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![]() I could feel it.She lands, thankfully intact, but it soon became very clear that she's not in Kansas anymore. I felt my body getting heavier, my back plastered to the cushions now, and suddenly-with a mix of horror and wonder-I knew that I was airborne. Hint: it really sucks to be airborne in a metal trailer. What's the worst it could do? Kill her? Life sucks, remember, so who cares about dying? Until well, shit, the tornado actually happens. So when a tornado warning is announced, Amy doesn't really care. She's stuck with her mom's pet rat named Star that, with her luck, might turn out to be Peter Pettigrew in the long run (I'm just kidding). She lives in a trailer in Kansas, with a drug-addict mom, no dad, and no future. The Summary: Tornado or no tornado, I wasn’t Dorothy, and a stupid little storm wasn’t going to change anything for me. People are forgetting how it used to be.”But let's get back to the beginning, what the fuck happened?! How did Oz get to.this? The Pond of Truth tells lies, the Wandering Water stays put. ![]() ![]() Pray for a tornado to take you back to Kansas, because man, Oz is fucked up as shit. ![]() ![]() Little did he know that this was the thing that would start his new and wonderful career as a novelist after the novel blew up and quickly achieved best-selling status.Īfter that, Daniel pursued this career choice full-time and has never looked back. Careerĭaniel worked as a journalist for a few years, traveling and writing interesting content until he started working on his first novel in 1994 called The Unlikely Spy. He is a best-selling American author who writes thrilling stories, a lot of which happen to be related to some exciting espionage tales that he constantly comes up with.ĭaniel received his BA from California State University, Fresno after which he started a graduate program in international relations at San Francisco State University which he left pretty quickly after he was offered a pretty nice deal to work as a journalist at UPI. I’m sure that many of the thrill-seeker readers out there know a thing or two about Daniel Silva’s novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In late eighteenth-century France, women do not have a place in politics. But as the tide of revolution rises, women from gilded salons to the streets of Paris decide otherwise-upending a world order that has long oppressed them.īlue-blooded Sophie de Grouchy believes in democracy, education, and equal rights for women, and marries the only man in Paris who agrees. Ribbons of Scarlet is a timely story of the power of women to start a revolution-and change the world. Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and peasants, harlots and wives, fanatics and philosophers-six unforgettable women whose paths cross during one of the most tumultuous and transformative events in history: the French Revolution. ![]() ![]() There are differences in gun ownership rates by political party affiliation, gender, geography and other factors. adults say they live in a household with a gun, including 30% who say they personally own one, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in June 2021. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.įour-in-ten U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part in the surveys is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. ![]() Methodology for each Pew Research Center poll can be found at the links in the post. Data about the number of monthly gun background checks comes from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. ![]() We used data from our own polling and from Gallup surveys to provide insights into Americans’ views on gun policy and how those views have changed over time, as well as to examine the proportion of adults who own guns themselves and their reasons for doing so. In the aftermath of several recent mass shootings in the United States, Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to share key facts about Americans and guns. ![]() ![]() ![]() But their relationship remained lowkey even when they would always be spotted in public together. ![]() She’s really hilarious." Clearly, Meester's efforts in denying their relationship in that interview didn't work. She’s the most interesting, sophisticated, talented and an extremely funny person that I know. ![]() In 2009, Sebastian Stan told People, "I’m a really lucky guy. RELATED: Here’s Why Sebastian Stan Is Private About His Girlfriend You just really, really want to, like, stare at the person." When asked if she was in love during that time, Meester told Cosmopolitan, "I haven't been in a lot of relationships, but I've been in love. ![]() Leighton Meester kept her mouth shut about the relationship even when it was already going on for a year. It was one passionate relationship, but they somehow managed to keep it lowkey. The two were said to be making out a lot on set. They were one of the worst matches in the show, but the actors eventually developed feelings for each other in 2008. The ex-couple's characters in Gossip Girl, Blair Waldorf and Carter Baizen had a playful affair in the show. RELATED: Everything The Cast Of Gossip Girl Is Up To These Days How It All Started But what actually happened between them in the two years they were together? Let's retrace their relationship timeline. The ex-couple definitely did well at the going separate ways thing. ![]() ![]() Journal of Behavioral Data Science.