![]() ![]() He doesn’t have many days left, but he wants to see a dragon before he leaves the world behind. It’s all about life, about finding a miracle, living for several hundred years, and embracing love.Įverything you want can be yours. So I’m a little raw and a little weepy, but the story isn’t! She would’ve turned 64 on the 6th of May. AND Mated to the Fire Dragon was released on her birthday. I came home yesterday evening after having been in Mum’s house clearing out things. So there is illness and grieving what will never come to be, unless you find a sock-less dragon, of course. It’s not a sad story, and no one dies, but Zale is very ill, and he is preparing to let go. This is me processing that, with an added aversion to socks, dragons, and a certain blacksmith because why not? If you’ve followed me for some time, you know my mother passed away back in November #fuckcancer. Mated to the Fire Dragon was released on the 6th. Hiya! I’m here as Holly today □ Do you know what day it is today? It’s No Socks Day □ and I wrote a story. ![]()
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![]() The era of sublight colonization begins.ģ14 PD: Austin Grayson leads his followers to the Yeltsin System to escape the evils of Earth's technology using a sublightħ25 PD: The first crude hyper drive is tested in the Solar System. Sept 30, 1PD (2130 AD): The first interstellar ship, Prometheus, departs the Sol System. Many of these books are freely available online. Below is a listing of the five series followed by a very brief fifteen hundred year chronology followed by a Reading Order. The viewpoint, emphasis, and detail of such an event cause the "common" event to become "unique" in each series. Events that stand in the background in one series can be in the foreground or mid ground in another series. Honorverse which are internally consistent and are thoroughly enjoyable as standalone collections. This is a fast paced intriguing series, no words are extraneous no detail is superfluous, from the start "On Basilisk Station", MaPD - c. The storytelling vividly illuminates the human spirit which can often be very bright or very dark. ![]() The people and societies face challenges, triumphs, defeats, and conflicts of personal choice and cultural differences. ![]() The Main Honor Harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. ![]() Honorverse Timeline Booklist Reading Order Honorverse Timeline Booklist ![]() ![]() ![]() Shin bones act as little pots for bone marrow butter. Pig, bone marrow butter, radishes and moss We arrive at Otto Ristorante at Woolloomooloo to find two rows of tables decked out with moss, edible flowers, bunches of baby radishes and a series of pig heads, roasted until the skin had turned into cracking and their ears had become all kinds of crispy. My interest was piqued by the idea of an all-female event, particularly in an industry still plagued by pockets of a boys club mentality and hostility towards women. TOYS Collective events are notorious for selling out within hours, even at $160 a head. The first event for 2012 - Blood, Bones & Butter - is an all female affair, inspired by American chef Gabrielle Hamilton's autobiography of the same name. The event is the 9th edition of the wildly successful TOYS Collective, a series of one-off collaborations by local young and inspirational chefs, commencing in Sydney and expanding to Melbourne late last year. It's just another surreal moment in an evening that veers between playful and extreme yet is always sincere. ![]() "This plate tastes delicious!" I say, as I snap off another piece and savour every crumb. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2013, we celebrated our 40th anniversary with the reissue of 18 of our classic books ? a wonderfully diverse collection ranging from Douglas Coupland?s Generation X and Iain Banks? The Wasp Factory, to Tom Holland?s Rubicon and Alexander McCall Smith?s The No. Unforgettable' Andre BrinkĪbacus is home to some of the world?s most renowned authors, including Donna Tartt, Gore Vidal, Jane Gardam, Primo Levi and Beryl Bainbridge. 'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and dignity. humane, dignified and magnificently unembittered' The Times ![]() 'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book. Mandela emulates the few great political leaders such as Lincoln and Gandhi, who go beyond mere consensus and move out ahead of their followers to break new ground' Sunday Times ![]() Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader. ![]() The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are 'essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama ![]() ![]() Friedman explains that while a centralized government could improve the well-being of average communities, it would inhibit diversification, subsequent development, and “substitute uniform mediocrity.” While explaining the advantages of capitalism, Friedman states that the system “permits wide diversity” and allows a “system of proportional representation” (21). Friedman’s Economic and Political Mechanismįriedman asserts early on that protection of individual freedom is his primary goal since “the great advances of civilization have never come from centralized government” (11). In this paper, by applying a consequentialist lens of scrutiny onto Capitalism and Freedom, I will prove that Friedman’s argument concerning the necessity of a free economy for political freedom does not consider enough present real-world repercussions of capitalism, nor is it consistent with Friedman’s fundamental goal of power decentralization. ![]() Although Friedman’s discourse appears impressive, it ultimately consists of internal contradictions