![]() This book is an exploration of the Earth as it used to exist, the changes that have occurred during its history, and the ways that life has found to adapt―or not. In Otherlands, Halliday makes sixteen fossil sites burst to life on the page. The past is past, but it does leave clues, and Thomas Halliday has used cutting-edge science to decipher them more completely than ever before. ![]() ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Prospect (UK) ![]()
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![]() In early adulthood, Kane aspires to be like his father, Richard Kane, a successful banker. The novel is constructed of vignettes of the experiences of William (who goes mainly by his last name “Kane”) and Abel Rosnovski, who are both born on April 18, 1906. ![]() Kane and Abel remains one of the top-selling books in the world and has entered the canon of British literature. Taking its name from a famous story about two brothers in the Book of Genesis, the novel is acclaimed for its powerful portrayal of the sentiment that human fates can be entangled in each other regardless of familial or class differences. ![]() The first, William Lowell Kane, is a member of the Boston elite known as the Brahmin the second, Abel Rosnovski, leaves a life of severe poverty in Poland for Turkey and eventually New York City. British writer and former conservative politician Jeffrey Archer’s historical fiction Kane and Abel (1979) concerns two men linked only by a common birthday, who follow their ambitions to overcome their difficult pasts. ![]() ![]() Just another day, another global disaster, nothing phases us anymore. Which I feel is like how a lot of us were during the pandemic and for the most part, are still like this currently in 2023. After Daisy gets over the shock of a big red man with horns smashing into her kitchen screaming, “Be it holy soldier or thieving pirate, all shall know the wrath of Kain the Destroyer!” and then immediately slipping on icing, she’s pretty unbothered and goes with the flow. OVERALL THOUGHTS This was a lot of fun! 30 pages that had me laughing at every turn. HERO / HEROINE Kain The Destroyer is a high level battle demon summoned every so often to wreak havoc upon Earth and other plains.ĭaisy is just another poor soul trying to make it through the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to take up baking. ![]() This was my birthday read, and I'm telling you right now, THE BEST DECISION. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Certainly it's no coincidence that this era saw an uptick with the usage of fair to mean "morally good." That usage dates back to the 12th century, but the late 16th century introduced the phrases fair play and fair and square, setting the race status quo early on. Just in time, too with the arrival of Africans in England in 1551, Britons suddenly needed a term to distinguish their pale-skinned beauties from the new arrivals. But the youth in question is described as having a "gold complexion"-after all, we're comparing him to a summer's day-and during this time the meaning of fair broadened to include skin tone. The bulk of his sonnets were addressed to whom his scholars call the " Fair Youth"-and his uses of fair in these sonnets sticks with the original meaning. This changed with the Elizabethan era, and with that great language alchemist, Shakespeare. ![]() "The men of this province are of a fair and comely personage, but somewhat pale," wrote the narrator of The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (circa 1357-1371). Until the 1550s, fair was used to describe a beautiful or attractive person with no regard to the color spectrum, and indeed with not much regard to sex. Fair derives from Old English faeger (beautiful, lovely, pleasant), which came from the Germanic and Norse fagar and fagr for beautiful. ![]() Fair meant beautiful before it meant light-complected, not the other way around. ![]() ![]() In 2003, Sendak received the first Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an annual international prize for children's literature established by the Swedish government. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Illustration, in 1983 he received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, and in 1996 he received a National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the arts in America. ![]() He received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are and is the creator of such classics as In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There, Higglety Pigglety Pop!, and Nutshell Library. Maurice Sendak's children's books have sold over 30 million copies and have been translated into more than 40 languages. So she tells them stories about two little alligators who are always fighting and biting-just like Willy and Rosa ![]() She can't read her book when Willy and Rosa are pinching and squeezing and fighting. Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes - Manners & Etiquette ![]() Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes) 'Else Holmelund Minarik, whose Little Bear indicated a uniquely charming talent, has outdone herself here.' -K. ![]() Contributor(s): Minarik, Else Holmelund (Author), Sendak, Maurice (Illustrator)īinding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & EditionsĪnnotation: The merry adventures of two scrapping alligator children-and of Rosa and Willy, their human counterparts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ĭisclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top of the stairs. Because every nine years, on the last Saturday of October, a ‘guest’ is summoned to Slade House. ![]() This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and comes to its turbulent conclusion around Hallowe’en, 2015. Enter the sunlit garden of an old house that doesn’t quite make sense too grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it occupies.Ī stranger greets you and invites you inside. No handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. Turn down Slade Alley – narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you’re looking for it. Perhaps I was expecting too much from a title that started life as a short story published on Twitter. ![]() ![]() To set these ideas in sharp relief, he shows us how style and fashion have been expressed in the work of major architects including Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Charles McKim, Allan Greenberg, Robert Venturi, Enrique Norten, and many others. The two-style and fashion-are intimately linked indeed, architecture cannot escape fashion. Style is the language of architecture, Rybczynski writes, and fashion represents the wide and swirling cultural currents that shape and direct that language. But the heart of the book illuminates the connection between architecture, interior decoration, and fashion. ![]() This is a book brimming with sharp observations-that form does not follow function that the best architecture is not timeless but precisely of its time that details do not merely complement the architecture-details are the architecture. But Witold Rybczynski disagrees, and in The Look of Architecture, he makes a compelling case for the importance of style to the mother of the arts. ![]() What is style in architecture? "Style is like a feather in a woman's hat, nothing more," said Le Corbusier, expressing most modern architects' low regard for the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of Lovecraft’s fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work. Lovecraft adapted the conventions of horror stories and science fiction to express an intensely personal vision, cosmic in its ramifications and fearsome in its shuddering view of human destiny. A twentieth-century successor to Edgar Allan Poe as the master of “weird fiction,” Howard Phillips Lovecraft once wrote, “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” In the novellas and stories he published in such pulp magazines as Weird Tales and Astounding Stories-and in the work that remained unpublished until after his death, including some of his best writing-H. ![]() ![]() Thérèse was declared co-patron of the missions with Francis Xavier in 1927, and named co-patron of France with Joan of Arc in 1944. The speed of this process may be seen by comparison with that applied to a great heroine of Thérèse, Joan of Arc, who died in 1431 but was not canonized until 1920. She was beatified in 1923, and canonized in 1925. Pope Pius XI made her the star of his pontificate. The impact of her posthumous publications, including her memoir The Story of a Soul was great, and she rapidly became one of the most popular saints of the twentieth century. After nine years as a Carmelite religious, having fulfilled various offices, such as sacristan and novice mistress, and having spent the last eighteen months in Carmel in a night of faith, she died of tuberculosis at the age of 24. She felt an early call to religious life, and overcoming various obstacles, in 1888 at the early age of 15, became a nun and joined two of her older sisters in the enclosed Carmelite community of Lisieux, Normandy. She was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church May 17, 1925. ![]() She is also known as "The Little Flower of Jesus". ![]() Saint Thérèse de Lisieux or Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a French Carmelite nun. ![]() ![]() ![]() Contradicting these readings, she gives nuanced context about the texts in their own times. weaponize Greece and Rome in the service of their agenda.” Hoping to promote broader understanding of the classics, Zuckerberg analyzes the subdivisions of the online “manosphere” or “red pill” community, identifying three main factions-men’s rights activists (MRAs), members of the pick-up artist community (PUAs), and “men going their own way” (MGTOW)-and looking at their claims that classical texts affirm a long, idealized tradition for their “reactionary gender politics.” For example, she writes, some assert that Ovid’s Ars Amatoria is a straightforward model for PUA techniques, and some MGTOW look to Stoic philosophy to justify a belief that women are unreliable because they are supposedly more emotional than men. Classicist Zuckerberg, the editor-in-chief of Eidolon, aims to take back the writings of the ancients from misogynist online communities where men claiming to be the “defenders of the cultural legacy of Western Civilization. ![]() |