As we journey across time and place, we discover a hidden, thousand-mile-long wall in Asia's steppes learn of bizarre Spartan rituals watch Mongol chieftains lead their miles-long hordes witness the epic siege of Constantinople chill at the fate of French explorers marvel at the folly of the Maginot Line tense at the gathering crisis in Cold War Berlin gape at Hollywood's gated royalty and contemplate the wall mania of our own era. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves-rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone, and with them effectively divide humanity: on one side were those the walls protected on the other, those the walls kept out. "A lively popular history of an oft-overlooked element in the development of human society" (Library Journal)-walls-and a haunting and eye-opening saga that reveals a startling link between what we build and how we live.With esteemed historian David Frye as our raconteur-guide in Walls, which Publishers Weekly praises as "informative, relevant, and thought-provoking," we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed-to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle.
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It first flirted with digital publishing in the 1970s, published a version for computers in 1981 for LexisNexis subscribers and first posted to the Internet in 1994. It is the latest move Encyclopedia Britannica has made to expand its Internet reference services and move farther into educational products. The company said it will keep selling print editions until the current stock of around 4000 sets ran out. 310 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60604-4202 U.S.A. An online subscription costs around $70 per year and the company recently launched a set of apps ranging between $1.99 and $4.99 per month. the company has existed since the 18th century, although it has changed ownership various times through the centuries. The flagship, 32-volume printed edition, available every two years, was sold for $1400. The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for 'British Encyclopædia') is a general knowledge English-language encyclopædia.It is published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. The Encyclopedia Britannica, which has been in continuous print since it was first published in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1768, said Tuesday it will end publication of its printed editions and continue with digital versions available online. REUTERS/Courtesy of Encyclopaedia Britannica/Handout A 32 volume set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica is shown in this undated publicity photograph released to Reuters on March 13, 2012. Lips arrives at Hannaford prepared to keep her head down and graduate on a path that’ll have her richer than God and cruising through life with no worries. Her plan is not just to survive with the skills she holds, but to get out of the life that so badly wants to drag her down and bury her. Rather than choose to start her own gang or amass an empire like the other members, Lips has used her brains to get into Hannaford Preparatory Academy, the top school on the east coast. Lips has survived everything that Mounts Bay has thrown at her and came out as a member of the Twelve. The prologue immediately snares your attention when introducing Eclipse “Lips” Anderson aka The Wolf of Mounts Bay. It’s set in Mounts Bay, California, home to gangs, drugs, violence, sex, and every dirty evil thing that you can think of and even more that you can’t. Just Drop Out is book one in the four book series with each book covering a school year. I was going to do a single post on the whole series, but it would have been far too long so here we are with book one and the beginning of my obsession. J Bree absolutely out did herself with these books. I have not been as obsessed with a series as I am with this one in a long time. Ive tried to get into a few novels that centered around the theme of water/open water and they just werent my thing (The Fisherman & The Terror). 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Now, there are two series that are based around The Academy: The Ghost Bird Series and The Scarab Beetle Series. Today I’m talking about The Academy by C.L. Whether you’ve heard of these books or not, I just want an excuse to show them off and bring them a little more attention ) So that’s what this feature is all about. Or sometimes there are books I’ve read awhile ago and they just pop into my head out of the blue, and I just want to shout about them to everyone! Or sometimes there are books that everyone knows about and goodness knows everyone’s talked about, but I love them just as much and I want to show my love for them here on the blog. You know, Sometimes I find books to read that I haven’t really seen being buzzed about. In a statement, a lawyer for Raymond Sackler’s family, Daniel S. “The hope is that a certain kind of reader will be interested