![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He makes an oath to Ruthven, the consequences of which are devastating. Aubrey finds love, but his happiness is not lasting. He soon finds that there are aspects to the Lord which he did not first recognize for what they were. “The Vampyre”Ī tale of a young man, seduced by the mystery of Lord Ruthven. Information regarding the history and “facts” of the vampire. Introduction to the text, which includes details of the author and the story’s conception. Polidori transformed the vampire from a character in folklore into the form we recognize today-an aristocratic fiend who preys among high society. The novel was an immediate popular success, partly because of the Byron attribution and partly because it exploited the gothic horror predilections of the public. Despite repeated denials by Byron and Polidori, the authorship often went unclarified. The Vampyre was first published on April 1, 1819, by Colburn in the New Monthly Magazine with the false attribution “A Tale by Lord Byron.” The name of the work’s protagonist, “Lord Ruthven”, added to this assumption, for that name was originally used in Lady Caroline Lamb’s novel Glenarvon, in which a thinly-disguised Byron figure was also named Lord Ruthven. ![]() The Vampyre is a short novel written by John William Polidori and is a progenitor of the romantic vampire genre of fantasy fiction. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It’s got non-stop action, an insane twist near the end, enough of a romance to get readers begging Susan Ee for more, plus, swoonworthy angels.įirst of all, you have an amazing heroine. I’m trying really hard to be a little more frugal with my 5 star ratings. I wanted a refresher before the third one came out. This was a re-read for me I read it when it came out, before I was blogging, and I didn’t remember a lot of it. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again ![]() Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.Īnything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Genres: Fantasy, Horror & Ghost Stories, Post Apocalyptic, Romance, Young Adult ![]() ![]() ![]() The account is the sometimes painful story of not only the discovery of the structure of DNA, but of the personalities, conflicts and controversy surrounding their work. ![]() ![]() THE DOUBLE HELIX is one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction books, and one of only a handful of books of science to have had such a lasting and significant impact on the general public. Watson, with Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 and for the discovery Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Medicine. This is a most beautifully written book and is James Watson’s own account of the discovery of DNA and the very building-blocks of life. A RARELY ENCOUNTERED VERY FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF THE PERSONAL FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY. ![]() ![]() Imbuing her story with plenty of mid-century modern decorating and fashion tips, not to mention a steady patter of Doris Day trivia, Vallere debuts a well-paced cozy series. Praise for PILLOW STALK:"Make room for Vallere's tremendously fun homage. ![]() As the body count piles up like a stack of plush pillows, Madison uncovers a Soviet spy, a campaign to destroy all Doris Day movies, and six minutes of film that will change her life forever. The local detective connects the new crimes to a twenty-year old cold case, and Madison's long-trusted contractor emerges as the leading suspect. ![]() ![]() HUMOR AND DANGER MELD PERFECTLY."A multifaceted enty of surprises.And what an ending!" – New York Journal of BooksInterior Decorator Madison Night has modeled her life after a character in a Doris Day movie, but when a killer targets women dressed like the bubbly actress, Madison's signature sixties style places her in the middle of a homicide investigation. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.” -William Cowperĩ. “Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.” -Harry S. “Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.” -Unknownħ. “Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.” -William E. “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.” -Don Miguel Ruizĥ. “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” -Jane Austen, Mansfield ParkĤ. Listen to it carefully.” -Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiahģ. ![]() “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” -Oscar WildĢ. ![]() “Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves … then are surprised when they are alone.” -Steve Maraboliġ. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your ideas need to be sticky and popular. ![]() This is a factThe authors highlight that their principles are not a mathematical formula which will guarantee your ideas will stick, but they are proven methods that will increase the likelihood. ![]() Made to stick distills years of communication science into an easy-to-remember mnemonic and blueprint for creating sticky ideas. And they’re able to affect people’s opinions and behavior.Īuthors Chip and Dan Heath offer an evidence-led deep-dive into the murky middle section of Malcolm Gladwell’s hit on how hits happen - The Tipping Point - the Stickiness Factor. While other ideas that aren’t as great spread like wildfire. Why do the latter spread so quickly? And why are they so hard to stop? Sticky ideas are easily understood and remembered. In fact, many of them go unnoticed and are never heard of again. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first job was as a librarian in Yakima, Washington, where she met many children who were searching for the same books that she had always hoped to find as a child herself. She moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, and after graduation with a B.A in English in 1938, studied at the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she earned a degree in librarianship in 1939. Thereafter, she was a frequent visitor to the library, though she rarely found the books she most wanted to read - those about children like herself. It wasn't until she was in third grade that she found enjoyment from books, when she started reading The Dutch Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins. She was slow in learning to read, due partly to her dissatisfaction with the books she was required to read and partly to an unpleasant first grade teacher. When she was 6, her family moved to Portland, Oregon, where she went to grammar and high school. Mouse.īeverly Cleary was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Some of her best known and loved characters are Ramona Quimby and her sister Beatrice ("Beezus"), Henry Huggins, and Ralph S. Her characters are normal children facing challenges that many of us face growing up, and her stories are liberally laced with humour. Beverly Cleary (ApMarch 25, 2021) was the author of over 30 books for young adults and children. ![]() ![]() The magazine story also moved Connelly into the upper levels of journalism, landing him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, one of the largest papers in the country, and bringing him to the city of which his literary hero, Chandler, had written.Īfter three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. They wrote a magazine story on the crash and the survivors which was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. ![]() In 1986, he and two other reporters spent several months interviewing survivors of a major airline crash. In Fort Lauderdale he wrote about police and crime during the height of the murder and violence wave that rolled over South Florida during the so-called cocaine wars. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing - a curriculum in which one of his teachers was novelist Harry Crews.Īfter graduating in 1980, Connelly worked at newspapers in Daytona Beach and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, primarily specializing in the crime beat. ![]() Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads' database with this name. ![]() ![]() The output from Huffman's algorithm can be viewed as a variable-length code table for encoding a source symbol (such as a character in a file). student at MIT, and published in the 1952 paper "A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes". The process of finding or using such a code proceeds by means of Huffman coding, an algorithm developed by David A. In computer science and information theory, a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression. (This assumes that the code tree structure is known to the decoder and thus does not need to be counted as part of the transmitted information.) Char Encoding the sentence with this code requires 135 (or 147) bits, as opposed to 288 (or 180) bits if 36 characters of 8 (or 5) bits were used. The frequencies and codes of each character are below. ![]() Huffman tree generated from the exact frequencies of the text "this is an example of a huffman tree". ![]() ![]() ![]() independent analyses) so I won’t say this is a definitive answer. Here are some comparative numbers on draft dodging, but I’m unclear on how they got to these numbers (analyzing data from the U.S. ![]() Major themes: Collapsing War and Peace Together, The Nature of Wisom, The Banality of Evilġ5:12 - I meant to say “Andrei,” not “Nikolai” hereĢ6:30 - Well, the prisoner per capita ratio is still high in China - just nowhere near as high as the U.S.ģ0:20 - I learned this in class sometime back, so I’m going to hedge this claim a bit. Grab your Youtube video of Slavoj Zizek and tune in! That’s right, it’s the big ideas section! Well - the whole book is the big ideals section, but this is a great survey of some of Tolstoy’s most interesting ideas. This week, Matt and Cameron start on Book 4, Part 1 (after diverging from our original plan to combine parts 1 and 2) and do a deep dive on how we can really analyze wisdom, on the horror of war collapsing into peace, and whether self-sacrifice can ever be a true ideal of Christianity. ![]() |