![]() ![]() Through the decades, the metal scene has been populated by colorful individuals who have thwarted convention and lived by their own rules. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his song “You Can’t Kill Rock and Roll” Ozzy Osbourne sings, “Rock and roll is my religion and my law.” This is the mantra of the metal legends who populate Raising Hell―artists from Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Slipknot, Slayer, and Lamb of God to Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Disturbed, Megadeth, and many more! It’s also the guiding principle for underground voices like Misery Index, Gorgoroth, Municipal Waste, and Throwdown. Now the basis for the new podcast “Back Stage: The Devil in Metal” from Diversion Podcasts & iHeartRadio, get in line for Raising Hell From the author of the celebrated classic Louder Than Hell comes an oral history of the badass Heavy Metal lifestyle―the debauchery, demolition, and headbanging dedication―featuring metalhead musicians from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Twisted Sister and Quiet Riot to Disturbed, Megadeth, Throwdown and more. ![]()
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It's a mystery that still haunts her bucolic university town and her broken family, especially her sister, Haley, whose need for closure has become an obsession. Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sestet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI, sextet. ![]() BookScouter helps to compare book prices. ![]() A decade ago in upstate New York, art student Emma McCullough walked into the woods and was never seen again. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Sise, Katie. A breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by the bestselling author of We Were Mothers. A town still held in the grip of an unsolved mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was first published around a decade ago but, with so many pandemic puppies out there, it’s more relevant than ever. ![]() If you’d like to read that book ahead of time, our selection will be: Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, by Alexandra Horowitz. The next Book Club episode we’re planning will have me as host again. We’re going to keep playing with this format to see how much we like it and how much you like it. Today’s author is Reed Hastings and the book is No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, which Hastings co-wrote with Erin Meyer. So many of you wrote in to say how much you loved that episode, and Maria in particular, that for our second Freakonomics Radio Book Club episode, we’re asking Maria to take a turn as host. psychologist who became a professional poker player in order to learn more about decision-making and luck. That episode was called “ How to Make Your Own Luck.” The author was Maria Konnikova, a Ph.D. You may remember a couple months ago we tried a new kind of episode - a Freakonomics Radio Book Club - where we interviewed an author and had her read excerpts from her book. This is a special bonus episode of Freakonomics Radio. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Far too many parents enter their kids’ teenage years with fear and cynicism, hoping merely to survive. Matt Chandler, Lead Pastor, The Village Church, Flower Mound, Texas President, Acts 29 Network Coauthor, Family Discipleship: Leading Your Home through Time, Moments, and Milestones ![]() I couldn’t be more excited about this revised and expanded version.” Through the peaks and valleys of raising our three kids, we came back to this resource several times. “Lauren and I first read Age of Opportunity almost fifteen years ago, and it served as a foundation for how we have tried to parent. Greear, Pastor, The Summit Church, Durham, North Carolina Though I have read dozens of parenting books, two or three have profoundly reshaped my whole approach. “ Age of Opportunity avoids a formulaic how-to approach to rearing children and instead shows how to apply the gospel to the unique spiritual struggles of your child’s heart. . . This revised and updated edition features fresh, heart-focused discussion questions for each chapter as well as a bonus Q&A section. In this wise and hopeful book, Paul Tripp shows parents how to connect with their children as never before, drawing on practical strategies shaped by God’s Word. For a parent, the teen years are years of unprecedented opportunity-years of penetrating questions and exciting new discussions, years that open the door to a teen’s heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() At least, this is the way the novel begins, readers flinging their perceptions and acceptances wide to embrace a story we have been preconditioned to consider great. ![]() Indeed, the melancholic tone and addictive writing spiced with memorable and quotable sentences starts Fates and Furies with that Eugenides air for deep drama and characters who, despite their bizarreness, capture us with their likable, lamentable brokenness and the very realness of the atmosphere in which they live. It’s effectively a deep topic, both beautiful and sad, and all the literary book review blurb and the author’s own spicy interview promises something epic and memorable along the lines of a Jeffrey Eugenides offering. Ostensibly a story of marriage, the narrative is more encompassing, a character study and a discourse on perception and the secrets we must withhold – how we never truly know each other. ![]() (above quote from Napoleon because I, too, can be a smarty-pants)įrom the addicting Book of the Month club to