6/26/2023 0 Comments Bartleby the scrivener cliff notes![]() ![]() To this, Bartleby replies he would “prefer” not to and continues working behind his screen. Soon into Bartleby’s employment, however, the narrator asks him to help verify a copy of a document. He works through all parts of the day, even writing by candlelight at night. Because of Bartleby’s promising nature, the narrator places him in his personal office, giving Bartleby privacy behind a folding screen.īartleby is an excellent worker at first, producing more copies, or “folios,” than the other scriveners. Where Nippers is irritable in the morning, Turkey struggles with his work in the afternoon, meaning a scrivener is always performing subpar work in the office. ![]() The narrator hires Bartleby because a recent increase in the lawyer’s importance means he needs additional help. Of the four named characters, only Bartleby is called by his actual name the other three have nicknames. Ginger Nut is an errand boy who spends most of his time fetching apples and ginger nut cakes for the scriveners. Nippers, Turkey, and Bartleby are scriveners, people who copy documents by hand, often for legal proceedings. ![]() The lawyer employs four people: Nippers, Turkey, Ginger Nut, and Bartleby. “Bartleby” is narrated in the first person by an unnamed senior lawyer on Wall Street in New York City. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments Fear and loathing book cover![]() ![]() History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened. but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. ![]() Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era-the kind of peak that never comes again. “Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe![]() ![]() ![]() At first, his fellow barbarians are skeptical of his newfound passion for reading, but in the end, even they aren't immune to the charms of a good book."-Provided by publisher. This humorous picture book from sister duo Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie and illustrator Victoria Maderna follows Ronan the Barbarian as he he grows from being just a rough-and-tumble warrior to a rough-and-tumble warrior who loves books. Details Reviews This humorous picture book from sister duo Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie and illustrator Victoria Maderna follows Ronan the Barbarian as he grows from being just a rough-and-tumble warrior to Ronan the Librariana rough-and-tumble warrior who loves books. Happy National Library Workers Day Last year the RTDL staff came together, and each read a page of Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe and Becky. Until one day, Conan found something no barbarian wants: A BOOK. The RTDL staff came together, and each read a page of Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie. ![]() ![]() At first, his fellow barbarians are skeptical of his newfound passion for reading, but in the end, even. This humorous picture book from sister duo Tara Luebbe and Becky Cattie and illustrator Victoria Maderna follows Ronan the Barbarian as he he grows from being just a rough-and-tumble warrior to a rough-and-tumble warrior who loves books. Until one day, Conan found something no barbarian wants: A BOOK. ![]() ![]() ![]() II Logical: Categories Analytics (Prior and Posterior) Interpretation Refutations used by Sophists Topica. They can be categorized as follows: I Practical: Nicomachean Ethics Great Ethics (Magna Moralia) Eudemian Ethics Politics Economics (on the good of the family) On Virtues and Vices. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of 'Peripatetics'), the Lyceum at Athens. ![]() After some time at Mitylene, in 343–2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347) subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments George iii andrew roberts![]() ![]() Lisa Marie Griffith is author of ‘Dublin: Then and Now’ and ‘Stones of Dublin: A History of Dublin in Ten Buildings’ and has published a number of essays on Dublin history. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He could be stubborn and self-righteous, but he was also brave, brushing aside numerous assassination attempts, galvanising his ministers and generals at moments of crisis and stoical in the face of his descent – five times during his life – into a horrifying loss of mind.Īndrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown. He was a devoted husband and family man, a great patron of the arts and sciences, keen to advance Britain’s agricultural capacity (‘Farmer George’) and determined that her horizons should be global. It portrays George as intelligent, benevolent, scrupulously devoted to the constitution of his country and (as head of government as well as head of state) navigating the turbulence of eighteenth-century politics with a strong sense of honour and duty. Andrew Roberts’s new biography takes entirely the opposite view. George III, Britain’s longest-reigning king, has gone down in history as ‘the cruellest tyrant of this age’. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments The poison princess series![]() ![]() ![]() The Arcana Chronicles is the New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series written by American author Kresley Cole and published by Valkyrie Press and Simon & Schuster. 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6/24/2023 0 Comments Wishful drinking hbo![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Geffen Playhouse confirmed Fisher was working on a sequel to Wishful Drinking at the time of he death.Ĭarrie Fisher passed away December 27, her mother, Debbie Reynolds, passed less than 48 hours later later on December 28. The play enjoyed an extended run on Broadway at Studio 54 and was adapted into a special for HBO. The documentary did have its world premier at Cannes in May. Joshua Ravetch is best known for his collaboration with actress/writer Carrie Fisher, co-creating and directing her in The Geffen Playhouse’s world premiere of Wishful Drinking, Ms. ![]() HBO also revealed it is set to debut early next year the documentary Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of “Hollywood in-breeding,” come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Currently you are able to watch Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking streaming on HBO Max, HBO Max Amazon Channel, DIRECTV. Deadline reports that HBO will re-air Carrie Fisher‘s Wishful Drinking at 9PM New Year’s Day.īased on her one woman stage show, which was also eventually turned into a New York Times Bestselling book, Wishful Drinking gives an honest look at Fisher’s life. Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher s hit stage production of the intoxicating autobiographical tale of her life, comes to HBO as a feature-length documentary. ![]() ![]() Seeking to explain the cause-effect relationships behind these conditions, he began a study of analogous historical times and discovered that such combinations of conditions were characteristic of periods of transition, such as the years between 19, in which wealth and power shifted in ways that reshaped the world order. They included large debts and zero or near-zero interest rates in the world’s three major reserve currencies significant wealth, political and values divisions within countries and emerging conflict between a rising world power (China) and the existing one (US). ![]() From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.Ī few years ago, renowned investor Ray Dalio began noticing a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before in his fifty-year career. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Mary calmes timing series![]() ![]() The life Hart wants doesn’t work without Morgan in it. As if that weren’t enough, his ex has reappeared out of the blue, with plans to reclaim what he willingly gave.Īnd, to make matters worse, it appears Morgan is finally taking his dating life seriously. There’s a dead man on Hart’s property, a man he knows, and the questions are piling up. But there’s a snake in the garden, and it takes many forms. The ranch is thriving thanks to its loyal men and strong ties to the community. Nearly six years later, Hart has created a home and a life he never expected, with the help of his best friend and foreman, Morgan Brace. ![]() There were two choices after that: run away, or stay and build something real from nothing. Too bad the man he bet on bailed and left Hart holding the ranch. Setting down roots was never part of the plan, not until he opened himself up to love. He wasn’t supposed to get involved, no emotional entanglements to tie him down. Hart Jarrett was only supposed to be passing through Jackson Hole, Wyoming. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Red winter tom clancy review![]() ![]() Ryan is a former Marine and a brilliant CIA analyst who’s been the architect of some of the CIA’s biggest coups but this time he’s in enemy territory with a professional assassin on his tail. It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. ![]() ![]() In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. ![]() |