![]() ![]() “Taking into account topography and allowing water features and territory markers, much as werewolves and vampires do themselves, the plague would have extended like so.” He drew a loose circle on the map with a stick of graphite. But so far as I can tell, fifty years ago, the God-Breaker Plague stretched from Aswan to, still, Cairo.”īiffy shook out a map of the Nile River Valley. ![]() No one seems interested in charting the exact extent of the plague, possibly because it would take a werewolf interested in scientific investigation, and willing to turn mortal on a regular basis as he walked through the desert. Lyall tilted his head, a sign Biffy was to continue. See here, particular mention of the pyramids being clean.” “Look here, one hundred and twenty years ago, reports of the plague being situated as far as Cairo. Lady Kingair looked up from her own papers.īiffy pointed at a line in one of the older texts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() When we get into the details, we show that we truly understand how much we have hurt him or her. The offended one is hurt, and they want to know that you “get it.” Beyond saying, “I am sorry”, what else can you do?Īn apology has no impact unless it’s specific. Regret focuses on what you did or failed to do and how it affected the other person. In this blog post, I’ll talk in detail about our first Apology Language: Expressing Regret. In our book, When Sorry Isn’t Enough, Gary Chapman and I talk about five essential parts of any apology. I’ll check back in frequently to chime in on the conversations here. I share tips about What to Say When challenging conversations arise and I welcome your thoughts and questions. I’m a psychologist and the co-author (with Gary Chapman) of When Sorry Isn’t Enough. ![]() ![]() He was an incredible emperor, and was very successful in war. Genghis Khan built the world’s biggest army in 20 years. Publisher: Ch Publications (December 2, 2019).This book is informative and has all the information that people need to know about Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan caused more deaths than World War I and World War II combined, a fact many overlook. ![]() This book explains the huge impact Khan had through his leadership, but also through the deaths he caused. This book includes history, opinions and the myths about Genghis Khan. This guide is dubbed “a story about stories.” ![]() Genghis Khan: A Captivating Guide to the Founder of the Mongol Empire by captivating history is a guide that helps readers understand exactly who Genghis Khan was and make their own opinions about him. What cannot be argued is that he was one of the greatest leaders of all time. Others call him a blood-thirsty barbarian. Some applaud him and say he made a great impact on the world. ![]() ![]() The results clarified the dependence of Vs accumulation on the GB character. Researchers investigated the accumulation mechanisms of Vs at Fe GBs, mainly focused on the interaction processes of Vs with different GBs. The horizontal line indicates the GB position. Several V motion trajectories near the GBs drawn from LKMC simulation. ![]() The technology developed in this research can not only distinguish the spatial position dependence of defect properties at GBs, but also simulate the evolution of defects away from the GB region in a coarse-grained manner. If these properties are simply abstracted as a single interaction parameter, a lot of atomic information related to defects would be missed, thereby affecting the accurate prediction of defect evolution on a long time scale. However, the diversity of GB character makes GBs exhibit distinct local structures and defect properties. In previous multiscale simulations, GBs were often abstracted as two-dimensional planes without specific structures, and a series of energetic and kinetic parameters were used to characterize the structural characteristics of GBs. Polycrystalline/Nanocrystalline (PC/NC) Fe was found to exhibit improved radiation resistance. ![]() ![]() The results were published in the Journal of Nuclear Materials. Using this software, research team explored the accumulation and evolution of vacancies at iron (Fe) grain boundaries (GBs). ![]() ![]() ![]() Christie's writing career began during the war, after she was challenged by her sister to write a detective story she produced The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which was turned down by two publishers before being published in 1920. After he was sent to the Western Front in the First World War, she worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment and in the chemist dispensary, giving her a working background knowledge of medicines and poisons. She married Archibald Christie in December 1914, but the couple divorced in 1928. Following the publication of the 1975 novel Curtain, Poirot's obituary appeared on the front page of The New York Times. Christie wrote more Poirot stories than any of the others, even though she thought the character to be "rather insufferable". Her works contain several regular characters with whom the public became familiar, including Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, Parker Pyne and Harley Quin. She is also the most translated individual author in the world with her books having been translated into more than 100 languages. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. ![]() ![]() It was the first such scandal in Connecticut history, and local residents were shocked to learn about their lawmakers’ corrupt “secret lives.” Mitty also picks up a magazine with the cover story “Can Germany Conquer the World Through the Air?” which refers to the growing power of the German military at the start of World War II in Europe-a situation that accounts both for the presence of war on Mitty’s mind and for anxieties about strength from America as a whole. Thurber makes a couple of specific allusions to local and world events: Mitty hears a newsboy on the street shouting about the Waterbury Trial of 1938, in which the mayor of Waterbury (also the lieutenant governor of Connecticut) and more than 20 other city officials were indicted for corruption and taxpayer fraud. It is considered to be an American classic, and author James. 1939 marked the transition from this long period of anxiety into a more prosperous era, with the comfortable routines of middle-class consumer culture representing the new American Dream. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was originally published in a 1939 issue of The New Yorker. ![]() For relief, Americans turned to the kind of escapist genre fiction and films parodied in Walter Mitty’s fantasies, featuring dashing heroes like Errol Flynn in hypermasculine roles. The Great Depression of the 1930s gave American men a widespread sense of impotence and failure as economic forces beyond their control left them unemployed and unable to provide for their families. ![]() ![]() Home to Peepsqueak, Bitty Bettie, Hen Rietta, Newton, Lae Dee Bugg. Harper, 12.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-207801-8 Preschoolers will identify with the indomitable hero of this story about a little chick who refuses to give up. |a Animals |x Infancy |v Juvenile fiction. Leslie Clark is an author and llustrator of childrens books and a designer of. |a A baby chick named Peepsqueak does not listen to the advice of Big Brown Cow, Big Sheep, Yellow Duck, and Baby Bunny, and tries again and again unsuccessfully to fly, until Old Gray Goose gets involved. A baby chick named Peepsqueak does not listen to the advice of Big Brown Cow, Big Sheep. |a Peepsqueak! / |c written and illustrated by Leslie Ann Clark. : Peepsqueak (9780545855631) by Leslie Ann Clark and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great. ![]() ![]() ![]() Halliday, after a prologue in the present, begins his journey only 20,000 years ago, in the peculiarly dry steppe of Alaska amidst the ice sheets of the last ice age. ![]() ![]() Hallliday delivers on that promise and then some in this fascinating, enlightening and ultimately urgent safari through time. One way is, as Thomas Halliday might say, “rockwise”: by considering the global changes that have happened all through Earth’s history, evidence for which can be found in the world’s rocks, “visiting extinct sites with the mindset of a traveller, a safari-goer”. How to make sense of the global environmental changes that are taking place before our eyes? The ice is melting, species are on the move or disappearing, ecosystems are on the brink of collapse. ![]() ![]() With a sigh he accepted these struggles too, and there were periods during which he inflicted solitary humilitations penances upon himself after each confession. The great, near, moist orb the fat magic fish in the sea of heaven." "After a time, listening to some confessions, he found himself subject to spasms of coldness and lovelessness, even to contempt for the penitents. And I was determined to take their dislike as a distinction." ".the moon. "They laughed at me or patted me on the back, but a good many reacted to the alien Castalian qualities in me with the outright enmity that the vulgar always have for everything finer. My favourite quotes from each story beneath. As it happens, there are three more short stories afterwards, and they moved me deeply, each one. If the book had finished there, I would have been somewhat satisfied, and quite confused. I enjoyed the main story, although I found myself wondering whether this text was targeted at a wiser person than I. ![]() ![]() ** My favourite part of this book is the final short story involving Dasa. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fairy-tale lovers will lose themselves in America's alternate reality and wish that the next glamorous sequel were waiting for them., PRAISE FOR KIERA CASS: "A real page-turner. Cass deftly builds the chemistry between America and Maxon, while stoking the embers of America's first, forbidden love." - Publishers Weekly, An engrossing tale reminiscent of Shannon Hale's Princess Academy and Ally Condie's Matched. ![]() The fast-paced action will have readers gasping for the upcoming sequel." - ALA Booklist "A cross between The Hunger Games (minus the bloodsport) and The Bachelor (minus the bloodsport), this trilogy launch is a lot of fun. Fairy-tale lovers will lose themselves in America's alternate reality and wish that the next glamorous sequel were waiting for them." - School Library Journal "Deliciously entertaining." - Publishers Weekly "Cass's immensely readable debut novel is a less drastic Hunger Games, with elaborate fashion and trappings. Romance, royalty, and revolution in a reality-show format serve Cass' boldly rendered heroine well in her quest for justice and love." - ALA Booklist "An engrossing tale reminiscent of Shannon Hale's Princess Academy and Ally Condie's Matched. "A twist on Hans Christian Andersen's 'The Little Mermaid' that romance fans will enjoy." - School Library Journal PRAISE FOR KIERA CASS: "A real page-turner. ![]() |