![]() ![]() Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization-one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds-the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire-into remarkably similar societies and states. ![]() ![]() Empires and Barbarians presents a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. ![]()
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![]() James: I am Welcoming today Dr Ian D Brooks the CEO and founder of Rhodes Smith Consulting and author of Intention: Building capabilities to transform your story. Think about what you could accomplish if you did so with intention and think about what those success stories might look like If you have more intent. Welcome to another episode of The Corelink Solution where we empower you with awareness and actionable insights. He also helps individuals build skills toward achieving their tomorrow and helping them master their intentions. He works with leaders in organizations to develop key skills in navigating within their organization and working with their teams. Brooks, the CEO and founder of Rhodes Smith Consulting and Author of Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story. Ian Brooks joins me to share his model for how to do that and achieve transformation.ĭr. Drive towards success with more predictability by shifting your focus from outcomes alone to what you truly want and consistent behaviors. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Andrews' Daphne is a young woman adopted into Spartan society and trained alongside the men to be fierce in battle and unwaveringly loyal to Sparta. Andrews' debut young adult novel Daughter of Sparta centers on, and grants agency to, a female character who had previously been just an accessory to a man's story. ![]() Most recently, Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles and Circe won awards and swept best-seller lists with their focus on individual characters in the wide world of gods and goddesses. Rick Riordan reared a fresh generation of mythology nerds with his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series for middle graders. Just like vampires, mermaids and William Shakespeare's works, the stories of ancient Greek mythology have inspired countless retellings and riffs by the likes of Anne Carson, Margaret Atwood and C.S. Some stories are just begging for a remix. ![]() ![]() A certain class confidence, not to say imperiousness, can be heard in well-born writers like Nabokov and Henry Green Tolstoy’s famous line about Ivan Ilyich-“Ivan Ilyich’s life had been most simple and most ordinary, and therefore most terrible”-represents surely a count’s hauteur as much as a religious moralist’s lament. Modern literature is mostly written not by aristocrats but by the middle classes. ![]() It is a characteristic phrase, from a writer of a very definite prose, with sharp outlines and a distinctly high-handed economy. “A very definite place.” So Penelope Fitzgerald described the English town of Southwold, on the Suffolk coast-a place of wet winds, speeding clouds, and withdrawn beauty where she and her family moved in 1957, when she was forty-one. ![]() Fitzgerald seemed set for early success, and yet published her first novel in her sixties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I always put up what I'm reading, but I zipped right through this because I just had to find out what happened to Joyce and her whole decision on the fold. I didn't even have a chance to put up this book as currently-reading I was that sucked in. Joyce’s decision is sure to spark heated discussions about the beauty myths readers confront in their own lives. Printz Award–winning author An Na has created a surprisingly funny and thought-provoking look at notions of beauty, who sets the standards and how they affect us all. ![]() After all, the plastic surgeon has shown Joyce that her new eyes will make her look just like Helen-but is that necessarily a good thing? Her friend Gina can’t believe she isn’t thrilled. Joyce has heard of the fold surgery-a common procedure meant to make Asian women’s eyes seem “prettier” and more “American”-but she’s not sure she wants to go through with it. Then her rich plastic-surgery-addict aunt offers Joyce a gift to “fix” a part of herself she’d never realized needed fixing-her eyes. And it doesn’t help that she’s constantly being compared to her beautiful older sister, Helen. Joyce never used to care that much about how she looked, but that was before she met JFK-John Ford Kang, the most gorgeous guy in school. ![]() ![]() ![]() Internationally best-selling author Todd Strasser has written his most impressive and personal novel to date, ruthlessly yet sensitively exploring the terrifying what-ifs of one of the most explosive moments in human history. But even worse is the question of what will - and won’t - remain when the door is opened again. ![]() With not enough room, not enough food, and not enough air, life inside the shelter is filthy, physically draining, and emotionally fraught. In the middle of the night in late October, when the unthinkable happens, those same neighbors force their way into the shelter