![]() Related in an honest, open, unaffected style, this highly readable account offers a wonderfully intimate glimpse of the Founding Father sometimes called "the wisest American. Covering his life up to his prewar stay in London as representative of the Pennsylvania Assembly, this charming self-portrait recalls Franklin's boyhood, his determination to achieve high moral standards, his work as a printer, experiments with electricity, political career, experiences during the French and Indian War, and more. ![]() He also invented bifocals, a stove that is still manufactured, a water-harmonica, and the lightning rod.įranklin's extraordinary range of interests and accomplishments are brilliantly recorded in his Autobiography, considered one of the classics of the genre. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence and later was involved in negotiating the peace treaty with Britain that ended the Revolutionary War. Author: Benjamin Franklin Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections Topic: General, Historical Item Width: 5.1in. Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated Publication Year: 1996 Format: Trade Paperback Language: English Item Height: 0.4in. Published by Dover Publications, Incorporated, 2016. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Item Length: 8.2in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Blessed with enormous talents and the energy and ambition to go with them, Franklin was a statesman, author, inventor, printer, and scientist. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Dover Thrift Editions) (Dover Thrift Editions: American History) Benjamin Franklin. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Nikolai is a feared and accomplished general, and he’s shocked to find his Bride kept prisoner in the castle of his enemy. The Warlord Wants Forever is a prequel novella focused on Nikolai Wroth, a Forbearer Vampire, and Myst the Coveted, a Valkyrie. While I’m not sure precisely what was changed, from what I’ve seen and heard, the changes were to make this book a bit less problematic, though it still is problematic (more on that later.) As a note, I read the revised version of this story released in 2017. I totally missed reading this book when I started diving into the Immortals After Dark,so I decided to revisit it after reading Untouchable to finish all the books focused on the Wroth brothers. Links: Amazon – Barnes & Noble – GoodreadsĬW: sexual assault non-consensual sexual encounters confinement violence Series or Standalone: Immortals After Dark #0.5 Publication Date: Septem(originally published February 7, 2006) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That suggested that the supernova of 1006 had probably been the most powerful type, a type Ia. When astronomers found the nebula SNR 1006 (short for SuperNova Remnant 1006, because astronomical naming prioritizes specificity over creativity), the most interesting part of the discovery may have been what they didn't find: there was no trace of a black hole or a neutron star (the small, incredibly dense remains of a collapsed stellar core, which is all that's left when a very massive star goes supernova). And that information, in turn, could eventually help physicists fine-tune their models of the most powerful supernovae. According to Neuhaeuser and his colleagues, those seemingly small details could reveal more about the mechanics of the explosion that added a new star to Ibn Sina’s night sky in 1006. Ibn Sina described the 1006 supernova’s colors in more detail than any other historical source (that we know about today). Sometimes reality is wilder than anything we could have imagined. ![]() ![]() ![]() The present-day (or slightly-in-the-past) world of Verity Jane is a world where Hillary Clinton became president instead of Trump. Eunice meets and bonds with a character named Verity Jane, a professional "app whisperer," someone with multitudinous strange connections. I'd prefer you let the book take you on this journey. There's a mysterious AI program: an assistant, a person, named Eunice. It involves Bay Area tech startups and AR headsets, spinning a vibe that doesn't feel far off from the life I actually live right now covering emergent tech. The Peripheral felt alien when I first read it Agency feels almost sunny, familiar, chaotic. Read it.Īgency is a more confusing concept. It was also about the end of the world (the "jackpot,"), alternate timelines, kleptocracies controlling humanity. The Peripheral was about two futures - a near one and a distant one - that could communicate over a data-based form of time travel, opening up strange possibilities for telepresence via synthetic avatars that act, in a sense, as a time machine. ![]() Agency leans heavily on the same characters, dovetailing and reinventing the story. ![]() Sometimes he's taken me backward, made me think about the spaces I've already lived.Īgency, the second book in a potential trilogy that started with 2015's The Peripheral, is a little of all of those.