![]() ![]() ![]() People want to share new ideas with others and help movements form.Īccording to Brandt and Eagleman, new ideas do not form in a vacuum. Rather than indicating a lack of free thought, this, instead, demonstrates that innovation is inherently a social activity. They also enjoy being part of movements and crowds, and so, they will adopt new things when they see others doing the same. Prone to boredom, humans are primed to seek out new and novel ideas. This can be seen in the rapid adoption of new technologies, especially those related to computers and smartphones. ![]() Once a new idea or technique has been introduced to a human population, it is quickly adopted by others, becoming the new normal. A central thesis of the book is that creativity and innovation are inherent qualities of the human species and two of the things that set humans apart from other animals. Brandt, a composer, and Eagleman, a neuroscientist, provide a different perspective on the subject matter. Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman’s The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World (2017) explores the origins and endpoints of creative impulses in humans. ![]()
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He conceals his pain from his coach and trainers, but when his chronic hip injury becomes too obvious to ignore, they send him for sessions with the team’s massage therapist.Īfter breaking up with her long-term boyfriend, Ari Bettini is in need of peace of mind. But after years of hard hits, O’Doul is feeling the burn, both physically and mentally. He’s a fighter in the rink, but he’s about to learn that playing nice can help you score…Īs team captain and enforcer, Patrick O’Doul puts the bruise in the Brooklyn Bruisers. ![]() Genre: romance, sports romance, adult, contemporary Trigger Warnings: ableist language is used and never called out, stalking, murder, abuse, violence, domestic abuse, drug mentions ![]() ![]() ![]() Whilst there are threads from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet throughout this book, Sweet Home, it is not just a modern day Romeo and Juliet. Suited for ages 18 and up*ĥ stars for Romeo Prince and Molly Juliet Shakespeare! Mature New Adult novel - contains adult content, highly sexual situations and mature topics. When a chance encounter with notorious star quarterback, Romeo Prince, leaves her unable to think of anything but his chocolate-brown eyes, dirty-blond hair and perfect physique, Molly soon realises that her quiet, solitary life is about to dramatically change forever… She knows that the people who love you leave you.īut when Molly leaves England’s grey skies behind to start a new life at the University of Alabama, she finds that she has a lot to learn - she didn’t know a summer could be so hot, she didn’t know students could be so intimidating, and she certainly didn’t know just how much the folks of Alabama love their football. ![]() At age twenty, Molly Shakespeare knows a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tina must face the demons of her past in order to find out what truly happened to her mother. Suddenly everything from her past is not as it seems and she is drawn into the dangerous world her mother had been a part of. ![]() Only, once she gets back to the home she is reminded of her childhood. With their help she plans to break into the Greyhill estate to exact her revenge. She has joined a local gang called the Goondas, where she has become a master thief. Four years later Tina’s plan for revenge is finally starting. Greyhill’s study and she is certain she knows who is to blame. One day Tina’s mother is found shot to death in Mr. When they arrived in Sangui City her mother got a job as a maid for a prominent family, the Greyhill’s. When she was younger her mother and her fled Congo as refugees. ![]() Anderson takes place in Kenya and follows the story of 16 year old Tina. Sometimes you have to just trust your book gut when you know a book will be good because the description of this book sounded so good to me!Ĭity of Saints & Thieves by Natalie C. Finally I picked it up during one visit to the bookstore and read the description. This was a book I had seen on a lot of social media sites and displays in store but I always walked by it, my focus on another book. ![]() ![]() ![]() I find myself cradling it and running my fingers across its sweet pages. Comedian and actor Frank Skinner lists the book as amongst his favourites, and in his incisive and affectionate introduction written for this edition he examines the many delicious flavours of fear in a novel layered with meaning and portents. Like Bradbury’s prose, the images in this special Folio edition invite the reader to venture a little deeper into that dark tent, promising wonders and horrors and everything in between. The eerie inhabitants of Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show are lit with the gaudy yellow and red lights of the funfair, while Mr Dark leers from the midst of his attractions, the faces of his victims tattooed across his palms. ![]() ![]() For this lavishly illustrated collector’s edition, Tim McDonagh has provided seven colour illustrations dripping with