Charles Dickens is the author whose works and characters still resonate with audiences across the world more than 150 years after his death.
And his surname has even entered our dictionaries and phrasebooks, while a variety of his more renowned creations – such as Mr Micawber, Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Fagin and Uriah Heep – have become every inch as famous as his myriad classic novels, ranging from Bleak House, The Pickwick Papers and A Tale of Two Cities to David Copperfield, Hard Times and A Christmas Carol.
Dickens packed a remarkable amount into his 58 years. He was a voracious publisher, enthusiastic traveller, accomplished actor and versifier, and he approached his literary duties as if he was writing for a soap opera, often ending his chapters on a cliffhanger, as Victorian readers were left anxiously waiting to see what happened next.
A new film based on Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist is just out featuring an array of British actors including Sir Michael Caine, Rita Ora and David Walliams.
The plot has Oliver reinvented as a streetwise artist who is living on the streets of modern-day London and the release of the film gives us a chance to look at the Scottish links to Dickens.
Even though none of his most acclaimed offerings were based north of the Border, he regularly journeyed to Scotland, derived inspiration everywhere from Edinburgh to Aberdeen and the Highlands, and spoke warmly about the people and places he met.
An Edinburgh gravestone gave us an immortal figure
He’s one of the most memorable characters in the whole history of literature.
And Dickens, who was always a lover of unusual and striking names, must have thought all his Yuletide carols had arrived at once when he came across a singular gravestone in Edinburgh’s Canongate Kirkyard.
There it was, the memorial to “Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie – the cousin of the economist Adam Smith, who was known as a carousing, often scandalous figure in high society.
The epitaph listed Scoggie’s profession as a “meal man”, but Dickens misread this as “mean man” and the idea for a new novel sprung into his head.
All it required was a slight alteration from “Scroggie” to “Scrooge” and the scene had been set for a man who has been portrayed by everybody from Alastair Sim and Michael Caine – with The Muppets – to Patrick Stewart and George C Scott.
The author made a lengthy visit to the north of Scotland in 1841 and was thrilled by the beauty and rugged surroundings in which he immersed himself.
Above all, he was captivated and horrified by the stillness which pervaded Glencoe, even as his guide, Arthur Fletcher, told him about the site’s notorious massacre.
On Monday July 5, Dickens wrote about his varied experiences while touring through the Trossachs and thereafter venturing further north on the group’s hectic schedule.
Reigning supreme in Scotland’s unique rain
He said: “We left Edinburgh yesterday morning at half past seven and travelled, with Fletcher for our guide, to a place called Stewart’s Hotel, nine miles further than Callander. Being very tired (for we had not had more than three hours sleep on the previous night), we lay till ten this morning and then, at half past eleven, we went through the Trossachs to Loch Katrine.
“I walked from the hotel after tea last night. It is impossible to say what a glorious scene it was. It rained as it never does rain anywhere but here, but that was of no import.
“I won’t bore you with accounts of Ben this and lochs of all sorts of names, but this is a truly wonderful region.
“The way that the mists were stalking about today, and the clouds lying down upon the hills, the deep glens, the high rocks, the rushing waterfalls and the roaring rivers down in deep gulfs below, were all stupendous.
“[However], Glencoe was perfectly terrible….it was an awful place. If you should happen to have your hat on, take it off, so that your hair may stand on end.”
A double date of drama in Aberdeen
Dickens was a little coiled spring of energy whenever he was offered the chance to perform on stage. And he delighted Aberdeen cultural aficionados on two occasions at the fabled Music Hall in 1858 and 1866.
On the first occasion, he was in the midst of a tempestuous time in his personal life. A few months earlier, his 22-year marriage had come to an acrimonious end after he fell in love with a young actress, Ellen Ternan.
The contemporary newspapers were scathing about his conduct and there were moral objections to his visit. One irate member of the public wrote to the Aberdeen Journal, deriding the author’s conduct in backing entertainment events on Sundays.
But the noted Dickens expert, Dr Paul Schlicke, who has championed the writer for many years at Aberdeen University, explained that the show was a major success.
He said: “The visit went very well and there were adulatory reviews in the Free Press and the Aberdeen Herald.
“The Aberdeen Journal’s man sniffed that a visit of less than 24 hours was ‘a short time to spend in our fair city’, but he soon changed his mind.
“He wrote: ‘We had not long listened to him when we felt that the creations of his fancy fathered tenfold vigour from his representation….and he brought many of his characters to vigorous, thrilling life in his embodiment.”
A last hurrah and a dose of Granite noir
His second appearance came when the writer was 54 and in poor health, suffering from a bad cold and pain in his eye and hand.
He travelled to Scotland by train with his manager, George Dolby, in this instance to deliver just a single reading, and seemed weary on his arrival at the railway station.
And yet, how he transformed himself during the gruelling two-hour performance, which included a dramatic rendition of the deadly storm passage from David Copperfield and a recitation of the comedic trial scene in The Pickwick Papers.
The audience were enthralled and, despite Dickens’ afflictions, he rallied himself sufficiently to regale the crowd with a stirring sailor’s hornpipe.
The Aberdeen Journal raved about what they had just witnessed.
The paper’s critic said: “The great novelist, though turning over in years, retains all the fire and energy of expression and all the juvenility and vigour of spirit which is necessary to provide a true and vivid depiction of the best creations of his genius.”
It was typical of Dickens that he rose to the occasion, regardless of any personal considerations. He eventually ceased to embark on these individual shows, recognising that he was no longer fit enough to put his body through the wringer.
He died in June 1870, but left behind a treasure trove of literary marvels.


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In this project, you will search for information that will enable you to identify three top trends in your profession or field. Over the course of the project, you will exercise information literacy skills as you locate and evaluate information, and develop well-reasoned conclusions. Reviewing the many sources available to you, you will choose those that are relevant, timely, and helpful to your quest to understand the issues of your industry. Once you have identified the top trends, you will choose one that is particularly interesting to you or one that you think is the most problematic, and research more deeply to produce an analytical research paper for your team. Your project is intended to prepare the search committee on the issue so that it is well-prepared to interview candidates. This project will prepare you for more complex research projects, as you will refine and hone your ability to create a statement of the problem and find the information you need to produce a well-reasoned, well-supported analysis. here are four steps that will lead you through this project.
Begin by watching the video above, which introduces the project as it might occur in the workplace, and then continue with Step 1: Search Techniques.
Your work will be evaluated using the competencies listed below.
1.1: Organize document or presentation clearly in a manner that promotes understanding and meets the requirements of the assignment.
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A beautiful debut graphic novel--that looks like an art book--from a young female artist in mainland China. With minimal text and grand illustrations, often full-page, this work may well remind you of Manu Arenas' Yaxin.
From the publisher:
This is the first European publication of this young and very talented Chinese graphic artist who has been able to combine the Chinese pictorial tradition with the modernity of the comic strip.
The wind blowing in the pines. A Chinese initiation tale.
The young Yaya leaves his village to brave storms and fight wild beasts serving a terrible demon: Rakshasa, the cannibal woman. Helped by the fairy of the Juiling mountains, he learns about the mysteries of nature and learns how to read the wind, a very useful thing to fight the demons and ghosts at Rakshasa's service.
Born in the 1990s in Guangdong, in the south of China, Zao Dao is one of the youngest artists of the Chinese avant-garde. A virtuoso artist and illustrator, her talent as a watercolor artist is already unanimously recognized in China. She began publishing her drawings on the Internet in 2011. She has a very original style mixing the traditional elements of Chinese painting with a great modern graphic, with textural effects in the choice of her papers. Under her brush, the characters she creates sometimes give the impression that she is a rebellious and marginal teenager, but her quest for freedom remains her first pledge of creativity.


