![]() ![]() ![]() The paranoid criminal underworld was Stalin's natural habitat, and murderous banditry and political gangsterism, combined with pitiless ideology, enabled Stalin to dominate the Kremlin-and create the USSR in his flawed image.-From publisher description. A mastermind of bank robbery, protection rackets, arson, piracy and murder, he was equal parts terrorist, intellectual and brigand. Admired as a romantic poet and trained as a priest, he found his true mission as a fanatical revolutionary. ![]() The shadowy journey from obscurity to power of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar-the man who, along with Hitler, remains the modern personification of evil: a merciless psychopath who was, as well, a consummate politician, the dynamic world statesman who helped create and industrialize the USSR, outplayed Churchill and Roosevelt, and defeated Hitler? Historian Montefiore tells the story of a charismatic, turbulent boy born into poverty, of doubtful parentage, scarred by his upbringing but possessed of unusual talents. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Find out what devastating problem could be the complete demise of the Jehovah's Witnesses and is costing their organization millions of dollars every year. A carnage they are looking forward to, that could even include many of their own family members. A paradise that can only take place after their god Jehovah kills off the vast majority of the Earth's population. Enjoy a fifty year odyssey of one person's journey into the bowels of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, otherwise known as the Jehovah's Witnesses.How has this same organization, has been instrumental in the death, suicides and insanity of thousands of people, many of whom are not even Jehovah's Witnesses? Find out what devastating tool this organization uses, to keep over eight million of their followers in line with their teachings and policies.Why do millions of their drone-like followers knock on doors every week looking for new converts? Find out why these people want you to join them in their soon to be paradise Earth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The strange, rich, original spaceship scenes give way to travels in time, wherein Severian revisits times and places which fill in parts of the background of the four-volume work, that will thrill and intrigue particularly all readers of the earlier books. ![]() We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to be the legendary New Sun or die. Book Synopsis A Hugo and Nebula Award nominee, The Urth of the New Sun is the long awaited sequel to science fiction Grand Master Gene Wolfes four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, leaves the planet on the huge spaceship of the Heirodules to travel across space and time to face his greatest test-to be the New Sun or be destroyed. About the Book Essential reading for any fan of the four-volume Book of the New Sun. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think I loved the character of Johanna the best – she was very similar to her mother – spunky, willing to go on Crusade, and wanting to be “one of the boys”. You were able to learn about their hopes and fears and see how they dealt with being on Crusade. While this was certainly a story of Richard and we spent a lot of time on Crusade, it was a story of these women as well. ![]() We have the pleasure of meeting Eleanor’s daughter, Johanna, as well as Richard’s wife, Berengaria. What I liked most about this novel was the importance placed on the female characters whom you rarely see in novels about the children of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Aside from that, I think The Passionate Brood is certainly an appropriate title – those Plantagenets were very passionate people and as a group even more so. ![]() ![]() Once he becomes “Robin Hood” we really don’t find anything more about him – it’s more of a story of how casting Robin aside affects Richard’s conscience a little different than how I pictured the story to be. I think for the importance that the title places on the character, there was not enough time spent on him. He has a semi-prominent role in the first quarter of the book and then appears again in the last few pages, although he is never far from Richard’s thoughts. For a novel whose title states it’s a novel of Richard the Lionheart and the man who became Robin Hood, there is fairly little Robin in this novel. ![]() ![]() As a warning to readers, the countess has explicit memories of both positive and negative sexual experiences with her late husband. It deals with the way women can judge a woman negatively for not being feminine enough. It not only deals with sexism but also with the disregard a family can have even for a male scientist, and the opposition to science by those who feel science threatens religion. The hero is perhaps too good to be true, but this is a romance novel. The minor characters are also excellent, including the heroine's mother and sister, and the hero's brother and mentor. I find the countess to be an incredibly realistic character and quite the mathematical type. The story explores the consequences of his decision and what the countess decides to do. The mathematics is a fundamental part of the plot and is done correctly. He has decided to apply these methods to trade with a realistic application to trade futures. He wants to move on in his own direction using the statistical methods he has learned from her. ![]() He offers to find her a new cover or help her come out as the true author of all these works. ![]() The story begins when the hero decides he needs to end the lies for family reasons. This is a romance novel set in Victorian England in which the heroine is a biologist studying inheritance and the hero is her friend who publishes and presents her work in his name. (click on names to see more mathematical fiction ![]() A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston) ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the mother of three sons and lives just outside Washington, D.C.Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen first began working together in 2010 when Greer became Sarah's editor. ![]() A former investigative journalist and feature writer, her work has been published in The Washington Post, USA Today and many others. The Wife Between Us is her first novel.Sarah Pekkanen is the internationally and USA Today bestselling author of several novels including Skipping a Beat. Greer lives in Manhattan with her husband, two children and very needy dog, Rocky. Her writing has been published in the New York Times and Publishers Weekly. ![]() Prior to her tenure in book publishing, she worked at Allure magazine and earned her master's in journalism from Columbia University. ![]() Like many in Atlantic Canada, she is forced to seek work elsewhere whereas previous generations would travel to work in fisheries, coal mines, or auto manufacturing plants, the mid-2000s oil boom led many Easterners to work in the oil industry. Raised in Mabou, Nova Scotia, and fresh out of Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, she needs to work in order to pay off her student debt. Summary ĭucks is a memoir of Beaton's experiences working in the oil fields in Alberta starting in 2005. The book is named after a disaster in which hundreds of ducks died after landing in a toxic tailings pond. It is an account of her experience as a woman from Atlantic Canada working in the Athabasca oil sands in Alberta in order to pay off her student loans. ![]() Published by Drawn & Quarterly in 2022, Ducks is an extension of a five-part webcomic Beaton initially posted to Tumblr in 2014. 2022 autobiographical comic by Kate Beaton Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sandsĭucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is an autobiographical comic by Canadian cartoonist Kate Beaton. ![]() ![]() As the author often states in the book, the men in the camp hunt and play in nature while the women gather food and maintain the order of the settlement. As he is already pro-violent and sees women as goods, you will understand that he will not have much difficulty in this experience. Living the way the old purebred English people lived becomes much more than an experience for this man. Silvie’s father is a bus driver, but he is highly nationalistic and fond of history. The book’s main character, Silvie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of the family, meets archaeology students at the camp set up for this experience, becomes aware of different lives, and discovers herself at the same time. Ghost Wall tells the story of archaeology students who wanted to re-enact the lives of people living in the Iron Age in the north of England and a family who joined them in this experience. ![]() ![]() If you're looking for a concise, but well written and researched work on Korea, Asia scholar Cummings includes it all in this brief, but relatively dense overview of the Korean war. The Korean War, by Bruce Cummings ( 2010 - 242 pp) If you're looking for the last word on each battle, from the North Korean invasion, the defense of the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon, the Chinese invasion and Mathew Ridgeway's counter assaults blow by blow, this is it. The Bible on the Korean war by a master historian who leaves no detail behind. The Forgotten War: America in Korea 1950 - 1953, by Clay Blair (1987 - 1000 pp) Many live interviews with combatants on both fronts bring the story of the Korean conflict om the North Korean invasion down to the invasion by the Chinese and final peace settlement in 1953. In Mortal Combat: Korea 1950 - 1953), by John Toland (1991 - 595 pp)Įxcellent overview of the Korean conflict by acclaimed historian John Toland. ![]() ![]() Great overview of the "Forgotten War" by Hastings.political tensions leading to it, interviews with Chinese leaders and American military strategy. ![]() The Korean War, by Max Hastings (1988 - 389 pp) ![]() ![]() De Quincey's mother was a woman of strong character and intelligence but seems to have inspired more awe than affection in her children. His youth was spent in solitude, and when his elder brother, William, came home, he wrought havoc in the quiet surroundings. That same year, De Quincey's mother moved to Bath and enrolled him at King Edward's School. In 1796, three years after the death of his father, Thomas Quincey, his mother – the erstwhile Elizabeth Penson – took the name "De Quincey". Soon after his birth, the family went to The Farm and then later to Greenheys, a larger country house in Chorlton-on-Medlock near Manchester. ![]() His father, a successful merchant with an interest in literature, died when De Quincey was quite young. Thomas Penson De Quincey was born at 86 Cross Street, Manchester, Lancashire. Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Thomas Penson De Quincey ( / d ə ˈ k w ɪ n s i/ 15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ![]() " On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth" ![]() Thomas de Quincey by Sir John Watson-Gordon ![]() |