![]() Among the many counterintuitive insights Chris discovered that had the biggest impact on his productivity were striving for imperfection scheduling less time for important tasks the 20 second rule to distract yourself from distractions and the concept of productive procrastination. This book is the result of Chris's year-long journey, distilling the lessons he learned into a few core truths about how we get things done (or, indeed, don't). Among the experiments that he undertook are: going several weeks on little to no sleep cutting out caffeine and sugar taking a daily siesta living in total isolation for 10 days stretching his workweek to 90 hours and getting up at 5:30 every morning, all the while monitoring the impact of his experiments on the quality and quantity of his work. ![]() ![]() After graduating college, Chris Bailey decided to dedicate a whole year to doing just that - experimenting with as many of the techniques as he could, and finding the things that work. Nearly all of us want to be more productive, but finding the method that works for you among the hundreds and hundreds of different tips, tricks and hacks can be a daunting prospect. ![]() ![]() 'A fun, interesting, and useful read!' David Allen, bestselling author of Getting Things Done ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Before long she begins to question Paul’s guilt-as well as her own heart. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows-including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. But then Marguerite’s father is murdered, and the killer-her parent’s handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. ![]() ![]() So I decided to combine these two books because I slacked off and didn’t read A Thousand Pieces of You a year ago, when I should have.Ĭloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father’s killer through multiple dimensions. Book Review: A Thousand Pieces of You & Ten Thousand Skies Above You ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By presenting and fully contextualising the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568), Stefan Bauer shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. ![]() The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how historical writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pages are devoted to describing the extraction of scents and the manufacture of perfumed oils and other accessories, and I can only wonder at the amount of research that must have gone into this subject. I found this part of the book quite fascinating (probably my science background coming to the fore) particularly the techniques used in an age without modern laboratory facilities. The descriptions of Grenouille’s olfactory experiences are lush and you can almost smell them coming off the page – from the suffocating stench of overcrowded Paris with it’s oozing cemeteries, fish markets and tanneries and stinking river, to the sweet scent of all the individual flowers used to make a perfume.Įventually Grenouille ends up working for a master perfumer, learning how to distill perfumes and extract scents. As he manages to survive a bleak and loveless childhood he discovers he has a ‘gift’ for smells – in that he can smell everything in the world in the most minute detail. ![]() I was soon quite engrossed in this story about Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who is born in the squalidness of pre-Revolution Paris (1730s) and who has no personal odour. I started reading it with some trepidation since horror isn’t my usual genre of choice, and I was under the impression this was a particularly gruesome book. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a book I’ve had on my ‘to-read’ list for some time. ![]() ![]() It is metafictional to the nth degree, and these complex references are like treasures that she has laid along the path of the story. in the unfolding of this story, Moschovakis takes every possible opportunity to locate us in points of high philosophy, common news, or both at the same time. Moschovakis does this in a way that will stay in one’s head for days, then trickle down to trigger thoughts, emotions, and ideas in various parts of one’s body. ![]() very classic and relevant questions inhabit Eleanor and her writer: paradox and meaning, connection and disconnection, process and loss, trauma and stress, collective and individual grief, authority, race, gender, capitalism, technology, and of course, progress or the illusion of it as well as love and its confusions. ![]() Eleanor, Or, The Rejection of the Progress of Love works on so many levels: Anna Moschovakis’s artful use of precise language seamlessly connects her plots and characters with a bountiful range of references and within a structure that almost defies itself, all while being emotionally layered and intellectually textured. ![]() ![]() ![]() The blood was still welling sluggishly from beneath the dressing, thick enough to slightly part the bandages one from the other, glistening and black. Laurence thrust Rankin forward and down onto his knees, none too gently Rankin gasped and clutched at his thigh, but he said, “Yes, I am here.” He looked up at Laurence and swallowed, then added awkwardly, “You have been very brave.” There was nothing natural or sincere in the tone it was as ungraceful as could be imagined.īut Levitas only said, very softly, “You came.” He licked at a few drops of water at the corner of his mouth. Levitas’s eyes opened, but they were milky and blind. He looked at Rankin without bothering to hide his contempt, but then he bent over and said, “Levitas, come along now look who’s come.” “Hollin was still sitting with Levitas’s head in his lap, a bucket now beside him he was squeezing water from a clean cloth into the dragon’s open mouth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both women should exchange information if they see Anna during the 24-hour observation and do not speak to each other to compare the results. They hire Lib and a nun with nursing experience. City officials are concerned about the girl’s allegation and want to investigate before she gets embarrassed. They are said to travel to Ireland and observe an 11-year-old girl who claims she hasn’t eaten in four months. Great? credible? Suspicious? Trained by Florence Nightengale, Lib Wright treated patients during the Crimean War. ![]() Imagine reading a news report about a child living alone in the water. Written with all the driving suspense that made Room a bestseller, The Wonder works beautifully on many levels: a tale of two strangers who change each other’s lives, a powerful psychological thriller, and a love story against evil. Lib Wright, a veteran of Florence Nightingale’s Crimean campaign, is hired to keep an eye on the girl. Tourists flock to the cottage of 11-year-old Anna O’Donnell, who believes she is living off the manna of heaven, and a journalist is sent to cover the sensation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Independent similarly praised the book for the wide array of dispensable facts contained within the book. plus some anger and life advice – all delivered in the inimitable Bryson style". The book has received generally positive reviews with The Guardian headlining their review with "Extraordinary stories about the heart, lungs, genitals. Within each chapter, Bryson describes the function of the relevant biological system, emphasising the history of the scientific developments that led to the current understanding, all with the humour that is characteristic of his writing. After a brief introduction, the book divides itself into several chapters, each of which describes a particular part of the body or, as in the two chapters on diseases, problems that the body can be faced with. It is Bryson's second book of popular science, with the first being A Short History of Nearly Everything published in 2003. ![]() The Body: A Guide for Occupants is a non-fiction book by British-American author Bill Bryson, first published in 2019. ![]() ![]() ![]() They are able to venture into the city for food and supplies for a time, but eventually, as the zombies become more aggressive and the crowd of shuffling dead outside the university swells to massive proportions, they realize they must take desperate steps to survive. Meanwhile, survivors in a larger city gravitate in ones and twos toward a university complex where 40 or so other living folks are scratching out a meager existence. Two of the three-Michael and Emma-escaped, and the second book finds them living out of the back of a camper in the countryside. The first book in the series followed three survivors who fled the city to hole up in a farmhouse for a short time before it was overrun by the zombie horde. In the second book in Moody’s Autumn series, a few dozen city dwellers try to survive after a mysterious plague wipes out almost everyone, then turns a third of the dead into shuffling zombies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of the CBA Libris People's Choice Award ![]() Winner of the Canadian Authors' Association Award ![]() Oprah's Book of the Month Club Pick, January 2002 Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Moving and finely written, Fall On Your Knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a story-and a world-that resonate long after the last page is turned. Together they weave a tale of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love. The mythically charged Piper family-James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their daughters: Kathleen, a budding opera Diva Frances, the incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption-is supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Bookįollowing the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York city and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. ![]() |