in this book, primarily as a story about a great American dynasty, and what I would argue is the corruption of a great American dynasty.” “I didn’t want to write an opioid crisis book per se,” Keefe said. It’s a byzantine topic, but Keefe focuses on the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, the maker of Ox圜ontin. Now he’s back with a new book, “ Empire of Pain,” out from Doubleday on Tuesday, that examines the opioid crisis. In his 2019 best-seller, “ Say Nothing,” he dove into the decades-long sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland, particularly the mystery surrounding Jean McConville, a young mother who was kidnapped from her home in 1972. In his 2009 book, “ The Snakehead,” he reported on a human smuggling operation run out of New York’s Chinatown, untangling the web of the enterprise and highlighting its victims and its perpetrators. “I think I have an almost childlike suggestibility where if you tell me you know a secret and you won’t tell, I’m going to do everything I can to figure out what that secret is,” he said in a video interview from his home in Westchester County, N.Y.īut if you’ve ever read something Keefe, 44, has written, you may already sense that he has a passion for unearthing what’s hidden. Patrick Radden Keefe has always been interested in secrets. Lucretius outlines a materialist physics to support these contentions: the universe is made up exclusively of either atoms or emptiness. Lucretius expounds "the nature of things," because Epicureans believed that the aim of life is to achieve a calm of mind they called ataraxia that this calm can best be achieved by avoiding pain and extreme pleasure (which only leads to pain) that the greatest pleasure is intellectual and that a proper intellectual grasp of the world involves a recognition that consciousness coexists with the body, because the opposite (belief in an afterlife for the soul) causes more pain than pleasure. Only fragments of Epicurus' own writing have survived. (Lucretius lived from about 99 to about 55 BCE.) His poem is the fullest extant rendering of the ancient philosophy known as Epicureanism, after its founder, the Greek philosopher Epicurus, who lived in Athens in 341-270 BCE. Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Introductionĭe Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a remarkable philosophical poem in six books of Latin hexameters, composed by the poet Titus Lucretius Carus toward the middle of the first century BCE. As you’d expect there’s beloved original artwork he created for popular books: “A Hole is to Dig” by Ruth Krauss, “The Little Bear Series” by Else Holmelund Minarik and “Zlateh the Goat” by Isaac Bashevis Singer. There’s a video from “The Nutcracker” featuring Sendak’s costumes and sets. You can have your photo taken with a giant “wild thing,” watch clips from the film adaptation of “Where the Wild Things Are” and see a costume from the film. Their dogs frequently appeared in Sendak’s books. Sendak and his partner, Eugene Glynn were dog owners who considered their pets to be family members. Museum guests can pick up “A Maurice Sendak-Inspired Sketchbook” where they’ll draw a self-portrait, reimagine their friends or relative as a character in a story and sketch their favorite pet. On view are more than 150 sketches, storyboards and paintings by Sendak as well as film clips, posters, a giant goose, and a cozy book nook for reading. The suspenseful forest scene in which the plan goes awry and the children become lost stirs the primeval fears of cold and dark, and generates empathy for both the pranksters and the victim. They will commiserate with the students over the perceived favoritism that Carlos receives. Trina's anger and embarrassment after her in-class humiliation because of an accident Carlos causes becomes almost visceral, and readers will be shocked at how well they identify with her in that moment. Emerson fully explores some characters only to leave others languishing. As Trina gets to know Carlos, she begins second-guessing herself, especially since Sara, her best friend, has grown distant. Trina uncovers his fear of aliens after being partnered with him for a school project, and the pranksters plan an extraterrestrial encounter for him during their class's wilderness excursion. Grade 4–6-Trina and her seventh-grade classmates organize a trick against Carlos, their special-needs classmate with big hair, a squeaky voice, and scratching issues. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Cover Page Reading the Romance Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The Institutional Matrix Publishing Romantic Fiction 2 The Readers and Their Romances 3 Act of Reading the Romance Escape and Instruction 4 The Ideal Romance The Promise of Patriarchy 5 The Failed Romance Too Close to the Problems of Patriarchy 6 Language and Narrative Discourse The Ideology of Female Identity Conclusion Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-267) and index. |