![]() Quizzed on such puzzles, Socrates has helpful answers such as pointing to his forehead while saying, "Take out the trash, Dan."ĭan's motorcycle hits a car and he breaks his femur in 17 places. ![]() How did he do that? Later, Dan also wants to know how Socrates appears in his bedroom during sex, and on top of a beam in the gymnasium. As he's leaving, he turns back and finds that Socrates is now standing on the roof of the station, 15 feet or more above the ground. Once, after a nasty fall, his coach tells him: "Nobody on this planet can do what you're trying to do."ĭan is out jogging the first night he meets the Nolte character, who he eventually thinks of as Socrates. Dan is a gymnast on the Berkeley team, a hot-shot who's always trying out risky stuff in the gym. He has such conversations with Dan Millman ( Scott Mechlowicz), a character based on the author of the 1980 self-help best-seller that has inspired the movie. "This is a service station," he says at one point. ![]() This station, however, seems well-lighted and orderly, and Nolte's character is always busy under the hood of a car. ![]() Nolte plays the only attendant at an all-night Texaco station that looks so old-fashioned, it could be the Fatal Gas Station in a horror movie: You know, where the sinister old scarecrow in overalls tells the kids to turn left and go down the old dirt road into the swamp. ![]()
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![]() And yet ten centuries later, from the Atlantic to the Urals, the European world had turned. ![]() The farther east one went, the simpler it became: fewer iron tools and ever less productive economies. Although having some iron tools and weapons, these mostly illiterate peoples worked mainly in wood and never built in stone. The rest of Europe, meanwhile, was home to subsistence farmers living in small groups, dominated largely by Germanic speakers. ![]() The book's vivid narrative begins at the time of Christ, when the Mediterranean circle, newly united under the Romans, hosted a politically sophisticated, economically advanced, and culturally developed civilization-one with philosophy, banking, professional armies, literature, stunning architecture, even garbage collection. With sharp analytic insight, Peter Heather explores the dynamics of migration and social and economic interaction that changed two vastly different worlds-the undeveloped barbarian world and the sophisticated Roman Empire-into remarkably similar societies and states. Here is a fresh, provocative look at how a recognizable Europe came into being in the first millennium AD. ![]() ![]() ![]() The survivors too just wanted to move past their second victimization. The government would prefer to move past mistakes. Japanese culture was quiet about the attack. That was part of the purpose of this book. The few who would actually talk about it. First with the victims of the attack, the survivors, the families, the doctors and scientists. This isn't a perfect look at Japanese Death Cults or even the Sarin Subway Attack of 1995. Writing about dark tunnels that bridge both the victims and the devout, that link a damp tongue of evil with the milk of everyday kindness seems a natural space for Murakami. But once you've consigned your ego to someone else, where on earth do you go from there?" - Haruki Murakami, Underground Looking back 20 years to the Tokyo Gas Attack, it seems inevitable that Murakami would write about it. "without a proper ego nobody can create a personal narrative, any more than you can drive a car without an engine, or cast a shadow without a real physical object. ![]() ![]() Just as you breathe, you dream your story ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She finds the van–in rural Scotland–and finally, with the help of villagers, persuades the owner to sell it to her. The dream lingers and takes the shape of a mobile bookshop in a van. And she finally admits that it is to own her own bookshop, maybe a tiny one, where she can help match up people with books they will love. In an outplacement workshop exercise, complete with all the cliche’s of modern corporate life, she is invited to share her own dream job. The story is that Nina Redmond, a librarian in Birmingham, is about to lose her job in a library consolidation. It was a nice break from some other heavier reads, and explored some themes I found interesting. What is curious-er is that I actually liked it, for the most part. I’m a sucker for books on books and so didn’t notice that this is categorized as women’s fiction, and romance, two categories I tend not to read. Summary: Nina Redmond loses her librarian job, pursues a dream of a mobile bookshop, ending up in the Scottish Highlands, bringing joy to a cluster of small towns in her Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After, while longing for her own happy-ever-after. The Bookshop on the Corner, Jenny Colgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() "One of the most beautiful books in the world. "Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro. A celebration of the longevity and unique authority of Albers's contribution, this landmark edition will find new audiences in studios and classrooms around the world. Fifty years after Interaction's initial publication, this new edition presents a significantly expanded selection of close to sixty color studies alongside Albers's original text, demonstrating such principles as color relativity, intensity, and temperature vibrating and vanishing boundaries and the illusion of transparency and reversed grounds. ![]() With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963, Interaction of Color remains an essential resource on color, as pioneering today as when Albers first created it. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates, Interaction of Color first appeared in paperback in 1971, featuring ten color studies chosen by Albers, and has remained in print ever since., ![]() Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. ![]() ![]() The essay teases out the underlying issues that inform these studies and considers their implications for both Buddhist and women's studies. Koppe-drayer examines four such works-Rita Gross's Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism, June Campbell's Traveller in Space: In Search of Female Identity in Tibetan Buddhism, Anne Klein's Meeting the Great Bliss Queen: Buddhists, Feminists, and the Art of the Self, and Winnie Tomm's Bodied Mindfulness: Women's Spirits, Bodies, and Places which were published within a span of three years during the mid-1990s and which draw on feminist and Buddhist sources to pursue questions related to the construction of women and women's subjectivity. Recent years have seen a number of writers draw upon Buddhist thought in their articulations of feminist epistemology. ![]() ![]() In 2021, World Tsunami Awareness Day is promoting the " Sendai Seven Campaign ,” specifically the target that looks to enhance international cooperation to developing countries. ![]() In the face of increasing complex global crises, we need to be better prepared”, he argued. “Boosting support to developing countries and improving detection and early warning is critical. Guterres, science, international cooperation, preparedness and early action must be at the centre of all efforts to keep people and communities safer. Rapid urbanization and growing tourism in regions prone to tsunamis, are also putting even more people in harm’s way. “We must limit warming to 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial averages and invest at scale in the resilience of coastal communities.” ![]() “Rising sea levels caused by the climate emergency will further exacerbate the destructive power of tsunamis”, he said. ![]() The UN chief cautioned, however, that the risks “remain immense.” ![]() ![]() Absolutely beautifully drawn, and a story well told. In these tales, our protagonist is served punishment for being lazy, naive, prideful, or simply not obeying authority or moral doctrine. But no, again: a Plum Tree Fairy notices him and sends a mouse to retrieve him and bring him home. A minute mimic world for animal people existing alongside mankind, so that animals have to deal with both their shit and ours. Although I didn't want to admit it, looking back I know for sure that I got caught up in the rat race. The frog decides to follow them on their jou. Campers will also get to learn about and get ready to cheer for our TCU athletic teams. What a beautifully cozy adventure story about a brave-yet cautious frog. 4, 086 Autumn Frog Stock Photos, Images & Pictures. Here's the official PEOW text: "A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku flower that withered and died just recently. A number of factors can make frogs susceptible to hurt themselves if they fall. ![]() ![]() ![]() A Frog in Fall has the same mix of thoughts and exposition crossing the page, drifting in and out of word balloons, blotted-out corrections made to the text have it looking like a literal diary at times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her best friend has become popular and ever since that occurred, she acts as if Kate is invisible. The book revolves around Kate who works with her father selling Vitamins in the mall. Anyway, this book is one of the explanations on why I'm not a big fan of contemporary YA romance books. I'm not going to gather up the energy to do an actual review because I read this – truly, I can't remember when I picked this up. It had love-hate banter and insults and fuzzy feelings and realness and funny and finding yourself all in the same book.ĭefinitely my favorite so far by this author. Elizabeth somehow managed to channel my angsty highschool self perfectly and I just effing loved every second of this. So many contemporaries are funny-but-not-real or real-but-not-funny and this book was both. Because it was such a good book and I couldn't stop. ![]() ![]() And there were parts I wanted to punch Kate in the face because she was so in denial/naive/meek around Will and her idiot dad and her lazya$$ brother. Honestly parts of this book felt so real they hurt (family issues). And damn it, that sad world sucked me in and made me feel things. I don't do sad contemporaries and the only thing that kept me reading was the writing style (first-person sarcastic and hilarious) and then drool-worthy Will.Īnd then I just kept reading and it got really good. I almost DNF'd this book in the first 30 pages because it was depressing and the protagonist was so passive and unwilling to stand up to her family (a big pet peeve of mine). ![]() ![]() ![]() Across the hip, down the sides or along the hem. Colored stones or silver and gold metal embellished the material. It was the closest analogy for the short leather skirts around their waist. Faye’s eyes bugged as she wondered if she’d died and gone to some alternate form of heaven. ![]() Arms, chest and legs shifted when a few of the women touched or stroked body parts. Someone had taken the time to oil every inch of their exposed skin.Īnd there was a lot of exposed skin. Their bodies glistened in the late evening sun and not from heat she realized. These men were gorgeous and their dress or lack of was enough to rouse any woman’s blood pressure. Now Faye understood the excitement in the line. Females will never choose a male with his evil lineage despite his honorable service to his government’s military.Ĭan two people looking for the same thing find not just what they want but what they need in one another? ![]() ![]() His pride has suffered and he must accept the painful truth. Torkel Alonson has had enough of being ignored and looked over by females on his adopted home world of Enotia. How many times can one man risk rejection? Placing all her hope in a new government program, she seizes the opportunity that offers a chance for the women of Earth to find love among the stars, on a world beyond the one they know. Would you take a chance and leave the only world you knew behind? What would you do if Earth didn’t have enough men? Michelle Howard has Torkel’s Chosen on sale for just $0.99! 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