![]() It doesn’t hurt that Bam Adebayo is one of the best passing big men in the NBA. When it comes to cutting, the Heat have a plethora of athletic guards and forwards who excel off the ball and know how to make their way to the basket. ![]() In several years, they were the top 3-point shooting team. With just five teams left in the championship hunt, a real argument can be made that the Heat are the top shooting team left in the field.Īs for the Warriors, they finished in the top three for 3-point shooting in every single year from the 2014-15 season to the 2018-19 season. They trailed the top team, the Utah Jazz, by just. In the 2019-20 regular season, the Heat finished second in 3-point efficiency after making 37.9 percent of their shots from beyond the arc. While comparing the Heat to a team that won three championships in five years may seem like a stretch, it’s not that farfetched when looking at the numbers. He also compared the Heat as a whole to the Golden State Warriors, the NBA’s most recent dynasty.Ĭeltics coach Brad Stevens said the Heat is “probably the closest team in the East that we’ve seen to the Warriors with regard to their cutting and shooting.” Stevens recently heaped praise on Heat rookie Tyler Herro. ![]() ![]() Boston Celtics head coach Brad Stevens appears to be trying to kill the Miami Heat with kindness ahead of the two teams’ Eastern Conference Finals matcup. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Hearing cries for help, Frank and Gort find Clifton Graves trapped in a pit and help him out. Taking Gort into Dracula's tomb, he explains to the man-servant the events that led up to Dracula's resurrection and the vampire lords subsequent escape after he turned Jeanie into a vampire and the local towns folk had lit Castle Dracula ablaze. United States of America (Only in recap)įrank Drake has returned to the burnt out ruins of Castle Dracula with a valet named Gort, hoping to get revenge on his immortal ancestor, Count Dracula who had succeeded into changing Drake's lover Jeanie into a vampire.Ellie (a bar patron) (First appearance).Fritz (Carl von Harbou's patient) (First and only known appearance).Carl von Harbou (First appearance) (Dracula's former assistant) (Death).Village Girl (Unnamed) (First and only known appearance dies).Jeanie (Main story and recap) (Apparent death).but in the final analysis, the game is mine - as it always has been - will always be - mine - forever mine! - Dracula Appearing in ""The Fear Within!"" Know this, Frank Drake - you've won a battle. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It analyzes the successes and defeats of those countries, the world’s reactions to them (anti-socialism and fascism), and how all of those factors offer important lessons for the building of a 21st century socialism. Understanding Socialism explores how socialist theory was used and applied to shape the histories of countries like Russia and China principally, and many other countries in smaller but important ways. Understanding Socialism not only explains what socialism is and has meant to various proponents, it also looks at the past transition from feudalism to capitalism as a model to help us visualize the next transition out of capitalism. A blend of history, analysis and opinion, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. ![]() ![]() Understanding Socialism tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way forward: a socialism built on democracy in the workplace. First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, 2407 Dana Way, BerkeleyĪdvance tickets: $12:T: 80 or Pegasus Books (3 sites), Books Inc (Berkeley), Moes, Walden Pond Bookstore, East Bay Books, Mrs.Dalloways Books $15 door, benefits KPFA Radio 94.1FM info: /events ![]() ![]() Kovacs is now working as a mercenary and is hired by a corporate entity to retrieve an alien artefact from a planet that was destroyed in a brutal war. The second book, Broken Angels, takes place thirty years after the events of Altered Carbon. Kovacs must navigate a web of intrigue and danger to uncover the truth about Bancroft's murder and the motives behind it. Bancroft believes he was killed but cannot remember anything from the night of his death due to a backup glitch in his stack. Kovacs is brought back to life by a wealthy man named Laurens Bancroft, who wants him to investigate his own murder. In this future, human consciousness is stored on "stacks," small devices implanted in the neck that can be transferred between bodies. The first book in the series, also titled Altered Carbon, introduces readers to Takeshi Kovacs, a former soldier and criminal who is brought back to life after 250 years in a new body. With a blend of science fiction, mystery, and action, this series is sure to captivate fans of all three genres. ![]() Morgan that takes readers on an intense and thrilling journey into a future where technology has changed what it means to be human. ![]() ![]() Altered Carbon is a three-book series written by Richard K. ![]() ![]() ![]() This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period-an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. ![]() Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America. ![]() ![]() ![]() There were several things missing in the story. They go to do that and Gray almost does it but can't. They make a deal to still sleep with females on the side. So what does Lucas do? He claims him without his permission. Gray kept telling him throughout the story he wanted a female mate. I understand his reasoning but it still does not justify his actions. Lucas sets out automatically to convince Gray to do this with no thought of how Gray would feel. Mind you, Gray doesn't know who he is but Lucas knows who Gray is. They go off and talk and Gray is trying to tell him why he feels the way he does. What pissed me off about this is the first time Lucas and Gray meet. Gray didn't want to mate but did it out of family pressure from his dad. ![]() Always showing up late to piss off your father does not make a backbone. The reasoning behind what Gray's father suggested I guess I can see, but not so much. It could've been the first couple of paragraphs of the first chapter. ![]() There was a prologue that didn't have to be one. More miss than hit especially after her last shifter series. ![]() ![]() We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering - the costs they’ve all been living with ever since.Īward-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. ![]() We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. ![]() If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country. ![]() ![]() ![]() Marcos, a meat factory executive, leads us through this nauseating new world, showing us how the sausage gets made in truly disgusting detail. ![]() But instead of deciding to forgo eating meat, the government initiates the “transition,” which makes eating human meat - aka “special meat” - legal. So, the rundown: an infectious virus spreads across the world, making all animal meat poisonous to humans. ![]() (For real though - I’ve been a vegetarian ever since reading it). Tender Is the Flesh is - without a doubt - one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read, but I can also see why it’s gotten so much acclaim. ![]() ![]() ![]() Let’s start with the first trilogy- Prelude to Dune-which consists of the three books: House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and House Corrino. Fourteen, to be exact, divided into one doulogy and four trilogies. ![]() These other books can be divided into prequels and sequels-even though the former category definitely includes more titles. Anderson, continue to add to the Dune universe. What happened post-Herbert’s death?įrank Herbert passed away a year after the publication of Chapterhouse: Dune, but left behind a series of notes that helped his son, Brian, and his writing partner, Kevin J. So, the other three books in the original series, God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984), and Chapterhouse: Dune (1985), are set a thousand years into the future from the first three, and follow as Leto II Atreides tries to prevent the extinction of humanity and the death of his beloved Arrakis. Frank Herbert had no intentions of continuing the series, but did so, under the insistence of fans. This is where many readers stop because the story is somewhat complete-and it was meant to be complete. ![]() ![]() But together they forged a bond with each other and with their people that would change the world. Though first cousins, they could not have been more different: Victoria was impulsive, emotional, and capricious, Albert cautious, self-controlled, and logical. But what happened after the Queen married her handsome prince? Did they live happily ever after, or did their marriage, like so many royal marriages past and present, fizzle into a loveless round of duty? This all-new companion book by Daisy Goodwin and Sara Sheridan transports us to the private world of Victoria and Albert. ![]() More than 16 million viewers watched the first season of the Masterpiece presentation of Victoria, created and written by Daisy Goodwin-the highest-rated PBS drama in twenty years, second only to Downton Abbey. ![]() The official companion to the second season of the PBS/Masterpiece drama Victoria by award-winning creator and screenwriter Daisy Goodwin. ![]() Companion book to Masterpiece Theater series. ![]() |