The sword of the Lord is filled with blood , Indeed, it will come down for judgment on EdomĪnd on the people whom I have doomed for destruction. Let the earth and all that is in it hear, and the world and all that comes forth from it.įor the Lord is angry at all the nations,Īnd His wrath is against all their armies Īnd the stench of their corpses will rise,Īnd the mountains will flow with their blood.Īll the host of heaven will be dissolved,Īnd the skies will be rolled up like a scroll Īll their hosts will also wither awayĪnd as a fig withers from the fig tree. 34 Come near, you nations, to hear and listen, O peoples!
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This book is probably the best lecture on management and entrepreneurship that you could ever probably get. He talks about all things Japanese, and all things American- and attempts to distinctly mark the difference between them. It gives an insight into how the Japanese way of doing business, along with a burning passion to conquer the marketplace and the vision of producing the highest quality products in the world grew Sony into the most respected multinational corporation in Japan and worldwide, and allowed it to become the first real Japanese company which cut across regional and international barriers and vanquished foreign competition.Īkio Morita's style of writing is conversation style. This book is the story of Sony's legend, told in the words of its most famous co-founder himself. This is where Apple drew inspiration from Sony's Walkman, an inspiration which culminated in the first iPOD. Apple still does, in fact.īoth companies were leaders in "personal technology". And I joined Steve Jobs and many more from the Akio Morita fan club.ĭid you know that he was such a sensation that Steve Jobs wanted to build Apple to be like Sony? Here are the similarities- Both Apple and Sony had a reputation of creating perfectly crafted consumer products which conquer the marketplace. It’s a well-researched, well-paced historical thriller that marries the worlds of art, early feminism and Paris. If The Paris Winter is any indication, 2013 should carry on the string of good years. She went on to write a trilogy of thrillers and was shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award 2011 and the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2012. She won the Telegraph’s First Thousand Words of a Novel contest - which became her first book, Instruments of Darkness. Robertson’s first literary efforts have made a splash in the U.K. Instead, they are described in detail and we interpret how we are going to visualize the Paris Robertson describes. A catalogue describes these paintings, but the reader never sees them. She uses this literary device: a fictional series of paintings, “Anonymous Treasures from the de Civray Collection” are displayed at the Serpentine Gallery in London. There’s the one near Montmartre near the French Quarter of the rich, the poor and any dozens of social strata in between.Īnd there’s the Paris that existed at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1909: one on the cusp of change for art, for women.įor her fourth novel, The Paris Winter, Britain’s Imogen Robertson creates a Paris she asks, to an extent, the reader to infuse with meaning. In addition to many fairy tales, she also illustrated classic stories for older readers like A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and the Canterbury Tales, as well as young adult novels like Caddie Woodlawn, Among the Dolls, and The Castle In The Attic. She also wrote some of her own, including adaptations of Sleeping Beauty and her favorite, Little Red Riding Hood. Hyman illustrated over 150 books over the course of her career. Still, that never kept her from being an incredibly prolific artist! She preferred to work on one book at a time so that she could preserve the ‘mood’ of that story. She liked to work slowly and deliberately, taking about six months to finish illustrations for each book. The same store appears fondly on a wintery CRICKET Magazine cover! A life-long lover of nature, having peace, quiet, and space for a garden was important to her. Her favorite story as a little girl was Little Red Riding Hood, and she even took to wearing a red cape for a whole year!Īlthough she had little money when she first arrived in Lyme, she survived off of home-grown vegetables and credit at the Lyme Country Store. 