It will take Susie, the child of a young farmworker, Jim Mackie and his wife, Rose, to break through Miss White’s icy demeanor-but Jim has something in common with Elinor. But the residents of Shacklehurst have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor’s war work had been, or that their mysterious neighbor is haunted by her past. Well she might, as Elinor occupies a “grace and favor” property, a rare privilege offered to faithful servants of the Crown for services to the nation. The private, quiet “Miss White” as Elinor is known, lives in a village in rural Kent, England, and to her fellow villagers seems something of an enigma. This heart-stopping novel, set in Post WWII Britain in 1947, follows the coming of age and maturity of former wartime operative Elinor White-veteran of two wars, trained killer, protective of her anonymity-when she is drawn back into the world of menace she has been desperate to leave behind.Ī reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government. The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine from Jacqueline Winspear, creator of the best-selling Maisie Dobbs series.
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Reframing is not about solving the problem (with either intuition or conscious reasoning) but about defining what exactly is the problem to be solved. Really slow thinking is used in reframing - the process by which we reexamine the parameters, objectives, and assumptions we approach decisions with. Given the way things are going, can managers continue to add value to organizations? Luckily, there’s one cognitive ability where people still have the edge over computers: thinking really slow. In recent studies they proved better than humans at expert tasks such as detecting cancer in computer tomography scans and choosing investment targets. And while humans used to be superior at pattern recognition, which is largely intuitive, computers now can be trained to develop their own intuitions from large masses of data using machine learning. Managers routinely turn to mathematical optimization and simulation to build investment portfolios, make pricing decisions, and understand supply-chain risks. With their raw calculative power, computers easily beat humans in conscious-reasoning tasks, as long as the rules and parameters of the situation are known. Today computers increasingly outperform people in both. It involves two distinct ways of processing information: intuitive and conscious, which the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman labeled thinking fast and slow. Of all the tools managers use to lead their businesses, thinking is the most crucial. Schwab’s work as I’d like (so far only this, Vicious, This Savage Song, and Our Dark Duet). I haven’t had the chance to read as much of V.E. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.” (via Goodreads) Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.Īfter an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. Kell was raised in Arnes-Red London-and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. “ Kell is one of the last Antari-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. So thank you!!īrenda You wrote about themes you know from your life experiences. But the most fun and gratifying have been doing things like this and book clubs, where I get to interact directly with readers. (SO MANY lists!!!!) It’s been really amazing and now that we’re gearing up for paperback publication next April, I’m finding out even more things, which are so exciting and fun. Because I’m new to the writing/book publishing world, I didn’t even know about many of the things that have happened to me, including Book of the Month, Indie Next, Amazon Best of Month, Library Reads, and all the magazines that feature most-anticipated and best-of lists. But it’s one thing to have silly fantasies, and another to actually have so many of them come true. I think all writers dream that their books will find an audience, and I of course did as well. Brenda Let’s start with how all the success of Miracle Creek had felt for?Īngie Thank you so much, Brenda! It’s been more than a little surreal, quite honestly. The authors explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”-the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? What is the nature of reality? Is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion-or does science offer another explanation? In this startling and lavishly illustrated book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about these and other abiding mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by brilliance and simplicity.Īccording to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history. After his father's death when Thackeray was six, however, Thackeray was sent to England, where he was cared for by relatives. The British East India Company was a trading company with political power that reaped high profits from such goods as salt, indigo, and coffee while modernizing India. At the time, India was under the colonial rule of the company, and, indirectly, Great Britain. Unhappy Childhood Spent in Boarding Schools Thackeray was born in Calcutta, India, in 1811, where his father worked as a secretary for the British East India Company. Works in Biographical and Historical Context Anne (1852), a historical novel set in early eighteenth-century England, to be his most well-planned and carefully executed work. Although Vanity Fair has received more critical attention than any of his other works, many regard The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848), a panorama of early nineteenth-century English upper-middle-class society, is generally regarded as Thackeray's masterpiece. Anne (1852)īritish author William Makepeace Thackeray is best known for his satiric sketches and novels of upper- and middle-class English life and is credited with bringing a simpler style and greater realism to the English novel. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (1848) If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity - and own who they really are. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past-and about the future of her people. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities - and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save on e- the historian. Yetu holds the memories for her people - water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners - who live idyllic lives in the deep. The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society - and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’ rap group Clipping. From The Original Series, The Next Generation, Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and Lower Decks, here is a selection of some of the funniest moments, many of which took place on the holodeck or holosuite, where the characters could act out their fantasies in a virtual atmosphere of their choosing. Though the general mood of these series and films may not be considered comedic, the creators have, on occasion, indulged in lighter episodes to give both the actors and the audience a break from all those hardships. On a more personal level, existentialist crises, PTSD, friendships, and relationships create long-lasting attachments between audiences and episodic stories and recurring protagonists, especially those who have made a comeback in recent Star Trek installments. Threats of galactic domination or genocide are always looming, keeping audiences worldwide at the edge of their seats. A science-fiction franchise as monumental as Star Trek, spanning dozens of movies and TV shows, is not lacking in heartbreaking emotional moments, from goodbyes and tragic losses, to prejudice, betrayal, and injustice. Yet despite their aura of otherworldliness, they produce flawed works of art. They also have a strong work ethic and do not value the maudlin. They have their own idea of what makes a movie great. They are unimpressed by Maxim-de-Paris, mostly. The Japanese have a reputation for perfectionism. So a very mixed read for me, but still a very different type of story. There were unusual revelations, surprising reveals but in the end found this at times very good and at times boring. Yet, the stories told by each girl were at times repetitious which is to be expected because many of the details of the murders were the same, but the stories about their lives after the crime and threat, went on too long, at least in my opinion. These novels are told in an very dispassionate voice, which adds to tension the scenarios provoke, and this one also duplicated that tone. This premise sounded equally intriguing and it did start well, with the same creepy overtone but this is where the similarities ended. I read this author's novel Confession last year and found it intriguing, and really loved the insidious nature of evil it depicted. The mother of the girl who does not return, threatens the remaining girls, telling them that by the time the statute of limitations is expired on her daughter's murder, the remaining girls must either write a confession or perform an act of penance. Five ten year old friends go to, their school to play, only four will return alive. |