![]() ![]() May I ask what motivated you to try and bring these two histories together? What are some of the key insights that such an integrated treatment of the pacifist cause and the agenda of humanising war allows you to develop in the book? Ferenc Laczo: You call your new book Humane “an antiwar history of the laws of war” and state in the preface that you “set out to discover where the moral imperative of peace had come from, when my country had honored it, and why it had spurned it, and how in my lifetime many became less committed to peace than to making America’s global violence less cruel, especially by newly relevant standards of the international laws of war.” You underline in the same preface that the history of expectations and rules for peace, on the one hand, and the development of rules for humane conduct within hostilities, on the other, have mostly been treated separately in scholarship. ![]()
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![]() Includes bibliographical references and index Essentialism is a movement whose time has come. It's about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. ![]() It's a whole new way of doing everything. By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy - instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. ![]() It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter. Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? 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Almost everything bad that could happen to a lab happens to the Mendelssohn/Glass group in which the story is set. ![]() It tells the story of a lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where there are quite a few labs in reality) and its denizens, from the nude mice to the bottle washers to the post-docs (who are mostly needy rather than nerdy) and the principle investigators. Other people (and I’d be willing to bet this chap is one of them) think it just can’t work on the page, that science and scientists are boring, and that no reader could give a flying toss about what happens to these nerds.Īllegra Goodman’s book Intuition (Atlantic Books, March 2009) is a tonic to people in the first category, and stands as a raised middle finger to those in the second, mounted on a neon sign reading ‘sit and spin’. It’s got suspense, office politics, drama and the thrill of discovery. S ome people think that science is the stuff great novels are made of. 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(She's since had her cover redesigned to better fit with the other books in the series, and it's also gorgeous.) When I found out how awesomely affordable her designer was, too, I knew exactly who to hire as my cover designer: Steven Novak.īefore you hire a designer, of course, you'll want to check them out. ![]() ![]() ![]() As more and more of these canisters drop, a human delegation forms and approaches the Martians while waving white flags of peace, but the Martians vaporize the humans immediately. A canister drops from the sky in a sudden explosion and lands near the narrator's home, opening to reveal an alien who has grey skin with large eyes and tentacles. The War of the Worlds is a first-person narrative of an unnamed protagonist from Surrey who lives through the invasion of southern England being by Martians. ![]() While his science fiction imagined things such as alien invasions and time travel, he also predicted nuclear weapons, space travel, and even the internet through his works. During his lifetime, he wrote dozens of novels and short stories that examined how different society would be in his progressive future vision of the world. Wells, praised as the father of science fiction, was an influential social critic who focused on the future. ![]() Wells is known as one of the earliest stories to depict conflict between the human race and an extraterrestrial race. ![]() Written by the four-time nominee of the Nobel Prize in Literature, The War of the Worlds by H. ![]() ![]() While the cover of the first book in this series looks ominous in an "I'll light your castle on fire" kind of way, this cover is all the more menacing with its face-on figure-particularly thanks to its crow-like plague mask-and the black cloudy stuff in the background. If you’re caught up, however, feel free to continue below If you haven’t read the first book ( The Merciful Crow ), man your battle stations turn away now, as there might be spoilers in this review. Red alert! The Faithless Hawk is the second book in the Merciful Crow duology. Relationship Status: Hoping for the Long Haul ![]() ![]() ![]() BOOK REPORT for The Faithless Hawk ( The Merciful Crow #2) by Margaret Owenīonus Factors: Badasses, Magic, Great DedicationĪnti-Bonus Factors: Misunderstandings, TEABS ![]() ![]() ![]() It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition includes more than 500 pages of material deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript. In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered one of his finest works. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abagail-and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides-or are chosen. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. ![]() This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. ![]() ![]() ![]() I knew that today I had a long ride ahead of me, so I packed my books at a whim. I wanted to play Ezio, so I probably didn't take in the storytelling in those missions.Īt some point, I had gotten the first three Assassin's Creed books written by Oliver Bowden "Secret Crusade", "Renaissance" and "Brotherhood". Although Revelations did help to build his character, I didn't care about him as much. I think this was partly due to AC1 not having a great development of Altaïr (in my opinion). Kassandra was fun in my eyes, but I can see why people did and didn't enjoy her/Alexios.Īs you can tell, the only character that I didn't enjoy was Altaïr. Bayek was a great character with great writing and acting. Arno and Elise's relationship was pretty good in my eyes, as was the friendly banter between Jacob and Evie. Connor was a boring character to me, but I think was partly because of me rushing through the game (and my British bias), but upon playing AC3 Remastered and doing the Homestead missions, he is a much better character. Ezio was one of my favourites, until Edward came along. Altaïr was one that I thought was a bit bland. ![]() I've loved most characters, but disliked others. From then on, I preordered every single game. In preparation for it, I played through all the previous games, only just finishing AC3 when I got my hands on Black Flag. I saw a trailer for Black Flag when that was due to be released, and I became hooked. I've been a longtime Assassin's Creed fan when it comes to the games. ![]() |
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