6/12/2023 0 Comments Platform capitalism srnicek![]() Central to the functioning of the Open Book Collective is an online platform that will make it far quicker and easier for libraries and other potential subscribers to compare, evaluate, and subscribe to different OA publishers and open service providers via membership packages. The OBC is founded upon equitable, community-led governance and helping publishers move beyond Book Processing Charges (BPCs). The collective will bring together diverse small-to-medium open access (OA) publishers, open publishing service providers, libraries, and other research institutions to create a new, mutually supportive, and interdependent community space and platform designed to sustain the future of OA book publishing. The OBC is a major output of the COPIM project (Community-Led Infrastructures for Open Access Monographs). ![]() ![]() ![]() This article describes and explains the need for the work of the Open Book Collective (OBC). ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Lao tzu stephen mitchell![]() ![]() Post Contents: Click a link here to jump to a section below When you see gray italics, these are notes from the author, Stephen Mitchell, that he included at the end of the book to help with understanding.
![]() ![]() ![]() When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family-before it claims her next.ĥ SPOOKY, TERRIFYING, OH MY GOD MY HANDS STILL TREMBLING, CONTAINING GOTHIC ELEMENTS, GHOSTS AND CURSES KINDA STORY, PLEASE LEAVE YOUR LIGHTS ON BEFORE GO TO SLEEP AFTER THIS BOOK AND DON’T BE AFRAID OF CREAKING SOUNDS, THEY MIGHT BE ONLY RATS DANCING ON YOUR FLOORS STARS! Because who-or what-are they really dancing with? Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. ![]() Each death was more tragic than the last-the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge-and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.ĭisturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.Īnnaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the snow clouds disappear, stars light up the sky, followed by the mystical shimmering of northern lights - all framed by the frost on the window. Two snowshoe hares scamper and play under the watchful eyes of a little fox, and a tiny mouse scurries in search of a midnight feast. ![]() The poem describes the forest of snow-covered pines, where a deer and fawn nibble a frozen apple, and a great gray owl swoops down with its feathers trailing through the snow. In this exquisite lullaby, the beauty and wonder of a northern winter night unfold, with images of a soft snowfall, the wild animals that appear in the garden, the twinkling stars, the gentle rhythm of the northern lights and the etchings of frost on the window pane.Īs the young child sleeps, wrapped in a downy blanket, a snowflake falls, and then another and another. Once Upon a Northern Night has received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly and School Library Journal. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments This Republic by Will Butts![]() The surgical procedure takes between two to four hours. While performing the traditional Butt Lift procedure, the surgeon will make incisions and suck excess fat and sagging skin using the liposuction procedure or may insert buttock implants. Brazilian butt lift procedures are fat transfer procedures performed to give patients rounded and shapely buttocks. Traditional Butt Lift procedures, also known as belt lipectomy procedures, are performed to remove sagging skin in the buttocks and thighs. What different types of Butt Lift procedures are there? ![]() Butt Lift procedures involving fat transfers are also called a Brazilian Butt Lift. Types of procedures include the placement of silicone buttock implants, fat transfer procedures, fat reduction surgery or a surgical buttock contouring procedure. ![]() A Butt Lift is the surgical augmentation of the shape of the buttocks. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Adultery book![]() ![]() Q: Your protagonist in “Adultery” has a life almost anyone would envy, but it is not enough. ![]() And even when my protagonist is masculine, I’m writing from using this feminine energy. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it’s not more difficult, no. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. I’m convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. Is it more difficult for you than from the male perspective?Ī: Creativity is basically a feminine process. Q: You have written from the viewpoint of women before. ![]() Passion is this up and down it’s like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me. Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Dan ariely's![]() And we apply different norms to these two kinds of relationships. So we live in two worlds: one characterized by social exchanges and the other characterized by market exchanges. He also explains how he discovered that the "allure of free" tempts people to give up something better and why behavioral economics is important for policymaking. ![]() He talks to Robert Siegel about his experiments, which involve activities such as mock auctions, trick-or-treating and selling chocolate to college students. "Our willingness to pay, it turns out, is not just a function of the utility of the pleasure that we expect to get from, it's also influenced by all kinds of irrelevant factors that change our psychology but not our economic reasoning," Ariely says.Īriely is on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he's currently on leave and teaching at Duke University. Predictably Irrational explains how the reasoning behind those decisions is often flawed because of the invisible forces at work in people's brains: emotions, expectations and social norms. ![]() Instead, he finds, humans are "predictably irrational," which is also the title of his latest book. ![]() His conclusion? We don't do it the way economists typically say we do. As a behavioral economist, Dan Ariely studies the way people make economic decisions. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Bourdieu taste![]() ![]() The author further argues that this theory is inseparable from Bourdieu's practice-theoretical project it therefore cannot be coherently understood or evaluated unless it is presented in those terms (with habitus as the centrepiece concept). In this paper, the author shows that the theory of taste developed in Distinction is one concerned primarily with the origins and only secondarily with the functions of taste. Proper engagement with the theory of taste that Bourdieu formulates in Distinction has been marred by an inability to differentiate between the theory of the functions of taste and the theory of the origins of taste. Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review 2014, 50(3): 335-364 | DOI: 10.13060/00380288.2014.50.3.105 Taste and the Logic of Practice in Distinction Omar Lizardo University of Notre Dame ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Deal maker lily morton![]() ![]() ![]() Will he turn away? Can he?Īsa is a talented actor who has spent time away from the scene to look after his son. It leads to an unexpected summer of falling in love with a larger than life man and his child.īut by the end of the summer his reasons for not staying are still valid. However, an accident at home one night leads to him making a new deal and accepting the offer of help from an unlikely source. He made a deal with himself and his hook-ups. ![]() However, circumstances decreed a long time ago that this was his path, so he’s resolutely stayed on it and accepted his fate with good grace. His life is full of casual hook-ups with pretty men in glamorous locations, but it’s still empty. Jude is a highly successful model, but a very reluctant one. Built on a strong foundation of family and friendships, it made me laugh, charmed me thoroughly, and warmed my heart accordingly.īlurb: Sometimes your mouth makes deals that your heart can’t honour. Publisher: Self-Published/Kindle UnlimitedĪt a Glance: Deal Maker romanced me in all the very best ways. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments The quantum thief![]() ![]() As Jean undertakes a series of capers on behalf of Mieli and her mysterious masters, elsewhere in the Oubliette, investigator Isidore Beautrelet is called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, and finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur. What Mieli offers is the chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Now he’s confined inside the Dilemma Prison, where every day he has to get up and kill himself before his other self can kill him. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. ![]() Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster. One of Library Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of 2011. The Quantum Thief is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy title. ![]() |