![]() ![]() ![]() The idea behind the project was to create a dataset recording two overlapping events: the first was the incidence of ‘great famines’ since 1870, that is famines which caused more than 100,000 excess deaths (Devereux 2000), and the second, drawing on work by David Marcus (2003), was to record the incidence of armed conflict during these famines and the use of deliberate mass starvation in these conflicts. International criminal prosecutors have concerned themselves with direct violence-murder, torture, and rape-avoiding the question of culpability for starvation.” (de Waal 2015) Scholars of mass atrocity focus on violent killing, and have not analysed mass death from the perspective of starvation and disease. Specialists in food and agriculture tend not to analyse war and genocide. “Too often, famines and mass atrocities that involve forced starvation have been studied separately. The World Peace Foundation’s research project on famine trends had emerged from a simple contradiction in prior famine research: I learned this the hard way, when researching the Chinese famine of 1876-1879. ![]() This is, of course, self-evident, but it is a trap that is surprisingly difficult to evade. As a researcher, it is easier to replicate the work of scholars who have already worked on a subject, than to come up with original research. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Jane Austen, Game Theoristbrings together the study of literature and social science in an original and surprising way. ![]() He considers how Austen in particular analyzed "cluelessness"-the conspicuous absence of strategic thinking-and how her sharp observations apply to a variety of situations, including U.S. Chwe makes the case that these literary forebears are game theory's true scientific predecessors. ![]() Although game theory's mathematical development began in the Cold War 1950s, Chwe finds that game theory has earlier subversive historical roots in Austen's novels and in "folk game theory" traditions, including African American folktales. With a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago.Jane Austen, Game Theoristshows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, argued that jointly strategizing with a partner is the surest foundation for intimacy, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Other Miss Bridgerton (2018) (Rokesbys series, optional).The Girl with the Make-Believe Husband (2017) (Rokesbys series, optional).On the Way to the Wedding (2006) (1827). ![]()
![]() And they would not have been convinced to die just because a dead body mysteriously went missing and could not be found again," she wrote. ![]() "As many Christian apologists have pointed out, men do not consent to die for what they know to be a lie. Long offered that one of the most convincing arguments concerns the disciples and the way the resurrection changed their lives, leading them to continue spreading Christ's message, even to their deaths. She recounted one of Strobel's other books, The Case for Easter, which offers six main reasons to believe in the resurrection, as laid out by apologist and Christian scholar William Lane Craig. Long wrote that the question Strobel tackles in the movie is the same one many believers have to face, namely "when is enough evidence enough evidence?" "The Case for Christ," which focuses on Strobel's internal struggle and his relationship with his wife, Leslie, first came out as a best-selling book of the same name. ![]() Strobel, then an atheist and a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, examines the historical evidence surrounding Jesus Christ, initially in an attempt to prove to his wife that the religion is a lie.Īfter his investigative research, however, including examining controversial objects such as the Shroud of Turin, he gradually turns to faith, and becomes a Christian. ![]() ![]() She said that the film, to be released in theaters on Friday, does a good job of showing how one man, award-winning investigative journalist Lee Strobel, does his best to try and "disarm Christianity for good." ![]() ![]() ![]() But the film’s dogged insistence on sugarcoating Dworkin’s legacy does it no favors. Her writing is powerful, even beautiful at times, and the likes of Ashley Judd, Amandla Stenberg, Christine Lahti, Soko, and Andrea Riseborough do it justice in lyrical monologues. ![]() Using a series of dramatic recreations with various actresses playing Dworkin at different ages, “My Name Is Andrea” seeks to recast the author as some misunderstood literary prophet - devoid of any of the historical context that might have persuaded her many detractors. But you wouldn’t know any of that from “ My Name Is Andrea,” a hagiographic documentary shaped only by Dworkin’s writing and words from British filmmaker Pratibha Parmar. The radical feminist writer and activist, whose work spanned the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s, has become synonymous with a stringent sect of anti-pornography, sex-negative conservative feminism that seeks to limit sexual freedoms, including LGBTQ and sex worker rights. There aren’t too many figures in feminist history more controversial than Andrea Dworkin. ![]() ![]() He made three deployments with Carrier Air Wing 5 (CVW-5) on USS George Washington (CVN 73) where he conducted operations in 7th Fleet including support of Operation Damayan, a humanitarian response to the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Republic of the Philippines.ĭenney’s other sea duty assignments include the Strike Fighter Squadron (VF) 32 “Swordsmen” on USS Harry S. He was designated as a Naval Flight Officer in January 1999 and received initial F-14B Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) training with the “Grim Reapers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VF) 101 at NAS Oceana, Virginia, in March 2000.