![]() ![]() ![]() With three sisters to escort about Town and aunties who insist he dance with every eligible. The flawed, realistic characters and their witty, flirtatious banter make for an immersive romance. 'Grace Burrowes is terrific' Julia Quinn, Sunday Times bestselling author of the Bridgerton series A duke meets his match in the last place he'd ever expect in this charming Regency romance Wrexham, Duke of Elsmore, is overrun by family obligations. Their engagement of convenience gives way to passionate interludes and real romance-but danger still looms. Smitten Stephen, meanwhile, offers to protect Abigail from Stapleton’s threats by courting her and moving her into the home of his powerful brother, the Duke of Walden. ![]() Though Abigail is no longer in possession of the letters, she recreates them for Stephen, hoping they can discover why they are so crucial to Stapleton. Forthright, intelligent Abigail turns to her ruthless friend Lord Stephen Wentworth for assistance. The despicable Lord Stapleton believes Abigail is in possession of love letters written by his late son, the Earl of Champlain, who had an affair with Abigail while married, and repeatedly threatens Abigail in his quest to get them back. Inquiry agent Abigail Abbott’s past has come back to haunt her. Burrowes creates a couple that readers will root for in her energetic sixth Rogues to Riches Regency series (after The Truth About Dukes). ![]()
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![]() Which, of course, is what eugenics is all about.Īlarmingly, transhumanist values are being embraced at the highest strata of society, including in Big Tech, in universities, and among the Davos crowd of globalist would-be technocrats. It calls itself “H+,” for more or better than human. Transhumanism, boiled down to its bones, is pure eugenics. Harari goes on to outline a transhumanist vision of the future in which brain-computer interfaces make our footedness in the material world obsolete, human relationships become meaningless due to artificial substitutes, and the poor die but the rich don’t. – from a transcript at RielPolitic Alexandra Bruce, “BRAVE NEW WORLD: Yuval Noah Harari Ask’s, ‘What To Do With All These Useless People?’,” (May 17, 2022) I think once you’re superfluous, you don’t have power. My best guess, at present is a combination of drugs and computer games as a solution for. ![]() The problem is more boredom and how what to do with them and how will they find some sense of meaning in life, when they are basically meaningless, worthless? ![]() Again, I think the biggest question in maybe in economics and politics of the coming decades will be what to do with all these useless people? ![]() ![]() ![]() “Every bedroom on the property is unique with beautiful original features, hand woven Busatti fabrics and the highest quality bed linen. The real-life restoration work on Villa Laura began in 2006. ![]() Airy and spacious, it offers a Hollywood-worthy retreat in the Tuscan countryside near the town of Cortona. Just as the fictional villa is given a makeover, Villa Laura was recently renovated with an eye to traditional style and touches of quiet luxury. This ten-bedroom property played the role of the villa Bramasole in the film. Writer-director Audrey Wells says they simply “cleaned it up a little and filmed it in warmer, prettier light.”Ī stay at Villa Laura is your chance to live out your own Under the Tuscan Sun. ![]() They didn’t actually change much in the house to show it had been remodeled in the movie. I’ve been slowly working my way through old posts and updating them, and this one definitely deserved some bigger, better photos! Long-time readers may remember when I first featured this house on my blog back in 2009. The house needed work, both in the movie and in real life. Villa Laura in the Movie “Under the Tuscan Sun” Note: This post contains affiliate links that may earn me commission. The movie was filmed on location at Villa Laura in Tuscany, which is actually a vacation rental today, so I thought it would be fun to revisit how it looked onscreen. In the romantic comedy Under the Tuscan Sun, Diane Lane played Frances Mayes, a woman who impulsively decided to buy and restore an old house in Italy called “Bramasole.” ![]() ![]() ![]() More than a collection of recipes, Cook This Book teaches you the invaluable superpower of improvisation though visually compelling lessons on such topics as the importance of salt and how to balance flavor, giving you all the tools necessary to make food taste great every time. Molly breaks the essentials of cooking down to clear and uncomplicated recipes that deliver big flavor with little effort and a side of education, including dishes like Pastrami Roast Chicken with Schmaltzy Onions and Dill, Chorizo and Chickpea Carbonara, and of course, her signature Cae Sal. Cook This Book is a new kind of foundational cookbook from Molly Baz, who’s here to teach you absolutely everything she knows and equip you with the tools to become a better, more efficient cook. If you seek out, celebrate, and obsess over good food but lack the skills and confidence necessary to make it at home, you’ve just won a ticket to a life filled with supreme deliciousness. “Surprising no one, Molly has written a book as smart, stylish, and entertaining as she is.”-Carla Lalli Music, author of Where Cooking Begins. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TASTE OF HOME ![]() A thoroughly modern guide to becoming a better, faster, more creative cook, featuring fun, flavorful recipes anyone can make. ![]() ![]() Though Darwin stated his case for evolution by natural selection persuasively and in the most diplomatic of tones, the work evoked a storm of controversy, causing Darwin to revise it through six editions during his lifetime. Darwin's work contained only a single illustration- a branching evolutionary tree, the first known presketch of which appears in Darwin's notebooks in 1839. Darwin's great achievement was to make this centuries-old "underground" concept acceptable to the scientific community and educated readers by cogently arguing for the existence of a viable mechanism- natural selection- by which new species evolve over vast periods of time. ![]() The idea of species evolution can be traced as far back as the ancient Greek belief in the "great chain of being". From its original publication, through the early years of the twenty-first century, this work remained one of the most widely appreciated, or disputed, classics in the history of science. On NovemCharles Darwin issued through the London publisher, John Murray, his book entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. ![]() ![]() ![]() "It may seem cliché to state that a novel is necessary. " exceptional novel captures the agonizing legacy of a dark chapter from the recent past."