The Quest for Z brings young readers the story of Percy Fawcett's early 20th - century explorations in the Amazon, where he hoped to find the fabled, ancient city of «Z.» Readers know from 2015's Tricky Vic: The Impossibly True Story of the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower that Greg Pizzoli writes
about complicated people with honesty and never condescends to young readers.
Not exact matches
Wujec loves to engage
people and teams by having them draw how to make toast because in doing so, the process reveals unexpected truths
about how we can solve our biggest and most
complicated work problems.
When you strip down the
complicated investment vehicles — now being peddled for pennies on the dollar — there are
people like Jack Hamersma, a boat salesman Packer wrote
about who lost his job, was diagnosed with cancer and then had his house foreclosed upon.
Setting aside First Amendment issues for the moment, the more I tried to talk to
people about the story, and
about geo - fencing in particular, the clearer it became that this common practice is just
complicated enough and new - ish to consumers that it warranted a closer look.
«Taxes are way too
complicated, and
people spend way too much time worrying
about ways to get them lower,» he said.
There's nothing
complicated about these tips and they're easy to adopt, yet most
people don't do them.
Most
people don't think
about how
complicated their thermostat is until it's too hot or cold.
It's
about negotiating a classroom and working with
people and facilitating discussion and mentorship as an emotionally
complicated form of emotional labor.
In this
complicated milieu, he remained dissident but independent, anti-regime but secular and un-Catholic, and developed further a subtlety and restraint
about rendering judgments on
people as objects of politics, as actors in politics.
(Actually, the part
about being «saved through childbearing»
complicates things for everyone who believes
people are saved by faith alone.)
The book isn't intentionally profound, and it's occasionally very misguided — but the description of what
people claim they want (a soul mate) and how they go
about securing it (Tinder) does reveal something profound: Modern romance is
complicated because the ends, the means, and our expectations of relationships all conflict.
Jeremy good message and quite relevant for today God is still looking at our hearts and motives for serving him or are we serving our own agenda as Jonah was.He did nt feel compassionate towards his enemies and who could blame him they had cruelly killed many Jews it was a question of life or death to his own people.The Jewish nation was no more deserving of Gods grace than the other nations that is revealed by sending Jonah to preach a message of hope and life.Ultimately God calls all by faith in him and is willing to be merciful to all nations and
peoples that do not not deserve it just like us it is by grace that we all are forgiven.I am pleased that God is sovereign and knows whats best he is merciful to us.Our human nature is that it is better to kill our enemies before they can kill us and that is essentially Jonahs message that is why he struggled to be obedient to Gods will.Gods message is to forgive those that trespass against us and show mercy.Its
complicated and it is natural to protect ourselves and our families from those who would seek to destroy them but ultimately its
about trusting God with everything easier said than done.If it comes to a choice we will have to trust God and ask for his strength because we cant do it in ours.As Christ laid down his life for us are we ready to lay our lives and the lives of our families as a sacrifice for him.To me that is where the story of Jonah is leading to we have the choice to fight our enemies or to love them as God loves them.brentnz
To me what throws
people most
about Christianity is they think it is some
complicated thing to digest.
People have a lot of different methods for needlessly
complicating tomato sauce, some of which they feel very strongly
about.
I am extremely passionate
about showing
people that healthy eating doesn't need to
complicated, stressfull or time consuming.
I am
about to give birth any day and this blog has given me a better understanding of all the debates and how so many
people are educated with a lay mans understanding of medicine and how much more
complicated it is.
I don't plan on having the Santa stuff as part of our Christmas celebrations (and since we do things on a different day then other
people, it would make it
complicated anyways), but I worry
about having to deal with other parents if my kid lets things slip.
The factor of a «last chance» pregnancy might also seem difficult for
people to understand as another anxiety point can
complicate who feels safe to talk to
about all of the feelings that are going on.
What I like
about is: «I'm one of those
people that when I download apps, I'm not big a fan of very
complicated apps that can do 110,000 things.»
Getting to the truth is even harder than reading this sentence, they're told, because there are strict rules
about inspecting the register and that it must be done in
person and that an appointment is required and that you can't necessarily identify what you're after anyway and that there are other reasons why
people might not appear and that waiting several weeks for the raw data will be needed and that the return is very, very
complicated.
Another reason why some units are vacant is that the legislation
about renting is so damn
complicated (and very risky) that some
people simply won't bother.
Negotiations tend to be more
complicated with
people who know what you're all
about, can protect themselves and aren't scared of you.
And
people can call that spin if they like but the reality is that I think the public would spend a lot of time quite bewildered
about why the government takes certain decisions on certain issues unless you have someone out there saying «this is why we're doing this» on issues as
complicated as whether to bomb Syria or not.»
