6/26/2023 0 Comments Novel china rich girlfriend![]() Meanwhile, Singapore's It Girl, Astrid Leong, is shocked to discover that there is a downside to having a newly minted tech billionaire husband. Here we meet Carlton, a Ferrari-crashing bad boy known for Prince Harry-like antics Colette, a celebrity girlfriend chased by fevered paparazzi and the man Rachel has spent her entire life waiting to meet: her father. Until: a shocking revelation draws Rachel into a world of Shanghai splendor beyond anything she has ever imagined. But Rachel still mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be able to walk her down the aisle. She has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond from JAR, a wedding dress she loves more than anything found in the salons of Paris, and a fiancé willing to sacrifice his entire inheritance in order to marry her. On the eve of her wedding to Nicholas Young, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Asia, Rachel should be over the moon. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments The Book of Delights by Ross Gay![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith), “imperative” (the New York Times Book Review), and “brilliant” (Ada Limón). Ross Gay’s essays have been called “exquisite” (Tracy K. The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new chronicle of small, daily wonders-and it is exactly the book we need in these unsettling times. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Ali hazelwood under one roof![]() ![]() The problem is, living with someone means getting to know them. Liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when Mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side…but Helena was her mentor and Mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. ![]() Okay, sure, technically she’s the interloper. ![]() And other rules Liam, her detestable big-oil lawyer of a roommate, knows nothing about. Though their fields of study might take them to different corners of the world, they can all agree on this universal truth: when it comes to love and science, opposites attract and rivals make you burn….Īs an environmental engineer, Mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. Mara, Sadie, and Hannah are friends first, scientists always. A scientist should never cohabitate with her annoyingly hot nemesis – it leads to combustion. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Sync by Steven H. Strogatz![]() Sync is order that arises without centralized intelligence. ![]() ![]() This book provides an introduction to synchronization in as detailed a way as can be expected without actually delving into the mathematics. Engagingly written for readers of books such as Chaos and The Elegant Universe, Sync is a tour-de-force of nonfiction writing. From underground caves in Texas where a French scientist spent six months alone tracking his sleep-wake cycle, to the home of a Dutch physicist who in 1665 discovered two of his pendulum clocks swinging in perfect time, this fascinating book spans disciplines, continents, and centuries. Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and physicists attempt to pinpoint just how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have nothing to do with our heart cells, there is in fact a deep connection. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. ![]() At the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Rational empathy![]() ![]() Finally, it requires of the brain multiple levels of integrated explicit data processing. ![]() Second, it requires the beginnings of differentiation and self- separation - the person across from me isn’t me, and I can’t approach what they want from an egocentric perspective. First - it involves true consequentiality - it exercises the ‘what if?’ part of your brain, as well as embodying a dynamic, as opposed to static, sense of time. ![]() Namely, because place-taking itself requires some interesting components to be actualized. Folks in psychology like to call it “place taking”, and that’s an interesting thing to explore. Rational empathy is kind of a nested version of what’s called cognitive empathyby researchers (that link is a paper I’m gonna have to get back to review!) and embodies all three types of empathy. Now I’ll be the first to tell you - all the empathetic levels have been around forever– kind of waiting to be unlocked in a case of secrets - but in order to become a primary force in society, a critical number of people have to embody them. ![]() Photo: Coral Trekker - a sailing ship in the Whitsunday Islands off the Great Barrier Reef, AustraliaĪs we move on up the Empathy Pyramid, we come to the first empathy level that really only showed up in force about 500 years ago. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The southern reach![]() ![]() “This deployment to the border is consistent with other forms of military support to DHS over many years.” President Biden will send 1,500 US soldiers to the southern border. “Military personnel will not directly participate in law enforcement activities,” Ryder said. The active-duty units will focus on logistical duties rather than enforcement, leaving Border Patrol to devote their resources to stemming the coming tide of tens of thousands of illegal border-crossers. ![]() The Department of Homeland Security requested the Pentagon’s assistance to get ahead of an expected surge of migrants when Title 42 expires on May 11. ![]() “For 90 days, this 1,500 military personnel will fill critical capability gaps, such as ground-based detection and monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support, until can address these needs through contracted support,” said Pentagon spokesman Brig. ![]() Yuma mayor urges ‘calm’ as feds release 300 unprocessed migrantsīiden’s border madness: Letters to the Editor - May 13, 2023ĭefense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday agreed to send 1,500 US soldiers to the Mexico border at the Biden administration’s request - though only to perform administrative tasks with Title 42 set to end next week. Top Republican calls for Mayorkas impeachment after end of Title 42 Migrants from over 100 countries have crossed into Mexico ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Under the udala trees sparknotes![]() ![]() When he dies, Ijeoma’s mother sends her away, to a couple for whom she becomes kitchen help, tumbling from upper middle class to working class. The fences are no protection and narrator Ijeoma, now 11, finds herself watching the father who told her the bombs would not come – “Papa was certain of this and so I was certain with him” – crumble, too. “Ours was a gated compound, guarded at the front by thickets of rose and hibiscus bushes.” The descriptions are cool, exact yet what grows out of these carefully laid beginnings is a story with the highest of stakes.įirst comes the war: the little compound is in Biafra, and within a year the area is being bombed. ‘M idway between Old Oba-Nnewi Road and New Oba-Nnewi Road, in that general area bound by the village church and the primary school … ” Under the Udala Trees begins in the same way that many of the short stories in Chinelo Okparanta’s debut Happiness, Like Water did: with a clear, attentive setting-down of the parameters of place – streets and street names, houses and bushes, trees and walls – and how they make sense of each other, protect each other. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments A sweet and bitter magic![]() ![]() This distinguished author also wrote books on journalism and political analysis. His books are a distinctive balance of Latin American history and his fictional stories also have elements of Latin American culture and antiquity. Sweet & Bitter Magic is about Tamsin, who is a witch, who is banished from her life with the Coven and cursed to not feel love. Some of his notable works include, ‘Las Venas Abiertas de America’ (translated in over 20 languages), ‘Days and Nights of Love and War’, ‘Football in Sun and Shadow’, ‘Memory of Fire’ trilogy, ‘Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain that Eats Men’ and ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History’. One of South America’s most renowned writers, he was an ambassador of Latin American history and provided the world an insight into their culture, heritage and struggles, through his passionate and honest writing. He was a severe critic of globalization and highlighted the dehumanizing facets of globalization in the contemporary world. ![]() One of Latin America’s most cherished and admired literary figures, Eduardo Galeano was an Uruguayan author, who raised his voice incessantly for human rights and social justice. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments The reader by traci chee![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With no time to lose, and the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide. Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father left behind, something she comes to realize is a book. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. Page Length: 442 pages (hardcover edition) “The Reader” (Sea of Ink and Gold #1) by Traci Chee (2016) Book Review: “The Reader” (Sea of Ink and Gold #1) by Traci Chee ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Carrie mae weems kitchen table![]() ![]() Kitchen Table Series seeks to reposition and reimagine the possibility of women and the possibility of people of color, and has to do with, in the artist's words, "unrequited love. Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series Foreword by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis Details. Weems herself is the protagonist of the series, though the woman she depicts is an archetype. The kitchen, one of the primary spaces of domesticity and the traditional domain of women, frames her story, revealing to us her relationships-with lovers, children, friends-and her own sense of self, in her varying projections of strength, vulnerability, aloofness, tenderness and solitude.As Weems describes it, this work of art depicts "the battle around the family. The 20 photographs and 14 text panels that make up Kitchen Table Series tell a story of one woman's life, as conducted in the intimate setting of her kitchen. Unlike the experience of meandering through a museum, stepping back to appreciate the images and nearing the text panels to skim them, the pace of exploration is now in a person's hands." -Hilary Moss, New York TimesThis publication is dedicated solely to the early and canonical body of work by American artist Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953). A quarter of a century later, a book was published solely dedicated to the series that weaves sexism, racism, class, and cultural identity into the 20 photographs and 14 text panels that comprise the collection. "In book form, Kitchen Table is more intimate. In 1990, Carrie Mae Weems exhibited The Kitchen Table Series, which has proven to be her most famous work. ![]() |