![]() ![]() ![]() Following the advice of another reviewer, I decided to start with this course and I was not disappointed.Įach section describes two or three candles at a time in a very simple and concise way. Steve Nison's books were highly recommended in some of the beginner's guide to trading books I've read. This guide will allow readers to recognize and implement various candlestick patterns and lines in today’s real-world trading environment–giving them a noticeable edge in their trading activities Straightforward answers quickly clarify this easy-to-use charting method. ![]() In accessible and easy-to-understand language, this book offers expert instruction on the practical applications of candlestick charting to give every level of investor a complete understanding of this proven, profitable, and time-tested investing technique. In his new venture, The Candlestick Course, Nison explains patterns of varying complexity and tests the reader’s knowledge with quizzes, Q&As, and intensive examples. Having introduced the candlestick technique to the West through two of his bestselling books, Steve Nison is regarded as a luminary in the field of candlestick charting. Expert instruction on the practical applications of candlestick chartingĬandlestick charting is more popular than ever before, with a legion of new traders and investors being introduced to the concept by some of today’s hottest investment gurus. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Would you consider the audio edition of Night Soldiers to be better than the print version? The character of the American girl was very well drawn. The book also highlighted the hopelessness of the lives of people in Eastern Europe.Ī very interesting book - like all Alan Furst's. ![]() He articulates the characters so well you really feel you know themĭid you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?Ĭertainly not laugh! Mainly rage at the sheer evil of the NKVD - first manifested when they removed the stray dog the students had sheltered (of course very minor misdeed by their standards, but indicative! - somewhat reminiscent of what happened in Catholic institutions, who patented the areas of spying and mind-control). ![]() What does George Guidall bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book? Naturally - our hero Christo! A man with a soul still alive despite his many tribulations (I had read the Malraux novel and never made head or tale of the divisions - also of course I didn't really care.) Certainly makes you understand what was going on in Spain during the Civil War - this had always been a bit of a mystery to me, between POUM, PUP, etc. What did you like most about Night Soldiers?Įxcellently paced - after a rather slow start. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book One also imparts the experience of his brother, also unnamed, who describes events in the capital and escapes the Martians by boarding a ship near Tillingham, on the Essex coast. The narrator, a philosophically-inclined author, struggles to return to his wife while seeing the Martians lay waste to southern England. The War of the Worlds has two parts, Book One: The Coming of the Martians and Book Two: The Earth under the Martians. The novel is one of the most commented-on works in the science fiction canon. Written between 18, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. It is the first-person narrative of the adventures of an unnamed protagonist and his brother in Surrey and London as Earth is invaded by Martians. ![]() The first appearance in book form was published by William Heinemann of London in 1898. It first appeared in serialized form in 1897, published simultaneously in Pearson's Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan magazine in the US. ![]() The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Swift’s use of metaphors is graphic, gripping, and disturbing simultaneously. In his writing, although grotesque, Swift’s use of satire effectively confronts the abuses and shortcomings of the political and economic structure of the time, and he successfully uses sarcasm as a constructive method to criticize the social issues faced by the poor Irish natives. He employed satire and irony as an effective tool to make the reader understand the state of oppression of the Irish using the most extreme statements. ![]() His essay, very skillfully, brings shame to and sheds light upon the impoverishment of the Irish people at the hands of England’s greed for profits. The full title includes, “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public” (Swift 558). ![]() ?Another Look at A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal,” incorporates satire in his writing that exposes England’s economical exploitation of Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Called All Through the Night, this mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. Her personal favorite is the one where her most popular character, gay FBI agent Jules Cassidy, wins his happily-ever-after and marries the man of his dreams. Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women-and sometimes men-who win their hearts. After childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn’t pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling, and explored brave new worlds as a bestselling romance author. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Righteous Mind addresses these questions-and more besides-but the book also functions as a kind of “state of the union” of moral psychology, as well as a presentation of the groundbreaking research of Haidt and his partners. ![]() “To better grasp the elusiveness of morality and religion, we need the empirical contribution of the psychological sciences.” What makes human beings moral? What is the relation between emotion, intuition, and morality? Are moral values products of reason (rational reflection) or of experimentation and socialization? Is morality innate, biological, and genetic, or socially constructed (or something in between)? Are there any moral principles, values, or intuitions that hold steady across cultures (i.e. Emotion, Intuition, and Morality: New Cognitive Tools for Creating Empathy I suspect that those who take the time to work through Haidt’s book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, will come away feeling a little more positive about the prospects of discussing our differences and-at the very least-gaining understanding of the values and concerns of those on opposite ends of the religious and political spectrum. He believes that moral psychology can contribute to our capacity to understand one another, to empathize, and to improve at working together for the good of the whole. Good people are deeply divided by politics and religion-but why? Never talk about politics and religion in polite company, they say. ![]() ![]() ![]() With extraordinary skill, two-time Newbery Medalist DiCamillo traces the girls’ growing trust in each other while using understated confessionals and subtly expressed yearnings to show how tragedies have affected each of them. The plan inspires her to take a baton-twirling class, where she meets Beverly Tapinski-a girl with a chip on her shoulder, who vows to sabotage the contest-and ingenuous Louisiana Elefante, an orphan who claims to be the daughter of the famous Flying Elefantes. Raymie, however, has a plan to bring him back: she will win the Little Miss Central Florida Tire contest, get her picture in the paper, and her father will come running home. The story is told from the perspective of Raymie Clarke, whose father has just run off with a dental hygienist. Set in 1975, this tender novel shows how even when life seems out of one’s control-people die, parents disappoint-persistence and belief pay off. ![]() ![]() ![]() sent the artist to me to see all 3 pictures, the one that was painted when he came back from the Italian journey is the oldest, he was then just 16 years old, but as he had just got up from a serious illness, the picture looks sickly and very yellow the picture in the family portrait when he was 22 years old is very good, and the miniature, when he was 26 years old, is the most recent I have, I therefore shewed this one to the painter first it seemed to me from her silence that is would not be very easy to enlarge it, I therefore had to shew her the family portrait and the other one, too. Sonnleithner, who was making a "collection of portraits in oils of well-known composers" (Deutsch) wrote to Mozart's still-living sister Maria Anna ("Nannerl"), asking her to lend a picture to Kraft (a well-known artist working in Salzburg). This posthumous portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was painted by Barbara Kraft at the request of Joseph Sonnleithner in 1819, long after Mozart died. ![]() ![]() A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book. It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. Robert Seethaler's quietly mesmerizing novel - elemental in both tone and subject - shows what joy and nobility can be found in a life of hardship, patience and bereavement. A Whole Life, for all its gentleness, is a very powerful book.' - Jim Crace, author of Harvest 'It is at once heart-rending and heart-warming. He leaves his valley just once more, to fight in WWII – where he is taken prisoner in the Caucasus – and returns to find that modernity has reached his remote haven. ![]() ![]() When Marie dies in an avalanche, pregnant with their first child, Andreas' heart is broken. He is a man of very few words and so, when he falls in love with Marie, he doesn't ask for her hand in marriage, but instead has some of his friends light her name at dusk across the mountain. It looks at the moments, big and small, that make us what we are.Īndreas lives his whole life in the Austrian Alps, where he arrives as a young boy taken in by a farming family. An exquisite novel about a simple life, it has already demonstrated its power to move thousands of readers with a message of solace and truth. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitude. ![]() ![]() Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nemesis loves Sidonia, and would give her own life without hesitation to save her. In The Diabolic, Nemesis is a diabolic, bonded to Sidonia who is Senator von Impyrean's daughter. ![]() This beautifully crafted science fiction book is one of my favorites I've read this year with excellent world building, unique characters and leave you wondering as to what really defines humanity. When the king calls for Sidnoia to come join his court due to her father's illegal behavior her diabolic, Nemesis, goes in her place quickly having to learn how to act like a human to protect Sidnoia. Alina, Teen Advisory Board Littleton High School, Littleton, COįar in to the future the upper classes of humanity live in space and have created diabolics, which aren't fully human and can only love the person they are made to protect. ![]() Kincaid kept me rooting for the characters I really loved this book! This book sets a reminder of what it means to love another person, and to accept the person you become through relationships with others, and not see yourself as the person you were raised to be. Nemesis is one of the most interesting characters in YA that I have seen in awhile. Kincaid creates a disturbing society not so far in the future. This book interests the reader with the dynamic of the world and the technology in it. S. ![]() |