And I want the challenges that it offers.”Īdams still loves being mayor - and thinks we should all be happy about that, too. “I say every day that I wake up: ‘When does the hard part start?’ Because it’s not hard for me,” he told a group of health workers last July. The reply was vintage Adams: “When I hear that saying, I say over and over again, ‘When does the hard part start?’ This is not a hard job if you’re committed.”Īdams repeated the cocky quip publicly and privately in various venues throughout his first year in office. “Nine months into the job, what do you think - and what surprised you about it?” “Some say that being mayor of New York is the second toughest job in America,” said the club’s president, Jen Judson. Last autumn, during an address to the National Press Club in Washington DC in the early days of the migrant crisis, Mayor Adams fielded a question that all New York City mayors get. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer Photo: Shutterstock
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OL15160442W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.40 Pages 428 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0449911357 Last month I craved feel-good, transportive reads. Urn:lcp:friedgreentomat00flag:epub:aad03e7c-8988-4903-8eab-b05fdb103b8b Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier friedgreentomat00flag Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4nk41n1k Isbn 0070212570ĩ781400064625 Lccn 88009137 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:23:50 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA110513 Boxid_2 CH128801 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0008 DonorĪlibris Edition 1st McGraw-Hill pbk. Sapkowski moves the plot quickly amid a welter of names and lightly sketched histories, giving the world depth but also confusing the reader at times. Before it's adapted as season 3 of The Witcher, we review it chapter by chapter. French's translation piles on clich s and contemporary English slang ("raining cats and dogs," "have a butchers") to play up Sapkowski's fondness for anachronisms such as mages arguing over the killing of endangered species. Time of Contempt is the second book in Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher saga. Ciri is forced to flee on her own through an unreliable portal, facing a variety of ordeals while Geralt searches for her. The Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis sends hunters to pursue Ciri and to disrupt a conclave of mages while his troops roll over his squabbling neighbors. 9780316451550 Genre Sci-Fi & Fantasy / Fiction / Fantasy / Epic Description In hardcover for the first time comes the second novel in the Witcher saga by bestselling author Andrzej Sapkowski, in which Geralt of Rivia sends his ward Ciri to train with the sorceress Yennefer, even as trouble stirs within the Wizards Guild. Geralt, the Witcher (a magic-boosted warrior), and his beloved, the sorceress Yennefer, try to protect Princess Cirilla, heir to a conquered land, from the Empire of Nilfgaard as it attempts to absorb all the Northern Kingdoms. This crowded sequel to the Polish bestseller Blood of Elves mashes up political intrigues, military maneuvers, magic duels, and monster hunts. Their goal was to produce a collection of “Visionary Fiction” written by social justice organizers the grounding principle of their collaboration was the idea that “all organizing is science fiction.” A mentor at the time suggested I read Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (AK Press, 2015), a science fiction anthology co-edited by adrienne and the activist Walidah Imarisha. When I was first introduced to the work of adrienne maree brown, it was through fiction. Justin Scott Campbell | Longreads | April 2018 | 19 minutes (5,357 words) Wright puts forth the mindfulness meditation offered by many Buddhist traditions as a means of overcoming our evolutionary-determined and intuitive habits of thinking and of perceiving the physical world and the human condition with greater clarity and compassion. A bestselling author sets out to improve the world by encouraging mindful meditation.īy his bold title, Pulitzer finalist Wright ( The Evolution of God, 2009, etc.) means to assert that "the core of Buddhism's assessment of the human condition…its conception of certain basic aspects of how the mind works and of how we can change how the mind works.warrants enough confidence to get the label that the title of this book gives it.” The author finds this corroboration in recent developments in psychology and evolutionary biology, contending that current theories suggesting a modular structure for the mind in place of a single executive support the Buddhist doctrine of "not-self.” Furthermore, demonstrable distortions of our perceptions of the world, also anticipated by ancient Buddhist thought, originally served valuable evolutionary purposes but are now obsolete and contribute to personal and social dysfunction. I won't give away the end, but as an adult I could see it coming after only the first quarter of the book. The scenes with the English teacher made me smile when the kids completely missed the point of the