![]() Gat offers a rare multi-disciplary perspective on this topic, combining a history of intrahuman fighting at every scale with insights from anthropology, archeology, psychology, ethology, economics, history and political science, and a dash of genetics…an undertaking of some 10 years. ![]() What I found was not only closure, but also validation. I wanted closure on this theme before moving on, so I pulled this title (purchased long ago) from my digital bookshelf and dove into it. ![]() Gat is Ezer Weitzman Professor of National Security in the Department of Political Sciences, Tel Aviv University. So, I spent the time since my last post reading War in Human Civilization, by Azar Gat. ![]() Then we can move on to something serious… This is the last of a trilogy of posts on death and destruction. ![]()
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![]() Molly has a quick wit and chats easily, which would be good since Anne doesn’t talk much. I’d love to sit down to a meal with Molly Lovelace and Anne Tillerton. We’re all pursuing holiness while trying to look good at the same time, but sometimes the two conflict.Ģ) If you could hang out for a day with any of your characters–either from Love in the Balance or Sixty Acres–who would you choose? And why? Working in the youth group brought to mind how clumsy our attempts are to make things right and how much pressure we put on people to project an acceptable image. The Scarlet Letter is about the burden of unconfessed sin, which is a theme explored in Love in the Balance. ![]() Now, before parents get worried about what kind of activity is going on in the youth department, let me clarify. Two things really…one was a re-reading of The Scarlet Letter and the other was working in my church’s youth department. So to start with, what inspired or sparked the idea for Love in the Balance? 1) Okay, we’ll start with a normal-ish question, but get random later. ![]() ![]() The book tells the tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race. The last millions of humans now live in the Last Redoubt, which is a miles high pyramid powered by the Earth Current, a mysterious source of energy that also has some spiritual properties and can keep the Powers of the Night away from the Redoubt. ![]() Lurking in the darkness there are fearsome monsters who not only can kill the body but also Destroy the soul. It is set in the distant future when the Sun has gone out and the world is in an eternal night. It is available on Amazon and in a DRM-free version from Castalia House. Wright, set in the world of William Hope Hodgson's The Night Land. ![]() Are you Prepared to venture Out? Awake in the Night Land is a book that collects four loosely connected stories, by Science Fiction author John C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burt nimbly balances the very real danger the family is in with new family/new town hijinks that keep the story light Charlotte's banter with her new "brother" is spot-on funny, and the nail-biter of a climax doesn't disappoint. government ordered me not to be that cool' "), and despite her propensity to pick people's pockets when she's nervous, her eagerness to love (and be loved) and her unabashed bluntness make her endearing from page one. 368 pages 978-1250107114 Ages 10-14 New York City kid Nicki has been in foster care since the death of her grandmother, who taught her how to be a pickpocket. ![]() Nicki/Charlotte is caustically charming ("I wondered how much pressure you could lift off new kids at a school if they could say Sorry, I'd try harder, but the U.S. Jake Burt's debut middle-grade novel Greetings from Witness Protection is as funny as it is poignant.-from the publisher. As daughter Charlotte, she'll help them fly under the radar in North Carolina. marshals to join a family in the Witness Protection Program that is hiding from one of the deadliest crime organizations in the country. ![]() Sassy, snarky Nicki Demere a 13-year-old foster kid with a big heart and the quick hands of a seasoned thief is commissioned by the U.S. Greetings From Witness Protection is currently or has been on the Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee state award lists and contains 25 thought-provoking multiple choice questions plus two Bonus questions. The biggest complaint that readers may have about Burt's debut novel is that it ends. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Jambusters by Julie Summers![]() ![]() Julie kindly signed a number of her novels on sale that evening. ![]() Julie and Members were shocked and saddened by this news but she remains optimistic that it will continue with another broadcaster a view hugely supported by us all that evening….we all need to know what happens next!! A few days prior to her visit to Farndon WI she had however heard that the third series of Home Fires was being axed by ITV. Julie was enthusiastic and engaging as she described the characters and locations used in the filming of the series and the preparations and scripts for a third series. The subsequent journey in taking a non fiction book to the successful series of Home Fires she conveyed as exciting and thrilling and she admitted she had a tear in her eye when she visited Cheshire for her first set visit and described her cameo role in the series dressed in a two piece blue tweed suit. The whole of its previous history - two decades of educating, entertaining and. In writing her novel Jambusters, Julie described to us how she had ‘to dig deep to find the heart of the Wartime WI and their Members who kept the countryside ticking over’. Jambusters by Julie Summers - The Second World War was the WIs finest hour. ![]() It was also a great opportunity to welcome WI Members from a number of other local WI’s who joined us for the evening and we enjoyed in traditional WI style a great range of home made cakes and refreshments. A great open WI evening event was held last Thursday May 19th with our Guest Speaker, Julie Summers. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Miss rumphius book![]() ![]() ![]() She did it in secret, rarely telling anyone about her lupine obsession. Then she began putting seeds in her pocket when she walked to the post office and strewing them along the roadside. Every August she cut bundles of lupine stalks and shook out their seeds over a wider space. ![]() She began planting lupine seeds imported from her native England. Like Miss Rumphius, Hilda Hamlin traveled widely, though with her husband and three sons.Īfter leaving her husband in Paris in 1926, she audited courses at Smith, but still came to the little cottage on Christmas Cove in summertime. He was a professor and librarian at Columbia University and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Hilda Edwards graduated from Smith in 1912 and in 1915 married Talbot Faulkner Hamlin. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Ghostland an american history![]() ![]() ![]() So why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself? We love to start these conversations by sort of setting the table and getting a sense for who we’re talking to. Colin, it’s a real pleasure to have you on PreserveCast today. As we approach Halloween, we wanted to talk with Colin about the history of haunted places and some of the things that he’s uncovered. Colin has been referred to by one reviewer as “a mad genius.” And he’s going to talk to us today in particular about his book, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places. He’s currently writing a book on conspiracy theories and other delusions entitled The Unidentified, which is forthcoming in 2019. Today, we are joined by Colin Dickey, who is the author of Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places, along with two other works of fantastic non-fiction, Cranioklepty and Afterlives of the Saints. This is Nick Redding, and you’re listening to PreserveCast. This is the PreserveCast Spooktacular.įrom Preservation Maryland studios in the historic podcast district of Baltimore, this is PreserveCast. Author Colin Dickey joined me to talk about the history of ghost stories and share what we can learn from the places that scare us. But seeing as how it’s October and Halloween is just around that darkened corner, we thought we’d talk a little about haunted history. As preservationists, we here at PreserveCast are usually concerned with the physical history – what we can know from the cold, hard facts. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Normal people rooney![]() ![]() She's holding out the jar of chocolate spread. He says nothing, merely hanging his head while Lorraine leaves the room. I just have to pop up and take a load out of the dryer, says Lorraine. He puts his hands in his pockets and suppresses an irritable sigh, but suppresses it with an audible intake of breath, so that it still sounds like a sigh. I didn't realize we were in a rush, she says. Lorraine pauses in the untying of her apron. To Connell this seems like something she could accomplish in the car. Lorraine folds the rubber gloves up neatly and replaces them below the sink. Marianne was telling me you got your mock results today, Lorraine says. Marianne hops onto the countertop and picks up an open jar of chocolate spread, in which she has left a teaspoon. Down a few steps in the kitchen, his mother Lorraine is peeling off a pair of rubber gloves. He follows her, closing the door behind him. She's still wearing her school uniform, but she's taken off the sweater, so it's just the blouse and skirt, and she has no shoes on, only tights. ![]() Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell. ![]() ![]() Also, it became a family event as Allen described, where families would have cuddled up whether in the morning or evening and listen to the radio as a unit. It changed daily life for many Americans during this time and was a daily recreation for many. Thousands of people would listen in attendance to this new phenome. ![]() It was used to broadcast sport events, news and entertainment. The radio, stated in the novel, was the first sort of technology that brought about a craze in society. The new era, at first, was seen to have had a bad start but, later it regained its popular name. Which can be seen to be the cause of the reemergence of the KKK, including, the newly enforced immigration acts. ![]() Because of this many people became unsure of each other, because of the lack of trust. The first major topic of the novel is about the reemergence of the KKK and the nationwide disgust towards communism after the war. ![]() Because of these detailed descriptions the author uses it gives the reader a better understanding on how life was like back then. Only Yesterday, begins in May of 1919, where Allen introduces a character by the name of Roger Butterfield, where he begins to describe the comparisons of how life was post and pre-World War I. ![]() When the economy was booming, consumerism grew, technology was changing, and women began to obtain their rights. The 1920’s was known as the greatest era of Americas time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A typical episodic Batman comic book goes something like this: Batman faces a thorny problem Batman gets his butt kicked, literally or figuratively, which causes him to reexamine himself Batman wins through some clever twist, resolving his internal issue or seemingly making progress in it but, and this is the crucial part, at the end of the story the status quo is restored and it’s as if the story never happened. A series can be done in two ways: episodic and progressive, and we mostly do progressive route in terms of character development.Ĭomic books are classic examples of an episodic series. “Why do your books get better later in the series?” K. Because time is short, we bulk-archive, meaning we hide all of the posts either by date or the category and sometimes interesting stuff gets caught up like the post below. ![]() We archive most posts after 3-4 years, because the publishing world moves fast and what might be accurate today is completely off the mark tomorrow. Today we’re resurrecting an older post by popular demand. ![]() |