The air war that was fought over Kuwait and Iraq represent the first air war of the microchip age. For the first time in military history, stealth, networked air control and precision guided munitions would interact on the battlefield altering the arena of air control in an unprecedented way. With veteran interviews, dramatic combat footage and commentary from former Air Force Chief of Staff Tony McPeak.
Jets Over the Gulf and Afghanistan
- Year Released 2011
- Running Time 60:00
- Language(s) English
- Format SD


Director: Dave Devine
Director: Suez Jacobson
Country of Origin: United States
Flickering points of light spilling out of the sky’s black bowl. The barely audible skitter of insects in the shadows of towering sandstone cliffs. The wonder of a delicate spider web. Wild Hope tells the story of our deep spiritual connection to the natural world, a connection that has the power to rewire our brains, take us back to our deepest roots, and change how we think and act in a world that needs our care.
This short documentary film combines personal story, research, science, and passion in a unique mix to inspire viewers to protect wild ecosystems against an unrelenting materialistic culture that’s producing social malaise and an uninhabitable planet.Suez Jacobson Dave Devine Producer: Suez Jacobson
Writer: Suez Jacobson
Key Cast: Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Rose Macario, Jamie Williams, Kathleen Dean Moore, Tim Kasser, Shelley Silbert, Lisi Krall, Rose Chilcoat, George Monbiot, Lexi Ruskin, and Jennifer Stellar.


International directory of non-official statistical sources
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Title: Student's Reference Work, a Cyclopaedia for Teachers, Students, and Families
Binding: Quarter Leather
Book Condition: Good+
Publisher: Philadelphia Howard-Severance 1902
Seller ID: 002585
Complete in 2 volumes with index. 1680 pages, marbled endpapers, leather extremities are scuffed, marbling on edges has faded. Small sticker with previous owner's name inside front cover, interior pages clean and bright, front cover of volume 1 is detached, text block is tight with back cover and spine firm. Volume 2 firmly bound. Illustrated in b&w with fold-out charts in color.


Published: March 1994
Imprint: Academic Press
"The focus of this book is on the air motions associated with clouds. The complex interaction between the microphysical processes in the clouds and the dynamics is a theme throughout the text. It provides a comprehensive summary of the current understanding of this highly complex field....This book gives a comprehensive summary of the dynamics associated with clouds in the atmosphere....The book reads easily and is well structured. As such, I believe it will be an excellent text for a graduate course on the subject."
--AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY


Date of Degree
Robert A. Day
The Odyssey, Aithiopika, and Quixote have a surprising set of narrative structures in common: each work falls into two distinct "halves," and each includes a large number of interpolated narratives which appear largely, though not exclusively, in the first half of the text. Both of these features–the bi-partite frames and the large number of interpolated tales–have important implications, both for the narratives as a whole, and for their relationship to the literary mode of romance. This structure imbues each text with a quality of extreme narrative self-consciousness in which part of the subject of the work becomes the nature of narrative itself. It also highlights powerful aspects of a romantic "literary nostalgia" which expresses itself as a fascination with the telling and re-telling of tales, and with the delicate and problematic relationship between narrative versions of events and the events themselves.
This study first examines closely the workings of the bi-partite frame narratives, especially the ways in which the second half of each text reflects back on its own first half. It then explores several sets of interpolated narratives, examples of which can be located in each text. These narratives–lying tales, dreams, and romantic autobiographies–express various aspects of the romance mode, particularly as defined by N. Frye, including powerful elements of both wish-fulfillment (an idealized future) and nostalgia (an idealized past).
The study concludes with an examination of problems of closure in romance narrative, well exhibited in the varied end(s) of the Odyssey, the Aithiopika, and the Quixote; these problems are caused in part by competing narrative drives within the romance mode which pull the narrative toward final closure and, at the same time, toward endless openness.
Brockman, Susan, "The Romance of Narrative: Design and Desire in the Odyssey, the Aithiopika, and Don Quixote" (1993). CUNY Academic Works.


Fun and engaging vocabulary activities for each of the 13 chapters of Coraline by Neil Gaiman.
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Snowy owls silently fly over their Arctic homes. But those homes face many threats that put the owls at risk. In this title, leveled text helps readers learn about the impact that human activity has on snowy owls. Special features highlight the owlsÎ range and life span, show their importance to their ecosystem, and note the threats that snowy owls face. Vibrant photos bring the owls to life on the page!


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In the Urban Coalition's weekly report, the National Coordinator notifies members of the events that had occurred within the past week. The report covers local coalitions, legislation, private employment, and the steering committee.
The author writes a letter that advocates for Dr. King to win an award of merit. In the letter, he discusses some major events that occurred throughout the Reverend's life. Some of these events include: leading the Civil Rights Movement, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, and becoming a strong political figure.
Negotiation Now is a national citizens' campaign that supports new initiatives to end the Vietnam War. The campaign aligns with the Secretary General of the United Nations, U Thant, who discusses the necessary "cessation" of bombing in North Vietnam to bring about a peaceful political compromise. This flier shares the campaign's views and offers a section for donation information.
This New York Times article advocates the mandatory retirement of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover upon his 70th birthday. The article specifically references Director Hoover's description of Dr. King as "the most notorious liar in the country."
This letter addressed to Dr. King criticizes his beliefs in equality and justice. The anonymous author states that "we are living under devil law" and "justice belongs only to the devil." He or she continues, arguing that schools corrupt children, filling their brains with "devil wisdom and devil justice and devil love."
This February 1967 issue of the "Mobilizer: To End Mass Murder in Vietnam" focuses on James Bevel's direct action anti-war demonstrations. As National Director of the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Bevel outlines his strategy to launch a national movement involving community churches, students, labor groups, and others. The initiative is designed around a march to be held on April 15, 1967 in San Francisco and New York.
The Congress of Racial Equality recommends a program to end school segregation that includes forming race-neutral curricula and allowing open enrollment in schools.
After being insulted by a solicitation from the SCLC, William Grant lectures Dr. King on the morality of his methods and strongly disfavors the work of several civil rights groups and the civil rights struggle as a whole.
Reverend Hedley W. Plunkett of Belfast, Northern Ireland, invites Dr. King to include the city on his schedule the next time he comes to Europe. Plunkett describes his interest in King's work and Ireland's own "Color Bar."
Rev. C. J. Bell, the Editor in Chief of the Alexandria News Leader and pastor of the Progressive Baptist Church, wrote this letter to Dr. Ralph David Abernathy expressing his support following Dr. King's assassination. Abernathy was named Dr. King's successor as president of the SCLC and Bell wishes to offer his help if he can be of service.
John Fischer of Harpers Magazine informs Dr. King that the Albany Georgia article will not be published in the upcoming edition.
In this letter Daves informs Dr. King of what Mr. Von Wehrenalp, Dr. King's German publisher, might have had in mind for Dr. King's special introduction for the German edition. Ms. Daves further discusses other possible uses for such a piece.
In this document the writer thanks Dr. King for meeting with him concerning the proposed "Martin King album" and television series. The writer encloses a memorandum on consumer information and requests King's travel schedule.
This program for the Tenth Annual Institute of the Montgomery Improvement Association gives a detailed history of the organization's events from 1955 to 1965. "Highlights At A Glance" include: accounts of violence and community bombings, school integration, freedom rides, The Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the establishment of the SCLC. Photographs of leadership, churches, voter registration, and marches appear throughout. This document also shows Dr. King's handwritten notes, copies of related news articles, and the individual programs for each day of the Institute.