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The first of four Four stories in Four is "The Transfer." Four, then just known as boring ol' Tobias, goes through his aptitude test, just like Tris (then just known as boring ol' Beatrice) did at the beginning of Divergent. Three take place Before Divergent (BD), one takes place during Divergent (DD), and then there are three short scenes featuring interactions between Tris and Four, but told from Four's POV. Four is made up of four – count 'em-four (4) long-ish short stories set in the Divergent world. Īnnounced in October 2017, Big Finish confirmed that River Song would return for a fourth and fifth series to be released in 20 respectively. The third series, announced September 2017, features an encounter with the Fifth Doctor with Frances Barber reprising her role of Madame Kovarian. The second series of The Diary of River Song features encounters with both the Sixth and Seventh Doctors. River would appear, again, alongside The Eighth Doctor starting with Doom Coalition 2 and concluding in Doom Coalition 4. The Rulers of the Universe, the fourth episode of Series 1, sees River crossing paths with the Eighth Doctor, a still younger incarnation. The series is one of the first to prominently feature elements from the revived era (2005 on) of the show the character of River Song was introduced in " Silence in the Library" (2008) as a time traveller with a mysterious connection to the Tenth Doctor, who does not recognize her. Alex Kingston reprises her character River Song from the television series Doctor Who. The Diary of River Song is an audio play series from Big Finish Productions. In this scathing indictment of Venetian Jews who had embraced Kabbalah as an authentic form of ancient esotericism, Modena proved the recent origins of Kabbalah and sought to convince his readers to return to the spiritualized rationalism of Maimonides. Drawing on a range of previously unexamined sources, this book tells the story of the first criticism of Kabbalah, Ari Nohem, written by Leon Modena in Venice in 1639. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. How the Jewish culture war over Kabbalah began The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. What resulted from their time together is a 72-minute conversation. Packer about life, doctrine, and ministry. Pastor John traveled to Vancouver to interview Dr. Packer talked about the preciousness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.Īnd those shared convictions bring us back to an earlier date five years ago. Friends close to him in his final weeks and days and hours on this earth confirmed the very same. Packer’s formal ministry had ended and he would no longer preach or teach or write books or articles, he wanted Pastor John to know that the shared convictions he had with us, the convictions that drove his public ministry - convictions about Christ and imputation and personal holiness and the nature of Scripture - those were all convictions he was still clinging to privately. I wanted to voice my gratitude to God for his life and ministry.Īlthough Dr. However, I knew the end of the third call would be my final time speaking with him. These were not formal interviews, just informal chats. I had a short list of topics I wanted to talk with him about over the telephone, and he very kindly agreed to a series of three telephone calls to answer various questions I had about the Puritans, and specifically his thoughts on Puritan theologian Thomas Goodwin. It was about a year ago that we began to get updates indicating that his race on earth was nearing its end. Many began as experiments for the purpose of chemical warfare, or they are chemical offshoots, distant cousins, of such chemicals. The people had done it to themselves.”Ĭarson then takes us through the history and chemical nature of many of the commonly used chemical pesticides. In a Hitchcockian tone, she shares, “No Witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. Slowly, the wildflowers wilt, and the songbirds are silenced. Yet, this Edenic landscape soon turns as undiagnosed blight infests the land. Silent Spring begins with an idyllic American community, one filled with wildflowers and songbirds, along with fruitful trees and bountiful harvests. Published in 1962, it helped give birth to the modern environmental movement by alerting the American public to the dangers of broadly used chemicals like the insecticide DDT. Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson, is a conservationist’s bible, and for good reason. Rather than going the route of an anonymous sperm donor, she wants to share custody her child having a father is important to her given her own upbringing. After achieving vast financial success, she wants for nothing save a baby. Both the hero and heroine were magnets for exhausting levels of drama and an assortment of garbage people, but that didn’t stop me from losing precious sleep finishing this book. And honestly, the pregnancy plot doesn’t rank high on my issues with this book. Baby plots aren’t my bag, but I was willing to overlook that for the sake of A FREAKING BILLIONAIRE HEROINE. I checked daily for weeks before the gods took pity on me. I began repeatedly stalking NetGalley offerings. Archetype: Billionaire, Diverse ProtagonistsĪll I needed to know is that this book had a billionaire heroine with a smattering of enemies-to-lovers. |