ĭugoua, E., Kennedy, R., Shiran, M., Urpelainen, J. The role of personality in trust in public policy automation. Purchasing power: Examining customer profiles and patterns for decentralized electricity systems in East Africa. ![]() Lukuyu, J., Shiran, M., Kennedy, R., Urpleainen, J, Taneja, J. Introduction to R for social scientists: A tidy programming approach. ![]() ![]() You can also download my CV using the link below and also link to additional research through my Google Scholar page. The book explores the level and nature of trust in these AI systems, the characteristics of AI systems that engender trust, and who gets blamed when these systems make errors, among other topics. In addition to the works listed below, and the continuing projects listed on my Projects in Progress page, I am currently working on a book project that looks at public trust in artificial intelligence (AI) in a variety of public policy areas like criminal sentencing, autonomous weapons systems, geopolitical forecasting, and detecting election fraud, among others. My current work is highly multidisciplinary, including work with engineers, computer scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, and private sector researchers. My work has spanned multiple subfields in political science, as well as working in other fields outside of political science. ![]() Below you can find references and links to my published research. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second volume The Kingdom of the Sun is also being reissued in Faber Finds. The Normans in the South is the first of two volumes that recount the dazzling story of the Norman Kingdom of Sicily. It is also the story of his brother Roger, thanks to whom he conquered Sicily from the Saracens and of Roger's descendants, notably his son Roger II, who converted his father's achievement into a cosmopolitan and cultivated kingdom whose surviving monuments still dazzle us today. In one year, 1084, he had both the Eastern and Western Emperors retreating before him and one of the most formidable of medieval Popes in his power. It is the story of Robert Guiscard, perhaps the most extraordinary European adventurer between Caesar and Napoleon. This book is about the 'other' Norman Conquest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a notorious widow dies, old rumours resurface about her killing her husband. ![]() When the wealthy benefactor who is providing Poirot with shelter is poisoned, he steps in to find the truth, with the killer most likely to be a member of the victim’s household.Ĭhristie became a literary superstar with the publication of this book. There, he meets his old friend Poirot, a retired Belgian detective who is now a refugee. Why not start at the beginning? It is the middle of World War I, and Hastings is home on leave, staying with friends at their country estate, Styles. They're listed in publication order, not ranked order, and there's the opportunity to choose your favourites at the end too. Here are ten page-turners perfect for celebrating 100 years of the great detective. If you're looking for a compelling Poirot story, then there's no better place to start. Written by Agatha Christie expert Chris Chan ![]() ![]() ![]() He read it quietly and then tucked it into his toga. While this was going on a slave arrived in the Senate to deliver a message to Caesar. Cato, a bitter opponent of Caesar, took this as indicating that Caesar was secretly in league with the conspirators and stood to denounce him in colourful terms. Caesar followed this by arguing for their banishment instead. One anecdote early on I found peculiarly endearing: At the height of the Catiline conspiracy crisis Cicero addressed the Senate demanding the death penalty for the conspirators. But there was more than that: I was surprised by just how much I came to like Caesar. Certainly, as Goldsworthy points out, Caesar had a more dramatic life than almost any other human being who ever lived, from his conquest of Gaul, to his crossing of the Rubicon, to the delivery of Cleopatra to his bedchamber in a laundry basket, to his assassination in the Senate. ![]() So I started reading and was quickly hooked. I felt that this was something of a character flaw for an erudite chap of the 21st Century. I started reading this book because I felt I should: I realised I didn’t have a fully formed opinion of Julius Caesar, other than Shakespeare’s negative portrayal of him. ![]() Summary: an extraordinarily gripping account of one of history’s most dramatic lives ![]() |
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