7/7/2023 0 Comments The wizard of oz l frank baum![]() ![]() ![]() Exploring the land, Dorothy and Billina are menaced by a tribe of brightly dressed "Wheelers", who have wheels instead of hands and feet. The hen is able to speak Dorothy gives it the name " Billina". She takes refuge on a floating chicken-coop, which washes ashore, along with the coop and a hen in it. On an ocean voyage with her uncle Henry to Australia, Dorothy is blown into the sea by a storm. It bore the following dedication: "To all the boys and girls who read my stories – and especially to the Dorothys – this book is lovingly dedicated." ![]() The book was illustrated throughout in color by artist John R. Dorothy's desire to return home is not as desperate as in the first book, and it is her uncle's need for her rather than hers for him that makes her return. This reflects a subtle change in theme: in the first book, Oz is the dangerous land through which Dorothy must win her way back to Kansas in the third, Oz is the end and aim of the book. Only the final two chapters take place in Oz itself. It is the first Oz book where the majority of the action takes place outside of the Land of Oz. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger Besides Other Good People Too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein, published on July 30, 1907, was the official third book of L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() And it also forces Nina to make a terrible choice-protect Ettie and set off a brutal war between the guilds, or forever lose her sister to the Tiger. Her vow takes her from the city's dark underbelly to the glittering court of Louis XVII. When Ettie attracts the eye of the Tiger-the ruthless lord of the Guild of Flesh-Nina is caught in a desperate race to keep the younger girl safe. Nina's life is midnight robberies, avoiding her father's fists, and watching over her naïve adopted sister, Cosette (Ettie). Eponine (Nina) Thénardier is a talented cat burglar and member of the Thieves Guild. In the violent urban jungle of an alternate 1828 Paris, the French Revolution has failed and the city is divided between merciless royalty and nine underworld criminal guilds, known as the Court of Miracles. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Marianne by Juliette Benzoni![]() ![]() Rejecting these cookies will not affect your use of our website, but it will not stop advertising on our pages. ![]() These cookies are used for marketing purposes to display targeted advertising on the pages of our website and on the websites you visit next. You can refuse cookies if you want to browse our website. They also allow us to evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. These cookies are used to collect information about your use of the site in order to improve its content, make it more relevant to your needs and increase its usability. You may decline the use of these cookies. These cookies collect information about your viewing and search choices and preferences to make your browsing experience more enjoyable and personalized. These essential cookies are placed as soon as you access the site because they are required for navigation. Some of these cookies are also necessary to ensure the security of our website, for example in order to fight fraud. These cookies are essential to the operation of many of our services. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Vanish kill book![]() ![]() Employment of data analysts and scientists, machine learning specialists and cybersecurity experts is forecast to grow 30% on average by 2027, according to WEF.Īt the same time, the proliferation of artificial intelligence will put many roles at risk, as robots replace humans in some cases. The rush to deploy artificial intelligence, meanwhile, will serve as both a positive and a negative force.Ĭompanies will need new workers to help them implement and manage AI tools. The shift to renewable energy systems will be a powerful engine for generating jobs, while slower economic growth and high inflation will drive losses. Many factors will feed labor market churn during that period. That will result in a net loss of 14 million jobs, equivalent to 2% of current employment. ![]() WEF - which hosts a gathering of global leaders in Davos, Switzerland, every year - found that employers expect to create 69 million new jobs by 2027 and eliminate 83 million positions. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Leon Neal/Getty Imagesģ00 million jobs could be affected by latest wave of AI, says Goldman Sachs ![]() OpenAI, whose online chatbot ChatGPT made waves when it was debuted in December, announced this week that a commercial version of the service, called ChatGPT Plus, would soon be available to users in the United States. ![]() LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 03: In this photo illustration, the welcome screen for the OpenAI "ChatGPT" app is displayed on a laptop screen on Februin London, England. ![]() ![]() ![]() I looked upon the scene before me -upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain -upon the bleak walls -upon the vacant eye-like windows -upon a few rank sedges -and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees -with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium -the bitter lapse into everyday life -the hideous dropping off of the veil. I say insufferable for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I know not how it was -but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Brain by Candace Blevins![]() ![]() Transformative to the point of being revolutionary We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like "guilt", "sin", and "redemption") derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. ![]() For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods - that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. Here, anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: He shows that before there was money, there was debt. Now in audio, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber's " exceedingly timely" ( Financial Times) history of debt. ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. 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 Sûreté, 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 Sûreté du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light ![]() ![]() ![]() Ironically, both he and his close friend Einstein felt themselves intellectual exiles, even as their work was cited as among the most important in twentieth-century thought. Rebecca Goldstein, a MacArthur-winning novelist and philosopher, explains the philosophical vision that inspired Godels mathematics, and reveals the ironic twist that led to radical misinterpretations of his theorems by the trendier intellectual fashions of the day, from positivism to postmodernism. The result was an upheaval that spread far beyond mathematics, challenging conceptions of the nature of the mind. His monumental theorem of incompleteness demonstrated that in every formal system of arithmetic there are true statements that nevertheless cannot be proved. Kurt Godel is considered the greatest logician since Aristotle. ![]() ![]() A gem.An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought.-Steven Pinker A masterly introduction to the life and thought of the man who transformed our conception of math forever. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Gambling Men by Amy Lane![]() ![]() For Quentin, he needs to trust that Jace can learn that winning at all costs will not help them build a relationship that will last. For Jace, he needs to learn that all of life is not a poker game. When Jace is rewarded with a night of unsurpassed passion, both men must come to grips with a long unstated love now out in the open. But eight years later, all that changes in one daring moment when Jace makes a sexual move on his friend that results in a night of passion.įor years, Jace has waited until the odds of success were in his favor to make a romantic play for Quent. Quentin has always come behind Jace smoothing the ruffled feathers and feelings of those that came into contact with Jace and his methodology. ![]() Jace has been aggressive in his approach to life, his “shark like” mannerisms making him sucessful, but at a price. Quint, on the other hand, followed his families strictures, and dated women and watched his friend avoid relationships and commitments at all costs. An out bisexual, Jason spent his years in and out of bed after bed, regardless of their gender. Need a rule to live by? Poker has the answers, at least for Jason. ![]() Orphaned at an early age, Jason grew up with his uncle and his partner as role models and the game poker as his bible. ![]() Dorm to apartment, college into business, year after year, the path ahead for one is the path for both. Quentin Jackson and Jason Spade have been best friends since their freshman days in college. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The shades of magic trilogy![]() ![]() The magic system is elemental, so people may have an affinity for one-three elements (water, earth, fire, air, etc.). Red London is brimming with magic, and White London, caught between Red and Black London, is at risk of also falling to dark magic. Black London’s magic went haywire, and the world succumbed to darkness. Gray London is what we would consider our London, as there’s no magic. ![]() The grounding point in each world is “London.” There are four different Londons: Red London, White London, Gray London, and Black London. The trilogy focuses on the basic premise that magic is real, and different worlds function alongside each other. I’ve read the first two books and am currently in the middle of the third. ![]() However, t he Shades of Magic trilogy is my favorite by far. Schwab writes amazing fantasy books, and I have so many recommendations just pulling from her books. It’s been a while since I’ve written a review, but I have a lot of new books I’m excited to talk about this semester! While I haven’t had the most time for reading recently, I have been slowly making my way through t he Shades of Magic series. ![]() |