6/27/2023 0 Comments Witness book louise milligan![]() ![]() In Witness, Milligan reveals the devastating reality that within the Australian legal system truth is never guaranteed and, for victims, justice is often elusive. ![]() Through these experiences, interviews with high-profile members of the legal profession, including judges, prosecutors and the defence lawyers who have worked in these cases, along with never-before-published court transcripts, Milligan lays bare the flaws that are ignored and exposes a court system that is sexist, unfeeling and weighted towards the rich and powerful. Then she was a witness herself in the trial of the decade, R v George Pell. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, Milligan was profoundly shocked by what she found.ĭuring this time, the #MeToo movement changed the zeitgeist, but time and again during her investigations Milligan watched how witnesses were treated in the courtroom and listened to them afterwards as they relived the associated trauma. A masterful and deeply troubling exposé, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Glow book raven kennedy![]() Auren must face the consequences of murdering a King. A King with a golden touch is found dead leaving a Kingless kingdom and the Rot King stole away his gold-touched favored whose hands are drenched in royal blood. ![]() Many revelations and secrets begin to surface. The game has changed and many wicked plans are at play. GLOW resumes right from the explosive ending of Gleam and begins in a shroud of extreme dread within the first quarter of the book that will keep a tight hold on your heart. Raven continues to craft such an exceptional story that skillfully navigates through healing, trauma, depression and empowerment while gifting us with such a beautiful romance and an intriguing political overarching plot. GLOW was nothing short of devastatingly emotional, powerfully evocative and exquisitely filthy. ![]() I don't think I have the right words to convey the magnitude of the emotional suffering and joy this book had caused me and I wouldn't have had it in any other way. Thank you Raven Kennedy and The Nerd Fam for gifting me with an eARC of GLOWĭisclaimer: this review may contain minor spoilers but nothing major that would spoil the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vanderputten, Steven, 'Pope Leo IX and the (Quasi-)Canonization of St Deodatus (1049). Vanderputten, Steven, Medieval monasticisms: forms and experiences of the monastic life in the Latin West (2020) Vanderputten, Steven, '"A gainst the Custom": Hagiographical Rewriting and Female Abbatial Leadership at Mid-Eleventh-Century Remiremont' Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 10 (2021), 41-66 Vanderputten, Steven, "' Columbanus wore a single cowl, not a double one": The "Vita deicoli" and the legacy of Columbanian monasticism at the turn of the first millenium', Traditio 76 (2021) p. Forms of religious life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages (London, 1989) What does the eleventh century mean for monastic history? In this podcast, I'm joined by Professor Steven Vanderputten to talk about his latest research on monastic leadership and collaboration around the year 1000.īruce, Scott and Vanderputten, Steven, eds., A Companion to the Abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages (2022) ![]() ![]() The first was Maida ’s Little Store, in which she-with the help of her many, cheerful, friendly, and not at all opportunistic friends-stocked and ran a store and learned the elements of American free enterprise. ![]() To that end, as can happen only in fiction, he provided her (in a long line of books devoted to these enterprises) a series of subsidized challenges and opportunities. Leideke steur Van der Werf by P-de Gruyter Nijimegen Mariaplein. She also had a devoted-and, happily, wealthy-father, a widower who cherished the life of this his only progeny and thus was devoted to making her life satisfying, stimulating, and worthwhile. ![]() She could now walk, albeit with difficulty, and had many friends. Maida Westabrook was a brave little girl who had a “floating mass of hair, pale gold and tendrilly” and also a serious chronic illness, which had at one time confined her to a wheelchair, but that was in the past. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Things we never got over knox![]() ![]() ![]() Romance novels always manage to provide me with such a good time. As I grew older, and as the years passed, I left YA novels behind and searched for stories that made me swoon, giggle, and fall in love - but now with older protagonists just like myself. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa, and The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, were books I read one after another. ![]() Back in high school, though, I didn't read only romance books I had a preference for YA novels. I have always been a romantic at heart, so I want everyone to have a happy ending whenever I read a book, especially people who fall in love with someone who complements them perfectly. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned waywith fists and beer. I started reading romance novels back in high school. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. And since I've read so many books this year, I want to share my favorite ones. I don't think I've read more than 100 books since 2019, so 2022 is already a win for me. This year has been very good in terms of reading. ![]() ![]() For us, the idea that learning should be the primary purpose of education has been a beacon-we might all agree that learning is a purpose of education-but is it the primary purpose? ![]() Why we conduct education as we do is a puzzling question. More than a decade ago, Boyatzis, Cowen, and Kolb 2 reflected on this less than ideal condition of higher education: As Boyer and Mitgang 1 see it, "Too often, the academic and professional worlds are marked by vocationalism, the fragmentation of knowledge, and territoriality." While such specialization has led to some innovations, we have fallen short of the full power and potential of aligning our efforts in pursuit of learning. Tradition encouraged specialists to attend to their individual areas: faculty developed pedagogy and curriculum information technologists made decisions about technology and facilities managers designed and developed classrooms and other spaces. In higher education, however, specialization has a long and comfortable history-in the way our disciplines are partitioned and also in the way our institutions are organized. ![]() Community catalyzes deep learning and should be a critical consideration when planning physical and virtual learning spaces. ![]() ![]() This chapter focuses on a powerful context for learning: community. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Ramona the brave author![]() ![]() And so, the Klickitat Street gang was born! She based her funny stories on her own neighborhood experiences and the sort of children she knew. When a young boy asked her, "Where are the books about kids like us?" she remembered her teacher's encouragement and was inspired to write the books she'd longed to read but couldn't find when she was younger. ![]() Before long, her school librarian was saying that she should write children's books when she grew up. But by third grade, after spending much time in her public library in Portland, Oregon, she found her skills had greatly improved. As a child, she struggled with reading and writing. Beverly Cleary is one of America's most beloved authors. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Unrivaled by siri mitchell![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her mother is determined to sell the company, so Lucy has little time to produce a winning confectionary treat.īelieving the family secrets were wrongly stolen from her father’s company is still a sore spot with Lucy. Armed with boxes of candy she sampled abroad, she longs to find that perfect combination that will have everyone running for the next piece – and show the nearby rival candy company a thing or two. This book was provided for me at no cost by Bethany House via NetGalley in exchange for my honest and personal review.Īfter touring Europe, Lucy Kendall returns home with dreams of reviving her father’s candy making business. This post may contain affiliate or advertiser links. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Nicholas g carr the shallows![]() ![]() Drawing on studies that underscore how tightly our sense of happiness and personal fulfillment is tied to performing skilled work in the real world, he reveals something we already suspect: shifting our attention to computer screens can leave us disengaged and discontented. In The Glass Cage: How Our Computers Are Changing Us, his widely praised follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Shallows, bestselling author Nicholas Carr explores how our ever growing dependency on computers, apps, and robotics is reshaping our jobs, talents, and lives.ĭigging behind the headlines about artificial intelligence and self-driving cars, digitized medicine and workplace robots, Carr explores the hidden costs of granting software dominion over our work and our leisure. “A cultural manifesto.” - Los Angeles Review of Books “Not only persuasive but undoubtedly right.” - Wall Street Journal “Essential.” - New York Times Book Review “ chastening meditation on the human future.” - New York Review of Books ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The celestine prophecy author![]() Commonwealth Journal A spiritual classic.a book to read and reread, to cherish, and to give to friends. Praise for The Celestine Prophecy A gripping adventure story filled with intrigue, suspense, and spiritual revelations. The story it tells is a gripping one of adventure and discovery, but it is also a guidebook that has the power to crystallize your perceptions of why you are where you are in life and to direct your steps with a new energy and optimism as you head into tomorrow. Drawing on ancient wisdom, it tells you how to make connections among the events happening in your life right now and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself - insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially one insight, then another, as we move toward a completely spiritual culture on Earth. ![]() In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. You have never read a book like this before-a book that comes along once in a lifetime to change lives forever. Book Synopsis The #1 bestselling phenomenon with millions of copies sold around the world - now with a guide to creating your own Celestine Prophecy experience. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena. ![]() About the Book The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. ![]() |