![]() ![]() ![]() The book is divided into thirteen chapters and there is historical evidence to prove that it was written over a period of time and perhaps with many borrowings and collaborations with other similar works of the period. Apart from this, he is also revered and respected in many South Asian countries as a learned philosopher. The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a two thousand year old work, reputedly authored by a famous military general and strategist who lived in ancient China. ![]() There is intense interest in this ancient work since it teaches how to be victorious in conflict and that the final victory ultimately is to see war as an effort to win minds and hearts rather than a mere acquisition of territory and wealth. The Art of War is a 6th Century BC Chinese treatise on war and military strategy known for its timeless examples of strategy and planning. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Magpies is a gripping psychological thriller in which the monsters are not vampires or demons but the people who live next door. After Jamie's best friend is injured in a horrific accident, Jamie and Kirsty find themselves targeted by a campaign of terror.Īs they are driven to the edge of despair, Jamie vows to fight back - but he has no idea what he is really up against. They hear disturbing noises, and much worse, in the night. ![]() The other residents of their building seem friendly too, including the Newtons, a married couple who welcome them to the building with open arms.īut then strange things start to happen. The future, in which they plan to get married and start a family, is bright. When Jamie and Kirsty move into their first home together, they are full of optimism. Meet the neighbours from hell, in the gripping thriller that reviewers and readers describe as "fast-paced", "chilling", and "impossible to put down". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who is your favorite secondary character in this book and why? The germ of a different novel snapped into shape around him, and I rolled with it. As my characters tend to do, he dragged in his family, friends and enemies, who then started to define the world they lived in. Then Creon McIntyre arrived on stage, so decisively that I started drafting scenes from his point of view in a hotel room while on a business trip, which is something I can very rarely do. I was exploring the overall idea of the medical ship picking up the pieces after a plague, but trying to get going on a novel centred on the Waiorans and their conflicts. What inspired you to write Breakpoint: Nereis? How does this book fit into the rest of your writing career?īreakpoint was to be my medical ship story, with my elevator-speech including the phrase “Star Trek meets medicine”. As an added bonus, we will be running a series of interviews with the authors about their contribution to the Bundle. ![]() A great bundle of science fiction books is currently being offered at, consisting of six titles from Bundoran Press and six by some great writers who have befriended the press over the years. ![]() ![]() ![]() Skinner’s Walden Two to demonstrate the need for de- or re-programming. For instance, in discussing the tendency of utopias to isolate themselves from the surrounding world, he takes the example of B.F. The overwhelming preponderance of literary works cited to substantiate Jameson’s arguments are science fiction, and from the USA. ![]() There is a second agenda at work here two, evident in Jameson’s choice of examples. The overall effect is thus of several arguments ongoing from Jameson, all characterized by his usual theoretical precision and density of reference. Part One (‘The Desire Called Utopia’) presents an examination of utopias Part Two gathers together essays on science fiction from the last thirty years or so. The present volume is really two books in one. ![]() Fredric Jameson here continues his enquiry into the nature of the literary utopia and through his title casts himself as an archaeologist of narratives, digging behind surface accounts to find covert sequences and generally scrutinizing the working of ideology through narrative practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cycles can stretch to 80 days - a longer interval than was once known - or may be shorter than usual. Changes start sooner than was once believed, as early as your late 30s, and can last up to 10 years. Until recently, information about perimenopausal periods was often more fiction than science, even among many health experts. We assume our periods will taper off and stop, but it doesn't work that way." I myself was taking more home pregnancy tests during perimenopause than in my 20s. "Another was bleeding through a maxi pad plus a tampon. "One woman told me she'd had cycles that were 41, 55, then 18 days long - it sounded like a locker combination," Gurrentz says. When Sheryl Gurrentz began hosting "hormonal happy hours" to research her coauthored book A Strange Period: Insights Into the Bizarre Experiences of Perimenopausal Women, she discovered just how wild women's menstrual periods become during the years leading up to the big change. ![]() ![]() With startling wisdom and humor, Gottlieb invites us into her world as both clinician and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change. Yet he will turn out to be anything but.