![]() ![]() People often came out from the nearby city of Abbenay in hopes of seeing a spaceship, or simply to see the wall, After all, it was the only boundary wall on their world. ![]() ![]() Looked at from the other side, the wall enclosed Anarres: the whole planet was inside it, a great prison camp, cut off from other worlds and other men, in quarantine.Ī number of people were coming along the road towards the landing field, or standing around where the road cut through the wall. It enclosed the universe, leaving Anarres outside, free. The wall shut in not only the landing field but also the ships that came down out of space, and the men that came on the ships, and the worlds they came from, and the rest of the universe. The dormitory looked durable, grimy, and mournful it had no gardens, no children plainly nobody lived there or was even meant to stay there long. On the field there were a couple of large gantry cranes, a rocket pad, three warehouses, a truck garage, and a dormitory. Looked at from one side, the wall enclosed a barren sixty-acre field called the Port of Anarres. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an, idea of boundary. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb, it. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Band of Brothers: Jestyn gets to see the brotherhood of the Barbarian Guard from both inside and out.Thormod can't exactly say I Owe You My Life since he ends up having to defend Jestyn as well as himself, but Jestyn instinctively leaping to back him up is the act that cements their Undying Loyalty. An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Jestyn finds Thormod in a spot of trouble in the streets of Dublin on the night of Yule.Sutcliff also trots out her trademark hound similes. ![]() Animal Motif: Wolf metaphors pile up: Jestyn is a "lone wolf" and a "wolf-cub", Anders and Herulf are "the young wolves", Sitric and Herulf Seniors are "the Old Wolves".All First-Person Narrators Write Like Novelists: Jestyn looks back on his youth from the Framing Device of a contemplative spring evening in Byzantium thirty years later."There in the bright heart of the lamplight, we washed off the blood and cleaned and salved each other's hurts - though mine was the merest scratch, and most of the blood on me was the leopard's - like friends after battle." ![]() ![]() Blackmail/coerces her in order to make her go back to London “for her own good” He doesn’t respect Sophie’s choice not to return to London. Which is portrayed in the show, as it sort of does have a place as a plot point in Daphne’s lack of sex-edįrom reading posts here, I understand that some of the worst of Anthony and Kate’s relationship was removed from the book when translated to the show, such as Anthony stepping on Kate’s handĪnd now that I’ve actually read one of the Bridgerton books (and about Benedict, who has been my favorite of the Bridgerton’s by far, I’m downright insulted/disgusted by his character. I think it’s fairly well know by now that Daphne did a very controversial (read:sexually abusive) act against her husband. It seems to be a smaller miracle to get one from the library without waiting an obscene amount of time. ![]() Disclaimer: this is the only Bridgerton book I have read. ![]() ![]() During this time he also taught himself Sumerian cuneiform. After becoming an executive for a shipping company, he took the opportunity to travel and visit archaeological sites. He later studied at the University of London, where he earned a degree in economic history.įollowing his graduation, Sitchin worked as a journalist and editor in Israel. Having a chance to live in the Near East, he developed a passion for its history and languages.ĭuring that time, he picked up a great deal of Hebrew as well as other European and Semitic languages. ![]() Zecharia Sitchin was born on July 11 th, 1920 in the Azerbaijan SSR. But first, let’s go over a brief biography of his life. In this guide, I will introduce you to some of Zecharia Sitchin’s books. He was the leading author on the Anunnaki, and one of the most important proponents of the belief in ancient astronauts. Regardless, one thing is certain, and that is that Zecharia Sitchin was a hugely influential man who changed the way that many people view human life, human nature, and our role in the cosmos. To others, he was a pseudo-scientist and pseudo-historian with delusional thinking. ![]() To some, he was a brilliant scholar with revolutionary ideas about the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian gods. ![]() Who was Zecharia Sitchin?That depends in part upon who you ask. While you are learning about the Anunnaki, there is one name which you are going to encounter again and again: Zecharia Sitchin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And for a sensible woman like Stella, he may be just what she needs."-Book jacket.īook Synopsis Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past in the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy. He's difficult but honest, brash but considerate and undeniably sexy. And she discovers a fierce attraction to ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and with expectant mother Hayley. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable new place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing nursery. She isn't intimidated by the house nor by its mistress, local legend Roz Harper. About the Book "Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee and into her new life at Harper House and the In the Garden nursery. ![]() ![]() ![]() UNIVERSITY PLACE DISTRICT BANS NOVEL ABOUT GAY TEENSĪcting on a parent complaint, University Place schools Superintendent Patti Banks has removed a novel about gay teens from district library shelves.īanks said her decision had nothing to do with the theme of homosexuality in "Geography Club." Instead, she was alarmed by the "romanticized" portrayal of a teen meeting a stranger at night in a park after connecting with that person - who turns out to be a gay classmate - through an Internet chat room. Today's article is behind a free-subscription firewall, so I'll quote some of the article here: (On Tuesday, the newpaper will hopefully print my essay response!) Today the s#t hit the f #n in the form of an article on the front page of the daily newspaper. ![]() Last week, I wrote how GEOGRAPHY CLUB had been banned at a school district in my hometown. For those of you just joining us, I am the author of a gay teen novel, GEOGRAPHY CLUB, and its sequel, THE ORDER OF THE POISON OAK. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For all the occasional overtones and undercuts, this is no more than a genial form of nonsense in which Greene is not at his best. With "no accomplice except the credulity of other men", Wormold turns in bogus reports and fabulous diagrams (vacuum cleaner parts), recruits an extensive payroll of imaginary sub-agents, and rigs an elaborate deception which backfires when one of his men materializes- only to be killed, his friend Hasselbacher is a second victim, and he is a potential third. ![]() Wormold, a vacuum cleaner representative in Havana, a middle-aged man whose daughter is his prime security interest, is tapped as secret agent number 59200 stroke five by the British Secret Service. Graham Greene's new "Entertainment" offers only a questionable diversion this time, substitutes a lightminded travesty of secret service operations (the intentions are not too clearly decipherable) for the surer suspense of the earlier books in this genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Data preprocessing, feature engineering, regularisation techniques are elaborated. ![]() ![]() Chapter 4 is basically a primer to rewind the concepts of machine learning. K-Fold cross-validation is implemented on the Boston housing prices dataset. Finally, getting predictions on new data are demonstrated with three different data sets: IMDB reviews, Reuters, Boston housing price. In the third chapter, you would get to understand the deep learning framework: Keras, loading the datasets, preparing the data, building and compiling the model, configuring the optimizer, using loss function, metrics, training, validating the model and plotting training loss versus validation loss. Data representations, data batches, data formats, tensors, gradient descent algorithm, and back propagation algorithm are some of the important concepts of DL included in this chapter. Chapter 2 introduces basic architecture of neural network with MNIST image dataset. This chapter has thrown light on how the improvements in hardware, open source data and algorithmic advances speed up the deep learning for the past 2 decades. ![]() The history and evolution of machine learning and deep learning thoroughly discussed. I am elaborating some key contents of the book in the following 2 paragraphs:Ĭhapter 1 introduces the basic concepts of machine learning and deep learning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its central protagonist is Miryem, the daughter of a Jewish moneylender who decides to take over the family trade when her father fails to get the townspeople to repay their debts. Spinning Silver interweaves the stories of three young women. ![]() This stand-alone novel came out last year and is a chilling tale that blends a Slavic-inspired fantasy world with a loose retelling of “Rumpelstiltskin.” If you love folklore, badass female characters, and hefty fantasy novels, this book will be right up your alley! One of my favorite authors, Naomi Novik, once again brings fairy tales to life in Spinning Silver. It’s never wise to brag where the Staryk can hear you…. 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Hidden behind her black floor-length veil, she is a prisoner, jailed by her father, her husband, her sons, and her country.įor the sake of her daughters, Sultana has decided to take the risk of speaking out about the life of women in her country: thirteen-year-old girls forced to marry men five times their age, young women killed by drowning, stoning, or isolation in the women's room, a padded, windowless cell where women are confined with neither light nor conversation until death claims them. But in reality, Sultana has no freedom or control over her own life, no value but as a bearer of sons. Sultana Al-Sa'ud, a Saudi Arabian Princess, has four mansions on three continents, her own private jet, glittering jewels, and designer dresses galore. ![]() |