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![]() ![]() Some inside concepts pervade all my books for children, including this one. The inside is a tear, a chuckle, a flutter of the heart, or perhaps a haunting memory of a long-ago emotion or insight that persists, reaching back into my own childhood. ![]() The eruption of a volcano is also sudden, but that which has preceded it has been slow, deliberate and unstoppable. Some outside event may seem to have caused an idea to burst into sudden bloom-but really the seed was planted much earlier and had been growing quietly inside my psyche for a long time. I hear people say things like: “As I watched the sunset, I suddenly had an idea.” I wish it were that easy for me. This can appear to have happened suddenly. A deep internal emotion may push its way to the top to be framed and put into words, colors or music. The outside may be an intellectual process or a quick, superficial impression that pushes a submerged emotion to the surface. No doubt, what is outside and what is inside are the basic elements in constructing a story, in creating a painting, or in composing a piece of music. I found that to be a fairly accurate and perceptive assessment. One child, who wrote to me, asked this question, then went on to tell me that ideas come from both your outside and your inside. ![]() ![]() |a United States |x Armed Forces |x Officers |x Education. |a Counterinsurgency |z Afghanistan |x History |y 21st century. |a Counterinsurgency |z Iraq |x History |y 21st century. |a Generals |z United States |v Biography |a Strategic culture |z United States |x History. |a Counterinsurgency |z United States |x History. |a Presents the inside story of a small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who determined to revolutionize the United States military and reshape twenty-first-century military policy. CT - "Storm clouds" - "A new American way of war". |a "What we need is an officer with three heads" - "Another type of warfare" - "Eating soup with a knife" - Revolutions - The insurgent at war - The irregulars - "Where's my counterinsurgency plan?" - The Basin Harbor gang - The directive - The insurgent in the engine room of change - The workshop - Hearts & minds - "Clear, hold, and build" - "We are pulling in different directions" - The field manual - The surge - Awakenings - The insurgent in the Pentagon - "It is folly" - COIN vs. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages -396) and index. |a First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |a David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war ![]() |a The insurgents : |b David Petraeus and the plot to change the American way of war / |c Fred Kaplan. ![]() ![]() He survives, only to be captured and sold as a galley slave. Rather than accept death meekly, he leaps into the Shattered Sea. So, donning unfamiliar armor and carrying weapons he can barely lift, he leads a raid against Grom-gil-Gorm-only to be betrayed by those around him. With no alternative, Yarvi must take the Black Chair and swear an oath to avenge his father’s death. ![]() While Yarvi’s uncle Odem offers sad encouragement, his mother, Laithlin, master of the treasury and expert business negotiator, remains her usual supercilious self. After years studying under Mother Gundring-luckily, he’s a more-than-capable apprentice-Yarvi is ready to take the ministry’s test when news arrives that his father and elder brother have been treacherously murdered by neighboring rival King Grom-gil-Gorm. So Prince Yarvi, born with a withered hand, had only one option: to train as a minister (counselor). ![]() A new fantasy series kicks off with a coming-of-age yarn, from the popular author of Red Country (2012, etc.).Īmong the royalty of Gettland, only strong, fearless, cold-eyed warriors have value. ![]() ![]() “Biographies.” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2017, pp. Spriggs, Bianca Lynne, and Jeremy Paden, editors. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. ![]() Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co-founded the Affrilachian Poets. A blazing canopy of newly minted Light fluttered in while we slept. ![]() All night the palmetto sky Was seized with the aurora And alchemy of the remarkable. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011) The World Is Round (2003) Rice (1995) and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). A Poem by Nikky Finney JBy Nikky Finney On the occasion of the Confederate flag falling in South Carolina, J It is the pearl-blue peep of day. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Her next full-length poetry collection, The World Is Round (Inner Light Books, 2003) was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award sponsored by the Independent. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. ![]() NIKKY FINNEY was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2019, he partnered with Hill once again for two new Locke & Key stories, “Dog Days” and “Nailed It. ![]() He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower Sword of Ages and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. ![]() Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. ![]() ![]() But as the days turn to weeks and their mother doesn’t return, they realize it’s up to them to find the truth. Promising that she knows someone who can help, her mother leaves Hannah and Gabe behind to find a cure. No roots, no family but one another, and no explanations.Īll that changes on Hannah’s seventeenth birthday when she wakes up transformed, a pair of golden eyes with knife-slit pupils blinking back at her from the mirror-the first of many such impossible mutations. ![]() Her mother has kept her and her brother, Gabe, on the road for as long as she can remember, leaving a trail of rental homes and faded relationships behind them. ![]() Hannah’s whole life has been spent in motion. Rebecca Podos, Lambda Award-winning author of Like Water, returns with a contemporary Jewish fantasy of enduring love, unfathomable loss, and the power of stories to hold us together when it seems that nothing else can. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lance’s LIVESTRONG Foundation has sold 86 million of the ubiquitous yellow wristbands. This was the focus of his keynote talk and the topic of a great blog by Jarret Pazahanick about paying it forward. One of the reasons I admire Lance so much is that he has used his fame to help others. The next year, he extended his winning streak to seven. In 2004, he made history, by becoming the first person to win six Tours. A few years later in 1999, Lance won his first Tour de France. Postal Service cycling team, reached out. Upon his release from the hospital towards the end of that year (after chemotherapy and several surgeries), he was distressed to find his phone lines silent with offers from cycling teams. ![]() After racing in the 1996 Olympics, he was diagnosed with cancer. Lance’s presentation started with a brief timeline of his racing career. This time, he was much more relaxed, wearing a plain shirt with an open collar. ![]() I saw him for about 5 seconds per lap as he sped by at 30 miles per hour – basically, an intense blur of color. It was actually the second time I have seen Lance in person the first was a few years back when he raced in San Francisco. As a cyclist, he has long been one of my heroes, so you can imagine my excitement in seeing him speak. ![]() One of the highlights of SAPPHIRE NOW, in addition to meeting with many customers and hearing how their businesses are benefitting from SAP solutions, was hearing Lance Armstrong speak at the ASUG keynote. ![]() ![]() The fate of the hero is marginalized among other national heroes of politic or military. If those are the fate of the heroes generally how about the fate of the language/ ordinary hero. The biography of the heroes is almost forgotten, their live path was not noticed moreover to be an example while the labors are only given the monthly salary and paid with minimum allowance. The heroes are paid attention around the Memorial Day likewise the labors were paid attention around the Labor Day. ![]() Both are the same, if the heroes are given a bouquet on their graves thus the labors are given the appreciation “necklace” for their services. The heroes are welcomed when they can invite the “foreign exchange” to their birth places, and the labors are honored when they make the foreign exchange come to the country. Heroes in this country have the same fate with the labors they are only welcomed when their services are needed to attract the “foreign exchange”. Publisher : Unri Press Pekanbaru with the Government ![]() Book Title : Sejarah Perjuangan Raja Ali Haji Sebagai ![]() ![]() ![]() As I finished the last page, I was filled with the overwhelming urge to begin a reread of The Lightbringer series to now reexamine the finished jigsaw puzzle under fresh eyes. The Burning White was chock full of multilayered, complex revelations that significantly changed motivations and foundations that had been established for key characters since book one. Interestingly and much to his credit, my good friend Cory recommended both series to me. ![]() Brett, is another series that comes to mind that I comparably raved about. For reference, The Demon Cycle by Peter V. It has been such a long time since I’ve read a completed series (that isn’t an established classic) and enjoyed almost every part of it. I’m currently in the midst of not only a book hangover, but indeed a whole series hangover. ![]() |