![]() ![]() The three agents try to make a name for themselves by solving a big case before their competition, which spirals into more chaos than they can contain. and by small, we mean a tiny two-man operation consisting of just Anthony Lockwood ( Cameron Chapman) and George Karim ( Ali Hadji-Heshmati). After being rejected by all the major agencies, 13-year-old psychically inclined ghost hunter Lucy Carlyle ( Ruby Stokes) gets recruited to the small private investigation agency Lockwood & Co. Lockwood & Co., based on the Jonathan Stroud novels, takes place in a London filled with malicious spirits and specialized agencies to deal with them. ![]() ![]() Starting a small business is always hard, but it gets even harder when you have to deal with being a teenager, big agencies, and bad ghosts. Cast: Ruby Stokes, Cameron Chapman, Ali Hadji-Heshmati ![]()
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![]() ![]() By my early 30’s I was a senior executive in an ASX Top 100 company. I am one of a generation of women who was told I could have it all. My fourth book, “Me First: The Guilt-Free Guide to Prioritising You”, just hit the shelves, which is exciting!Ĭan you share with us the most interesting story from your career? Can you tell us what lessons or ‘take aways’ you learned from that? We have 2 dogs, who the kids promised to love, cherish and obey - but it seems like I’m the only one who ever walks them. I am a single mom to three (mostly) amazing teenagers - so I know first hand how hard it is to manage the ‘juggle’. I work with high performing organisations, teams and individuals to maximise individual time spend and minimise organisational drag through smart time investment strategies. ![]() I am a time management specialist, best selling author, and speaker. My name is Kate Christie and I am the CEO and founder of Time Stylers. Can you tell us a bit about your ‘backstory’? ![]() Thank you so much for joining us! Our readers would love to “get to know you” a bit better. ![]() ![]() ![]() It showed up and I thought, that’s really interesting. In terms of Sharks in the Time of Saviors, I started in 2010 with the image of a child being saved from drowning by sharks. I really push against the initial idea and try to dig deeper to look for the second, third, or fourth idea. I think that they’ll most likely be patterns that are unconsciously influenced by other books that I’ve read. If I’m writing a character’s reaction, dialogue, a plot point, or the way something might change in the story, I almost always immediately discount the first several ideas that come into my head because I don’t trust them. Not only is it for new ideas that pop into my head that I think that way, but even in the middle of a scene. Kawai Strong-Washburn: Yes, I agree with that, conceptually, really just in the sense of not trusting your first instinct for writing in general. Is this something you can relate to? If so, could you elaborate on how Sharks in the Time of Saviors developed over time? He finds that an image, a concept, or story ideas that are worth pursuing are something that’s going to essentially haunt you, it’ll come back to you again and again. So while I wouldn’t hold this person up as the pinnacle of who writers should aspire to, Stephen King says that he doesn’t write his ideas down. Cal MacFarland: Thank you so much for being here tonight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While at school, The King played the piano, trumpet and cello. His Majesty also spent a term at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth (April to June 1969) learning Welsh. The King studied archaeology and anthropology in his first year at the University of Cambridge, switching to history for the remainder of his degree. He was the first heir to the throne to earn a university degree. Since 1969, he has visited 48 Commonwealth countries, many of them on several occasions. The King’s first visit abroad was to Malta, when he was five years old. The first formal photograph of The King was taken by Cecil Beaton in December 1948. ![]() The King has three siblings, two sons, two step-children, five grandchildren and five step-grandchildren. He was the first heir to see his mother crowned as Sovereign. Prince Charles Philip Arthur George was born at Buckingham Palace on 14th November 1948 at 9.14pm, weighing 7lbs 6oz, the British royal family has shared some facts about the monarch as his Coronation draws closer.Īccording to palace, the former Prince Charles became heir apparent (next in line to the throne) at the age of three 1952, and went onto become the longest serving Prince of Wales in 2017. King Charles first heir to see his mother crowned as sovereign ![]() ![]() ![]() In them Wollstonecraft growsįrom the awkward child of fourteen to the woman of thirty-eight facing herĭeath in childbirth. Moving in their self-centered vulnerability. They are occasionally funny, often engaging, but most frequently Off as the overflow sometimes of joy, more often of bitterness, ennui, and Wollstonecraft’s letters were self-aware certainly but they were also dashed and it might have been inserted in the bills of mortality – 'dead of letter writing A. She might have said with Amelia Opie, a friend from her final years, “If writing were an effort to me I should not now be alive. She wrote incessantly throughout her life, priding herself on her frank expression and often berating her correspondents for not rising to her expansive