ĭenney commanded the “Diamondbacks” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 102 from April 2014 to July 2015 flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet while forward deployed to NAF Atsugi, Japan. Naval Academy Graduate with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics. ![]() Captain Jason Denney is a native of Pinedale, Wyoming, and a 1997 U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() She paints an uncompromising portrait of a superheroine who learns to wield divine power while coming to understand what it means to be mortal. Weaving together Homer’s tale with other sources, Miller crafts a classic story of female empowerment. ![]() Neither the goddess Athena nor the deadliest poison known to man makes Circe flinch. So, when the couple moves back to their old home in Alabama and he takes on an in. Welcome guests enjoy her hospitality unwelcome guests are turned into wild pigs. 'Circe', is about a man that would do anything to make his wife happy, even though he's still unable to stop cheating on her. By the time Odysseus’s ship arrives, winding its way home from the Trojan War, Circe reigns over a prosperous household. After returning from a visit to Crete to help her sister give birth to the Minotaur, Circe is joined on the island by errant nymphs sentenced to do their penance in her service. Now considered dangerous, Circe is exiled to an island, where she experiments with local flora and fauna. When he rejects her in favor of vain Scylla, Circe turns Scylla into a sea monster. She does not discover her gift for pharmakeia (the art of using herbs and spells) until she transforms her first love, a poor fisherman, into a god. Her narrative begins with a description of growing up the awkward daughter of Helios, the sun god. Miller follows her impressive debut ( The Song of Achilles) with a spirited novel about Circe’s evolution from insignificant nymph to formidable witch best known for turning Odysseus’s sailors into swine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Becky and Luke have a daughter named Minnie Brandon who was born in early December, 2003, and an unnamed child born in the summer of 2004. ![]() Luke and Becky marry in England at Becky's parents' house on June 24, 2002. They appear on television together and they began dating at the end of the first book. She had an angry, tearful confrontation with him where she said that she "wasn't a joke." She attracted his attention after she published an article about one of his clients, Flagstaff Life, on the Daily World exposing the bank's duplicity. ![]() Becky did not know that Luke had a girlfriend and thought that Luke liked her. She helped him pick out luggage for his girlfriend, Sacha. Before moving to New York, she worked on a magazine called Successful Savings.īecky met her future husband, Luke Brandon, CEO of Brandon Communications (a Public Relations firm) during a press conference while she was working as a financial journalist. She first lived with her best friend Susan "Suze" Cleath-Stuart before she finally moved out with Luke Brandon. After attending Bristol University, she moved to London. 3 Shopaholic Abroad/Shopaholic Takes Manhattanīecky grew up in Oxshott, Surrey with her Mum and Dad. ![]() 2 The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic/Confessions of a Shopaholic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to do this he has had to tinker with the chronology of the Holmes canon. Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows is the first of James Lovegrove’s Cthulhu Casebooks, which attempt to merge the Arthur Conan Doyle and HP Lovecraft literary lines and bring out the best in both of them. If that day comes then humanity will perish and in the meantime anyone who catches some knowledge of the gods will realise our cosmic insignificance and go mad. Lovecraft envisioned a number of Elder Gods, led by Cthulhu, who ruled over the Earth aeons ago and may do so again in the future. The American horror writer HP Lovecraft may not be as popular as Conan Doyle, but his Cthulhu Mythos is the inspiration for countless books. However, crime fiction lovers who don’t dip their toes into darker waters may be unaware that there is another author whose creations continue in a life of their own. This undying popularity seems to make Holmes’ original creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, unique. He is an iconic character that continues to capture the imagination of readers, writers and TV viewers alike. Written by James Lovegrove - Sherlock Holmes remains an enduring literary phenomenon. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the narration was not one of the best. If you are having any doubts about this book then do give it a try. It is not just this book but the entire series is fantastic. ![]() Those included the rival cultivators, raging spirit beasts, and the tower summoned monsters. There were a large number of obstacles standing in my way. ![]() ![]() But, that gift came to me with a definite condition: If I was unable to climb up and subsequently conquer the Towers of Acalia, then this entirely new world all of a sudden would fall into ruin. That was something that played a pivotal role in enhancing my strength. So, every time, I descend to some higher level, I could add a much newer rune. Atlas Kane(Author), Celestian Rince(Editor)Format: Kindle Edition. Atlas Kane (Author) Visit Amazon's Atlas Kane Page. The spirit responsible for my reincarnation had thankfully altered my core. Towers of Acalia: The Reincarnated Core Volume I Kindle Edition. This is high time to save the world from destruction. I am reborn in the capacity of a cultivator and that too with a broken core. The narration didn’t go well, especially by the male performer. The narration of the subject novel is done by Daniel Wisniewski and Rebecca Woods. Another worthy title from the author to mention here is Rise of the Glass Cannon Mage: A System Reborn. He is known for writing tempting science fiction and fantasy novels where one of them is The Reincarnated Core Volume 4. Towers of Acalia: The Reinforced Core, Volume 1 is a science fiction and fantasy title. ![]() |