![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. It's a rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic." - Bethany McLean * New York Times Book Review * Faster, Higher, Farther reveals how the succeed-at-all-costs mentality prevalent in modern boardrooms led to one of corporate historys farthest-reaching. In 2015, a scandal rocked Volkswagen, the world’s largest automobile company, when investigators found that it had equipped its diesel-engine cars with computer code that allowed them to evade antipollution regulations. Ewing tells it quite beautifully." - Marcus Berkmann * Daily Mail * "Ewing reveals for the first time the true extent of the scandal." * The Times * "This will go down in history books as a great corporate scandal, but the story told by the New York Times reporter Jack Ewing.is also much more than that. As is so often the case, truth can be so much more shocking than fiction." * Guardian * "A damning indictment of corporate malfeasance and an accessible account of one of the most expensive business mistakes ever recorded." - Patrick McGee * Financial Times * "This book, which races along like Jensen Button, tells the inside story of the Volkswagen scandal. The book reads like a fast-paced thriller as one revelation leads to another. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "A shocking and incredibly compelling expose of one of the great corporate scandals of all time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As her story opens, she is on a tour to promote the book, which like Mandel’s Station Eleven is being adapted for the screen, when a real pandemic breaks out. Like Mandel, Olive is best known for her novel about a “scientifically implausible pandemic”, Marienbad. ![]() “It’s kind of deranged, actually.” “I suppose anything written this year would be,” the reporter answers. “I’m writing this crazy sci-fi thing,” she responds. Partway through Sea of Tranquility, the sixth novel from Mandel, a reporter asks the novelist Olive Llewllyn what she’s working on. John Mandel looks to the inevitable future. In a nested story of epic tragedies, Emily St. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Westcoast Homes & Design Previous Issues. ![]() Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info. ![]() ![]() ![]() It will be interesting to see how it compares to Young’s “Shack” and whether it also will draw both people who love it and people who feel just the opposite. The Shack is based on William Paul Young’s novel of the same name, which was inspired by the author’s own Christian beliefs and difficult relationship with his father. ![]() Young visited the state to speak about the book - attending a special event in Tulsa and one a Southern Baptist church in Enid.Īs popular as the book was, I have to meantion that it also drew sharp criticism from some folks, including some in Oklahoma, who said the theology within its pages wasn’t sound. I talked to church groups both here in the metro and in the Tulsa area that were using the book as a focal point for sermon series, book club and Bible study gatherings. Young’s previous book “The Shack” resonated with many Oklahomans a few years ago. The publisher’s recent news release said ”Crossroads” tells the story of a driven man who falls into a coma and experiences relational entanglements that allow him to revisit choices he made during his life. They are launching an extensive marketing campaign for the book that will include national print, television, radio and online advertising, plus outreach to churches. Hachette Book Group, the book’s publisher, says the book is set for Nov. ![]() Young is the author of the bestselling fiction book “The Shack.” I went to my office mail box today and found a new copy of the soon-to-be released book “Crossroads” by Wm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mann was the co-founder and CEO of Sober Grid, a social network for those recovering from and suffering with addiction. Police didn’t immediately respond to a request from USA TODAY on Tuesday for more information about the property where Mann was found or whether foul play is suspected. Less than 10 minutes later at 2:15 p.m., Mann texted 911, the department said. 30, 2021, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Mann was last seen outside a convenience store in Studio City at 2:06 p.m. ![]() Mann’s remains have been turned over to the county coroner, who will determine how he died. Police in Santa Monica released few details about where Beau Mann, 39, was found or how he's suspected of dying, saying only in a Facebook post Monday that officers got a phone call about human remains being found in the courtyard of an abandoned property. The remains of a tech CEO whose loved ones have been desperately searching for him for a year and a half have been found at an abandoned property in the Los Angeles area. ![]() ![]() ![]() She decided to take some action, and she went to Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, California, to educate herself. The nude glamour model always wanted to be a professional actress. It was a different time, and being a minor without your parents’ consent filming scenes for the adult film companies was a major scandal. You have to picture that time,m the 1980s to realize what kind of a scandal that was, and how hard the damage was. Lords became notorious, and the adult movie industry suffered a lot. That us when her actual age surfaced, and that cause quite a stir. When she gained fame and popularity, after appearing in many adult films, people began wondering about her and wanted to know more. The adult movie star said to her producers and filmmakers that she was 18 when she started shooting, and they believed her. ![]() During the 80s, it was a big scandal when the world found out that Lords was a minor, and filming for the adult movie industry. Traci Lords was just 15 when she entered the entertainment business. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Vanderbeekers make me want to fall in love with New York! And I fell in love with the literary history of Boston. These books made me want to visit Harlem and fall in love with all the charm and details of that part of New York (especially Castleman’s Bakery–made my mouth water!) My single trip to NYC was almost 10 years ago on a trip we visited both the city and Boston.I finished each in about two days and loved how easy it was to get into the stories. These are quick reads and aren’t terribly long books. They are engaging, easy to follow stories that kids will love. I’d love to read this aloud to my kids one day.It felt like these two rambunctious families could be crazy next door neighbors and share in hilarious misadventures. I am so glad I picked them up! These are delightful stories in the same genre as The Penderwicks series which I fell in love with last year. I heard about these books from the Read Aloud Revival and on a few blogs lately. Today I am excited to share my review of the first two books about the Vanderbeeker family: The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street and The Vanderbeekers and the Hidden Garden both by Karina Yan Glaser. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Persephone’s adapting to her new role as queen of the Pantheon and her grief/trauma from everything that happens in Iron Queen. The whole slicing his dad open and rescuing his siblings thing only to find himself at once their savior and an outsider to their very tight inner circle, formed by years of being all they had in The Before was also fairly hard on his psyche.Īs for the weight of ruling three realms, losing her mother? That gets explored quite a bit in the Aphrodite trilogy. Something about his father attempting to kill him, his mother hiding him by tying him upside down to a tree for years, and spending his early years training him to kill his father. ![]() The sanity thing was just Athena speculating. Plus she’s a triple realm-ruler now, and she lost her mother, and Hades seemed to be a bit unhinged at the end. So what’s in store for her in the future? Are we ever going to see that?” “This can’t be where Persephone’s story ends! The pantheon hinted that Zeus killing his parents might have been part of what drove Zeus crazy. Fair warning…Ī reader who just finished Iron Queen emailed the following. Super spoilerific post for anyone who has not yet read Iron Queen. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the night before Halloween in 1938, and Francis, who left his family for good back in 1916, is beginning to think about all that he's left behind. It begins not with Francis' fall from grace, but rather with the day on which he begins his journey towards redemption. Francis' denigration of himself and his common-law wife, Helen, makes for a disturbing read, and yet the novel is ultimately uplifting. Author William Kennedy takes us into the mind and heart of a homeless vagrant and explores the situations which have brought Francis to this heartbreaking station in life. Ironweed is the remarkable story of Francis Phelan, once a talented major league baseball player, husband, and father of three, who has fallen so far from grace that his home for the past twenty-two years has been the street. ![]() ![]() In this endeavour we hope to carry the torch of research as well as writing forward. ![]() We encourage writings from both experienced professors as well as young scholars. I am very happy to share the fact that the November 2016 issue of Daath Voyage was appreciated by the world of Academia from all over the world for its richness and versatility the credit for which goes to the entire team of Daath Voyage. We all bow in reverence to the bard of Avon. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire in 1564, Shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets and many other poems before his death in 1616. From television to film, theatre to classic music the simple breadth and variety of the events being held in his honour speak to magnitiude of his influence. This year marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death an event which has brought an appreciation to all edges of the cultural sphere. We are talking of no one else other than the Father of English Drama William Shakespeare. ![]() ![]() ![]() To how we profess our love to each other, and to how we express our grief his influence pervades so much in our lives, because his work has become so timeless in its ability to touch upon human nature. On 23 April, 1616, a man died, but with his death a legacy was born one which proved so essential not only to the development of drama and literature, but to language, to thoughts and ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Screenwriters Andrew Fleming and Steven E. The familiar atmosphere is far from the most troublesome element within the proceedings rather, it's the total lack of compelling, three-dimensional characters that secures Bad Dreams' downfall. (It doesn't help, certainly, that Cynthia finds herself experiencing visions of her former cult leader.) It's clear virtually from the word go that Bad Dreams has been "inspired" by the Nightmare on Elm Street series, as the movie plays like a blatant clone of, especially, the third installment (ie both movies involve a ragtag assortment of unbalanced characters and, obviously, an emphasis on creepy, ominous dreams). ![]() Bad Dreams casts Jennifer Rubin as Cynthia, the sole survivor of a suicide cult who, after waking up from a 13-year-long coma, is sent into group therapy to prepare her for life in the real world - with complications ensuing as Cynthia's fellow patients begin dying at an alarming rate. ![]() |