6/12/2023 0 Comments Rogue's Mistress by Eugenia Riley![]() “Despite the obvious talents of its author,” one reviewer wrote, the over-all effect was “a bit thin.” And yet “The Easy Life” is constructed with the same torqued intensity as all her fiction, seeding the problems that will eventually become Durassian preoccupations: the anguish of poverty, the vertigo of young love, the pull of biological conformity, and the struggle of women to reconcile the requirements of feminine competence with the disorganizing effects of sexual desire. The book sold out on its first printing, but its critical reception was lukewarm. ![]() ![]() In a style differing from the bald obliquity that characterizes Duras’s more famous books and films, feelings and adjectives stick together like plums that have fallen from a tree and formed a putrid mass. Here, Duras’s sentences assume a voluptuousness that Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan do a remarkable job of translating. ![]() “La Vie Tranquille” (1944), Duras’s second novel-translated into English as “ The Easy Life”-is a coming-of-age story that dwells on what a young woman must relinquish to the activity of tidying up life. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Krysten ritter novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.īut when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. “For her daughter, for her job, for that sophomore behind the dumpsters, men who get to do anything they want, and the people who are taken advantage of.īecause isn’t that, ultimately, what the case comes down to?There are the people of the world who squeeze and the ones who suffocate.” ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Patient hm a story of memory![]() ![]() Hippocrates, commonly considered the father of modern medicine, broke with many of the medical assumptions of his day. One of the first to recognize the brain’s importance was the Greek physician Hippocrates, born in 460 BC. After all, this most important of organs controls everything about us, from how we walk and talk to how fast our hearts beat. It’s never a good idea to underestimate the brain. could solve problems but not remember solving them. what kinds of horrific human experiments were justified in the name of science and.that a successful lobotomy resulted in just the right amount of confusion.You’ll embark on a journey through the age of lobotomy, and get insights into the mysterious mechanisms of memory that the study of Patient H.M. This book summary take you through the dark and informative history of the lobotomy, introducing you to its most famous figure, Patient H.M. In the 1940s and 1950s, lobotomy was a popular treatment for mental illness, and though it did reduce many patients to a near-vegetative state, it also contributed tremendously to our understanding of the brain. Maybe we even remember the dramatic ending of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It conjures an array of unsettling images: zombie-like patients, eerie mental asylums. ![]() The word “lobotomy” smacks of moral dubiousness. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments The grand strategy of philip ii![]() Palabras clave: Magnicidio, desertor, soborno, conspiración, diplomacia secreta, espionaje, diplomacia interconfesional, corsarios otomanos, rivalidad Otomano-habsburgica. Mientras la eficacia de los servicios secretos de los Habsburgo nos demuestra el poder de los mecanismos y las redes epistolares a la hora de recabar información en el circunmediterráneo, los intentos de magnicidio y de deserción nos sirven para analizar un aspecto poco estudiado de las rivalidades inter-imperiales: la diplomacia secreta. ![]() ![]() Los Habsburgo también intentaron organizar el magnicidio de este corsario que llegó al cénit de su poder como el Gran Almirante Otomano. Dándose cuenta del peligro que creaban la flota otomana y los corsarios otomanos en sus defensas, los servicios secretos de los Habsburgo enviaron a unos mediadores para recordar a Uluc Ali su pasado cristiano y sus obligaciones hacia su verdadero monarca y convencerle de que hiciera alianzas. RESUMEN: Este artículo trata de los esfuerzos de los Habsburgo para eliminar la amenaza naval otomana a través de medios clandestinos y emprendiendo operaciones secretas. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Gray whale inn series![]() ![]() ![]() (Photos / video courtesy Jaklyn Larsen Photography) It all ended with the calf getting killed and the mother still apparently fighting her life as dusk descended, creating both a sense of tragedy and awe for onlookers. or so a major battle between the hungry and a mother protecting her child began. The group of seven orcas had apparently been tracking them for awhile, and then around 6 p.m. (Depoe Bay, Oregon) – -Dozens of people on the central Oregon coast Monday got to witness – and photograph – something extraordinary as a pod of killer whales joined together to attack a gray whale and her baby calf. 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The book does give us some insight into the male conscience which is just as complicated as its female counterpart and it also tells us that you should never ask your friends for relationship advice because they would give you the one solution that breaks every fragile relationship… ![]() Madhav Jha is a State level basketball player who gets into St.Stephen’s College with no knowledge of English, and this deficit plays to his advantage when it comes to getting the girl. ![]() Half-Girlfriend reads like a romance novel with an interlude of inferiority complexes ,basketball and social work. Maybe that’s just my opinion, and I would rather you came to your own conclusions after reading the book. Chetan Bhagat has done it again and I must say there is an increased level of depth to his novels with each one of them as the years pass by, but there is also an increased commercial feel to his books, as though he was thinking what would look better as a scene in the script rather than allowing the story take its more natural course… ![]() ![]() ![]() In her engaging style, Small blends memorable accounts from her own experiences raising a preschooler with fascinating findings from her pioneering cross-cultural research, which spanned the country as well as the globe. Small not only reveals how children in this age group socialize and absorb the rules that underlie the societies they live in she also explains the extent to which parents enhance or hold back the emotional and psychological growth of their kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unraveling the deep-seated notions prescribed in most parenting books, Kids combines the latest scientific research on human evolution and biology with Small's own keen observations of various cultures for a lively, eye-opening view of early childhood in America. While Our Babies, Ourselves explored the physical and cultural preconceptions behind child-rearing and offered new clues to parenting practices that might be detrimental to a baby's best interest, Kids delves even deeper. To what extent do our parenting practices help or hinder our children? As parents, how much influence do we have over what kind of people our children will grow up to be? In the follow-up to her critically acclaimed Our Babies, Ourselves, Cornell anthropologist Meredith Small now takes on these and other crucial questions about the development of preschool children aged one to six. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other new symbiote characters, including one labeled by Marvel as a "top-secret new symbiote hero," will be introduced in Death of the Venomverse too. ![]() This alternate version of Anne, Venom's ex-girlfriend, and Virus both appear in "Beyond." Previously worn by Scorpion/Mac Gargan, the Virus armor is a War Machine suit equipped with anti-symbiote weaponry.Īside from Knull, Anne, Virus and a Venomized Sinister Six, Death of the Venomverse will feature alternate universe Venoms introduced by Marvel's Extreme Venomverse anthology series. The cover for Issue #2 reveals a Venomized Sinister Six, as well as the return of Agent Venom/Anne Weying and the Virus armor. In addition to the Death of the Venomverse #5 cover art featuring Knull, Marvel has released all five covers by Barends for the miniseries. ![]() ![]() ![]() The story opens in 1897 with Buck, a powerful 140-pound St. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations. The book's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. The story was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published later that year in book form. ![]() London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because it’s a novella, to give any details about the plot beyond the basic set-up feels like spoilers, so I’ll steer clear.Ī lot of what Le Guin is doing here is about the worldbuilding rather than the plot (though the plot is compelling). Although the plot draws in a wider circle of characters, the plot is really about the relationships between these three men and what occurs as a result of them. There are three point-of-view characters: Davidson, one of the colonial commanders who despises the Athsheans but loves a bit of murder and pillaging Lyubov, an anthropologist who has come to respect and care for the Athsheans, including learning their language and Selver, the main Athshean protagonist, who has become friends with Lyubov and has a long-standing grudge against Davidson for reasons that become apparent. It focuses on their enslavement of the native Athshean population, as well as other interactions between the two races. This novella is the tale of humans (Terrans) colonising Athshe, which they call New Tahiti. ![]() |