Complicating what should have been a straightforward decision was the fact that 18 of 23 legislators take county health insurance benefits which range from
about $ 15,000 a year for a single
person to over $ 35,000 for the so - called «Cadillac» family plan.
«Immigration law we know is extremely
complicated, it just seems kind of incredibly unfair that what was agreed upon by the mayor and the City Council years ago and is working very effectively is now in jeopardy and he's thinking
about depriving
people of an attorney.»
If there was a strong Labour left, it could make the case
about so many
people being on benefits because (radical idea here) there aren't enough jobs to go around; that benefit fraud is exaggerated (costing # 1.2 billion compared to # 70 billion lost through tax avoidance); and that it is an often
complicated phenomenon.
So I think that despite it being
complicated, we have to talk
about it and help
people understand the relationships.»
All these factors conspire to
complicate the picture of why Superior is warming so quickly, and what
people in the Great Lakes region can do
about it.
Although fungal infections of the skin affect
about 29 million
people in the United States, fungi can be slow and hard to grow in laboratories,
complicating diagnosis and treatment of even the most common fungal skin conditions, such as toenail infections.
All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more
complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «
People seem to think
about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.
Nestle: Well, yes, I mean,
people eat
complicated diets, so you look at them and you say, gee, it looks like
people who eat a lots of fruits and vegetables are healthier than
people who [don't] aren't — what is it
about fruits and vegetables that is making those
people healthier?
Chapman: Yeah, and that's a good piece of work and what it did for me — to go on to continue that thought
about the way in which it was an education — is what I saw was that it was possible for a
complicated scientific subject to be discussed in front of a lay audience, not be patronizing to the lay audience, get across a lot of information and excite
people because the local
people were meeting outside the court and they were saying, «Well did you hear the things
about the bacterial flagellum?»
«Collecting information
about diet can be
complicated and time consuming, and is always biased by what
people remember and think they should report.
Nobody has a clue how it all fits together and that's what I was trying to do in my contribution to this issue is to remind
people how fantastically
complicated and mysterious the brain is; and there is nothing mystical
about it.
Coincidentally or otherwise, this new reconstruction of the Neanderthals»
complicated early history closely resembles what we learned
about the populations of anatomically modern
people who first spread into Europe and Asia.
Like many autistic
people, I have
complicated feelings
about Autism Awareness Month, which rolls around every April.
Second, to highlight useful information for
people seeking answers
about this
complicated illness.
It is probably rather unsettling for most
people to see this
complicated and peculiar name on the ingredient list of a product they are
about to consume.
When I invite
people over I always ask
about food restrictions...» to «Sounds awfully
complicated to be required to chart everyone's restrictions.»
If, however, there's always an excuse as to why you can't meet their buddies, or if they won't let you tell
people about your dates because of
complicated reasons (e.g. «my crazy ex might cause trouble») then be wary.
If, however, there's always an excuse as to why you can't meet their whanau, or if they won't let you tell
people about your dates because of
complicated reasons (e.g. «my crazy ex might cause trouble») then be wary.
The usual potted history is offered, from 1960s computer dating (erroneously called «early internet dating» by Ansari — there was nothing online
about those IBM mainframe, punchcard - operated services), to lonely hearts ads with their
complicated, expensive voice mail services and video dating in the 1980s, followed by the emergence of Match.com in 1995 and the amazing numbers of
people who use internet dating (here he reproduces the stale 2013 figure that a third of American marriages today began online; Pew recently drastically downsized the figure to say that only five per cent of married Americans have met online).
It is all
about language — you may say, thinking
about how it may be
complicated to be in contact with the foreign
person.
LOVE ME IF YOU CAN what can i say
about me im a
complicated human speciman most
ppl as a matter a fact nobody gets me and they sure as hell tell me they do nt get me.i love music, books, i love peace and i love life and no matter how hard it get i always look up take a breathein and let it out and say im alive its life be happy no regrets.i love my family, ilove who i am and i look forward to who i'll become everyday i enjoy growin and livin my life how i want to.i love
ppl a
One positive feature of these services involves the way how
people are able to find dates online without having to worry
about too many
complicated travel activities.
Dealing with
people who talk
about you behind your back is simple, but confronting the ones who insult you to your face can be more
complicated.
Relationships are
complicated, and questions without any kind of context can not tell you all you need to know
about a
person.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
About Blog Here at Premier Estates Wine, we like to keep things simple because we know that some
people can find wine a little too
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People over 60 are as sexual and
complicated as their grandchildren, and there ought to be more movies
about them, but only an audience as constipated as these characters could mistake this lukewarm stream of pablum for a hard nugget of truth.