Īs Gottlieb explores the inner chambers of her patients’ lives - a self-absorbed Hollywood producer, a young newlywed diagnosed with a terminal illness, a senior citizen threatening to end her life on her birthday if nothing gets better, and a twenty-something who can’t stop hooking up with the wrong guys - she finds that the questions they are struggling with are the very ones she is now bringing to Wendell. With his balding head, cardigan, and khakis, he seems to have come straight from Therapist Central Casting. ![]() ![]() Enter Wendell, the quirky but seasoned therapist in whose office she suddenly lands. The next, a crisis causes her world to come crashing down. 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Students will discuss change, character development, and how we develop our identity as they read and discuss this novel. ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:replay0000cree:lcpdf:7c705f76-7033-43f8-834c-4da84678d330 Replay by Sharon Creech is the story of a spunky young boy who learns about his family and himself through a school play. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:57:59 Boxid IA40011116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() History and politics can sometimes be boring subjects, but the book takes you through the entire journey through WWI from the perspective of five different countries without making it dull. ![]() However, the best aspect of the book is the engaging and exciting descriptions of historical events and characters. They feel like real people, and the book makes you love them, hate them, and sympathize with them, just like you would with people around you. No one is always good or always mean, which makes them relatable. Most characters in the book are multidimensional, which is something I always appreciate. ![]() So what’s with the name Ethel? What I Liked About the Book It might be a coincidence, but I also watched the Netflix series “Downton Abbey” at the same time, and in both, a housemaid named Ethel ends up sleeping with someone with a higher social status. It explores the lives of English Earls, their coal miners and housemaids, their friends in politics and high society in other countries, and the toll WWI takes on friends whose countries go to war against each other. The book is the first book in Ken Follet’s Century trilogy. In most cases, it turns out to be a disappointment when you read a book with high hopes that’s why I usually try not to read a book with expectations, but I’m glad to say that this book met most of my expectations. A trusted friend, Shane, recommended this book, so naturally, I had high expectations before reading it. ![]() ![]() In Lupton’s writing course, students discuss texts on critical theory, communications, and semiotics, and learn how to write with publications in mind. The first assignment is to create an alphabet without any traditional drawing tools-including pencils, pens, or computer programs-a project that helps students understand that “the ways to create letterforms are limitless,” says Strals. “Our philosophy about the class is to break rules and try new things, but you’re better able to break the rules when you know them well,” Willen says. “Experimental Lettering & Typography,” taught by Bruce Willenand Nolen Strals, embodies this balancing act of experimentation and boundaries. ![]() The MFA course couples a very structured foundation with the freedom to explore. Students work in various mediums and are encouraged to get involved in an array of collaborative group and individual projects. ![]() She says that students can create, think, research, and write in ways that are “relevant to the public.” The program at MICA stands out for its emphasis on a interdisciplinary and experimental approach, in an academic setting. ![]() “IT’S REALLY A REAL-WORLD PROGRAM,” explains Ellen Lupton, the director of MICA’s MFA program. ![]() ![]() Martin tried his hand at the sympathetic vampire tale, one popularized just a few years previously by Anne Rice. Here is the spellbinding tale of a vampire’s quest to unite his race with humanity, of a garrulous riverman’s dream of immortality, and of the undying legends of the steamboat era and a majestic, ancient river. With his publication of Fevre Dream in 1982, George R. ![]() ![]() Not until the maiden voyage of his new sidewheeler Fevre Dream would Marsh realize he had joined a mission both more sinister, and perhaps more noble, than his most fantastic nightmare.and mankind’s most impossible dream. Grayscale Adornment 2017 Fearless Records, a division of Concord Music Group, Inc.But the promise of both gold and a grand new boat that could make history crushed his resolve-coupled with the terrible force of York’s mesmerizing gaze. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Fever Dream Publisher: Poseidon Press Date: 1982 Format: Hardcover Condition. It was too full of secrets that spelled danger. Title: Fever Dream Author/Editor: Martin, George R.R. And they are to be none of Marsh’s concern-no matter how bizarre, arbitrary, or capricious his actions may prove. York has his own reasons for wanting to traverse the powerful Mississippi. Nor does he care that he won’t earn back his investment in a decade. For York doesn’t care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh’s dilapidated fleet. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. ![]() ![]() When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something’s amiss. ![]() |