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![]() ![]() ![]() In 1951 Archer won a scholarship to Wellington School, in Somerset (not to be confused with the public school Wellington College). The brother assumed the name David Brown and only discovered his relationship to Archer in 1980. He has an older brother born out of wedlock, also originally called Jeffrey, who was put up for adoption at an early age. He was two weeks old when his family moved to the seaside town of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he spent most of his early life. ![]() Jeffrey Howard Archer was born in the City of London Maternity Hospital. Alongside his literary work, Archer was a Member of Parliament (1969–74), deputy chairman of the Conservative Party (1985–86) and was made a life peer in 1992. Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare is a best-selling English author and former politician whose political career ended with his conviction and subsequent imprisonment (2001–03) for perjury and perverting the course of justice. Currently-lives in London and the Old Vicarage,.Education-Oxford University Oxford Institute.Where-London raised in Somerset, England, UK. ![]() ![]() ![]() Theranos lab employees were under continuous observation - camera surveillance, email scrutiny, the works. A riveting story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a tale of ambition and hubris set amid the bold promises of Silicon Valley.Įxtreme retaliation against former employees There was just one problem: The technology didn’t work. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fund-raising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’ worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. ![]() In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood testing significantly faster and easier. This book has everything: elaborate scams, corporate intrigue, magazine cover stories, ruined family relationships, and the demise of a company once valued at nearly $10 billion.” (Bill Gates) “The story is even crazier than I expected, and I found myself unable to put it down once I started. ![]() The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of Theranos, the one-time multibillion-dollar biotech start-up founded by Elizabeth Holmes - now the subject of the HBO documentary The Inventor - by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. Named one of the best books of the year by: NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post ![]() ![]() ![]() The war in Afghanistan was necessary to root out al-Qaida and the Taliban, and help create a "free society" in Central Asia, he says. The former president revisits nearly all the controversial decisions of his tenure, and defends them with vigor. And the absence of broad reflection leaves some large historical questions unanswered.Īs a justification for his actions, Bush's memoir succeeds admirably. This serves his literary and political purpose, which is to make the case for his policies as president, but it does little to reveal the inner man. Bush devotes one chapter and parts of a few others to his pre-presidential career, but the great majority of the book concerns his eight years in the White House. Bush cites Grant's memoir as inspiration for his own. Second, Grant in the memoir displays a capacity for sobering reflection, admitting where his mistakes during the Civil War sent thousands of soldiers needlessly to their deaths.įormer President George W. First, the book deals almost exclusively with the period prior to Grant's presidency, thus providing insight into the man who became president, rather than the president himself. ![]() There are two secrets to Grant's enduring success. Grant are generally considered the finest by any former president. Brands is a presidential historian and the author of Traitor To His Class, a biography of President Franklin D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() No less tricky is managing the King himself, whose temper, reasonableness and predictability, like his physical self, has never been more volatile.Ĭromwell has built security, wealth and power despite his humble origins through the exercise of his various strengths. Even more difficult is keeping England, and its small holding on the continent, safe from the King of France and the Holy Roman Emperor. So, they ask – when chance serves, what revenge will Thomas Cromwell seek on his sovereign, his prince?’Ĭromwell still has to manage and navigate the various factions in the Court and Kingdom those who think Anne’s downfall will mean Princess Mary will be reinstated as heir and a reconciliation with Rome will follow those who think Cromwell owes them favours for his rise in power and success in the Boleyn matter, and the King’s illegitimate son who thinks he could be put in line to the throne as well. ‘I only report what the people are saying.’ ‘They ask,’ Wriothesley says, ‘who was the greatest of the cardinal’s enemies? They answer, the king. He says, ‘If I wanted revenge on Wolsey’s enemies, I would have to strike down half the nation.’ They look at those who slighted him, in his lifetime – Brereton, Norris – though Norris was not the worst…’ They say, look at what Cromwell has wreaked, in two years, on Wolsey’s enemies. ![]() ‘People have been talking of the cardinal. ![]() ![]() ![]() This inscription of difference implicates the news media as a central player in the social construction, categorization and defamation of peoples and places in the emerging post-Cold-War geopolitical (dis)order. ![]() This frame relies almost entirely on non-African sources, depicting Africa as a timeless and placeless realm of “tribal” conflict, the repository of deep-seated US fears of African “others”. Through content and intertextual analysis of six major US newspapers, and through juxtaposition of news coverage of Bosnia, we reveal how the press distorts Rwanda coverage to fit a frame. Despite the comparable message potential inherent in these parallels, the US news media have elected to cast their coverage of the two wars in two different frameworks of understanding. Similarities can be found in military tactics and in how external imperialism, ethnicity, rural underdevelopment and even topography shape various parameters of the conflicts. There are many parallels between the current civil wars in Rwanda and Bosnia. ![]() ![]() ![]() His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Ito's universe is also very cruel and capricious his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order. For example: A girl's hair rebels against being cut off and runs off with her head Girls deliberately catch a disease that makes them beautiful but then murder each other a woman treats her skin with lotion so she can take it off and look at her muscles, but the skin dissolves and she tries to steal her sister's skin, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most common obsessions are with beauty, long hair, and beautiful girls, especially in his Tomie and Flesh-Colored Horror comic collections. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby - even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga. Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. ![]() ![]() It took me a while to get used to that – as several of the upcoming stories follow the same pattern. That story was the first one I remember in the series where Dream wasn't the main character. Nada makes her next appearance in the Doll's House Prologue – Tales in the Sand. I figured there would be more about this later on. Well – I thought – that wasn't explained very well. He tells he that he still loves her, but after 10,000 years has not forgiven her. She only shows up (on one page) and implores Dream (who she calls Kai'ckul) to forgive her so she can be released from Hell. A Hope in Hell (one of my favorites in that collection). ![]() Nada makes her first appearance in story 4 of Preludes and Nocturnes. It was easily my favorite Sandman story collection since Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman 1). ![]() ![]() Season of Mists (Sandman 4) was a lot of fun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Who was your favorite from the original 4 Dean & Allie for me 19 32 32 comments Best Add a Comment rhfactor18 1 yr. ![]() *THE LEGACY is an 85,000-word novel that is made up of four novellas. The Legacy by Elle Kennedy Is anyone else diving into this book today, the day it came out I’ve never pre ordered a book but I couldn’t wait for this one. Growing up is a whole lot harder.Ĭome for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences.and big rewards. ![]() As it turns out, for these four couples, love is the easy part. Sure, they have each other, but they also have real-life problems that four years at Briar U didn't exactly prepare them for. Life after college for Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina, isn't quite what they imagined it would be. Three years of real life after graduation. The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now?įour stories. ![]() ![]() Her book is about noticing the wild everywhere and what it means to see beauty where you least expect it. Leaving her garden to the mercy of the slugs, the Guardian's award-winning writer Alys Fowler set out in an inflatable kayak to explore Birmingham's canal network, full of little-used waterways where huge pike skulk and kingfishers dart. 'Gentle, brave and acutely observant' Woman's Weekly 'This candid book is as much about mapping the heart as it is about mapping the paths of waterways. ![]() 'She writes wonderfully about the species that have carved out a place for themselves amid the discarded shopping trolleys, condom packets and industrial waste' Guardian 'Hidden Nature is one of the most thrilling things I've read in a long time' Waterways World ![]() 'Fowler captures the beauty of the canal's dishevelled, neglected condition.' Times Literary Supplement 'Fowler beautifully exposes her emotional fragility while also celebrating the unloved nature of buddleia, herons and even the water rats who take refuge among the locks.' i paper 'An emotional and compelling memoir, that left me inspired, both by her bravery in transforming her life, and by the unexpected beauty she finds along the way' Countryfile Magazine ![]() 'Fowler's moving memoir charts her experience of coming out as a gay woman, alongside her journey through Birmingham's canal networks, mapping both the waterways and the travails of her heart.' Observer ![]() |