![]() ![]() ![]() In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic.Īs psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, The Witches is Stacy Schiff’s account of this fantastical story - the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Presents an historical analysis of the Salem witch trials, examining the factors that may have led to the mass hysteria, including a possible occurrence of. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some locations provide incredible returns, while others make it almost impossible to find a single property that profits. Real estate investing is one of the greatest vehicles to build wealth, but it doesn’t make sense in every market. David Osborn, bestselling author of Wealth Can’t WaitĪre you interested in real estate, but you live in a hot market that is not suited for buy and hold investing? Do you want to take advantage of wealth-building opportunities, but that seems impossible until the next market crash? David Greene has put that myth to rest…This is a must-read for investors who want to expand their real estate empire nationwide.” ”It is a common misperception in real estate investing that you should buy only where you live. 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We aim to process and dispatch our orders within 24 hours. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here, almost as a blog post festschrift as a long-time reader of his works, I want to briefly write about how Sowell’s voluminous writings on visions, law, race, and economics could be the basis for a positive agenda to achieve a greater measure of racial justice in the United States. His ability to look at issues with an international perspective, using the analytical tools of economics to better understand institutions, is an inspiration to us at the International Center for Law & Economics. ![]() He received a National Humanities Medal in 2002 for a lifetime of scholarship, which has only continued since then. He has been a professor of economics and a long-time Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. In his long and distinguished career, Thomas Sowell has written over 40 books and countless opinion columns. ![]() One of the great scholars of law & economics turns 90 years old today. ![]() ![]() Through scandal, betrayal, heartbreak, and tragedy, she is tested again and again. Yet some challenges are impossible to prepare for. ![]() Behind closed doors, she astutely manages their expanding household and assists her husband with his political writings. In the new capital, Eliza becomes an adored member of society, respected for her fierce devotion to Hamilton as well as her grace. But it is in the aftermath of war, as Hamilton becomes one of the country’s most important figures, that she truly comes into her own They marry quickly, and despite the tumult of the American Revolution, Eliza is confident in her husband and in her role as his helpmate. ![]() But no visitor to her parents’ home has affected her so strongly as Alexander Hamilton, a charismatic, ambitious aide to George Washington. The strong-willed, heroic wife of Alexander Hamilton tells her story in this historical novel by the bestselling author of The Secret Wife of Aaron Burr.Īs the daughter of a respected general, Elizabeth Schuyler is accustomed to socializing with dignitaries and soldiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Readers also get to score themselves on self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. If you have taken the test, you can compare your score to the charts provided and the scenarios. Then, you read what their coworkers say about them based on how they handle difficulties at work. In the scenarios, you read about an individual with different emotional intelligence scores in a working environment. Travis and Jean show readers what emotional intelligence looks like through scenarios and testimonials. I did not take the test, but I think you can get a lot of valuable information from reading the book alone. Emotional intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves is a book that aligns with the emotional intelligence test. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Zeph shares his theories with his friends and family, it's no surprise that no one else believes him. Zeph is convinced that Eve is a Celestia Divisa, but she's completely unaware of their existence, and she doesn't seem to have a gift, either. Besides being brilliant, beautiful, and way out of Zeph's league, Eve is an intriguing mystery that Zeph can't resist trying to unravel. Suddenly, Zeph's quirks start to look more like rare supernatural gifts, instead. After 17 years of insignificance, Zeph has given up on ever gaining the approval of his family and community, but when Zeph meets Eve, she sees value in him that no else has. As the first double Divisa born in 20 years, everyone expected his supernatural gift to be extraordinary, but instead he didn't have one at all. Zeph is half angel, half human, and a total disappointment. To fulfill his destiny, he'll have to uncover hers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her instructor asked to show her material to a book agent, Deborah Schneider, and she said yes even though she was far from a complete draft. Reading her material, Story later told her to get writing lessons.įollowing his advice, Weisberger enrolled in a creative writing course and, as could have been predicted, started writing a novel about what she knew, as writing teachers often suggest, and what she thought would be most interesting to others, which was assisting Anna Wintour. Weisberger was “a lovely girl,” she added, but “not a great writer, poor thing.” After being on the job for months, Weisberger asked Richard David Story, an editor who was leaving Vogue for Departures magazine, if she could go be his assistant there. Predictably, Weisberger “couldn’t get any assignments from us,” said Laurie Jones, the managing editor at the time. However, quickly there were worrying signs that Weisberger wasn’t going to work out, the biggest being that she clearly wanted to be a writer.Īssisting Anna wasn’t about being a journalist, it was about delivering hot lattes quickly in high heels. She had just graduated from Cornell, and editor-in-chief Anna Wintour decided to hire her as her assistant. Around Christmas of 1999, Lauren Weisberger rolled into the Vogue office. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two make love, and fall asleep together, with Geralt dreaming of his fight with the monster who wounded him. Wiedźmin "The Voice of Reason" ( Głos rozsądku) Part I - In Ellander's Temple of Melitele, a wounded Geralt is awakened from his slumber by Iola, a mute servant. In 2003, it won the Premio Ignotus for Best Anthology. The Last Wish was first published in English on 7 June 2007 by Gollancz, and has also been translated into several other languages. During that time he has flashbacks to recent events in his life, with each flashback forming a short story. The collection contains seven short stories interspersed with a continuing frame story: Geralt of Rivia, after having been injured in battle, rests in a temple. ![]() Published by SuperNowa in 1993, it was preceded by 1992's Sword of Destiny, but is officially considered the first entry in the series and Sword of Destiny the second. The Last Wish ( Polish: Ostatnie życzenie) is the third published short story collection in Polish fantasy writer Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher series. ![]() ![]() We have our strong-willed, 16-year-old heroine – Maud. So, we have our isolated setting – Wake’s End in the Suffolk countryside, surrounded by a fen. The story unravels so we can discover what happened, then book takes us nicely back to the 60s at the end of the story. Narrated by Edmund’s daughter Maud, who was 16 when he murdered a seemingly random man and was committed to an asylum. Wakenhyrst opens in 1966 and tantalisingly tells of a gruesome event that happened in 1912 at Wake’s End – a grand country house – and ended up with the master of the house, Edmund Stearn, in an insane asylum. Like a witch’s lair in a fairytale the ancient manor house crouches in its tangled garden. Opening sentence: (As a newspaper feature): The Mystery of Edmund Stearne by Patrick Rippon / Only in The Sunday Explorer Magazine. ![]() I was immediately transported into Michelle Paver’s story and loved every page. I love, love, love these stories – of which Wakenhyrst is one. Gothic is a genre that I can just devour. ![]() |