Huntington's 1968 political science classic, Political Order in Changing Societies, a book Fukuyama regards as quintessential reading for anyone seeking a roadmap to political development in the western world. First, he wanted to update the information in Samuel P. In the preface, Fukuyama explains his twofold motivation for writing the book. In 2014, Fukuyama released a sequel entitled Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day. Fukuyama's findings better illuminate why so many of the United States' modern state building efforts, from Iraq to Somalia, have largely failed by examining the historical context for these failures. In his nonfiction book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011), American political scientist and economist Francis Fukuyama explores the components of what it takes for a state to maintain its political stability.
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6/7/2023 0 Comments The game straussI had fantasized about an incredible seductive energy entering my body like a lightning bolt, suddenly making me irresistible. Since adolescence, whenever I'd had the opportunity to make a wish ( on an eyelash, a digital clock at 11:11, an ever-increasing number of birthday candles), thrown in with the usual pleas for world peace and personal happiness, I'd ask for the ability to attract any woman I wanted. We lay on the floor for 2 hours talking about the game and our progress. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince – to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year. And then things really start to get strange – and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year – guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. They live together in houses known as Projects. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. 6/7/2023 0 Comments Clean by David SheffLearn more about Sheff and his books at the author’s website. Its publication led Sheff on a mission to determine why America is losing its war against drugs and so many of its children in the process, which culminated with Clean. Sheff is also the author of the memoir Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction, an award-winning, New York Times bestseller that recounts Sheff’s struggle to help his son Nic overcome his methamphetamine addiction. Sheff rejects the stigmatization of drug use and calls for a new approach that treats use and addiction for what it is: a health crisis. 1, at noon in the Faculty Conference Room.īased on the latest research in psychology, neuroscience and medicine, Clean’s premise is that drug use is preventable and addiction is a preventable, treatable disease. The 2016 Campus Read Event will take place Tuesday, Nov. Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy by David Sheff is the selection for UMass Medical School’s fourth annual Diversity Campus Read. 6/7/2023 0 Comments Zarathustra nietzscheAfter the tight-rope walker dies, Zarathustra carries his corpse away from the town and buries it. Suddenly, the tight-rope walker, startled by a mocking buffoon, falls off his rope. However, the people just laugh at Zarathustra. Man is something that should be overcome.” The Superman, a more mentally and spiritually evolved version of humankind, is the meaning of life the people should believe in him instead of in heavenly hopes. He tells them, “I teach you the Superman. He ventures down the mountain into a forest, where he’s surprised to encounter an old saint who doesn’t yet know that “God is dead.”Īrriving at a town, Zarathustra addresses the people who are assembled for a tight-rope walker’s performance. After 10 years of solitude, he emerges from his cave, wanting to descend to humanity in order to bestow his wisdom. Zarathustra, a 30-year-old sage and prophet, has retreated into the mountains. The Seven Seals (or: The Song of Yes and Amen). In the end, Calder won me over with his vulnerability and willingness to step out of his comfort zone for Felix. I think it has to do with Calder's character development from book one, but that is just a hunch. I thought the initial gambling set up was a little weird, especially since it wasn't that important to Calder in the end. I'm a sucker for intellect, what can I say! I thought that Felix was a loving person and a compassionate parent, though I think he made it a little too hard for Calder to get to know him. It is very easy to just jump right in to the story, even though I'm sure reading book one would have given me a bit of background.Īs someone who is in the medical field, I love when we get a doctor MC. I'm very pleased to report that Sink or Swim, the second in the series, is a total winner.įor those series-skippers, don't worry about reading book one first if you are interested in this one. I think that Annabeth Albert is at her best when she is writing military men, and so I was beyond excited to read her new Shore Leave series. If they were partial to The Wizard of Oz they could do as Salman Rushdie did when he wrote Haroun and the Sea of Stories. If they were Alice in Wonderland fans they might go the route of Neil Gaiman's Coraline. When an author wants to write their first fantasy novel for children, they'll sometimes fall back on the books they themselves loved as kids. Overall, this book is a must-read fantasy book! I’m already looking forward to reading this again. Where the Mountain Meets to Moon has a lot of short chapters and short paragraphs which keeps the story flowing. Look at that cover! It is one of the most beautiful covers that I have ever seen. It has several stories within the main story teaching a moral lesson, many of them very beautiful. It has all of the things that I love: great storytelling, strong female characters doing important things (not talking about boys), incredibly moving, imaginative, and original. This is the first fantasy book that I have ever read that has made me cry multiple times. Along the way, she will meet a variety of characters including a dragon. Her father fills Minli with tales, and one day Minli goes on an epic quest to find The Old Man of the Moon to change her fortune. Her family just barely has enough rice, and her mother is always sighing with discontent. Minli, a young girl, toils relentlessly every day, working the unforgiving, barren land, and making dinner for her family. 