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![]() ![]() By early 2017, the company's value was zero and Holmes faced potential legal action from the government and her investors. Undaunted, the newspaper ran the first of dozens of Theranos articles in late 2015. When Carreyrou, working at The Wall Street Journal, got a tip from a former Theranos employee and started asking questions, both Carreyrou and the Journal were threatened with lawsuits. There was just one problem: The technology didn't work.įor years, Holmes had been misleading investors, FDA officials, and her own employees. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at $9 billion, putting Holmes's worth at an estimated $4.7 billion. ![]() ![]() In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier. The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar startup, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end in the face of pressure and threats from the CEO and her lawyers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mark Greaney has a degree in international relations and political science. Operation Red Metal is a nightmare scenario made real but could it just be the first move on the Russian chessboard? Ranged against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray, a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father, a young Polish female partisan fighter, an A-10 Warthog pilot, and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, struggle to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight. It's all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and her allies. Satellite killing missiles blind American forces while Spetznatz teams destroy Allied communications relays. Their tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. ![]() A stunningly realistic view of modern warfare from a battlefield commander and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man. A Russian military strike against Europe could change the balance of power in the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a great grim slab of gray stone suppor- ted on four upright stones. “By gum!” whispered Peter to Susan, “the sea!” In the very middle of this open hilltop was the Stone Table. ![]() There, far to the East, was something twinkling and moving. They were on a green open space from which you could look down on the forest spreading as far as one could see in every direction-except right ahead. And just as Lucy was wondering whether she could really get to the top without another long rest, sud- denly they were at the top. The climb, coming at the end of the long day, made them all pant and blow. Beaver, and began leading them uphill across some very deep, springy moss (it felt nice under their tired feet) in a place where only tall trees grew, very wide apart. And now the sun got low and the light got redder and the shadows got longer and the flowers began to think about closing. Even if this had not been their way they couldn’t have kept to the river valley once the thaw began, for with all that melting snow the river was soon in flood-a wonderful, roaring, thundering yellow flood-and their path would have been under water. They had left the course of the big river some time ago for one had to turn a little to the right (that meant a little to the south) to reach the place of the Stone Table. ![]() Lewis / 91 when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open. ![]() ![]() ![]() So why does it feel like only yesterday Thayer was rejecting me in the barn? Right?” I ask, looking over to Valen for confirmation. “Maybe I should talk to them.” I nod to myself. Holden’s in the spot next to him, oblivious, getting his neck sucked on by a petite brunette in his lap. Thayer’s sitting in a folding chair with a girl draped across his lap sideways, her arm curled around his shoulders. “He was,” she says, sounding as confused as I feel. ![]() “I thought you said he was gone.” My voice is barely above a whisper. “I spaced out.” Like a magnet, my gaze is being pulled back to Thayer, and Valen is suddenly at my side. ![]() ![]() “Hmm?” I look over to see…what’s his name again? Matt. You will not fall apart at the sight of him.Ī hand on my shoulder breaks through my panic. But I shove them down, closing my eyes to gain my composure. My throat gets tight as memories of forbidden love and loss and ultimately heartache hit me all at once. But then those eyes go cold and pass over me as if he didn’t see me at all. He seems shocked at first, as if he’s seeing a ghost. I bring my thumb to my opposite hand, rubbing the faint raised scar on my wrist out of reflex. As if he can sense me looking at him, his eyes find mine through the fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() The “MirrorMask” prequel will tell the story of the princess’ escape from the Dark Palace and how she came to acquire the MirrorMask. TOKYOPOP’s “MirrorMask” prequel manga will be plotted by Gaiman, the award-winning writer of the highly successful “Sandman” comics as well as the novels “Good Omens” and “Coraline.” Also included in the deal will be all-new original graphic novel series for the immensely popular properties “The Dark Crystal” and “Labyrinth.” Most notable among them is “MirrorMask,” the feature film from Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman due for release on September 30th of this year. LOS ANGELES, CA - (MARKET WIRE) - The Jim Henson Company has partnered with TOKYOPOP Inc., the #1 publisher