Part of Mischief Makers, Summer Reading Challenge 2018, On the Way Home by Jill Murphy is a story about Claire, a girl who meets plenty of ‘mischief makers’! But how did she really graze her knee…?
Beckton Globe – Monday 20 August at 11am
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Canning Town – Tuesday 21 August at 11am
Custom House – Tuesday 21 August at 2pm
East Ham – Wednesday 22 August at 11am
Manor Park – Wednesday 22 August at 2pm
Green Street – Thursday 23 August at 11am
Plaistow – Thursday 23 August at 2pm
Stratford – Friday 24 August at 11am
Forest Gate – Friday 24 August at 2pm
For more information on Summer Reading Challenge Library Activities, visit the Newham Libraries webpage.
ON THE WAY HOME Copyright © 1982 and 2007 by Jill Murphy, published by Macmillan


Fealty, prequel short novel
When a murderous prince invites Abend to a masquerade to court her favor, Abend knows exactly what to say: No. The problem is, murderous princes tend not to take “no” for an answer….
Fealty takes place after the prologue in One True Lie, the first book in The Crown of Seasons series.
To enjoy this novel, it is recommended that you read the short story “Coming Home” first.


Review for Sadistic by Patrick Reuman
Note: This is *not* a romance, it's a serial killer novel.
When an accidental killing leaves Cyrus with blood on his hands, the last thing he expected was to want to do it again. But, that's exactly where he finds himself, once again, at the edge of a blade ready to take a life. A darkness has begun to grow inside, consuming him and making him hunger for more. The town had become his, until Detective Walter Hughes caught onto his trail. Now, he must escape the relentless pursuit of a detective hell-bent on catching him, while balancing his family life and his new sadistic addiction.
Patrick Reuman's "Sadistic" is a serial killer novel. I don't usually read horror, so I don't have much to compare this to. The writing really flows and it draws you in. You feel like you're right there with Cyrus. Good descriptions, you could feel the emotions (and lack thereof) during the whole tale. The urge to kill was palpable. I can't wait to check out "Edge of Madness" also from Reuman. A great first book from a new author.
4 out of 5 stars
Patrick Reuman is a writer and currently in college to study biotechnology. He has been writing ever since he was 16 when a school assignment pushed his imagination toward creating his own stories. He has one child, a son, named Aidan. He hopes to continue chasing his dreams of writing while pursuing a future in science.


