![]() ![]() Collier has spent a lifetime working to end global poverty. ![]() ![]() If failed states are ever to be helped, the G8 will have to adopt preferential trade policies, new laws against corruption, new international charters, and even conduct carefully calibrated military interventions. What the bottom billion need, Collier argues, is a bold new plan supported by the Group of Eight industrialized nations. Standard solutions do not work, he writes aid is often ineffective, and globalization can actually make matters worse, driving development to more stable nations. Collier analyzes the causes of failure, pointing to a set of traps that ensnare these countries, including civil war, a dependence on the extraction and export of natural resources, and bad governance. ![]() The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind the majority of the world's people, often falling into an absolute decline in living standards.Ī struggle rages within each of these nations between reformers and corrupt leaders - and the corrupt are winning. In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that 50 failed states - home to the poorest one billion people on earth - pose the central challenge of the developing world in the 21st century. ![]()
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Enlisting the aid of Luke's Black Ops mates, they discover that Val's intended abduction is linked to an international gun smuggling alliance Now the BOI team, with Val along as a necessary pawn, must race to thwart a ruthless attack that would not only result in a devastating loss of life, but destroy the tenuous peace the U.S. Luke whisks Valentina off the train in a daring escape, and the two of them become the target of a relentless manhunt. It soon becomes apparent that robbery isn't their intent, but the abduction of supermodel Valentina, who's incognito while recovering from a public scandal involving her ex-husband, U.S. operative Luke Colter is taking some much needed down time, traveling across the Peruvian Andes via rail, when bandits attack the train. ![]() novel from New York Times bestseller Cindy Gerard. Lightening fast adventure, a terrorist plot with global ramifications, and red-hot romance collide in this sixth thrilling Black Ops, Inc. ![]() ![]() ![]() To comprehend fully Septimus Smith’s tragedy, one must understand the psychological effects of trauma and the process of recovery. ![]() Septimus’s war trauma, however, is perpetuated and its psychological damage aggravated by a culturally prescribed process of postwar reintegration that silences and marginalizes war veterans. By bearing witness to his experiences and suffering, Septimus could edify others about not only war but also human nature and the social and political institutions that emerge from and reflect that nature. ![]() Septimus’s death is the result of his inability to communicate his experiences to others and thereby give those experiences meaning and purpose. Dalloway illustrates not only the psychological injuries suffered by victims of severe trauma such as war but also the need for them to give meaning to their suffering in order to recover from the trauma. Virginia Woolf’s characterization of Septimus Smith in Mrs. Modernist literature is a literature of trauma: in the 1920s, it gave form and representation to a psychological condition that psychiatrists would not understand for another fifty years. ![]() ![]() dollar and South Korean won, top right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Ahn Young-joon/AP Show More Show Less 2 of8 Currency traders watch monitors near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. Markets: Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate again to cool inflation and said it isn't sure what may come next. 1 of8 A currency trader works near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), top center, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, the FDA had approved the Pill in 1960, but it wouldn’t be legal for unmarried women, giving license in the true sense, until 1972. ![]() With it, Collins lobbed a hand grenade-an unlikely, explosive assemblage of the ideas of Betty Friedan, Helen Gurley Brown, Masters and Johnson, and Norman Mailer-into the living rooms and bedrooms of women still in the process of awakening from the deep sexual slumber and stiflingly scripted gender roles of the ’50s and ’60s. These particular words are from her 1968 debut, The World Is Full of Married Men. I don’t want to get married, it means nothing to me. I feel like getting laid, again, don’t you?.I want to do what I want to do, whenever I want. ![]() She’s thinking, ‘Why isn’t it me up there?’” she observed gleefully in an interview in 2014.īut the best way to understand Jackie Collins-author who knocked it out of the park again and again, seller of half a billion books, promulgator of a certain dream, instigator in leopard print sluttire, novelist-is to read her words as she wrote them. “I love when you see the movie-star guy, and there’s this woman standing two steps behind him, looking at him adoringly, and you know she hates his guts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And except for an occasional archaism, his language is straightforward and unadorned. He uses Greek spellings for the characters’ names, so Achilles is “Achilleus” and Ajax “Aias.” He hews closely to Homer’s text, keeping interpretation at a minimum. Lattimore is scrupulously faithful to the original. Two generations ago, Richmond Lattimore’s Iliad of Homer - which the University of Chicago Press recently reissued with a new introduction by Richard Martin - captured the majestic repose of Homer’s verse with great fidelity. Sublime passion and urgency rendered bright and hard, with none of the blur of time. The unhurried movement of Homer’s verse plays against the graphic assault and energy of the action, intensifying their effect. And Homer’s hexameters, with their stately pause at each half-line, proceed with an Olympian pace fitting the detachment of their godly source. Opponents meet on the field, in the midst of chaos, but there is time to exchange pedigrees or insults without stint. The hour hangs at dawn, dusk, noon, or night, without transition. The action unfolds in a boundless, inexhaustible present. It is a poem of brutal, relentless violence, but it is a violence without haste. ![]() SINCE THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, English translators have been striving to do justice to The Iliad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.Īs tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. ![]() Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. ![]() Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Īnne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characteristically catchy Seussian rhyme could help turn a Gray Day into a ""busy, buzzy"" (Yellow) one, and the snazzy die-cut jacket gives this volume an immediate lift above the competition. Husband and wife Johnson and Fancher (Cat, You Better Come Home) do not mime the author's pen-and-ink creations but work in pasty, expressionistic brushstrokes and blocky typefaces that change with the narrative tone. Spread by spread, the character metamorphoses into animals of varying hues, from an energetic red horse to a secretive green fish to a droopy violet brontosaur (""On Purple Days/ I'm sad./ I groan./ I drag my tail./ I walk alone""). The effort is pleasant but lightweight: ""You'd be/ surprised/ how many ways/ I change/ on Different/ Colored/ Days,"" announces a child, portrayed as a flat, gingerbread-man shape of yellow, then blue, then purple. Seuss, is no exception: he wrote but did not illustrate this rhyme, which assigns colors to moods. The archives of many a late author, from Margaret Wise Brown (Four Fur Feet) to Sylvia Plath (The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit), often yield unpublished manuscripts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guinness World Records (GRW) took to Twitter and officially presented Monday the accolade of being the worst day of the week.īank Maha Pack includes Live Batches, Test Series, Video Lectures & eBooks About the Guinness World Records: It would be a concern only during the remaining six days of the week. Now you could blame your general grumpiness on it being Monday. Going into Monday means you’re going into the officially declared and universally accepted worst day of the week. After Guinness World Records’ move, all of that will no longer be smoothed over into a wishy-washy ‘Monday blues’ packet. ![]() Guinness World Records has officially declared “Monday” the worst day of the week. ![]() |