![]() ![]() Jasongjordan on The Best ESV Bible Ever M…Ĭraigdespain on The Best ESV Bible Ever M… The ESV Deluxe fits nicely between the SRC (which has smaller print and is a bit thicker) and the Large Print edition which has no references, and very little margin space for notes. It’s a commercial venture…if it doesn’t sell they will discontinue it.” He was correct, so he bought several in order to be prepared when the day came to “axe” it. Wide margin bibles are wonderful tools for inductive study and indepth analysis. I asked him why he believed it would go out of print and he responded, “There are not enough ‘note-takers’ (serious students) to justify the expense in the eyes of the publisher. Just over three years ago he predicted it would go out of print and he was right. It has very manageable print, wide margins (about an inch), great paper, center column references, black letter text, a good concordance and maps, and the calfskin binding is fabulous! A friend of mine bought 4! He uses one and the remaining three copies are on a shelf in his office. The ESV Heirloom Deluxe Reference is indeed the best edition of the ESV that Crossway has published to date. ![]() Trying to replace all my notes and a Bible that is no longer in print would be quite the task. It has been difficult to find a proper replacement for the Heirloom Reference Edition with either the Single Column Reference or the Large Print Edition, in fact to ensure the longevity of my HRE, I rarely take it out of the safety of my house. The calfskin edition is harder to come by but the bonded leather and the hardback can still be had for ridiculously low prices. The calfskin edition is also Smythe sewn allowing to open freely and flatly, it can also be folded over unto itself which is not possible in most other large Bibles. The calfskin edition is bound in thick, tough yet soft leather that has been aging amazingly well. Well, they are not true wide margins at around 1″ wide but with the use of a very thin pigment liner are quite usable. The best feature in this edition are the wide margins. It is a double column paragraph format with center column references, a concordance, maps and presentation pages. The font size is 10.2 which is the largest print available in a non-Large Print edition. Thicker means more opaque, there is little to no bleed through and holds up quite well to the 05 tip of a pigment liner. 0020″ thick making it thicker than the paper used in either the SCR or LP. The paper is among the heaviest paper used by Crossway for any of their editions. It is slightly larger than the SCR but it is a little thinner, making this edition easier to carry. The Heirloom Reference measure in at 6.5″ x 9.25″ x 1.5″. Or maybe the HRE was a poor seller… I do not know. Crossway are not a large publisher and there may have been features that overlapped between these large format editions and maybe they decided to continue forth with new the new editions that would contain the updated ESV text. ![]() It is possible that the HRE fell into a black hole between the Single Column Reference and the Large Print Bible. I do not know when the decision was made by my friends at Crossway to nix the Heirloom Reference Edition they decided to no longer print this edition again once their stock was depleted. Is it possible that the best ESV Bible has already been made? Best, is of course purely subjective but this is my blog and according to me, the best ESV ever made, is no longer being made. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He worked out soon enough that he needed “a couple of pinch points”, so that “you cannot progress to the next part unless you’ve been through there”. “You’ve really got to guard against telling it like a story it’s got to feel to the reader that they’re driving it forward,” he says. But he found he “couldn’t just use the old tricks” to write his Fighting Fantasy title. “Everyone who’s read enough of your books knows if it looks good, don’t go that way,” says Higson, whose Young Bond books, and his young adult Enemy series, in which adults have been turned into zombies, have been bestsellers. ‘I love luring people to their doom’ … Livingstone, left, and Jackson today. Even though I love luring people with rose-coloured petals to their doom, you can’t do it too much.” You’ve got to have balance, make it not too hard, not too easy,” he says. You’ve got to make sure there are no cul de sacs. “It is hard hanging it all in your head … There are multiple things to consider. Livingstone looks quietly delighted at Higson’s travails. I just sort of launched into it and I was about a third of the way in when I suddenly realised I was lost in one of Steve Jackson’s mazes.” “I should have planned it a little bit more than I did. We were so into interactivity, because it’s empowering, rather than passive reading, which is a linear experience Livingstone pulls out a sheet of paper with a map showing how he tries to keep things under control – various pathways lead to exciting-sounding endings like fire dragons, or worm dogs. The books each contain around 400 mini-sections, nearly all of which provide the reader with a choice, or a battle, meaning that the stories can quickly become sprawling affairs. It is packed full of terrifying demons and deadly monsters, and Higson has clearly had a whale of