6/6/2023 0 Comments School Spirit 1989 by XParamount+ is a trademark of Paramount Pictures. Awesomeness, ATV, School Spirits and all related titles, logos and characters are trademarks of AwesomenessTV. Photo Cr: Paramount + © 2023 AwesomenessTV Holdings, LLC. SCHOOL SPIRITS: “My So-Called Death”- Pictured: Peyton List as Maddie, Spencer MacPherson as Xavier and Nick Pugliese as Charley in season 1, episode 1 of the Paramount+ series SCHOOL SPIRITS. School Spirits episode 1 ending explained: “My So-Called Death” Now onto what happened in School Spirits episodes 1-3. Here at Hidden Remote, we’ll be answering season 1’s big questions each week. The first three premiered on March 9 and viewers can anticipate weekly releases on Thursday until the season finale on April 13. We’ll be on this journey with her friends, both dead and alive, for eight episodes. She wants to find out who killed her and won’t rest until that mystery is solved. Maddie, however, isn’t interested in passing on to the other side. The students who’ve perished on school grounds now live out existence trapped on campus as they try to move on to what’s next in the great here after. School Spirits, Paramount+’s new paranormal series has made its debut! The show revolves around the murder of Maddie Nears, a teen girl who wakes up in a boiler room only to find out that’s the scene of the crime where she was killed for reasons unknown.ĭeath has introduced her to Split River High’s liminal space, where the living and the dead co-exist but only the dead are aware of the living’s presence. 6/6/2023 0 Comments Brideshead bookHe injured himself in a parachuting accident in 1944 and, during his recovery period, wrote Brideshead Revisited. Waugh served in World War II but was undisciplined and unsuited to military life. In 1930, Waugh converted to Catholicism and married Laura Herbert. He became a war correspondent, covering events in Africa and South America and travelling extensively during this period. Waugh began to gain a reputation as a writer and worked for several well-known magazines and newspapers. At the end of this year, Waugh married Evelyn Gardner, but the couple separated two years later. Shortly after this, his comedic satire, Decline and Fall, also went into print. His first book, based on the life of the painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was published in 1927. Waugh did not complete his degree at Oxford, and instead enrolled in art school, which he also did not complete. During this period, he had several homosexual relationships. Instead, he gained a notorious reputation for his drinking and his sardonic, unconventional approach to politics and culture. He received a scholarship to attend Oxford University but studied little during his time there. Waugh was a clever and inventive child, writing short stories and plays from a young age. Waugh’s family moved to the nearby countryside in 1907, and Waugh enjoyed his childhood in this idyllic setting. Evelyn Waugh was born to wealthy parents in 1903 in London. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Fire & Fury by K. de LongThe 34-page Great Western Battles Scenario Book (1992) contains simulations of the Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Stones River, Champion Hill, Chickamauga, and Atlanta. This game was also the first to introduce modelled status markers to mark units that are disordered, low on ammunition, etc. The movement and morale system also introduces random elements to movement and morale, based on a unit's experience and casualty-induced battle fatigue. Ten-sided dice are used to introduce randomness to the battlefield to simulate the fog of war at the brigade level. The game uses a map scale of one inch to 45 or 60 yards, and a time scale of 20–30 minutes of real time per complete turn. Casualty losses are calculated per 150 or 200 soldiers. The rules are designed for 15 mm figures, which represent brigades - 4–6 single battalion regiments, or a brigade of cavalry, or 6–8 artillery pieces. The first edition of Fire and Fury describes rules for miniatures wargames that simulates battles of the American Civil War at the tactical (brigade) level. In 2010, a second edition of the game, also written by Hasenauer, was published by Fire and Fury Games.ĭescription First edition Two years later, a book of western battle scenarios was published. Over 10,000 copies of the book were sold. Hasenauer and published as a 96-page hardcover book in 1990 by Dave Waxtel and Quantum Publishing. Fire and Fury is a miniatures wargame about the American Civil War.įire and Fury, a miniatures wargame that simulates battles of the American Civil War, was designed by Richard W. 6/5/2023 0 Comments Matrix lauren groff reviewA woman mountain with no beauty or grace, she is a bastard with only a grudging acceptance at the English court. Marie is a force of nature in a world of faith. This is my first Groff novel and I would definitely read more by her □□ I did finish thinking I had learned something about the 12th Century which is always a bonus for me □ Definitely more of a character than plot driven book. It felt like a lot of action happened at the start and dragged near the end. The story was easy to read, yet I would say I preferred the first half of the book to the last half. Marie was a strong character, and I enjoyed reading about the female relationships in the book, particularly Eleanor her sister in law. I liked the writing style - very atmospheric, bleak and descriptive of the harsh setting and also the characters were intriguing and well developed. The story is inspired by the life of Marie de France, a 12th-century poet and translator of Aesop’s Tales, and you can tell it’s been heavily researched. Definitely for fans of historical fiction and maybe because I haven’t read this genre for while, I really got into it. Picked up Matrix by Lauren Groff as it’s July fiction book of the month and I enjoyed it. |