistence upon actually enforcing laws, let alone even knowing what they are - coincides with a power play by the Supreme Grand Master of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night. The Night Watch is a pitiful little enterprise, with only four not-exactly-civic-minded watchmen including Vimes, who spends most of his duty hours stupefied by drink and pining over a lost love. Tweets by Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett introduces readers to such fan favorite characters as Captain Vimes of the Night Watch, and his latest recruit, Carrot Ironfoundersson, the adopted human son of a dwarf family who comes to Ankh-Morpork to learn to be a man. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. “Syllable stress” refers to the syllable in a word that gets more emphasis than the others. When you say a word that only has one syllable, you only have one syllable to stress. Syllable StressĬlick below to listen to a recording of this passage. For example, the word “outside” has 4 vowels, but only two syllables, because -ou only counts as one vowel sound, while -i…e combine to form the long “i” sound (like in the word “pie”), even though they are separated by a consonant. Some vowel sounds are silent, while other sounds are made up of two different vowels. Additionally, the number of syllables is not necessarily equal to the number of vowels. While the majority of English words have between 1-4 syllables, some words have as many as 19! This means that counting the number of syllables is not always easy. All ig at or – 4 syllables, 4 vowels (All-i-ga-tor).T om orr ow – 3 syllables, 3 vowels (To-mor-row).Ord er – 2 syllables, 2 vowels (Or-der). NEW USES FOR FAILURE is calling for a different kind of criticism, in which its writer is self-conscious and knows himself/herself to be unreliable, also. Colman is a thoughtful narrator of his ideas, and a playful reader: he approaches Ben Lerner's writing on its terms, and on his own. ISBN-13: 9780865478107 Summary In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. His criticism is lively, witty, and has an engaging style more usually seen in a novel. 10:04 Ben Lerner, 2014 Faber and Faber 256 pp. "Adam Colman writes about writing with a unique take on literature and in a fresh voice. This is part of Fiction Advocate's Afterwords series. A manifesto, a critical analysis, and a winking work of satire, NEW USES FOR FAILURE marks the arrival of a sparkling new genre. In this sharp, playful book, Colman dives deep into Ben Lerner's 10:04 to create a "how to" manual for anyone who wants to write, or simply understand, essayistic fiction. Call it what you will Adam Colman calls it essayistic fiction. A brave new mode of literature has been emerging in the work of Sheila Heti, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and others. Martia wishes for him to marry Julia Royce, an English woman he meets in Germany, but he follows his heart and marries Leah Gibson, a Jewish woman, with whom he is so happy that Martia acknowledges her mistake. She inspires him to a successful career as an author. He learns in a dream that he has a kind of guardian spirit Martia, a female spirit from Mars, who communicates with him and offers him guidance. His vision fails, and he travels seeking help with it, becoming suicidal. Barty is "a handsome, high-spirited, mischievous, and gifted fellow, thoroughly practical, yet with traits that have in them a strange idealism." After finishing school, they return to England, where Barty spends some time in the army, but resigns. Poster for the serialized printing of The Martian in Harper's Magazine (1898)īarty Josselin and Robert Maurice are English boys attending the Institution F. When the Japanese suddenly invades Malaya (Malaysia) Jean is taken prisoner along with thirty other white women while their husbands are herded off to Singapore or a prison camp. Ironically, Jean is not a typical flighty woman as Strachan discovers when she tells him her experience of WWII.īefore the outbreak of war, Jean worked as a typist for a British company in Kuala Lumpur and decides to stay during the war. In his will, and due to his low regard for a woman’s ability to look after her own finances, the great-uncle stipulated that Jean may not have full access to her fortune until she is thirty-five years old and his lawyer, Noel Strachan, is to act as a trustee. Jean Paget, a British woman working as a typist at a shoe and handbag manufacturer is twenty-seven years old when she inherits a nice little fortune from a long forgotten great-uncle. A Town Like Alice is a tale of an ordinary woman’s extraordinary life in the face of various hardships. There's the obligatory "white trash" with a load of kids, a disabled child that the community feels like it needs to help and a few other characters that had me rolling my eyes. Another thing that annoyed me was the whole town felt like a cliched kind of town. Maybe there's another one lined up, but I wish this had ended better. I liked the build up to the house, and when something interesting happens with it, it was fast paced, but every other part was slow going and for the most part boring. I feel like this could have been so much better had it been told by one person rather than so many! I also found the pacing to be hit or miss. It felt like it was chopping and changing too much for any of the characters to be fully developed!! I didn't connect to most of them and didn't really care what happened them. The main thing that bugged me was the number of POVs. So this book was good.ish! There were some positives but more negatives yet overall I enjoyed the plot enough to finish it! I'll get the bad out of the way first. 6 seditious conspiracy cases.The question is whether special counsel Jack Smith will indict former President Donald Trump and other political organizers of the Jan. It is possible the Justice Department is becoming increasingly confident in its ability to win complex Jan. Followers of two extremist groups have now been convicted of seditious conspiracy: Oath Keepers in March, and yesterday, Proud Boys. But more than 400 have faced prosecution for higher-level crimes, and at least 237 have been sentenced to prison.Second, Thursday’s conviction hints at prosecutions that may come. As of April, law enforcement had arrested 1,020 people for participating in the Capitol assault. Most of those brought to trial have faced only minor charges. First, it’s a symbol of the grinding Justice Department effort to hold accountable those responsible for Jan. government.The verdict is important for two reasons. The juror told Vice News that it was the Proud Boys’ own texts and messages that convinced the jury the men had engaged in seditious conspiracy – an effort to “overthrow, put down, or destroy by force” the U.S. and the fact they wanted to do so much in secret.”That’s what a juror said following Thursday’s conviction of four members of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group for plotting to attack the U.S. As if that is not enough, the castle ghosts won’t leave her alone. Karigan has only just returned from a dark future where Sacoridia has been conquered and is ruled by a despotic emperor, and she has not recovered in heart or mind. When an embassy from Eletia arrives to propose a joint venture between their realms to seek out an old ally in the north, he is dismayed to learn that the one Sacoridian they have in mind to accompany their guide is the woman he truly loves but cannot have: Green Rider Karigan G’ladheon. Zachary Davriel Hillander, High King of Sacoridia, rues how much he has had to give up to lead his realm, including the freedom to live and love as he chooses. Magic, danger, and adventure abound for messenger Karigan G'ladheon in the sixth book in Kristen Britain's New York Times-bestselling Green Rider epic fantasy series. |