![]() However, it may be difficult to find a more compelling, tension-filled yet clearly applicable business text than Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s book, Extreme Ownership.įormer Navy SEAL officers Willink and Babin, who now run a leadership consultancy called Echelon Front, built on the lessons of their battlefield experiences, base Extreme Ownership on the battle of Ramadi, a major 2006 offensive by allied forces to purge the Al-Qaeda presence in this large Iraqi city. ![]() Transporting military leadership lessons to the business world is not new, as demonstrated by the continuing popularity with managers of The Art of War, a 2000-year-old Chinese treatise on warfare. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() I was a little frustrated at Trella’s continued reluctance and even outright stubbornness to learn anything about her parents. The entire system is run by a family of security specialists, the Travas. The scrubs are those who clean the pipes to keep them running efficiently and there is a very distinct caste system wherein those who are the scrubs who clean the ducts and handle all the laundry are kept separated from the uppers who control the computers and the population. The Inside is set up as a cube and is completely self-sustained. The story revolves around a scrub, Trella, who moves easily through the pipes and air vents of a very controlled area known as Inside. Also, I categorize the books I read based on what I think, not based on where you can find them in the store. I give away the end twists, so if you haven’t read the story, you might not want to read behind the cut. It’s a quick read and an interesting story. Snyder (Science Fiction, 315 pages) at Borders yesterday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. ![]() NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() I think that everyone should read this, especially teenagers. It can help both teachers and parents talk about loss, friendship, and the importance of self-discovery.ĭespite the 16+ rating, I read this book when I was 11 years old. This award-winning book is considered a modern classic and is on many high school reading lists. There's lots of sex (descriptions of heavy kissing, oral sex, groping, references to masturbation, erections, making out, watching pornography), drinking, strong language (including "s-t" and f-k"), and smoking, including of marijuana, but nothing is gratuitous or glamorized. It's the story of a group of fun-loving, rule-breaking teens who are rocked by a tragedy and must process the grief and loss. Printz Award and many other literary awards. Parents need to know that John Green's Looking for Alaska won the Michael J. ![]() ![]() Nor is the constant smoking or references to marijuana.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Lots of underage drinking, fake IDs, drunkenness and hangovers, drunk driving, etc., but it's alcohol is not glamorized. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() The revised edition (2005) contains an additional chapter and "many passages, from a few words up to new chapter-sections, that discuss relevant scientific findings which have emerged since the first edition, or respond to objections made by critics of that edition." Abstract The title, Educating Eve, was dropped after the first edition because the allusion to Educating Rita "was deemed unduly mysterious". Sampson's book is a response to Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct specifically and Chomskyan linguistic nativism broadly. ![]() Sampson explains the original title of the book as a deliberate allusion to Educating Rita (1980), and uses the plot of that play to illustrate his argument. ![]() Revised edition.Įducating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate is a book by Geoffrey Sampson, providing arguments against Noam Chomsky's theory of a human instinct for ( first) language acquisition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Inside Ghost in the Mirror, Rule documents more than dozens of stories of paranormal apparitions that reveal themselves on the other side of the looking glass. Rule has spent more than a decade researching specters and spirits and has chronicled her ghostly tales in three previous titles, Coast to Coast Ghosts, Ghosts Among Us, and When the Ghost Screams. To Leslie Rule, such revelations come as no surprise. More than half the population believes in the spiritual, cosmic, or supernatural. The Gallup Organization reports that more than 32 percent of Americans have seen a ghost. ![]() Meet Leslie Rule-America's real-life ghost hunter with a penchant for sharing authentic, spine-tingling stories of the paranormal. Whether they are bumping about our attics, hitchhiking on a moonlight road, or fraternizing with our reflections, ghosts tantalize us with their secrets." -Leslie Rule ![]() ![]() ![]() and her eyes perceived a faint shadow beneath the door. yes, there wasn’t the slightest doubt, that’s what it was, they were coming closer, closer, slowly and steadily. Strange sounds, unidentified creatures, and the buried returning to life throughout Dávila’s narratives.Īt nearly six in the evening she heard a light rasping sound, something dragging itself across the floor, barely touching the surface she sat still, without breathing. The monster in the basement is alive and well in Dávila’s “Oscar,” but it’s the details of the pharmacies and doctors that make this story resonate with modern readers, eliciting fears of madness that cannot be conquered by contemporary medicine. He had been shouting for hours, howling, ranting, breaking everything within reach in the cellar, furiously shaking the padlocked iron door, throwing the furniture against it. One of the medicines he took, which calmed him down quite a bit, had run out at the pharmacy, and the doctor had substituted another that had little effect on him. ![]() On that day, the sixth of August, Oscar had been unbearable since sunrise. Dávila, whose stories feel both timeless and timely, accomplishes this distress by blending well-known horror tropes with real-world details. ![]() The Houseguest by Amparo Dávila, translated by Audrey Harris & Matthew Gleeson, is a collection of stories so haunting and so tinged with the surreal that it reminds the reader of the pleasure of being scared. ![]() ![]() The final part of the story focuses on the battle in the Vosges forest, where the 442nd fought fiercely to rescue the "lost battalion" of Texans hopelessly cut off by the enemy.īased on extensive research in War Department archives and nearly three hundred interviews with veterans of the 100th and 442nd, Unlikely Liberators first appeared in serialized form in Japan, where it won the Bungeishunjusha Reader's Prize. She recounts their experiences in training and during the early battles in Italy, including the conflicts between Japanese American and Caucasian troops. Masayo Duus begins her story with the formation of the Japanese American units, which were an outgrowth of America's ambivalent attitude toward the entire Japanese American community at the outbreak of the war. ![]() They provided ample evidence of their patriotism to a country that had questioned their loyalty. At the end of the war, the 100th and the 442nd emerged as America's most decorated units. ![]() They nevertheless engaged the enemy with astonishing heroism, winning battle after battle at Anzio, Salerno, Cassino, and in the Vosges Mountains. In the eyes of their own government and the Europeans they liberated, they were an unlikely group of fighting men. Not trusted to fight in the Pacific, these sons of Japanese immigrants were sent instead to the European theater. Unlikely Liberators is the action-filled story of the men of the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carceral feminism has failed us the police can’t protect us. “As a Black feminist organizing against gender-based violence, this book is of profound importance because it argues for an alternate path to eradicating domestic homicide and violence. Insurgent Love traces the major risk factors for domestic homicide within the structures of racial capitalism and suggests transformative, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist approaches for safety, prevention and justice. Describing an experience of domestic homicide in her community and providing a deeply personal analysis of some of the most recent cases of homicide in Canada, the author inhabits the complexity of seeking abolitionist justice. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are situated in settler colonialism and racial capitalism and sees police homicide and domestic homicide as akin. ![]() But through examining commonly accepted typologies of high-risk intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend and provides an abolitionist frame for the most dangerous forms of intimate partner violence. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. Domestic homicide is violence that strikes within our most intimate relations. ![]() |