![]() ![]() For the purposes of most of the book, cod refers to G. In this respect, the book is more of a biography of cod-human interaction than cod itself. ![]() Cod biology and natural history is presented in fairly limited terms and even that with a focus on cod's commercial significance. The book presents an assortment of information related to cod, the primary topic. ![]() Today, cod is a depleted fishery and rapidly is becoming increasingly scarce. However, numerous technological improvements and widespread increase in the scale of fishing operations have systematically reduced the various global cod fisheries to commercial insignificance. Cod's prolific reproductive rates were seen for hundreds of years as a guarantee that the species would never be negatively impacted by human activity. As early as 1620, cod fishing was as the center of international conflict as various nations attempted to monopolize rich fishing grounds. Gadus morhua, or cod, has been an important commercial fish for about six hundred years. ![]()
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![]() Disillusioned with freshman year of college and determined to escape from their mundane Middle-American existences, the three hatch a plan to steal millions of dollars’ worth of artwork and rare manuscripts from a university museum. “One of the biggest art heists in FBI history.” ― The Times of LondonĪmerican Animals is a coming-of-age crime memoir centered around three childhood friends: Warren, Spencer, and Eric. “They are the young people, the people with the idealism, the passion, the courage to do something interesting with their lives: an act of daring almost artistic in its originality. ![]() “A rare book heist that Danny Ocean may have applauded―except for one mistake.” ― Vanity Fair ![]() “One of the most esoteric and far-fetched crimes in21st-century annals.” ― The Hollywood Reporter ![]() ![]() ![]() "Cravenness, cupidity, opportunism and lack of organised resistance on the part of the vanquished" supported Britain's venal ambitions. ![]() ![]() British dominion was maintained "with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall". "Loot" was a Hindustani word, which the British "took into their dictionaries as well as their habits". British "motives and methods were, on the whole, much more reprehensible than those they had overthrown". In Tharoor's version of history, "a land of artisans, traders, warriors and merchants, functioning in thriving and complex commercial networks", was cruelly and callously destroyed. Inglorious Empire is at once a moral indictment and a moralistic polemic, both intended to expose the "totally amoral, rapacious imperial machine" the British devised to plunder India. In this picture taken on August 15, 1947, crowds of Indian revellers begin to gather in Delhi to celebrate independence from Britain. ![]() ![]() ![]() And even fewer books exist that include mental health tips from the perspective of a psychologist and sufferer. ![]() He wrote his most recent book, Finding Joy with an Invisible Chronic Illness, because few books exist that offer comprehensive, practical guidance on chronic illness. It was his goal, in turn, to give back to others by doing what he loves to do: authoring books on these conditions. He appreciates the small things in life such as drinking hot tea, going for walks with his family (when he is feeling up to it), and reading inspirational books. 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If the intention was just to emphasise the value of sevdah and the genre’s uniqueness that also blues has, and not to imply the similarity of the two in their essence, then that would be much closer to the truth. I’m not sure how appropriate those comparisons of sevdah with blues, or any other musical genre, are. In “Stories of Sevdah”, a film by Robert Golden, sevdah was called “The Balkan Blues”, and in a BBC documentary “The Bridge of Bosnian Blues”. It is enough to listen to just a half of the first song, the one that opens the album, “Woe Is Me, in Sarajevo Lonely, Me”. That would be a misconception, and misconceptions mostly do harm. After albums like Secret Gate, Café Sevdah, Tales from Forgotten City and so on, a passionate sevdah and MSR afficionado could be led to think that it has all been said, sung and played already. Mostar Sevdah Reunion’s twelfth album! One could think “What else is there of sevdah and sevdalinka to be heard, that we haven’t already heard?!”. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tags: 12 Angry Men, 12 Years a Slave, 127 Hours, 1408, 1917, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 21 Jump Street, 300, 500 Days of Summer, 8 Mile, A Christmas Story, A Clockwork Orange, A Few Good Men, A Quiet Place, Adaptation, Alien, Almost Famous, American Beauty, American History X, American Pie, American Psycho, Anchorman, Annie Hall, Anomalisa, Arrival, Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Baby Driver, Back to the Future, Barry, Batman Begins, Beauty and the Beast, Being John Malkovich, Big Fish, Birdman, Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Breaking Bad, Bridesmaids, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Call Me by Your Name, Carrie, Casablanca, Castaway, Catch Me If You Can, Chernobyl, Chinatown, Christopher Nolan, Citizen Kane, Coco, Collateral, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Crazy Rich Asians, Creed, Creed II, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Deadpool, Deadwood, Detectorists, Dexter, Die Hard, Django Unchained, Dog Day Afternoon, Donnie Darko, Doubt, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Searcher gives us a classic stoic loner in retired Chicago detective Cal Hooper living in the rather remote village of Artnakelty, Ireland. ![]() But I’m damn glad that I put that aside to pick up French’s latest, the standalone The Searcher because good god can this woman write.Įven knowing that this book is slower paced and less twisting than her other books I can see the places where she would do that, if she wasn’t meditating on the Western format here and embracing its slower ways. But I think another component was that I knew French wrote gritty, hard-boiled crime novels and I just wasn’t in the mood for those, no matter the quality of the writing (the Gamache books are much more on the cozy end of the spectrum most of the time). Late last year I commented on narfna’s review that I was hesitant to pick up another author who writes an ongoing series (I’ve got the Inspector Gamache books to contend with) and that’s true enough. I waited to pick up a Tana French novel even though she is highly regarded around these parts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their story was sweet, sexy, and entertaining. That’s exactly what happened with Sasha and Gaby. You get to see them really get to know the other person. You watch the couples slowly fall in love. I always love books where the characters are friends first. He and Gaby become friends, fun and flirty friends, but with time, Gaby wants more. Sasha Malykhin is the lead singer of one of the other bands on tour. ![]() She needs a job and gets to travel some so it’s a win-win for her. Gaby is going on tour with her twin brother to help his band as the girl who sells merch. Rhythm, Chord & Malykhin was different than some of her other books, but still had fantastic characters, a fun story line, and a delicious slow-burn romance! I only have 2 left and I go between wanting to binge read them, or to savor them and wait a while to read. ![]() I am on a roll when it comes to Mariana Zapata books! With each one I read, I love her more and more. “Not liking you is like fighting gravity.” ![]() ![]() In Deadline, there's a reference to the figurehead working for the bad guys having been planted to specifically prey on one scenario. Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) has often hinted that she knows what would've happened if Feed had ended differently. Fed is available for free on Facebook if you "Like" this page. If you think the real ending was an emotional punch in the gut, wait until you read how it could've happened. I could read these all day, though, so i cannot complain.įed is an alternative timeline of the end of Feed. and now she is officially the smiths: a band with more greatest hits albums that studio ones. ![]() to have had it end this way would have been annoying, like "why bother reading any more if she's just gonna be a dick about it?" which, instead, she gave us two more full-length novels and good lord 8 splinter stories now? yeah, the new one was released a few days ago: and then there's me, who usually doesn't get emotionally attached to books, but i genuinely did love these characters, and the first book is distressing enough. i mean, it's already bleak, both if you are the kind of person who is really sensitive and the idea of a world destroyed by zombies is enough to bring your emotions to the surface, but also if you are made of somewhat tougher stuff and get, you know, attached to characters (stay away from george r.r. as an alternate ending, yeah it works, but it's really just kicking someone when they're down. ![]() ![]() I am really glad i didn't read this right after i read feed. ![]() |