įirst of all: Before you go any further, read The Peripheral first. Sometimes his work has blazed ahead of my timeline. But Gibson's work has been a companion since the mid-'90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly, abused and battered wives or children, the unemployed, the depressed and mentally ill, the illiterate, the lonely, those grieving for lost loved ones, those crushed by poverty, the terminally ill, those fighting with addictions, those suffering from trauma, those trapped in menial and poorly paid jobs, those whose homes are in foreclosure or who are filing for bankruptcy because they cannot pay their medical bills, are to blame for their negativity. These specialists in "happiness" have formulated something they call the "Law of Attraction." It argues that we attract those things in life, whether it is money, relationships or employment, which we focus on. This belief encourages us to flee from reality when reality does not elicit positive feelings. ![]() Once we adopt an upbeat vision of reality, positive things will happen. “Those who fail to exhibit positive attitudes, no matter the external reality, are seen as maladjusted and in need of assistance. ![]() ![]() How come we don’t see a bourbon or whiskey brand named Rosenstiel?.How come his name isn’t as prominent as EH Taylor for Bottled-in-Bond? You said (paraphrasing) “Rosenstiel presided over vicious consolidation rounds that made many distillers and brands extinct, but is also a part of the reason why many bourbons today taste as good as they do”.There is a concept of marketing that has changed the way in what you think you’re drinking.What was the result of The Bourbon Institute in overseas markets?.Can you talk about what was going on during that time period? Let’s jump ahead in history, there was a lot going on in 1964.In the book, you talk about myths behind the labels.Talk about the beginning with the “Big Bang of Bourbon”.Talk about the misquote of bourbon being a “distinctive product of the United States”.What made you so fascinated that you took the time to become an author on the subject?. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reid, what’s your coming to age tale of bourbon?.The Frazier Museum has a new Prohibition exhibit that will become a new or even a first stop on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail.Reid Mitenbuler ( author of Bourbon Empire, joins Ryan and Kenny to talk about the history and psyche of bourbon, “a distinctive product of the United States”. ![]() ![]() Sometimes, you stopped by the highway shoulder to inspect some roadkill that was run over by a car or by life. Every week, you two drove to town inside the beat-up Brasília once owned by your grandfather, to do groceries and bring the damn newspaper. He used to say that he started to buy them solely because he needed some to pack the animals to put them in the freezer before working on them, but you know it’s a lie. It’s even more pathetic that you hoped to find some comfort in it. You stare at the blurry letters, thinking how pathetic it must be to read about your zodiac sign, whether it is because you were conditioned or used to it, in the same pages rolled around your father’s cold body, now exposed in its nakedness on the granite table top by your side. The daily horoscope has amber-colored stains where the newspaper met the humidity of dead skin. In sewing, the inside is always entrails. ![]() ![]() Aries: There is always an end to a ball of yarn, no matter how infinite the thread might seem. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book was nominated for a 2011 Bram Stoker Award. Rosenay in his review of her latest book "Halloween Nation", Lesley has written five books on Halloween ranging from a children's book, Witches Night Before Halloween, to her latest Halloween Nation which shows the holiday through the eyes of its celebrants. " Quoted as "A foremost authority on Halloween" by Charles F. An American Holiday, An American History was published in 1990 and, "ushered in a new era of scholarly interest in Halloween. ![]() Her debut collection of short stories, Unaccustomed to Grace, was published by Kallisto Gaia Press in 2022.īannatyne's Halloween. Her Master's is in Creative Writing and Literature from Harvard University Extension Studies. Halloween (1998 edition) Open Library It looks like youre offline. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wheaton College in Massachusetts with a degree in English. Halloween by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, 1998, Pelican Pub. ![]() Bannatyne is also a freelance journalist who's covered stories ranging from druids in Somerville, Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. She contributed the World Book Encyclopedia entry for Halloween and appears as a commentator on the annual October screening of “Haunted History of Halloween” on the History Channel. One of the nations foremost authorities on Halloween, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne has shared her vast knowledge of the holiday in television specials for Ni. Lesley Pratt Bannatyne is an American historian who writes extensively on Halloween, especially its history, literature, and contemporary celebration. ![]() ![]() ![]() In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. Forced to reflect on her own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's inequitable system. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Summary: "Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. ![]() ![]() ![]() 559 numbered pages concludes with Appendix, Notes to the Chapters, Sources, and a comprehensive Index. Dust jacket in good condition shelf wear, edge wear at corners, chips to head & heel of spine 1" closed tear along fold between front panel and spine. End papers show maps of routes to California in 1849. Text block clean & tight no writings, no markings noted. Hard cover in very good condition with brown boards and gold gilt spine lettering mild bumps to corners, small nick at bottom front, wear to heel of spine. Otherwise text block, including copyright page show info from 1981 Simon & Schuster publication including complete number line with number one. Book Club Edition indicated by statement of front flap and no price indicated. ![]() |