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![]() He offers practical and enlightening insights into how choices are made in both our business and our personal lives-and how we can use different techniques to guard against the mental glitches that often get us into trouble. The impact of loss aversion and overconfidence on corporate strategies, the difficulties of predicting what will make us happy in the future, the challenges of properly framing risks at work and at home, the profound effect of cognitive biases on everything from playing the stock market to planning the next vacation-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions.Įngaging the reader in a lively conversation about how we think, Kahneman reveals where we can and cannot trust our intuitions and how we can tap into the benefits of slow thinking. Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities-and also the faults and biases-of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behavior. System 1 is fast, intuitive, and emotional System 2 is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. ![]() In the highly anticipated Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman takes us on a groundbreaking tour of the mind and explains the two systems that drive the way we think. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, I am hard at work on so many new stories for you. but before I move on, THANK YOU, GEEKY WEB GUY, SAN! The nicest thing is that he does this all just to free up more writing and family time for me, which it does, brining me on to my next point. ![]() Seriously, I would be totally lost without this guy, and I can't thank him enough. Well that's all down to my awesome geeky web guy who does all things awesome for me like makes everything look all purdy' for you haha. So, you may have noticed that the look of my website has changed. I think all my links are on the main page. I also have a slight Pinterest addiction, so feel free to come over and obsess with me over random things there. I know when I'm looking for a new book, or author, I look to my peers and see who they recommend, with that said, I always post to my Goodreads account, so be sure to follow me there if you want. I REALLY like introducing people to knew authors and their work. And that brings me on to my second main reason. It brings me out in all kind of hives having to talk about my work, so I tend too let other authors take over my blog instead. Number one is that I'm not very good at this whole 'talking about myself' thing. So, it's been an awful long time since I actually wrote a blog post all about me. ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. The first in the series, Borrowing Blue, is available now. Each book tells the story of one of the Marian brothers' search for true love. While it can also be read on its own, Taming Teddy is the second in the new Made Marian series. Now I'm afraid that maybe I'm the marrying type after all. There's just one problem: I think I'm falling in love. No commitment, no strings, and no chance of getting my heart broken again. ![]() ![]() So when a cocky nature photographer decides I'm the key to his next masterpiece, it seems like the perfect arrangement: the hotshot's only in town for a brief assignment and then he'll be gone. Now I have a new motto: never commit and never fall in love. ![]() Jamie: I always thought of myself as the marrying type. Soon enough I have him in bed saying yes over and over and over again, but my ability to shoot and scoot is frozen by a Denali snowstorm. He's reluctant at first, but I can be persuasive. He's known as the Wildlife Whisperer, and I want to photograph him in action. James Marian's front porch in the middle-of-nowhere Alaska. I'm always on the road, looking for the next shot, the next award, the next hot body. You don't become an award-winning photographer by staying in one place. Teddy: If there's one thing I don't do, it's commitment. ![]() ![]() ![]() A number of them again deal with a single day of action ( The Nuremberg Raid, The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission and The Peenemünde Raid) while others cover longer air battles ( The Battle of Hamburg and The Berlin Raids). Middlebrook's Second World War books concentrate on the air war. Middlebrook gave the same single-day treatment to 21 March 1918, the opening of the German spring offensive, in The Kaiser's Battle. The book is a detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army. Middlebrook wrote his first book The First Day on the Somme (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. Middlebrook subsequently spent three years in Territorial Army service. He entered National Service in 1950, was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and served as a Motor Transport Officer in the Suez Canal Zone and Aqaba, Jordan. Middlebrook was educated at various schools, including Ratcliffe College, Leicester. Martin Middlebrook FRHistS (born 1932) is an English military historian and author. Martin Middlebrook speaking on a tour of a cemetery where war dead from the Battle of the Somme are buried, 2014. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the whole, the story focuses on romance, misconceptions, family relationships, and the problem with first impressions and gossip. Also, Lydia’s marriage with Wickham despite the family knowing his true nature is another constraint of the time Austen lived. Even during Lydia’s elopement, the readers were left to infer their attachment or living as husband and wife, with no hint to their attraction or attachments. Despite, love and marriage being the prominent themes in the novel, there is no violence or physical attraction in the story at all. The novel is set in the late 18 th century, thus, one could see a lot of possibilities and consideration of marriage. Pride and Prejudice is a character-driven narrative focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, the protagonist of the novel. From the day it found its place in print till now, it has been a more appealing novel to teenagers and to all the lovers of literature who loves romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jennifer Lynn Barnes was born in 1984 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Twelve (The Naturals #5), 2017 (novella).Killer Instinct (The Naturals #2), 2014.Taken By Storm (Raised By Wolves #3), 2012. ![]()
![]() I’ve read more of his books than anyone else and seen tons of his movies. Who the hell designed this thing.īD: If you could have drinks with any author or literary figure, whom would you invite?ĭAS: Stephen King. That’s criminal.ĭAS: I like the chittering click of poker chips that fills the air at a poker tournament.ĭAS: The constant beep beep beep my stupid fridge makes when I leave the door open for too long. Superman cost 400 million dollars and it’s not even entertaining. That feeling.ĭAS: Artist with limitless resources who turn out crap. ![]() You know it’s damn good and you can’t wait to get it down on paper. Yeah, that one sucks.īD: What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?ĭAS: There’s a certain moment, after you’ve been struggling with an idea for days or weeks, when suddenly the solution clicks into place. 2 #14 Dwayne Alexander Smithīookish Devices: What is your favorite word?ĭwayne Alexander Smith: Fiasco. Read this book! I mean it … right now! After you read Mr. ![]() The ending though! Whew! I think it left the door open for another book. ![]() Forty Acres is a very unique story about slavery told from a point of view I never considered. He is the author of Forty Acres, a story of a young black attorney who is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power.Īfter seeing a couple of friends rave about this book in 2014, I requested it from NetGalley. Dwayne Alexander Smith joins us today for Ten Questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gramma Lenore (grammar Lenore lost Lenore) is a former pupil of Wittgenstein, a conceit that allows Wallace to run wild with his own philosophical-linguistic concerns. The Broom audiobook features the considerable talents of reader Robert Petkoff, who brings life to its many characters like protagonist Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman, a switchboard operator looking for her grandmother (and namesake) in the weird nooks and crannies of Wallace’s fictional Cleveland. Hatchette Audio’s new audiobook version of Broom highlights the strength of Wallace’s dialogue, a feature of his writing perhaps overlooked, or at least overshadowed, by his complex diction and syntax and his innovative narrative structures. David Foster Wallace’s first novel The Broom of the System obsesses over language, words, storytelling and what it might mean to have our lives circumscribed in another person’s narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Essentially, it seems DeConnick is using the "six issues to a trade" (five, here) format as it was perhaps best intended - not feeling the need to slot in an action sequence every issue, but rather just letting the story build naturally to its conclusion. ![]() In terms of "talkiness," Amnesty's structure is interesting - two issues telling Arthur's origin and recent history in flashback, an issue that largely consists of Arthur chatting with Wonder Woman and a history of his home of Amnesty Bay, an issue of Arthur and new Aqualad Jackson Hyde hanging out, and then finally a closing battle with a sea monster. But again, the core seems to be the characters - many of them familiar - and that's far, far better than the book starting over from scratch. There's a heavy dose of court politics here, plus a sprinkling of sea-supernatural and even a couple of supervillains. This second volume, however, is thoroughly set in the mythos Arthur has occupied since the New 52 and into Rebirth, and DeConnick excels in simply putting the characters in rooms and letting them talk to one another. ![]() Last time around featured an amnesic Arthur Curry among some esoteric water gods - a blank slate story that didn't feel much related to Aquaman necessarily. 2: Amnesty is a lot more set-up than superhero action, but if this is an indication of what Kelly Sue DeConnick's Aquaman run will truly be like, I'm all for it. ![]() |