standards. Indeed Wollstonecraft's value is as much in letter writing as in public authorship often she seems almost to live through her correspondence, expressing within it her numerous roles: child, daughter, companion, friend, teacher, governess, sister, literary hack, woman of letters, lover, wife, rationalist, and romantic. After Wollstonecrafts death, Godwin published a Memoir (1798) of her life, revealing her unorthodox lifestyle, which inadvertently destroyed her reputation for a century. Her works from her juvenile productions as a young girl in the Yorkshire town of Beverley to her final notes to her husband and future biographer William Godwin are instantly recognizable. Mary Wollstonecraft is one of the most distinctive letter writers of the eighteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() By reading The Woodlanders alongside Cavell, I suggest that Hardy develops an ecological mode of relation dependent neither on knowledge of nor on continuity with nonhuman worlds but, rather, on a negotiation of the epistemological and ontological limits inhering between, in this instance, humans and trees. Its senselessness, I contend, indexes a broader discomfort with, and rejection of, what Stanley Cavell would call relations of knowing as the foundation of ecology. Hardy posits an episode that resists narrative accommodation: simply, it does not make sense. I argue that this subplot is of central importance to The Woodlanders (1887) and to Hardy’s ecological thinking more generally. ![]() ![]() This essay attends to one of the stranger episodes in Thomas Hardy’s fiction: the inexplicably linked deaths of John South and the elm tree outside his house. Maxwell Sater, “Hardy's Trees: Ecology and the Question of Knowledge in The Woodlanders” (pp. ![]() ![]() ![]() Savannah falls for the old history, fantastic creatures and powerful women that surround her new reality. Rand has a matriarchal society and many strong warriors and intricate political plots. Why has she been chosen? As she battles demonic creatures and dark sorcery, she fights to take her place as the rightful bearer in the long line of warrior women.īut the question remains. At the conference she meets a mysterious stranger and gets transported to a mysterious land called Rand. It's a puzzle Savannah must solve before it's too late. Never before has someone from the 'other world' been chosen to bear the medallion, someone not a warrior. ![]() There she must forge a new life and embrace her role as the wielder of ancient magic. Compelled to wear the medallion, she is swept through the portal into Rand. She soon learns unknown forces are at play, powerful secret forces beyond her control. Savannah Cole is on an archeology dig in Algeria, she takes shelter from a violent sandstorm and discovers the mysterious artifact under a Berber ruin. Three hundred ago, Rand's most powerful talisman, a medallion called the Circle of Sheda, was taken through the portal into Earth and lost. An epic story of magic, heroism, love, and treachery, Rand is a magical world ruled by an imperial line of Queens. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, on the sesquicentennial of Alice's 1865 publication, comes this deluxe edition that combines all Gardner's annotations with updates from his Knight Letter columns and correspondence with leading Carrollian experts. As a result, Martin Gardner's groundbreaking work went on to sell over a million copies, establishing the modest math genius as one of our foremost Carroll scholars. First appearing in 1960, The Annotated Alice became an instant classic by, among other things, decoding the wordplay and mathematical riddles embedded within Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. "Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland comes this richly illustrated and expanded collector's edition of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. ![]() ![]() ![]() If the twentieth century was the age of planning, we now find ourselves in the age of the market, Rybczynski argues, where entrepreneurial developers are shaping the twenty-first-century city with mixed-use developments, downtown living, heterogeneity, density, and liveliness. ![]() ![]() Makeshift Metropolis describes how current ideas about urban planning evolved from the movements that defined the twentieth century, such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the seminal ideas of Frank Lloyd Wright and Jane Jacobs. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an intellectual history and a masterful critique. ![]() In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2002, Abu-Lughod warned us against the imperialist logic in discourses about ‘Afghan culture’ that had accompanied the military intervention in Afghanistan: As the French legislator recently discussed the opportunity to ban headscarves in Universities, after having banned face veils in public spaces in 2011 and headscarves in schools in 2004, and as controversies around Islam have emerged everywhere in Europe, it is indeed time to deconstruct some misconceptions about Muslim women. The question still holds relevance in 2014, since the plight of Muslim women continues to be used as a moral grammar to justify interventions both ‘at home’ and abroad. ![]() ![]() After the success of her article published in American Anthropologist in 2002 under the same title, Lila Abu-Lughod released her new book ‘ Do Muslim Women Need Saving ?’ in 2013. ![]() |