![]() ![]() The action scenes are intense and fast, and the main character is definitely not the strongest person around. Chapter 2 reveals part of the world above ground and trolls readers by making them think it took a genre shift into a school setting (this setting ends in next volume). Chapter 1 ends in tragedy with many hints about what is to come. ![]() The first volume opens up with a tragic but memorable first chapter introducing a few key characters and a unique setting. The publishing team has done well making the dialogue sassy and memorable, and its much better than what a reader might find on scanlations. This series has a surprising amount of mystery to it, and nothing is as it first appears. Some of the characters seem shallow at first glance, but they surprise me with all of their hidden depth, secrets, and less-overt agendas later on. ![]() The setting, plot, and artwork are all fantastic. Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign is a great new manga series, and I've been interested in it since its first chapter in the English Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. ![]()
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Basic economics book thomas sowell6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This fifth edition includes a new chapter explaining the reasons for large differences of wealth and income between nations.ĭrawing on lively examples from around the world and from centuries of history, Sowell explains basic economic principles for the general public in plain English. With clear explanations of the entire field, from rent control and the rise and fall of businesses to the international balance of payments, this is the first book for anyone who wishes to understand how the economy functions. In readable language, he shows how to critique economic policies in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the goals they proclaim. ![]() Containing no math, it instead communicates. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. Basic Economics by Stanford economist Thomas Sowell is an incredibly useful, broad introduction to economics. The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsīasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Thomas Sowell gives a guide to a wide range of economic topics, but unapologetically ignores or misrepresents leftist views in any shape or form. ![]() Dead Beat by Jim Butcher6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Harry Dresden, private wizard detective and magical protector of Chicago is always willing to help a person in need no matter the cost. As such, when I was in the mood for something I was guaranteed to love this week, listening to the next Dresden Files book on my to-read list was an easy choice for me, with the seventh book, Dead Beat. All these books have been extremely good in their own way, and I have loved the elaborate stories each of them contained. So far, I have managed to read Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Summer Knight, Death Masks and Blood Rites, as well as last year’s novella, The Law. I started this series with the latest book, Battle Ground (one of my favourite books and audiobooks of 2020), and then went back to the start to experience the series from the beginning. Generally considered one of the very best urban fantasy series, the Dresden Files are a deeply captivating series that follows Chicago’s resident wizard, Harry Dresden, as he investigates a series of mystical cases throughout the city, often resulting in epic moments loaded with magic. ![]() Over the last couple of years, I’ve had a ton of fun finally getting into the iconic Dresden Files books by legendary author Jim Butcher. ![]() For this latest review I dive back into the epic Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher with the seventh entry, Dead Beat. Welcome back to my Throwback Thursday series, where I republish old reviews, review books I have read before or review older books I have only just had a chance to read. ![]() ![]() ![]() In speaking of his purpose, Delany states: ![]() ![]() ![]() Summary: Part one of Samuel R Delany’s Time Square Red, Times Square Blue offers a variety of anecdotes regarding Delany’s experiences on Forty-second street and Eighth Avenue including his peers’ opinions on the city’s movement in closing their frequented theaters as Delany ultimately argues that the city used the “safe sex” movement as a front for closing the businesses and allowing space for family friendly money to be spent.Īlthough Delany states in his introduction that his purpose in writing Time Square Red, Times Square Blue is to present one part, Times Square Blue, that offers anecdotes by which the reader can appreciate the more analytical Times Square Red, there are moments in the first part of his analysis where (outside of the anecdote) Delany interjects with personal concern not for society and the success of businesses, but for his own sexual lifestyle this personal investment in the subject weakens Delany’s argument by shifting the focus from the benefit of the community to the benefit of the individual. ![]() A time of gifts review6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Wandrille, a great repository of art and learning at Solesmes, famous for its revival of Gregorian chant and at the deeply ascetic Trappist monastery of La Grande Trappe, where monks take a vow of silence.įinally, he visits the rock monasteries of Cappadocia, hewn from the stony spires of a moonlike landscape, where he seeks some trace of the life of the earliest Christian anchorites. But in “A Time to Keep Silence”, Leigh Fermor writes about a more inward journey, describing his several sojourns in some of Europe’s oldest and most venerable monasteries. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. “While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, “A Time of Gifts” and “Between the Woods and the Water”. Patrick Leigh Fermor “A Time to Keep Silence” (New York Review Books Classics) ![]() Jesus and john wayne paperback6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Evangelical books, films, music, clothing, and merchandise shape the beliefs of millions. Many of today's evangelicals might not be theologically astute, but they know their VeggieTales, they've read John Eldredge's Wild at Heart, and they learned about purity before they learned about sex-and they have a silver ring to prove it. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism-or in the words of one modern chaplain, with "a spiritual badass."Īs acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains, the key to understanding this transformation is to recognize the centrality of popular culture in contemporary American evangelicalism. ![]() William young author of the shack6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘Flamin’ Hot’ Picks a Fight With Cool Ranch Doritos in Exclusive Clip Sharon Stone Says Her Career Never Recovered After She Suffered a Stroke in 2001: "I've Been out for 20 Years" Stream It Or Skip It: 'Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom' on Netflix, a Middling Sort-of Reboot of a Longstanding French Franchise Stream It Or Skip It: 'Sarah Silverman: Someone You Love' On Max, Still One Of The All-Time Great Dirty Jewish Comedians Stream It Or Skip It: 'Mixed by Erry' on Netflix, an Amusing Italian Comedy About a 1980s Bootleg Cassette Tape Empire Is 'Past Lives' Streaming on Prime Video or Netflix? Stream It Or Skip It: 'Royalteen: Princess Margrethe' on Netflix, the Second in a Series of DOA Norwegian Teen Romances Seth Rogen Slams Streaming Service Execs for Their "Secretiveness" and "Insane Salaries": "Thank God for These Labor Unions" Judge Throws out 'Romeo and Juliet' Underage Nude Scene Lawsuit, Says It Is Protected by the First Amendment Let’s Get Loud! 7 Movies to Stream on Netflix in Celebration of Pride Month 2023 ![]() Finding cinderella6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Content has been significantly revised and updated.īuy When sorry isn’t enough By Gary Chapman online at best price in Nairobi, Kenyaīook Available in kenya| Online bookstore| Kenya’s leading bookshop|Same-Day book delivery. *This book was previously published as The Five Languages of Apology. ![]() Trade in tired excuses for honesty, trust, and joy Restore and strengthen valuable relationships Rekindle love that has been dimmed by pain Even better, you’ll discover how meaningful apologies provide the power to make your friendships, family, and marriage stronger than ever before. In this book, #1 New York Times bestselling author Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas unveil new ways to effectively approach and mend fractured relationships. ![]() But simply saying you’re sorry is usually not enough. We do and say things we later regret and hurt the people we love most. Even in the best of relationships, all of us make mistakes. ![]() Augustus by Anthony Everitt6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() At a time when many consider America an empire, this stunning portrait of the greatest emperor who ever lived makes for enlightening and engrossing reading. Everitt has taken some of the household names of history-Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, Cleopatra-whom few know the full truth about, and turned them into flesh-and-blood human beings. Augustus's rise to power began with the assassination of his great-uncle and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, and culminated in the titanic duel with Mark Antony and Cleopatra.The world that made Augustus-and that he himself later remade-was driven by intrigue, sex, ceremony, violence, scandal, and naked ambition. Augustus began his career as an inexperienced teenager plucked from his studies to take center stage in the drama of Roman politics, assisted by two school friends, Agrippa and Maecenas. Here, Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of Cicero, gives a spellbinding and intimate account of his illustrious subject. ![]() Yet, despite Augustus's accomplishments, very few biographers have concentrated on the man himself, instead choosing to chronicle the age in which he lived. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow. As Rome's first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. "item_description" : "He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. ![]() The Edge Of Madness by Samantha Jacobey6/27/2023 ![]() #Sci-Fi #Dystopian #Thriller #Suspense #DarkReadĪ five hundred year old witch wants to turn Sarah's body into Welcome to the City–where it takes lives to save lives… Her volatile world,ĭisguised by its elaborate battles and constant mayhem, is a prison without bars and a coffin, the lid already half-closed, that they must escape.īut when she vows to find a way to bring her people back home, Isla will have to deconstruct consciousness and the very nature of the space time continuum to unravel good from evil, truth from The rising sun, she is a natural champion of humanity and a gifted warrior in Heats– lavish battles fought in the conjoined minds of the participants for the morbid amusement of the masses.ĭespite Isla’s desire to fade into the background, she emerges as an obvious leader of her people when the senseless assassination of a youth forces her to face the truth. On another planet two hundred years in the future, twenty-one-year-old Isla Jane struggles helplessly to figure out who she is and what her world really means. ![]() ![]() …Yet nobody understands what losing truly means. Winning battles means Ink honors, prestige, and life itself. ![]() |