a time writing it – although, he admits, it was something of a challenge. Their only hope is YOU, who must “travel to the Invisible City with a smoke-oil antidote”. Higson’s title, The Gates of Death, asks its reader if “YOU are brave enough to face the all-powerful Queen of Darkness”? In Allansia, a “terrible plague has devastated” the land, “striking its people down with a sickness that turns them into hideous, demonic monsters”. “We started talking and got on OK, and I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be a hoot if he wrote one of these with his twisted imagination, adding a new dimension to Fighting Fantasy?’” “It was a bit of a meeting of minds,” agrees Livingstone. “We went out for a couple of drinks,” says Higson, sitting in Scholastic’s London offices. Livingstone and Higson met years ago at a gaming event Higson, one of the creators and actors of The Fast Show, describes himself as “big into gaming”, and had long wanted to meet Livingstone, who with Jackson co-founded Games Workshop in 1975, and launched Dungeons & Dragons in Europe. It has poured money into the cult series, preparing a swanky new look for the first 12 books which brings them more in line with titles like Charlie Higson’s Young Bond books or Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider titles, and signing up Higson himself to write a new adventure to head up this week’s relaunch. He is here today because the major children’s publisher Scholastic believes the time has come for Fighting Fantasy to have its day again. ‘Penguin’s MD laughed so hard his head hit the desk’ … Steve Jackson, left, and Ian Livingstone in 1982. Thirteen years of being at that level was huge,” says Livingstone. “Video games were around, in force they’d had a pretty good run. By 1995, though, it had run out of steam, and publisher Puffin closed down the series. The series had an amazing run into the 90s – there were 59 books, with Jackson and Livingstone roping in co-authors to keep up with demand, and 20m copies sold around the world. Typically set in the fantasy world of Allansia, the books dispatch their reader on a quest armed only with a pencil and dice, battling foul creatures, deploying magical potions and making a continuous series of choices in an attempt to make it through the Deathtrap Dungeon, say, or City of Thieves. Once hugely popular, the Fighting Fantasy books – billed as “a thrilling fantasy adventure in which YOU are the hero” – launched in 1982 with Livingstone and Jackson’s The Warlock of Firetop Mountain. You can’t call it cheating – it’s taking a sneak peek.” “You used to see it on public transport everywhere,” says Livingstone, who with Steve Jackson dreamed up Fighting Fantasy back in the early 80s. You’d insert a finger into various sections of your Fighting Fantasy adventure game book in order to be able to return if, say, your choice to drink the “sparkling red liquid” and turn to section 98 turned out to be a bad one, or if attacking the Mirror Demon “from another dimensional plane” proved fatal. Ian Livingstone calls it the “five-fingered bookmark”: that grip known to children of the 80s and 90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() When he isn't writing or thinking about writing or traveling the country talking about writing, Rick is hanging out with his family.Cassie, Yancey’s first narrator, is fairly generic as far as teenage female survivalists go. Printz Honor, and the sequel, The Curse of the Wendigo, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2010, his novel, The Monstrumologist, received a Michael L. His first young-adult novel, The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal. The Alfred Kropp Series A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, A Book Sense Pick Best Books of the Year, A BookBrowse Recommendation, A Texas Lone Star Reading List Selection, A Sunshine State Readers List Selection, Featured Author/Book - Scholastic Book Fairs, Nominated for the Carnegie Medal (U.K.), Nominee for the Grand Canyon Reader AwardĪbout The Author Rick Yancey (is the author of the New York Times bestseller The 5th Wave, The Infinite Sea, several adult novels, and the memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector. Cinda Williams Chima, New York Times bestselling author Other awards for Rick Yancey: The Monstrumologist Series: Printz Honor Book, YALSA Readers' Choice List - Best Book for Young Adults, Kirkus' Best Teen Books, Booklist Editors' Choice for Youth, Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist-Best Young Adult Literature, Tayshas Reading List (Texas Library Association), NCTE's Walden Book Award Finalist, Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee, Teen Choice Book of the Year Nominee, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Readers Choice Award Nominee It's been a long time since I've read a story this compelling. The break-neck pace and high stakes will draw you in, but it's the characters who will keep you turning pages. Kathy Reichs, New York Times bestselling author Prepare to set everything else aside when you launch into this one. The 5th Wave is an electrifying page-turner. Melissa De La Cruz, New York Times bestselling author of the Blue Bloods series A fantastic read. A postapocalyptic alien invasion story with a smart, vulnerable heroine. Melissa Marr, New York Times bestselling author Breathtakingly fast-paced and original, The 5th Wave is a reading tsunami that grabs hold and won't let go. Quite simply, one of the best books I've read in years. Booklist *starred review* This is DAMN and WOW territory. a sure thing for reviewers and readers alike. Kirkus Reviews, *starred review* *Yancey's heartfelt, violent, paranoid epic, filled with big heroics and bigger surprises, is part War of the Worlds, part Starship Troopers, part Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and part The Stand. Publishers Weekly, *starred review* *Nothing short of amazing! The Cleveland Plain Dealer Action-packed intrigue. should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires. Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review A modern sci-fi masterpiece. EW.com "Makes for an exhilarating reading experience." Who cares what shelf you find it on? Just read it." Entertainment Weekly "It has the dark, swoopy adrenaline of The Hunger Games, but the elegiac tone of The Road. Review Quotes A New York Times bestsellerĪ USA Today bestseller Winner of the 2014 Red House Children's Book AwardĢ014 Children's Choice Book Awards Finalist for Teen Book of the YearĪ YALSA 2014 Best Fiction for Young AdultsĪ YALSA 2014 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young ReadersĪ Booklist 2014 Best Fiction for Young AdultsĪn Amazon Best Book of the Year Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances. ![]() should do for aliens what Twilight did for I couldn't turn the pages fast enough.-Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review A modern sci-fi masterpiece. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother-or even saving herself. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them.īook Synopsis Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.- Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. And after the 3rd, only the "un"-lucky survive. About the Book From the author of the Printz Honor novel "The Monstrumologist" comes the first novel in an epic new series. ![]() ![]() The rap game has changed exponentially since the 2000s, and the vast majority of rappers that were signed with Def Jam or another label at the time are no longer under them.
![]() military trainers are playing a supporting role, offering specialized instruction in combat medicine and bomb detection, among other subjects. contractors hired by the State Department. In February, the African Union announced plans to expand the size of the force from 12,000 to 18,000, and it was preparing to deploy troops to southern and central Somalia for the first time.Ībout three-quarters of the force - mostly Ugandans, but also soldiers from Burundi, Djibouti and Sierra Leone - will have been trained by U.S. Since the fall, however, these troops have chased al-Shabab, the Somali militia affiliated with al-Qaeda, out of Mogadishu and solidified control of the capital. For years, it struggled to fill its ranks, overcome a lack of equipment and win support among Somalis. ![]() The U.S.-backed force, which is officially led by the African Union and endorsed by the United Nations, began operations in Somalia in 2007. American officials have long worried that al-Qaeda leaders will seek to rebuild their global operations in Somalia and nearby Yemen, across the narrow Gulf of Aden. government and its allies in East Africa say the interventionist strategy is slowly bolstering security in war-torn and famine-stricken Somalia, long considered the most ungovernable country in the world.Įver since it plunged into chaos in the 1990s, Somalia has destabilized the region, serving as a hub for Islamic extremists and bands of pirates who plunder some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. The current class of 3,500 Ugandan soldiers, the biggest since the camp opened five years ago, is preparing to deploy to Somalia to join a growing international force composed entirely of African troops but largely financed by Washington.Īfter two decades of failed efforts, the U.S. taxpayer money and staffed by State Department contractors - has increased in recent months. “GUNS $ BOOMS,” reads another menacing tag.ĭespite the warnings, the number of recruits graduating from this boot camp - built with U.S. “Death is Here! No One Leaves,” warns the fake graffiti, which, a little oddly, is spray-painted in English instead of Somali. ![]() In one obstacle course dubbed “Little Mogadishu,” the Ugandans learn the basics of urban warfare as they patrol a mock city block of tumble-down buildings and rusty shipping containers designed to resemble the battered and dangerous Somali capital. Under the gaze of American instructors, gangly Ugandan recruits are taught to carry rifles, dodge roadside bombs and avoid shooting one another by accident. The heart of the Obama administration’s strategy for fighting al-Qaeda militants in Somalia can be found next to a cow pasture here, a thousand miles from the front lines. ![]() ![]() March 16, March 15, Tapped Out Donut Glitch. Cubase with jbridge 4 jbridge mediashare mac torrent 18 erotik film zle tek part film izle full hd film seyret can artist Sur. A keygen is made available through crack groups free to download. for patching mortar, adhesive for replacing large broken pieces, or as a crack repair material.
