Beautiful themes of compassion, duty, forgiveness. A thoughtful, moving story that will cause you to pause and think and rejoice without sappy manipulation so common in contemporary children's literature. Members Reviews: Thoughtful story w/ excellent narration After having lived in the Netherlands for several years, I was delighted to enjoy this authentic book with my children. The Verhagen family, who live in the old windmill called the Winged Watchman, are a memorable set of individuals whose lives powerfully demonstrate the resilience of those who suffer but do not lose faith. Every element of occupied Holland is united in a story of courage and hope: a hidden Jewish child, an underdiver, a downed RAF pilot, an imaginative, daring underground hero, and the small things of family life which surprisingly carry on in the midst of oppression. Listen to audiobook in full for free on Title: The Winged Watchman Author: Hilda van Stockum Narrator: John Lee Format: Unabridged Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins Language: English Release date: 03-26-15 Publisher: Bethlehem Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 70 votes Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10 Publisher's Summary: This acclaimed story of World War II is rich in suspense, characterization, plot, and spiritual truth.
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“The police,” he argues, “represent the most direct means by which the state imposes its will on the citizenry. They enforce the class and racial inequalities inherent in the capitalist system. Williams’s main thesis is that the police are, and have always been, an antidemocratic force in society. Kristian Williams’s Our Enemies in Blue, provides a sweeping and compelling account of the rise of the modern, professionalized police force. While neither book is new, both have acquired a practical utility, and are worthy of examination in light of present circumstances. Why does racialized, violent policing exist? Why are the police militarized? Are individual cops workers? Can they be reformed, demobilized, or dissolved altogether? Are there alternatives to the police? Two important books examine these questions, albeit from different perspectives. The Black Lives Matter Movement has exploded in reaction against this system and is propelling many pertinent questions to the fore. From the routinized, extra-judicial murder of people of color to the disruption of protest and the smashing up of labor strikes, the police are the state’s most visible domestic force of repression, superintending the system of mass incarceration commonly referred to as the New Jim Crow. Although police violence has always been pervasive in our society, today’s police forces are quantitatively larger, more intrusive, and more militarized. 5/20/2023 0 Comments The sympathizer book review“I’m very cognizant of the fact that people read “The Sympathizer” as a Vietnam War novel and me as a Vietnamese American writing about the Vietnam War.” “I wasn’t done with his story,” says Nguyen, who joins the Los Angeles Times Book Club on March 10. In Nguyen’s sequel, “The Committed,” his narrator is “still a man of two faces and two minds.” But now he is also “a revolutionary without a revolution,” a refugee in 1980s Paris who is grappling with politics, ideologies, and himself. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s debut novel “The Sympathizer” introduced readers to its unnamed protagonist, a half-Vietnamese, half-French communist double agent navigating life, love, loyalty and espionage in Los Angeles after the fall of Saigon. Get the exact reasons why people fail and others succeedĮxtreme success is by definition outside the realm of normal action. Make the Fourth Degree a way of life and defy mediocrity Learn the "Estimation of Effort" calculation to ensure you exceed your targets Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichŽs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. 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These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. "It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. Professor Blight, thank you so much for joining us.ĭAVID BLIGHT: Thank you so much, Michel. David Blight is with us now to tell us more about why he says that. But he wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post this week saying, don't tear it down. It's the Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park in a residential neighborhood close to Capitol Hill, and it depicts a standing Lincoln towering over a kneeling, shirtless African American man with chains broken, newly freed.Ĭritics say the imagery itself is racist, and David Blight, a professor of history at Yale University, agrees. In Washington, D.C., protesters have been demanding the removal of a monument honoring another former president, Abraham Lincoln. It's just one of the many honors and tributes and memorials being reconsidered now. In a statement, the university's board of trustees said Wilson's, quote, "racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake" - unquote. Princeton University today announced that it will remove former President Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and a residential college. 5/19/2023 0 Comments Swamplandia hboApres sa mort prematuree, l'entreprise sombre dans le chaos et se retrouve a la merci d'un parc concurrent, bien plus moderne, le Monde de l'Obscur. Swanplandia, propriete de la famille Bigtree, a longtemps ete le parc d'attractions le plus celebre de toute la Floride grace a sa vedette, la mere, dompteuse d'alligators de classe internationale. Michael Keefe, Annie Bloom's Books, Portland, OR Michael Keefe, Annie Bloom's Books, Portland, OR Summer 2012 Reading Group Karen Russell's sentences are so beautiful and original, they will leave you breathless!” Kiwi attempts to infiltrate a rival amusement park, Ossie falls in love with a ghost, and the story's 13-year-old narrator, Ava, wrestles with a force more fearsome than gators: the loss of innocence. Dad heads to the mainland to find investors, while his three teenagers are left to deal with their losses. When the mom and star of the show dies, the Bigtree way of life unravels. “Located in the Florida Everglades, the Swamplandia island theme park is also home to the Bigtrees, a family of alligator wrestlers. 5/19/2023 0 Comments Superintelligence bookJust three centuries ago, labor was almost exclusively manual nowadays, there are robots manufacturing self-driving electric vehicles 24 hours a day. This kind of growth rate seems fantastic by any standard. Today, following the Industrial Revolution, the world economy grows on average by that amount every ninety minutes.” By 5.000 B.C., following the Agricultural Revolution, the rate of growth had increased to the point where the same amount of growth took just two centuries. “A few hundred thousand years ago,” says Bostrom, putting things into perspective, “growth was so slow that it took on the order of one million years for human productive capacity to increase sufficiently to sustain an additional one million individuals living at subsistence level. So, get ready to discover whether superintelligent robots will roam the earth sometime during your lifetime and, if so, what should programmers do now to prevent them from annihilating humanity in the future! Growth modes and big historyįor long periods of time, humanity developed at an extremely slow pace. But is AI the future of our species, or its inevitable demise? Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom investigates this question thoroughly in “Superintelligence,” one of the finest books on the subject. “AI,” the acronym for artificial intelligence, is currently the hottest buzzword in tech. 5/19/2023 0 Comments Levi ward love on the brainAnd the possibilities have all her neurons firing. Perhaps it’s her occipital cortex playing tricks on her, but Bee could swear she can see Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas…devouring her with those eyes. Now, her equipment is missing, the staff is ignoring her, and Bee finds her floundering career in somewhat of a pickle. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school-archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. And sure, he caught her in his powerfully corded arms like a romance novel hero when she accidentally damseled in distress on her first day in the lab. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the U.S. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. About the Author: Ali Hazelwood is the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project-a literal dream come true after years scraping by on the crumbs of academia-Marie would accept without hesitation. 5/19/2023 0 Comments Under Parr by Andrea BramhallThe author made Genna more plump and ordinary than we're used to in this genre. There are a few things that make this read fresh and unconventional. Genna and Abi's chemistry is electric and it's fun to watch them together. In other words, I could see their issues playing out in real life. Both are smitten for each other but both feel it's inappropriate to act on the feelings due to real obstacles, not throwaway ones that sometimes get inserted to force conflicts in a story. Abi is fourteen years Genna's senior, a single mother of a young girl with Down Syndrome, and she's just as smart and witty. Genna is a character having a great heart, a backbone, and plenty of sarcasm/wit. And *yes* this hit that perfect sweet spot! I actually started this as a new book to read on my exercise bike and ended up needing to finish it before the night was over.so I basically read it in one sitting. I wanted something funny, that wasn't too dramatic but not necessarily fluff, either.and it definitely needed two likable leads that *hopefully* ::blowing on the dice and rolling it:: wouldn't be insta-love. I'll tell you what I was looking for when I picked this out. |