![]() Barely 200 pages long, and well lit by clear prose and pithy aphorisms, Thiel has written a perfectly tweetable treatise and a relentlessly thought-provoking handbook". ![]() But much more than that, it's also a lucid and profound articulation of capitalism and success in the 21st century economy" and "it's surprising in a wonderful way just how simple Zero to One feels. Yes, this is a self-help book for entrepreneurs, bursting with bromides and sunny confidence about the future that only start-ups can build. In his review article, he wrote: "Peter Thiel's new book, Zero to One, shines like a laser beam. In The Atlantic, Derek Thomson describes Thiel's book as possibly the best business book he has ever read. On September 13, Thiel appeared on NPR with host Wade Goodwyn to discuss the book. On September 11, Thiel answered questions for Ask Me Anything on Reddit. On September 9, Thiel was interviewed on Timothy Ferriss' podcast. He was also interviewed by Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch. To promote the book, Peter Thiel sent out his first (and only) tweet ever on September 8, 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. ![]()
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![]() “My first book I wrote to have something to illustrate,” McCloskey said. After two rather unsuccessful years of trying to sell his art, McCloskey turned to writing children’s books. “I really think up stories in pictures and just fill in between the pictures with a sentence or a paragraph or a few pages of words.” McCloskey studied art at the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and later at the National Academy of Design in New York. “It is just sort of an accident that I write books,” he once said. However, his later books, including Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Time of Wonder, take place on islands off the coast of Maine, where McCloskey lived with his wife and daughters.īorn in Ohio in 1914, McCloskey seemed to think of himself as more of an illustrator than a writer. McCloskey is arguably most well known for Make Way for Ducklings, which is set in Boston. ![]() Yet it is also a place that requires work, where you need to row a boat to the mainland to buy milk or repair engines, and batten down the hatches when a storm blows in. ![]() It is a place where a hill thick with blueberries comes alive with curious surprises. ![]() In Robert McCloskey’s children’s books, Maine is a place where life moves with the shifting tides and seasons. ![]() ![]() The other characters believe they understand what they need to do to save Achilles. They interfere with his will, and in the end, Achilles ends up exactly where he was prophesied to be. ![]() As the characters attempt to control Achilles’ fate, they end up manifesting it. He’s doomed to die at Troy, something he chooses to ignore and proceed there anyway, against his mother’s wishes. Achilles is half-god and has, throughout the novel, an awareness of his own fate. He shares his memories of the man with Thetis, Achilles’ mother, showing a side of Achilles that the history books do not record.īelief comes into play as the characters deal with their fates, prophecies, and the Gods. In the end, Patroclus defines Achilles’ legacy far more than the latter’s actions do. Death was preferable to most Greeks over a loss of honor. ![]() The Greeks believe that honor is an integral part of life and that violence is sometimes (if not all the time) needed to prove one’s honor. Pride is also why Agamemnon gets so upset when Achilles saves Briseis from him. Characters like Achilles are fitting for their own honor and an attempt to establish a legacy, while characters like Agamemnon and Menelaus are fighting for pride (something they’ve lost a degree of when Helen is taken to Troy). ![]() These two themes come together in different ways. ![]() Below, readers can explore a few of the most important themes in ‘ The Song of Achilles.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() The neighborhood is changing, too: all around the Fillmore, white men in suits are approaching Black property owners with offers. But sometime between the hours of rehearsal on their rooftop and the weekly gigs at the Champagne Supper Club, the girls have become women, women with dreams that their mother cannot imagine. Vivian knows this is the big break she's been praying for. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to catapult The Salvations into the national spotlight. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. ![]() A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides with the daughters' ambitions for their own lives-set against the backdrop of gentrifying 1950s San FranciscoĪt home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. ![]() ![]() ![]() “It’s intended to help us survive stresses like being chased by a lion. Stress suppresses your immune system, it suppresses your digestion, it suppresses your reproduction function, changes your cardiovascular functioning so if you stay in that state for a long time it doesn’t just wear you out emotionally, your body will degrade gradually.” “Your brain is the cause of it and then there are physical consequences when that happens because all emotions are physiological events that happen in your body. The term burnout first appeared in 1975 as having three characteristics emotional exhaustion, a sense of decreased accomplishment and depersonalisation or diminishment of empathy and compassion.įor women in particular, the emotional exhaustion is key, says Dr Nagoski. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shepherd, is young, sympathetic and more progressive than some of the others who have attended her, and he encourages her to tell her story by writing it all down. ![]() Having been badly burned in a fire at The Bridge, the old country house she had inherited from her late husband, Rupert, she is still recovering from her injuries, and is unable to speak or remember much of what happened. Joseph’s Hospital for the Insane, and is widely believed to be a murderess. When we first meet Elsie Bainbridge, she’s a patient at St. Her latest novel, The Silent Companions, is thus a bit of a departure, a mystery/horror story in the gothic tradition that is hauntingly atmospheric and downright unsettling if it had been a film, I suspect I’d have been watching at least part of it from behind the sofa! Both are excellent and eminently readable they’re incredibly well-researched, well-written and informative without being dry. ![]() Laura Purcell is the author of two excellent pieces of historical fiction set in Georgian England, one, Queen of Bedlam, about Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, and the other, Mistress of the Court, a fictionalised account of the life of Henrietta Howard, who became the mistress of Prince George (later King George II). ![]() ![]() ![]() And suddenly the life Nicola adores is in danger of coming to an abrupt, brutal, and terrifying end. ![]() And before she realized what she had uncovered, she found herself thrust into the midst of an alarming plot in which she would become the prey. Warned to stay away, Nicola was unable to obey. The Moon-Spinners: The perfect comforting summer read from the Queen of the Romantic Mystery View larger image. ![]() ![]() A man in hiding - for reasons he could not explain. She links up with two hiking companions who have inadvertently stumbled upon a scene of blood vengeance, that involving a young Englishman and a group of people tied together by blood and the bonds of greed.įor the first time in her life Nicola meets a man and a situation she cannot deal with. Then on her day off, her impulse led her on a little-used path into the foreboding White Mountains. In the grand tradition of Leonard Maltin and Robert Osborne, EndofLine presents a Disney+ ready introduction to the 1964 film The Moon-Spinners. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week's holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company of her cousin Frances. The Moon-Spinners is a 1964 American mystery film starring Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach and Peter McEnery in a story about a jewel thief hiding on the island of Crete. Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a report on 60 Minutes, for example, it was suggested that Bernal’s hypothesis was essentially an attempt to provide blacks with self-esteem so that they would feel included in the march of progress. ![]() The subsequent rancor among classicists over Bernal’s theory and accusations was picked up in the popular media, and his suggestion that Greek culture had its origin in Africa was widely derided. ![]() Moreover, Bernal asserted that this knowledge had been deliberately obscured by the rampant racism of nineteenth-century Europeans who could not abide the notion that Greek society-for centuries recognized as the originating culture of Europe-had its origins in Africa and Southwest Asia. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars, Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilization was heavily influenced by Afroasiatic civilizations. In Black Athena Writes Back Martin Bernal responds to the passionate debates set off by the 1987 publication of his book Black Athena. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only defense against the corelings are wards (magical runes) that can be drawn, painted, or inscribed to form protective barriers around human settlements. The ongoing attrition of these attacks have reduced humanity from an advanced state of technology to a dark age. There are many different kinds of corelings, each associated with a particular element and each with different capabilities and strengths. They are inhabitants of a world plagued by the attacks of demons known as Corelings, which rise from the planet's core each night to feast upon humans. The novel follows three POV characters in their passage from childhood to maturity. There is also a Graphic Audio production of the book. It has been translated into German, Japanese, Polish, Czech, French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Serbian, Estonian and Turkish. It was first published by HarperCollins's Voyager imprint in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2008, and was published in the United States under the title of The Warded Man in March 2009. The Painted Man (titled The Warded Man in the US) is a fantasy novel written by American writer Peter V. ![]() ![]() ![]() More than any other book in paleoanthropology I've read, Wragg Sykes convincingly blows up those simplistic views. When in the early '90s I began to teach human evolution to college students, even the scientific consensus claimed that Neanderthals, compared to early Homo sapiens, tended to remain locally near their hearth and home sites, eking out a living and incapable of much creativity beyond basic survival. ![]() "Neanderthal" is a popular insult, meant to refer to stooped and club-wielding cave people who could hunt pretty well in their Ice Age habitats but were inferior in every way to our own early ancestors. Neanderthals "possess pop-cultural cachet like no other extinct human species," Wragg Sykes says, but too much of that cachet is constructed from stereotypes. ![]() In Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, archaeologist and science writer Rebecca Wragg Sykes explains in splendidly engaging prose why this fact is cause for wonder and celebration. If your ancestry traces back to populations outside sub-Saharan Africa, there's a good chance that your genome includes contributions from Neanderthals. Neandertals are ancient humans who sometimes mated with early Homo sapiens in Europe and Asia - then went extinct around 40,000 years ago. ![]() Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, Rebecca Wragg Sykes ![]() |