![]() Is there a connection between the evil group Scepter and whoever apparently wants the princess dead? The longer Clayton and Cordelia spend evading her enemies and pursuing their individual missions, the more they realize they can depend only on each other.Praise for Anna Harrington's historical romances: "Steamy, sweet, luscious. ![]() But when she is shockingly attacked at a party, Clayton becomes her bodyguard. Resigned to doing her duty for her country, she is in London to make a match with a royal duke-and as a royal princess, she has no say in which duke she'll marry. ![]() Everyone says that the anarchist group he's been fighting died along with its leader, but his instincts say just the opposite.Then he meets Her Serene Highness Princess Cordelia of Monrovia. A princess is drawn into forbidden love in this steamy, danger-filled Regency romance from award-winning author Anna Harrington that fans of Sarah MacLean, Elizabeth Hoyt, and Bridgerton won't want to miss!General Clayton Elliott, Home Office Undersecretary and new viscount, gets suspicious when London is too quiet. ![]()
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I started out writing short stories and poetry at the tender age of 10 before turning my attention to music, receiving a Bachelor’s in Voice Performance and a Master’s in Musicology. ![]() Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written. ![]() ![]() ![]() Attempting to be the new law of the land, his message is clear: Don’t sell drugs to children or I will kill you. Besides that, my lack of DC knowledge betrays me.įitted with a red mask, brown jacket and many, many weapons he goes to war with Black Mask. It’s a moniker taken by a Joker in Batman: Year One. Amongst the drug deals and violent crime enters Red Hood. We’re set in Gotham City at a time where crime is controlled by Black Mask think Task Master in Blackface as Kingpin. Red Hood’s approach to controlling crime is more compelling than Batman’s and his rage, leading to his standoff with his mentor, is understandable.įirst, a review of the graphic novel turned animated movie. 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Alok has been honored as one of HuffPost’s Culture Shifters, NBC’s Pride50, and Business Insider’s The Doers. ![]() They are the author of Femme in Public (2017) and Beyond the Gender Binary (2020), as well as the creator of #DeGenderFashion, a movement to degender fashion and beauty industries. Over the past decade they have presented at more than 500 venues in over 45 countries. As a mixed-media artist, Alok explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. What if enlightenment is not something to strive for, but an innate quality born to every human being? Gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker Alok Vaid-Menon challenges us to see the divine nature in every person, including ourselves, and asks who we might be if we choose to step outside of the limitations of judgment.Īlok considers a sculpture of the Buddha Triumphing Over Mara, which depicts the moment the Buddha overcame ignorance, touched the earth as his witness, and became enlightened, declaring, “I am not a man, I am awake.”Īlok Vaid-Menon (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Behind this progress is deep learning-a combination of engineering advances, best practices, and theory that enables a wealth of previously impossible smart applications.ĭeep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library. ![]() We went from machines that couldn't beat a serious Go player, to defeating a world champion. We went from near-unusable speech and image recognition, to near-human accuracy. Machine learning has made remarkable progress in recent years. ![]() Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. Written by Keras creator and Google AI researcher François Chollet, this book builds your understanding through intuitive explanations and practical examples. Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.8 x 9.2 inchesĭeep Learning with Python introduces the field of deep learning using the Python language and the powerful Keras library.Publisher: Manning Publications 1st edition (December 22, 2017). ![]() ![]() ![]() Across many cultures, wives were merely a tool for property transfer and procreation. ![]() Prior to the social evolution of modern companionate heterosexuality, marriage was an explicitly patriarchal, property-centric institution. Uncrossing these lovers’ stars, Ward contends, requires adopting a form of heterosexuality-deep heterosexuality-that excises misogyny from straight culture, thereby making room for a version of heterosexuality in which men not only lust for women, but actually like them.īut, how did this situation come to be? Relying on the work of feminist historian Afsaneh Najmabadi among others, Chapter 2 draws readers’ attention to the historical tension that gives rise to this tragedy. In a culture animated by this antinomy, women and men are very different creatures and, by the same token, they are bound to struggle in communicating their needs to one another, to say nothing of living fulfilling lives together. Ward’s book reveals that the titular tragedy is rooted in the misogynistic ideology permeating straight culture, according to which women are at once objects of desire and derision. After all, men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and what’s a heterosexual to do about it? Against this dismal state of affairs, Jane Ward’s The Tragedy of Heterosexuality offers a scholarly, empathetic intervention from the perspective of queer culture. ![]() ![]() The tragedy of heterosexuality is this: modern straightness dooms once-hopeful, loving couples to share dull, frustrating, and lonely lives together. ![]() ![]() ![]() This sad but heartening work reminds us how important it is that we care for our neighbors, and in so doing, we may discover we are not so different-a message that our children need now, more than ever."