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Contraception by John T. Noonan Jr.5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He joined the law faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1961, where he was editor of the highly regarded Natural Law Forum. As a young lawyer, he had a formative experience as the elected chair of the Brookline Redevelopment Authority when it was the center of intense political conflict. National Security Council and then practiced law for six years at his father's Boston firm. ![]() (1951) in philosophy from Catholic University of America graduated in 1954 from Harvard Law School, where he was book review editor of the Harvard Law Review served a demanding year on the staff of the U.S. He then spent a year at the University of Cambridge earned an M.A. In 1944, he graduated from Harvard College, which was on a wartime schedule, in two and a half years. John Noonan was born on October 24, 1926, in Boston, Massachusetts, and grew up in nearby Brookline. ![]() Noonan (Dixie), Rebecca Murray (Stuart), and Susanna Howard (Jim), seven grandchildren, and a sister, Mary Sabin. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, the former Mary Lee Bennett, three children, John K. Noonan Jr., a renowned scholar of remarkable vitality and moral purpose, a distinguished federal appellate judge, and an internationally influential Catholic layperson, died at his home in Berkeley on April 17, 2017, at the age of 90. ![]()
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The essex serpent book5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Not only was there really a mythical winged serpent that terrorized locals there in the 17th century, but it was the location of the notorious Essex witch trials. It can't be an accident that Perry placed her story about collective panic in Essex. ![]() Though even he, in moments, thinks, "But was it too great a stretch to imagine the Intelligence that once had split the Red Sea taking the trouble to send a little admonition to the sinners of a briny Essex parish?" Those wings belong to the titular Essex Serpent, a water serpent terrorizing the village - or according to William Ransome, just rumor a born of the dead man who washed up on shore, the missing sheep, a lost child, the unseasonable darkness, and a strange waver in the line of the water. ![]() Near the coastal village of Aldwinter, where Cora eventually moves to be closer to the Ransomes, nature is not inertly beautiful, but dangerous and alive: A sheep is sucked into the mud, boats are taken by the water, earthquakes split houses, and the residents wake in the mornings "from dreams of wet black wings." Perry is good at catching the special collective dread that enflames communities - the fear that something sinister is stirring, waiting just out of sight. ![]()
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Jennifer egan manhattan beach summary5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() “A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” ( The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” ( Elle). One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. ![]() Named One of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Esquire, Vogue, The Washington Post, The Guardian, USA TODAY, and TimeĪnna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author. Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction ![]()
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The wild beyond piers torday5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() A deadly virus has killed all the animals except pests and it's expected to be equally dangerous to humans. His life will never be quite the same again. There is a flock of excited pigeons in his bedroom.ģ. ![]() ![]() All he knows, at this very moment, is this:ġ. He is extraordinary, but he doesn't know that yet. This is a story about a boy named Kester. Piers has also completed an unfinished novel by his late father Paul (author of 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen', 'The Death of an Owl') and adapted 'The Box of Delights' and 'A Christmas Carol' for the stage. The follow up, 'The Frozen Sea', was published in 2019. 'The Lost Magician' was a Book of the Year in six national newspapers and won the Teach Primary Book Award. 'There May Be A Castle' was a People's Book Award finalist and a Times Children's Book of the Year. His second book, 'The Dark Wild', won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. His first book for children, 'The Last Wild', was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Award and nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. Piers Torday began his career in theatre and then television as a producer and writer. ![]()
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The Elements of Choice by Eric J Johnson5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The aim is to provide details for the public health community, as well as to share lessons for the continued mission and future pandemic responses. To overcome the common faults in our decision-making and enable better choices in any situation involves conscious and intentional decision design. More than 7000 service members served across 200 COVID-19 mission sites, administering more than 4 million vaccines, producing more than 35 million testing kits, delivering more than 54 million meals, and administering more than 1.5 million tests.Ĭonclusions and Relevance Because of the role of states in delivering relief, testing, care, vaccination, and other community support during the COVID-19 pandemic, this article illuminates the role of New York military forces in responding to COVID-19. ![]() A leader in decision-making research reveals how choices are. the longest and largest domestic mobilization in state history. Read 25 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. Observations Operation COVID-19 began on March 10, 2020, and will continue uninterrupted at least through June 2022, making it. Importance Military forces in the State of New York, comprising the Army National Guard, Air National Guard, Naval Militia, and State Guard, with contributions from the Army Corps of Engineers, have made major contributions to the state response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ![]()
