The hero with 1000 faces book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I would definitely place this book as a significant piece of work for understanding the primordial mind (emotional mind. If you are equally enthusiastic about those subject then this book will certainly keep you captivated throughout. For that reason (among many others) it was a MUST read for me. This book is cited numerous times in respected literature pertaining to sociology, behavioral psychology, and evolutional psychology. ![]() For those who are attempting to navigate through a life filled with tragedy and obstacles learning these symbolic representations may give you the inspiration to continue enduring as you undertake the hero’s journey. The mono-myth is the constituents of elements used to construct the fundamental framework for creation stories, literature in general, and theology. The collection of stories deconstructed by Campbell weave together what he calls the mono-myth. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Teams like the original group that created Saturday Night Live thrive in a place made safe for risk-taking. In Marine Corps training and nursing homes, he finds people are more motivated when they feel in control. Each chapter offers a remarkable blend of anecdotes and science illustrating concepts that clearly have much to offer individuals and companies striving for greater productivity. ![]() In absorbing stories from every corner of life, he shows how these ideas explain why some people get so much done. Drawing on research studies and innumerable interviews with neurologists, businesspeople, government leaders, and psychologists, the author identifies a series of key ideas that help expand productivity. Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter Duhigg follows up his bestselling The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (2012) with a revealing, brightly written exploration of the ways in which successful people make the right choices necessary to succeed with less effort. Why some people are more productive than others. ![]() Colleen hoover point of retreat series5/24/2023 ![]() Feel free to skip to whichever section you prefer. There are quite a lot of Colleen Hoover books that aren’t in a series so I’ve written them down in a simple list at the end, but I’ve also included the full descriptions. I’ve therefore divided the lists into series and put them in order of release date under each category. It’s quite difficult to list Colleen Hoover books in order as different books from different series were released within the same year, as well as non-series titles. Many of her works have been self-published before being picked up by a publishing house. Recently Hoover experienced a surge in popularity due to attention from the #BookTok community on TikTok. ![]() She is also the founder of The Bookworm Box, a non-profit book subscription service and bookstore in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Colleen Hoover books have massively surged in popularity recently.Ĭolleen Hoover is the bestselling author of multiple novels and novellas, specialising in young adult fiction and romance. ![]() Martin lings5/24/2023 ![]() The biography consists of 85 short chapters, some as short as just two pages in length. It is a narrative of the history of Arabia and the birth and the life of Muhammad. Also there is Al-Waqidi (and the references are to Marsden Jones' edition of Kitab al Maghazi, A Chronicle of the Prophet's Campaigns, by Muhammad ibn Umar al- Waqidi). Also Ibn Sa’ad (the references are to John Leyden's edition of Kitab al-Tabaqat al Kabir by Muhammad ibn Sa’d). References used are Ibn Ishaq (references here are to Ferdinand Wüstenfeld's edition of Sirat Rasul Allah, a life of the Prophet by Muhammad ibn Ishaq in the annotated recension of Ibn Hisham). The book also includes excerpts from original English translations of speeches by men and women who lived close to Muhammad, heard him speak, witnessed his actions, witnessed the way he interacted with situations and witnessed events he encountered throughout various stages of his life. It is not contradictory to other accounts but rather offers new insights and new details. It is based primarily on old Arab sources that go back to the 9th century, of which some passages are translated for the first time. ![]() ![]() The book provides a new account of the sira or the life of Muhammad, with details that had not been elaborated in other accounts. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is a 1983 biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Martin Lings. ![]() Minato kanae penance5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() "Minato writes character driven mystery/crime novels that take deep dives into people's psychology-especially girls and women-with an unflinching look at the dark side of humans. Minato has crafted an unnerving tale of tragedy, guilt, and penance."- Publishers Weekly Post by Director of Suspense Molly Odintz Kanae Minato’s second crime novel, Penance, already a popular mystery-turned-TV-series in Japan, was published early this year in US markets from the first page Penance plunges the reader into a profoundly disturbing tale of murder, consequences, and retribution. "Minato's simple, clear voice highlights the stories' psychological intensity, and themes of powerlessness evolving to strength, duty, and redemption create layers of interest that are perfect for book-group dissection."- Booklist (starred review) A lot of crime fiction focuses on the crime. Filled with strange entwinings of chance and effect, free will and manipulation, the mundane and the bizarre."- The Wall Street Journal Penance by Kanae Minato is a dark tale of revenge and psychological drama that will leave readers breathless. "With echoes of fairy tales and a Rashomon-like narrative structure, Minato's Penance is as ethereal and literary as it is a sharp, tight crime novel."