![]() The Environmental Optimist was conceived after a conversation between Boyd and his daughter, who had just learned about climate change at school. ![]() ![]() This fall, he’s promoting two books - as well as The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future, he has also written Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies, published by UBC Press. He lives on Pender Island and is the co-chair of Vancouver’s Greenest City Action Team along with Mayor Gregor Robertson. Article contentīoyd is an environmental lawyer and an adjunct professor in resource and environmental management at Simon Fraser University and a former Trudeau Scholar at the University of British Columbia. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Malice by Griffin Hayes![]() ![]() The Zees may be long gone, but so too are centuries of scientific advancement. Now Tyson must face a terror that has stalked him since childhood or risk losing everything he holds dear. HIVENearly two hundred years after the planet was ravaged by millions of undead Zees, the human race is still struggling to rebuild. And when the nightmares threaten to return in full force, eerie trinkets aren't the only things waiting to come through. Items from a dark past he thought he left buried at Sunnybrook Asylum. So when he discovers an underground drug trial that will "cure" him, he jumps at the chance.Įverything seems great until things from Tyson's dreams start showing up in his waking life. Just long, sleepless nights broken only by nightmares so terrifying they threaten his sanity. Used to have a wife, a son, a thriving business. He's taking their souls and Lysander's may be next. DARK PASSAGETyson Barrett used to be happy. He knows the townsfolk are being hunted by something that shouldn't exist.Īnd the deeper Lysander digs, the more he realizes the killer isn't just taking their lives. The sheriff has convinced himself and others that the recent rash of deaths in the town are just suicides, but Lysander Shore knows different. ![]() ![]() A killer as ancient as the town itself, murdering at will and never leaving a trace. ![]() A serial killer stalks the streets of this small, isolated community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Richard Fitzwarren is a Tudor nobleman with a dubious past who takes risks for a living. The story unfolds in 16th Century Tudor England. It is a fascinating insight into Tudor England and the life of Elizabeth I before she sets foot on the steps to the throne. If you enjoy Tudor fiction by Phillipa Gregory and Alison Weir then A Queen's Spy is perfect for you. Elizabethan era in the Tudor period needs a hero.īased on actual historical events, this is an epic tale of a young Tudor nobleman’s courage, as he tries to keep his future queen safe during one of England’s most turbulent eras. Murder, mystery, and intrigue with a splash of romance. Enjoy it on its own or as an introduction to the Mystery Trials Series.Ī gripping historical adventure set in 16th century Tudor England. ![]() This short prequel sets the stage for the full length book, A Queen's Spy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the excerpt that you quote, I don't think that Mr. As to which way the pendulum swings, or the trend is going, the "other way" is presumably the opposite of whichever way the writer presumes is current, or has designated as the standard from which the "other way" deviates. In this field and in many others, trends swing back and forth, just as a pendulum swings back and forth. Encouraging people to lean on excuses is a trend discouraging them would be a trend the other way. ![]() ![]() He is talking about trends in counseling or psychotherapy. Indeed, you now see in the psychology literature recommendations that, in essence, therapists help their clients generate excuses to make them feel better, to try to focus them on why perhaps some of their problems are not really their fault, they're not bad people." : "But one of the things that my colleagues and I felt was that the pendulum may have swung too far the other way now. Because it's a lot nicer if you make up an excuse, for example, for missing a lunch date or turning somebody down than if you say 'I didn't want to go out with you because I didn't like you' or 'I missed the lunch date because I had better things to do.' : SCHLENKER: "Much of the research showed that excuses can actually produce beneficial consequences in the sense of salvaging self-esteem, making people feel better, maybe even allowing them to keep stronger relationships with others. Where Does the Phrase ‘Eat the Rich’ Come From? ![]() ![]() ![]() and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter is sometimes no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast. In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest. ![]() He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror. In Part One, 'Low Men in Yellow Coats', eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighbourhood. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. ![]() ![]() Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Images from that war - and the protests against it - had flooded America living rooms for a decade. Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. 'Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional they actually happened. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Poison study series reading order![]() Not everyone is pleased by Yelena's acceptance of the role of food taster, especially not General Brazell, whose son was killed by Yelena, despite it being in self-defense. ![]() But this time the outcomes aren't so clear! Her life's at stake again and choices must be made. ![]() Rebels plot to seize Ixia and she develops magical powers she can't control. As Yelena tries to escape her dilemma, disasters keep mounting. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. ![]() She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace, and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered a reprieve. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock![]() ![]() ![]() Although born in London, he now splits his time between homes in Texas and Paris. /rebates/2f97800061534432fBehold-Man-Moorcock-Michael-00061534452fplp&. ![]() He has been compared to, among others, Balzac, Dumas, Dickens, James Joyce, Ian Fleming, J.R.R. Michael Moorcock's literary creations include Hawkmoon, Corum, Von Bek, Jerry Cornelius and, of course, his most famous character, Elric. Intense, delicate and brutal, it explores the psyche of one man as he faces his ultimate fate. His tenure as editor of New Worlds magazine in the sixties and seventies is seen as the high watermark of SF editorship in the UK, and was crucial in the development of the SF New Wave. Expanded from the NEBULA-winning 1966 novella, BEHOLD THE MAN is one of the greatest books of Moorcock's long and varied career. Michael Moorcock is also a musician who has performed since the seventies with his own band, the Deep Fix and, as a member of the prog rock band, Hawkwind, won a gold disc. Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. In 1999, he was given the World Fantasy Life Achievement Award in 2001, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame and in 2007, he was named a SFWA Grandmaster. The author of many literary novels and stories in practically every genre, his novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous awards including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Whitbread and Guardian Fiction Prize. Michael Moorcock (1939-) Michael Moorcock is one of the most important figures in British SF and Fantasy literature. ![]() 5/12/2023 0 Comments Leigh bardugo king of scars series![]() ![]() Nina aids the Ravkan war effort by turning the Fjerdans to worship the Grisha saints, creating divide in the ranks of the drüskelle. She gains the favor of Fjerda's Prince Rasmus when she uses her Grisha healing power to lessen his chronic illness. The pair decide that Hanne must enter herself into the Heartwood, a competition between women to decide who they will marry. Nina Zenik has successfully infiltrated the Ice Court under the alias Mila Jandersdat, serving as Hanne Brum's courtier. Shu Han's ruler, Queen Makhi Kir-Taban, plots to kill her sister Ehri from taking the throne when a blot of darkness with a likeness to the Shadow Fold spreads past the Unsea and into Shu Han. The story takes place several weeks after the end of King of Scars and follows the third-person perspectives of Nikolai Lantsov, Zoya Nazyalensky, Nina Zenik, Mayu Kir-Kaat, and the Darkling (referred to as 'The Monk.') Plot It is the seventh overall novel in Bardugo's Grishaverse and the final novel in the King of Scars duology. ![]() ![]() Rule of Wolves is a fantasy novel by American author Leigh Bardugo published by Imprint in 2021. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Burke’s view, the landed interest was necessary to tame and channel such influences because their family pedigrees, ancestral estates, modern disposition, and commitment to the common good provided a stable foundation for market exchange and foreign investment to flourish. Such financiers, as well as the new middle class, were driven by ambition and speculation, supplanting the landed nobility and unsettling the social order of France. The monied interest in particular exploited their position as state creditors to drive their pursuit of avaricious self-interest and wield a nefarious influence in the conduct of government affairs, which helped provoke the expansion of the French state. ![]() It is fundamentally a contrast of the French Revolution to that time with the unwritten British Constitution and, to a significant degree, an argument with British supporters and interpreters of the events in France. In his judgment, these two aspects of the Revolution shook the foundations of France’s system of revenue and discouraged commercial activity. Reflections on the Revolution in France is a political pamphlet written by the Irish statesman Edmund Burke and published in November 1790. In addition, I provide a thorough treatment of Burke’s criticism of the monied interest and the revolutionaries’ frenzied issuance of paper money called assignats. In Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke attacked the Revolution for violating prescriptive property rights and subverting the market principles of supply and demand that he later defended in Thoughts and Details. Chapter 11 unveils Burke’s understanding of the French Revolution through the lens of his principles of political economy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Both cases bore ground-breaking implications and were first filed in Scotland. ![]() Ģ The notion of continuing politics in the courtroom with the strategic choice of Scotland as the fighting pit emerged with two recent cases: Wightman and others before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in December 2018 and Cherry / Miller 2 before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (UKSC) in October 2019. 1 However, just like the petitioners in the MacCormick case stressed that they were making a constitutional point but meant no disrespect to the Queen, Scottish judges have always adhered to an unobtrusive judicial restraint, keeping a neutral stance on politically loaded legal issues 2. 2 Judicial restraint is defined by Britannica as a principle that “urges judges to refrain from decid (.)ġ Any law student in the UK (certainly any in Scotland) can quote the famous lines from MacCormick v Lord Advocate (1953), the epitome of a meaningful obiter dictum, with far greater import than things said just in passing.In this case, nationalists John MacCormick and Ian Hamilton brought an action aga (.) ![]() |