![]() ![]() I think this is great, since high-earning office-dwellers tend to be the most “time-poor” members of American society, in spite of their big paychecks.įerriss’s advice? Learn how to take control of your time, since time-ownership is more important than piles of money when it comes to living a rewarding lifestyle. And if you think this concept has a lot in common with Vagabonding, you’re right - Vagabonding is why Tim first contacted me, and my book is included among the “Fundamental Four” lifestyle-design books he recommends at the end of his own book.Īt heart, The 4-Hour Workweek is slanted toward a business audience - entrepreneurs and employees who are looking to spend less time senselessly working and more time mindfully living. Tim’s book is called The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich. Rather, Vagablogging’s newest author is Tim Ferriss, who writes language-learning advice for this blog. Sharp-eyed readers might have noticed that a Vagablogging contributor recently landed a book on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess isolates the tribal, antisocial elements of youth culture in a dystopian fable of violence as leisure. The most memorable fictional treatment of youth culture in the 1960s, however, puts a very different construction on the changing balance of power. The sense of a newly empowered sector of society is conveyed principally by the new spending power of young people, and the emergence of mainstream youth-related cultural forms, especially pop music, that quickly become significant components of the economy. For example, one of the key social changes of the 1960s is the emergence of 'youth culture'. This is certainly a simplification, but it does help pinpoint some of the more dramatic changes that may have been longer in the making. The decade in which post-war social change is felt to have been concentrated is the 1960s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sibling Dex, a human/Tea Monk, and Mosscap, a kind Robot, became best buds in A Psalm for the Wild-Built. In the second of the Monk and Robot series, Sibling Dex and Mosscap continue their slice of life adventures. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.īecky Chambers’s new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?Ī Prayer for the Crown-Shy is the coziest little communist book. A story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF.Īfter touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month.įor cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. ![]() For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here.Ĭhange the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() P-62 gave birth in 2018 and P-67 delivered a litter in 2020, officials said. It’s the third mountain lion litter found in the Simi Hills in recent years. P-77 makes her home in an area between the 101 and 118 freeways overlapping the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountain ranges. ![]() Biologists aren’t currently following any male cougars in P-77’s habitat, so they suspect the father might have come from nearby mountains and then went back. Scientists are calling the babies P-113, P-114 and P-115. They were born to a 5-year-old cougar dubbed P-77 that has been tracked since November 2019. The three females estimated to be a month old were found May 18 nestled in a patch of poison oak in the Simi Hills area about 40 miles (65 km) northwest of downtown LA, the park service said in a statement. LOS ANGELES (AP) - A mountain lion studied by biologists in wilderness areas near Los Angeles has given birth to three healthy kittens, the National Park Service said Thursday. ![]() ![]() The two immediately fall in love and move in together. She was attending an auto-da-fé, where her mother was being flogged before being sent into exile to Angola, for having visions which the Inquisition definitely did not approve of. He gradually made his way to Lisbon, with a hook where his hand used to be. He was unsure why he was fighting or whom exactly he was fighting for but fight he did, till he was injured in the hand, the hand was amputated, and he was unable to fight any more. Baltasar had been fighting in the War of Spanish Succession. ![]() ![]() In particular, she can see their wills, as a dark cloud. If she fails to do so, she can see inside people. The eponymous Blimunda takes a piece of bread to bed with her and eats it before opening her eyes in the morning. Saramago’s first novel translated into English will use a theme that we will find in his later novels, namely that physical sight is a metaphor for spiritual insight. Home » Portugal » José Saramago » Memorial do convento (Baltasar and Blimunda) José Saramago: Memorial do convento (Baltasar and Blimunda) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among other prizes and nominations, she won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize she was a fiction finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. ![]() I did google the author and scan through the thumbnails of the results on my phone (which, maybe, limits the aforementioned objectivity). Such an admission may make me appear uninformed about the young hotshots of contemporary American fiction (which is true), but it also gives me some objectivity. I don’t mind admitting that I had no idea who Ottessa Moshfegh was when I agreed to review her novel, Death in Her Hands. ![]() ![]() Later, Anyanwu discovers the pleasure of turning into a dolphin and swimming, and Doro discovers that he cannot “sense” her when she is an animal. In retaliation, she become a leopard and kills him. ![]() Lale has the ability to enter people’s minds and control their thoughts, which he uses on Anyanwu. ![]() Isaac has incredible telekinetic abilities, at one point rushing the boat past a squall using the power of his mind. Anyanwu recognizes one of her own kinsmen and frees him.ĭuring the Atlantic crossing, Anyanwu meets Doro’s white sons, Isaac and Lale. The slaver here knows Doro and is amenable to him. Soon they reach a coastal market where slaves are processed and branded. At one point he demonstrates the quickness and devastation of his power, killing a young boy and the arrogant son of a slaver he once knew within seconds. ![]() Anyanwu discovers that Doro has business with and dominion over every powerful slaver they meet. On their travels, they meet slavers of both African and European ancestry. Such a power both seduces and entraps Anyanwu, who follows him east, leaving her people behind. Doro is far older and reluctantly admits that he has the power to kill people and take control of their bodies. She is also incredibly strong and a noted healer among her people. She can change her form, mimicking the appearance of other people and the form and characteristics of animals. Both soon reveal themselves to each other as people with godlike abilities. ![]() In 1690, after searching for miles, Doro discovers Anyanwu. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The diagram was developed by Oxford economist Kate Raworth in the Oxfam paper A Safe and Just Space for Humanity and elaborated upon in her book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.īy John Cobb. co-author with Herman Daly of For the Common Good This situation is represented by the area between the two rings, namely the safe and just space for humanity. The centre hole of the model depicts the proportion of people that lack access to life's essentials (healthcare, education, equity and so on) while the crust represents the ecological ceilings (planetary boundaries) that life depends on and must not be overshot.Ĭonsequently, an economy is considered prosperous when all twelve social foundations are met without overshooting any of the nine ecological ceilings. The name derives from the shape of the diagram, i.e. ![]() The Doughnut, or Doughnut economics, is a visual framework for sustainable development – shaped like a doughnut – combining the concept of planetary boundaries with the complementary concept of social boundaries. The framework was proposed to regard the performance of an economy by the extent to which the needs of people are met without overshooting Earth's ecological ceiling. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She now realises the mistake she made in letting him handle her entire career, from deciding where she would sing to what she would be paid not only was he cheating her, he has left her completely ignorant of how to negotiate a good deal. Her marriage was tempestuous and not at all happy in the later years and to her consternation, Foscari’s death has left her in a very precarious financial position. Following an unhappy love affair when she was just seventeen, she married Domenico Foscari, a dynamic impresario who turned her from a good singer into a great one from someone worthy of gracing the stages of provincial opera houses to the most sought after diva in the world – La Divina. ![]() Theresa Foscari – born Tessa Birkett – is half English but hasn’t set foot in the country for well over a decade. Nineteenth century opera and theatre are things that have long been of particular interest to me, and some of the best things about Secrets of a Soprano are undoubtedly the accuracy and richness of the historical background and the insight into the life and habits of a famous singer that form the backdrop to the central love story. ![]() As a musician and opera lover, the story and background to this new novel from Miranda Neville are right up my street. ![]() |