![]() That the enemy is in fact faithfully dealt with, no one who has the honour of Captain Aubrey's acquaintance can take leave to doubt. Maturin has fish of his own to fry in the world of secret intelligence.Aubrey has to cope with a succession of disasters - men overboard, castaways, encounters with savages, storms, typhoons, groundings, shipwrecks, to say nothing of murder and criminal insanity. It is a commission after Jack's own heart. They set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade.If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them. ![]() Patrick O'Brian takes his hero Jack Aubrey and his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin on a voyage as fascinating as anything he has ever written. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely hailed as the greatest series of historical novels ever written.It is still the War of 1812. ![]()
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![]() An ideal husband, ie the perfect man cannot exist for a woman. This is upported with Loring Goring who admits his faults "I am very selfish" but Mabel doesn't care and loves him anyway. He says "Why can't you women love us, faults and all!" Chiltern's major flaw is that he is hungry for power (which usn't unusual for men of this time) but this flaw is only to Lady C, who we see is very unreasonable. Therefore Chiltern is only ideal to her if he is flawless, but this is impossible, so the irony of the title in this relationship is obvious. ![]() Lady Chiltern is the puritan character, and like in many of Wilde's plays, is taught to forgive. ![]() This is contrasted thru the marriages of the chilterns and the relationship (and eventual marriage) between Lord Goring and Mabel Chiltern. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband tags: morality, philosophy 2413 likes Like I always pass on good advice. Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband tags: love 3434 likes Like Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. There is no one ideal husband, ideal is judged in the eyes of their wives, there is no winning formula. An Ideal Husband Quotes Showing 1-30 of 195 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the first story in the collection of stories in Her Body and Other Parties, by the American author Carmen María Machado, who as the age of 33 has become one of the great literary voices of her generation. Of course, what he wants most is to touch the green ribbon and finds it impossible to accept being denied this part of her. ![]() She gives herself entirely to him and the only thing she asks of him is: do not touch my green ribbon. She lives a normal life, full of sex and passion for the man who will become her husband, who she teaches everything and gives everything too. In the short story The Husband Stitch, a woman has a green ribbon tied around her neck. What is its purpose? To make men feel more pleasure when they have penetrative sex again (after the baby’s birth), despite the pain and discomfort this can cause women. It is known in the Anglo-Saxon world as ‘the husband stitch’ and refers to making more stitches then necessary during the episiotomy or to repair the perineum. There is a widely questioned medical procedure that can be given to women after labor without their consent. Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen María Machado, is a collection of short stories that show how being a woman can be a story of terror. ![]() ![]() AIQ will teach you that language but in an unconventional way, anchored in stories rather than equations. These machines, from smart phones to talking robots to self-driving cars, are remaking the world in the twenty first century in the same way that the Industrial Revolution remade the world in the nineteenth.ĪIQ is based on a simple premise: if you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. : AIQ: How artificial intelligence works and how we can harness its power for a better world Paperback Polson, Nick, Scott, James (9780593079782) by Polson, Nick, Scott, James and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomicsĭozens of times per day, we all interact with intelligent machines that are constantly learning from the wealth of data now available to them. 'A positive and entertaining look at the great potential unlocked by marrying human creativity with powerful machines.' Steven D. Book Notes: AIQ by Nick Polson and James Scott Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence are words that appear in public discourse on an almost daily basis as we discuss and debate their impressive, and sometimes not so impressive, achievements. Two leading data scientists offer an up-close and user-friendly look at artificial intelligence and how to harness its power for a better world. AIQ will teach listeners that language-but in an unconventional way, anchored in stories rather than mathematics. ![]() What is AIQ? How does it work? Most importantly, how can it help us? AIQ, by Nick Polson and James Scott, is based on a simple premise: if you want to understand the modern world, then you have to know a little bit of the mathematical language spoken by intelligent machines. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the way he looks at her makes it clear he wants to get horizontal. Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from the moment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. Instead, six feet of hotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the place humming. Of course, when she arrives at her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she’d left behind and clean up her mom’s mess again. She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona-secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends.īut the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in her name. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. ![]() ![]() ArmentroutĪt 21, Calla hasn’t done a lot of things. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This work demonstrates the capability of this new microfabrication technique for producing accurate non-planar microfluidic geometries with complex shapes and with sufficient clarity for optical probes. We use micro-particle image velocimetry to study the creeping flow of a Newtonian fluid through the three devices and we compare the obtained velocity profiles with finite-volume numerical predictions, with good agreement. ![]() Three devices are fabricated: the first has a sudden contraction followed by a sudden expansion, the second features hyperbolic contraction and expansion profiles, and the third has a numerically optimized contraction/expansion profile intended to provide a constant extensional/compressional rate along the axis. We employ a state-of-the-art microfabrication technique (selective laser-induced etching) to fabricate a set of axisymmetric microfluidic geometries featuring a 4:1 contraction followed by a 1:4 downstream expansion in the radial dimension. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ellis focuses on six discrete moments that exemplify the most crucial issues facing the fragile new nation: Burr and Hamilton's deadly duel, and what may have really happened Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison's secret dinner, during which the seat of the permanent capital was determined in exchange for passage of Hamilton's financial plan Franklin's petition to end the "peculiar institution" of slavery-his last public act-and Madison's efforts to quash it Washington's precedent-setting Farewell Address, announcing his retirement from public office and offering his country some final advice Adams's difficult term as Washington's successor and his alleged scheme to pass the presidency on to his son and finally, Adams and Jefferson's renewed correspondence at the end of their lives, in which they compared their different views of the Revolution and its legacy. Informs our understanding of American politics-then and now-and gives us a new perspective on the unpredictable forces that shape history.Īn illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic-John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.ĭuring the 1790s, which Ellis calls the most decisive decade in our nation's history, the greatest statesmen of their generation-and perhaps any-came together to define the new republic and direct its course for the coming centuries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I’m not sure I can call it a career, because a career implies that I had some kind of career plan, and I never did. Looking back, I’ve had a remarkable ride. Which has left me with a healthy respect and fondness for higher education that those of my friends and family, who attended Universities, were cured of long ago. I got out into the world, I wrote, and I became a better writer the more I wrote, and I wrote some more, and nobody ever seemed to mind that I was making it all up as I went along, they just read what I wrote and they paid me for it, or they didn’t, and often they commissioned me to write something else for them. ![]() I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I could become the writer I wanted to be seemed stifling. I never graduated from any such establishment. “I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. Note: I’ve added the subheadings to make the transcript easier to read. Here’s the transcript of Neil Gaiman’s inspiring speech in the University of The Arts Class in 2012. ![]() I knew it was going to be good when I heard the punchline of the speech: Make Good Art. But a friend of mine sent me his commencement speech saying that I’ll love it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rowan goes to school for her final day of high school. There’s just something about rivals to lovers that is so great. The story opens with an introduction of her rival, Neil (aka McNightmare). ![]() ![]() Today Tonight Tomorrow follows Rowan during the last day of her senior year. Why is it so much harder to talk about books that you really loved compared to books that you didn’t? Well, that’s the struggle I’m having here. Tomorrow…maybe she’s already fallen for him. And, perhaps, this boy she claims to despise might actually be the boy of her dreams. ![]() But after learning a group of seniors is out to get them, she and Neil reluctantly decide to team up until they’re the last players left-and then they’ll destroy each other.Īs Rowan spends more time with Neil, she realizes he’s much more than the awkward linguistics nerd she’s sparred with for the past four years. When Neil is named valedictorian, Rowan has only one chance at victory: Howl, a senior class game that takes them all over Seattle, a farewell tour of the city she loves. While Rowan, who secretly wants to write romance novels, is anxious about the future, she’d love to beat her infuriating nemesis one last time. Rowan Roth and Neil McNair have been bitter rivals for all of high school, clashing on test scores, student council elections, and even gym class pull-up contests. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "When the people were cured, they were happy toward my father.”įrom his boyhood, Yashima demonstrated a passion for art. "My parents' house was full of patients," he recalled, remembering his father's medical practice. ![]() Yashima later recalled that his childhood was happy. Taro Yashima was born Jun Atsushi Iwamatsu on September 21, 1908, the son of a doctor and art collector in the seaside town of Nejime (now part of Minami Ōsumi-cho), in Kagoshima prefecture. Eventually they reached a point where Mitsu was unable to continue with her husband. Together they survived years of hardship-imprisonment, exile, poverty, and illness-and made a name for themselves as authors and illustrators. One remarkable Japanese American story is that of the epic and tragic partnership of Taro and Mitsu Yashima, an extraordinary couple of artists and freedom fighters. ![]() |