![]() ![]() Widad Akreyi has masterfully woven historical facts and an ancient diary into a seamless tapestry. But life becomes increasingly complicated due to sinister plots that threaten the entire Kingdom.Īward-winning leader and author Dr. The roots grow as she builds a family with her Anatolian dog, her son Donovan, along with baby Marvin, sister Sandra from Rome, and sister Theodora from Athens. In his absence, Kurdland’s famous doctor oversees the health of her patients and develops a botanical garden. Ivar vows to avenge the injustice done to his family – a promise which puts him on a path that leads eventually to Northern Europe, where he ends up in a dark place. ![]() The choices they made turned them into a legend. Could you forgive the men who tortured you (or your loved ones) and murdered your children? Vesta could. ![]()
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![]() ![]() You'll find plenty of laughs and sizzling chemistry in this closed door romantic comedy. my heart.The Bluff is an enemies to lovers, grumpy boss rom-com set in the fictional small town of Sheet Cake, Texas. It's a battle of stubborn wills, and I don't plan to concede anytime soon.Except the more time I spend around James Graham, the more I start to lose the one thing I refuse to give to any man. Or that he lost his mom when he was young, same as me.The more he pushes me away, the more I'm pulled into his orbit. and what makes him go boom.All this has nothing to do with the fact that the man is unbearably, unfairly, unignorably (is that a word?) attractive. Did I mention he doesn't trust me to do my job?Challenge accepted.Not only am I going to help James launch a successful brewery, but I'm going to find out what makes him tick. ![]() ![]() But only because my boss is the grumpy boss to end all grumpy bosses. I won't be winning any employee of the year awards. ![]() ![]() ![]() The life of the "gentleman" is presented in the text as inherently superior in every way to what Confucius comes to refer to as the "small man". The Gentleman or Superior Scholarįrom the Chinese word Chun-tzu or Junzi, depending on the translation, this term refers to an individual who lives by a refined moral code, follows the Tao, and comes to internalize jen. ![]() As such its attainment can take a lifetime to acquire and years of practiced polishing and re-polishing of one's values and character. It is a complex term outlining a nearly divine presence. It is important to note that the term does not simply mean "good," but speaks to a moral character and attitude that few can hope to possess. Translated from the word jen or ren, goodness or humaneness is frequently presented in the text as a virtue attained by knowledge and the observation of ritual. ![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, translation itself is a concept I can only gaze at from a distance. Some are even kept in their original Italian towards the end of the book, and these essays I cannot claim to know first hand. They are the introductions of books she has translated, ruminations on her own work, some of them originally penned in English and others in Italian. Lahiri’s essays are excerpted from many places. I would not have thought it so before reading this book. ![]() I find myself wondering if this too is translation, the act of summarizing and distilling her many thoughts on the matter in a succinct volume. That of interpreter, close reader, devotee, and scholar. ![]() Lahiri has always been a translator in its purest sense, learning both Bengali and English in early years, but also in the broader, more imaginative sense she sets forth in these essays. Yet, upon reading her collection of essays Translating Myself and Others, which focuses primarily on the translation efforts of more recent years, I can see the connections in the eras. It is tempting to separate the arc of Jhumpa Lahiri’s career in two distinct eras-her early work, sparse, understated fiction of the Indian diaspora, and her later work, in and out of the Italian language and immersed in Italian culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() As research focusing primarily on the significance of the role played by media in one’s decision to leave religion is scarce, the main aim of this chapter is to provide some tools for thinking about the relevance of media and communication to leaving religion. While media cannot be said to be the main reason behind or motivation for renouncing any given religion, it is nevertheless crucial not to discount its role in facilitating the leaving of religion and maintaining the apostate’s new identity. ![]() Neither in the study of leaving religion nor in that of religious conversion has there been a focus on the role of media. For some reason, however, these two traditions have rarely overlapped. Long research traditions exist behind both the theorization of the relationship between religion and media and that of the conversion to and renunciation of religion. ![]() ![]() As we found out in the previous installment, Ellie is not her parents’ natural child rather, they found her abandoned in the woods when she was an infant. In Lady of Light and Shadows, Ellie must come to terms with the power that dwells inside of her. After the wedding, the two will head to the Fading Lands, where Rain hopes Ellie can help him figure out a way to save the Tairen and the Fey. Plans for her and Rain’s wedding are under way. Ellie is trying her hardest to become “cultured” into the noble society. Dorian, the King of Celieria, is also part Fey and so he’s sympathetic as well. But at Rain’s insistence, people gradually start to warm up to the idea. In Celieria, the social class structure is very rigid, and many of the nobles weren’t willing to welcome someone they considered a common peasant among their ranks. The first novel spent a lot of time introducing Ellie and Rain and the tensions caused by their mating. The Tairen and the Fey are in danger of dying out, and when Rain appealed to the gods for a way to save his people, they led him to Celieria City in the land of Celieria - and to Ellysetta, a peasant, a woodcutter’s daughter. In Lord of the Fading Lands, we met Rain Tairen Soul, King of the Fey, and his newly claimed truemate, Ellysetta (Ellie) Baristani. Yesterday I finished it, and here is my review! I thoroughly enjoyed it and couldn’t wait to read the second, Lady of Light and Shadows. Wilson’s novel, Lord of the Fading Lands, the first book in the Tairen Soul series. ![]() ![]() A little less than a month ago, I posted a review of C.L. ![]() ![]() ![]() If management doesn't change, reengineering will be stopped in its tracks. Something's gotta give, and history shows that it's not going to be free enterprise. It can be done for a while, but no one supposes that such an arrangement can last. Champy writes: Anything less than a fundamental revolution in actual management practice, we discovered, is like a communist regime introducing free enterprise into a controlled economy while trying to hold on to power. ![]() Unfortunately, ma nagement, which made reengineering possible in the first place, was the sam e group that was limiting its potential. But not to the degree that Champy thought possible. And, indeed, mo st companies that took up the banner of reengineering saw dramatic improvem ents. In Reengineering the Corporation, they showed how companies could dramatically improve performance by delegating responsibility and authority throughout the enterprise-to the sales clerk, the shipping manager, the customer-service representative. Thanks to James Champy and Michael Hammer, reengineering will remembered as the business buzzword of the 1990s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Consider the lost opportunity on the account of dealing with problems created by this guy.Consider the number of hours people are spending talking about their problems with the guy instead of doing their own jobs.Taking the hourly rate of his salary multiplied by the number of hours spent talking about his problems with other people.He tries to justify keeping him by bringing up the fact that the money he brings in more than compensates his financial compensation package.Ĭloud retorts, “But what about the expense side?” He elaborates by enumerating the following: ![]() Sales are up and revenue is pouring on the account of his hard work. He is wrestling over the thought of having to fire him because his performance is very impressive but is ruffles more than a few feathers with other people 2 key executives are threatening to leave if this VP of sales doesn’t. Henry Cloud begins this chapter by recounting a story where a CEO has a hard time firing his VP of sales. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1852, she met George Henry Lewes, another writer and editor, who was married, though they were not living together. After her fathers death in 1849 Mary Anne took her small inheritance and freedom to Geneva and then London. In 1841, she and Robert, her father, moved to Coventry where she was introduced to the Bray and Hennell families, who made Mary Anne question her religious convictions because of their intellectualism and reexamination of biblical studies. A year later, at the age of sixteen Mary Anne lost her mother in the year 1863. At the age of fifteen, Mary Anne strongly devoted to Calvins Doctrine of the Elect which dealt with predestination and determinism. Mary Annes father, Robert Evans, was a member of the Church of England. ![]() This British novelist went through many hardships in her young life. The two comparisons that are very similar in Eliots life is faith in God and her love affair with George Lewes, a married man.īorn on Novemin Arbury Park in Warwickshire England, Mary Anne Evans was the youngest of five children. Her literary piece told a story about a man who lost everything he loved but regained it when a little light of happiness helped realize there is something more to life than money. There are many situations in George Eliots life that impacted her novel, Silas Marner. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lady Astrid - a second cousin of Aurora's father.Will the sleeping beauty be able to wake herself up?" But as Maleficent's agents follow her every move, Aurora struggles to discover who her true allies are and, moreover, who she truly is. Aurora isn't alone–a charming prince is eager to join her quest, and old friends offer their help. With a desperate fairy's last curse controlling her mind, Princess Aurora must escape from a different castle of thorns and navigate a dangerously magical landscape–created from her very own dreams. But when the prince falls asleep as his lips touch the fair maiden's, it is clear that this fairy tale is far from over. ![]() It should be simple–a dragon defeated, a slumbering princess in a castle, a prince poised to wake her. What if the sleeping beauty never woke up? ![]() |