As the author recounts her time through several jobs, companies, and locations, she alternates the narration between the daily grind of the workers and the vistas of startling beauty surrounding them. She delves deep into the milieu of Fort McMurray, highlighting the complex relationships among the work camps, the oil companies, and the people living and working there. It’s all over our music, our literature, our art, and our understanding of our place in the world.” On the surface, the book is a chronicle of the three years following the author’s college graduation (she also spent a year working at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia), but Beaton captures much more than her personal story. The author begins with an introduction to her home in Cape Breton, where the people have “a deep love for home, and the knowledge of how frequently they will have to leave it to find work somewhere else. Known primarily as the creator of the web-based comic series “Hark! A Vagrant,” Beaton moves to memoir with this examination of the two years she spent working in the oil sands to pay off her student loans. An ambitiously complex graphic narrative of a Nova Scotian woman’s experience working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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“If your goal is less stress and more happiness,” she writes, “years of scientific research have proven that better than trading your time for money, it’s best to trade your money for time.” Easier said than done, and though Headlee remains highly productive, with a schedule that will leave many readers breathless, she does an effective job of showing how the Industrial Revolution changed the time-money equation, how multitasking makes us less focused and efficient, why connecting online rather than engaging in human interaction can be dehumanizing, and how you can feel better about your life by acting kindly. She had hoped that “when I achieved financial stability, my stress would end.” However, the opposite was true: Once she was offered bigger money for speeches and other jobs, it was tougher to turn them down. “While I’d always been driven, I’d also been exhausted, stressed, and overwhelmed,” writes the author of her years of struggle to advance her career, pay the bills, and manage the responsibilities of being a single mother. An argument against the notion that “our carefully designed strategies and gadgets will make us better.”Īs a popular radio host, journalist, and speaker, Headlee ( We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter, 2017) has plenty of experience in trying-and often failing-to achieve the so-called work-life balance. The prolific Leiter, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now we are granted a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes, but never realized the project in his lifetime. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal the unique collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. Henning Mankell had originally planned to write no more Wallander stories after the publication of the short story collection The Pyramid ( Pyramiden) in 1999. At the same time, Wallander is also dealing with the onset of dementia, and in particular, with the loss of his memory. Inspector Wallander suspects that he may be dealing with the worst spy scandal in Swedish history. The clues lead back in time to the Cold War and hired killers from Eastern Europe. For Kurt Wallander this becomes a very personal case as Von Enke is Linda Wallander's father-in-law. The pace of The Troubled Man is significantly slower than the previous Wallander stories, with several chapters between murders.Ī highly-decorated Swedish naval officer, Håkan von Enke, disappears during his daily walk. It is the twelfth and final novel in the Wallander series. The Troubled Man (Swedish: Den orolige mannen) is a crime fiction novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell, featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. According to Heymann, DiMaggio remained devoted to her until his own death in 1999.Īn intimate, sensitive, shocking, and richly detailed look at two of America’s biggest stars, Heymann delivers the expertise and passion for his subjects that his many fans so love. He had a half-dozen red roses delivered three times a week to her crypt for twenty years. Though their marriage only lasted nine months, they remained close until Monroe’s mysterious death in 1962 at the age of thirty-six. Joe and Marilyn reveals the true inside story of these two iconic figures whose marital troubles were Hollywood legend. When Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe eloped in January of 1954, they became an international sensation. From the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby and Jackie comes the riveting, true story of the passionate, volatile relationship between baseball great Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe. Curzon is a captivating writer and this book is an impressive addition to her existing Georgian books.” - The Lazy Historian “Curzon has a breezy, colloquial style. “A lively deep dive into the lives of four women regularly overshadowed by their husbands. From lonely childhoods to glittering palaces, via family feuds, smallpox, strapping soldiers, and plenty of scheming, these are the queens who shaped an era. Queens of Georgian Britain offers a chance to step back in time and meet the women who ruled alongside the Georgian monarchs, not forgetting Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the passionate princess who never made it as far as the throne. Whether dipping into politics or carousing on the shores of Italy, Caroline of Ansbach, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Caroline of Brunswick refused to fade into the background. Yet what of the remarkable women who were crowned alongside them?įrom the forgotten princess locked in a tower to an illustrious regent, a devoted consort, and a notorious party girl, the queens of Georgian Britain lived lives of scandal, romance, and turbulent drama. Hailing from Germany, these occasionally mad, bad, and infamous sovereigns presided over a land in turmoil. Ihre Werke sind auf vielen Plattformen erschienen und Catherine trat auch als Rednerin bei zahlreichen Veranstaltungen auf, unter a. Once upon a time there were four kings called George who, thanks to a quirk of fate, ruled Great Britain for over a century. Catherine Curzon ist königliche Historikerin und schreibt über alle Angelegenheiten des 18. an extraordinary read from beginning to end” ( Midwest Book Review). An account of four royal women that’s “as inherently fascinating as it is exceptionally informative. While chaos, in excess, threatens us with instability and anxiety, unchecked order can petrify us into submission. What’s more, he offers strategies for overcoming the cultural, scientific, and psychological forces causing us to tend toward tyranny, and teaches us how to rely instead on our instinct to find meaning and purpose, even-and especially-when we find ourselves powerless. In a time when the human will increasingly imposes itself over every sphere of life-from our social structures to our emotional states-Peterson warns that too much security is dangerous. Now, in this bold sequel, Peterson delivers twelve more lifesaving principles for resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order the world inevitably takes. Peterson helped millions of readers impose order on the chaos of their lives. In 12 Rules for Life, clinical psychologist and celebrated professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto Dr. The sequel to 12 Rules for Life offers further guidance on the periolus path of modern life. Love & War traces, in their two distinct voices, James and Mary's story from the end of the 1992 presidential campaign - where he managed Bill Clinton's electoral triumph while she suffered defeat as George H. If nothing else, this new collaboration proves that after twenty years of marriage they can still manage to agree on a few things. In this follow-up to their groundbreaking All's Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, Carville and Matalin take a look at how they - and America - have changed in the last two decades. For twenty years, James Carville and Mary Matalin have held the mantle of the nation's most politically opposed, ideologically mismatched, and intensely opinionated couple. 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