7/8/2023 0 Comments The big short lewisThe confusion that pervades Wall Street is part of what allows for hidden risks and shady trades to exist, and leads to the general crisis of 2007-2008. Even some people very high up on Wall Street, like the CEO of Morgan Stanley, have trouble understanding the inner workings of their business. Lewis explains that one of the big problems with Wall Street is this obscurity and lack of transparency-meaning it is difficulty to understanding what is going on without being a banker yourself. This is in part a way to combat the obscurity and obfuscation he encounters on Wall Street he emphasizes that many terms and concepts on Wall Street are very difficult to understand, and are often made more difficult by people's choice of unwieldy language and confusing terms. Throughout the text, Michael Lewis is careful to provide very clear explanations of financial concepts for his readers.
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There’s a fortune at stake in a game of secrets and desires where love is the ultimate prize. To claim her uncles unexpected bequest she must marry by her next birthday, which leaves only two months to find a malleable mate. leaving her well-educated, able to make a perfect curtsy -. An Unexpected HusbandAgainst her better judgment, Lady Gillian Marley needs to find herself a husband - and quickly. Now he has only two months to convince her to be his wife in full … before his mysterious secret is revealed and their lives explode irrevocably into scandal. New York Times bestselling author Victoria Alexander was an award winning television reporter until she discovered fiction was much more fun than real life. Miss Gwendolyn Townsend has seen her late fathers estate go to a distant cousin she cant abide. Though the inheritance is more than and tempting, Richard knows the lady herself is the real prize and isn’t about to allow Gillian to deny the burning fervor that sparks between them. Topping her list of eligible candidates is the honorable Earl of Shelbrooke, yet one look at the very handsome but enigmatic nobleman and Gillian knows that cajoling him into a marriage of convenience will be hardly convenient at all.įar from immune to Gillian’s entrancing charms, the last thing Richard Shelton is about to bind himself into is a chaste marriage. To claim her uncle’s unexpected bequest she must marry by her next birthday, which leaves only two months to find a malleable mate. The Husband List Effington Family & Friends Book 2Īgainst her better judgment, Lady Gillian Marley needs to find herself a husband - and quickly. 7/8/2023 0 Comments Jeff kinney the meltdownThe family realizes that they can vacation in the camper and not have to spend money at restaurants and hotels.Īfter buying supplies and cleaning the camper, the family takes off on the road. Unable to reach a decision, Greg's family receives a call from his great-grandmother, asking them to take his uncle's camper out of her driveway. The Heffleys can not afford an expensive vacation, but they discuss possible family vacations that they can afford. Greg Heffley and his family have been living in his grandmother's basement for two months (due to the events in Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball), and they are beginning to go stir crazy. The book was created during the COVID-19 pandemic, which influenced the writing. The book was promoted with a pool-party themed drive-through event. It received many positive reviews and was a best-seller for several weeks following its release. The story follows protagonist Greg Heffley and his family as they vacation in a recreational vehicle (RV). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End is the 15th book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney. 7/8/2023 0 Comments An atlas of impossible longingMuriel Barbery's French bestseller The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Barry's Costa-winning The Secret Scripture and Canadian writer Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo all won eight nominations as well.Īlso longlisted for the Impac, at €100,000 (£90,000) the most valuable literary award for a single work of fiction published in English, are Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence, Peter Carey's His Illegal Self, Philip Roth's Indignation and Marilynne Robinson's Home, as well as 33 first novels, Neal Stephenson's science fiction epic Anathem and Fred Vargas's French whodunit This Night's Foul Work. This year, at 41 novels, we have the largest number of books in translation to date."Īdiga is the librarians' favourite, gathering nine nominations for The White Tiger, but he is closely followed by Toni Morrison, who picked up eight for A Mercy, the story of a 17th century slave girl bought by an Anglo-Dutch trader. "The spread of languages and the number of books in translation continues to grow. "These are books that might not otherwise come to the attention of Irish readers," said Dublin city librarian Deirdre Ellis-King. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Carley fortune authorOnce, in their early twenties, and again a decade later.