before Scott’s dad can shut the door. As the neighbors scoff, he builds a bomb shelter to hold his family and stocks it with just enough supplies to keep the four of them alive for two critical weeks. But Scott’s dad is the only one in the neighborhood who actually prepares for the worst. What if the bomb had actually been dropped? What if your family was the only one with a shelter? In the summer of 1962, the possibility of nuclear war is all anyone talks about. The plot alternates in time between the family preparing a nuclear fallout shelter and then actually using it during a nuclear strike. ![]() You can read this before Fallout PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Fallout by Todd Strasser The Plot in Five Sentences or Less: Recounts the experience of one middle American family during the nuclear standoff of 1963. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Fallout written by Todd Strasser which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Fallout by Todd Strasser ![]() ![]() Novella: Prisoner of Night by JR Ward (Duran & Ahmare) Novella: Dearest Ivie | A Novella Set in the Black Dagger World (Ivie & Silas) Spin-off: Blood Fury | Black Dagger Legacy #3 (Peyton & Novo) Spin-off: Blood Vow | Black Dagger Legacy #2 (Axe & Elise) ![]() Spin-off: Blood Kiss | Black Dagger Legacy #1 (Craeg & Paradise) Novella 6.5: Father Mine (Zsadist & Bella)īook 7: Lover Avenged (Rehvenge & Ehlena)īook 10: Lover Reborn (Tohrment & I can’t tell you) ![]() This books are ADDICTIVE! I dare you to read just one!!īook 6: Lover Enshrined (Phury & Cormina).They should be read in order, each one builds on the next.Each book has a completely resolved, happy, swoony ending for the main couple, but usually leaves bigger plotlines to carry over to the next book.Each book focuses on one main couple with the rest of the Brotherhood (and their mates) as side characters.The world building is fantastic and builds with each book.Possessive, protective, absolutely badass fighters who are also intensely tender and swoon-worthy lovers). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "This chilling tale of religious persecution is served up with a feminist bite. One of the Best Books of the Year USA Today Good Housekeeping As Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, the island begins to close in on them, with Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. Inspired by the real events of the Vardø storm and the 1621 witch trials, The Mercies is a story of love, evil, and obsession, set at the edge of civilization. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. In Vardø, and in Maren, Ursa sees something she has never seen before: independent women. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa, who is both heady with her husband's authority and terrified by it. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. ![]() With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. After the men in an Arctic Norwegian town are wiped out, the women must survive a sinister threat in this "perfectly told" 1600s parable of "a world gone mad" (Adriana Trigiani). Finnmark, Norway, 1617. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the perfect gift for yourself or someone you love, especially after a most difficult year. Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers Melody Godfred 4.13 1,341 ratings194 reviews Want to read Kindle Unlimited 0.00 Rate this book In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. ![]() ![]() This empowering poetry book will not only engage you to think and feel, but will make you feel seen, show you how to love yourself, and encourage you to seek out the hope and beauty in the world. Combined, the poems electrify the mind, body and soul through a completely unique poetry experience that inspires each of us to embrace all parts of ourselves. On the left side of the book are "thinker" poems that light up the analytical, more literal, left side of the brain, and on the right side are companion "feeler" poems that speak to the creative, more emotional right side of the brain. In Self Love Poetry, Godfred explores concepts like authenticity, surrender, resilience, gratitude, believing in yourself, and of course, love, through 100 pairs of poems, each dedicated to a central theme. Now, Self Love Philosopher Melody Godfred shares her first poetry book, Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers, a collection of 200 thought-provoking and heart-opening self love poems. Readers have called her work "life changing," "pandemic medicine," and "part of my daily ritual." Oprah Magazine and the Today Show have featured her work for its timely, uplifting wisdom. ![]() ![]() ![]() He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.īatman has a son and it's something of a surprise as to how and when it happened unless you've been collecting Batman comics for decades (see spoilers below and yeah it's no suprise Grant Morrison mined this one). He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. ![]() ![]() In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. ![]() Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. ![]() |