![]() ![]() In the other: you think your brain and senses reveal the world as it is?” – The Guardian In one, he delineates, with remorseless logic and clarity, what any conceivable afterlife would actually entail. “David Eagleman offers startling lessons in neuroscience…. His method in both Sum and his new book, Incognito, is to ask us to cast off our lazy, commonplace assumptions. It’s a bold argument and perhaps just the beginning of the debate.” – Sunday Herald “What Eagleman seems to be calling for is a new Enlightenment, where our better understanding of the brain allows us to treat criminality differently. “Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness.” – The New Yorker ![]() “Incognito is popular science at its best…. Eagleman, by imagining the future so vividly, puts into relief just how challenging neuroscience is, and will be.” – Boston Globe ![]() A book that will leave you looking at yourself–and the world–differently.”- Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) Eagleman has a wealth of such observations, backed up with case studies, bits of pop culture, literary references and historic examples. “The book is full of startling examples…. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The briefest and truest way of describing Lombard Street is to say that it is by far the greatest combination of economical power and economical delicacy that the world has even seen. ![]() He would have thought that it was of no use inventing railways (if he could have understood what a railway meant), for you would not have been able to collect the capital with which to make them.… He ends with a plug for the CFE (well, for the mission of the CFE anyway).Ī place like Lombard Street, where in all but the rarest times money can be always obtained upon good security or upon decent prospects of probable gain, is a luxury which no country has ever enjoyed.…Ī citizen of London in Queen Elizabeth’s time could not have imagined our state of mind. ![]() In an action-packed introductory chapter, Bagehot covers how financial innovation was key to the industrial revolution, the essence of leverage, and why financial firms have a tendency to foolishly blow themselves up. The most famous thing in the book is probably Bagehot’s advice to the lender of last resort: in a crisis lend quickly and freely against good collateral at a penalty rate. In 1873, Walter Bagehot published what remains one of the most perceptive and farsighted books on modern finance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What do the Bayes’ problems have to do with the thoughtless remark with which schoolteacher Joe Lewiston ruined the life of Adam’s sister Jill’s best friend, Yasmin Novak? Or the revelation that desperately ill Lucas Loriman’s father can’t donate a kidney to his son because he’s not the boy’s father? Or the murdered Jane Doe whom Essex County Chief Investigator Loren Muse ( The Woods, 2007, etc.) is trying to identify? For his pains, Mike gets beaten up, then pulled in by the FBI, who tell him that the club, which ostensibly provides a haven where teens can safely act out, is a cover for some major felonies. Once they can follow his every keystroke, visit every site he has logged onto and read every e-mail he has sent and received, they quickly realize that Adam is keeping dangerous secrets from them-so dangerous, in fact, that when he goes AWOL one night and refuses to answer his cell phone, Mike snoops further, using a GPS tracking service to follow Adam to Club Jaguar, way on the other side of the tracks. So Mike and Tia install spyware on their son’s computer. How much do you trust your children, and what would you do if your efforts to keep tabs on them pushed them even further away?Īdam Baye is a good kid, but ever since he gave up hockey, the sport that seemed destined to finance his college education, his parents, a New Jersey transplant surgeon and a Manhattan lawyer, have been worried. ![]() ![]() Soon circumstances send Leila back to the carnival circuit, where tragedy strikes. Like choosing betweeN eternal love and a loveless eternity. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman who refuses to accept the cold shoulder treatment forever-especially from the darkly handsome vampire who still won't admit that he loves her. If that weren't enough, her lover Vlad has been acting distant. Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure what the future holds. Read full overviewĭating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges. ![]() Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges. ![]() ![]() ![]() The latest version released by its developer is 1.0. The company that develops Holy Quran (Sahih International Translation) is Mala M. Holy Quran (Sahih International Translation) is a free app for iOS published in the Reference Tools list of apps, part of Education. This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.