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Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Roberta Green, a graduate student on the master of fine arts programme at the fictitious Edward University in upstate New York is presenting a searing thesis project about two married professors tiptoeing towards infidelity, as their transgressions are brought to light in Seduction Theory by Emily Adrian. The facts she is presenting pertain to the romantic lives of two of her tutors: a married couple named Simone and Ethan both in their early forties. Simone is the star of Edwards University’s creative writing department renowned Woolf scholar, grief memoirist, and campus sex icon. Her less glamorous and ostensibly devoted husband, … Continue reading Marriage, love, betrayal, infidelity

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Engineering towards mega projects

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Chinese-Canadian, Technology analyst, Dan Wang, from Stanford University, has been living through China’s astonishing messy progress. China’s towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. Rapid changes also meant pain throughout the Chinese society, controlled by political repression ending in astonishing growth, a feature of China’s engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang, reveals a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything good and … Continue reading Engineering towards mega projects

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Capitalism’s permanent revolution

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We are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological and artificial intelligence. British-American staff writer and economic journalist at the New Yorker, John Cassidy author of Dot.con, which examined the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, and How Markets Fail, which illuminates the origins of the great financial crisis of 2007-08. Cassidy starts with the colonial monopoly capitalism of the East India Company, as seen through the critical eyes of William Bolts, a disgruntled … Continue reading Capitalism’s permanent revolution

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Solo Art Show

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Mali’s 33 rd Solo Art Show – Chalk Farm.Painting, photography and conceptual work.At Koppel Gallery, 157 Regents Park Road, London NW1 8BB.From 12 – 17 August 2025 2 – 6 pm.Nearest underground – Chalk Farm, Northern Line. Gallery is very near thestation. Good network of buses.Saturday 16 August 4 – 6 pm – Poetry and Live Music with refreshmentsconducted by Penny Nair Price. Admission Free. Everyone is welcome.Mali is very much an impressionist school artist but today he doesconceptualist work. For more than the last two decades he has been workingon the book subject. He does a lot of networking … Continue reading Solo Art Show

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Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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In Men in Love, action takes place over roughly, three years upto 1990, Welsh has to think himself into an era before smartphones and the internet. Late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher’s Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin- a time for hope, for love, for raving. Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the dance floor, with its promise of joy … Continue reading Antics of Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie

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Workplace romance virtually

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Moderation by Elaine Castillo is the real romance in the virtual workplace, a story about the possible future of live. Girlie Delmundo is the greatest content moderator in the world, and despite the setbacks of financial crises, climate catastrophe, and a global pandemic, she’s going places after getting a promotion. Now thanks to the parent company Paragon’s purchase of Fairground- the world’s preeminent virtual reality content provider- she’s on the way to becoming an elite VR moderator, playing in the big leagues and, if her enthusiastic bosses are to be believed moderating the next stage of human interaction. In another … Continue reading Workplace romance virtually

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Love is scorned as illusion

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Arthur Golden in Memoirs of a Geisha, presents exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha. We enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girl’s virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love is scorned as illusion. It is a triumphant work of fiction-at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful, and completely unforgettable. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, Mass Market Paperback 503 pages £11.99. Continue reading Love is scorned as illusion

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Ultimate hope for survival

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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of five novels, Sara Gruen, from western North Carolina, whose works have been translated into forty-three languages and have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Water for Elephants was adapted into a major motion picture in 2011 starring Reese Witherspoon, Rob Pattison, and Christoph Waltz and then into a smash Broadway musical. Jacob Jankowski, as a young man, was tossed by fate onto a rickety train. There is preparation for a circus across the street from the nursing home where Jacob lives. He is not sure of his exact age but … Continue reading Ultimate hope for survival

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India win the fifth Test by 6 runs and draw the series

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Men’s International Test Match Series – 5th Test- Day 5 of 5 at The Kia Oval, Kennington. India 1st Innings 224 ao off 69.4 ov Sai Sudharsan 38 off 109, 6 fours, Nair 57 off 109, 8 fours, Washington 26 off 55, 3 fours, Atkinson 5-33, Tongue 3-57, Woakes 1-46. India 2nd Innings 396 ao off 88 ov Jaiswal 118 off 164, 14 fours, 2 sixes, Deep 66 off 94, 12 fours, Jadeja 53 off 77, 5 fours,Washington 53 off 46, 4 fours, 4 sixes, Tongue 4-125, Atkinson 3-127, Overton 2-98. England 1st Innings 247 ao of 51.2 ov Crawley 64 off 57, 14 … Continue reading India win the fifth Test by 6 runs and draw the series

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Norris holds off Piastri attack to win Hungarian Grand Prix

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Lando Norris held off a late attack from McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to win the Hungarian Grand Prix. Norris masterminded, controlled defensive drive in an intense race, with two title rivals on divergent strategies. Mercedes’ George Russell took the final podium place, passing Charles Leclerc of Ferrari who faded from pole position, in the closing stages. Norris fought back after falling to fifth place on the opening lap by switching to a bold one-stop strategy, as Piastri had to come back at him on fresher tyres in the closing laps, with five laps to go. Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin … Continue reading Norris holds off Piastri attack to win Hungarian Grand Prix