![]() There, he set up a new division for the company that focussed on helping multinational clients understand and navigate the social, political and cultural environments in frontier and conflict-affected markets. Mike then worked in Somaliland and Myanmar for a risk management company as Research Director. He subsequently read for his PhD at King’s College London on the history of the conflict in Helmand province, Afghanistan, which later became a critically-acclaimed book, An Intimate War. During this period, he also worked as an advisor to four commanders of the UK’s Task Force Helmand, advising them on local population dynamics. This programme took Pushtu-speaking British officers and trained them to build relationships with Afghan notables in order to understand and influence the society in which the UK military was operating. ![]() Mike began his career as a (Pushtu-speaking) British Army officer where he pioneered, designed and implemented the British Military’s Cultural Advisor programme (profiled here in The Sunday Times). Mike often comments in the international media about conflict, geopolitics, and military strategy. ![]() He also works with governments, militaries and other organisations around the world, helping them to understand and navigate conflicts. Dr Mike Martin is a War Studies Senior Visiting Fellow at King’s College London, where he speaks and writes on conflict. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At first glance, nothing much seems to happen in this book. But more "if life pushes you where you never wanted to go, and you have the courage to accept this new way, you can find unexpected happiness". ![]() Nothing so trite as "life goes on" or "time heals all wounds". What I loved most about this book is the message it seems to send. It's truly a wonderful book, especially because it deals with the painful side of life: loss, grief, living with a big hole where there used to be a person while trying not to drown in other's grief and accepting that life does go on. Just when Anna finally starts to feel as if she's getting some control of the situation, the biggest fight begins and Anna really has to step up once and for all.Ī winner, in my humble opinion. Anna barely has time to brush her teeth in the morning, let alone to date a woman-least of all one who has no idea about the two kids under her care. Filled with self-doubt, Anna feels as if she's making a mess of the entire thing, especially when she collides with a long-legged stranger. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their grief while managing her own. ![]() Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn't even like. Everything changes abruptly when her brother's and sister-in-law's deaths devastate her and her family. (August 12, 2015)Ī successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Elisa_rolle All the little Moments by G Benson ![]() ![]() ![]() There was nothing quite like throwing a punch or two when he was feeling at sixes and sevens, and he was certainly feeling that way this morning. “I could use a good brawl just now,” he said, rubbing his eyes. His soldiers were widely regarded as some of the fiercest men in all of Britain. He had learned to fight at his father’s knee and now taught young men from his clan. ![]() “We’ve men training for unarmed conflict this morn,” Jock said, settling into a chair across from him.Īrran perked up at that. “I expected you to be abed this morning.”Īrran smiled. “And how does the morning find you, laird?” he asked with much jocularity. He arched a thick, dark brow above a smug smile. Unlike Fergus, Jock looked as fresh as a spring daffodil. Jock joined him a quarter of an hour later. He’d been hard at work of late, preparing for a voyage that would take him to France to trade wool for cloth and wine, which he would then ferry to Ireland to sell or trade for leather goods.įergus appeared at the door of his study, looking bleary-eyed, his thinning hair in complete disarray. He sat himself at a desk stacked with papers and books, shipping ledgers and the household accounts. He liked that it adjoined his dressing room. It was a small room, the original purpose lost. The lad picked up his cloak and stumbled clumsily down the hall.Īrran walked down the hall to his study. ![]() ![]() One such phenomenon was William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, the story of an unrepentant criminal who escaped the gallows time and again. Even Dickens and Thackeray, both at the beginning of their careers, fell under the spell of these tales-Dickens publicly admiring them, Thackeray rejecting them. The best-selling titles were the most sensational true-crime stories. In the years just before the murder, new printing methods had made books cheap and abundant, the novel form was on the rise, and suddenly everyone was reading. The missing clue, it turned out, lay in the unlikeliest place: what Courvoisier had been reading. ![]() The police suspected Russell's valet, Courvoisier, but the evidence was weak. ![]() ![]() The brutal murder had the whole city talking. From the acclaimed biographer-the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Queen Victoria herself to wonder: Can a novel kill?In May 1840, Lord William Russell, well known in London's highest social circles, was found with his throat cut. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike the later Partners in Crime (1929), the order of the stories was retained.