5/22/2023 0 Comments Rage book bob woodward![]() ![]() In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trump’s head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the scale of the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 675,000 Americans. Woodward, the #1 international bestselling author of Fear: Trump in the White House, has uncovered the precise moment the president was warned that the Covid-19 epidemic would be the biggest national security threat to his presidency. Nixon (R) who resigned after a series of reports about the Watergate scandal by Woodward and his colleague at the Washington Post, Carl Bernstein.Ĭlick to watch the 60 Minutes interview taped on September 13, 2020.īob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is an unprecedented and intimate tour de force of new reporting on the Trump presidency facing a global pandemic, economic disaster and racial unrest. That question was first asked in 1972 about President Richard M. Now, nine months later, he releases the bombshell book that, again, asks of a sitting president, “What did the president know, and when did he know it?” Woodward began taping conversations with President Donald Trump back in December of 2019. ![]() ![]() Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward speaks to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley about his new book, Rage. ![]()
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5/22/2023 0 Comments Secret Light by Z.A. Maxfield![]() ![]() By centering the Gieses, Phelan and Rater illuminate the quotidian realities of the Nazi occupation-and particularly the courageous risks that regular Dutch people took to thwart the Reich’s genocidal mission. After all, we know how Anne’s tragically short life ended. This might sound like the setup for the kind of harrowing slog that we associate with Holocaust stories. A Small Light, premiering May 1, tells her story-a bracing, emotional but not excessively sentimental account of a regular woman’s resistance to fascism. When the Nazis finally raided the place and deported the eight people living there to concentration camps, Gies saved Anne Frank’s diary. Nearly a decade later, when the Nazis marched into the city and started rounding up Jews, she helped the Franks hide, for more than two years, in a secret annex above the Opekta offices. ![]() The man who hired Gies to be his secretary, in 1933, was Otto Frank, who had just moved his family from Germany to Amsterdam to escape Hitler. ![]() “The worst thing about it,” she reflects, “is that’s all they think I’m capable of-marrying my brother.” In an early scene from Nat Geo’s historical drama A Small Light, Miep’s (Bel Powley) parents urge her to wed her brother Cas (Laurie Kynaston), who isn’t a blood relative but does happen to be gay. Twenty-four and directionless, the Austrian-born Gies still lived with the Dutch family that had adopted her as a sick child. Miep Gies did not realize, when she started working as a secretary for pectin manufacturer Opekta, that she was destined for heroism. ![]() ![]() The Savage My Kinsman (1961) tells of Elisabeth’s years working with the Aucas/Waorani after Jim’s death. This and his journals were prime reading material among many students when I was in college. The Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot (1958) is her biography of Jim. The Journals of Jim Elliot (1978) are, as the title says, the journals of her first husband, Jim, with some notes by Elisabeth here and there. This book started me on the path of reading missionary biographies and reading Elisabeth Elliot. Through Gates of Splendor (1957) was her first, in which she told the story of her husband and the four other missionaries who were killed by the Auca (now known as Waorani) Indians in the 1950s. I am using the original publication dates where I can find them: many of them have been reprinted multiple times, some with an update from Elisabeth in them, so on Amazon or other places the more recent date they show is that of the reprint. I’ve also had a few comments from people who had never heard of her or didn’t know much about her, so I thought a book list would be a good idea. ![]() ![]() I hope that someone will put all the pieces together in a biography of her someday soon. I think all of her books are autobiographical to a degree, though there is not any one that tells her whole life story. ![]() Someone commented early on in this series that I should list some of Elisabeth’s books, particularly those that are autobiographical. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Grant.” His name is a warning, and one I almost want to be tested on. Except one of them is in the forefront of my mind. Is that why I’m in such a goddamn foul mood? Because I can’t stop thinking about her when I want to? Because I had a dream about her last night and woke up rock hard? I set my beer down, brace my hands on the sink, and watch Luke as I ignore my brother. ![]() Why are you here being so pissy when you could be with her, getting laid?” ![]() I grab a beer from the fridge and look out back to where Luke is playing in the fort we’d built out of sheets and two-by-fours. “Knock it off, will you?” He knows how to get under my skin and is doing a damn fine job of it. Why in the hell would she offer up that story? “That isn’t what this says.” When he starts to read aloud again, I rip the newspaper from his hands, throw it on the table in front of him, and walk to the kitchen for a beer. I want to read more about how my baby brother saved a woman from an armed thug,” Grant says as he peers at me over the newspaper. He’s been credited with piloting rescue flights in the past but has neither confirmed nor denied these claims.Īs a medevac pilot for Mercy-Life, Malone-” Without thought to his own safety, Malone came to her aid, disarming the assailant and ushering Ms. Here on a work assignment, Sidney Thorton, daughter of media tycoon Frank Thorton, was cornered in the darkened alley behind Hooligan’s pub by an armed thug. “Sunnyville native, Grayson Malone, has been credited with rescuing a woman Friday night. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2016, the board game Tak was released, based on a fictional game in The Wise Man's Fear. The Kingkiller Chronicle book series has sold over 10 million copies around the world and there are big plans to adapt the work into a film, TV series and a video game. The Kingkiller Chronicle Series 3 Books Collection Set by Patrick Rothfuss (The Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear & The Slow Regard of Silent Things) 815 Mass Market Paperback 3595 FREE delivery Sat, May 6 Or fastest delivery Tue, May 2 More Buying Choices 32. ![]() Rothfuss has won several awards for the series, including the 2007 Quill Award for the first book, The Name of the Wind. His big break came when an excerpt from the full prose won a Writers of the Future competition and the rest is literary history. ![]() The original version took the form of a single novel entitled The Song of Flame and Thunder, however, it failed to gain traction with publishers. Martin, Orson Scott Card and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda who cites the books as a key inspiration for some of the songs that appear in Disney's Moana.