![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just one portion of oily fish a week gives you all you need of omega-3. But putting omega-3 in baked beans, say, doesn’t mean you’re going to get as much as you would by eating fish. This fatty acid, found in oily fish such as salmon and mackerel is a great way to protect your heart and possibly aid concentration. Indeed, only last month, a Which? report said that it was ‘hard to see the point’ of products enriched with omega-3 (the manufacturers’ favourite additive). But there is growing scepticism about this wonderfood status. The suggestion is that the product has something extraspecial that’s worth paying for. These are foods that don’t just fill you up, but have ingredients - often added in the manufacturing process - with particular health benefits or so it’s claimed.įor years, breakfast cereals have been fortified with minerals and vitamins to boost their appeal, but now everything from baked beans to simple foods such as eggs comes adulterated. Over the past few years, there’s been a real boom in ‘functional foods’. In fact, the story of ‘health-boosting’ cranberry juice is just the tip of the iceberg. Falling for the label? Over recent years, there's been a real boom in 'functional foods' ![]()
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![]() ![]() "A marvelous story about courage, loyalty, perseverance, and the meaning of home. This young pioneer's story is lovingly stitched together from Kirby Larson’s own family history and the sights, sounds, and scents of homesteading life.ĪN AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS Hattie Big Sky Hattie Series 1 product rating Condition: Good Price: US 5.00 Buy It Now Add to cart Add to Watchlist Breathe easy. Despite daily trials, Hattie continues to work her uncle’s claim until an unforeseen tragedy causes her to search her soul for the real meaning of home. For the first time in her life, Hattie feels part of a family, finding the strength to stand up against Traft Martin’s schemes to buy her out and against increasing pressure to be a “loyal” American at a time when anything-or anyone-German is suspect. Her quest to make a home is championed by new neighbors Perilee Mueller, her German husband, and their children. : Hattie Big Sky (Hattie Series) (9780385735957) by Larson, Kirby and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Under the big sky, Hattie braves hard weather, hard times, a cantankerous cow, and her own hopeless hand at the cookstove. ![]() ![]() Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she summons the courage to leave Iowa and move all by herself to Vida, Montana, to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim. This Newbery Honor winning, New York Times bestseller celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier.įor most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled from one distant relative to another. ![]() ![]() ![]() Heather seems to feel it necessary to take a stab at writing in a post-modern vein. The attempt at accessibility has had one unfortunate consequence. Both the style and the questions addressed take the book beyond the narrow audience of those who have to write essays on the late Roman Empire. It aims to be accessible-this is a book that can be read for pleasure-yet it is no less scholarly than his other work. His latest book is slightly different in style. ![]() His previous book, The Goths, has become essential reading for all students of the period. He has published widely on subjects relating to the late Roman Empire and its successor states in the west. Heather is well placed to produce such a work. ![]() He draws on material previously only available in specialist publications to produce a synthesis that takes into account the last 40 years of research into late antiquity. ![]() One of history’s greatest mysteries, Peter Heather tells us in his new book, is “the strange death of the Roman Empire.” An up-to-date general study of the fall of the Roman Empire has long been needed. Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History, (London: Macmillan, 2005) ![]() ![]() ![]() And as autonomous vehicles share our streets, we are increasingly putting our lives in their hands. We can no longer assume that our mortgage application, or even our medical tests, will be seen by human eyes. ![]() Algorithms decide bail and parole-and appear to assess Black and White defendants differently. Systems cull résumés until, years later, we discover that they have inherent gender biases. Researchers call this the alignment problem. When the systems we attempt to teach will not, in the end, do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. Recent years have seen an eruption of concern as the field of machine learning advances. ![]() Today’s “machine-learning” systems, trained by data, are so effective that we’ve invited them to see and hear for us-and to make decisions on our behalf. A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement to fix them. ![]() ![]() The books in this series look at thought topics and moral decisions that the main characters are faced with. I love the unique version of metal magic, and how it obeys the laws of nature and physics. The world of MistbornĪfter running out of other books I decided to check The Final Empire out and it is amazing! The world that Brandon Sanderson created is truly a masterpiece. It just helps me make a bit for doing what I love. This in no way changes the price for you. ![]() If you click on a link and decide to buy something I will get pennies for referring you. Normally, they aren’t that good, or it takes a long time for me to get the book at the local library.