A doctor in the house mahathir7/8/2023 ![]() SO: Did you have a great deal of scepticism, also, because your predecessors – as you say in your memoirs – were devoted to the Commonwealth and you felt that their attachment to it was misplaced? And to give it that name, it is, in a way, not being sincere. So, calling it ‘the Commonwealth’, that is common, when obviously wealth is not common then, I thought it was in the first place the wrong name. It belongs to only four members and the rest are poor. I wonder, Sir, if you could begin please by saying, what was your attitude to the Commonwealth when you became Prime Minister of Malaysia in 1981? Sir, thank you very much indeed for taking part in this project and giving us your valuable time. SO: This is Dr Sue Onslow interviewing His Excellency, Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, in Putrajaya on Monday, 12 th May 2014. ![]() MM: Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad (Respondent) ![]() Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement, 2003. 4 th Prime Minister of Malaysia, 1981-2003, also acting as: Minister of Defence, 1981-86 Minister of Home Affairs, 1986-99 Minister of Finance, 1998-99, 2001-03. Practiced as a medical doctor before entering politics with the United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO) in the 1950s. Graduated from the University of Malaya, 1947. ![]() Born in Alor Setar, British Malaya (now Malaysia). ![]()
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Emily brontë7/8/2023 ![]() “A highly readable and enjoyable little book.” “Raise important questions about how texts are transferred between cultures, and about why certain texts speak strongly to specific individuals and cultures.” “Engrossing and far-reaching, this book is a unique and valuable contribution to literature on Japan, made all the better for its author’s willingness to wander off her chosen path.” ![]() ![]() Carrying out a close reading of a distant country’s Wuthering Heights, Pascoe begins to see American literary culture as a small island on which readers are isolated from foreign literature. She contemplates the multiple Japanese translations of Brontë, as contrasted to the single (or nonexistent) English translations of major Japanese writers. At the same time, the book chronicles Pascoe’s experience as an adult student of Japanese. ![]() On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë is Pascoe’s lively account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights. Nearly one hundred years after its first formal introduction to the country, the novel continues to engage the imaginations of Japanese novelists, filmmakers, manga artists, and others, resulting in numerous translations, adaptations, and dramatizations. ![]() While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. ![]() Reborn jaymin eve7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I need to get to the bottom of this mystery. As I search out random growls, flutters in my chest, and a suspicion that there's so much more going on than I could even imagine, I sense that I'm racing against an unknown clock. Whoever did this to me should have known I'd pick at it until it bled. Someone messed with me and no matter how often I'm told to forget it and move on as Torin's mate, there's no way I can. I'm being lied to, missing weeks and months of time. ![]() Funny how quickly dreams turn into nightmares. My childhood dreams were finally a reality. I'd all but given up, until a quirk of true mate genetics gifted me a true mate like no other. Of course, that dream existed before my father betrayed the pack and turned me into their punching bag. So why does it taste like ash on my tongue? Growing up in Torma, the strongest of the shifter packs, I wanted nothing more than to find my true mate and live my best life. I finally have the life I always dreamed of. The epic conclusion to the Shadow Beast Shifters. ![]() Caroline leaf books7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Late in 2013 I requested a book from my reviewer’s program called Switch on Your Brain by Dr. Caroline Leaf, Emotions, Feelings, God, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Logical, Mind, Neuroscience, Science, Scripture, Switch On Your Brain, The Gift in You, Thoughts, U.Q., Visual, Who Am I? | Leave a comment Posted in Book Reviews, Inspirational Non-Fiction | Tagged Attitude, BakerBooks, Blueprint for Identity, Brain, Dr. ![]() do I have purpose and meaning, a unique part in a divine plan? Does anyone understand who I am, or who I am meant to be? Do I even understand me? Can I accept the way God has allowed me to be? Do I really accept the blueprint for identity that God has given me?” “Who am I? Does anyone out there understand me. Leaf questions in the prologue, you’ve ever asked yourself: Caroline Leaf, be prepared to have your life changed in some way! This is definitely the case with her newest release from Baker Books, “The Perfect You: A Blueprint for Identity”. Whenever you pick up a book by “Switch on Your Brain” author Dr. ![]() Elizabeth vaughan warprize series7/8/2023 ![]() There is just something about it that captures you and makes you want to read this book over and over. If you are a historical romance reader or fantasy one, you'll enjoy this book. I would of still liked a younger voice, but it didn't ruin one of my top favorite books of all time. Why would you do that? But then, I let the story play on and I got use to voice of Susan and I was ok with it. I thought, how dare you ruin one of my favorite books with a bad narrator