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Read Far As Human Eye Could See by Isaac Asimov Free Online
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الفصل الأول هو المفضل لدي : الكيمياء الطبيعية لطالما كنت مولعة بالكيمياء العامة ، وقد كانَ فصل الكيمياء الحيوية جيداً هو الآخر .
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Read information about the authorIsaac Asimov was a Russian-born, American author, a professor of biochemistry, and a highly successful writer, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
Professor Asimov is generally considered one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. He has works published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (lacking only an entry in the 100s category of Philosophy).
Asimov is widely considered a master of the science-fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, was considered one of the "Big Three" science-fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He penned numerous short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time, a title many still honor. He also wrote mysteries and fantasy, as well as a great amount of nonfiction. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
Most of Asimov's popularized science books explain scientific concepts in a historical way, going as far back as possible to a time when the science in question was at its simplest stage. He often provides nationalities, birth dates, and death dates for the scientists he mentions, as well as etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Examples include his Guide to Science, the three volume set Understanding Physics, and Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery.
Asimov was a long-time member and Vice President of Mensa International, albeit reluctantly; he described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs" He took more joy in being president of the American Humanist Association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, a Brooklyn, NY elementary school, and two different Isaac Asimov Awards are named in his honor.
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The other life
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In Ellen Meister's love letter to family, a woman has to make a heartbreaking decision between the life she's living and an easier alternate reality.
If you could return to the road not taken, would you?
Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret. Every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice—not only that, she knows how to cross over. But even in her darkest moments—like her mother's suicide—Quinn hasn't been tempted to slip through...until she receives devastating news about the baby she's carrying.
The grief lures her to peek across the portal, and before she knows it she's in the midst of the other life: the life in which she married another man and is childless. The life in which her mother is still very much alive.
Quinn is forced to make a heartbreaking choice. Will she stay with the family she loves and her severely disabled child? Or will an easier life—and the primal need to be with her mother—win out?
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Herodotuss Retirement at Thuriuin His Meditations upon. Talboys Wheeler Full view - Popular passages Page - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia. Page - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!
How is she become as a widow! Page - Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. Page - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page - O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed: there is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of thy father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him Page - Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen ; and polluted the house of the Lord which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
Page - And the people bowed the head and worshipped. And they went, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
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And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt. From the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon. And all the first-born of cattle.
Page - Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? Then I was very sore afraid, and said unto the king, Let the king live for ever : why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers Page - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar.
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Collected here are the stories of the most successful commanders of all time, among them Hannibal, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Stonewall Jackson, Sherman, Rommel, Mao Zedong, who have demonstrated, at their own points in history, the strategic and tactical genius essential for victory. Ironically this virtue does not come naturally to military organizations, since more often than not the straight-ahead, narrow-thinking soldier will be promoted over his more lateral-minded, devious counterpart. Yet when the latter gets control, the results may be spectacular.
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"This study is essential reading for students of military strategy and tactics." (Publishers Weekly)
Alexander draws on several examples through history to illustrate many of the traits common to successful military leaders.
I found the historical overviews excellent. At times the material is a little thick as the sheer volume of facts can get overwhelming. Listening to an audiobook, I find it difficult to keep track of the number of mm of armour a specific generation of German tank has in WWII. Also, I think it would have been nice to have an atlas at hand, as I found it difficult to keep track of locations.
This book will be of interest to: armchair historians, soldiers (past or present or considering a military career), writers, or anyone who wants to undertand a little more about how battles work, and some of the catastophes that we (people in general) have either avoided, or brought on ourselves.
Overall, it's worth slogging through in my opinion.
This is an excellent book, but it is a challenging one to listen to as an audiobook. There is a lot technical in here and some of it is a little hard to follow as an audiobook. Still, the historical content is excellent and there is a great deal to learn from this reading. I feel like I have a much different perspecitve on key historical military figures and the state of warfare in their times.
I'm a military history fan and always have been. However, like most fans of military history I read about the eras that I'm most passionate about.
The author does a good job of retaining credibility and covering those portions that I'm most familiar with well while also increasing my interest in other eras.
He also does a good job of demonstrating that the military maxims he advises are ageless. In fact, some of them are essential points that I would classify as "common sense that is uncommon"; the type of points that seem obvious, but that somehow escape so many military leaders over and over.
Great listen overall, good delivery, and it's just the right length.
So far I've really liked the book, except for one thing none of the other reviews mention. The narrator often pauses, and whatever he is doing (swallowing, licking his lips, whatever he does to prep for the next part...) is very audible and detracts from the Audiobook a lot, for me at least. That is the *only* reason I did not rate this as a 5.
I don't know if I agree with all of the Great General selections but this book delivered. I have a great newfound appreciation for Skipio Africanis, Stonewall Jackson, Lawrence of Arabai and Chairman Mao. The narration was good, not great, as you could hear him swallowing, etc. However, it did not take away from the story. If you like military history this is a MUST read.
This book changed the way I view military strategy and history, and gave me a whole new perspective on Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Napoleon, Ghengis Khan, and others. The author takes a look at both sides - what the great Generals did right and what others did that cost them battles, and the basic principals are deceptively simple: Never hit the enemy head on and avoid the fight until the odds are in your favor.
This may seem basic, but when the U.S. military command in Vietnam had a "football field" mentality about the campaign (and even named battles after football plays), you get a sense of why we lost. Great Generals force the enemy into disadvantages positions and hit the weak areas to force the enemy to abandon their positions and react to them. They flee when they need to, and attach from the corners when it is in their best interest.
The author provides plenty of fascinating examples and narratives throughout history, and the book is well paced and easy to listen to. One of my favorites!
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend. However, at times it was difficult to keep up with the narration as the level of detail was such that it was a challenge to grasp it all. I will listen to it again but I will make sure to have maps in front of me to understand the tactics employed by these Captains and Generals. I also found myself googling all sorts of military equipment and Generals to complement the mental image provided by the book.
The last chapter on McArthur and Korea was my favorite.
No, it took a few sessions to get through it. This book is almost a text book in the sense that it provides very detail information about different battles and military campaigns. I like to let the information settle in before moving forward on to the next chapter.
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Get the This Alien Earth Box Set, featuring all three books in the bestselling series by Paul Antony Jones. 1000+ pages in a futuristic adventure featuring a strong female lead, perfect for fans of Jeremy Robinson, Stephen King, and Lost.
“A stunning sci-fi gem.”–Steven Konkoly, USA Today best-selling author of the Ryan Decker series
After a devastating car crash leaves her addicted to pills and her best friend dead, Meredith Gale has finally been pushed to her breaking point. Ending her life seems like the only way out, and that choice has left her dangling by her fingertips from a bridge above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay.
But someone, or some thing, has other plans for Meredith. As her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice ask her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?”
Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her, each pulled from human history with seemingly little in common. But when Meredith stumbles across a cryptic message meant only for her, she uncovers an even bigger mystery — a mystery that places the fate of humanity’s future firmly in her hands.
With the help of her new companions, Meredith sets out on an impossible journey to find the one person who can solve the riddle of why they were brought to this strange, alien Earth… assuming they can survive the dangers that lurk within this new world and the dark forces massing against them.
Time travel, androids, suspense–this series by the late Paul Antony Jones has a bit of everything. Now is the chance to read it all in this special edition Omnibus.
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Several of the winning projects at the 2017 Victorian Architecture Awards featured acoustic and decorative panels from Atkar in their designs.
The top prize, the Victorian Architecture Medal was won by the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre (VCCC) designed by an architectural team of Silver Thomas Hanley, DesignInc and McBride Charles Ryan (STHDI+MCR). VCCC competed against more than 200 entrants for the medal, and also won the William Wardell Award for Public Architecture.
Atkar’s acoustic and decorative panels were showcased throughout the Welcome Hall of the VCCC.
Frank Bartlett Library and Moe Service Centre, which won the Joseph Reed Award for Urban Design, also featured Atkar panels. The award-winning project was designed by Architects fjmt. Atkar panels were also used in the Bunurong Memorial Park project, designed by BVN, and the Brimbank Community and Civic Centre, designed by Lyons Architects, both of which won the Architecture Awards for Public Architecture.
Run by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA), the annual Victorian Architecture Awards recognise the best of Victorian architecture. The Named Award and Architecture Award winners will go on to compete in the National Architecture Awards, to be announced in November.


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Marion Aptroot (ed.), Yiddish after 1945; Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 11 (ISBN 978-90-822655-8-3, 66 pp., Amsterdam 2018)
After the Second World War, Yiddish culture appeared to be all but annihilated. The murder of large numbers of Yiddish speakers during the Shoah, which came after almost a century of linguistic assimilation among of Ashkenazic Jews, seemed to mark the end of Yiddish as a living language. This caused serious concern among remaining Yiddish intellectuals such as authors, journalists, theatre and film makers and educators, who began to question how and if the use of the Yiddish language was to be continued.
During the eleventh edition of the Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium, held in January 2017, three scholars of Yiddish literature and culture presented important observations and considerations regarding the state and future of Yiddish after the end of the Second World War. Gali Drucker Bar-Am mapped out major Yiddish cultural enterprises that took place around the world in the immediate post-war years. Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov discussed and analyzed Yiddish activities in Poland, a country with state-sponsored Jewish institutions, in the two decades following the Second World War. Anita Norich talked about the role of translation: translation as the herald of the end of a living Yiddish culture or as a means of preservation of this culture that enables it to continue to flourish. The current publication, edited by prof. Marion Aptroot, contains the proceedings of this symposium.
Gali Drucker Bar-Am: The Anthological Affect. Memory and Place in Early Post-World War II Yiddish Culture;
Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov: Yiddish Form, Socialist Content: Yiddish in Postwar Poland, 1945-1968;
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Dormann Library to host Boy Scout program
The Dormann Library, 101 W. Morris St., Bath, will host a program with Boy Scout Griffin Bates at 6 p.m. July 19.
Bates will share his historical research project used to earn his Eagle Scout Award. Bates’ project is on a series of family documents/letters from Col. Charles Williamson that dealt with the settlement of the Genesee region.
Bates worked with Kirk House, of the Steuben County Historical Society, to prepare his display.
Bates is a Haverling High School recent graduate, where he was a member of the newly formed history club. He will attend Corning Community College in the fall. Bates also works at the Corning Museum of Glass in the Explainer program.