of manga in the U.S., in an exclusive manga publishing deal to bring three of its fantasy titles to fans. Original Graphic Novels Based on “MirrorMask,” “The Dark Crystal,” and “Labyrinth” Scheduled for Fall 2006 Release ![]() The Jim Henson Company, TOKYOPOP, and Neil Gaiman Set to Bring “MirrorMask” and Classic Fantasy Titles to Manga ![]() ![]() With thanks to Steve and Eden for both bringing this to my attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rose needs a husband, Thomas an education but Cassandra lives for her writing. Mortmain is crippled by writer’s block, while his beautiful second wife Topaz struggles to be a dutiful stepmother to Rose, Cassandra and Thomas. The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial ruin. ![]() This edition is illustrated by Ruth Steed, and features an afterword by publisher Anna South. ![]() These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. One of BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.Ī wonderfully quirky coming-of-age story, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, author of The Hundred and One Dalmatians is an affectionately drawn portrait of one of the funniest families in literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I first picked this up, I thought to myself ‘here we go. If you are stubborn, determined and generally a little bit prickly, you will relate to her. Had I seen it on a bookstore shelf, I may have passed over it and I would have been making a grave mistake.Įlodie is honestly a fantastic protagonist. Thank you to Netgalley and Harper Collins Australia for providing me with an advanced reading copy of this amazing work. ![]() ![]() Has she made a mistake that could cost her? And who is Aleida really? The locals say her new employer Aleida is an evil witch, but Elodie is determined to give her a chance. Until the day her parents suddenly send her to work for a mysterious employer in a house she has never seen in a town she has never heard of. Although she is 16 and should be finding employment to help pay the bills, Elodie knows she will be forever tethered to a house where she feels unwelcome and not at all like she belongs. Since developing feelings for a local boy at the markets, she hasn’t been allowed to leave the farm or interact with anyone other than her family. Her father died when she was just a small child, forcing her mother into a relationship with a man who treats Elodie like a slave. Elodie lives a simple life with her mother, stepfather and multiple siblings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Filled with bawdy humor, bloodlust, treachery and valor, this stirring tale will leave readers eager for the next volume in this Alfred the Great series. ![]() But among the Saxons I was another Saxon, and among the Saxons I did not need another man's generosity." Uhtred demonstrates his newfound patriotism in the book's climactic battle at Edington. Yet pride grows in Uhtred: "I understood that among the Danes I was as important as my friends, and without friends I was just another landless, masterless warrior. His Celtic mistress foretells victory for Alfred, but Uhtred can scarcely believe that the bedraggled king, camped in isolated marshes with a handful of supporters, can repel the invaders and unite England. Uhtred, Northumbrian born, raised a Viking and now married to a Saxon. But when the Danes invade Wessex, Uhtred's loyalties are further divided. THE PALE HORSEMAN the compelling sequel to the bestselling THE LAST KINGDOM. But Uhtred sees a better chance of recovering his lost estate if he finds a way to join the Danes, who raised him and whose simple life of "ale, women, sword, and reputation" he finds more congenial than Alfred's Christian piety and military caution. Logically, Uhtred should now ally himself with Alfred, whose Wessex kingdom alone has successfully resisted Danish control. 877, and the dispossessed Northumbrian noble Uhtred has just routed the Danes in a battle at Cynuit in southern England. Outnumbered Saxon forces continue battling Danish invaders in this rousing sequel to the bestselling The Last Kingdom ![]() ![]() ![]() and 10mins.?2019 Jenny Odell (P)2019 HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books. ‘A manifesto for the internet age.’ The A.V. Jennifer Odell, an American artist, writer and educator based in Oakland, California tackles this very question in her extremely thought provoking, timely and tantalizing work, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. Full Book Name:How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Author Name:Jenny Odell Book Genre:Essays, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Self Help, Writing ISBN 9781612197494 Edition Language: Date of Publication: PDF / EPUB File Name:HowtoDoNothing-JennyOdell. Provocative, timely, and utterly persuasive, it shows us how to preserve our inner lives and bring about change in a world that needs this more than ever. Here, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity and techno-determinism, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.RUNNING TIME ? 8hrs. Far from a simple anti-technology screed, How to Do Nothing is an action plan for thinking beyond capitalist narratives of efficiency and value. This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we?ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms for personal branding, and products to be monetized, nothing can be quite so radical as? doing nothing. ![]() |