exercise, though I admit that the teacher went a bit overboard and was not careful in choosing the passages he read. It's a very interesting way in which the author is able to grasp the social influences in this age group. On a road trip from Ohio to Idaho, 13-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle, who is part Indian, entertains her grandparents with stories about Phoebe Winterbottom. While the main character in this book learns many life lessons (her friend Phoebe reminds me of a friend I had when I was a girl), I found myself nodding my head about the manner that she learns them. I usually listen to science fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction. He normally listens to books like Harry Potter, the Percy Jackson series, and books by Jonathan Stroud. Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech has a variety of setting changes within the story. I went ahead and listened beforehand and found myself sucked into a book that neither of us would normally listen to. Creech wrote and published three books in England Walk Two Moons, published in 1995, is her fourth book. My son was assigned this book for school, starting this week. She and her husband have recently moved the family from the Big Island, where they worked as laborers on a sugarcane plantation, to Oahu, and they are drowning in debt. Malia - the matriarch of the family that Kawai Strong Washburn ’08SIPA conjures in his standout debut novel, Sharks in the Time of Saviors - is desperate for something to put her faith in. “And this,” says Noa’s mother, Malia, “was when I started to believe.” But instead of mauling him, the sharks carry Noa gently in their mouths, returning him to the boat unharmed. Then something remarkable happens that will change the family forever: Noa falls overboard into shark-infested waters. Nainoa (Noa) Flores is seven years old when his family takes a boat tour in their native Hawaii - a common activity for tourists, but a rare treat for working-class locals like them. He sacrifices time with his family for nightly meetings at the boss’ apartment that get nowhere. it certainly sounds interesting,” when inside he wants to tell his new employers how ridiculous and implausible they all seem. He decides to take a gamble and apply for a position at a bigger company, even though he has no real experience or even true desire for the job. It is about a man named Tom Rath, a hapless office-drone, with a wife and kids to take care of, a car that’s in its death throes, and a job with no chance of advancement. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit was written by a man named Sloan Wilson in 1955. I could give you a short, essay-style synopsis such as: I could point out that this novel is a precursor of sorts to such diverse latter-day reads as The Accidental Tourist and Bright Lights, Big City as well as the acclaimed film The Deer Hunter. I could tell you that this book came out in the mid-’50s, that it was made into an award-winning film starring Gregory Peck not long after its initial release, and that it was an international bestseller, translated into 26 languages and banned in Russia (apparently for espousing capitalist values.) It has recently been re-released by Four Walls Eight Windows. Now, I could start by telling you the obvious: That this is one of the best novels written about the post-WW II lifestyle and how families were coping with the traumas induced on the men who saw combat overseas. “To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.” Lovers of mythology should snap this up.” “ Enchanting…Saint expertly highlights how often the women of this world pay the price for the actions of the men around them. “A beautiful epic…In a world ruled by temperamental, petulant gods, Ariadne is a shining beacon of female strength and courage-making this a story that’s impossible to forget.” “Captivating…Saint’s mesmerizingly beautiful prose makes Ariadne a fascinating read.” “Saint’s immersive novel thrusts the reader straight into the heart of Greek mythology with this wonderful reimagining of the story of Ariadne.” “ If you loved Madeline Miller’s Circe, then you have to check out Ariadne by Jennifer Saint.” " Circe fans would do well to take note." “The story broadens, forks,spins, and braids through the perspective of multiple narrators, and the resultis fascinating and unpredictable…A great read.” “ Beautifully written and nuanced, Ariadne explores the bonds between women and their epic quest for agency in patriarchal Greek society.” “ A page-turner…If you like Madeline Miller's Circe and Son of Achilles, you will eat up Ariadne, a retelling of yet another engrossing and horrifying classic Greek myth.” A Most Anticipated Book ( Bustle, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, Goodreads) In this infl Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. I also would really recommend Beyond Good and Evil by Fredrick Nitzsche. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. I read The Origins and History of Consciousness before reading Maps Of Meaning. The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Featuring a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. |