![]() ![]() ![]() Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Antonia was a UK qualified solicitor at two leading international law firms in Paris and London. She is also a Co-Chair of the World Bank Group Insolvency & Creditor/Debtor Regimes (ICR) Task Force, which is responsible for testing and evaluating the effectiveness of the World Bank Group ICR Principles. Menezes has published widely in the field of insolvency and represents the World Bank Group at Working Group V (Insolvency) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). She has assisted more than 50 countries in reforming and strengthening their insolvency and creditor/debtor regimes. The focus of her work is providing technical assistance and advice to governments on insolvency and debt resolution reforms, including legal aspects of NPL management, with a particular emphasis on work in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and South Asia. Antonia Menezes is a Senior Financial Sector Specialist with the Insolvency & Debt Resolution Team of the World Bank Group based in Washington D.C. ![]()
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![]() ![]() If historians or critics fifty years from now were to read most of our contemporary literary fiction, they might well infer that our main societal problems were issues with our parents, bad relationships, and death. ^ 1^ When we call literary writers “political” today, we’re usually talking about identity politics. It’s hard to think of any “serious” literary writers in the United States under the age of fifty who engage the big political issues of our time as directly as Boomer authors like Paul Auster (“Leviathan”), Thomas Pynchon (“Vineland”), or Robert Stone (“A Flag for Sunrise”), let alone in the way that muckraker novelists like Upton Sinclair used to. It’s a monoculture, taken for granted, like monogamy, or monotheism, or having one sun. ![]() Sometime in the past couple of generations, capitalism’s victory over our hearts and minds seems to have become complete, in that hardly anyone even notices it anymore. ![]() ![]() ![]() I just hope that readers will feel that it is the right ending. 'In her YA paranormal romance debut, Jessica Shirvington combines 'the badass-action of Vampire Academy, the complex love triangles of Twilight, and the angel mythology of Fallen, taken one step further.' -Book Couture 'Shirvingtons debut is smart, edgy and addictive-and sure to leave readers clamoring for the rest of the series. In Empower, people get hurt and people die. ![]() And of course, there is a new, ultimate, big bad and he is there to test the absolute limits of not only Violet’s power, but also of her angel maker and the future of our world…. Plus, you can expect to see quite a bit of Gray-a character that was first introduced to the series in Emblaze who adds a new dimension to the story. The tension between some of the characters (hint hint) is extreme and Violet is no newbie anymore. As a writer, it was a lot of fun to work with. ![]() ![]() The extra two years was something I’d always wanted to provide and it creates a fantastic new dynamic. I can’t reveal too many details at this point, but I will tell you that Empower actually starts two years after the final scene in Endless. Again, I suppose it is bittersweet but I am ready to give these characters their ending. ![]() ![]() ![]() All three of them wore the same pin.Įlliot Ackerman: The rivalry that defines AmericaĪfter the event, my interpreter told me that veterans of the Soviet war existed in a cultural limbo in Ukraine, which was why these men so appreciated any public discussion about Afghanistan. ![]() Because I was a veteran of the American Afghan War, they wanted to present me with a lapel pin from the Union of Veterans of Afghanistan as a gesture of friendship. My interpreter explained that these three men were Ukrainian veterans of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. But he was already holding my lapel as he pushed a pin through it. When he took something from his pocket and reached for me, I flinched. ![]() They each had a thick neck, cropped hair, and a thigh-length black leather jacket. Then, out of the dark recesses of the auditorium, three men in their mid-50s approached me. After an hour’s discussion, the cadets filed back to their barracks. The auditorium was mostly filled with fresh-faced cadets and their instructors, some of whom had recently returned from fighting in the east. In 2016, two years after Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, I was invited to the Kyiv Suvorov Military School to present the Ukrainian edition of my novel set in Afghanistan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ocax planned to eat, and the mouse eventually became the primary focus of the book. While developing the story, however, Avi's interest shifted towards the mouse that Mr. Avi found the book "fascinating" and decided to write his own novel about an owl named Mr. At a university bookstore, he found a book written by a naturalist, who described his experience rescuing a baby owlet and nurturing it back to health and into the wild. In 1996, Poppy received the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for fiction.Īvi conceived the idea for Poppy while living in Corvallis, Oregon, when his wife was a visiting professor at Oregon State University. The complete series is composed of Ragweed, Ragweed and Poppy, Poppy, Poppy and Rye, Ereth's Birthday, Poppy's Return, and Poppy and Ereth. Within the narrative sequence of the series, it is the third book. Poppy is the first-published of Avi's Tales From Dimwood Forest series. The novel was first published by Orchard Books in 1995. Poppy is a children's novel written by Avi and illustrated by Brian Floca. ![]() ![]() Vance uses Musk’s story to explore one of the pressing questions of our age: can the nation of inventors and creators who led the modern world for a century still compete in an age of fierce global competition? He argues that Musk is an amalgam of legendary inventors and industrialists including Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Howard Hughes, and Steve Jobs. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius’s life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. ![]() Information about the book Elon Musk, written by Ashlee Vance About the bookĮlon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. The file contains more than 392 pages … Title ![]() Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Futureĭownload the book Elon Musk pdf written by Ashlee Vance and published by Ecco in 2015 in PDF format. Summary of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance Summary 13 -minute read Audio available Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance in Biography & Memoir Delve behind the scenes and learn about the man behind Tesla, Space-X, and more Elon Musk (2015) is an up-close and personal look at one of America’s most brilliant minds. ![]() ![]() ![]() The world as we know it was coming into view.-From publisher description There was increasing pressure to provide equal rights for blacks and women. Fourteen nations were being born in sub-Saharan Africa. ![]() While East and West Germans competed as a unified team, less than a year before the Berlin Wall, there was a dispute over the two Chinas. In the heat of the Cold War, the city teemed with spies and rumors of defections, and every move was judged for propaganda value. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. ![]() Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 are chosen from each district to fight in a battle, in which only one person can survive. The Capitol uses them to punish the districts for rebelling. There used to be a thirteenth district in the past but they rebelled against the Capitol and were destroyed. District 12, where the story begins, provides all the coal for the country. Each district has to produce different things for the Capitol. There are twelve poor districts governed by the rich Capitol. The story takes place in the future, after the destruction of North America. It made 152.5 million dollars in its first weekend in North America alone! A fight to the death The Hunger Games is also now a very successful film. It has also been translated into 26 different languages. ![]() It is the first book for young readers to sell more than a million electronic copies. It was published in 2008 and has sold millions of copies around the world. The Hunger Games is a very successful book for young readers by the American author Suzanne Collins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Where does one begin when it comes to describing an author whose books constantly amaze you to the point you cannot easily put them down for any reason other than an emergency? Fredrik Backman has struck gold with the second book in the Beartown series, Us Against You. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent. ![]() But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more acute.Īs the big match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up and their mutual contempt grows deeper. Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see Benji, the intense lone wolf and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. Amidst the mounting tension between the two rivals, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to be Beartown’s new hockey coach. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded. ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters and their world come alive,Īnd the characters and its world still live on.Ĭonversation Starters is peppered with questions designed toĪnd invite us into the world that lives on. The Road to Unfreedom is another critically acclaimed book from the author of the bestselling On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century.ĮVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER And yet, Snyder believes that though it all looks grim, people can still do something to prevent the worst from happening. The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder: Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. Yale history professor Timothy Snyder warns that the social, economic, and political repression in Russia could happen in the US and Europe. Political events in the past decade in Europe and America have seen Russia’s strong interference - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it’s a denunciation of the European Union, the Brexit referendum, and the election of Donald Trump. The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder | Conversation Starters ![]() |