![]() ![]() His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being. ![]() We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. E圎rcisE 5 Detect plagiarism 9a9c The following passage is from page 142 of His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph Ellis: Whereas Cromwell and later. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Ellis (Author), Nelson Runger (Narrator), & 1 more 1,193 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. His Excellency: George Washington Audible Audiobook Unabridged Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. : To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. ![]()
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Set in London, the United States and Jamaica, it was first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 5 April 1954. Live and Let Die is the second novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series of stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() Enhancement of mechanosensation appears to be the most common adaptive strategy, but little is known of other sensory modalities in these fishes. ![]() Here, we summarize the current understanding of nonvisual sensory modalities in cavefishes. Much less is known about the biology of other cavefishes and their sensory modalities. Several cavefishes, such as the Mexican characid Astyanax mexicanus, have provided valuable insights into how fishes have evolved to cope with life in perpetual darkness and often-limited food resources. Despite being known to science for over 150 years, only recently have cavefishes become model systems for evolutionary studies. Other than salamanders, bony fishes are the only vertebrate group that has successfully colonized and are completely restricted to those habitats. Caves and other subterranean habitats represent one of the most challenging environments on the planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The confirmed ruralist is also an avid metropolitan, making regular sorties to London throughout his life,” visiting it for the last time in 1847, three years before his death (15). The 1805 prelude, which was found and printed by ernest de slincourt in 1926, in 13 books. Wordsworth, however, is also the occasional poet of the city, and, as Nicola Trott reminds us, “the man who is popularly regarded as an unbudgeable Grasmere fixture… spends a surprising amount of time away from home. Poem of the week: from the prelude by william wordsworth. 1 The poet who spent his childhood and adolescence amidst the beautiful scenery of the English Lake District returned at the age of thirty to settle there permanently (in Grasmere) at the end of 1800. We are accustomed to think of Wordsworth, to cite the opening of Percy Shelley’s sonnet dedicated to him, as the “Poet of Nature,” one to whom, as Wordsworth recalls in The Prelude, “The earth / And common face of Nature spake…/ Rememberable things” (1: 614–16). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The storm brewing inside the chalet is no match for the one outside, however, and a devastating avalanche leaves the group cut off from all access to the outside world. But as soon as one shareholder upends the agenda by pushing a lucrative but contentious buyout offer, tensions simmer and loyalties are tested. When the cofounder of Snoop, a trendy London-based tech start-up, organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, it starts out as a corporate retreat like any other: presentations and strategy sessions broken up by mandatory bonding on the slopes. Unless that company happens to be eight coworkers…each with something to gain, something to lose, and something to hide. Especially when there’s a breathtaking vista, a full-service chef and housekeeper, a cozy fire to keep you warm, and others to keep you company. Getting snowed in at a luxurious, rustic ski chalet high in the French Alps doesn’t sound like the worst problem in the world. ![]() This instant New York Times bestseller and “claustrophobic spine-tingler” ( People) from Ruth Ware follows a group of employees trapped on a snow-covered mountain. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreĬover.jpg THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED STORIES By KATE CHOPIN This edition also contains a collection of seventeen of Chopin’s most popular short stories. At the same time the novel was a harbinger of the greater independence that was soon to come for women in America. The reaction to its publication is indicative of the social attitude towards increasing freedom for women during this era. The liberal portrayal of Edna in “The Awakening” was meet with great criticism when it was first published and essentially ended Chopin’s literary career. “The Awakening” is a landmark modernist work which illustrates the confines of late 19th century America for women and the beginning of an era of changing social attitudes towards their role in society. This behavior would lead to her downfall as it was not seen favorably by the members of her conservative 19th century southern community. Liberated by this experience she sends her children away and is determined to live a more independent and self-determined life. Edna feels herself trapped in a marriage where she is unable to express her passionate sensuality and as a result explores a spiritual and sexual awakening through an affair with a younger man during one summer while her husband is away. “The Awakening” is the story of Edna Pontellier, an attractive young wife and the mother of two sons living in the Creole south in the late 19th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The evidence for Byrne’s claim is laid out in her first book, Swearing is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, which delves into the history, psychology and neuroscience of cursing. The science of swearing: from neuroscience to swearing apes, why we swear, what it does to us and why it's important. From chimpanzees creating their own curse words to a man who lost half his brain in a mining accident experiencing a new-found compulsion to swear, Dr Emma Byrne outlines the fascinating science behind swearing: how it affects us both physically and emotionally, and how it is more natural and beneficial than we are led to believe. Swearing Is Good For You is a spirited and hilarious defence of our most cherished dirty words, backed by historical case studies and cutting-edge research. Not only has some form of swearing existed since the earliest humans began to communicate, but it has been shown to reduce physical pain, help stroke victims recover their language, and encourage people to work together as a team. Swearing, it turns out, is an incredibly useful part of our linguistic repertoire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Joseph’s parents are living abroad, and he may have done something to be expelled. Red-headed Joseph Jervis is running away from his boarding school to the London home of his estranged uncle, Albert Nightingale. The second story is set in 1990 and told in about 200 pages of prose. The red-headed Marcus Marvel marries an actress, and they continue their family in the theater business through the next generations until, in 1900, there is a son who isn’t quite cut out for acting. When Billy returns to London, he gets work behind the scenes at the Royal Theatre.Ībout 10 years after Billy’s return, a baby is left on his doorstep, and he rears him in the theater business. Twelve-year-old Billy Marvel and his dog, Tar, were the only survivors of a shipwreck that also killed Billy’s older brother in 1766. One story, told through about 400 pages of illustrations, is about several generations of the Marvel family, who were involved in the theater business. ![]() Two stories merge in Caldecott Medal-winning author and illustrator Brian Selznick’s recent novel, “The Marvels.” ![]() “ THE MARVELS ,” by Brian Selznick, Scholastic Press, $32.99, 650 pages (ages 10 and up) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. ![]() In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. The Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Harry S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I was offered a copy I jumped on it and just picked it up and basically DEVOURED THE WHOLE THING in almost one day. But as things happen I kept putting it off and putting it off as other books were buzzed about. I remember adding it in June of 2012 and thinking how fantastic it sounded. ![]() And if they're both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.įirst things first, why are more people not talking about this book? I mean seriously, why? Honestly I have had this book on my raider for a while. She soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. On the run, with her father's warning in her head, Anna begins to doubt everything she thought she knew about herself. Anna's father pushes her to go with them, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. who's stolen Anna's heart.When the Branch decides it's time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape. There's Nick, solemn and brooding Cas, light-hearted and playful Trev, smart and caring and Sam. Her father works for the Branch, at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. But they'll never forgive.Everything about Anna's life is a secret. ![]() |