―Booklist In this episode of video series Author Talks, Kim Soom discusses her career and award-winning novels. ![]() It is also the first novel of Kim to be translated into English. The first Korean novel devoted to the subject of comfort women, One Left rekindled conversations about the violent legacies of Japanese colonialism when it was published in Korea in 2016. Yet, when she learns that the last known comfort woman is dying, she decides to tell her there will still be “one left” after her passing, and embarks on a painful journey. The horrors of her life as a sex slave follow her back to Korea, where she lives in isolation gripped by the fear that her past will be discovered. She also wants to assure her that she’s not in fact the last one left. The narrator, unnamed until the end of the book, is determined to meet this last victim: she wants to know if she knew the woman from 70 years earlier. ![]() One Left is a provocative, extensively researched novel constructed from the testimonies of dozens of "comfort women." Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. One Left by Kim Soom A Korean nonagenarian learns on the news that the last remaining comfort woman is on her deathbed. ![]() ![]() ![]() None of this would prepare us for the keen - almost manic - interest in The Beatles Anthology, the book that was already roaring to bestseller status prior to its October 5th debut, released just a few days before what would have been John Lennon's 60th birthday. The Beatles were The Beatles: no substitutions accepted.Īnd it's all so long ago now, isn't it? The only people that can possibly remember the first faint stirrings from Liverpool are either middle-aged, old or dead. You couldn't, for instance, pull a Van Halen and replace your David Lee Roth as required. Where there had been a Fab Four, there was now just a sad three and that really wasn't the same. But, of course, the single thing that had been possible until the time of Lennon's death that became impossible in an instant was The Beatles' reunion tour. Likewise, the world was deprived of an unthinking amount of future photo ops: Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono had always provided fodder for the cameras of the paparazzi. Certainly, the light of a genius was senselessly snuffed out, arguably, in its prime. There are people who will tell you that, for them, the world of music would never be the same. ![]() Review | The Beatles Anthology by The BeatlesĪ lot of things happened on the day late in 1980 that John Lennon died. ![]() ![]() ![]() Strangely, Turks continue to put their faith in this regime, pointing to the successful 1997 “postmodern coup” against Necmettin Erbakan’s Welfare party, which promoted fundamentalist Islamic rule. Another paradox lies in the uneasy Turkish dance with democracy, crucial to its acceptance by the European Union, yet repeatedly checked by the nation’s skittish and powerful military. Atatürk embodied the fiercely guarded, masculine Turkish traditions, but he advocated a “Westernization” of Turkey in civic and social matters. Kinzer explores the political paradoxes that followed the Turkish Republic’s establishment in 1923 by national hero Kemal Atatürk, whose example created “Kemalism”-essentially the state’s secular religion. The Turks were reviled for centuries in Europe due to Ottoman imperialism. This quality energizes his consideration of Turkish history as reflected by their 21st-century dilemmas. ![]() Kinzer ( Blood of Brothers, 1991), former Istanbul bureau chief for the New York Times, is unabashed in his enthusiasm for the Turkish people and their rough-edged, yet vibrant, centuries-old society. A lively, engaging report on modern-day Turkey, a nation poised between democracy and military rule. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a sad, but uplifting story that offers hope to the disheartened. But is she too late? Can she retrieve her heart from the jar? Vibrant illustrations with thought bubbles complement the words of the text. Will she regain her sense of wonder? Finding herself unable to connect to a younger, curious child that she meets, the little girl starts to realize the importance of feeling and the pursuit of knowledge. However, with the death of her grandfather, her grief makes her literally bottle up her emotions by putting her heart in a bottle that hangs around her neck! By numbing herself to the pain of his passing, the little girl also loses her passion for knowledge and discovery. ![]() In love with learning and filled with an eagerness to explore, a little girl scampers around with her grandfather. ![]() ![]() ![]() On the other side of this are the animals, some of whom are briefly given a voice here, who are self-aware and know that they will be reborn as other animals. This is a world in which spirituality and life are interconnected, not always positively, as can be seen by Father Oke who uses his influence to collect money from his flock or by Chris, Adora’s husband, who calls his wife a ‘marine witch’. ![]() The narrative moves between people and places, even between animals and things. Lagoon is a beautifully told story, as much about Lagos as it is about Ayodele and her message for humanity. The three people accept the roles of intermediaries and they escort Ayodele into Lagos, a city that must deal with the revelation of first contact in all its many ways. ![]() She is an ambassador of her species, an alien that can shift shape, and whose mission is to negotiate with humans, warning them of what is to come. When Adoara (a marine biologist), Agu (a sodier) and Anthony (a famous rapper from Ghana) are washed back onto the beach, there is another figure with them – a nameless female that Adoara calls Ayodele, after a childhood friend. Three people, who each find themselves for different reasons on Bar Beach, Lagos, are swept into the sea during the aftermath of an impact into the ocean, which is of such magnitude that its shock blast brings birds falling to the earth like stones. ![]() |