![]() ![]() Amy Manson as Catherine "Cathy" Gordon, wife of Richard of York.Goodall is the only actor appearing in both The White Queen and The White Princess. Caroline Goodall as Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, the Queen's paternal grandmother. ![]() Patrick Gibson as Richard of York, a pretender to the English crown and husband of Cathy Gordon, also known as Perkin Warbeck.Anthony Flanagan as Francis Lovell, a Yorkist supporter.Richard Dillane as Thomas Stanley, Margaret Beaufort's husband.Essie Davis as Dowager Queen Elizabeth Woodville, the Queen's mother.Kenneth Cranham as Bishop (later Cardinal) John Morton, a confidant of the King's mother.Jacob Collins-Levy as Henry VII, the King of England, Elizabeth's husband.Rebecca Benson as Margaret "Maggie" Plantagenet, the Queen's paternal cousin, sister of Teddy.Jodie Comer as Elizabeth "Lizzie" of York, the Queen of England. ![]()
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How to Win Friends and Influence People is a self-help book written by Dale Carnegie, published in 1936. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() writes: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”(1) I chose Dr. In his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Dr. I wonder if my daughters will still face injustice because of their mixed race, because of their gender, because. I am terrified by the biases and discrimination I see in my students and in the implicit biases I struggle to address within myself. My work reflects who I am, and this is the life I pray they will have someday too.Īnd yet, by the time Anissa and Amara are in college, I fear the world will not have changed enough. I want my daughters to know that I leave them every day because the work⨠I do speaks for my soul. When Anissa and Amara, my twin daughters, were born, my thoughts about why I work in Student Affairs in Jesuit higher education forever changed. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ![]() ![]() ![]() In Play Bigger, the authors assemble their findings to introduce the new discipline of category design. In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of 'category kings' - companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber and IKEA - that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn't know we had. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you're going to lose. You can't build a legendary company without building a legendary category. It's about inventing a whole new game - defining a new market category, developing it and dominating it over time. ![]() Winning today isn't about beating the competition at the old game. The how-to playbook for start-ups and established companies on a groundbreaking discipline called category design. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls she patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force she joins seafaring chaplains, and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of "flags of convenience." Infesting our waters, poisoning our air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is environmentally indefensible. Without all those dots, the world would not work.įreight shipping has been no less revolutionary than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but invisible. ![]() Without shipping there would be no clothes, food, paper, or fuel. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produce but buy. Each dot is a ship each ship is laden with boxes each box is laden with goods. On ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilization ![]() ![]() ![]() Lancelot's first datable appearance as main character is found in Chrétien de Troyes' 12th-century French poem Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, which already centered around his courtly love for Guinevere. But when his adulterous affair with Guinevere is discovered, it causes a civil war that, once exploited by Mordred, brings an end to Arthur's kingdom. ![]() A hero of many battles, quests and tournaments, and famed as a nearly unrivalled swordsman and jouster, Lancelot becomes the lord of the castle Joyous Gard and personal champion of Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere, despite suffering from frequent and sometimes prolonged fits of madness. In the French-inspired Arthurian chivalric romance tradition, Lancelot is an orphaned son of King Ban of the lost kingdom of Benoic, raised in a fairy realm by the Lady of the Lake. ![]() ![]() Lancelot du Lac (French for Lancelot of the Lake), also written as Launcelot and other variants (such as early German Lanzelet, early French Lanselos, early Welsh Lanslod Lak, Italian Lancillotto, Spanish Lanzarote del Lago, and Welsh Lawnslot y Llyn), is a character in some versions of Arthurian legend where he is typically depicted as King Arthur's close companion and one of the greatest Knights of the Round Table. Ban, Elaine of Benoic, Lady of the Lake, Hector de Maris ![]() ![]() ![]() Since it was first published 25 years ago, it has become a staple of so many childhood Christmases, and has also been made into a feature film starring Tom Hanks. The Polar Express is rightly a Christmas classic. At the North Pole, he meets the elves and Santa, and waits to see which child will be given the first gift of Christmas. With hot chocolate in hand, and snowy landscapes whizzing past the windows, he's having a fabulous journey. ![]() When a train pulls up instead, he soon finds himself on the Polar Express, chuffing away to the North Pole, with scores of other children. It's Christmas Eve, and a young boy is waiting up to catch a glimpse of Santa. The accompanying CD read by Liam Neeson is an absolute joy. Summary: A Christmas classic that will charm every child and adult alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Author, Jacob s Ladder: Ten Steps to Truth If I were a pastor, I would make this book required reading for engaged couples in all my marriage classes. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From this foundation of happiness Kaczor explores the nature of marriage, and the love they promise to each other, which is agape, a self ![]() But what exactly is happiness? And how can we find it? The saints and psychologists agree: there can be no real happiness without authentic love-erotic love, friendship love, and self-giving love (agape). ![]() ![]() Every day, in whatever we do, we seek this goal. The foundation of Kaczor's approach is happiness. It aims to show to skeptical readers that what the Catholic Church teaches about controversial issues is rationally justified by considering evidence from psychology, sociology, and philosophy. The book's interdisciplinary approach, following the precedent of Thomas Aquinas, looks to human happiness and fulfillment, properly understood, in seeking the answers to questions about how to live. Appealing to reason rather than religious authority, the book tackles the most controversial and talked about positions of the Catholic Church - on contraception, on marriage, on reproductive technologies, on cohabitation, and on divorce - arguing for the reasonableness of the Church's views on these issues. This work explores some of the most interesting and vexing problems in contemporary life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh's latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor – the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.Īn incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.īut when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother's belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh’s own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratzs Refugee. From the author of Nowhere Boy - called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s. ![]() ![]() ![]() But, without it, the two series have a very close style. The main difference is, as I see it, the presence of fantasy in GoT. The wives of two king sons cheat on their husbands, which lead to the fight for who should actually claim the the throne after Iron King is gone.Īlso, the english queen cheats on her husband and takes part in murder of Edward the II. The Iron King, the main hero of the first book, dies at the end of the first book. The principle "Everybody dies", which GoT is famous for, perfectly fits for AkK: From the publishers that brought you A Game of Thrones comes the series that inspired George R.R. Now, The Accursed Kings tells us a story about the French kingdom in XIV century, and the battle for the throne between several branches of the ruling dinasty. 11.49 Ebook Free sample Switch to the audiobook About this ebook arrowforward This is the original Game of Thrones. (This last book was not part of the original six and does not appear to be. But I suddenly recalled reading long ago a series of books called The Accursed Kings by Maurice Druon. The Accursed Kings (Le Rois Maudits) Series The Iron King (Le Roi de Fer). ![]() ![]() I finished watching the 3rd season of GoT recently. ![]() |