![]() ![]() It's all here - Flying Carpets, Green Dragons, Magic Phoenix Birds, Boomalakka Wee, the dysfunctional infant son of the Genie of the Lamp, the displaced mouse who was supposed to have been a donkey, even Omar Khayyam himself. ![]() And so begins a series of adventures that invoke a memorable cast of characters, some despicable, some feckless, and some (no surprise) beautiful and feisty. Abu Ali is told he is the only one who can find the peripatetic island, locate the Button-Nosed Tortoise, and reverse the spell. The Genie of the Lamp announces that Abu Ali should be the child's name and that his destiny is to rescue the magician who created the Land of Green Ginger - a sort of fabulous floating garden - and then turned himself into a Button-Nosed Tortoise by mistake. This beloved classic is a funny, clever, and original novel that opens with Aladdin - now Emperor of China - trying to decide what to name his new son, a child who won't stop talking and is already far too articulate for his own good. ![]()
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![]() It has long been clear what my aim is, what the aim of that dangerous slogan is that is inscribed at the head of my last book Beyond Good and Evil. However, having read On the Genealogy of Morals later on, I would caution against starting immediately with Beyond Good and Evil, and instead recommend reading at least the first essay, if not the second of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. ![]() I personally started with Beyond Good and Evil, and would recommend it as one of the first things you read you will get right into Nietzsche's epistemology, his concept of will to power, and some fairly amusing attacks on other groups of thought (especially when he calls democrats sheep I'll never forget that). ![]() If you think you'll manage reading Nietzsche himself, I would certainly recommend it - it'll give you a very direct image of his philosophy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Countless ordinary citizens-newly mobilized Christian conservatives, in particular-helped the Republican Party steer the country rightward. Building on the gradual unraveling of the New Deal political order in the 1960s and 1970s (see Chapter 28), the conservative movement not only enjoyed the guidance of skilled politicians like Reagan but drew tremendous energy from a broad range of grassroots activists. And it could claim increasing credit for Republican electoral successes. ![]() More libertarian in its economics and more politically forceful in its conservative religious principles than the moderate brand of conservatism popular after World War II, the New Right had by the 1980s evolved into the most influential wing of the Republican Party. Reagan rode the wave of a powerful political movement referred to by historians as the New Right. ![]() Stressing the theme of “national decline,” he nevertheless promised to make the United States once again a glorious “city upon a hill.” 2 In November, Reagan’s vision triumphed. The family garage may have still held two cars, cracked Reagan, but they were “both Japanese and they’re out of gas.” 1 The charismatic former governor of California suggested that a once-proud nation was running on empty. Speaking to Detroit autoworkers in October 1980, Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan described what he saw as the American Dream under Democratic president Jimmy Carter. African American Life in Reagan’s America ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Family: Married 1) Andrée Madeleine Heuschling ("Dédée," took name Catherine Hessling following 1924 appearance in Catherine), 1920 (divorced 1930) 2) Dido Freire, 1944, one son. Military Service: Served in French cavalry, 1914–15 transferred to French Flying Corps, 1916, demobilized 1918. Education: Collége de Sainte-Croix, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1902 Ecole Sainte-Marie de Monceau, 1903 Ecole Massina, Nice, until 1912 University of Aix-en-Provence, degree in mathematics and philosophy, 1913. Born: Paris, 15 September 1894, son of painter Auguste Renoir, became citizen of United States (naturalized) in 1946, retained French citizenship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her architects continued "making models of her visions" even after her death, which is gently portrayed in this book for young readers. Eventually, her designs are built all over the world. Working past the initial rejection and discrimination she faces, Zaha grows her firm from one room to an entire building. She then sets to work planning and designing what the world has never seen: buildings conceived after the shapes and patterns of nature. "Zaha has ideas." Zaha studies math, then leaves home to study architecture in London. She designs her own clothes, wonders at the ruins in her homeland, and dreams of designing cities. ![]() Zaha Hadid, a native of Baghdad, grows up admiring nature and patterns. ![]() A visionary architect from Iraq gets well-deserved attention in Winter's new picture-book biography about a woman of courage whose ideas and persistence influenced the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even Lionel Goettreider, the man who made The Future possible, is more a caricature than a character (view spoiler). None