Thick with history and packed with Bardugo’s signature twists, Hell Bent brings to life an intricate world full of magic, violence, and all too real monsters. Something deadly is at work in New Haven, and if she is going to survive, she’ll have to reckon with the monsters of her past and a darkness built into the university’s very walls. But when faculty members begin to die off, Alex knows these aren’t just accidents. Together, they will have to navigate a maze of arcane texts and bizarre artifacts to uncover the societies’ most closely guarded secrets, and break every rule doing it. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory―even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale.įorbidden from attempting a rescue, Alex and Dawes can’t call on the Ninth House for help, so they assemble a team of dubious allies to save the gentleman of Lethe. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. Alex Stern is back and the Ivy League is going straight to hell in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent.įind a gateway to the underworld.
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His insights into the personalities, the camaraderie and the stunts for which Top Gear has become famous, make compulsive reading. ON THE EDGE is his compelling account of life before and after the accident and an honest description of his recovery, full of drama and incident.Īn adrenalin junkie long before his association with Top Gear, Richard tells the story of his life, from the small boy showing off with ridiculous stunts on his bicycle to the adolescent with a near-obsessive attraction to speed and the smell of petrol.Īfter a series of jobs in local radio, he graduated to television and eventually to Top Gear. In September 2006, he suffered a serious brain injury following a high-speed car crash. Richard Hammond is one of our most in-demand and best-loved television presenters. Gripping account by Richard Hammond of life before and after his terrifying high-speed car crash. The busy pages are crammed full of labelled illustrations of every mode of transport you could imagine (and loads of new vocabulary to learn, even for young vehicle experts!) These are accompanied by two main stories: one of a (pig) family on a journey to a picnic, and another of a (cat) police officer chasing a terrible (dog) driver. Who I can’t thank enough for his refreshing take on the genre.Ĭombining information, mockumentary, eye spy and story in equal measure, Cars and Trucks and Things that Go is the solution to boring-vehicle-book fatigue. Reading labelled engine parts does get a little dry after a while. But after the tenth or eleventh such book on its twentieth or thirtieth reading, I am done. I try to jazz up these reads with ad-libbed extra factoids and fun traffic noises. Which is great, because that’s what he’s into. With that comes a propensity towards a certain type of book: non-fiction, diagrammatical, straightforward, terminology-based. Like many other children, my son is OBSESSED with vehicles. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response-the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised and imprisoned millions of African Americans. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools. The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow. 'With so much attention on the flames,' she writes, 'everyone had ignored the kindling.' Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. Summary: "As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, with media commentators referring to the angry response of African Americans yet again as 'black rage,' historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, 'white rage' at work. The only thing Amara liked to do was draw, but she didn't have her own colored pencils so Raina had to share, when she was drawing Raina asked her if she what she was drawing and Amara started screaming at her to stop asking her questions. When Raina`s sister was brought home from the hospital, all Raina wanted to do was to play and hold Amara but like all babies Amara cried whenever Raina held her.When Amara got a little older Raina tried to entertain Amara but Amara was very hard to please and wasn't interested in anything. But what Raina didn't know was that now that their was a second child, she was going to have to share everything. When her mom told her she was pregnant she went upstairs screaming excitedly. Christmas, Birthdays, dinner, in the park and before going to bed Raina inquired and pleaded. When Raina was about seven she was dieing to have a younger sister. Even though Raina wanted a sister more than ever, having a sister is a nightmare and she has no idea how she is going to cope with her on the family trip from San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.Īll Raina wanted was a baby sister and she was going to do anything to get one. “Sisters” is a book based on a true story about the author Raina Telgemeier and her sister Amara. Never one to suffer fools gladly, and the sort of man whom boredom inspires to ever more reckless behaviour, Wrexford responds to his accuser by unleashing his razor-sharp wit in a clever rebuttal, which is printed in the Morning Gazette. The Earl of Wrexford (who doesn’t appear to have an actual name, just a title) has recently been publicly denounced as the worst kind of dissolute rake by the pompous, puffed-up Reverend Josiah Holworthy. The mystery is well-put together and includes some fascinating detail about the chemical sciences as they were understood at the beginning of the 19 th century – the author has clearly done her homework – and we’re introduced to an engaging set of characters who will, I hope, continue to appear throughout the series. Murder on Black Swan Lane is the first book in a new series of Regency-era historical mysteries by Andrea Penrose (who also writes as Andrea Pickens and Cara Elliot), which sees a satirical cartoonist teaming up with a scientifically-minded earl to investigate a couple of gruesome murders. If the vampire fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead. It has advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws, and it is immune to all nonmagical damage, except the damage it takes from sunlight. In addition, if air can pass through a space, the mist can do so without squeezing, and it can’t pass through water. It is weightless, has a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a hostile creature’s space and stop there. While in mist form, the vampire can’t take any actions, speak, or manipulate objects. Anything it is wearing transforms with it, but nothing it is carrying does. Its statistics, other than its size and speed, are unchanged. While in bat form, the vampire can’t speak, its walking speed is 5 feet, and it has a flying speed of 30 feet. If the vampire isn’t in sunlight or running water, it can use its action to polymorph into a Tiny bat or a Medium cloud of mist, or back into its true form. Monstrous Compendium Vol 3: Minecraft Creatures On advanced quantum mechanics, there are good books are by Gottfried and by Sakurai. If you don't know calculus, learn it, but you might find this book the most accessible. This focuses on modern research, and discrete systems in quantum computation. Nielsen & Chuang: "Quantum Computation and Quantum Information".The standard undergraduate books on quantum mechanics are not very good in comparison to these, and should not be used.Ī book which requires minimum of calculus or continuous mathematics is L&L include topics not covered everywhere else. Is heavy on good exercizes and mathematical tools. Landau and Lifschitz "Quantum Mechanics".This is very good and intuitive, and complementary to the remaining books. All other books take most of their material from this source.įor a basic short introduction to quantum mechanics, you can't beat: It's clear, it's terse, and it's comprehensive. Dirac's "The Principles of Quantum Mechanics".For quantum mechanics, the original is still the best: RSDB correlated positively with PTSD severity at both the baseline ( r =. The most commonly endorsed behaviors included alcohol/drug abuse (42.8%), driving while intoxicated (29.4%), gambling (24.7%), and aggression (23.1%). Overall, RSDB were reported by 74.4% of the sample, with 61.3% engaging in multiple forms of RSDB. PTSD severity was then reassessed approximately 4 years later ( N = 148). At baseline, participants were assessed for RSDB (past 5 years) and current PTSD severity ( N = 222). This study examined the relationship between reckless and self-destructive behaviors (RSDB), intervening exposure to new adverse events, and later PTSD severity in a sample of trauma-exposed veterans. The addition of self-destructive and reckless behavior as a symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in DSM-5 has stimulated renewed interest in understanding relationships between these behaviors and trauma-related psychopathology. Instead, she is picked up by a darkship thief, one of a group rumored to be the remnants of bioengineered outcasts from human society. Desperate to get away, she escapes via a lifepod and steers it toward the powertrees, giant biological constructs which produced powerpods which were used by humanity to power everything, in hopes of getting one of the harvesters to help her. She escapes him only to find all of them chasing after her. Thena, the protagonist, is woken by one of her father’s goons in the middle of the night as he tries to attack her. I was a little leery, at first, due to the cover being somewhat more risque than I preferred, but I decided to read the book anyway. Hoyt because I had heard from a few people that she was a good storyteller. Hoyt.I originally picked up Darkship Thieves by Sarah A. |
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