After seven leisurely days of sailing, it took only 18 minutes of panic and mayhem to send the ship down. Each takes us along on the ship’s fateful last voyage, providing such a wealth of testament and episodic detail that we seem to share in the experience, and each provides a gripping account of the astonishingly rapid sinking that followed the torpedo strike. The two books-Erik Larson’s “Dead Wake” and Greg King and Penny Wilson’s “Lusitania”-complement each other nicely. But as the authors of two highly informed, compellingly written studies of Lusitania show us, there was a great deal more to the story than its heart-wrenching tragedy. In the United Kingdom, the death of hundreds of British passengers-not to mention the sinking of one of Britain’s most luxurious vessels-shocked even a nation hardened by the daily carnage of the battlefield. For Americans eager to join the war against Germany, the loss of 128 out of 139 of their fellow citizens onboard-amid a shocking overall death toll of 1,198-was a strong argument for their cause. On both sides of the Atlantic, the cry “Remember the Lusitania” rang out after the British passenger liner was torpedoed off the southeast coast of Ireland on a voyage from New York to Liverpool in May 1915. Norman Wilkinson’s painting of the sinking of Lusitania by a German U-boat first appeared in the Illustrated London News a week later.
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He's the endgame in the biggest challenge of my life, the one I'm banking my future happiness on. The odds are stacked against us, but if there's one thing I know, it's how to win. I have contract obligations to fulfill, and I'm closeted. Now we're all in with each other, but he still has time left in his Senate term. But once isn't enough, and we keep sneaking around together-brief encounters, in California, Georgia, or DC, filled with passionate touches and whispered truths.I never thought I'd have love. When he asks for one night together so he can show me what it's like to be with a man, I can't say no. West's the only person who knows all the parts of me, just like I know his. Description: Weston: When I left home, I swore I’d never hide anything about myself again. Though my identity doesn't stay a secret from him for long.Between texts and late-night phone calls, we get to know each other. The Endgame by Riley Hart (ePUB) The Endgame by Riley Hart Free eBooks Download. 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Pallagrosi used to sit in with Bon Jovi’s pre-Bon Jovi bands. “He’s getting slammed - I feel bad for him,” said Tony Pallagrosi, music promoter and former member of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. |3 Contributor biographical information |u |i Input this URL in a browser to get HTML More Info data. |a Lippincott, Gary A., |0 |e illustrator. |a Constitution corporelle |0 (CaQQLa)201-0018453 |v Romans, nouvelles, etc. |a Black-Eyed Susan Book Award winner |y 1993-1994. |a Children's stories, American |0 |y 20th century. |a Black-Eyed Susan Book Award Beehive Children's Fictional Book Award |a Small for his age but artistically talented, twelve-year-old Jeremy Thatcher unknowingly buys a dragon's egg. |a Jeremy Thatcher, dragon hatcher / |c by Buce Coville illustrated by Gary A. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d BAKER |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d XY4 |d GRR |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d AZFX8 |d UAB |d OCLCQ |d GRC |d VBO |d OCLCQ |d GILDS |d OCLCQ |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d SEO |d QS7 |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d JSE |d JX9 |d OCLCO |d YBM |d OCLCO Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly.Gargantua og Pantagruel – Francois Rabelais.Vesle Lasarus frå Tormes: hans medgang og motgang i livet.Amadis fra Gallia – Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo.Romansen om de tre kongedømmer – Luo Guanzhong.(Lista jeg bruker er forresten en slag form for fusion av samtlige 1001lister (06, 08, 10, 12), redigerte av Line, – størst mulig utbyttet, for minst mulig innsats. “Hun døde jo så ung! 255 bøker er imponerende! Hadde hun nådd gjennomsnittlig levealder, da hadde hun jo fått lest alle, uten tvil”. Jeg trøster meg med at jeg mest sannsynlig kommer til å dø ung, og slik sett bare trenger å lese de bøkene jeg faktisk synes virker fristende. Samt det faktum at lista inneholder minst fem bøker jeg har avlagt hellig ed om å aldri, aldri, aldri lese. Noe som kanskje kan sies å være en smule ambisiøst, tatt i betrakting at antall leste ligger på litt over hundreogfemti. En utfordring jeg velger å ta bokstavelig. Bøker man må lese før man takker for seg. Det finnes en (eller strengt talt flere) liste(r) over 1001 bøker som hevdes å være absolutte must-reads. Maybe it’s the Austen-themed fancy-dress parties, or Ed’s fluffy cat Mrs Simpkins, or could it be Henry himself …Ĭan Tabby let her weird out AND live THE BEST BOOKISH LIFE POSSIBLE? What could go wrong? EVERYTHING – especially when making new friends brings out an AWKWARD BUZZING feeling all over her body.īut Olivia, Cassie, Henry and Ed have something that makes Tabby come back. Then Tabby joins a club that promises to celebrate books. She doesn’t want to go to parties – in fact, she would much rather snuggle up on the sofa with her favourite book. Tabby Brown is tired of trying to fit in. But I saw the cover of The Paper & Hearts Society and I thought the concept sounded cute enough so I figured I’d see what all the fuss was about… One of the genres that I very rarely stray into is contemporary YA – though I have read a few YA contemporaries that I have loved (THUG, The Poet X, The Exact Opposite of Okay to name a few) I don’t find myself seeking out these books very often. Hello Humans! Now, as most will know, I’m pretty much a strict fantasy and science fiction reader, very rarely straying away from that genre unless something really tempts me. The god Allah was not the central deity in the Ka‘ba, but he was the most important god in the Arab pantheon. #4 The Kahins, a group of cultic officials, were the poets who served as soothsayers and would fall into a trance to reveal divine messages through rhyming couplets. The most powerful of these intermediaries were the three daughters of Allah, Allat, al-Uzza, and Manat. From the book A Little History of the World you picture the desert The real, hot, sandy desert, crossedby long caravans of camels laden with cargoes of rare. No god but God: The Origins and Evolution of Islam by Reza Aslan: 9780385739764 : Books Engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking, No god but God is a persuasive, elegantly written, and accessible introduction for young readers to a faith. #3 The pre-Islamic Arabs had a complex form of neo-animism, which provided a host of divine and semi-divine intermediaries who stood between the creator god and his creation. While they were all polytheistic, paganism, as a religious perspective, was receptive to a multitude of influences and interpretations. #2 The pre-Islamic Arabs were not a unified group, but rather a variety of different tribes and sects. The pilgrims who visit the Ka‘ba rotate around it seven times, some pausing to kiss each corner of the sanctuary before being swept away by the current of bodies. It is where the gods of pre-Islamic Arabia reside. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Ka‘ba is a small, nondescript sanctuary in Mecca that the pagan Arabs refer to as the Cube. Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. In best-selling author Brian Christian’s riveting account, we meet the alignment problem’s “first-responders,” and learn their ambitious plan to solve it before our hands are completely off the wheel. The mathematical and computational models driving these changes range in complexity from something that can fit on a spreadsheet to a complex system that might credibly be called “artificial intelligence.” They are steadily replacing both human judgment and explicitly programmed software. And as autonomous vehicles share our streets, we are increasingly putting our lives in their hands. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. Algorithms decide bail and parole-and appear to assess Black and White defendants differently. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Researchers call this the alignment problem. When the systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisineâ "this time with never-before-published material." -From the publisher. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business. Kitchen Confidential Updated Edition: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (P.S. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now classic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation, a megabestseller with over one million copies in print. Bourdain spared no one's appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. 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