![]() The exception to this is when the light bounces off something, a process known as scattering. ![]() These wavelengths don’t usually look very colorful because they just look like white or yellow light to your eyes. Each wavelength of light has its own associated color. The sun’s rays come in many different wavelengths. ![]() The science behind sunsets revolves around the light emitted from the sun, also known as rays. The exact time of sunset is taken when the sun is halfway beneath the horizon. The period of sunset is finished when the shape of the sun can no longer be seen and only a few rays remain. In scientific terms, the period of sunset technically begins when the sun’s rays are partially blocked by the horizon creating an array of colors across the sky. A sunset is the time of day when the weather and light begin to change from day to night. ![]()
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The seventh scroll by wilbur smith5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In search of the vast riches buried with Mamose, Nicky organizes two archetypally hazardous expeditions into deepest Ethiopia (one legit, the other not). She flees Cairo for her British mother's home in Yorkshire, where she eventually joins forces with Nicholas Quenton-Harper, a daredevil peer with a taste for ancient artifacts and a flair for derring-do. Before Royan can fully decipher Taita's message, however, the papyrus is stolen and her husband, an aging scholar, is murdered by unknown assailants. The witty testament of Taita (the polymath eunuch who narrated River God), it offers maddeningly enigmatic details on where he interred Mamose in pharaonic splendor during an extended exile. Instead of a treasure map, brainy and beautiful Royan Al Simma (an English-educated Coptic Christian who ranks among the world's top Egyptologists) has a 4,000-year-old scroll. A rousing, good sequel to River God, Smith's 1994 bestseller, which takes the immensely entertaining form of a high-tech treasure hunt. ![]() The jungle meat5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They consisted of a square mile of livestock pens, packing plants, slaughterhouses, and railroads. The real-life stockyards, such as Chicago’s Union Stock Yards, inspired Sinclair’s bleak portrayal. Sinclair set The Jungle in the meatpacking district and stockyards of Chicago, where many immigrants settled in the hopes of making a living in America. Instead, his novel inspired a national movement for food safety. When Upton Sinclair set out to write his 1906 novel The Jungle, he was trying to bring attention to the dismal living and working conditions for immigrants working in the meatpacking industry. Learn more about the origins of food safety in the United States in American Experience: Poison Squad, which airs Tuesday, January 28 at 9:00 pm and is available to stream the following day. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Penman makes them live forever in our minds and hearts with fantastic, unforgettable characters and wonderful history. ![]() From my 15 year old niece to my 70 year old mother and many ages in between, all readers are enchanted and transported to a land and an age gone forever. Her trilogy of the decline of the Welsh kings ( DRAGON, FALLS THE SHADOW and THE RECKONING)is a holiday gift I give year after year, and I'm happy to say they have always been embraced and loved. I started with HERE BE DRAGONS and I have never looked back. ![]() It's funny, you can sell something for years before you notice that the author has been quietly making a powerful impact on people everywhere. It is in these Staff Recommend sections that I kept on seeing our Penman's titles, HERE BE DRAGONS, FALLS THE SHADOW, THE RECKONING and also SUNNE IN SPLENDOUR and WHEN CHRIST AND HIS SAINTS SLEPT. It is here that you can find treasured, beloved books quite dear to someone who works in the stores, someone waiting quite eagerly for the chance to hand sell their recommended titles. What interests me first about these stores is what titles are being displayed in the 'Staff Recommends' section of the store. As a publisher I have been lucky to be able to visit bookstores all over the country, independent and chain alike. ![]() The Wild Swans by K.M. Shea5/26/2023 ![]() They always behaved as expected, and if something was wrong, the mistake could be traced. “I apologize, Prince Falk,” Elise said as she fixed a smile on her face, wished Falk would go away, and forced her head down so she could continue copy-editing the Gold Army accounts.Įlise loved her job as head of the Treasury Department. Also, I’m afraid if there is a mistake in the agricultural accounts, you have me to blame as I was the only member of the Treasury Department to work on them,” Elise said.