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Balzac graham robb5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() His notoriety was secured (but never his loans), and La ComÇdie humaine later materialized as the unfinishable project of his life: an enormous fresco of his epoch's every aspect, from Paris to the provinces, through the spheres of finance, politics, journalism, and law. ![]() ![]() His first successes, after failed ventures in publishing and printing, were a historical novel and a smartly cynical marital guide derived from his gutter journalism. Robb, a scholar of 19th-century French literature, lucidly addresses Balzac's less impressive early literary attempts at classical tragedy and gothic and sentimental novels. Born to an eccentric, self-made peasant father and a much younger petty bourgeoise mother, HonorÇ de Balzac is credited with developing Realism in the French novel, epitomized in La ComÇdie humaine, which is comprised of over 100 works and some 2,000 characters. Illuminating Balzac more successfully through examining his work than his era, Robb attempts to unravel the novelist's prolific, debt-driven career, his disorderly pursuit of fame and love, and his instinct for financial trouble. ![]()
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Fiona staples books5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m kind of freaking out about how this issues ends and I can barely wait for the next volume I’m almost tempted to start buying the individual issues because I. There’s also some drama (when old girlfriends resurface or when some of our friends eat some not-so-friendly fruit). We, of course, get some new characters in this volume, including the two reporters who are hoping to make their career on the story of Alana and Marko. Vaughan and Fiona Staples didn’t win a Hugo Award for nothing – they won it for the incredibleness that is Saga. The illustrations are incredible and perfectly match the content of the story. Honestly, if you have even the smallest interest in getting into comics (and you are open-minded about potentially crude behavior), please check out Saga. ![]() ![]() ![]() I honestly don’t know the point of this review because I can’t really tell you what happens without potentially spoiling the first two volumes. This guy on Goodreads sums it up pretty well: “This comic is so good it’s starting to piss me off.” I mean, I went out and bought Volume 3 because our library system doesn’t have it yet and I wasn’t going to wait. If you’ve read my review of Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Saga, you know that I’m a little bit obsessed with it. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() 10178909 O'Brien, Cory Dewey number 201/.30207 Illustrations illustrations Index no index present Literary form non fiction Melville, Sarah E. While each version is authentic in terms of facts, this creative take on the originals presents the stories in a whole new light Pace And in his irreverent style, O'Brien recounts more than 100 classic myths from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Japanese, and other cultures. These are rude, crude, totally sacred texts told the way they were meant to be told: loudly, and with lots of four-letter words. Language eng Summary This book casts a gimlet eye on the real world of mythology. In Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes, Cory OBrien, creator of Myths RETOLD, sets the stories straight. 34 quotes from Zeus Grants Stupid Wishing: A No-Bullshit Guided to World Mythology: ‘No, see what I’m trying to say is that I watch people organizing thems. true Characters and characteristics in mythology 34 offer from Zeus Sponsorships Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide till The Saga: ‘No, see that I’m trying to say is that I watch people organizing thems. ![]() true Mythology - History and criticism.Melville Title variation Zeus grants stupid wishes Title variation remainder a no-bullshit guide to world mythology Creator Label Zeus grants stupid wishes : a no-bullshit guide to world mythology Title Zeus grants stupid wishes Title remainder a no-bullshit guide to world mythology Statement of responsibility Cory O'Brien illustrations by Sarah E. ![]()
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Society of the spectacle book5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ' The Society of the Spectacle is] about not just the clamor of images but also the silence of power, a silence which, since the seventies, has become deafening.' - McKenzie Wark 'In Society of the Spectacle, Debord sets out his best-known statement of how the categories of capitalism colonise everyday life to such an extent that we can barely imagine an existence beyond them.' - Sydney Review of Books From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. An essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. 'Guy Debord is a time bomb, and a difficult one to defuse.' - Michael L wyįirst published in 1967, Guy Debord's stinging revolutionary critique of contemporary society, The Society of the Spectacle has since acquired a cult status. 'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian 'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible.' - The New Yorker ![]()
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Where We Live and Die by Brian Keene5/10/2023 ![]() (home of the B-2 Stealth Bomber) 509th Logistics Fuels Flight. Keene has won numerous awards and honors, including the 2014 World Horror Grandmaster Award, 2001 Bram Stoker Award for Nonfiction, 2003 Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, 2004 Shocker Award for Book of the Year, and Honors from United States Army International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and Whiteman A.F.B. Keene also oversees Maelstrom, his own small press publishing imprint specializing in collectible limited editions, via Thunderstorm Books. Keene also serves as Executive Producer for the independent film studio Drunken Tentacle Productions. Several more are in-development or under option. Several of Keene's novels have been developed for film, including Ghoul, The Ties That Bind, and Fast Zombies Suck. ![]() ![]() In addition to his own original work, Keene has written for media properties such as Doctor Who, The X-Files, Hellboy, Masters of the Universe, and Superman. His novels have been translated into German, Spanish, Polish, Italian, French, Taiwanese, and many more. Keene is the author of over forty books, mostly in the horror, crime, and dark fantasy genres. ![]() ![]() After his enlistment ended, Keene worked a variety of jobs before becoming a full-time writer. He grew up in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia and many of his books take place in these locales. VJ Books Presents Author Brian Keene! Brian Keene was born on September 22, 1967. You are here: Home > Our Authors > Keene, Brian ![]() |