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![]() If she’s not careful, she may not only fall for him, but mess up her sister’s big day and disappoint her parents. Naveen also happens to be a fellow competitor, a talented singer, and her mom and aunties’ potential match for her. But as they say in her family, “Damani girls don’t stay down.” With the help of her cousins, Zuri sneaks away to the audition and nearly (literally) runs into Naveen Patel, her soon-to-be-brother-in-law’s annoyingly charming cousin from South Africa. ![]() The problem? It’s happening during her sister’s wedding week, a time that should be spent with family, celebrating and preparing. ![]() But she has another chance-there’s a music competition in Atlanta that is being judged by college scouts from top music schools around the country. In the boisterous days leading up to her sister’s wedding, an aspiring violinist shoots her shot.Īfter being rejected by Juilliard, her dream school, Zurika Damani worries she’ll never be able to convince her traditional Indian parents that she should be pursuing music instead of pre-law. ![]()
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Chess story stefan zweig5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the night before the annexation, Nazi goons arrest Josef and deliver him to a hotel where secret police operative Franz-Josef Böhm (Albrecht Schuch) attempts to persuade him to give up codes to the bank accounts of his aristocrat clients. Even the trope of a changing mustache to differentiate between the two timelines is in place.īut it’s a red herring. Philipp Stölzl sets the audience up for a bog-standard narrative, with the present action to take place on Josef’s transatlantic journey punctuated by flashbacks to show the trials that brought him to this pivotal juncture. Set in Austria in the aftermath of the Anschluss, this adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s novella The Royal Game follows the bon vivant and notary Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci), an Austrian who, far from being a troubled genius whose sole tether to the world is 64 black and white squares, dismisses chess as a “game for bored Prussian generals.” The film opens in medias res as he boards the steamer Ulysses bound for America under a fake passport, unexpectedly reuniting with his wife, Anna (Birgit Minichmayr). And Philipp Stölzl’s almost counterintuitive solution is to withhold the game until halfway through Chess Story’s runtime. ![]() Any film aiming to dramatize chess will have to grapple with the problem of how to make it look exciting-say, by staging high-stakes matches between neurasthenic grandmasters as proxies for geopolitical conflict. Chess doesn’t lend itself to the restless medium of action and spectacle that cinema is prone to. ![]()
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Capra the tao of physics5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() OL15153696W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 92.42 Pages 360 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0553143069 It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing. ![]() Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. ![]() The Tao of Physics Quotes Showing 1-12 of 12. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:11:15 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA105807 Camera Canon 5D City New York Donor The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism by Fritjof Capra. ![]()
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An occurrence at owl creek bridge5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a flawless example of American genius, like 'Sophisticated Lady' by Duke Ellington or the Franklin stove." Both in themes and execution it has a uniquely American quality: the breaking with linear narration, the cynical study of the eternal optimism of the individual, the condemnation of warfare and collectivism, the literary realism, and the psychological surrealism all conspire into a brilliant work. Concerning its legacy, fellow Hoosier, Kurt Vonnegut, wrote, "I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is ' Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce. ![]() There is almost no scholarly dissent to that argument. “Owl Creek Bridge” is Bierce’s masterpiece. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Under the first theme (Part I), The Technological Challenge, are four chapters – Disillusionment, Work, Liberty and Equality. This book has 21 chapters corresponding to the title of the book 21 Lessons… It is divided into five parts, each focusing on a broader theme namely – The Technological Challenge The Political Challenge Despair and Hope Truth and Resilience. So, make a choice which one you would like to read first if you haven’t read any of the three. I am not sure if this is a trilogy, in fact I have heard that this book contains a lot of content from the other two books. And this book, 21 Lessons…, is about the present-day challenges that the human kind faces. ![]() His second book Homo Deus (2016) is about the future of humankind. But from what I have gathered, his first book Sapiens (2014) is about the evolution of humankind, or the history or past of human race. ![]() It was a lengthy and mostly dense read.īefore I dive into the chapter-wise review, I would like to mention here that I have not read the first two books by Yuval Noah Harari. I was pulled by it because of its compelling title. This book was on my TBR list for almost an year. If you haven’t watched them and/or wish to read it, please scroll down. I have posted my detailed chapter-wise review of the first two parts of this book on my YouTube channel ~ Booked with V. 21 Lessons for the 21 st Century by Yuval Noah Harari ![]()