Īuthor Patrick Rothfuss was inspired to write his groundbreaking work while studying a bachelor's degree in English. He plays the role with aplomb, with an effortless yet immersive style that draws you into the narrative and the various realms and adversaries encountered by our protagonist.įans of the series include George R. Taking on the monumental task of portraying Kvothe in the audiobooks is voice artist Nick Podehl. In a series of semi-autobiographical tales that offers a unique take on fantasy literature, our hero encounters sorrow, survival and a search for his purpose in the universe. Kvothe is an adventurer, a musician and a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Chesler women and madness![]() ![]() In contrast, at the levels of normal cases and case identification, the central mechanism linking gender to constructs and attributions of disorder is the particularism that is an inherent feature of clinical practice. ![]() I further argue that this differential relation stems from the linkage between gender and attributions of agency and rationality which are tied to issues of power. I argue that at the level of official constructions the relation between gender and categories of mental disorder is indirect rather than direct, and stems from the differential relation of constructs of disorder to gendered behaviour. Employing a framework in which I distinguish official constructions of mental disorder, the delineation of normal cases and the process of case identification, I contend that gender is embedded in constructs of mental disorder. I then use her argument as the foundation for a detailed consideration of whether, and the mechanisms through which, gender is embedded in constructs of mental disorder. In order to explore these claims further, I want to begin by outlining Chesler’s analysis of the way the concept of mental disorder is constituted in relation to gender. A range of feminist writers of different theoretical persuasions have followed Phyllis Chesler’s influential study Women and Madness (1972) in suggesting that gender is embedded in the very construction of concepts of madness and mental disorder. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Putinomics by Chris Miller![]() ![]() It is rare to wish that a book were longer. Detailed empirical descriptions, clear and nuanced explanations of complicated processes as well as historical contextualization make the book accessible for a broad audience of scholars and non-scholars alike.""- Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ""An engrossing read. ![]() ![]() ![]() Each chapter provides a compelling description and explanation of the key events in the Putin era and regularly dispels common simplifications or stereotypes about Putin's policies.""- H-Net Reviews ""An essential book for anyone interested in Russia and foreign policy.""- National Interest ""A timely update on Russia's economic policy and its challenges. short and admirably clear book.""- Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs ""Clear explanations and sophisticated nuance can be seen throughout the book. With a thumbs-up on his metrics and sympathies, Miller's effort represents a solid contribution to literature and readers' understanding.- Choice ""Miller challenges the popular notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin's entire talent lies in using corruption to sustain a kleptocratic authoritarian regime. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The four just men book![]() ![]() After that, one was the star of each episode-although one or two of the others always made a brief appearance-usually by telephone. ![]() Only all four of them appear together in the initial episode. The series was based on several novels by Edgar Wallace which detailed the adventures of the four men. The four characters had met during World War II.Īfter the war, the four men met again, and decided to fight injustice and against tyranny wherever they find it, using money donated for this purpose by their late commanding officer. ![]() It was produced by Sapphire Films at Walton Studios and on location in Britain, France, and Italy. The series, based on a sequence of novels by Edgar Wallace including a 1905 novel titled The Four Just Men, presents the adventures of four men who first. Daily played American correspondent Tim Collier, based in Paris, and De Sica was Italian hotelier Ricco Poccari.Īt the time, The Four Just Men was the most ambitious film series yet made for British TV. based in London Conte was Columbia law professor Jeff Ryder. Hawkins played Ben Manfred, a crusading independent M.P. The series starred Jack Hawkins, Richard Conte, Dan Dailey and Vittorio De Sica. ![]() The series was filmed in black and white. The book includes complete cast lists, episode titles, numerous photographs, story synopses, directorial credits, and original air dates. This is a reference book about the British TV series The Four Just Men, which ran for 39 episodes during 19. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Crooked kingdom by leigh bardugo![]() ![]() But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they’re right back to fighting for their lives.ĭouble-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. Kaz Brekker and his crew of deadly outcasts have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn’t think they’d survive. This beautiful hardback is a perfect gift for fans, or to discover the unforgettable writing of Leigh Bardugo before t he Grishaverse comes to Netflix soon with Shadow and Bone, an original series. *A new and exclusive letter of introduction from the author* *Seven pieces of full-color character artwork from Monolime* ![]() *Intricate gold iconography from the world of the book* ![]() See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.Ī glorious Collector’s Edition of New York Times bestselling, epic fantasy novel CROOKED KINGDOM, featuring: ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Vimy by Pierre Berton![]() ![]() He tells of the soldiers who endured horrific conditions to secure this great victory, painting a vivid picture of trench warfare. ![]() How could an army of civilians from a nation with no military tradition secure the first enduring victory in thirty-two months of warfare with only 10,000 casualties, when the French had lost 150,000 men in their unsuccessful attempt? Pierre Berton's haunting and lucid narrative shows how, unfettered by military rules, civilians used daring and common sense to overcome obstacles that had eluded the professionals.ĭrawing on unpublished personal accounts and interviews, Berton brings home what it was like for the young men, some no more than sixteen years old, who clawed their way up the sodden, shell-torn slopes in a struggle they innocently believed would make war obsolete. Within hours, they held in their grasp what had eluded both British and French armies in over two years of they had seized the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front. One chill Easter dawn in 1917, a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France went over the top of a muddy scarp knows as Vimy Ridge. ![]() |