![]() ![]() And the Letter-the sole proof his actions were legal-has mysteriously vanished.Moved by the lady's distress, intrigued by the Letter, and goaded by an opposing solicitor, Snopes takes the case. Yet when the Padget returns to London, her crew is met by soldiers ready to take possession of their goods and arrest the captain for piracy. The ship was granted a rare privilege by the king's regent: a Letter of Marque authorizing the captain to seize the cargo of French traders operating illegally in the Indian Sea. ![]() That changes the day a struggling heiress, Lady Madeleine Jameson, arrives at his door.In a last-ditch effort to save her faltering estate, Lady Jameson invested in a merchant brig, the Padget. ![]() As a barrister in 1818 London, William Snopes has witnessed firsthand the danger of only the wealthy having their voices heard, and he's a strong advocate who defends the poorer classes against the powerful. ![]()
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![]() ![]() This framework already sets Dalio apart from other successful advice-givers, some of whom offer nothing more than broad platitudes about believing in yourself and never giving up hope, and others of whom fall back on cynical cracks about doing unto others before they do unto you. Design a plan to eliminate the problems.Diagnose these problems to get at their root causes.Encounter the problems that stand in the way of getting to your goals. ![]() ![]() These he lays out in his book Principles: Life and Work, the content of which he has also distilled into the animated video above, “Principles for Success by Ray Dalio.”ĭalio breaks down his own journey to success as the continued repetition of a five-step process: One reason is that the pieces of advice he doles out publicly began as pieces of advice for himself, discovered through trial and error and refined into a set of principles. That alone would persuade a great many of us to listen to any and all advice he has to offer, but unlike many multi-billionaires, he’s also put no small amount of thought into just what advice to give and how to give it. Investor and hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has a net worth of $18.4 billion. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Iyengar's father died when he was 9 years old, and he continued to suffer from a variety of maladies in childhood, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and general malnutrition.Īt the age of 15 Iyengar went to live with his brother-in-law, the well-known yogi, Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya in Mysore. Iyengar's home village of Belur, Karnataka, India, was in the grips of the influenza pandemic at the time of his birth, leaving him sickly and weak. Iyengar was born into a poor Hebbar Iyengar family. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002.ī.K.S. Iyengar yoga centers are located throughout the world, and it is believed that millions of students practice Iyengar Yoga. ![]() He has also written several definitive yoga texts. He has written many books on yogic practice and philosophy, and is best known for his books Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. Iyengar) (Born Decemin Bellur, Kolar District, Karnataka, India) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. ![]() ![]() ![]() To find out why, she enlists the help of a warrior ant, and the two set off on separate journeys into a harsh and violent world. Here a young female from the russet ant nation of Bel-o-kan learns that a strange new weapon has been killing off her comrades. Inheriting the dusty apartment, the Wells family are left with only one warning: Never go down into the cellar.But when the family dog disappears down the basement steps, Jonathan follows-and soon his wife, his son, and various would-be rescuers vanish into its mysterious depths.Meanwhile, in a pine stump in a nearby park, a vast civilization is in turmoil. ![]() ![]() And his young family have come to the Paris flat at 3, rue des Sybarites through the bequest of his eccentric late uncle Edmond. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s detailed narrative begins with Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman who sang her poems, and continues through the stories of Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, and Mariah Carey, as well as the under-considered careers of Marilyn McCoo, Deniece Williams, and Jody Watley. ![]() But as a music fan, and then as an essayist, editor ( Vibe, Billboard), and podcast host ( Black Girl Songbook), she has been living this history since she was a latchkey kid listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” on the family stereo. Smith has been writing this history for more than five years. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARDĪ weave of biography, criticism, and memoir, Shine Bright is Danyel Smith’s intimate history of Black women’s music as the foundational story of American pop. ![]() ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, The Root, Variety, Esquire, The Guardian, Newsweek, Pitchfork, She Reads, Publishers Weekly the overdue singing of a Black girl’s song, with perfect pitch. This is their surprising, heartbreaking, soaring story-from “one of the generation’s greatest, most insightful, most nuanced writers in pop culture” (Shea Serrano) American pop music is arguably this country’s greatest cultural contribution to the world, and its singular voice and virtuosity were created by a shining thread of Black women geniuses stretching back to the country’s founding. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They're both looking for a place to belong, and if they're able to let go of past mistakes and learn to trust again, they might just find what they need in Knights Bridge.and each other. Kylie and Russ have more in common than they or anyone else would ever expect. But his bigger challenge is getting Kylie to let loose a little.like the adventurous characters she depicts in her work. Her opposition to converting part of the old hat factory into a theater is a challenge. Keeping tabs on Daphne while she considers starting a small children's theater in town doesn't seem like a tough job until he runs into Kylie. Russ is in Knights Bridge to keep his client and friend, eccentric Hollywood costume designer Daphne Stewart, out of trouble. And then California private investigator Russ Colton moves in. She carefully guards her privacy in the refurbished nineteenth-century hat factory where she has a loft. No one seems to know her here-and she likes it that way. Kylie Shaw has found a home and a quiet place to work as an illustrator of children's books in little Knights Bridge, Massachusetts. New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to charming Swift River Valley, where spring is the time for fresh starts and new beginnings. New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers returns to charming Swift River Valley, where spring is the. ![]() ![]() As it happens, these prophecies are contained in Agnes’ contraband volume, which has fallen into the hands of her sister Millicent, who hopes to sell it to restore herself to the middle-class existence she once attained as a knight’s mistress. ![]() Dunstan’s Day, near a bishop’s palace, butchers-abetted by a Long Castle (Lancaster)-will lie in wait to slay the current monarch. Lollius, it seems, predicted the manner of death of each English sovereign since William the Conqueror, and there is one prediction yet to be fulfilled: that on St. The plot may have been fomented by the followers of the recently executed heretic Wycliffe, who are using the prophecies of one Lollius, an ancient Roman, as a blueprint. Meanwhile, John Gower, the 14th-century equivalent of a grizzled detective, has gotten wind of a conspiracy against the reigning king, Richard II, son of Edward the Black Prince and nephew of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Agnes leaves the scene with a hidden prize: a book wrapped in a delicate tapestry. ![]() Outside the walls of London, Agnes, a “maudlyn,” or prostitute, observes the murder, by a cloaked, Italian-speaking thug, of a young woman, whose dress and accent bespeak noble birth. ![]() In 1385 London, the race is on to recover a missing book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Uris' persistently researched and reconstituted history goes even further back with 18th century insets and the potato famine and Parnell and, and, and. With his usual partisan magnanimity, Uris devotes himself to another popular/unpopular lost cause, the Irish, and in particular the Fenian struggle which extended from the mid 19th century to the Easter Monday Uprising of 1916 in all its "Terrible Beauty." The Trinity of the title, according to the publishers, refers to three families (only two are around for most of the book) but surely must be the past, present and future which keeps repeating itself inexorably through the years. ![]() ![]() Life inside the notorious Mansion wasn't a dream at all - and quickly became her nightmare. But like Alice's journey into Wonderland, after Holly plunged down the rabbit hole, what seemed like a fairytale life inside the Playboy Mansion - including A-list celebrity parties and her own number-one-rated television show for four years - quickly devolved into an oppressive routine of strict rules, manipulation, and battles with ambitious, backstabbing bunnies. ![]() The shocking, never-before-told story of the bizarre world inside the legendary Playboy Mansion - and, finally, the secret truth about the man who holds the key - from one of the few people who truly knows: Hef's former number-one girlfriend and star of The Girls Next Door.Ī spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Sue Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our normal mind congratulates itself for achieving certain things, but such self-centered thoughts prevent us from really learning and seeing. ![]() What is meant by his term 'beginner's mind'? The purpose of Zen practice, the author explains, is to have a simple, pure mind, open to possibilities. ![]() Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind was his one and only book, but has been treasured for its beautiful expression and life-changing insights. One of these practices, zazen, is a meditation posture that involves little more than sitting and breathing.ĭaisetz T Suzuki was the first to bring Zen philosophy to the West, but Zen master Shunryu Suzuki consolidated its influence by establishing the Zen Center in San Francisco in the 1960s. It has become a familiar word to us, but what is Zen? When Buddhism spread to Japan, it gained its own distinctive flavor and practices, and became known as Zen Buddhism. ![]() |