-Bao Phi, author of A Different Pond "With the clear, careful, and beautiful language we've come to expect from her, Kao Kalia Yang unfurls her first children's book, a journey waiting to reward our every step. ![]() Powerful, beautiful, and transcendent."-Newbery medalist and New York Times bestselling author Matt de la Peña ![]() This is exactly the kind of book I want to read to my daughter, and I wish I could hand a copy to every kid. But who are her treasures for?Ī moving picture book debut from acclaimed Hmong American author Kao Kalia Yang. As this curious girl explores life inside her house and beyond, she collects bits of the natural world. She moves into a new home with her family and encounters both birth and death. "Filled with wonder and sorrow and happiness." -Alison McGhee, #1 New York Times bestselling author of SomedayĪ heartfelt story of a young girl seeking beauty and connection in a busy world.Īs the seasons change, so too does a young Hmong girl's world. Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! ![]() ![]() ![]() She shows how, on the Middle Eastern Front, Britain and France directed Allied war strategy against a resurgent Ottoman Empire to sustain an imperial system that favored Europe's dominance within the nascent international system. Tracing Europe's war with the Ottoman Empire through to the signing of Lausanne, which finally ended the war in 1923, she places the decisive Allied victory over Germany in 1918 in sharp relief against the unrelenting war in the East and reassesses the military operations, humanitarian activities and diplomatic dealings that continued after the signing of Versailles in 1919. ![]() In The Last Treaty, Michelle Tusan profoundly reshapes the story of how the First World War ended in the Middle East. ![]() ![]() McDowell and Federal Communications Commissioner Robert M. ![]() He is survived by three sons, Kelly McDowell, mayor of El Segundo, Calif. In 1950, he married Martha Louise Shea, now deceased. He was an officer in the Navy during World War II. Published in several languages, it became National Geographic’s best-seller.įollowing his retirement from National Geographic 20 years ago, he often reviewed books for The Washington Times. McDowell’s last National Geographic book, “Inside The Vatican,” came out in 1991. Grosvenor, chairman of the board of the National Geographic Society. ![]() ![]() “Bart was a great contributor to the success of National Geographic magazine,” said Gilbert M. “I think it’s a way of looking out through a person’s eyes,” he said, “to take in a bit of their language.” His five National Geographic articles about Mexico included a 1980 piece on the Aztecs, for which he added to his fluent Spanish by learning a touch of their ancient tongue, Nahuatl. Weyrauch, Walter, Oral Legal Traditions of Gypsies. ![]() He drew from his upbringing to write his 1972 book, “The American Cowboy in Life and Legend,” as well as his magazine stories about Sam Houston and artist Charlie Russell. McDowell, Bart, Gypsies: Wanderers of the World, Washington: National Geographic Society, 1970. McDowell grew up on Mexican ranches and in West Texas towns. “He was one of a kind, a natural diplomat, equally at home sharing a Moscow factory worker’s bread crust and interviewing a pope or president,” said veteran photojournalist Jim Stanfield, a longtime colleague. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout, Wyn’s character shines through, with her dedication to doing the right thing in perilous and confusing circumstances. This charming story holds the perfect blend of magical creatures ( frost phoenixes, maudants and nitherings), friendships, family relationships, danger, kidnapping, bravery and tension. But who is guarding her, and can they be trusted.Īs Wyn returns to Lull to magically assist in the town’s Yule celebrations further mysteries abound, a seam of magic which is visible to humans as well as witches, the news that her mentor Miss Delafield is being posted to a distant location and the appearance of different “quiet glyphs” which she has to catalogue. She is also surprised to find that he met a Urisian witch whilst away, and a photo of the meeting seems to show the witch infected with hex.Įven more troubling is an encounter with her old foe Gimma who appears to be more firmly in the grip of the hex, and who is being guarded at her house by a member of The Council of Elders. ![]() However, when Arianwyn visits him at St Morag’s Military Sanatorium in Kingsport, she realises that fighting in a war has changed him and that he is finding it hard to adjust to her being a responsible grown-up rather than his little girl. In the third and final installment of the Apprentice Witch series life has changed markedly for Arianwyn the war in the Four Kingdoms is over and her father has returned home injured but alive. ![]() |