ĭisclosure: I am an Amazon affiliate. ![]() I’m very wary about reading books that have a huge hype around them. Whenever I would mention this fact to other avid readers, they would frequently suggest the Mistborn, also known as The Final Empire. I love discovering a new world full of magic and unique creatures. ![]() ![]() For the past year or so, the new editions of the Tey mysteries are available in India as well, which means we have been able to gift them to friends and introduce them to this rare author. It just explains how I got to the other Teys thanks to Snehanshu (who combines the soul of a researcher with the qualities of a collector and has the tenacity of a terrier when it comes to murder mysteries) and friends in London and Pennsylvania who hunted them out in second-hand book shops and over the internet. I also carried it with me when I got married. ![]() I rediscovered A Shilling for Candles many years later, found it just as riveting, and promptly appropriated my father’s copy. Having read it, I put it back in the trunk and moved on to other books. ![]() I enjoyed it thoroughly, especially impressed by the matter-of-fact enterprise of the seventeen year old heroine. It was a vivid shade of green that just escaped being lurid. The cover of the book, which has been lost since, arrested my search. It was probably too hot to go outside to play or to cycle down to the library. ![]() I discovered it while rummaging in the steel trunks that housed my father’s collection of books in the large box-room of a rambling Army bungalow. I read my first Tey when I was in middle school. Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1997, New York, pp 286 ![]() ![]() ![]() The feministic qualities of the title figure are reflected in the work of The Stone Angel. The Stone Angel is a novel set in a fictional hamlet called Manawaka that takes the reader on a trip through Hagars life and psyche. Hagar is a woman who refuses to submit to the male-dominated culture in which she lives. ![]() Such a person is Hagar, a character developed by Margaret Laurence in her novel The Stone Angel. There are women who struggle through their lives on their alone, who must confront the challenges that life throws at them with no one by their side, and who do so by lifting their heads in the face of a society that refuses to bend down to them. This statement is totally illogical and cannot be agreed upon in its entirety. Women are largely regarded as weak and reliant on others by the majority of people in society. Analysing Margaret Laurences The Stone Angel in Feminist Perspective ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin had been heavily inspired by the seven books, I was eager to try them for myself. I was first introduced to Maurice Druon’s The Accursed Kings series after reading A Song of Ice and Fire and learning that George R.R. A lot of stories I have running around were inspired by moments in history and a lot of stories I want to write are retellings of history. History was always my favourite subject at school, because I was enthralled by how it played out as a narrative with motives and plots, causation and characters, conflict and resolution. The last one will come tomorrow & then we’ll fall into our new schedule of posts □Īfter fantasy, historical fiction is my favourite genre. Here’s the second of three planned book reviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next, the thread that dealt with Addie's family history dropped in and out of the novel in a vague and rather boring way. ![]() Did she eventually change her mind about that? Well, she learned to find it cute in Bruno, but I wasn't convinced that she gained any respect for his homeland. This novel frustrated me immensely, mostly because MacMahon is obviously a very talented writer but even her skill could not overcome the shortcomings in the plot.įirst of all, the character Addie: I kept trying to like her and at times I did, but her outlook toward Bruno's Americanisms, for lack of a better word, was pretty snotty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rio’s debut novel, “If We Were Villains.” ![]() One of the larger titles to come out of this era is M.L. Dark academia is known for the romanticization of literature, cardigans and studious attire, sepia-tinted photographs and boarding schools. With the popularity has come subgroups trying to centralize their taste, including “dark academia.” With 1.5 billion views on TikTok and around 1.2 million posts on Instagram, it’s fair to say the style has quite a loyal fanbase. The hashtag, # booktok, has almost 30 billion views on TikTok, proving the demand for good stories. Suddenly, reading for fun wasn’t given side-eyes, but full attention and an audience. Looking at their decorative shelves, the comfort and joy of reading had a renaissance for the generation. ![]() With little else to do, people turned to the activities they’d meant to get around to. That was until the pandemic closed all doors and opportunities for others. The time for leisurely turning a page, pressing a receipt - a makeshift bookmark - in the spine’s crack, was over. No longer did students read for pleasure, or even for class. The era of fantasy and dystopian novels (“The Hunger Games,” “Twilight,” “The Maze Runner”), was at an all-time high before stopping altogether. Students talked about their favorite book characters while waiting for class, read while walking to lunch and debated who would survive in a dystopian universe. ![]() If you grew up in the 2010s, you might remember the surge of young readers. ![]() |