of the other characters are especially three dimensional either. Worse, there is no particularly satisfying character arc for any version of the main character. This perhaps could have been rescued if the narrator grew in perspective and insight as the narrative unfolded, but it never happens. The idea that unlimited energy would somehow magically result in a utopia is frankly risible it feels like the juvenile fantasy of an unimaginative mind. The alternate future it envisions is hollow and uninteresting, and the author spends virtually no time in explaining how it came about. The premise had promise, and some of the ideas were interesting enough, but it was not very well conceived or constructed. Maybe a two and a half? I won't say I regret reading this, exactly, or that I was bored by it, but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. ![]() ![]() ![]() At 360 plus pages, the stories are novellas, really, not short stories. What’s most interesting to me is the idea of three separate stories intersecting, written by three different writers, all with humorous but distinct voices. Weber- 500 Days of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault in Our Stars and the upcoming Where’d You Go, Bernadette-revised the original script by Kay Cannon ( Pitch Perfect, 30 Rock, New Girl). ![]() The genius writing duo of Scott Neustadter and Michael M. I think it’s safe to say they should be at the multiplex by Christmas Holiday 2017 although the script has already been written so if they hustle up to Buffalo, I suppose it’s possible the movie could come out this year. Let It Snow, a collection of three interconnected love stories from John Green ( A Cheertastic Christmas) Maureen Johnson ( The Jubilee Express) and Lauren Myracle ( The Patron Saint of Pigs) are finding their way to the screen. ![]() ![]() In his introduction to the original collection, Leon Edel discusses the “decadent nineties” and the possible reasons behind the apogee of James’s ghost-story writing in this period (see James, 1948, p. After analyzing the narrative frames of several stories as architectural passages between fiction and reality, this chapter concludes by associating James’s construct of the “house of fiction” with the haunted house in his stories, conceptualized as the ultimate stage where ghost texts act out their “emptiness and incompletion.” ![]() It then argues that in James’s ghost stories the true ghost is always a metaliterary “ghost text” represented consistently as a lost original, an illegible or destroyed manuscript. Interrogating the “psychological ghost story” genre, this chapter suggests that the Jamesian ghostly resorts to structures of repetition enacted in the stories, mainly in the idea of heredity and family curses, and in the transmission of texts across time, equating texts with testaments. ![]() ![]() This chapter begins with a reflection on how the largely overlooked publishing history of James’s supernatural short stories may offer an alternative account of the plot twists, tropes, and motifs of the form that we have long taken as given. ![]() ![]() These include his being infinite, incomprehensible, self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, immutable, omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent and sovereign. ![]() But Wilkin identifies 10 attributes that belong to God alone. Many of God’s attributes we are called to possess in increasing measure, such as His goodness, mercy, love and faithfulness. ![]() There was some initial confusion with the title as some people heard it as ‘ Nun like Him’, but thankfully the book is not a calling back to the convents! Instead Wilkin seeks to take us through a list of ten attributes that belong to God alone, and tease out how it is we try to rival God in possessing these attributes that belong to Him alone. I read Jen Wilkin’s latest book, None Like Him, with our women’s book discussion group at Moore College. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the classroom I think there could be many different ways one could handle “Monkey Beach.” There is an opportunity, in studying this book, to not only take a look at the First Nations culture but also have the students look at their own. This can also be said about the supernatural in the book. When discussing berries, Lisa’s grandmother explains that certain berries should only be eaten carefully and by someone who knows how to handle them. This mythology takes on a darker and dangerous tone, in most cases, because Lisa doesn’t know how to control her gifts. There is no one left to guide Lisa and the rest of the young adults in the Haisla culture. These elements tie her to a culture that is slowly being lost. Like Lisa herself, we never fully understand the implications of what is happening with her and how she can use her gifts. ![]() Also, most of the supernatural elements are never completely explained. He makes them completely relevant to the story and the situation that Lisa finds herself in. Robinson weaves elements of the Haisla culture into the book without overwhelming the reader. ![]() I really enjoyed Eden Robinson’s novel, “Monkey Beach.” Something I particular appreciated was how Robinson seamlessly integrated First Nations mythology and supernatural elements into the text. ![]() |