Ĭarley is an award-winning journalist and worked as an editor at some of Canada’s top publications, including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and The Grid. It’s a breathtaking love story about two strangers who come together when they need each other most. Her second book, MEET ME AT THE LAKE, comes out May 2, 2023. EVERY SUMMER AFTER was an instan Carley Fortune is the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER. Carley spent her young life in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia, and in Barry’s Bay, a tiny lakeside town in rural Ontario and the setting for EVERY SUMMER AFTER. She was most recently the Executive Editor of Refinery29 Canada. Carley is an award-winning journalist and worked as an editor at some of Canada’s top publications, including The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Toronto Life, and The Grid. Once, in their early twenties, and again a decade later. Carley Fortune is the New York Times and #1 Globe and Mail bestselling author of EVERY SUMMER AFTER. Words in unit E-6 have the /z/ and /s/ sounds. Full list: consumer, pier, hangar, charcoal, porch, concrete, churn, scorch, amaze, orchard, heartfelt, spider, explorer, garden, clerk, evict, guitar, computer, error, charge, thirsty, nerve, quarter, and scarce. This unit features words with r-controlled vowel sounds. Unit E-4's focus is on words with a long i and long o sounds, such as island, choke, arrival, silent, twilight, iodine, cocoa, photo, ignite, rivalry, shoulder, publish, bowling, wholesome, strike, ninety, trial, blown, dough, sparrow, stow, pondering, zodiac, motivation, and growth. The words are: skiing, gracious, breathe, complain, waist, ratio, angrily, concrete, believe, behave, remain, reason, nation, niece, ashamed, between, squeal, decade, evict, and amaze. This week's focus is on the long a and long e vowel sounds. Obscure, punish, nonsense, spinning publish, prong, function, longitude ultimate, and signal. List includes umbrella, shriveled, pulse, Unit two's word list has short i, short o, and short u words. Word list: captain, battery, distract, gratitude, expand, relax, thrash, attack, snagged, empty, thread, elect, expect, present, nestle, trendsetter, century, spread, and rebel. This spelling unit has short a and short e words. The tome is a tribute to the work of Avedon, who revolutionized editorial fashion shoots when he stopped portraying models in static poses, favoring instead to show them in more realistic environments. In Relationships, the celebrated portraitist’s most famed pieces are featured alongside lesser-known images: take, for example, the portrait of Penelope Tree wearing an Ungaro mask or an arty, blurred image of Malcolm X. Avedon may be known as one of the founding fathers of modern fashion photography-but you’ve never seen his works like this. Now, the Versace brand is teaming with Avedon once more-this time, for a book titled Richard Avedon, Relationships, out March 14 by the publishing house SKIRA, in collaboration with the Center for Creative Photography and The Richard Avedon Foundation. The picture enraptured the designer so much that Avedon became a favorite photographer of his-and they would go on to have a 20-year collaboration with one another. When Gianni Versace was a child, he stumbled upon one of the late photographer Richard Avedon’s most well-known images: Dovima With Elephants, which portrayed the American supermodel in a Dior gown delicately holding onto the animal’s trunk and ear. The narrative contains many heart-warming and adorable passages. Elizabeth's mistakes and her peculiar perspective make it mostly humorous, despite the fact that it makes fun of society and the wonders of nature. In "Elizabeth and Her German Garden," Elizabeth chronicles a year in her life while learning to garden and interacting with her friends. In the first ten years of the 20th century, Elizabeth von Arnim's book Elizabeth and Her German Garden was widely read and reprinted. ― Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden “Sometimes callers from a distance invade my solitude, and it is on these occasions that I realize how absolutely alone each individual is, and how far away from his neighbour and while they talk (generally about babies, past, present, and to come), I fall to wondering at the vast and impassable distance that separates one's own soul from the soul of the person sitting in the next chair.” Unique Elements Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Australian author Elizabeth von Armin is a humorous semi-autobiographical fiction first published in 1898 in the United Kingdom. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Animal Kingdom by Jack AshbyThe Physiological Society’s blue plaques.The use of animals in educating the next generation of life science researchers.Sport & Exercise Science Education report. The Future of Interdisciplinary Research Beyond REF 2021.Scotland at the Heart of Meeting Global Challenges.Physiology and Basic Research Funding in Ireland.A National Post-Pandemic Resilience Programme.Supporting the development of public health guidance for long COVID.Translating Knowledge and Research into Impact.Advice for attending your first meeting.Early Career Life Scientists’ Symposium.Michael J Rennie Oral Communication Prize.The Journal of Physiology Early Investigator Prize.Experimental Physiology Inaugural Review Prize.Experimental Physiology Mid-Career Researcher Prize.Experimental Physiology Early Career Author Prize.The Otto Hutter Physiology Teaching Prize.The Journal of Physiology’s Virtual Journal Club.Human, Environmental & Exercise Physiology. 7/6/2023 0 Comments The darker shade of magicThe story pits royalty against royalty, brother against brother, and, at times, Kell against Lila. Kell and Lila are thrown into a haphazard journey through various Londons after Kell is attacked by mysterious beings and the two encounter a very suspicious magical object that oozes evil. Lila, our second protagonist, is a pickpocket who’s down on her luck and thirsty for adventure. Kell, one of two protagonists, is also one of two remaining Antari, a magician able to travel between Londons (more on that soon). The book kicks things off with ample promise, backed by vivid characterization and sharp descriptions of the world. Instead, I left the book wondering whether a structure comprising those fantasy building blocks would stand long enough to entice me into the sequel. At times, the pieces come together, teasing the reader with apparitions of a grand storytelling fortress built on strong characters and expert world-building. Schwab’s A Darker Shade of Magic collects all the building blocks of a great fantasy novel, but mostly leaves them on a shaky foundation. |