- Literary Hub Penance by Kanae Minato Hachette Book Group A chilling Japanese psychological thriller and Edgar Award finalist about four women, forever connected by one horrible day in their childhood - fifteen yea. John Mandel, New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven "Kanae Minato is a brilliant storyteller."- Emily St. ![]() From hell alan moore eddie campbell5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() With the newly available From Hell: Master Edition hardcover graphic novel, readers can experience the award-winning bestseller From Hell in an astonishing new light, carefully renovated and newly coloured by Eddie Campbell himself. Welcome to Whitechapel… as you’ve never seen it before. Comic Projects: The Really Heavy Greatcoat.Comics Projects: Return to Planet Earth. ![]() ![]() Starblazer Checklist: Starblazer Abroad.Starblazer Recalled: Forgotten Fantasy Fiction – With Pictures.British Comic Reference | British Comic Characters Profiled | Garth.Marvel UK | “Genesis ’92”: Looking Back and What Might Have Been.Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide.Action – The Sevenpenny Nightmare – Micro Site.British and Irish Creators and Publishers on Twitter.British Classic Comics and Creators on Facebook.British Comics Sales Figures: The Good Old Days.British News Stand Comics and Magazines for Teens, Pre-Teens and Children.Why Your Favourite British Comic Strip of 1974 Hasn’t Been Reprinted – Yet!.Lakes Festival Focus – Comic Creator Interviews.Roy of the Rovers – Rebellion Books Check List. ![]() Changing world order book5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() This realization sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years. ![]() ![]() The last time that this confluence occurred was between 19. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political, and values disparities in more than 100 years and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes-and to offer practical advice on how to navigate them well.Ī few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. ![]() The mist 1980 stephen king5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() In a physically untouched North American geographical landscape, void of the quintessential European Gothic settings such as abandoned castles, the essential Gothic motifs of despair and hopelessness thus become instead based on unique forms of American injustices, hopelessness, and suffering. Such somewhat less complex motifs of despair and horror in the European Gothic included but were not limited to: the abandoned castle, restless ghosts, and patriarchal aristocracy of the kind embodied in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. Crow, points out in his 2009 treatise on the American Gothic that what we in the post-Civil Rights era now consider to have been abhorrent human rights abuses in the earlier days of the American Republic, assumed the role of many hallmarks of the European Gothic tradition not found in the New World (2009:2-20). Noted scholar of American literature, Dr Charles L. ![]() ![]() ![]() The United States is full to the brim with political, social, and thus literary potential for writers of the Gothic mode, and particularly as a Puritan experiment which has, over the course of several centuries, laid a foundation to a genre which literature experts denote as the American Gothic. ![]() The Lost Celt by A.E. Conran5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I had to pull over and write it all down before I lost it. Four years later, I was stopped at a traffic light, when the idea for The Lost Celt came to me. Something about that phrase and one visual image particularly, stayed with me. I was sure that something needed to be written about it, but I didn't know what. They told me there were always more admissions on "certain nights," when war stories or natural disasters were in the news. The idea for The Lost Celt was sparked by a conversation with two friends, both ER doctors at our local VA Medical Center. So many of these were stories about living through, and returning from, war. ![]() I read a lot of historical fiction, especially the works of Rosemary Sutcliffe and Henry Treece, as well as Greek classics like Homer. I was at Vindolanda, a Roman fort, the day they discovered a Roman sandal. I’ve always loved history, and I was particularly fascinated by ancient history as a kid: Greek, Roman, Celtic, Viking and Egyptian. As a child I painted tiny Roman and Celtic soldiers and visited historic sites across the UK including walking Hadrian’s Wall. ![]() Assassin's Creed by Alex Paknadel5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It brings together the Assassin's Creed: Assassin's and Assassin's Creed: Templars books in one package, continuing the stories of characters like Charlotte de Cruz and Black Cross. This new Assassin's Creed comic series kicks off on February 1, and will be written by Dan Watters and Alex Paknadel, with art from Assassin's Creed game storyboard artist José Holder. Titan Comics has been carrying the overarching Assassin's Creed story along now that the games aren't doing it, and the latest update from the publisher suggests it's all coming to an end: Titan is shutting down two of its four Assassin's Creed comic lines and merging them into one, all-new series. Interestingly, it looks like Ubisoft's ready to tie a bow on the whole thing. The oft-derided modern-day sequences of the first five core games chained together into a science fiction storyline which overlapped slightly with your historical adventures, and was, supposedly, the point of all your actual gameplay - but pretty much vanished after Assassin's Creed 3. The Assassin's Creed games seem to have lost the plot, but it turns out it's just hiding in the comics series.Īssassin's Creed has an ongoing plot, in case you've forgotten that. ![]() |