6/28/2023 0 Comments Shanghai 1937 by Peter Harmsen![]() ![]() This is the follow-up to Harmsen's best-selling Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze, and begins where that book left off. Nanjing 1937 by Peter Harmsen fills this gap. By contrast, the story of the month-long campaign before this notorious massacre has never been told in its entirety. The infamous Rape of Nanjing looms like a dark shadow over the history of Asia in the 20th century, and is among the most widely recognized chapters of World War II in China. Aircraft & Spacecraft: General Interest.Ships, Boats & Waterways: General Interest.Road & Motor Vehicles: General Interest.Fishing, Field Sports & Outdoor Activities. ![]() Sports Studies & PE: Textbooks & Study Guides.Literary Studies: Textbooks & Study Guides.Anthologies, Essays, Letters & Miscellaneous.Inventions & Technology: General Interest.Environment & Ecology: General Interest.Popular Culture & Media: General Interest.Politics & Government: Textbooks & Study Guides. ![]()
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6/28/2023 0 Comments Dr p the man who mistook![]() ![]() Ludicrously simple, as Nyman's score appear at first, by the end one has the impression of a score of unusual power and pathos. Although the score blatantly revels in its prosaic ordinariness, the effect has been calculated to avoid superficial theatricality, to underline the ridiculousness of the situation, to instil into the action a tension, a nervous energy, that sustains interest through an hour of what is virtually uninterrupted dialogue. If there had ever been any doubt about the matter, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat firmly secures Michael Nyman as a composer of substance and significance. In its wistful way it is also often hilariously funny. However there is drama in quantity, supplied largely by the characters' reactions and responses to one another. ![]() Beyond that the opera possesses no story and reaches no great climax or conclusion. The opera describes two consultation sessions during which the other two characters, the neurologist (Dr S) and the patient's wife (Mrs P), penetrate the mystery of Dr P's symptoms through conversations and tests. A true story, it takes the form of a neurological case-study Dr P, a professional singer and music professor, suffers from visual agnosia - an inability to recognize or make sense of what he sees. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a chamber opera based on Oliver Sacks's book of the same name. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The era of surveillance capitalism![]() ![]() Shoshana Zuboff explains in her new book, The Age of Surveillance Capital (Public Affairs, 2019), that the system works by treating human experience as “free raw material for translation into behavioral data. I maintain that we have good reason to fear that the business model of commercial surveillance – pioneered by Google and adopted by Facebook, among others – is serving to undermine the foundations of our democracy. We find him trying to put his finger on something which does not yet exist, but which – in his extraordinary political imagination – he was able to foresee with startling clarity. ![]() There is a fascinating chapter toward the end of Alexis de Toqueville’s Democracy in America titled “What Kind of Despotism Do Democratic Nations Have to Fear?” in which the author attempted something truly extraordinary – to describe a social condition which humankind had never before encountered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nobody would be her friend, however nobody would make fun of her anymore, because she’d just pull out her book. She found that if she focused on reading, she wouldn’t hear them mocking her, and her lack of reaction took all the fun out of teasing her. ![]() Laura made a few friends in her neighborhood, just none in her class, and halfway through the school year, the other girls decided she was to be ostracized and mocked. That year, her family moved from a tiny town in Arkansas to St. She was a reluctant and slow reader until she was nine years old. When she’s not at home agonizing over her own novels she works at the public library where the patrons give her more than enough inspiration for her writing. Laura Nowlin holds a BA in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing from Missouri State University.Īlong with being an ambitious writer Laura is also an avid reader that believes books allow her to live many lives in just a single lifetime. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Paradise lost by john milton![]() ![]() Satan, one of God’s most cherished and powerful angels, grows angry when God creates the Son and proclaims that Son as leader. Paradise Lost recreates the biblical story of the fall of man, starting with the first fall, that of a group of rebel angels in Heaven. The poem’s ripple effect on Western culture continues 350 years after its publication, making Paradise Lost a true classic of English literature. ![]() Paradise Lost has been quoted in politics, law, and literature. Scholars have argued that Milton invented around 630 words in writing Paradise Lost, as well as new linguistic concepts like the phrase “outer space.” ![]() Although Milton and his work are controversial, Paradise Lost introduced new words and concepts to the English language. It has been alluded to in other great works of literature, such as Frankenstein, and added a new layer to Lucifer that remains culturally relevant today. ![]() Indeed, Milton succeeded in this goal, as Paradise Lost is now considered one of the greatest works of poetry ever written in the English language. Milton’s goal in writing Paradise Lost was to write an epic that would capture the spirit and environment of his own society and religion, much as Homer’s epics spoke for Greek civilization. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Fashionably dead down under![]() Meg Weglarz, you save me from myself constantly with your amazing and insightful editing. Rebecca Poole, your covers are perfect and your imagination delights me. There are many important and wonderful people involved and I am blessed to have such a brilliant support system. Sitting in my sweatpants, t-shirt, sparkly Uggs and no make-up totally works for me! However, as solitary as the writing process may be, putting a book out is a group effort. Writing books is the best job I’ve ever had. ![]() This book contains content that may not be suitable for young readers 17 and under. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Thank you for respecting the author's work. ![]() If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then you should delete it from your device and purchase your own copy. ![]() If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. This ebook may not be resold or given away to other people. This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Stars in my pocket![]() A wonderful, sophisticated read, highly recommended. I picked up a used copy of the text and found it added greatly to my sense of the book. Two, this is a work so inventive that many of the words and some of the ideas (such as contrapuntal speech by multiple tongues) are better seen than heard. ![]() Driving, I had to continually adjust the volume or repeat passages. One, the reading is excellent but bassy, such that it works better in a room than a car. Toronto, New York, London, Sydney, Auckland: Bantam Books, 1984. ![]() As prescient as William Gibson's cyberpunk (both the Web and a kind of universal Wikipedia are present) and as ethnographically subtle as Ursula Le Guin's Hainish books, with sophisticated flavors from queer theory and Sapir-Whorf throughout, "Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand" is both ingenious sci-fi narrative and an experiment in literary cultural criticism. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. This, my introduction to Delaney, is a mind-expanding, category-shattering novel rich in characters both familar and unfathomably Other. Read 306 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Katie mcgarry book series![]() ![]() I really did enjoy reading the parts with the two of the them together, helping each other through their issues and learning to overcome their problems. What I did like was the chemistry behind Echo and Noah. For some reason, I had assumed it was going to be more mature, maybe a little bit more New Adult-y (not necessarily with sex, but just with character behavior), but it wasn’t. I couldn’t get behind the high school-ness of this book. There was lots of issues with people sitting at certain lunch tables and being afraid to be seen holding so-and-so’s jacket. A lot of those aspects of the book felt very juvenile and stereotypical. ![]() Parts of the book felt forced to me - like having Noah’s foster parents make him live in the basement, Echo having issues with her stepmom, Echo’s former BFF being a bitch, and Echo’s ex-boyfriend being a huge dick. I guess I was expecting something a little bit more gritty, more real. ![]() I’m still going to continue on with the series, but I’m not as excited about it as I was before I read this book. *sigh* Honestly, I was expecting a little bit more from this book. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Cousin Bette by Honoré de Balzac![]() ![]() It was serialized in Le Constitutionnel at the end of 1846 and, together with Le Cousin Pons, published the following year, constitutes the diptych Les Parents poor. Writing quickly with intense focus, Balzac produced La Cousine Bette, one of his longest novels, in just two months. Balzac wishes to surpass Sue and show that he is the best author of serial novels in France. In the 1840s, the serial novel, very popular in France, was mainly represented by Eugène Sue with his socialist writings. The patriarch of the Hulot family, meanwhile, is consumed by his own sexual desire. ![]() The characters of the novel represent several points of view of morality: the vengeful cousin Bette and the insincere Mme Marneffe on the one hand, and on the other, the merciful Adeline Hulot and Hortense, her sick daughter. ![]() ![]() He sacrifices almost all of his family's fortune in an effort to please Valérie, who eventually leaves him for a merchant named Célestin Crevel. One of them is Hector Hulot, husband of Adeline Hulot, Lisbeth's cousin. Lisbeth Fischer, nicknamed "Cousin Bette", is an old maid applying herself to systematically destroy those around her, with the collaboration of Valérie Marneffe, a badly married woman, who seduces and torments a series of men. The book is part of Scenes from Parisian life in La Comédie Humaine. La Cousine Bette is a novel by Honoré de Balzac published in 1846-1847, set in 19th century Paris. Written in 1846 at the height of Balzacs powers, this novel portrays the stunningly malevolent Cousin Bette and her intricate plans for revenge against the. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Tainted Souls by Correy Cottle![]() ![]() Left to her own devices, Davenport falls in over her head pursuing the truth in a life threatening dance with the devil. Rebekah Davenport, a reporter looking for a career making story, clips at Detective Flowers' heels, pointing out evidence and opinions along the way contrary to his experience and intuition. Her hopes for a bright future vanish and the shadows of her past come back to haunt her when Junior is released from a mental state facility. ![]() She struggles to escape the memories of the cold and painful dark world that she once lived. Left for dead and partially paralyzed after this violent attack from her brother, Junior, she is taken in and cared for by a wealthy family. At the age of thirteen, Megan Thompson was thrown down the stairs and stabbed seventeen times with a pencil that broke off in her back. Detective Flowers knows this is the work of a devil. ![]() The body of a college student is found hanging from the roof of the University's main building. Now, once again, the tranquility of his town is pulled back to unearth a psychotic darkness born in the shadows of upper middle class luxury. ![]() Twenty-eight years ago, Detective Michael Flowers became entangled in the twisted sadistic mind games of a killer in Cartersville, Georgia. ![]() |