as well as neglect for the economic and political consequences of capitalism. ![]() ![]() One of Friedman’s key claims in Capitalism and Freedom is that “economic freedom is an indispensable means towards the achievement of political freedom” (15) - essentially, economic freedom is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for political freedom. In his book Capitalism and Freedom, economist Milton Friedman (1912–2006) attempts to integrate the principles of political freedom and economic freedom with one another. ![]() ![]() In much of the developed and developing world, that decline is already underway, as urbanisation, women’s empowerment, and waning religiosity lead to smaller and smaller families. ![]() This time, however, we’re thinning ourselves deliberately, by choosing to have fewer babies than we need to replace ourselves. Throughout history, depopulation was the product of catastrophe: ice ages, plagues, the collapse of civilizations. Rather than growing exponentially, they argue, the global population is headed for a steep decline. But a growing number of experts are sounding a different kind of alarm. ![]() ‘A gripping narrative of a world on the cusp of profound change’ – Anjana Ahuja, New StatesmanĮmpty Planet offers a radical, provocative argument that the global population will soon begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political and economic landscape.įor half a century, statisticians, pundits and politicians have warned that a burgeoning planetary population will soon overwhelm the earth’s resources. ‘Riveting and vitally important’ – Steven Pinker ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Emmett and the rest of the Genesis spaceship survivors must rally and forge their own path through a new world. But it didn't take long for him to learn that Babel's competition was full of broken promises, none darker or more damaging than the last one. ![]() ![]() "File this book under A for Amazing." -Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling authorĭiscover book two in the sci-fi space trilogy that Bustle described as " The 100 meets Illuminae" and Marie Lu called, "a high-octane thriller."Įmmett Atwater thought Babel's game sounded easy. Now he & his friends must find a way to return home despite their enemy’s true intentions & what they will do to destroy anything in their way. That leaves Emmett not knowing who to trust. When Emmett descends to the surface of Eden to explore the wonderful, yet dangerous world, he & his team are put in the middle of the tension between Babel (the company they work for) & the Adamites (the inhabitants of the planet). Join Emmet and his team on the next leg of their journey in BOOK 2 of this tension-filled, character-driven sci-fi trilogy. In fact, he so totally kept me wondering what would happen next that I read this book in three days! And trust me, I don’t go out of my way to read sci-fi, but that’s how good his writing is. A well-plotted story from start to finish! Scott Reintgen knows how to hold back just the right amount of information to keep you on the edge of your seat. ![]() ![]() To realize this ambition, significant reductions in LCOE (levelized cost of energy) will be required across all key stages in the development of a floating wind farm. ![]() ![]() WindFloat Atlantic – Portugal (25 MW), Hywind Scotland (30 MW)), and there is a robust pipeline of projects which is expected to deliver 250 GW installed floating capacity by 2050 ( DNV, 2020 James and Ros, 2015). Several pilot- and demonstration-scale floating wind farms are now operational in different parts of the world (e.g. Numerous investigations for developing efficient and optimum floating offshore wind turbine (FOWT) platforms and various innovative design concepts have been evolving in the last few years ( Uzunoglu et al., 2016 EWEA, 2013). ![]() This trend creates additional challenges in the design, installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning phases of an offshore wind farm. Wind turbines are moving further offshore to deeper waters and are exploiting higher wind speeds in harsher environments ( McCann, 2016). ![]() ![]() How do you break out and experience the full potential that God intended you to have? The answer lies in a simple yet profound process to change the way you think about your life and help you accomplish what's truly important. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can't pursue what's truly important to you because your day is crowded by the demands of mundane routines and other people's priorities. Do you often dream of living a more rewarding life? Do you aspire to a better job, a stronger marriage, a happier home? Do you wish for more gratifying relationships with your family and friends? Perhaps you simply want to accomplish more and leave a lasting legacy for future generations.If you are like most people, you have written these goals and dreams on a list that's titled "Tomorrow's To Do". ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Is reality virtual? It’s a question made even more interesting by this book’ - Barbara Kiser, Natureĭo we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in order to survive. His startling argument has implications for philosophy, science, and how we understand the world around us’ - Steven Pinker ![]() ‘One of the deepest and most original thinkers of his generation of cognitive scientists. His writing has appeared in Scientific American and Edge, and his work has been featured in the Atlantic, Wired, and Quanta. The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyesĭonald Hoffman is professor of cognitive science at the University of California, Irvine. ![]() |