Several chapters in FEMINISM FROM A to Z focus on girls and women who are interested in STEM (check out “B is for BRAIN” and “G is for GEEK” in particular). So who better to discuss feminism with than Stacia Deutsch? Stacia is the author of The Friendship Code, the first in the Girls Who Code series (and yes, they’re based on the wildly popular Girls Who Code afterschool clubs).
Here’s how Stacia answered the question, “What does feminism mean to you?”
When I was in college, I was frustrated. I was at a women’s college which had instilled in me the best education, and I was heading into a career that men had dominated for centuries. I wasn’t always a writer. I went to graduate school to be a rabbi. I felt like I needed advice on how to balance a demanding career and what I saw as a family life that could easily get shoved to the side.
My dad suggested I read Betty Friedan’s article in a book called The Second Wave. I not only read it, I called her. Shockingly, she answered the phone and agreed to come speak on campus. Bringing a feminist icon to school was an amazing experience (she was a tough nut!). On that day, she gave one clear message that will always stick with me: It’s not one or the other – it’s “both/and.”
I heard Betty Friedan loud and clear. I didn’t have to choose if I was going to have a family or a career. I had choices. Infinite choices. Some women would choose career, some family, some a path not charted. For me, I could have career and family. I deserved both. It was both/and.
Everyone has their own understanding of Feminism. My definition is modeled in Betty Friedan’s words. A woman should be able to live her life the way she wants, without judgement. And more, without feeling that she compromised anything. I’ve had a tremendous life of “both and.” I raised my three kids, was a rabbi for a while, then found a new path and a fulfilling career as a writer.
There’s no one Feminist journey. It’s not one thing or the other – it’s both and more.
Wow, Betty Friedan! What a great story. Thank you, Stacia!
Stacia Deutsch has written more than two hundred children’s books. She started her career with the award winning chapter book series, Blast to the Past. Now, her resume includes Nancy Drew and Boxcar Children mysteries in addition to junior movie tie in novels for summer blockbuster films, like Ghostbusters and The Smurfs. New books include The Mysterious Makers of Shaker Street and the NYT Bestseller, The Friendship Code. Find her at www.staciadeutsch.com, @staciadeutsch and http://www.facebook/staciadeutsch.
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When I first started researching for my Marguerite Henry biography, I had a hunch she would be a decent human. Her horse books like Misty of Chincoteague and Justin Morgan, Brighty and King of the Wind delighted me so much during my childhood, I knew she was a kindred, horse-loving spirit. What I didn't know was just how generous, humble, fun and amazing of a person she was.
Marguerite Henry always tried to view the world through the eyes of a child. She identified with her young readers. As evidenced by this exchange, which is an excerpt from my equestrian memoir/Marguerite Henry biography, Marguerite, Misty and Me:
“Please pretend that I’m about eight years old and tell me what happens when a stallion is about to be shown at the stockyards, just how they line up and who’s in it. Would you tell me a little bit?”
This was one of many questions Marguerite asked during a 1951 phone interview with Andy Haxton, the manager and driver of the famous Budweiser Clydesdale hitch. Marguerite had typed a transcript of her interview during her research on Clydesdales for Album of Horses.
Mr. Haxton responded in short, to-the-point answers devoid of details. Marguerite peppered him with more questions, perhaps hoping to tease out the lively details she was known for. By the end of the interview, thanks to Marguerite’s determined curiosity, Haxton opened up, describing the art of showing Clydesdale stallions in hand, explaining every aspect from the initial line-up to trotting, and concluding
with the judge’s soundness exams.
As I read the complete transcript, I realized the exchange between interviewer and interviewee highlights one of Marguerite’s special attributes: no matter her age—she was 49 at the time—she viewed the world through the eyes of a child. Her audience was rooted in the forefront of her mind as she researched, which inspired her to collect details that would capture their interest.
In 1960, Marguerite wrote a letter to Roland Lindemann, owner of the Catskill Game Farm, in her attempt to find the locations of all the Przewalski’s horses in the U.S. for her 1962 release, All About Horses. Marguerite wrote, “I am including a chapter on the one and only true wild horse. It seems to me that many of the boys and girls who read the book might want to know where they could actually see a wild horse, and I am planning to mention the places.”
She stated she knew of the two Przewalski’s at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago and one at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. She was curious if he had any in New York.
In All About Horses, one paragraph tucked into the 124-page treasury of horse history from Eohippus to warmbloods tells readers where to find the “dull, dark yellow, lighter on the sides than on the back, and almost cream colored on the belly” Przewalski’s horses. Besides Lindemann’s farm, the Brookfield Zoo, and the National Zoo, the wild and wooly horses could be found in Central Park: at
the New York Zoological Gardens. I wonder how many young horse lovers close to New York and Chicago begged their parents to take them to see the wild Przewalski’s thanks to Marguerite’s recommendation.


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The officers’ library on Discovery was stuffed with fiction, biography and poetry, as well as practical scientific books. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was popular, there were novels by the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and the works of George Meredith. Below deck, the ordinary sailors could read Sheor King Solomon’s Minesby H. Rider Haggard or flick through bound editions of the magazine Punch. (Mike Wade)It's a funny find since the young Brontës - particularly Emily and Anne - incorporated Captains John Ross and William Edward Parry (Artic explorers) into their juvenilia plays.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
South Florida author, business person, and lecturer, Tamara B. Rodriguez was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014. As a young mother, she was faced with talking about the disease with her two young daughters but struggled to find the right words. Tamara has written two children’s books, Hair to the Queen! and Teo the Great: A Child’s Approach to Cancer to help families start the conversation.
Tamara’s presentation will cover the benefits of speaking to children about a parent’s cancer diagnosis and when is the best time to do it.
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Time: Noon– 1:00 p.m.
RSVP at www.lib.nova.edu/BC
Registrants will be sent a Zoom registration link before the program.


Hugh, St. (1135-1200), Bishop of Lincoln, was born at Avalon in Burgundy. His father, who was Lord of Avelon, became a monk, and the boy was educated in the monastery. He became deacon at the age of nineteen, and in 1160 he joined the Carthusian order. In 1175 Henry II. brought him to the Carthusian convent at Witham, and in 1186 made him bishop. St. Hugh often offended Henry by his sturdy opposition, but regained his favour by his bonhomie and tact. He was loyal to Richard, but made an important point in constitutional history by opposing the granting of a subsidy to the king. The bishop was present at the coronation of King John. He almost rebuilt Lincoln cathedral, and when, after his death, miracles were reported to be worked at his tomb, he became the St. Thomas of the north.


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On August 11, 2005, Google announced that it would not scan copyrighted books under its Print Library Project until November, so that publishers could decide whether they want to opt their in-copyright books out of the project. Given the confusion in press reports describing the project, publishers should carefully study exactly what Google intends to do and understand the relevant copyright issues. This understanding should significantly diminish any anxiety publishers possess about the project.
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The American Library Association and the Association of Research Libraries convened a workshop to consider and receive additional input from members of the library and archival communities regarding the deliberations of the Section 108 Study Group. The Section 108 Study Group is examining the exceptions and limitations available to libraries and archives under Section 108 of the Copyright Act and considering changes to better meet the needs of libraries and archives in the digital environment.
In response to issues raised by initiatives such as the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), in spring 2005 the U.S. Copyright Office and the Library of Congress convened the Section 108 Study Group. The Study Group is charged to investigate whether Section 108 of the Copyright Act, which grants exceptions to libraries and archives, should be updated to better address the use of digital technologies and networked-based resources.
Based on discussions during the Los Angeles, CA and Washington, D.C. roundtables, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and the American Library Association (ALA) submit the following additional comments on the Section 108 Study Group efforts.
The Association of Research Libraries and the American Library Association request that Sherrie Schmidt, Arizona State University, and Ken Frazier, Director, University of Wisconsin, Madison, participate in the Section 108 Study Group Roundtable Discussions in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
Comments submitted in response to the US Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry (NOI) dated October 15, 2002, on whether noninfringing uses of certain classes of works are likely to be adversely affected by section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which prohibits the circumvention of measures that effectively control access to copyrighted works. These comments were submitted on behalf of five major library associations--American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), American Library Association (ALA), Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Medical Library Association (MLA), and Special Libraries Association (SLA).
Testimony of Prudence Adler on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA).
To amend title 17, United States Code, to allow abandoned copyrighted works to enter the public domain after 50 years.View document(s) here »
Letter from library associations addressing consensus proposal on orphan works.
College Art Association response to the Copyright Office's notice of inquiry concerning orphan works.
Library Copyright Alliance response to the Copyright Office's Notice of Inquiry concerning orphan works.
Letter from library associations supporting the Family and Entertainment Copyright Act of 2005, S. 167.
Recent circuit-level decisions in Chamberlain v. Skylink and Lexmark v. Static Control Components interpreted the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in a manner that will prevent its use to restrict legitimate competition in after-market components. By placing on plaintiffs the burden of proving intent to infringe copyright, judges on both panels not only dictate the correct outcome in these cases, but also provided defendants in other cases a way to short-circuit litigation when infringement is nowhere to be seen. Published in Electronic & Commerce Law Vol. 9 No. 45 (November 2004).


