![]() Per Amazon’s charts, the book is selling better than Dr. I still refer to it regularly and it is never far from my desk when I am active in the markets. Hailed by The New York Times as a book that must be read to understand the first thing about the role of oil in modern history, Yergins bestselling. 3 book out of literally every book on Amazon because of an anime fan named bigolas dickolas. It is surprisingly easy to read - but due to the sheer size one ideally wants to go through it whilst on the beach for a fortnight! Some of the trivia that Yergin covers is what makes this book so memorable and entertaining - yet the book also serves a very serious purpose in explaining how the oil industry evolved over more than a century. It also brings about an understanding of present day politics - for instance it helped me understand why the UK is referred to by Iran as 'Little Satan' (with the US as 'Big Satan'). But by the end of it you will know more about oil than most industry participants. It is a lot of book however - at over 900 pages and the text is in a fine font. ![]() I was surprised how well written and engaging this book is. ![]() It is hard to write a history of any industry that is both comprehensive, educational and entertaining. It may sound like a description of JR Ewing (of Dallas fame) but the real life characters that Daniel Yergin describes are every bit as loud as JR. Passion, greed, the pursuit of money, double dealing, lying, cheating, corruption, coups.this book has it all. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (Paperback) by Daniel Yergin (shelved 2 times as oil-industry) avg rating 4. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He has written a new preface and twenty-five essays, which add even more potency to a common, though no less relevant, piece of wisdom: that the most basic aspects of life bear its most important opportunities. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world. Twenty-five years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo–a credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. You can read this before All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten written by Robert Fulghum which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum ![]() ![]() Using death after death to fuel his powers, the killer plans to bring down a night of eternal darkness, and rule within it. Because Shara's assassin is no mere mortal, and her murder was just the beginning. Yet as he pursues his quarry with his customary terrifying efficiency, Sigrud learns that far more than revenge is at stake. And Sigrud has much experience in matters of suffering. ![]() Suddenly, Sigrud's life has a purpose: to find Shara's killers and make them suffer for what they've done. Then his closest friend and ally, former Prime Minister Shara Komayd, is assassinated. His entire existence has seemed only to visit suffering and death upon those he wants most to protect - while he himself has emerged from each battle cruelly unscathed, inexplicably immune to forces both natural and divine. He is a fugitive and an exile, wanted for murder throughout the empire of Saypur. Sigrud je Harkvaldsson has nothing left to live for. And all shall dwell within the night, and the night shall swallow all." ![]() "Where your shadow falls there shall be night everlasting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() See: List of Shakespeare’s play’s I’ve read and commented on COMMENTS ON THE TAMING OF THE SHREW However, I will keep a separate page listing each play I’ve read with links to any comments I would make of that particular play. At this time I have no idea how the project will go, nor if it will actually lead me through the entire corpus of Shakespeare’s plays. Thus I began with The Two Gentlemen of Verona. ![]() I wanted to go back, start with something not too serious or challenging, and work my way through the whole corpus. I hadn’t read a Shakespeare play since 1959, 50 years ago! But I had read nearly all of them in college. General Note: In January 2009 I decided that I’d like to go back and read all the plays of William Shakespeare, perhaps one a month if that works out. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW By William Shakespeare Book review - THE TAMING OF THE SHREW William Shakespeare ![]() ![]() Their passion blazes with an intensity Merritt has never known before, making her long for the one thing she can’t have from Keir MacRae: forever. His world is thrown into upheaval, and the only one he trusts is Merritt. Keir doesn’t know why someone wants him dead until fate reveals his secret connection to one of England’s most powerful families. One: don’t fall in love with the dazzling Lady Merritt Sterling. They couldn’t be more different, but their attraction is powerful, raw and irresistible.įrom the moment Keir MacRae arrives in London, he has two goals. But then she meets Keir MacRae, a rough-and-rugged Scottish whisky distiller, and all her sensible plans vanish like smoke. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. ![]() ![]() “The devil never tries to make people do the wrong thing by scaring them. New York Times bestseller Lisa Kleypas returns with an enthralling and steaming romance between a widowed lady and a Scot on the run-who may have connections to one of London’s most noble families. ![]() ![]() ![]() The car, they discover, is not a car at all. The Buick 8, which resembles a vintage blue 1953 Buick Roadmaster, has been in storage in a shed near the barracks since 1979, when it was left at a gas station by a mysterious driver who then disappeared without a trace. The troopers begin telling Ned about the "Buick 8". ![]() The cops, the dispatcher and the custodian quickly take a liking to him. After Curtis Wilcox, a well-liked member of Troop D, is killed by a drunk driver, his son Ned begins to visit the barracks. The novel is a series of recollections by the members of Troop D, a Pennsylvania State Police barracks in Western Pennsylvania. ![]() According to the book's cover sleeve's inside front flap: " From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable." The title comes from Bob Dylan's song " From a Buick 6". Published on September 24, 2002, this is the second novel by King to feature a supernatural car (the first one being Christine which, like this novel, is set in Western Pennsylvania). From a Buick 8 is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jeanette Winterson is one of my favorite writers and this book just made me love her more. “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit” is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.īook Worm’s Thoughts: ★★★★★. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. Synopsis (from Goodreads): This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God’s elect. Literary Awards: Whitbread Award for First Novelįind it here: Oranges are not the Only Fruit Oranges are not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson ![]() Here are our thoughts about Oranges are Not the Only Fruit. She is one of our favorite authors and it just so happened that Book Worm and I were reading her first novel at the time of her latest release. Jeanette Winterson just came out with a new book this holiday season. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Removed from the library shelves of the Rosedale Union School District in Bakersfield (CA) because of discomfort with Sones’ poem Ice Capades – a teenage girl’s description of how her breasts react to cold. 2005Ĭhallenged at the Bonnette Junior High School in Deer Park (TX) for foul language and references to masturbation. 2006Ĭhallenged for sexual content and being unsuited to age group. 2008Īvailable only to 7th and 8th graders at the Spring Hill (WI) School library after a parent wanted the book, which deals with masturbation, groping, and sexual fantasy, among other themes, to be removed from the library and the accelerated reading program. 2011Ĭhallenged for sexism, sexually explicit scenes and being unsuited for age group. 2012īanned or challenged for nudity, offensive language, and being sexually explicit. Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() One day, as Forrester staffed the inquiry desk of the British Council office, a shy young man, Avadh Bhatia, described by her later as “the most exquisite-looking Indian”, struck up a conversation and “very precisely asked me if I would like to go to the cinema with him”. When peace came, she volunteered to arrange social events for students from abroad. Later she became engaged to Edward Parry, who was killed in action in France. Her first love, Harry O’Dwyer, had died in 1940 when his ship went down. ![]() ![]() Forrester, whose real name was June Huband, had already lost two fiances during the second world war tragedies that are described in three popular sequels to Twopence to Cross the Mersey, Liverpool Miss (1979), By the Waters of Liverpool (1981) and Lime Street at Two (1986) – sequels that jointly sold 4.5 million copies.īy the time Forrester met Bhatia’s father she had resigned herself to a single life. “My father had travelled to England from India to study for a PhD in physics at Liverpool University and he was already married, unhappily, when he met my mother,” said Bhatia, who lives in Edmonton, Canada. His book, Passage Across the Mersey, is out this week. Robert Bhatia, Forrester’s only child, has used his late mother’s archive of letters to piece together the secret turmoil that led her to leave Liverpool to find a new life abroad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Octavia's related to the woman who sparked the long-time family feud - and fears that falling hard for Nick would only ignite the flames again. But that's only part of the reason why she turned Nick Harte down six times before - finally - agreeing to a date. Summer in Eclipse Bay Art gallery owner Octavia Brightwell doesn't take chances - especially on handsome, charming men. When she finds Gabe at her door demanding she fulfill their business contract, the sparks between them suddenly turn personal. ![]() And after five disastrous dates, Lillian is at her wit's end. ![]() Successful CEO Gabe had insisted on becoming a client of Lillian's matchmaking service. Dawn in Eclipse Bay Only months after their siblings' wedding, Lillian Harte and Gabe Madison are at each other's throats. Reunited by a surprising inheritance after years of living their separate lives - Rafe Madison and Hannah Harte are discovering something that is at once delightful and deeply disturbing. Eclipse Bay by Jayne Ann Krentz 4.3 (33) Paperback (Mass Market Paperback) 8.99 Paperback 8.99 eBook 8. And as the next generation of Hartes and Madisons, Hannah and Rafe are expected to hate each other too. Jayne Ann Krentz - Eclipse Bay Trilogy: Eclipse Bay, Dawn in Eclipse Bay, Summer in Eclipse Bay (Eclipse Bay Series). Eclipse Bay Their grandfathers hated each other. ![]() |