She is President of the Center for Partnership Studies and has received many honors, including honorary Ph.D. She keynotes conferences worldwide, with venues including the United Nations General Assembly and the US Department of State. degrees, the Alice Paul ERA Education Award, and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award, and is featured in the award-winning book Great Peacemakers as one of 20 leaders for world peace, along with Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, and Mar Riane Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade, now in 26 foreign editions and celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new 2017 epilogue in its 57th US printing, as well as for other award-winning books. Riane Eisler is internationally known for her bestseller The Chalice and The Blade, now in 26 foreign editions and celebrating its 30th anniversary with a new 2017 epilogue in its 57th US printing, as well as for other award-winning books.
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Newport Crown Court heard former special constable Oliver has a previous conviction for forgery as part of a £3m sponsorship con on rally driver Colin McRae as well as a previous conviction for a VAT scam.Īndrew Davies, prosecuting, told the court that 44-year-old Oliver was living two separate "fantasy lives". Oliver went to extraordinary lengths to create the persona of being a captain, including dressing the part and forging company documents, and then used that bogus job to scam people out of almost a third of a million pounds by claiming he could arrange cheap cruises to exotic locations. While he told his wife he was involved in a number of successful businesses which required him to travel overseas he told his partner he worked for Carnival – the parent company of P&O – as a cruise ship captain. Jody Oliver would live with his wife and children during the week then with his partner – a man he had met on a dating website – at the weekends using the name Jonathan. A callous conman was leading two separate "fantasy lives", telling his wife he was a successful businessman and his fiancé he was a captain of a luxury cruise ship. "When I look back, recognize how much discordance there was between what I wanted and what responses were coming out of my mouth. But behind closed doors, McCurdy details her actions as manipulative. McCurdy describes her mother as layered and complicated charismatic, captivating and infectious. "I just remember my whole life being sort of oriented to her and orchestrated around her and what she wanted and what she needed and what would make her happy in any moment," McCurdy told Q. "I think that she saw an opportunity in me and kind of saw a way of maybe fulfilling her dreams," she said. McCurdy told Q being a child star was 'severely unhealthy.' (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Nickelodeon)īut McCurdy said she never wanted to be an actor – this was her mother's dream. 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The site navigation utilizes arrow, enter, escape, and space bar key commands. The earth's fate rests in Mia and Jules's hands in the epic conclusion to New York Times best-selling authors Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner's tomb-raiding sci-fi duology. From the mountains of Spain to the streets of Prague, the sequel to Unearthed is a white-knuckle ride that will send readers hurtling back to earth, and leave them breathless until the last page. Trapped aboard the Undying's ancient spaceship and reeling from what they've learned there, scavenger Mia and academic Jules are plunged into a desperate race to warn their home planet of the danger humanity's greed has unleashed. Related Posts: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1), Gemina (The Illuminae Files #1), Unearthed (Unearthed #1), These Broken Stars (These Broken Stars #1), Obsidio (The Illuminae Files #3) Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Time Travelįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Source: Received from the publisher for review purposes What it keeps are things that would be familiar even to people who’ve never read Melville’s classic- names like Ishmael, Queequeg, Ahab, and Starbuck, a hunting ship called the Pequod, a great white beastie, and Ahab’s burning obsession with said beastie.Earth is dying. Thankfully, this book dispenses with all of what made Moby Dick a terribly boring read to a twelve-year-old me- the chapters on marine life, whaling technicalities, and cetology in specific. Thankfully, this book dispenses with all of what made Moby Dick a terribly boring read to a twelve-year-old me- the chapters on marine life, whaling technicalities, andĬretacea is a re-imagining of Melville’s Moby Dick, set in Earth’s dark future. Cretacea is a re-imagining of Melville’s Moby Dick, set in Earth’s dark future. Aside from the brilliant story, the cover was absolutely beautiful. If I could give this captivating read more than 5 stars, it ranks as one of the few books, I would do so. It was something fresh and innovative, with an unexpected surprise ending. Strasser’s Beast of Cretacea is one thrilling ride from start to finish. 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One even quit her job so she could help full time. My older sisters all flew into town to care for our mom. There’s pride to be had in it and bitter judgement for those who don’t participate (unless they’re male, which is a different matter entirely). Caring for our elders is an important part of Vietnamese culture. But I didn’t feel like I could talk about it. In both cases, my mental health deteriorated to the point where I often cried through the night and fantasized about escape by any means. The resulting situation was profoundly heartbreaking to witness. In contrast, as my mother was losing her battle with lung cancer years later, she was desperate to survive, while in intense pain and in deep denial about the reality of her condition. Like Anna’s father, my grandma suffered from a serious stroke that paralyzed half her body, leaving her bedridden, dependent on others for all her needs, and completely devoid of the will to live. The few illustrations throughout the book also kept my attention. I also felt like the descriptions were vivid enough that I could imagine myself there. I loved that at the end of each chapter, they left cliff hangers that kept me wanting to find out what would happen next. Last semester, I was introduced into the Magic Tree House series, but I never finished an entire tree house book with a class. They're just very well done and a great support to these wonderful stories. They add so much to the stories, to see how the kids are dressed or what the fantastical creatures look like. I've always liked the images in the MTH books, but the Merlin Mission books seem to have more frequent and more detailed pictures. The illustrations in the Merlin Missions have been really great as well. Jack and Annie are getting old fast, it's been a year a a half since the Merlin Missions began. Maybe reading stories like this helps that along. On the other hand, sometimes things come out of my guys' mouths that are so sweet and perceptive that I am truly humbled. Sometimes these kids seem impossibly wise. Such a great fantasy at any age, who wouldn't want to try that? Plus another very exciting transformation (ravens and flying in the last book) into seals swimming in the sea. I love the mythology! What a fun way to introduce kids to selkies and King Arthur's sword and more. The pressure was on to prove him wrong, which she set out to do with a mixture of ambition and wounded self-confidence. When Jack Kelly reluctantly agreed to let Grace enter the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, he was openly skeptical of her future as an actress. The reason, according to her brother, was that “she got away from home early.”īut it seems she never really got away. Although he judged Grace the least likely to succeed, she turned out to be the only real achiever. Like Joseph Kennedy, he was a philanderer who preached family values and a formidable patriarch who brought up his children to become all-American winners. Her father, Jack Kelly, came from a poor Irish-American family in Philadelphia, but by the time Grace was born in 1929 he made his first $1 million in the construction business and built a 17-room mansion in the fashionable hillside suburb of East Falls. Pressure that began in childhood and never really let up. The story of her life, as Robert Lacey so convincingly tells it, is of Grace under pressure. |