NHS Education for Scotland (NES) are developing a range of educational and induction resources, which are hosted on Turas. This is available for all health and social care staff and volunteers deployed to support clinical services, but will be particularly useful in the event of people needing redeployed to other areas. Included is input from Medicine, NMAHP, Psychology, Pharmacy and the Clinical Skills Managed Education Network.
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The 2007 Eurasia Region Leadership Conference presentation, “An Attitude of Acceptance” was Session 1 of a 2-part Leadership Tract on the theme of “Leadership Character.”
The key verse underpinning this presentation is Romans 15:7, “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”
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|Black Hearts in Battersea (1964) [Novel]|
by Joan Aiken
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Series: Wolves Chronicles
Simon, the foundling from The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, arrives in London to meet an old friend and pursue the study of painting. Instead he finds himself unwittingly in the middle of a wicked crew's fiendish caper to overthrow the good King James and the Duke and Duchess of Battersea. With the help of his friend Sophie and the resourceful waif Dido, Simon narrowly escapes a series of madcap close calls and dangerous run-ins. In a time and place where villains do nothing halfway, Simon is faced with wild wolves, poisoned pies, kidnapping, and a wrecked ship.
Original title: Black Hearts in Battersea
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|Genres:||Documentaries Jazz Pop / Rock Pop / Rock World Music|
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Hugh Rampolo Masekela, 4 April 1939, Witbank, Johannesburg, South Africa. South Africas leading émigré trumpeter and band leader was born into a musical family, which boasted one of the largest jazz record collections in the city. One of Masekelas earliest memories is of winding up the household gramophone for his parents; by the age of 10, he was familiar with most of the 78s issued by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Glenn Miller. Other early influences were the traditional musics of the Swazis, Zulus, Sutus and Shangaan, all of which he heard at weekend musical gatherings in the township and neighbouring countryside. A difficult and rebellious schoolboy, Masekela was frequently given to playing truant. On one such occasion, he saw Kirk Douglas in the Bix Beiderbecke biopic Young Man With A Horn - and decided there and then that he wanted to become a trumpeter and band leader when he grew up. His teacher, the...


Contemporary Criminal Law - Concepts, Cases, and Controversies (5th Edition)
Format: PDF eTextbooks
Delivery: Instant Download
Authors: Matthew Lippman
"I highly recommend this textbook to any instructor of an introductory criminal law course. It provides a concise overview of the law and introduces students to the complexities of the law in practice by providing case scenarios. This is an excellent textbook with beneficial supplementary online resources."
—Erin C. Heil, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
A book that students find interesting and instructors consider educationally valuable, the Fifth Edition of Contemporary Criminal Law combines traditional concepts with thought-provoking cases and engaging learning tools. The text covers both foundational and emerging legal topics such as terrorism, gangs, cybercrime, and hate crimes, illustrated by real-life examples that students connect with. Clear explanations of criminal law and defenses are complemented by provocative, well-edited cases followed by discussion questions to stimulate critical thinking and in-class discussion. The book provides a contemporary perspective on criminal law that encourages students to actively read and analyze the text. The Fifth Edition is enhanced throughout by new cases that offer the most up-to-date coverage of evolving legal opinions and developments in criminal law.


Mary Louise Lee performs at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library as part of the Harmony Street concert series.Brandon Marshall
Once dubbed the "Harlem of the West," the Five Points neighborhood has a rich music history and was once home to clubs that brought in many a legend, from Duke Ellington and Nat King Cole to Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. While the Five Points Jazz Festival helps celebrate that tradition every year, starting in February, the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library launches its Harmony Street free concert series to also honor the neighborhood's legacy while fostering community through music with jazz, gospel and world artists.
Famed local jazz pianist Purnell Steen performs with his trio and singer Myra Warren at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, February 11.
Bluez House, a high-energy band fronted by gospel singers, performs at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 11.
Mary Louise Lee, wife of Mayor Michael Hancock and an accomplished R&B, soul and contemporary jazz singer, performs at 3:30 p.m. on April 8.
University of Colorado faculty members Tom Riis and Austin Okigbo host a sing-along featuring African and American favorites at 3:30 p.m. on May 13.
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SLNSW-Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, &c.-nQR2AbQ1
Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, &c.
Full title: Photographs of Public and Other Buildings, &c.
Author/creator: New South Wales. Government Printing Office.
Date: 1872 (dated from newscutting in front of album).
Call Numbers: DL PXX 81
Record Identifier: nQR2AbQ1
Formats: Pictures, Photographs
Contents: 1 album (166 photoprints) - 47 x 62 cm. - albumen
Images are identified, in ink, below image
"Photographed by Charles Pickering under the direction of James Barnett, Colonial Architect; album prepared by the Government Printer, Thomas Richards; copy forwarded to the Exhibition in London" -- extracts from the "Daily Mail, 27 Apr 1872" newscutting, pasted in front of album
Prefaced by a two page description of "The Port and City of Sydney"


A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888
By Ernest L. Thayer, Illustrated by Christopher Bing
Dimensions: 9 x 12 in. 32 pages. Guided Reading Level: X. Hardcover.
"And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has struck out." Those lines have echoed through the decades, the final stanza of a poem published pseudonymously in the June 3, 1888, issue of the San Francisco Examiner. Its author would rather have seen it forgotten. Instead, Ernest Thayer's poem has taken a well-deserved place as an enduring icon of Americana. Christopher Bing's magnificent version of this immortal ballad of the flailing 19th-century baseball star is rendered as though it had been newly discovered in a hundred-year-old scrapbook. Bing seamlessly weaves real and trompe l'oeil reproductions of artifacts-period baseball cards, tickets, advertisements, and a host of other memorabilia into the narrative to present a rich and multifaceted panorama of a bygone era. A book to be pored over by children, treasured by aficionados of the sport-and given as a gift to all ages: a tragi-comic celebration of heroism and of a golden era of sport.


