![]() And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. When The Giver of Stars released, I had no idea by the cover that it was about Pack Horse Librarians, but after reading the description, my interest was piqued. What happens to them-and to the men they love-becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. Based on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. ![]() ![]() But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. The bestselling author of Me Before You immerses readers in a wonderful novel based on the real-life Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. ![]()
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![]() The 1981 article "Average IQ values in various European countries" by Vinko Buj is the only international IQ study that over a short time period has compared IQs using the same IQ test. Studies of national cognitive ability "Average IQ values in various European countries" He also writes that genetics cannot be ruled out as a possible cause, but that education surely plays a major role, so one should not conclude that human capital in poor countries can never be improved. Īccording to Hunt, international studies of intelligence are important because they measure which populations possess the cognitive skills that are necessary in a post-industrial world. Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen published the books IQ and the Wealth of Nations and IQ and Global Inequality, which led to further investigations from other researchers, some of them highly critical of Lynn and Vanhanen's methods and conclusions. However, some researchers have argued that differences in average intelligence between nations also play a role. Hunt writes that economists traditionally view differences in wealth between nations in terms of human capital, which is a general term for the abilities of the workforce.
![]() ![]() ![]() Reconstruction was happening in the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination and it had all of the problems and growing pains one would expect after a country has fought a protracted Civil War and a group of millions of enslaved people were freed, with many lacking resources or the education and knowledge to adequately use this newfound freedom. President Lincoln had set up this bureau before his death. At the start, a "Freedman's Bureau" was set up to assist newly-freed blacks in areas such as gaining literacy and a general education, the acquisition of property, familiarity and participation with the country's political system and helping freed blacks assert their legal rights in a country riven by a long, painful war. This sort of sums up Eric Foner's sad tale of the optimism generated at the start of America's Reconstruction after the Civil War and emancipation of all slaves. It was the best of times it was the worst of times, and then it got even worse. I need time to recover from this book! It may be a five-star book, but I don't possess a five-star mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the end of the project looming, she has a decision to make. He’s the wrench in her carefully constructed plans. Vaguely.Īs their summer gets downright steamy, Silas manages to demolish the emotional walls she’s spent years building, sending Maggie into a panic. ![]() After all, Maggie remembers what fun is like. A short-term fling on the other hand could fit nicely into her calendar. Not when fans tune in to watch her travel the country turning dilapidated houses into dream homes. But she’s not interested in putting down roots. He and his service school-dropout dog are impressively persistent. And he does it shirtless…sometimes pants-less. The man takes flirtation to a whole new level. What she doesn’t have is time for sexy, laid-back landscaper Silas Wright. She has her to-do lists, her blueprints, and her team. Arriving in tiny Kinship, Idaho, with only a cot and a coffeemaker, Maggie is prepared to restore a crumbling Victorian mansion in four months or less. House-flipping sensation and YouTube star Maggie Nichols can’t wait to dig into her next challenge. Can these opposites turn up the heat… without burning down the house? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The truth of what happened at Brisbane is spreading, and so is radiation from the nuclear blast. Michael's wife, Layla, is frantic to prove his innocence as evidence against him mounts.īack in Queensland, knights of the Coral Castle dragged captive Hell Diver Kade Long to their leader, known as the Forerunner, before locking him in a cell in the Coral Castle. Director Rodger Mintel sent out a desperate SOS as the voracious coils ripped into the bunker.Īt the Vanguard Islands, Charmer has framed Michael Everhart for two murders. ![]() In Panama, Outpost Gateway has suffered a very different disaster: attack by carnivorous vines. Little does he know that King Xavier and the surviving Hell Diver and Cazador teams from Brisbane were not aboard. In a shocking betrayal, Captain Rolo has vaporized the supercarrier Immortal with a nuclear warhead, all but wiping out the Vanguard army. Much is lost, but hope in one man remains. ![]() ![]() ![]() He shook my hand and said “You have a very interesting reputation.” And I smiled, we chatted, but inside, I was back on my heels. Once, not very long ago, I met someone who had heard I’d failed. ![]() “If you are not in the arena and getting your arse kicked, I am not interested in your feedback.” – Brené Brown ![]() The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Teddy Roosevelt, 1910 “It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Of these four, he warns that contempt is the highest predictor for divorce. Gottman also writes about the "Four Horseman" that are important to minimize and avoid: 1) criticism, 2) defensiveness, 3) contempt, and 4) stonewalling. These principles include: enhancing their "love maps" nurturing their fondness and admiration turning toward each other instead of away letting their spouse influence them solving their solvable problems overcoming gridlock and creating a shared sense of meaning. In the course of the book, Gottman details seven principles for couples to follow in order to nurture their friendship and improve their marriage in order to help them endure during challenging times. He also emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence in couples. In The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, Gottman argues that the basis for a happy marriage is a deep friendship with mutual respect and a positive attitude. ![]() The book was based on Gottman's research in his Family Research Lab, known as the "Love Lab", where he observed more than 650 couples over 14 years. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is a 1999 book by John Gottman, which details seven principles for couples to improve their marriage and the "Four Horseman" to watch out for, that usually herald the end of a marriage. 1999 book by John Gottman The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() King spent eight days in jail before being released on bail, and during that time wrote his famed “Letter from Birmingham Jail."ĭr. Abernathy chose to lead a march in defiance of the injunction and were arrested on April 12, 1963. On April 10, 1963, a state judge granted city officials an injunction banning all anti-segregation protest activity in the city of Birmingham. ![]() Pro-segregation white residents and local police, led by the city's notorious public safety commissioner, Bull Connor, responded to the protests with violence and legal suppression. In April 1963, a series of civil rights protests occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, to challenge segregation in Birmingham's public accommodations. Ralph Abernathy were arrested and forced to begin serving sentences in Birmingham jail because they led peaceful protests against unconstitutional bans on race mixing in Birmingham in 1963. ![]() ![]() ![]() In tilting the focus so emphatically towards the wholesome and ordinary, Eugenides seems to have restricted his access to his own considerable powers. ![]() It's customary to cheer when an author moves outside his comfort zone, but I'm not sure it was such a great idea in this case. With one exception there is nothing seriously the matter with any of them. Its cast consists mostly of bright, go-getting young Ivy Leaguers, and its storyline follows their love entanglements and spiritual crises during the early 1980s as they pursue and escape each other through a variety of colourful locations that stretch from Cape Cod to Monte Carlo to Calcutta. The Marriage Plot largely (though not entirely) dispenses with the morbid element. Mass self-slaughter in The Virgin Suicides, incest and hermaphroditism in Middlesex: in both cases, the elements of what might have been merely freakish narratives were transformed by a combination of witty, vigorous prose and a cinematic sense of social and historic context into something unexpectedly capacious and pleasurable. ![]() L ooking back over Jeffrey Eugenides's first two novels, I wondered if a part of their enormous appeal might have been the way they brought together two apparently incompatible registers: the dank morbidness of the subject matter, and the graceful exuberance of the style. ![]() |