Īs if she would inflict Falk on any of her subordinates. The number is derived after paying the farmers, subtracting the cost of seed, and so on. However, the recorded number is the gross profit. The use of a sardonic nickname and the know-it-all tone Falk adopted as he stabbed his finger at the recorded accounts set Elise on edge. ![]() The royal fields yielded a higher income in wheat than what is recorded.” “One of your underlings made a mistake, Dewdrop. I hope you enjoy it, and thank you for reading. ![]() Click the link to expand the post and read the whole thing. Anyway, In celebration of the April 28 release date, I’m posting the first scene of the book. Okay, so maybe the brothers aren’t so nice as swans. Hurrah! The Wild Swans is a tale of adventure, magic, a stubborn princess, and her wonderful foster-brothers who are turned into beautiful, friendly swans. ![]() Princess Ahirais still free today and tomorrow, but the big thing I’m excited about today is that The Wild Swans ‘s launch date is this coming Monday. ![]() How scotland invented the modern world5/26/2023 ![]() Here is the untold story of how John Knox and the Church of Scotland laid the foundation for our modern idea of democracy how the Scottish Enlightenment helped to inspire both the American Revolution and the U.S. ![]() ![]() Herman has charted a fascinating journey across the centuries of Scottish history. As historian and author Arthur Herman reveals, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland made crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics-contributions that have formed and nurtured the modern West ever since. Book Synopsis An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. ![]() About the Book Now in paperback, this lively bestseller traces the history of Scotlands many contributions to our culture, drawing on the most recent research of scholars and historians to demonstrate just how central the Scots have been throughout the rise of the West. ![]() Author of the glass bead game5/26/2023 ![]() ![]() With just the right cues of romance, high-tech adventure, philosophical mystery, and heroism, the book invaded my adolescent mind, laid down roots and suggested a long term plan: I would one day be able to play the Game. I first read The Glass Bead Game almost 60 years ago. The Lasting Effects of Young Reading: A Short Memoir The city of Karlsruhe, Germany, also associates a Hermann Hesse prize. ![]() In 1964, people founded the Calwer Hermann-Hesse-Preis, awarded biennially, alternately to a German-language literary journal or to the translator of work of Hesse to a foreign language. ![]() Throughout Germany, people named many schools. ![]() Young Germans desiring a different and more "natural" way of life at the time of great economic and technological progress in the country, received enthusiastically Peter Camenzind, first great novel of Hesse. In his time, Hesse was a popular and influential author in the German-speaking world worldwide fame only came later. Other best-known works of this poet, novelist, and painter include The Glass Bead Game, which, also known as Magister Ludi, explore a search of an individual for spirituality outside society. Many works, including Siddhartha (1922) and Steppenwolf (1927), of German-born Swiss writer Hermann Hesse concern the struggle of the individual to find wholeness and meaning in life he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. ![]() ![]() And with it fell that whole in-and-out, Whig-and-Tory, Eton-and-Harrow, Tweedledum-Tweedledee structure of British political culture that had lasted for over two centuries. The radical legislation of the pre-war decade should have enabled the Liberal party, like FDR's Democratic party twenty years later, to keep its grip on the working-class vote. Religious non-conformism had long been a powerful force. But Liberalism in Britain had had deep roots. How, people asked, did it happen? How, within ten years, could the triumphant Liberal party of the pre-1914 era, the reforming party of Lloyd George, Asquith, Haldane, Grey, and Winston Churchill, have lost out to the Labour party as the main champion of the British Left? There were, of course, reasons to hand: the bitter feud between the Lloyd-Georgeites and the supporters of Asquith, and the general increase in socialist strength and militancy in Europe that followed on the First World War. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A generation ago, in an interesting book, George Dangerfield told the sad story of what he called “The Strange Death of Liberal England.” The collapse of a great political tradition is a solemn thing. ![]() Getting things done book review5/26/2023 ![]() Only when our minds are clear and our thoughts are organized can we achieve effective results and unleash our creative potential. ![]() Now the veteran coach and management consultant has rewritten the book from start to finish, tweaking his classic text with new perspectives on today's workplace and incorporating new data that validates his timeless admonition that 'your hear is for having ideas - not for holding them!' Allen's premise is simple- our productivity is directly proportional to our ability to relax. ![]() David Allen's Getting Things Done was hailed as 'the definitive business self-help book of the decade' (Time) when it was first published almost fifteen years ago, and ' GTD' has since become shorthand for an entire culture of personal organization that offers to change the way people work and live. Discover David Allen's powerful methods for stress-free performance at work and in life - now completely updated. ![]() The shining and doctor sleep5/26/2023 ![]() They love each other and essentially treat each other as family, and it doesn't help that they suffer so many blows and setbacks throughout the novel that towards the end they almost come across as victims rather than predators. Affably Evil: The True Knot may be horrible people, but their point-of-view chapters treat their evil so casually and matter-of-factly that you might not even notice it if you read them out of context.Danny also warns Abra about her anger problems by relating his grandfather and father's own abusive tendencies. ![]()
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