Īround this time, a novel was offered for publication to The Bodley Head and was rejected. His assistance mainly took the form of revising the beginnings and ends of the stories to make them flow better into a novel – the substance of each story remains the same between the short story version and the novel version. Campbell helped her revise the stories, which had been written for The Sketch, into a more coherent form for book publication. Her brother-in-law, Campbell Christie, suggested that, rather than undergo the strain of composing a completely new novel, Christie should merely compile her most recent series of Poirot stories into a full length book. ![]() In 1926 Christie was already deeply affected by the death of her mother earlier in the year and the breakdown of her marriage to Archibald Christie. This is a tale of international intrigue and espionage, therefore opening up the possibility of more spy fiction from Christie. The structure of the novel is different from other Poirot stories, as it began from twelve short stories (eleven in the US) that had been separately published. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings, and Inspector Japp. The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 27 January 1927 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this pulse-pounding sequel to Kass Morgan's The 100, secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope. Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the hundred must fight to survive. ![]() And GLASS managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth. WELLS, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves - but will she ever forgive him Reckless BELLAMY fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only siblings in the universe. CLARKE was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did. It could be their second chance at life.or it could be a suicide mission. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents - considered expendable by society - are being sent on a dangerous mission: to re-colonize the planet. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. No one has set foot on Earth in centuries - until now. The Hunger Games meets Lost in this spectacular new series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. ![]() Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).Īsimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. Isaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. ![]() ![]() ![]() GitHub lets you add a README file at the same time you create your new repository. ![]() You can use this cheat sheet to get started with Markdown syntax. README files are written in the plain text Markdown language. Often, repositories include a README file, a file with information about your project. ![]() Repositories can contain folders and files, images, videos, spreadsheets, and data sets - anything your project needs. Creating a repositoryĪ repository is usually used to organize a single project. If you have a question about any of the expressions used in this guide, head on over to the glossary to find out more about our terminology. You don't need to know how to code, use the command line, or install Git (the version control software that GitHub is built on). To complete this tutorial, you need a GitHub account and Internet access.
![]() She asks questions to her best friend Andrew and to her mum, but she’s not sure how to ask or what she’s really asking in the first place, so the answers she receives are unhelpful. Stevie tries to figure this out by herself. What she doesn’t know is what the fizzy feeling she feels when she looks at Chloe is. Stevie also knows that she likes Chloe, a girl in her class at school who can do magic tricks. She knows that sea angels are actually called cliones, she knows that octopuses have three hearts, and she knows how to tap out messages in Morse code to her mum at night. Stevie wants to know everything (because by doing so hopes she will be able to stop bad things from happening), and she has a large notebook where she writes down all the things she knows. She is afraid of zombies and clowns, and also many of the strange and scary things that live in the oceans. The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan is an unusual middle-grade book that is written entirely in verse and will appeal to fans of Matilda and Lumberjanes.Įleven-year-old Stevie lives with her mother and suffers from anxiety. Please note: This post contains affiliate links. ![]() Today’s book review is The Deepest Breath by Meg Grehan. Follow the Pride Month tag to find all the content in one space (including LGBTQ content from previous years), and keep checking back for more throughout the month. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. ![]() ![]() ![]() In May 2021, months into recovery, Black women’s unemployment rate was 1.5 times that of white women’s and similarly, Latinx women’s was 1.6 times higher than their white counterparts’.įor the millions of women who managed to keep their jobs, work took a backseat to caregiving and household responsibilities. ![]() Overrepresented in the sectors most impacted by pandemic layoffs, such as hospitality, leisure, and retail, women of color and women in low-paying jobs were left reeling. When COVID-19 infection rates began to rise in March 2020, women lost more than 12.2 million jobs, and still had a net loss of 5.1 million by February 2021. According to Koa Beck, journalist and author of the new book, White Feminism, the ideology and strategy of white feminism “focuses more on individual accumulation, capital and individuality.” With brute force, COVID-19 took a sledgehammer to white feminism’s illusions of progress to expose a harrowing reality: despite decades of feminist organizing, women are still sinking under the weight of inequality at work and at home. For so long, white feminism has celebrated the success of a few - women who gain powerful political positions, lead the largest Fortune 500 companies, and foray into historically male-dominated spaces - while overlooking the suffering of millions. The coronavirus pandemic smashed the illusion of gender equality into a billion tiny pieces. ![]() |