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![]() It was an immediate bestseller, and brought a great demand for lectures, periodical articles, and even a syndicated newspaper column. ![]() "In 1936 Carnegie hit the jackpot with his book How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie," in scarce original dust jacket.Ĭarnegie, a humble salesman from Missouri, began offering public speaking courses in 1912 while successful as a teacher, he did not begin to focus on writing and self-help until 1926. Best of luck to you, Donnie, and your lucky husband. Later printing of this wildly influential self-help book, warmly inscribed: "My dear Mrs Willis L Rees, You certainly know how to win friends! Dorothy and I are certainly grateful for all you did to make our wedding day such a happy one. Octavo, original gilt-stamped green cloth, original dust jacket. "YOU CERTAINLY KNOW HOW TO WIN FRIENDS!": HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE, WARMLY INSCRIBED BY DALE CARNEGIE TO A WOMAN INVOLVED WITH HIS WEDDINGĬARNEGIE, Dale. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hmm … are they rambles with a map (GPS, smartphone) in hand?Ĭhance -important, but less than one thinks it might be. Collection of movement data, paths taken and avoided, useful in constructing dérives. “The objective passional terrain of the dérive must be defined in accordance both with its own logic and with its relations with social morphology.” (1) Both a letting-go and grasping of knowledge -possibilities of the terrain- occur. Thank you, Ken Knabb.ĭérive: “.a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences … playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects” (1)ĭérive occurs when one drops one’s relations, work, lesiure, and other usual motives for actions, to be drawn psychologically into the surrounding terrain (geography?) and what they encounter there. This essay was published in Internationale Situationniste #2 (Paris, December 1958).īureau of Public Secrets … I like this already. ![]() Concept of the spectacle - a critique of advanced capitalism concerned with the increased tendency for expression and mediation of social relations through objects. Guy DeBord ‘The Society of the Spectacle’. See anti-authoritarian Marxism, Dada and Surrealism. Background to Situationists International: active 1958-1972, international, European organization of social revolutionaries comprised of avant-garde artists, intellectuals and political theorists. ![]() ![]() And the book is very short, 86 pages in ebook version, which I see is normal for this author as the next book has the same lenght. ![]() The story is interesting, but for some reason I just didn't get attached to the protagonist. ![]() They become easier to remember as you go along. more There were moments when I first began the series when I had difficulty remembering names and places and terminology. Her characters are flawed and interesting and consistent, as alive as the world they live in. Though the main characters are gay, this is just one aspect of the story, balanced among many others, including magic and time travel, bits of steampunk, and subtle commentary on religion and environmentalism. The story unfurls gracefully and with smoothly interlocking narratives. ![]() ![]() Granted I'm writing this after just finishing book seven so I haven't completed the series, but given the pacing so far I have high expectations for the last three installments.This world is complex and complete. And I've spent an almost embarrassing amount of time reading lately. Review 1: This is by far the best series, in any genre, that I have read in a very long time. ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter how you decide to use the dough, you can have light, airy, and crisp pastries with just a few simple steps. These are also filled with pastry cream and dusted with powdered sugar. You must try them!īeignets are made by piping the dough then frying it. My bacon garlic gougères are loaded with flavor. These are filled with flavorful fillings and topped with chocolate glaze, caramel, or powdered sugar.Ĭheese is added to the dough to make gougères. ![]() ![]() It’s often piped or spooned onto a baking sheet and baked into profiteroles, cream puffs, or eclairs. What can you make with choux pastryĬhoux pastry dough is a versatile dough that is used to make a variety of desserts. ![]() Once the pastry is cooked, it is often filled with pastry cream, whipped cream, or chocolate ganache. This moisture releases steam during cooking which causes the pastry to puff up. Instead of using a rising agent, the dough uses a high moisture content. But today we are focusing on the traditional way which uses only water. This will give the final pastry a rich golden color. I’ve seen some recipes use half milk and half water. This classic French pastry is used to make a variety of desserts and it’s much easier than you may think!Ĭhoux pastry, pronounced shoo pastry, is made with water, butter, salt, flour, and eggs. I’m walking you through how to make a simple choux pastry, also known as pâte à choux. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What would it mean, in the first place, if we were to detect a signal from the cosmos that would prove we're neither alone nor the smartest creatures in the universe?" Astronomy, '. ponders the posibility of aliens visiting Earth. She presents BBC's Final Frontier a space and astronomy programme. She is well-known in the science centre, planetarium and media worlds, particularly for public and educational programmes involving space and astronomy. ![]() Alex Barnett is Programme Director at the National Space Centre. Before coming to SETI, Seth did research work on galaxies using radio telescopes at observatories and universities in America and Europe. He also teaches several informal education classes on astronomy and other topics in the Bay Area. Seth Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute where he is involved in many of the outreach activities of the Institute, including editing the newsletter, overseeing the Web site, giving talks and writing magazine articles about SETI. Shostak and Barnett, experienced writers of popular astronomy, provide an accessible overveiw of the science and technology behind the search for life in the universe. They explain why scientists think life might exist on other worlds, and how we might contact it. In Cosmic Company, Seth Shostak and Alex Barnett ponder the possibility of aliens visiting the Earth, as well as the consequences of receiving a signal from the cosmos proving we're neither alone, nor the most intelligent life forms. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mr Charlton is also attracted to Mariette, but in Ma’s words, Mr Charlton needs to improve his “technique” somewhat before a romance can blossom. (‘Invited’ is probably the wrong word, as Pop gets Mr Charlton so drunk he was unable to remember his own name, let alone leave the farm). ![]() Mr Charlton, who Mariette takes a liking to, is treated as a long lost friend, plied with food and alcohol and invited to stay for the night. The story begins with Pop and the family returning home from an ice cream run on a “perfick” (Pop Larkin’s word) May evening to find a tax collector, Mr Charlton, waiting for Pop. The family have plenty to eat and own a farm, as well as all sorts of strange and wonderful items which were acquired by Pa as payments for debt, including a pre-war Rolls Royce complete with speaking tubes for passengers to direct the car’s driver. ![]() Pop Larkin makes a good living for his family in a very dubious manner. The book tells the story of the Larkin family, scally-wag Pop, obese Ma, the beautiful Mariette (who may or may not be pregnant – neither Mariette or Ma are exactly sure who the father might be) and the rest of the Larkin children, who live in a “perfick” English rural paradise in the early 1950s. It isn’t very long and is quite light, but is very entertaining. The Darling Buds of May by HE Bates is a very surprising story. ![]() ![]() ![]() In summary, Bruno Schulz bears persisting and taking your time. So taken with the stories, eventually, was I that I now have them in another translation along with the Street of Crocodiles story collection and other writings in a single volume, at GoodReads here:Īll of this seems to have been put on this site:īy a different translator, though the actual book is nice and the translator for all is listed as Celina Wieniewska, whose translation I found invisible yet attractive. The story "Loneliness," which is translated also as "Solitude" - not at all the same thing! - deserves five stars, as may the last story, though that one is perhaps too evidently influenced by Kafka, whom Schulz admired immensely. Not until I was more than halfway through the book did its power begin to exert itself, which might simply mean that the stories (and they are stories, which I hadn't realized at first, since the old edition I was reading seemed to present it as a novel with titled chapters) are arranged best last, or that one needs to adjust to the apparently dilatory and whimsical nature of the writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 15 years later, the hotel is hosting a regional high-school music festival. The book opens with a child witnessing a murder-suicide in a big hotel. For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted.įull of knowing nods to the shivery pleasures of suspense and the transporting power of music, this is a wholly winning new novel from a writer lauded as “charming” ( Los Angeles Times), “witty” ( O, The Oprah Magazine), and “whimsical” ( People). The search for answers entwines a hilariously eccentric cast of characters-conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. Is it a prank, or has murder struck the Bellweather once again? ![]() Then one of the orchestra’s stars disappears-from room 712. Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual statewide festival the grown-up bridesmaid has returned to face her demons and a snowstorm is forecast that will trap everyone on the grounds. A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from a hotel room that was the site of a famous murder/suicide fifteen years earlier-in this “deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I’ve read in years" (Celeste Ng). ![]() ![]() Edward "Fitz" Fitzherbert, Earl Fitzherbert, who maintains a country estate in Aberowen and licenses the land on which the coal mine is built, hosts a party for many powerful people around the world. Three years later, the main story begins. The novel begins with the thirteen-year-old Billy Williams, nicknamed 'Billy-with-Jesus', going to work his first day in the coal mine underneath the fictional Welsh town of Aberowen in 1911. The third book, Edge of Eternity, covers the Cold War and was published in 2014. The sequel Winter of the World covers World War II and was published on September 18, 2012. ![]() ![]() The first book covers notable events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. ![]() It is the first part of the Century Trilogy which follows five interrelated families throughout the course of the 20th century. Print ( paperback and hardcover) Ebook Audiobook.įall of Giants is a 2010 historical novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. ![]() |