![]() ![]() ![]() Neither can stand the thought of either Heaven or Hell winning the final war, so in the back room of Aziraphale’s London bookshop, they decide they’ll try to stop it from happening by intervening in the Antichrist’s childhood. After completing this task, Crowley alerts Aziraphale. It’s up to him to deliver the Antichrist (the son of Satan who will usher in Armageddon) to a hospital to be switched with a human baby. Because of this, Crowley is distraught when he receives word that Armageddon (the end of the world, which will user in a war between Heaven and Hell) is upon them. Crowley thinks it’s silly that God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden for eating from the Tree of Knowledge-and Aziraphale, being thoughtful and generous, admits that he gave his flaming sword to Adam and Eve so they can protect themselves.Īfter this, Crowley and Aziraphale spend the next 6,000 years on Earth and come to love it. ![]() The demon serpent Crowley and the angel Aziraphale sit outside of the Eastern Gate. ![]()
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![]() Member of the team that built the Macintosh system software and a keyĬreator of is radical user interface, was one of the chosen few who worked The stories in the book come on good authority: Hertzfeld, a core Skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984 andīeyond. Revolution in the Valley answers these questions as it traces theĭevelopment of the Macintosh, from its inception as an underground Who developed this revolutionary computer? EveryĬomputer today is basically a Macintosh, a very different type of computerįrom those that preceded it. "The development of the Macintosh computer was one of these events. Writes Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, in his foreword to the book. Things get invented that shape the lives of humans for hundreds of years," "There are occasionally short windows in time when incredibly important US $24.95, hardcover) takes readers into the hallways and backrooms ofĪpple, to where the groundbreaking Macintosh computer was born. ![]() Told byĪndy Hertzfeld, co-creator of the Mac, Revolution in the Valley (O'Reilly, ![]() Insanely great.Īnd equally great is the story of how the Mac came into being. Over the years, but as a computer, it's undeniably great. User interface has influenced the direction of software development on all ![]() Sebastopol, CA-Mac users tend to be passionate about their machines.Īnd why not? From the start, it's been special. ![]() ![]() ![]() If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have been feeling like that I should have laughed at him but there was the fact. I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. I returned from the City about three o’clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life. ![]() The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist 7. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman 6. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate 5. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper 4. ![]() This little volume is the result, and I should like to put your name on it in memory of our long friendship, in the days when the wildest fictions are so much less improbable than the facts.Ģ. During an illness last winter I exhausted my store of those aids to cheerfulness, and was driven to write one for myself. You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the ‘dime novel’ and which we know as the ‘shocker’–the romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of the possible. ![]() ![]() Today’s successful careers are not planned out in advance. If you do that, you can transform yourself from an ordinary worker into an outstanding performer. ![]() Instead, concentrate on improving the skills you have and accepting assignments that are tailored to your individual way of working. He challenges each of us to ask ourselves: What are my strengths? How do I perform? What are my values? Where do I belong? What should my contribution be? Don’t try to change yourself, Drucker cautions. But, Drucker says, very few people actually know-let alone take advantage of-their fundamental strengths. ![]() It may seem obvious that people achieve results by doing what they are good at and by working in ways that fit their abilities. ![]() And we have to stay mentally alert and engaged during a 50-year working life, which means knowing how and when to change the work we do. We have to place ourselves where we can make the greatest contribution to our organizations and communities. What does that mean? As Peter Drucker tells us in this seminal article first published in 1999, it means we have to learn to develop ourselves. Today we must all learn to manage ourselves. Throughout history, people had little need to manage their careers-they were born into their stations in life or, in the recent past, they relied on their companies to chart their career paths. ![]() ![]() By 2015, when Hamilton: An American Musical opened at New York City's Public Theater, "My Shot" had become the opening salvo to a projection of the nation's origins and its identity, set to the cadences of hip-hop and R&B, and performed by actors of African American and Hispanic descent. The following spring at a White House event celebrating poetry and the arts, Miranda performed "My Shot," a song that serves as Hamilton's declaration of intent. Miranda, himself the child of Puerto Rican immigrants who had achieved professional success in the United States, saw in Chernow's book a distinctly American story, an immigrant striver's story. ![]() But the sympathetic study, which recounted the personal and political ascent of a West Indian émigré from a nondescript childhood to his death in a duel, resonated. The 800-page biography of the first Secretary of the Treasury might have seemed like strange candidate for a beach read. By now, we all know the story: In 2008, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a twenty-eight-year-old composer, lyricist, and performer, fresh from his Broadway hit In the Heights, took Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton on vacation to Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() As for me, it's just another book which makes me feel like a black sheep. It happened with a lot of my bookworm-friends. If you are a fan of young adult paranormal romance novels and cliches I mentioned do not bother you, then Existence might end up on your favorites shelf. Maybe it's there but all those cliches are blocking me from feeling it.