carnivalesque menace. Described by Bradbury himself as the book he loved ‘best of all the things I have written’, Something Wicked This Way Comes is a timeless classic of fantasy horror. ![]() ![]() ![]() While her adroitness, with both mind and sword, are key in fending off the enemy, it offers only temporary relief, because Sanders is then captured while out on a mission, and tortured to reveal the city’s secrets. ![]() However, it turns out they aren’t alone, and have partnered up with others who pose a bigger threat. When the city comes under attack, it appears initially just to be another raid by the Mugdock, a barbarian tribe who have caused trouble for years. But the key turns out to be Captain Cayan, who possesses the same psionic warfare capabilities as Shanti except, he’s all but unaware of it, a sharp contrast to her finely-honed and practiced expertise. They take her back to their town, where she’s nursed back to health – then the awkward questions begin, concerning where she was going and precisely why she was carrying weapons. Fortunately, she is found by Sanders, a career soldier from a nearby city, out on a training mission with a band of raw recruits. ![]() Not that you’d know it when we first encounter her, staggering through the wilderness on the edge of death, after an ill-considered choice of route as she escapes from… Something. ![]() ![]() He examines important events in international affairs during Nicolae Ceau_escu's rule (1965-1989)-particularly Romania's role in the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Middle East, European communism, and European security. Tismaneanu discusses significant moments in the final six decades of world communism, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Comintern, Stalin and the Bolshevization of the Eastern European communist parties, and de-Stalinization. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party's history. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members. ![]() ![]() Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). ![]() ![]() ![]() They’ve been the subject of films, and have traveled the world talking about their loss and their conviction that “we can’t build a state on the ruins of our kids,” as Aramin said in an interview. “I think people wouldn’t have trusted it as much if it wasn’t real.”Įlhanan’s and Aramin’s stories are well documented their grief has entered public consciousness. “We’re in this territory of the real is the imagined and the imagined is real,” McCann said of this project. In a moment when the publishing industry is grappling with which stories are told and by whom, it is a striking choice. If you get it wrong … they can’t necessarily recover in the same way that a really, truly, public figure could. “With Rami and Bassam, it’s so much closer to the edge, closer to the bone. “Nureyev can look after himself, and the memory of Nureyev can look after itself,” the writer said. McCann’s National Book Award-winning novel, “ Let the Great World Spin,” for example, uses the high-wire artist Philippe Petit as a launching point, while another of his novels, “ Dancer,” imagines the life of the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev.īut for McCann, the moral stakes of “Apeirogon” felt higher. “Apeirogon,” like other books by McCann, interweaves real people with imagined conversations, scenes and other details of their lives. ![]() ![]() I loved the library where Elisabeth grew up. The story world feels rich and totally immersive. SORCERY OF THORNS is one of those books you could eat with a spoon. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.Īs her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything she’s been taught-about sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. ![]() Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. ![]() She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. ![]() Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Published JAmazon | Barnes & Noble | Goodreads | Book Depository About SORCERY OF THORNSĪll sorcerers are evil. ![]() ![]() It was a national bestseller in the US and many other countries. A memoir of her life as a writer, Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life, came out in March 2006. ![]() In her three historical novels- Fanny, Shylock's Daughter, and Sappho's Leap-she demonstrates her mastery of eighteenth-century British literature, the verses of Shakespeare, and ancient Greek lyric, respectively. In her groundbreaking first novel, Fear of Flying (which has sold twenty-six million copies in more than forty languages), she introduced Isadora Wing, who also plays a central part in three subsequent novels- How to Save Your Own Life, Parachutes and Kisses, and Any Woman's Blues. She has published 21 books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six books of non-fiction and numerous articles in magazines and newspapers such as the New York Times, the Sunday Times of London, Elle, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review. ![]() Erica Jong-novelist, poet, and essayist-has consistently used her craft to help provide women with a powerful and rational voice in forging a feminist consciousness. ![]() |