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![]() While preserving the integrity of Graham's original text, this revised edition includes updated commentary by noted financial journalist Jason Zweig, whose perspective incorporates the realities of today's market, draws parallels between Graham's examples and today's financial headlines, and gives readers a more thorough understanding of how to apply Graham's principles. Over the years, market developments have proven the wisdom of Graham's strategies. Graham's philosophy of "value investing"-which shields investors from substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies-has made The Intelligent Investor the stock market bible ever since its original publication in 1949. The greatest investment advisor of the twentieth century, Benjamin Graham, taught and inspired people worldwide. The classic text of Benjamin Graham's seminal The Intelligent Investor has now been revised and annotated to update the timeless wisdom for today's market conditions. "By far the best book on investing ever written." - Warren Buffett ![]() Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In overview, it looks like a book borne of Twitter discourse, and who needs that?Īs it turns out, The Persuaders is, well, persuasive, with a mission to find solutions for all this by identifying strategists, activists and thought leaders who have broken through entrenched political indifference or partisanship to build bridges or win over new fans. Giridharadas describes this state of affairs as “Americans’ growing culture of mutual dismissal”, leading to a mass “writing-off from a distance” and the inability of anyone to change their minds about anything. Anand Giridharadas, well known in the US as a journalist and TV political pundit, has written a thinky book on a subject many of us may feel we’ve heard too much about already – namely, the feedback loops, filter bubbles and interference of Russian bot farms that have led to extreme polarisation in the US and beyond. I t is a mark of the problem that The Persuaders seeks to describe that I had to force myself to sit down and read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A remarkable, deeply unfashionable book of essays, "The Death of Adam" (1998), in which Robinson passionately defended John Calvin and American Puritanism, among other topics, suggested that, far from suffering writer's block, Robinson was exploring thinker's flow: she was moving at her own speed, returning repeatedly to theological questions and using the essay to hold certain goods that, for one reason or another, had not yet found domicile in fictional form.īut here is a second novel, and it is no surprise to find that it is religious, somewhat essayistic and fiercely calm. It is a mind as religious as it is literary - perhaps more religious than literary - in which silence is itself a quality, and in which the space around words may be full of noises. But Marilynne Robinson, whose last (and first) novel, "Housekeeping," appeared in 1981, seems to have the kind of sensibility that is sanguine about intermittence. TO bloom only every 20 years would make, you would think, for anxious or vainglorious flowerings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a celebrity, though, known by all for his crime-solving prowess and deduction skills. Us readers and the majority of the boat’s travellers (nobles, musketeers, sailors and more) have no idea what Pipps is accused of and whether or not he’s guilty. Samuel is the prisoner of General Jan Haan, an extremely powerful and influential figure, and is being transported to Amsterdam at the request of the Gentleman 17 who wish to see him executed. ‘He can lift up the edges of the world and peek beneath. “‘Sammy Pipps isn’t simply clever,’ argued Arent. In addition to the typical silks, spices, pepper and mace, the ship is also transporting, in shackles, the world-famous detective Samuel Pipps. The majority of the story is set on a merchant ship called the Saardam as it travels from Batavia to Amsterdam. The Devil and the Dark Water is a mystery thriller novel set in 1634. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hailey and Justin Bieber opened up about their marriage struggles on the In Good Faith With Chelsea & Judah Smith Podcast. I need one thing that's certain, and that is my baby boo (referring to Hailey)." With the lifestyle I live, everything is so uncertain. I've always wanted security - with my dad being gone sometimes when I was a kid, and with being on the road. Hailey's very logical and structured, which I need. I just feel like I care so much, and I want people to like me. Justin opened up about the differences he has with his wife, saying: "I'm the emotionally unstable one. ![]() Related: Justin & Hailey Bieber's Health Issues Have Impacted Their Relationship I'm not going to sit here and lie and say it's all a magical fantasy. The model continued, "we're two young people who are learning as we go. "I have to really dive deep and struggle to be in touch with my emotions. Speaking to Vogue in 2019, Hailey Bieber admitted that marriage was "very hard" and that the couple were getting help through therapy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, Shubin’s group reported their discovery of a fossilized Tiktaalik skeleton in northern Canada. Shubin and colleagues have contributed much to our understanding of the origin of vertebrate limbs with digits. ![]() Shubin describes the magic of anatomical dissection and the fundamental homologies among limbs of different vertebrates. I empathize with those descriptions, which illustrate the serendipitous nature of finding fossils and also the predictability that is possible when researchers have done their homework. Written largely in the first person, this lively and convincing account begins with an exposition of the logic underlying the fields of anatomy and stratigraphy (geological study of the stratification of sediment and rock) mixed with Shubin’s experiences of the terrors and triumphs of paleontological field work. I once heard of a medical doctor who “didn’t believe in evolution” because he “could not see the connection between a human and a giraffe.” In Your inner fish, University of Chicago paleontologist Neil Shubin combines information from the worlds of paleontology, embryology, and developmental genetics to explain the evolutionary connection not only between humans and giraffes (that is to say, all other mammals) but also between ourselves and all vertebrates and indeed nonvertebrates too. ![]() ![]() ![]() Night in Lonesome October is appealing and didn't inspire the usual guilt or feelings of squirmy dirtiness. Richard Laymon, Richard Laymon! you wrote a good one! what a happy relief to finally find the book to justify my increasingly inexcusable desire to return to his trashy, sleazy worlds again and again. ![]() a vindictive cycling senior, predators in a van with alluring bait, a sad and scary shut-in clown, cannibalistic homeless people lurking under bridges, a sociopath with the looks of a male model who fixates on Ed and his new lady, and an enticing young miss who makes a practice of sneaking into homes to make herself at home. what lurks in Wilmington? well, let's see. with each subsequent evening walk he learns more about the eerie, threatening, hypnotic underside of the sleepy small town of Wilmington. One late October night, heartbroken college student Ed decides to soothe his troubled soul by taking a long nighttime stroll to Dandi Donuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And unless they can prove they're not as useless as they're thought to be, a public execution is going to echo round the world. So when a young man is kidnapped and held hostage, his beheading scheduled for live broadcast on the net, the slow horses aren't going to just sit quietly and watch. In drab and mildewed offices, these highly trained spies moan and squabble, stare at the walls, and dream of better days - not one of them joined the Intelligence Service to be a slow horse, and the one thing they have in common is their desire to be back in the action. Once high fliers, they're now slow horses, condemned to a life of pushing paper as punishment for crimes of drugs and drunkenness, lechery and failure, politics and betrayal. This is Jackson Lamb's kingdom: a dumping ground for spies who've screwed up. ![]() But those who make a noisy mess of their careers end up in Slough House. 'To have been lucky enough to play Smiley in one's career and now go and play Jackson Lamb in Mick Herron's novels - the heir, in a way, to le Carre - is a terrific thing' Gary Oldman *Soon to be a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* ![]() ![]() "Scorching hot and beautifully emotional."- LORI FOSTER, New York Times Bestselling Author They both know there's little chance of making it out alive, and yet they are determined to weather the coming storm-no matter the cost. But what starts as a partnership born of necessity quickly turns into an urgent connection that burns bright and hot. Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman on their heels, Angel and Ford must trust their instincts and fight to survive in the most inhospitable-and beautiful-place on earth. ![]() Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives.only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run. ![]() But on what was meant to be her last day, the remote research station she's been calling home is attacked. ![]() With a storm coming and a killer on the loose, every step could be their last.Īngel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. |