Įxistence ends with a lot of suspense and a cliffhanger but I think I am going to spare myself and skip reading the rest of this trilogy. ![]() But for some reason this didn't happen with Existence. I have read some contemporary romance novels by Abbi Glines before and thought about her as an author who can really transfer passion and love between characters to the pages of her novels. ![]() It's insta-love! It's dramatic! Oh, whom will she choose?!?! No, it's not obvious at all. To make it worse, the romance of course had to be a love triangle with two handsome and popular boys, Dank and Leif, fighting for Pagan. Except she is exceptionally beautiful (but is not aware of it), everyone comments about her wonderful & caring personality (but she is quick to form judgement based on prejudice) and is part of ordinary small group of friends (who just happen to be richest girl in town and best athlete in school - yeah real outcasts.). ![]() For start we have a heroine Pagan, who is just an ordinary girl. It is glimpses into Leifs point-of-view during both Existence and Predestined. While I read Existence I had a feeling that someone gave Abbi Glines a list of cliches that irritate me the most in young adult paranormal novels and she used them in this book. I owned her soul.until Death stole her heart.'LEIF is a novella from the Existence series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can read these stories for free on the official Gardner F. By Rod Gray - pseud for Gardner Francis Cooper Fox, an American writer known best for creating. (written under the pen name of, ahem, Rod Gray) and a series featuring Cherry Delight (written under the pen name of Glen Chase).įox also wrote novels featuring (as the website calls them) Tough Guys. It features complete stories.Īmong those novels, there was a series featuring the Lady From L.U.S.T. ![]() There is now an official website about his paperback novels. The lady from L.U.S.T: An espionage novel by Rod Gray Lay Me Odds by Rod Gray The 69 Pleasures by Rod Gray 5 Beds to Mecca by Rod Gray To Russia With L.U.S.T. So the prolific Fox did other writing, including racy spy novels. 18 Works Popularity 81,093 (20 Members) 54 Books 0 Reviews. 9: The Poisoned Pussy by Gray, Rod: Fair- Good Mass Market Paperback 1st Printing. However, during the period Fox worked, comic books didn’t pay that well. 9: The Poisoned Pussy: Solid a light spine roll, creases on the covers and the title page is missing. He also wrote a number of Batman stories and contributed to that character’s mythos.įox also penned a 1961 story where the original Flash met the second Flash, who was introduced in 1956. But in his time, he created many comic book characters, including the original Flash, Hawkman, the Justice Society of America and the Justice League of America. Fox (1911-1986 may not be that well-remembered today. ![]() ![]() ![]() You may share an online condolence Barbara Stover, age 75, of North Branch passed away Monday, Novemat Marlette United Hospice. The Funeral Service will follow at 1:00 pm at Blackburn Chapel-Martin Funeral Home. The family will be present for visitation on Monday, Novemfrom 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at Blackburn Chapel-Martin Funeral Home. She was preceded in death by her parents, and sister, Sandra K. Left to cherish her memory are daughter, Heather (Traci Moss) Stevens sons, Terry Stevens, Rodney Stevens and Timothy (Luanne) Stevens sisters, Patricia Hartwick, Victoria (Duane) Turk, Linda Meshigaud and Cynthia (Don) VanGilder brother, Darwin (Steven Piziks) McClary 2 grandchildren, Lucas and Nicholas Stevens many nephews and nieces. As a 4-H leader she showed dogs, goats, ducks, and turkeys and she enjoyed gardening, growing the largest pumpkins. She had a love for all animals and was a 4-H Leader. ![]() Sue was born on December 21, 1950, the daughter of Douglas and Marion (Daymon) Parks. Sue Ann Stevens, age 65 of Rhome, Texas (formerly of Oxford, Michigan) passed away on Sunday, November 6, 2016. ![]() ![]() Mitchell’s intertextual gamesmanship-the recurring characters and so on-began to seem, as a friend said to me, ‘less like Yoknapatawpha and more like Marvel.’” Garner invokes the comic book publisher pejoratively but I think it’s the reason Mitchell’s enterprise is so unique and captivating. In his review of Slade House in the New York Times, Dwight Garner writes that, “Mr. ![]() And, it seems to me, he’s doing it unlike any other author before him. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet impresses at first for its seemingly radical departure from Mitchell’s other work, and then because it is so fantastic and romantic.īut as I read The Bone Clocks, and his latest novel Slade House, I realized that Mitchell now was after something grander and even more ambitious than any of his individual novels: this guy is going to connect all his books. ![]() Black Swan Green, at the opposite end of the spectrum, impresses with its intimacy and focus its main character, Jason, is one of my very favorite coming-of-age narrators, revealing a Mitchell who can also write tender, true character studies. ![]() Cloud Atlas impresses with the scope of its imagination and ambition. David Mitchell, even to his few detractors, is impressive. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Salharan soldier with no name, no purpose but to kill, he refuses to bend to the Wolf who takes him prisoner and forces upon him a despicable Krian name. Returning home at the end of the year, the Scarlet Army is attacked in the dead of night by a single man who manages to kill hundreds before he is finally captured. War has waged between the three nations for longer than anyone can remember, but no one has held the Regenbogen as well as the notorious Wolf of Kria and his fearsome army. General Dieter von Adolwulf has led the Scarlet Army of Kria to victory for the past decade, holding the infamous field known as the Regenbogen against Kria's hated enemies-the deceptive Illussor and the ruthless Salharans. ![]() |