![]() ![]() ![]() * Credence is a full length, stand-alone romance suitable for listeners 18+. She also realizes that lines blur and rules become easy to break when no one else is watching. As the three of them take her under their wing, teach her to work and survive in the remote woods far away from the rest of the world, she slowly finds her place among them. Sent to live with him and his two sons, Noah and Kaleb, in the mountains of Colorado, Tiernan soon learns that these men now have a say in what she chooses to care and not care about anymore. But has anything really changed? She's always been alone, hasn't she? Jake Van der Berg, her father's stepbrother and her only living relative, assumes guardianship of Tiernan who is still two months shy of 18. And when they suddenly pass away, she knows she should be devastated. The shadow of her parents' fame followed her everywhere. Shipped off to boarding schools from an early age, it was still impossible to escape the loneliness and carve out a life of her own. ![]() The only child of a film producer and his starlet wife, she's grown up with wealth and privilege but not love or guidance. Tiernan de Haas doesn't care about anything anymore. ![]() From New York Times best-selling author, Penelope Douglas, comes a new stand-alone! Three of them, one of her, and a remote cabin in the woods. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In 2008, Ferguson criticized a study published by Craig A. He has argued that violent video games have remained popular even while youth violence has fallen to a 40-year low. Research and views įerguson is known for publishing studies disputing the link between video games and violent behavior. in clinical psychology from the University of Central Florida. in developmental psychology from Florida International University, and his Ph.D. in psychology from Stetson University, his M.S. Ferguson is also a published author who has written both fiction and nonfiction.įerguson received his B.A. In 2014, he was named a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He previously served as an associate professor of psychology and criminal justice at Texas A&M International University. ![]() Ferguson is an American psychologist who serves as a professor and co-chair of psychology at Stetson University in Florida. Distinguished Early Career Professional Award from Division 46 of the American Psychological Association (2013)ĭevelopment and validation of a defendant and offender screening tool for psychopathology in inmate populations (2003)Ĭhristopher J. ![]() ![]() The Learned Musician is an ambitious and intensely focused display of musical scholarship from Christoph Wolff and, to many, has replaced Spitta’s 3 Volume biography (1873-1880) as the new standard Bach biography. ![]() The Sun of Composers: A work by Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann (1756-1829), a German-born composer, showing Bach at the centre the “man from whom all true musical wisdom proceeded”. What a shame, I'll have to immerse myself in Bach's music again! *sigh*įor Bach, the ultimate rationale for being a musician “to make a well-sounding harmony to the honor of God and the permissible delectation of the soul”. Well, I have recently been made aware of a companion book, 'Bach's Musical Universe', written by the same author which I thought might be useful information for anyone considering reading this. Update 25/03/22: I mention somewhere in this review that the one thing this book could've done with more of was a deeper analysis of some of Bach's greatest works. ![]() ![]() ![]() Abbie arrives wanting nothing more than solitude and time to brood over the horrors of her past. ![]() She arranges for Abbie to stay with her elderly relatives, Marnie, Millie, and Beau Crispin in the once impressive but now distinctively down on its heels, shabby genteel Crispin House. Her friend Celeste suggests that she take a break in Stargazey Point, a past its prime coastal resort town in South Carolina, devastated in the last hurricane, but a place that Celeste thinks will help heal Abbie. ![]() ![]() What happens when your life takes such a turn that you are completely at sea and have no idea what to do next? When you are so devastated by the immense tragedy you've survived that you need to go some place different and quiet and healing? How do you go about living again when you are revising the very pieces of you, your good heart and your soul? How do you find purpose again? In Shelley Noble's new novel, Stargazey Point, Abbie Sinclair is facing these very questions and holding herself aloof from everyone she meets until she finds that life does have a way of giving you the answers when and how you least expect it.Ībbie worked on documentaries but after her last project ended in terrible tragedy, she's barely holding it together. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Gödel shows us an unclarity in the concept of ‘mathematics’, which is indicated by the fact that mathematics is taken to be a system” and we can say (contra nearly everyone) that is all that Gödel and Chaitin show. ![]() Wittgenstein also demonstrated the fatal error in regarding mathematics or language or our behavior in general as a unitary coherent logical ‘system,’ rather than as a motley of pieces assembled by the random processes of natural selection. I suggest that they are largely standard philosophical problems (i.e., language games) which were resolved by Wittgenstein over 80 years ago. It is commonly thought that such topics as Impossibility, Incompleteness, Paraconsistency, Undecidability, Randomness, Computability, Paradox, Uncertainty and the Limits of Reason are disparate scientific physical or mathematical issues having little or nothing in common. ![]() In Remarks on Impossibility, Incompleteness, Paraconsistency, Undecidability, Randomness, Computability, Paradox, Uncertainty and the Limits of Reason in Chaitin, Wittgenstein, Hofstadter, Wolpert, Doria, da Costa, Godel, Searle, Rodych, Berto, Floyd, Moyal. Remarks on Wittgenstein, Gödel, Chaitin, Incompleteness, Impossiblity and the Psychological Basis of Science and Mathematics. ![]() ![]() So I began to write it and it took forever. “The very first book I wrote, called The Bluest Eye, I was not really thinking about publishing or reviewers or other readers, it was a book I wanted to read and I couldn’t find it anywhere. Toni Morrison speaks about her first book, The Bluest Eye (1988) Those writers who could assume the centrality of their race. And the people who helped me the most were African writers: Chinua Achebe, Bessie Head. And I’ve tried my whole writing life to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books. “ as though our lives have no meaning and no depth without the white gaze. Toni Morrison Answers an “Illegitimate” Question on Race Hit play and soak in her knowledge and wisdom. Morrison was the first African American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, for “novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” We’ve pieced together a collection of some of her best interviews. The author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye and Jazz won both a Nobel and Pulitzer prize for her fiction and was the giant of African American literature. Toni Morrison, the African-American novelist, essayist, editor, teacher, and professor emeritus at Princeton University, died at the age of 88. ![]() ![]() ![]() But as she's finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. And then she discovers something amazing-she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. There seems to be no place where she fits in. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. Her features are West African, but she's albino. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her characters take your heart and squeeze it her worlds open your mind to new things." - Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American Gods Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. ![]() "Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially I read it to him, then he realised that he was able to decipher the words himself so we share read, until finally he was reading it all himself. ![]() ![]() But when he started in a (British) primary school at the tender age of four and reading became a blur of reading levels and reciting high frequency words, his enthusiasm stopped.īoring and mothballed home readers were killing his desire to read until the day we visited our local bookstore, when Harrison was aged 6, and he picked out Blabey’s Bad Guys. I read countless books daily, one bedtime story was never enough and I was happy to indulge. You see, from babyhood, Harrison loved books. ![]() Okay so I’m cheating a little here and choosing an entire series rather than just one book but Blabey’s series about a group of villainous anthropomorphs (who desperately want to be the heroes) was the key to reigniting Harrison’s love of reading. Sian from Teach Investigate Play has shared the books that turned around her son’s reluctance to read.Ī book that my child simply adores is The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey. To celebrate CBCA Book Week 2018, I’ve asked some of my favourite bloggers to share a book that one or more of their children adores. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lewis is now pursuing a doctorate in poetry and visual studies at the University of Southern California, making up for lost time by doing all the things she didn’t know she could do when she was younger. “It was this huge epiphany – ‘Oh, this is what poetry is! You can put an entire essay into one line!’ It was odd but it was the greatest gift, and I never looked back.” “I would sit there for eight hours a day thinking of one line and it became delicious,” Lewis says. While the act of physically writing something made her sick, the act of thinking did not. “I decided, ‘OK, if it’s one line a day, it’s going to be a goddamned good line.’” “My neurologist told me, ‘You can only write one sentence and read one sentence a day,’” she says. Lewis had to do speech-language therapy and stop reading and writing. ![]() Things changed after she was in an accident that caused permanent brain damage and kept her in bed for two years. ![]() |