![]() ![]() With this, part one of David Mack’s new STTNG trilogy, the android is back in a different way, though both involve the copy of the Data-matrix that was uploaded into B-4 in that last NextGen movie. Nevertheless, the character has a couple of different resurrection stories, one that bridges the alternate timeline established by the 2009 film Star Trek (which film, I might add, made me love Captain Kirk again), using the Star Trek Online RPG (and tie-in novel) and the Countdown comics to bring the character back, looking essentially like the Data we know and love. But how high a price will he pay for victory?īy now, more than ten years after his on-screen death in Star Trek: Nemesis, fans have accepted that we’re unlikely to see Brent Spiner portray Data ever again. Star Trek the Next Generation: Cold Equations #1 – The Persistence of MemoryĪ BRAZEN HEIST Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the Enterprise crew race to find out who has stolen Data’s android brother B-4-and for what sinister purpose.Ī BROKEN PROMISE One desperate father risks all for the son he abandoned forty years ago-but is he ready to pay the price for redemption?Ī DARING MISSION Against overwhelming odds, and with time running out, Commander Worf has only one chance to avert a disaster. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The batching of hard but important intellectual work into long, uninterrupted stretches is key to high productivity. Hard things are complex and you need to give them all of your attention and focus. To become one, you need to develop two skills: the ability to quickly master hard things and the ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.ĭeep Work is the concept that interlinks these two skills. Those who can work with intelligent machines and technologyĭeep Work focuses on the third type.Owners of capital or people with access to it.Then there are the rare gems that fundamentally change the way you think, live, and work.ĭeep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport is one of the later (my Deep Work summary here).Īs the world advances, three kinds of people will survive and prosper: ![]() ![]() The result is a portrait that is at once remarkable and fascinating, tragic and triumphant. Award-winning author Emily Arnold McCully opens the window on a peculiar and singular intellect, shaped - and hampered - by history, social norms, and family dysfunction. Their ensuing collaborations resulted in ideas and concepts that presaged computer programming by almost two hundred years, and Ada Lovelace is now recognized as a pioneer and prophet of the information age. At seventeen, Ada met eccentric inventor Charles Babbage, a kindred spirit. ![]() ![]() Tutored by the brightest minds, Ada developed a hunger for mental puzzles, mathematical conundrums, and scientific discovery that kept pace with the breathtaking advances of the industrial and social revolutions taking place in Europe. Emily Arnold McCully received the Caldecott Medal for Mirette on the High Wire. Her strict mother worked hard at cultivating her own role as the long-suffering ex-wife of bad-boy poet Lord Byron while raising Ada in isolation. 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Pooh sees difficult situations with objectivity, and he reacts appropriately, but his point of view is balanced and non-invasive. The master can enforce their will by not getting personally involved in situations that don't demand it. This book is an elaboration on an idea from the author, that Winnie the Pooh is an excellent depiction of this master. ![]() The Tao is a book by Lao Tzu about the habits of a master. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is so confident in his abilities that he thinks he could get a young woman who has turned on all things romance to fall for him. In it, a teenager who professes himself to be a love doctor and works on the airwaves with his radio. The story is described as ‘witty’ and romantic, somewhere between Hitch crossed with The Sun Is Also a Star. ![]() This is a young adult novel designed for younger readers, but readers of any age will be able to enjoy this well-written book for themselves! In any friend group, she is known for being the Mom Friend of that group.Įbony LaDelle has also been a co-host for “Why Not YA?”, a monthly video series where she interviewed other authors that are working in the young adult writing genre.Įbony first came into her own spot in the author world with the 2022 publication of her debut novel, Love Radio. She can usually be discovered looking for her next live concert to attend or checking out the most recent food craze to try. The rest of her she attributes to being cultivated in Brooklyn. When night time arrives, she’s a natural born story teller.Įbony was born in Michigan and attended Howard University for her higher learning, where she says she was ‘awoken’. Like many writers who haven’t made the jump to full time writer status yet, Ebony is a marketing pusher when it comes to her day job. Ebony LaDelle is a published American author of fictional novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Piper doesn't want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there's an undeniable attraction simmering between them. How bad could it really be? She's determined to show her stepfather-and the hot, grumpy local-that she's more than a pretty face.Įxcept it's a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. ![]() So what if Piper can't do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. Piper hasn't even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won't last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father's dive bar. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong. The first in a spicy and unforgettable rom-com duology from #1 New York Times bestseller and tik tok favorite Tessa Bailey, in which a Hollywood "It Girl" is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is emphasized that the ideas of calling Atilla as God's whip, Bilge Kaǧan with the belief of managing the human beings and Ottoman sultans characterizing themselves as God's silhouette in the world are arisen from the same origin. In the paper which focuses on God as the holy presence taking care of Turkish life and future, the basic acceptance of Turkish myths is pointed as the necessity of divine order in different eras. ![]() ![]() It is pointed that this case is related to the philosophy of oneness of existence in Islamic mysticism more than being a belief of penetration in ancient Turks. ![]() As the main hypothesis of the paper, the assertion that Grey wolf is holy because of being a creature in the manner of God in the Turkish myths and epics is tried to be proved. to Turkish death cult, moreover in the context of reproduction in ongons, the idea that ongons are not ancestor animals is subjected. It is claimed that the terms of "Ongon" and "tös" are related. Rimsko naselje Aquae Iasae (Varadinske Toplice), primjer recikliranja graevinskog materijala DOI: 10.17234/9789531757232-11 Authors: Dora palj Archaeological museum in Zagreb, Croatia. It is asserted in this paper that the wolf is not a tös, ongon or totem together with the explanations. 151 Dora Kuan palj ROMAN SETTLEMENT AQUAE IASAE-RECENT DISCOVERIES IN THE SANCTUARY AREA 171 Vane P. In the line with the limitation of the title, in the paper where Thomson's description about the term of motif is substantially investigated, the evaluations about the creation of wolf motif in Turkish belief and epics are examined. ![]() |