![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When vitamins were discovered a mere century ago, they changed the destiny of the human species by preventing and curing many terrifying diseases. In "Vitamania," award-winning journalist Catherine Price offers a lucid and lively journey through our cherished yet misguided beliefs about vitamins, and reveals a straightforward, blessedly anxiety-free path to enjoyable eating and good health. By focusing on vitamins at the expense of everything else, we've become blind to the bigger picture: despite our belief that vitamins are an absolute good-and the more of them, the better-vitamins are actually small and surprisingly mysterious pieces of a much larger nutritional puzzle. What's more, what we think we know is harming both our personal nutrition and our national health. a commanding, meticulously documented, and riling expose rich in dramatic and absurd science and advertising history, lively profiles, and intrepid, eyebrow-raising fieldwork" -"Booklist "(STARRED) Most of us know nothing about vitamins. " A] hidden, many-faceted, and urgent story. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() If you’d like to see some of my travel snapshots, have a look at the Travel Diary page (updated every month). I’m back in New Zealand now, but I’m always plotting new trips. I also spent three years living and working in Japan, during which time I took the chance to travel around Asia. I was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. I hope to continue living the dream until I keel over of old age on my keyboard. In September 2002, when I got the call that Silhouette Desire wanted to buy my first book, Desert Warrior, it was a dream come true. There's no other job I would rather be doing. I love creating unique characters, love giving them happy endings and I even love the voices in my head. I've been writing as long as I can remember and all of my stories always held a thread of romance (even when I was writing about a prince who could shoot lasers out of his eyes). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you do too, then this book is for you. But honestly, all I could think about was “damn, why didn’t I marry an English teacher?” Overall, I love romance. Obviously, ole boy can’t help but cave when it comes to our sassy heroine. To the point where he insults her and is just a big ole jerk! It’s okay though because Greer takes it all in stride because she’s badass like that. And let’s not forget he has an immediate “dislike” for our girl. Greer is all sunshine and laughs-I loved her immediately! Then we got umpy and snooty. So the story is about Greer and Arlo, who are both English teachers at their high school. So all the characters, like the baseball players from other books (like Jason Orson), yeahhhhh, I’ve moved her up on my TBR. Quinn’s books, I actually haven’t gotten around to reading them. I was left in stitches and I can’t tell you how much I needed that. I may or may not have gotten a bunch of Mr. Zachary Webber, um can one fall in love with a voice? The female narrator, Erin, was superb. For some reason I thought I’d pop my audio romance cherry, so to speak, and wow! I’ve obviously missed out on a bunch. ![]() How dare he!! Listen, I’m gonna let you guys in on little secret.I don’t listen to romance audiobooks, only thrillers and horror books and literary fiction. I swear Arlo gave me so much whiplash that I spent the majority of the book hating his guts! But then out of no where the grumpy bastard had my heart. ![]() Want to know the theme song to this book? Hot and Cold by Katy Perry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from spending some retirement years in the suburbs and the seaside town of Bournemouth, Tolkien haunted Oxford nearly his entire adult life.įor three decades, Oxford was also full-time home to Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963), author of The Chronicles of Narnia and Christian writings like The Screwtape Letters. 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And he shall speak great words against the most High Dan 7:25. We also see this in Daniel’s dream of beasts, Antichrist being the little horn. Shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods Dan 11:36. Apostle Paul describe the Antichrist as, 2Th 2:4: Who opposes and exalted himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped so that he as God sat in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Antichrist will be accomplishing this as prophesied, ‘ and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god’ Dan 11:36. ![]() He will be a god: – One of the ‘ I wills’ of Satan which made him be cast from heaven was, ‘ I will be like the most High’, Isa 14:14. Exalt and magnify himself above every god The Book of Daniel unlocks the Book of Revelation and reveals to us the entire works of Antichrist during his reign. NB: This is a continuation from Antiochus EpiphanesĪntiochus Epiphanes is a prototype of the Antichrist and from him we get a preview of what the Antichrist will do during his 7 years reign. ![]() He will rise as a peaceful world leader in the first 3 ½ years but in the next 3 ½ years, he will be the real devil he is. ![]() Antichrist reign will last for 1 week (7 years) as seen in Daniel 70 weeks. ![]() ![]() ![]() “ Understanding Comics is quite simply the best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered. You might still feel you've wasted your life, but you'll know why, and you'll be proud." "If you've ever felt bad about wasting your life reading comics, then check out Scott McCloud's classic book immediately. 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The official book to the Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning Netflix drama, The Crown, with extensive research, additional material and beautifully reproduced photographs. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Savushun is a unique piece of literature that transcends the boundaries of the historical community in which it was written, it is also the best single work for understanding modern Iran. Within basic Iranian paradigms, the characters play out the roles inherent in their personalities. Daneshvar's style is both sensitive and imaginative, while following cultural themes and metaphors. The story is seen through the eyes of Zari, a young wife and mother, who copes with her idealistic and uncompromising husband while struggling with her desire for traditional family life and her need for individual identity. 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Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() Einstein hated this phenomenon, famously deriding it as "spooky action-at-a-distance," and insisted that no influence can travel faster than light, and that objects have a state whether we measure them or not.īut in a massive, global experiment in which millions of entangled particles were measured around the world, researchers found that the particles seemed to only pick a state the moment they were measured, and no sooner. ![]() ![]() In a phenomenon called quantum entanglement, linked particles can seemingly communicate with each other across vast distances faster than the speed of light, and only "choose" a state to inhabit once they are measured. Entangled quantum particles (Image credit: Getty Images) ![]() |