Everything you need to know about the menopause (but were too afraid to ask)
Publication year: 2021
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Gallery UK
Resource type: Physical
Notes: As the awareness of gender inequality in health becomes more apparent, it is important that we improve our understanding of the effect that menopause has on our bodies and stop reducing an important stage in a woman's life to a series of hot flushes and 'mood swings'.


In the age of global warming and the sixth mass extinction event, the notion of the Anthropocene carries a peculiar hope: perhaps someday, after the end of humankind, someone will still be around to read the remains of human civilization in a meaningful way. Considered in this light, the seemingly pessimistic concept, which even has been condemned for its supposed anthropocentrism, becomes a remedy for the prevalent but mistaken idea that the end of humanity necessarily coincides with the end of the world. How powerful this myth is becomes apparent by the fact that it even prevails in what, with reference to Freud, could very well be called a severe philosophical blow on “the universal narcissism of men”.[i] In the brief opening fable of “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” (1873), Nietzsche sets out to dismantle the universal aspirations of human knowledge by clearly locating the human species in geological deep time. Human intellect has no special place in the grand scheme of things, but is a brief disturbance of nature and a short, flickering moment in the history of the cosmos:
In some remote corner of the universe poured out into countless flickering solar systems there was once a star on which some clever animals invented knowledge. It was the most arrogant and most untruthful minute of ‘world history’; but still only a minute. When nature had drawn a few breaths the star solidified and the clever animals died.[ii]
As Nietzsche points out, human cognition does not transcend the material existence of the human species, and just as nature, or the universe, existed prior to its emergence, it will do just fine after its inevitable demise. What a devastating critique of human exceptionalism! Yet, as I mentioned, there prevails, at the heart of the criticism, a trace of this very exceptionalism, for, while Nietzsche is right to assert that human existence is contingent on cosmic conditions, he has less reason to believe that our short-lived species will prevail for another 4 or 5 billion years up until the eventual death of the sun. While it is true that the concept of the Anthropocene marks the probability that human extinction is imminent, it also opens up a new space for possible life, taking place in-between the death of the human and the collapse of the sun. It is from a point of view within this space that the remains of human civilization, as they have been preserved in the strata of geological deep time, may once more become readable by future forms of cognition. This is why the idea of the Anthropocene is less about the loss of the human than about the promise of a mutant life to come.
[i] Sigmund Freud, ”A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis” , The Standard Edition of The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud XVII, trans. and ed. James Strachey, London: Hogarth Press, 1955, p. 139.
[ii] Friedrich Nietzsche, ”On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense” , Writings from the Early Notebooks, ed. Raymond Geuss & Alexander Nehamas, trans. Ladislaus Löb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 253.


