In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. Ben Macintyre A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine. NPR A meticiulous history that reads like a thriller. The New York Times Book Review A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people - and a little resistance. Book Synopsis A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by NPR, the New York Public Library, Amazon, the Seattle Times, the Washington Independent Review of Books, PopSugar, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, BookBrowse, the Spectator, and the Times of London Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography Excellent.This book is as riveting as any thriller, and as hard to put down.
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Even on the second successful one, the impact of seeing the film was destructive: because the critical narrative ruse is the fact that Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford thinks the first woman he brutally assaulted is dead, told so by his friend and the sheriff Bob Maples, and this is what gives him the confidence to carry on killing because he has not been linked to her death. I think my initial hesitancy was much to do with having seen the film version near that first reading. Written in 1952, this first person portrayal of the behaviour of a sociopath/psychopath in small-town America must have been then, and still is, both a frightening insight into the mind of a killer as well as a metaphor for the evil that can exist within an ostensibly ‘normal’ person and place, anywhere.Ĭited by many as Thompson’s best work, I had to take a second run at reading in order to become wholly involved and to finish. The bar-and-dot counting system that is the base of Maya numerals was in use in Mesoamerica by 1000 BC the Maya adopted it by the Late Preclassic, and added the symbol for zero. The very concept of a vigesimal system probably stemmed from the full set of human digits: the term for “person,” winik, is indistinguishable from that for a unit of “twenty.” Unlike our modern base 10 system, the Maya used a base 20 (vigesimal) system. The earliest inscriptions in an identifiable Maya script date back to 300–200 BC. It was the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system of more than a dozen systems that developed in Mesoamerica. The Maya writing system is one of the outstanding achievements of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas. Maya inscriptions were most often written in columns two glyphs wide, with each such column read left to right, top to bottom For generations, this confused linguists working to decipher the writing – but when it was recognized, it proved to be the key to understanding written Mayan. Phonetic glyphs could be combined into a single drawing to create a multi-syllable word. Both are pronounced b’alam and carry the same meaning. Sexton sat 18 undergraduates, some religious and some not, some bleacher diehards and some not, all of them enrolled in a course titled Baseball as a Road to God. He came to speak, too, of Ernest Hemingway and Gay Talese, of Lord Krishna and a sacred tree in the Amazon, and what he called 'this notion of touching the ineffable'. On the night before opening day, the end of a baseball fan's version of Advent, John Sexton entered his classroom at New York University to speak of Joe DiMaggio. Reportedly, Sexton responded, “You are among the great unwashed. Sexton’s course originated when one of his students asked him why he was such a big baseball fan because the sport, according to the student, was not very interesting. Sexton served as the President of New York University from 2002 to 2016.īaseball as a Road to God is based on a course John Sexton has taught at New York University for more than a decade. in history of American religion (1978) from Fordham University. in comparative religion (1965), and a Ph.D. A graduate of a Jesuit prep high school, Sexton holds an M.A. Sexton, a Catholic, grew up in New York City and as a young man was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Schwartz the foreword is written by Doris Kearns Goodwin. The book is co-authored with Thomas Oliphant and Peter J. Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game is a book written by John Sexton that discusses the game of baseball in the context of religion. 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