![]() Increasingly, that meant movies that appealed to audiences in Russia, Brazil, and China. So they focused on the types of movies that delivered the biggest and most consistent profits to their publicly traded parent corporations. Studios realized their assumption that they had to make every type of movie for everyone was no longer true. “from their peak in 2006, and the decline is explained entirely by the evaporation of interesting, intelligent mid-budget films. Annual movie releases by major studios were 139 in 2016, down 32 percent” ![]() DVD sales declines were smallest for movies with budgets of more than $75 million, and as studios tried to cut costs in response to plummeting home-entertainment revenues, risky original scripts and adaptations of highbrow books were the first to go. Both trends were like a siren’s wail to studio executives, urging them to make fewer, bigger, louder movies. Domestic box office, meanwhile, grew by only 40 percent between 20, to $11.4 billion-reflecting a slight decline in attendance, once you factor in ticket price increases. The biggest driver of growth in recent years has been China its box office grew from $2 billion in 2011 to $6.6 billion in 2016 and is expected to surpass U.S. International box office exploded, from $8.6 billion in 2001 to $27.2 billion in 2016. As the economies of developing nations throughout Latin America and Asia grew, theater construction surged and the rising middle class spent their newfound wealth on what was to them the novel and luxurious experience of a night out to see the latest Hollywood flick. At the same time, Americans became much less important to the American movie business. Annual home-entertainment revenue, and the studio profits that follow from it, fell by nearly half between 20, from nearly $22 billion to $12 billion. “Video-on-demand rentals and digital downloads helped a bit as the years went on, but the movie business never fully recovered. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies Nobody else was willing to pour billions of dollars into the struggling movie business in the mid-2010s, particularly for original or lower-budget productions.” As seemed to always be true when it came to Hollywood’s relationship with China, the Americans had no choice but to keep playing along. But by then it was too late to turn back. Then, to create another obstacle, Chinese government currency controls established in early 2017 slowed, at least temporarily, the flow of money from China into Hollywood. The $150 million film, about a war against monsters set on the Chinese historic landmark, grossed an underwhelming $171 million and a disastrous $45 million in the United States. One of the highest-profile efforts to produce a worldwide hit out of China was The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon and made by Wanda’s Legendary Pictures. “Working with a company like Universal will help us elevate our skill set in moviemaking,” the head of the Chinese entertainment company Perfect World Pictures said, while investing $250 million in a slate of upcoming films from the American studio. Within a few years, they figured, China would learn how to do that without anyone’s help. So Chinese companies, with the backing of the government, started investing in Hollywood, with a mission to learn how experienced hands there made blockbusters that thrived worldwide. And with box-office growth in that country slowing in 2016 and early 2017, hits that resonated internationally would be critical if the Communist nation was to grow its movie business and use it to become the kind of global power it wanted to be. ![]() China had yet to produce a global blockbuster. But most were culturally specific comedies and love stories that didn’t translate anywhere else. Over the past few years, locally produced Chinese films had become more successful at the box office there. The Beijing government considered art and culture to be a form of “soft power,” whereby it could extend influence around the world without the use of weapons. The United States had already proved the power of pop culture to help establish a nation’s global dominance. After more than a decade as a place for Hollywood to make money, China wanted to turn the tables. But those who worked most closely with the Chinese knew that the biggest reason for these investments was a form of reverse-colonialism. Certainly Hollywood had long been a destination for legal money laundering. Others had a different theory-that some wealthy Chinese individuals and businesses were seeking to get their money out of China, where an autocratic government could still steal anyone’s wealth at any time, for any reason. It is no doubt true that financing movies is not the smartest way for any investor, from anywhere in the world, to earn the best returns. ![]() “Some viewed Chinese investors as the latest “dumb money” to hit Hollywood. ![]() |
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