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![]() ![]() ![]() To clarify these underlying methods, as well as the style of Napoleon's fabulous intellect, Chandler examines in detail each campaign mounted and personally conducted by Napoleon, analyzing the strategies employed, revealing wherever possible the probable sources of his subject's military ideas. But there were from the first to the last certain basic principles of strategic maneuver and battlefield planning that he almost invariably put into practice. To be sure, every operation Napoleon conducted contained unique improvisatory features. Napoleon disavowed any suggestion that he worked from formula ("Je n'ai jamais eu un plan d'opérations"), but military historian David Chandler demonstrates this was at best only a half-truth. The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon's art of war as he himself developed and perfected it in the major military campaigns of his career. Napoleonic war was nothing if not complex-an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of moves and intentions, which by themselves went a long way towards baffling and dazing his conventionally minded opponents into that state of disconcerting moral disequilibrium which so often resulted in their catastrophic defeat. In this "engrossing," ( The New Yorker) vivid, and intensively researched volume, esteemed Napoleon scholar David Chandler outlines the military strategy that led the famous French emperor to his greatest victories-and to his ultimate downfall. ![]() ![]() In Britain, Winston Churchill’s Resistance organization is increasingly a thorn in the government’s side. There are terrible rumours too about what is happening in the basement of the German Embassy at Senate House.ĭefiance, though, is growing. ![]() As the long German war against Russia rages on in the east, the British people find themselves under dark authoritarian rule: the press, radio and television are controlled the streets patrolled by violent auxiliary police and British Jews face ever greater constraints. Twelve years have passed since Churchill lost to the appeasers and Britain surrendered to Nazi Germany after Dunkirk. ![]() ![]() ![]() Born just a day apart they live next door to one another and they can't imagine not spending every day together in school, at home and even just before they go to bed as they share a secret message by flicking their bedroom lights on and off. A stranger - a totally hot stranger! - with a whole history that Emmy knows nothing about.īut is their story still meant to be? Or are they like the pieces of two different puzzles - impossible to fit together?Įmmy and Oliver have been best friends for as long as they can remember. But now Oliver is back, and he's not the skinny boy-next-door that used to be Emmy's best friend. ![]() At least during an earthquake, you understand why you're shaking.Įmmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. My edition: Paperback, published on 16 July 2015 by Simon & Schuster Children's, 340 pages.ĭescription: Oliver's absence split us wide open, dividing our neighborhood along a fault line strong enough to cause an earthquake. ![]() ![]() ![]() Risk management uses certain documents to track incidents. 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Provide your email again so we can register this ebook and send you Recommended reads, and more from Simon & Schuster. Plus, get updates on new releases, deals, Get a FREE ebook when you join our mailing list. ![]() ![]() ![]() Source: Institute of Cytology and Genetics In this ongoing experiment, now nearing its 6th decade, foxes were bred using selection criteria for tameness, and with each generation, they became increasingly interested in human companionship. ![]() Along with these physical changes came genetic and behavioral changes, as well. ![]() Most accounts of the natural evolution of wolves place it over a span of about 15,000 years, but within a decade, Belyaev and Trut’s fox-breeding experiments had resulted in puppy-like foxes with piebald spots, curly tails, and, occasionally, droopy ears. In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms in the USSR and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication. They are the result of the most astonishing experiment in breeding ever undertaken-imagine speeding up thousands of years of evolution into a few decades. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs-they are foxes. Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and loving eyes that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fifteen years later that figure was three children for each woman - a remarkable change that happened without significant notice. In 1984, women in Iran had an average of six children each. ![]() She explained, in his talk he had mentioned something very positive that had happened in her home country, Iran. He approached and asked her reason for being upset. After a presentation in Sweden, his home country, he noticed a young woman crying. Things that change slowly over time are seldom reported. Most of the news agencies focus on bad things that happen quickly. He goes on to talk about the negativity instinct caused by the flood of bad news in the daily press. He explains that we tend to look at the extremes and overlook the majority of