The recipient of a track scholarship, Mr. John’s, and we have conducted several service projects supporting the St. “Our leadership team initiated an endowed scholarship for a Georgia student to receive financial support while attending St. John’s University’s Atlanta Alumni Chapter, of which he is currently President. Wilson has been heavily involved in alumni activities since graduation and has been an active member of the St. His longest stay with one company was for 15 years with telecommunications company Ericsson, eventually serving as Vice President of Sales and Business Development. After a promotion, he relocated to Atlanta, GA, and has been there ever since. His first job was an entry-level sales position with Hamilton Beach Brands, Inc., working in the New York–New Jersey area. Wilson is retired after more than 40 years in sales in three distinct industries: small appliances, consumer electronics, and telecom. ’52CBA, and several other family members had attended the school, and its first campus was in Brooklyn, NY, where he originally lived. John’s University, he already had a deep attachment to the institution. By the time Martin Wilson ’77CBA arrived at St.
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In this guide, we’ll examine the types of choices we face, the challenges of making choices, how excessive choices make these challenges more difficult, and how to live with expanded choice. However, it has also attracted criticism: Writers for outlets such as The Atlantic and the Financial Times questioned the premise of Schwartz’s book, arguing that the idea that expanded choice has negative effects is not grounded in sufficient evidence.) (Shortform note: Schwartz’s ideas have become popularized, and the concept of the “paradox of choice” has been written about frequently since the book’s publication. He wrote The Paradox of Choice based on his research and personal experiences with the negative consequences of expanded choice. Schwartz’s work combines psychology and economics. To lift this burden, Schwartz, a professor of social theory and social action, recommends we learn how to better navigate our choices, from groceries to health insurance. In The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz contends that the vast array of choices presented to us leaves us stressed and indecisive. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of The Paradox of Choice (Edmonton: University of Alberta Libraries, 2008)Ĭo-editor, Staatskanzler Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg, 1711-1794: Neue Perspektiven zu Politik und Kultur der europäischen Aufklärung (Graz, Esztergom, Paris, N.Y.: Andreas Schnider Verlagsatelier, 1996)Ĭo-editor, A History of the Austrian Migration to Canada (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996)Įditor, Austrian Immigration to Canada: Selected Essays (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1996).Ĭo-editor, Politics and Culture in the Age of Joseph II (Budapest: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2005).Ĭo-editor, The Germans and the East (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 2007)Ĭo-editor, Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe (Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)Ĭo-editor, Diversity and Dissent: Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 (Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2011) Legacy of Empire: Treasures of the University of Alberta's Central European Library Collection. Kaunitz and enlightened absolutism, 1753-1780 (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1994) The Seven Years War in Europe, 1756-1763 (Harlow:Pearson Longman, 2007) Cultural History of Central Europe (1500-present).Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy (1740-1792).University of Montréal, Loyola College (1968) Expertise & Research Interests History & Classics University of Alberta 2-28 Tory Building Edmonton AB Canada T6G 2H4 The Chaos series has had its moments, but it’s the biker series that takes me into that MC world but also keeps me safe. Normally, I’m fluffy bunny reader, so I tend to stick to low-angsty, funny and sweet in my reads. The Oh So Good : Kristen Ashley made me freaking cry. As High sinks into meting out vengeance for Millie’s betrayal, he’ll break all over again when he realizes just how Millie walked through fire for her man. High’s intrigued at the change, but her betrayal cut him deep-and he doesn’t want to get burned again. Millie is still gorgeous, but she’s just a ghost of her former self. After ending a loveless marriage, High is shocked when his true love walks back into his life. Yet it was a beautiful woman who broke him. īad boy Logan “High” Judd has seen his share of troubles with the law. And this time, she won’t let him ride off. Twenty years later, Millie’s chance run-in with her old flame sparks a desire she just can’t ignore. They fell in love at first sight and life was good, until she learned she couldn’t be the woman he needed and made it so he had no choice but to walk away. She was young and wild and he was fierce and even wilder-a Chaos biker who made her heart pound. Millie Cross knows what it’s like to burn for someone. In her memoirs, Cusk had puzzled away at the problems of existence in a way that sometimes seemed haughty, as when in 2009’s The Last Supper she attributed her restlessness as a young mother in Bristol to her sensitivity to the legacy of the slave trade. Cusk had only ever had one, highly wrought, arch style, which could easily seem mannered (“assuages the fear of complexity by showing everything on its surface” she once wrote, of pizza), and had never produced easy, natural dialogue: now, as Faye reported page after page of speech in that same rapid, surmising style we not only heard the conversations but received a powerful sense of feelings muted and talked over. Now