On A Hazy November Afternoon In Rangoon, 1862, A Shrouded Corpse Was Escorted By A Small Group Of British Soldiers To An Anonymous Grave In A Prison Enclosure. With an unsurpassed understanding of British and Indian history, Dalrymple crafts a provocative, revelatory account of one the bloodiest upheavals in history.Īt 4 P.M. Four months later, the British took Delhi, the capital, with catastrophic results. When, in May 1857, Zafar was declared the leader of an uprising against the British, he was powerless to resist though he strongly suspected that the action was doomed. All the while, the British were progressively taking over the Emperor's power. Nonetheless, Zafar-a mystic, poet, and calligrapher of great accomplishment-created a court of unparalleled brilliance, and gave rise to perhaps the greatest literary renaissance in modern Indian history. The last Mughal emperor, Zafar, came to the throne when the political power of the Mughals was already in steep decline. In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj, award-winning historian William Dalrymple uses previously undiscovered sources to investigate a pivotal moment in history.
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One night, a swarm of escaped bees blanket the Village Blend's chimney, and Clare discovers Bea's unconscious body after she seemingly fell from her high-rise rooftop-hive setup. Produced by Madame's old friend "Queen" Bea Hastings, the rare, prize-winning nectar from Bea's rooftop hives commands a premium price, and top chefs compete for a chance to use it in their signature seasonal dishes. The culinary world is also abuzz about the amazing honey that Clare was lucky enough to source for her shop's new latte. Clare plans to serve her outstanding new Honey-Cinnamon Latte at her spring wedding to her longtime honey, NYPD detective Mike Quinn. While struggling to find a romantic (and affordable) destination for her upcoming honeymoon, coffeehouse manager Clare Cosi whips up a sweet new drink made from honey-processed coffee. Clare Cosi is busy as a bee planning her honeymoon when murder buzzes into the Village Blend in this all-new mystery in the beloved New York Times bestselling Coffeehouse series by Cleo Coyle. If you like your movies with a side dish of tissues, you will love "If Cats Disappeared from the World". However, on the down side, it gets cheesier and cheesier and a little bit of a tearjerker along the way, stretching the story a little bit thin. It has its heart in the right place, and reminds the viewer that we are not alive just because we eat and sleep. The movie touches on what makes us human and relate to each other. Of course, he learns a couple of things along the way. The narrator can extend his life by a day in exchange for making something disappear from the world. He is approached by the Devil, who makes him an offer (which the Devil is expected to do). It is not the things that may disappear, but how they help him to connect with the rest of the world. If Cats Disappeared From the World is about the narrator who has recently found out that he is incurably ill and he only has a limited time left. From here on we have our hero, played with a touch of naivety and innocence by Takeru Satoh, learning about the importance of relationships and people in life. And then offers him a bargain: the creature will give him an extra day to live in exchange for something disappearing from the world. The doppelganger tells him he is going to die the following day. Surprised, he strikes a conversation with this being, not knowing if it is a devil or what. However, when he arrives at home, he finds someone waiting for him. Reviewed by tenshi_ippikiookami 6 / 10 We would have no catsĪ young man falls from his bike and at the hospital gets the news that he has only, at most, one week to live. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate’s the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams… Contrary to popular belief, Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes to not make the best husbands–and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. Anthony Bridgerton hasn’t just decided to marry–he’s even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield–the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better… –Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, April 1814 But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. 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A Jacksonville Jaguar is murdered, he has a real jaguar and is the governor's son. Just read Laura Morrigan's "Woof at the Door." It's set in Jacksonville with an interesting main character with a gift that is a burden. If all government computer systems are hardened and all non-military targets are soft, retaliation for a cyber attack will fall most heavily on you and me, not on the government. In that respect, the book is alarming.Īt the same time, the book can leave you with the impression that the American government as the world's most aggressive cyber warrior may be making the American civilian population the most tempting targets in a cyberwar. It explains how logic bombs, bot-nets, directed denial of service attacks, packet sniffers, trap doors and zero-day attacks on computers work. He was the counter-terrorism czar in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and because of his position, he is very concerned about the threats posed to the infrastructure of the United States by cyber-attacks from China, Russia and North Korea. In the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations about domestic interception of email and phone data, I decided to read "Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It" by Richard Clarke. What follows are a few of the recommendations, but you can find more excellent ones on our website, the Opinion Page Blog: /opinion. We asked members for recommendations of their favorite books for summer reading. A spinoff of the Times-Union's Email Interactive Group is our book club. If there is anything surprising about Piketty’s work, considering he is an economist who subscribes to mainstream economic theory, it is that throughout his exhaustive empirical research spanning from the eighteenth century until today, it identifies capitalism as a mechanism that inherently produces inequality. In the context of the ideological emptiness in bourgeois theory created by the Great Recession, it is by no means coincidence that Piketty’s book, which focuses on the dynamics of inequality in the capitalist economy, has become a significant political event, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries, and particularly in the US. According to The Guardian “Carrying it under your arm has, in certain latitudes of Manhattan, become the newest tool for making a social connection among young progressives.” The book that some consider the counterpart of the Fukuyama “moment” that took place more than a decade ago, and which is suggestively known just as “Capital” in the US, has generated an overwhelming variety of reviews from every position of economic theory. Originally published in Ideas de Izquierda 10 Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the 21st Century has reached second place on the Amazon bestsellers list, and third on the The New York Times’ list. Considerations on Thomas Piketty and inequality as manifest destinyĮconomist, Karl Marx Institute - Argentina Non trovo la storia, nel testo, non c'e' continuità. I viaggi: tanti e brevi, pochi giorni invece che mesi e mesi, e forse anche per questo non entra nello spirito del vagabondaggio. E scrive per contratto, a mio avviso, non più per piacere. E forse e' questo il problema: viaggia per scriverne non per viaggiare e ciao spontaneità. Qui l'ispirazione non c'e' proprio più, sparita la leggerezza dalle sue pagine, si trascina faticosamente alla ricerca dell'incontro interessante o della storia curiosa da raccontare. "Prateria" meno scorrevole ma non brutto, già in "Nikawa", secondo me, Least Heat-Moon aveva perso lo smalto. Ho amato molto "Strade blu", letto e riletto con altrettanto piacere a distanza di parecchi anni. Mi abbiocco alla seconda pagina, mi annoio, quando lo riprendo in mano devo rileggere il già letto perché me lo sono scordato. Sono arrivata faticosamente ad un terzo e non riesco ad andare avanti. |