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![]() ![]() This realisation sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 19. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world's three major reserve currencies big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political and values disparities in more than 100 years and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. ![]() A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn't encountered before. ![]() From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the internationalbestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we've experienced in our lifetimes - but similar to those that have happened many times before. ![]()
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Supernova book marissa meyer5/12/2023 ![]() Plus, he now has to find some way to tell his girlfriend and fellow crime-fighter, Nova, that he’s the Sentinel because she’s the only one out of their patrol squad that doesn’t know… things do not bode well for Adrian Everheart. ![]() ![]() It also doesn’t help that he can’t find the elusive villain, Nightmare. Nova has her commitments as Nightmare to her uncle, Ace Anarchy, who is the greatest villain of the age, and yet she knows for a fact that she is deeply in love with her natural enemy Adrian, who believes she’s a Renegade (superhero) as well.Īdrain on the other hand deals with the problems of secretly being the Sentinel while his superhero fathers see the Sentinel as a problem. Their secrets keep building and their loyalty and love to each other are now being tested. ![]() In this insane conclusion, Nova Artino (Nightmare/Insomnia) and Adrian Everheart (Sketch/The Sentinel) deal with the constantly growing problems of their alter egos. ![]()
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Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() After one wild party, Julia starts receiving romantic om an unknown number! Jason promises to help discover the identity of her mysterious new suitor if she agrees to live a little along the way. Julia also believes in fate, and that Mark, her childhood crush, is her MTB - her meant-to-be.īut this spring break, Julia's rules are about to get defenestrated (SAT word: thrown from a window) when she's partnered with her personal nemesis, class clown Jason, on a school trip to London. That's why she keeps a pencil sharpener in her purse and a pocket Shakespeare in her.well, pocket. ![]() Straight-A junior Julia may be accident prone, but she's the queen of following rules and being prepared. It's one thing to fall head over heels into a puddle of hazelnut coffee, and quote another to fall for the - gasp - wrong guy. ![]()
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Heroides by Ovid5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The most important methodological precedent for F.’s argument is M. There is nothing new in this argument, as evidenced by the abundance of scholarship dedicated to the explication of intertextual episodes in the poems. characterizes the fictional female authors of the collection as belonging to an imaginary community of readers (though she has the somewhat disorienting tendency to discuss them as if they were flesh and blood women rather than fictional literary characters). This book will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, as well as scholars with interests in gender studies.į. ![]() is walking a familiar path yet, as she argues persuasively in her introductory comments, her study substantially advances previous feminist scholarship on the Heroides. In adopting a distinctly feminist approach to the poems, F. Laurel Fulkerson’s (F.) feminist treatment of the single Heroides is the latest addition to this growing body of scholarship. ![]() In recent years, however, this fascinating collection of fictional elegiac epistles has been the subject of a veritable deluge of articles, book chapters, monographs, and commentaries on selected letters. ![]() Ovid’s Heroides were once as neglected by classicists (though not medievalists) as his heroines were by their callous lovers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I came across Powell first in Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (1991) where he argues that the Greek alphabet was invented in Euboea to write down Homer’s epics. It leaves one suspecting that this is a publisher’s meal-ticket. And I see yet another version of The Iliad by Peter Green (California) out this month and a new version of the Odyssey by Anthony Verity forthcoming from OUP, none other. If one enters ‘ The Odyssey by Homer’ in Amazon, 75 relevant pages come up with many translations (Powell says there are over 130). xi), they said ‘But hasn’t Homer already been translated many times?’ It was a good question. ![]() Powell told his friends about this project (p. ![]()
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The Odyssey by Homer5/11/2023 ![]() The poem focuses on the Greek hero Odysseus ( or Ulysses, as he was known in Roman myths) and his long journey home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy. It is widely recognized as one of the great stories of all time, and has been a strong influence on later European, especially Renaissance, literature. It was probably composed near the end of the 8th Century BCE and is, in part, a sequel to “The Iliad”. “The Odyssey” (Gr: “Odysseia”) is the second of the two epic poems attributed to the ancient Greek poet Homer (the first being “The Iliad”), and usually considered the second extant work of Western literature. Introduction | Synopsis | Analysis | Resources Introduction Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8). ![]() ![]() Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5).Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Preferisce la compagnia silenziosa dei libri, che sanno trasportarla in mondi diversi dal suo o quella confortevole degli animali di cui si prende cura alla clinica veterinaria, dagli occhi così espressivi e rassicuranti. Teme sempre di dire o fare la cosa sbagliata, non riesce mai a capire i pensieri o i comportamenti dei suoi interlocutori, a interpretarne i gesti o le espressioni del volto: per lei, stare in mezzo agli altri è come trovarsi in un Paese straniero di cui non conosce la lingua. La storia struggente di Annika e Jonathan racconta il coraggio dell'amore, il rispetto di quella diversità che ci rende speciali, la straordinaria bellezza e unicità di ciò che banalmente viene definito «imperfetto». ![]()
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Avengers by jonathan hickman vol 15/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Infinity is a story of the Avengers’ greatest triumph, and how it was actually their greatest defeat. There’s a LOT of content here - it took me a whole afternoon to read the entire collection because of just how beefy this volume is.īut it was absolutely worth it. What it effectively leads to is three Avengers titles intertwining for the duration of the event, and the entirety of this Complete Collection. This is a symptom of Infinity’s original intent - in his first plan, there wouldn’t be a miniseries and the two ongoings would have just crossed over. It’s technically a 6-issue event miniseries with the Avengers and New Avengers titles tying in, but the tie-ins are absolutely necessary, as the whole thing will basically be incomplete if you just try to read the miniseries. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades.Ī gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more rancid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. ![]() When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession it sends Armand, his wife Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the S ret, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour d'Eiffel, to the bowels of the Paris Archives, from luxury hotels to odd, coded, works of art. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. , the 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S ret du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light. Robert Bathurst is just about perfect delivering the 16th Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel.Listen to all the Gamache audiobooks for maximum satisfaction. ![]()
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Book red at the bone5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Aubrey continues to love Iris over the years, but she grows distant and finds love in Ohio. Her decision to leave permanently scars both Aubrey and Melody. After healing from childbirth, Iris moves to Ohio for college, leaving Aubrey and Melody behind and finding freedom in being away from home. While Aubrey enjoys his role as a father, Iris finds the pressure unrelenting. Iris struggles to maintain a connection to her child. ![]() ![]() Eventually, they both learn they could never control their daughter. Her and Po’Boy worked extremely hard and sacrificed so much that they initially perceive Iris’s pregnancy as the undoing of their accomplishments. Sabe, who is born to a family with a direct connection to the Tulsa Massacre, carries the dark heirlooms of trauma into her habits and relationship to her daughter. Melody is the product of teenage pregnancy, her inception binding Iris and Aubrey together despite their stark difference in class. The house is filled with friends and family, and the narrative jumps between Melody, her parents Iris and Aubrey, and her grandparents Sabe and Po’Boy as they offer poetic vignettes from their lives, each contributing to the realization of this moment. It is Melody’s 16th birthday party, and she is participating in her ceremony-a family tradition developed from years of cotillions. The novel opens 80 years to the day of the Tulsa Massacre, a violent two-day incident, where White people attack Black people, inside the Brooklyn Brownstone home of Melody’s grandparents. ![]() |