choice. ![]() I at first thought the voice of Lara sounded too old. So, when I started listening to this book I was actually mad and hated the narrator choice. Someday has come! I can't believe I didn't know about this when it first came out. ![]() About a year ago I asked EV if there would be an audiobook, and she said, maybe someday. When I found this book, I immediately bought it. ![]() Behave sapolsky book7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() These findings revealed a lot about human conduct. ![]() These years were the time of many discoveries in the area of neuroscience and biology. In the 1970s, evolutionary scientists began thinking of ways of applying Darwin's theory of life in explaining human behaviours and the brain. The theory clarified many questions people had at the time about all living organisms. ![]() In 1859, less than two centuries ago, Charles Darwin came up with a scientific idea of how humans came to be, the theory of evolution. Neuroscience and evolution are both relatively new terms. Sapolsky truly challenged the stereotype of Science books being dull and dreary! Sapolsky managed to make the books interesting by sprinkling the writing with humour and organizing the information. Behave is, undoubtedly, a very scientific book that contains comprehensive details and neuroscience technicalities. ![]() ![]() ![]() He looks like some Manchester postpunk rocker on his way to a Ph.D in economics. ![]() A photo on the back cover of this book shows him in almost an archetypal young rebel pose, complete with stylishly shaved head and multiple ear piercings. Miéville is a bold young writer destined to carve his own remarkable niche in the field. Daring writers like Philip Pullman, Storm Constantine, and China Miéville are feverishly transforming fantasy, steering it towards darker terrain, without sacrificing - indeed, completely reframing - the genre's sense of wonder. Tweets by American fantasists are happy to stay, by and large, within the safety zones of tradition, over in England, all bets are off. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. ![]() All reviews and site design © by Thomas M. ![]() Under the udala trees sparknotes7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy. “I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. ![]() This story offers a glimmer of hope - a future where a woman might just be able to shape her life around truth and love. Even as their nation contends with and recovers from the effects of war and division, Nigerian lives are also wrecked and lost from taboo and prejudice. But there is a cost to living inside a lie.Īs Edwidge Danticat has made personal the legacy of Haiti's political coming of age, Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees uses one woman's lifetime to examine the ways in which Nigerians continue to struggle toward selfhood. ![]() When their love is discovered, Ijeoma learns that she will have to hide this part of herself. They are from different ethnic communities. Sent away to safety, she meets another displaced child and they, star-crossed, fall in love. Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does born before independence, she is eleven when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. ![]() The Pink Hotel by Liska Jacobs7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() The plot focuses on mother and daughter living on a planet with a scare air supply who meet two strangers looking for an oxygenated haven. She has completed production on the futuristic Breathe. ![]() The Ukrainian-born actress has recently wrapped work two action packed films and prepping for another. Love it or hate it, it’s done and now we’ll see what it grows into.'įamous pal Alyssa Milano gave her approval for the new style and asked for help creating a new look for herself. The Hellboy star then adopted a philosophical attitude. 'BLAAAH!! Felt I needed a change and had some clippers on hand,' she wrote. Mila explained the new do sharing a couple of post-haircut photos on Instagram Thursday. Longer, wavy strands were styled in a sort of pony tail in the back. It was followed with sections cropped so closely, part of the Scream Award winner's scalp was visible. The looked revealed short spikes in the in the front. ![]() New do: Mila Jovovich debuted her unusual new hair style as she arrived at the Four Season hotel in Los Angeles Monday, wearing navy blue shorts, a navy and white striped shirt and red and black polka dot pumps ![]() The stone sky by nk jemisin7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The geographies and politics alike are contoured from the stuff of both life and imagination, combining into the rare fantastic setting that is as fascinating as the characters who inhabit it and the stories they find themselves in.ĭeath and betrayal haunt the women who live in these pages. ![]() The world of The Fifth Season is the Broken Earth, a world clearly extrapolated from our own, but just as clearly and marvelously an invention of its author. Their stories are inextricable, yet unique, limned in voices and tones specific and necessary to each character. Three women in three times-youthful Damaya, skillful Syenite, and the older Essun-each face the challenges of the end times of their world. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, the Hugo Award-winning, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-nominated tour de force of language, incident, and, most of all, of people. Extraordinary worlds, extraordinary endings, witnessed by extraordinary characters. ![]() |