5/11/2023 0 Comments The human division by john scalzi![]() The Human Division explores the fallout that could happen when a political entity comprising the various colonies of humanity discovers that its homeworld, Earth, no longer trusts it. ![]() ![]() As the plot develops across the stories in the volume, it becomes clear that not everyone wants them to do it. The State Department is suddenly important, meaning that even the diplomats who don’t get the crucial negotations-the “B-Team”, if you will-have a job to do. Following the events in The Last Colony (which I haven’t read yet), the Colonial Union has to let military operations take a back seat and resort to democracy to get what it wants. ![]() I had trouble describing The Human Division to friends, because the Old Man’s War universe is military science-fiction, but this particularly novel isn’t so heavy on the “military” aspect. ![]()
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On the occasion of the president of China's impending trip to Bangalore, Balram writes a letter to him describing his transformation and his experience as driver and servant to a wealthy Indian family, which he thinks exemplifies the contradictions and complications of Indian society. ![]() The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture, the world of the Bangalore entrepreneur. “This is the authentic voice of the Third World, like you've never heard it before” (John Burdett, Bangkok 8). ![]() The stunning Booker Prize–winning novel from the author of Amnesty and Selection Day that critics have likened to Richard Wright's Native Son, The White Tiger follows a darkly comic Bangalore driver through the poverty and corruption of modern India's caste society. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments We were the lucky![]() Survival and world war ii don’t always go together, but that’s exactly what this new york times bestselling we were the lucky ones book is - a tale of who will be the “lucky ones” to suffer through but actually survive the atrocities of world war ii. 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Origins ĪltaVista was created by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Network Systems Laboratory and Western Research Laboratory who were trying to provide services to make finding files on the public network easier. The word "AltaVista" is formed from the words for "high view" or "upper view" in Spanish (alta + vista) thus, it colloquially translates to "overview". ![]() On July 8, 2013, the service was shut down by Yahoo!, and since then the domain has redirected to Yahoo!'s own search site. It became one of the most-used early search engines, but lost ground to Google and was purchased by Yahoo! in 2003, which retained the brand, but based all AltaVista searches on its own search engine. Lang, Paul Flaherty, Louis Monier, Michael Burrows, Jeffrey BlackĪltaVista was a Web search engine established in 1995. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Duke looks like a groomsman![]() ![]() ![]() Even if it means she must lose her heart in the process. 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The lovely Lady Julianna Montgomery may be the only young woman at the house party who's not in the market for a husband. ![]() But when his clever ex-flame arrives and recognizes Rhys in the stables pretending to be a groomsman, she realizes it's the perfect opportunity to pay him back for breaking off their engagement. Rhys Sheffield, the Duke of Worthington, has bet his friends an ungodly sum of money that despite his loftiness, he can pass himself off as a servant at the house party of the Season. Rhys Sheffield, the Duke of Worthington, has bet his friends an ungodly sum of money that despite his loftiness, he can pass himself off as a servant at the house party of the Season. The Duke Alone By: Christi Caldwell Publisher's Summary He's posing as a groomsman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when we talk abut big numbers, we can read this book, and this would let the children see how tangible a million would be. 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Marvelosissimo the mathematical magician can teach you! How Much is a Million? knocks complex numbers down to size in a fun, humorous way, helping children conceptualize a difficult mathematical concept. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Subtle art of not giving af![]() It talks about the discourses surrounding social media and our peers’ enduring presence in our lives, in the form of Facebook profiles and Snapchat stories. It tackles the growing twenty-first century problem of rich people not feeling rich because of how rich everyone else is, of beautiful people not feeling beautiful because of how beautiful everyone else is, and so on. ![]() ![]() I opened this book expecting a sarcastic, kind of satirical commentary on emotions, and how to come across as cool and collected in front of others, but The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is actually very clever, and very well thought out. It makes more sense in the book, I promise. ![]() I think we all have that crisis-that’s-not-a-midlife-crisis-but-is-still-a-crisis at some point, and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck is a well-worded reminder that life is shit and we have to find the shit things that aren’t as totally shit as the other shit things so that the shitty parts of life aren’t as shitty as they could be. But for adults, this book is pretty damn good. Probably not the ideal bedtime story for your kids, unless you want them effing and blinding at nursery school. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Gordon s wood empire of liberty![]() ![]() He traded Adams’ six-horse coach for a market cart, halved the military budget and repealed federal taxes on whiskey and land. 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