![]() ![]() ![]() As this is going on, families are destroyed by the random imprisonment of young and old for supposed crimes against the state. A surplus on the garlic market ensues, and the farmers must watch as their crops wither and rot in the fields. Warehouses fill up, taxes skyrocket, and government officials mistreat even those who have traveled for days to sell their harvest. The Communist government has encouraged them to plant garlic, but selling the crop is not as simple as they believed. The farmers of Paradise County have been leading a hardscrabble life unchanged for generations. Summary: This stunning work of historical fiction illustrates the harsh realities of modern China by the nation's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Keefe’s book fastens on all the ways in which the Sackler family is (more than partly) responsible for engineering one of the worst public health crises in American history: the opioids epidemic. ![]() Unfortunately for them, in Empire of Pain, their claims to invisibility are rendered hideously visible. For years, the Sackler family paid perfectly despicable amounts of money to emblazon their name everywhere-on art museums and universities and medical facilities around the world-while going to great ocean-spanning lengths to obscure and obfuscate their ties to and involvement in the pharmaceutical industry. Patrick Radden Keefe marshals a wealth of research and journalistic derring-do to tell the story of a family obsessed by greed, secrecy, immortality, and denial. I devoured this story as if my life hung on the balance, even when I deeply, intensely abhorred it. Empire of Pain is a staggering, whipping, relentlessly infuriating book that swallows you whole as soon as you step inside. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() O元9480737M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Most of the characters are well drawn and he tackles the philosophical issue of gaining eternal life at the. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:23:09 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA165409 Boxid_2 CH120121113-BL1 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York DonorĪlibris Edition Ballantine Books trade pbk. 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Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power-something her brother exploits, using her to torture his enemies. ![]() In a galaxy powered by the current, everyone has a gift.Ĭyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. ![]() ![]() ![]() A good example of this is “The Price”, where Gaiman story about stray cats turns from reality to supernatural in an instant. He's so deft with his word choice that these transitions happen with ease. One moment the story feels like an honest recollection of his past, and the next we're interacting with angels, trolls, and werewolves. ![]() One of my favored aspects of Gaiman is his ability to slip seamlessly between realism and fantasy. Some of my preferences were “Chivalry”, “Changes”, “We Can Get Them for You Wholesale," and “Snow, Glass, Apples." I enjoyed a majority of these stories and Gaiman continues to be one of my favorite authors. 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An investigation to identify the course of events is suddenly transformed into a funny storyline where all the hostages give their take of what actually happened in a series of varied and conflicting testimonies. Once they are inside the apartment, they are confronted with a huge problem: the apartment is empty and the robber is gone. Soon after the bank robber gives in, the apartment is stormed by the two dysfunctional police officers Jack and Jim, who also happen to be father and son. ![]() ![]() Anxious People is a Netflix comedy drama series that takes place in a small town outside Stockholm where a bank robber fails to rob a cashless bank, and ends up with eight people being taken hostage in an apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() In her article “Aristotelian Social Democracy”, Nussbaum tries to outline the basis of her social democratic values by taking help from Aristotle’s classical writings. Being a follower of Aristotle, Nussbaum was also affected by John Rawls, Amartya Sen, feminism and social democracy. Nussbaum is the author or editor of a number of books, including The Fragility of Goodness (1986), Sex and Social Justice (1998 ), The Sleep of Reason (2002), Hiding From Humanity: Disgust, Shame, and the Law (2004) and Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species Membership (2006). ![]() She teaches Political Philosophy in the University of Chicago with particular interest in ancient philosophy, laws and ethics. Martha Nussbaum (1947-) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Also including Nebula Award finalist “The Secret Sharer,” as well as “Thomas the Proclaimer” and “We Are for the Dark," this collection offers an engrossing exploration of the work of this Grand Master, hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “the John Updike of science fiction.” And in the collection’s Nebula Award–winning title story, the Earth of the fiftieth century is a place where time is elusive and fluid, and young citizens live as tourists in ancient cities. “When Silverberg is at the top of his form, no one is better,” says George R. In the Nebula Award–nominated story “Homefaring,” the time-traveling narrator finds himself trapped in the consciousness of a lobsterlike creature of the far future, leading him to reflect on what it means to be human. Robert Silverberg’s novellas open the door to new worlds: In “Born with the Dead,” a woman wills her body to be “rekindled” after death, allowing her to walk among the living, while her husband is left in the impossible position of accepting her death when he can still see her. Six science fiction novellas by the author hailed as “a master” by Robert Jordan-including two Nebula Award winners and two finalists. ![]() |