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The pool of fire john christopher5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() “Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Shadow Children series. ![]() Now armed with extensive knowledge of the inner workings of “The Masters”, their weaknesses and their society, the next wave of the rebellion is heating up. ![]() Fearing the worst for his co-collaborator, Fritz, Will had to survive to ensure their infiltration plan wasn’t a bust. When we last left Will and his friends, Will had narrowly escaped the heart of the European Tripod City, but at seemingly a huge cost – the life on one of his friends. There is, actually, one more book that was written in the late 1980’s (that I believe is a prequel) that I will be reading sometime in the near future as well. Continuing from my last two reviews, I have finally come to the final book in the Tripods trilogy, The Pool of Fire, as written by John Christopher in the late 1960’s. ![]()
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Człowiek i śmierć by Philippe Ariès5/22/2023 ![]() Moreover, the author proposes that what is currently happening in contemporary Western society can be interpreted as an expression of a “partial re-reversal” of “forbidden death” to some of the characteristic features of previous historical death mentalities, which-coupled with contemporary scientific and technological possibilities-creates several paradoxical tendencies making death linger uneasily between liberation and denial as well as between autonomy and control.ĭark Heritage Tourism in the Iberian Peninsula: Memories of Tragedy and Death Whereas Ariès ended his history-writing with modern “forbidden death,” the author suggests that contemporary death mentality in Western society rather be labelled “spectacular death” in which death, dying and mourning have increasingly become spectacles. ![]() The article first outlines Ariès’s position starting out with the medieval “tamed death,” then moves on to point to several inherent limitations in his history-writing, before suggesting a revision and update of it. This article revisits, reviews and revises the much cited and magisterial description of successive historical death mentalities from the Middle Ages to modern society as proposed several decades ago by French historian Philippe Ariès. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The book ends with how once they learned of what ADHD is and how it helped them learn ways to deal with it they feel smart, skillful, and confident. Afterwards the book starts to tell the positives of ADHD and how many famous people have it. It even goes on to tell students some of the different treatment options that people with ADHD are provided with and how they have great support from everyone. The book proceeds to go over what each letter of ADHD means and what it represents. It also mentions how they just think and learn differently than most people. Then the book mentions how they are not sick or unintelligent, but rather healthy and smart. ![]() It starts out with very short sentences describing how some people act when they are diagnosed with ADHD. Smart Skillful and Successful! A Kids Guide To Understanding ADHD is a very short informational book about Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. ![]()
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The bracelet by yoshiko uchida audio5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() * Yardley's hushed, realistic paintings add to the poignancy of Uchida's narrative, and help to underscore the absurdity and injustice suffered by Japanese American families such as Emi's. ![]() How will I ever remember my best friend? she asks herself. But on the first day of camp, when Emi discovers she has lost her heart bracelet, she can't help wanting to cry. For her mother's sake, Emi doesn't say how unhappy she is. Seven-year-old Emi doesn't want to leave her friends, her school, her house yet as her mother tells her, they have no choice, because they are Japanese-American. Description Yoshiko Uchida draws on her own childhood as a Japanese-American during World War II in an internment camp to tell the poignant story of a young girl's discovery of the power of memory.Įmi and her family are being sent to a place called an internment camp, where all Japanese-Americans must go. The Bracelet Written by Yoshiko Uchida & illustrated by Joanna Yardley Physical book 17.99 16. Heart Mountain Augmented Reality App - Animation and audio of former incarcerees describing their lives at Heart Mountain. ![]()
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Casey mc quiston5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The next thing he knows, he is tripping over his own foot and stumbling backward into the table nearest him. One convenient plot device later – which has the subtlety of an episode of Friends – and Alex and Henry’s rivalry creates a diplomatic incident involving a minor physical altercation and They already know Henry in a diplomatic capacity and Alex insists that he despises all that Henry stands for. ![]() The trio seem to delight in creating gossip and rumour about their love lives, treating it as a game, whilst simultaneously feeling a little adrift and superfluous. ![]() The scenario is set up thus: in 2016 at the close of his mother’s first term as President, Alex and his sister June and their best friend Nora, grand-daughter of the Vice President, are the glittering photogenic darlings of the world media, loved and photographed and pursued. I was far more invested in the characters of Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry, Prince of Wales – and the relationship between them – than I would ever have expected. It turns out that the answer to both those questions is yes. Could a transatlantic love affair between two pampered, highly privileged teenagers hold the attention of a jaded tired Brit, weaned on socialist rhetoric? Could that same Brit look beyond the slightly cliched and stereotypical portrayal of the United Kingdom? ![]() |