Welcome to Zombay, a town full of mystery, magic and make-believe. Once upon a time, Rownie lived there with his mother and his older brother. But his mother drowned in the town's vast River; and then his brother vanished; so now Rownie runs through Zombay's riddlesome streets orphaned and all alone . . . alone except for Graba, the coddle-headed, chicken-legged witch who offers him shelter along with the other stray children she has collected - her Grubs.Rownie suspects that his brother's love of acting - which is severely outlawed in Zombay - led to his disappearance; so when Rownie encounters a theatrical troupe of goblins daring to perform a play for the townspeople (with masks and stage-tricks and everything!) he wonders whether they might hold the key to discovering what happened to his brother . . . and perhaps even help him find him again.Thus opens a dazzling heroic adventure - of immense love, loss and all-conquering courage - in which one boy's quest for the truth, leads him to learn his greatest power may lie in his mighty and boundless imagination . . .
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Title: The Fair Amazon
Author:Janis Susan May
Genre: Romance > Regency
The Sinopsys of The Fair Amazon
Georgina Montcalm has lost her father and her brother, but the final blow comes when Sir Trevor Longchamps, for whom she has waited during the long years of his Peninsular service, says he loves another. Trying to forget her sorrows, Georgina goes riding and, during an ill-omened red fog, saves young Mr. Garrick Courtland and his friend from a highwayman. A romantic, Mr. Courtland immediately falls in love with Georgina, a situation which does not sit well with his social-climbing sister. Lady Barnstaple, Georgina’s godmother and Sir Trevor’s aunt, hears of the incident and realizes she has been neglectful of the girl. Georgina is bidden to London and Lady Barnstaple makes plans to marry her off. Garrick is all too willing, but he is too young. Thomas, the long-lost heir to Georgina’s home, arrives from America and is smitten by his cousin. As suitors swarm around Georgina, Sir Trevor begins to realize that Diana Wintersea, his new love, is not so enchanting as he once thought, with a certain worldliness and coarseness about her that no debutante should have. In actuality, Diana is little than a respectably born adventuress, come to London to marry a rich man. Her beauty has taken her to the higher reaches of the Ton, but her dream of marrying a duke or an earl is just that – a dream. Sir Trevor, she decides, will have to do, especially as a skirter named Felix Charbonneau is pressing her for money she does not have to settle her gambling debts. Desperate, Diana sets about to bring Sir Trevor up to scratch just as he begins to think he has made a mistake. Lady Barnstaple is determined that Sir Trevor shall not marry Diana, but she has also decided that he is too weak to handle Georgina. She decides Thomas the American cousin is a perfect match for her goddaughter and proceeds to matchmake relently, forgetting that Georgina is a strongminded young woman who is than capable of settling her own life her own way.
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12 Booklist March 1, 2016 www.booklistreader.com
ter following an assault conviction, 17-year-old
Minnow Bly relives the events that led to her imprisonment, including the mystery surrounding
her cult leader’s death and the loss of her hands. A
2016 Morris Honor Book.
Saint Anything. By Sarah Dessen. Viking,
Sydney lives in the shadow of her older
brother—everyone’s favorite. When he makes a
terrible choice that lands him in jail, everything
changes. Sydney might be able to escape to a new
school and new romance, but she can’t escape her
Shadowshaper. By Daniel José Older.
Scholastic/Arthur A. Levine, $17.99
Sierra Santiago was amped for her summer of
painting murals and hanging with friends before
noticing the murals were fading faster than normal. Another street artist, named Robbie, is the
only one who can help her to unlock this mystery.
A 2016 Top 10 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young
Show and Prove. By Sofia Quintero. Knopf,
In the summer of 1983, Smiles and Nike experience the pains of growing up in the South
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. By
Becky Albertalli. Harper/Balzer+Bray, $17.99
Simon is falling in love for the first time. Over
e-mail, if that’s even possible. A 2016 Top 10
Rainbow List Book and the 2016 William C.
Morris Award winner.
Six of Crows. By Leigh Bardugo. Holt,
Presented an offer too lucrative to refuse, gang
leader Kaz Brekker and his team of convicts,
runaways, and thieves set out to smuggle an imprisoned scientist from an impenetrable Fjerdan
fortress only to face treachery and betrayal along
Skyscraping. By Cordelia Jensen. Philomel,
In this novel in verse, high-school-senior Mira
must come to terms with discovering that her father is gay and living with HIV.
A Song for Ella Grey. By David Almond.
Delacorte, $16.99 (9780553533590).
Claire poetically narrates the epic love story
of her best friend, Ella Grey, and the mysterious
Orpheus as romance, death, and mythology swirl
together in a modern retelling of the classic story
of Orpheus and Eurydice.
These Shallow Graves. By Jennifer Donnelly.
Delacorte, $19.99 (9780385737654).
As she digs deep for answers about her father’s
untimely death, Jo Montfort discovers all is not
what it seems in her upper-class environs of
nineteenth-century New York City.
Thirteen Days of Midnight. By Leo Hunt.
Candlewick, $13 (9780763678654).
When Luke Manchett’s estranged father passes
away, he inherits a dangerous host of ghosts that
threaten everyone he holds dear. He must figure
out how to banish or control them before they
reach the height of their power in 13 days—
The Truth Commission. By Susan Juby. Viking,
As a nonfiction project, Normandy Pale chronicles the work of the truth commission, through
which she and her two best friends ask classmates
and faculty about various open secrets, while
Norm’s famous sister reveals unsettling truths of
Under a Painted Sky. By Stacey Lee. Putnam,
Samantha and Annamae are thrown together
when they are forced to hide from the law and
pose as boys as they travel the Oregon Trail in
The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B. By Teresa
Toten. Delacorte, $17.99 (9780553507867).
Attending a young adult OCD support group
(and falling in love) helps Adam deal with his
OCD and face the truth about his home life. A
2016 Schneider Family Book Award winner.
Walk on Earth a Stranger. By Rae Carson.
Greenwillow, $17.99 (9780062242914).
Leah Westfall, a girl with the ability to sense
gold, disguises herself as a boy to make the dangerous journey to California in 1849.
The Walls around Us. By Nova Ren Suma.
Algonquin, $17.95 (9781616203726).
Ori and Vee have been inseparable since they
met in ballet class as little girls, but a horrible
African American Women: Photographs from
the National Museum of African American
History and Culture. illus. GILES, $16.95
Photographs from the nineteenth century
to the present depict the diverse experiences of
African American women and their ongoing
importance in American history.
The Born Frees: Writing with the Girls of
Gugulethu. By Kimberly Burge. Norton,
In the South African township of Gugulethu, young women from the first generation
born postapartheid explore the challenges that
they and their community face, including sexism, classism, sexual abuse, HIV/AIDS, and
The Boston Girl. By Anita Diamant. 2014.
Scribner, $26 (9781439199350).
Unwilling to accept the rigid restrictions
of her youth at the beginning of the twentieth century, Addie Baum fought to be true to
herself. Mentors and friends sustain her as she
grows to be an independent, educated woman.
Devoted. By Jennifer Mathieu. Roaring
Brook, $16.99 (9781596439115).
Raised with a strict fundamentalist adherence to the Bible, Rachel Walker has been
taught that women can only become a loving
helpmate to a husband. When a former member of her church moves back to town, Rachel
begins to see other possibilities.
Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s
Courage Changed Music. By Margarita
Engle. Illus. by Rafael López. HMH, $16.99
On an island filled with music, a young girl
longs to play the drums. She challenges gender
norms to follow her passion, and her “
dream-bright music” persuades her community that
everyone should be allowed to dream. A 2016
Notable Children’s Book and the 2016 Pura
Belpré Illustrator Award winner.
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth
Bader Ginsburg. By Irin Carmon and Shana
Knizhnik. illus. HarperCollins/Dey Street,
Why has Ruth Bader Ginsburg become
the subject of memes, art, and feminist baby
Halloween costumes? Carmon and Knizhnik
explore the justice’s history of legally justifying the equality of women and all marginalized
Sally Ride: A Photobiography of America’s
Pioneering Woman in Space. By Tam
O’Shaughnessy. illus. Roaring Brook, $19.99
After spending years as an academic underachiever with a passion for tennis, Sally Ride
discovered her love of physics and became the
first American woman to travel to space.
Swing Sisters: The Story of the International
Sweethearts of Rhythm. By Karen Deans.
Illus. by Joe Cepeda. Holiday, $16.95
From their early days in Mississippi to their
travels around the world, the Sweethearts made
people dance—and question their assumptions
about race and gender.
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer; Spirit
of the Civil Rights Movement. By Carole
Boston Weatherford. Illus. by Ekua Holmes.
Candlewick, $17.99 (9780763665319).
Fannie Lou Hamer played an integral part
in the civil rights movement by raising her
voice and fighting for freedom. A 2016 Notable Children’s Book, a 2016 Caldecott Honor
Book, the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award winner, and a
2016 Sibert Honor Book.
We Should All Be Feminists. By
Chimamanda Gnozi Adichie. Random
House/Anchor, $7.95 (9781101911761).
Adichie’s personal essay explains why she
chose to be true to herself and work toward
societal change in gender attitudes.
AMELIA BLOOMER LIST, 2016
Each year the Amelia Bloomer Project, sponsored by the Feminist Task Force of the Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT) of ALA, selects a list of recommended feminist books,
fiction and nonfiction, for young readers from preschool through age 18. The titles below, published between September 2014 and December 2015, make up the top 10 picks from the full list,
which is available at ameliabloomer.wordpress.com. Titles published in 2014 are noted; all others
were published in 2015.
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My dear old books have witnessed decades of children carefully listening to their words. They have made children laugh, feel scared, ask hundreds of questions, and come to understand the heart of well-written words and a good story. Words are a treasure. Today those words fell onto the floor.
“Jennie, the pages fell out. You need a new book.”
Oh, no! Never. Those yellow and brown pages have lived. My reading their words have made them come alive, over and over again. Like a grandparent telling a story, their words have sprinkled gold dust onto children.
I just finished chapter reading Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Today I began to read-aloud the next book in the series, Little House on The Prairie. Laura and her family move from the little house in the woods of Wisconsin. We loved that little house and her family. I read:
“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. And that was the last of the little house.”
I read those words slowly. I read them quietly. The little house was saying goodbye. Forever. When I looked at the children, every child was sitting up, staring, and not saying a word. Their eyes said it all. Or perhaps it was the silence. With that paragraph, those gold dust words, the memories and stories of all that had happened in Little House in the Big Woods came rushing like a flood.
We stopped. We talked. We read more, and a new adventure was beginning.
My old books had yet another day of their words coming alive for children. I often wonder if those books have eyes and ears, and squirrel away what the children say. Do they feel what the children feel? It seems so, because every time I read, there is something new- it’s a sense that I get. I think the books are wise. No, I wouldn’t trade old and yellow and brown books with pages falling out, for anything. Their words are magic.


This hand-drawn, fold-out map is a handy reference guide for the eleven original sculptures donated to literary and cultural institutions around Edinburgh by the anonymous sculptor in 2011. Many of these sculptures are still in their original locations, including the three donated to the Scottish Poetry Library, and the map itself is both a useful walking map of Edinburgh and a nice item to frame.
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Kin: Scottish Poems About Family selected and introduced by Hamish Whyte£9.99
“We see ourselves in our family and our family in ourselves. Poems, like families, should encompass dialogue, communication – communion even. Every family and every poem is different, in its own way” – Hamish Whyte, from the introduction to Kin.


Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation Series
In volume 16 of "The Conversation Series," Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger penned a manifesto of Auto-destructive art, which states in part, "Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a...more
Paperback, 168 pages
Published March 1st 2009 by Walther Konig
(first published 2009)
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