the rave New York Times review with all its mentions of Greek choruses, Shakespeare, and Sophocles, to the teasing of female fury in NPR’s review, and finally, the exquisitely intriguing Lit Up PodCast with author Lauren Groff the Internet besieged me to stop everything and read Fates and Furies. Rating: “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lemony Snicket would certainly find that possible. That, or there are millions of idiots with terrible taste in literature in the world. So while they're filled with people and things that are no good, the books themselves are very good indeed. And despite brimming with terribleness-we're talking evil-villains-turned-father-figures, babies dangling in bird cages from the tops of towers, and even a run-in with a child bride-these books have sold over sixty million copies. Written way back in 1999, this is the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket). See? We told you we're in unpleasant territory. With that out of the way, since you've stuck around instead of running for the hills, we'd like to officially welcome you to The Bad Beginning, the story of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire and the seemingly endless series of unfortunate events they encounter after their parents perish tragically in a fire one day. It just wouldn't be right to let you keep going without offering some sort of heads-up, right? Hey, we had to give you fair warning-after all, there's one scrawled on the back of the freaking book. We're sorry to say that the learning guide you're about to read is extremely unpleasant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, there’s a curious effect to considering the way such a small component of the book evades the erasure of self that serves as the narrative strategy. (Tomorrow, to avoid work, I’ll retype all 400-plus pages of Blue Highways that aren’t essay…for procrastinatory balance).įrom a process standpoint, I imagine that Least Heat-Moon more likely wrote these bits and pieces of reflection along the way of his revision, not as a stand-alone piece (obviously), so “exploded” isn’t precisely the verb to use. Basically, Least Heat-Moon wrote a fairly standard-length essay, exploded it into pieces, then wrote a lengthy travel narrative around it. ![]() The sum of that exercise? About 3,000 words of personal narrative and reflection. Case in point, this afternoon I gathered and transcribed the moments in William Least Heat-Moon’s Blue Highways when he writes bits that I would consider “essayistic” as opposed to narrative. Sometimes, in prepping for class, I wonder if I’m really more interested in making extra work for myself, class-prep itself turned into some form of intellectual whittling, me occupying myself with something mundane as a means of avoiding other work piled up around the office. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The basic idea, as Michael Hammer and James Champy expressed it in their 1993 manifesto Reengineering the Corporation, was "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed." Whether you were focusing on the production line, the sales organization, or performance-review systems, went the reengineering mantra, you were not constrained by the existing process design or by market forcesindeed, by altering, even obliterating, designs and slashing costs, you could revolutionize your organization.įor all those lofty ambitions, in practice reengineering too often became a rationalization for downsizing staff, demoralizing employees, and ignoring corporate culture. And rarely did a single employee monitor an entire process so that he could, for example, pinpoint exact delivery dates for customers.Īgainst such a backdrop, process reengineering seemed bold and exhilarating. ![]() ![]() Each unit might have its own process for purchasing, accounts payable, or expense analysis. A company's units and functions often operated almost as though they were independent silos, with little attempt to coordinate efforts among them. When reengineering first appeared during the economic slowdown of the early 1990s, many firms hadn't tackled the problems of redundancy in their organizations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why? Well, certainly not because he wrote a thoughtful reply to the email I sent him in my out-of-character (for me) fangirl moment a few months ago. Without further ado, I give you my review for a book (series) that has affected my life in more ways than I can count. So, to combat all that negativity, here’s a bit of positivity to brighten up everyone’s day. Things don’t go as planned more often than not, and trying to remember that “it takes all kinds” is difficult at best when life fast-pitches you some lemons straight to your face. There has been a lot of negativity in my life, and this caused some mental shifting on my part. I haven’t written in a few weeks, I know. ![]() Okay, so let’s get the weirdness out of the way. WOOL (Book 1), SHIFT (BOOK 2), and DUST (BOOK 3) ![]() ![]() ![]() A few stories were syndicated by the American Press Association. ![]() Her short stories were well received in the 1890s and were published by some of America’s most prestigious magazines- Vogue, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Young People, the Youth’s Companion, and the Century. Her novel The Awakening and her short stories are read today in countries around the world, and she is widely recognized as one of America’s essential authors. Kate Chopin (1850–1904) is an American writer best known for her stories about the inner lives of sensitive, daring women. ![]() |