Ībout Holy Quran (Sahih International Translation) * Share verses with friends using social networks( Facebook/Twitter), email, or SMS (text). *Easily Jump to Verse in Chapter with verses conveniently on top of each Chapter *Orientation Support (Portrait,Landscape) This Quran Translation is being continuously being reviewed and updated by the Translator. This Quran Translation is also considered to be the most detailed Quran translation available in English Language. ![]() This Quran Translation is considered to be one of the best translation available in English language. Introducing the most popular Holy Quran (Sahih International Translation) ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m thinking of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Are You My Mother?, Alice Chipkin and Jessica Tavassoli’s Eyes Too Dry, and even the poignant moments of stoner domesticity in Simon Hanselmann’s Megahex series. Graphic novels, as a form, are so good at exploring the complexities and intimacy of domestic settings. In order to break this cycle, they must separate and first tend to the wounds inflicted by their families of origin to work out if they can make the leap of faith required to create their own version of family together, now. ![]() When Bron withdraws, Ray feels rejected, and when Bron realises she’s hurt Ray, Bron withdraws even further. But when the time comes, always too soon, to drop Nessie home, Bron and Ray have to confront the limits of their ability to look after each other as a couple. On these days, the three can disappear into invented games and make-believe adventures, explore wild and sprawling parklands, and sing made-up songs. Lee Lai’s Stone Fruit finds queer couple Bron and Ray at a turning point in their relationship, but the Tuesdays they spend looking after Ray’s six-year-old niece Nessie provide a cherished respite. ![]() ![]() It contains words many found offensive then and many will find offensive now. Here are selections from his response read by James Earl Jones. ![]() King took that to be yet another way of saying wait. They said they recognize the, quote, "natural impatience of people who feel their hopes are slow in being realized." They also called the protest unwise and untimely and suggested local protesters abandon demonstrations and negotiate instead. It was written by eight white Alabama clergymen. While there, he was given a copy of an open letter about the protest. On Good Friday, King and other black protesters were arrested and jailed for parading without a permit. It must be demanded by the oppressed.ĬORNISH: That's actor James Earl Jones reading from King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail." King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference launched the Birmingham campaign in 1963, a series of nonviolent protests and boycotts in that Alabama city meant to pressure businesses to desegregate and business owners to hire people of all races. JAMES EARL JONES: (Reading) We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor. ![]() Today, on the federal holiday dedicated to him and his legacy, we take a moment to do just that. ![]() would have celebrated his 90th birthday last week. Had he not been assassinated in 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. 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Plenty, it turns out, when Byerly Vorrutyer, an undercover agent for Imperial Security, shows up on his doorstep and asks him to make the acquaintance of a young woman, recently arrived on Komarr, who seems to be in danger. ![]() It's an easy assignment and nobody is shooting at him. Fortunately, his current duty is on the planet Komarr as staff officer to Admiral Desplains, far from both his cousin and his mother back on their homeworld of Barrayar. Although much practice has made Ivan more adept at fending off his mother's less-than-subtle reminders that he should be getting married and continuing the Vorpatril lineage. But he has the dubious fortune of the hyperactive Miles Vorkosigan as a cousin, which has too-often led to his getting dragged into one of Miles' schemes, with risk to life and limb-and military career-that Ivan doesn't consider entirely fair. GOOD INTENTIONS, BAD INTEL Captain Ivan Vorpatril sometimes thinks that if not for his family, he might have no troubles at all. Book Fourteen in the best-selling Vorkosigan series. A new installment in the New York Times best-selling, award-winning Vorkosigan science fiction adventure series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether he’s adopting a dog from a suspicious stranger, mitigating a disastrous road trip, or trying MDMA for the first (and only) time, Josh only wants the best for everyone-even as his attempts to do the right thing occasionally implode.įull of the warm and relatable humor that’s made him a favorite on the comedy club circuit, Nice Try solidifies Josh Gondelman’s reputation as not just a good guy, but a skilled observer of the human condition. ![]() His true tales of romantic calamities, professional misfortunes, and eventual triumphs reinforce the notion: we get out of the world what we put into it. In this collection of hilarious and poignant essays (including his acclaimed New York Timespiece “What if I Bombed at My Own Wedding?”), Josh celebrates a life of good intentions-and mixed results. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic-dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer-is known throughout the industry as one of comedy’s true “nice guys.” Not surprisingly, he’s endured his share of last-place finishes. ![]() Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying-and failing. Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman’s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results. Tiffany Haddish discusses her memoir, 'The Last Black Unicorn,' which looks back on Richard Pryor's comedy advice, her time in Scientology and her storied da. ![]() |