folks or in the middle. He talks about tendencies and instincts beginning with The Gap instinct in chapter one. Rosling then precedes to explain why so many score so poorly. It doesn't say this in the book, but I think this question was added so that people wouldn't feel quite so stupid when they took this test. About 90 percent get this question right. The 13th question concerning climate change was added later. This test has been given to 12,000 people in 14 countries. According to the summary results listed at the end of the book, my score was slightly above-average. I quickly concluded that I really needed to read this book. ![]() I then checked the test and was shocked to discover only three correct answers. I quickly read through them and marked the answers. The questions were relatively simple and straightforward. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I'd have bore you with far better grace and I might have enjoyed you if I had stayed in Wales." The problem was that she kept seeing her younger sister as a rival for her parents' affections: "I thought it would always be just us three – my parents, and me," she silently confides.Ī straight-A student with a unique aptitude for science, her fragile existence is also thrown into peril when she obtains a scholarship and is eventually packed off to Lockham Thorpe, a lonely, overcast boarding school far away on the Eastern side of England. Moira ultimately blames herself and is torn apart by the fact that she wasn't a more caring sister and more at hand when Amy was growing up. ![]() Indeed, she was almost left for dead to slowly bleed to death on top of Church Rock. ![]() Moira never imagined that her sister could fall from such a great height, nothing so brutal, with the gulls screaming, the sharp hard drag of her knees across the rocks, and "later the doctor plucking a muscle out of her skull." ![]() "It is in you then, the sea, it's a part of you," laments twenty-seven-year-old Moira Stone as she sits next to Amy, her teenage sister who lies on her back in a coma in a hospital bed with her eyes permanently closed, "held forever silently beneath the surface." Wracked with guilt and regret, Moira tells of how her days are now spent in a white, west-facing house on an English coast with Ray, her landscape artist husband. Book review: Susan Fletcher's *Oystercatchers* ![]() ![]() ![]() France could only muster limited military moves against Prussia while the Austro-Franco-Russian alliance suffered from the lack of coordinated efforts, different objectives, tactical mistakes, and logistical problems during several years of conflict. Overseas conflict split the French war effort. While Britain and France fought for global power, Prussia fought to defend territorial conquests and maintain its recently gained status as a Great Power. This action began a protracted European war. Shortly thereafter, Frederick II launched a preemptive strike against Saxony, an ally of Austria, to defend Prussia against the possible threat of Maria Theresa of Austria and Elizabeth I of Russia. ![]() ![]() In 1756, the Diplomatic Revolution resulted in an Anglo-Prussian alliance against an Austro-Franco-Russian alliance. Historians say that the Seven Years War was a continuation of the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). In the study under review, the author explores the Seven Years War from Frederick II of Prussia’s invasion of Saxony in August 1756 to the Peace of Hubertusburg in February 1763. Professor Szabo is known for his Kaunitz and Enlightened Absolutism, 1753-1780 (1994). Szabo, Professor of Austrian and Habsburg History at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, provides an outstanding study focused on the Seven Years War in Europe, leaving aside the Anglo-French naval and colonial aspects of the conflict. The Seven Years War in Europe, 1756-1763. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rao's immortal opening line for his Kanthapura fits Verghese's Covenant too: "There is no village in India, however mean, that has not a rich sthalapurana, or legendary history, of its own." And, like Rao's story, Verghese's also opens with a storytelling grandmother.ĭrawing on ancient Malayali Christian communal histories that reach back to 52 A.D. Like the unforgettable rural South Indian worlds those authors bestowed upon us with places like Kanthapura, Kedaram, Khasak, and Malgudi, respectively, Verghese has given us Parambil, a water-filled, near-mythical dreamscape in Kerala. We would also do well to consider Covenant as part of the Indian novel in English lineage that includes literary greats like Raja Rao, K Nagarajan, O V Vijayan, and R K Narayan. Indeed, the literary feats in The Covenant of Water deserve to be lauded as much as those of such canonical authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() There will also be continued invocations of the likes of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to describe Verghese's ambitious literary scope and realism. Much will be written about Abraham Verghese's multigenerational South Indian novel in the coming months and years.Īs we've seen with Verghese's earlier fiction, there will be frequent references to that other celebrated doctor-writer, Anton Chekhov. ![]() |
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