she dispensed with all of that: Faye apparently imposed nothing on the world she listened to others talking and presented their monologues linked only by the power of imagery and voice. In her novels, Cusk had never been comfortable with complex, long-form plots, but at the same time was doggedly intellectual, intent on foregrounding ideas: earlier the strain, in the queasy satire of Arlington Park and essay-like stasis of The Bradshaw Variations, had been showing. But their scorn is mainly directed outwards, expressing things they’d have done differently if the odds weren’t stacked against them. Proud “natural” beauty Miho thinks Kyuri is “painfully plastic”, while Kyuri thinks Miho is stuck-up. For all the fondness and protectiveness that gels them together, they’re deeply judgmental of each other, in a spot-on dissection of female friendship. As Miho thinks: “For all its millions of people, Korea is the size of a fishbowl and someone is always looking down on someone else.”Ĭha’s women do it too. The rich kids in Manhattan place each other by which school they went to, while the “prettiest 10 per cent” of Seoul escorts sneer at red-light district sex workers. There’s not much in the way of plot rather, each chapter is a snapshot of a woman trapped – by narrow and exacting beauty standards, by debt, misogyny and the rigid hierarchies instructing every level of society. Living in the same apartment block are: the cosmetically enhanced Kyuri, who works for a “room salon” (a sort of brothel-adjacent party lounge) her room-mate Miho, an orphan who scored a rich boyfriend after an art scholarship in New York Ara, a mute hairstylist obsessed with a K-pop star and Wonna, who’s pregnant with a baby she and her husband can’t afford to raise. Swathed in praise from Oprah and Vogue, there’s a millennial buzz around the book, which takes an eviscerating look at modern Korean society – and four women’s place at the bottom of it. The irresistibly titled If I Had Your Face is the debut novel from Frances Cha. The principal wants to be lenient because it's the last day of school, but Emily's mom demands Amari's scholarship be revoked. Grant, Amari's mother, Emily, and the principal join Amari in the office. Quinton is holding a trophy he won in a math competition. She sees a picture behind the desk of Quinton. While Amari's mom and Emily's mom talk with the principal in the hallway, Amari looks around the principal's office. She has been caught shoving classmate Emily Grant. But if she doesn't stick it out and pass the tryouts, she may never find out what happened to Quinton." Plot Chapter 1 Īmari Peters is in the principal's office. No matter how hard she tries, Amari can't seem to escape their intense doubt and scrutiny-especially once her supernaturally enhanced talent is deemed "illegal." With an evil magician threatening the supernatural world, and her own classmates thinking she's an enemy, Amari has never felt more alone. "Now she must compete for a spot against kids who've known about magic their whole lives. So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she's certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton-if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. Blurb "Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Twice.’” Like Lemony Snicket and superhero comics rolled into one (and then revved up on steroids), this nutty novel isn’t for everyone, but it’s also sure to win passionate fans. I’m going to go read a book about a boy whose dog gets killed by his mother. Readers whose sense of humor runs toward the subversive will be instantly captivated: not only does the author poke fun at librarians, he lampoons books (including this one) in frequent passages directly addressed to readers: “You are saying to yourself, 'The story just lost me. The madcap plot can seem chaotic, with action pulling Alcatraz toward new characters at a breakneck speed, but Sanderson unexpectedly draws everything together in an extravagantly silly climax. Before long, Sanderson brings on talking dinosaurs (it’s a librarian distortion that they’re extinct), a parallel world, visiting villains and more. Brandon Mulls New York Times bestselling series about siblings Seth and Kendra who discover their grandparents are the caretakers of a sanctuary for magical. As the novel opens, on his 13th birthday, he is quickly initiated into the true nature of librarians by his heretofore unmet grandfather, Leavenworth Smedry. The author of the Mistborn trilogy and Elantris, Brandon Sanderson is winning abundant praise for this rollicking-and unusual-tale. Alcatraz, meanwhile, is the name of the protagonist, who has been raised in a series of foster homes. They distort some facts and fabricate the rest. ) children’s debut, an over-the-top fantasy/adventure, librarians are evil because they control all the information in Hushland (America).
Blaming himself for his elder brother’s death during the same ill-fated attack, Will rejects his title and family estate, and drowns his misery in whisky. Sir William St George doesn’t believe he deserves to recover from the leg wound he sustained during the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade. But can she trust this wayward baronet with her heart? As he slowly heals, they grow ever closer, despite her resolution to resist his charm. Plagued by memories of the soldiers she failed to save, Clem must harness every ounce of determination to help her handsome patient recover. She reluctantly takes a private position, caring for the charming yet self-indulgent injured war veteran Sir William St George, who is determined to sabotage his own recovery. Newly returned from the Crimean War, nurse Clementine Ashby is an embarrassment to her middle-class parents. An injured baronet hell-bent on self-destruction. An iron-willed nurse haunted by memories of the patients she failed to save. |