![]() ![]() The #metoo movement and the Michigan State University/ USA gymnastics scandal also gained ground when it became about people with names instead of “sexual assault”. The Windrush scandal resulted in part because of children being brought over to the UK by their parents at a time when children did not have their own passports, but were listed on their parents’ papers-which sometimes meant they had no proof as to when they entered the country. First, because of the difference it often makes to an issue when individuals’ names are attached to a story-the Windrush scandal got more press after individual stories were highlighted by The Guardian (beginning in November 2017 with the case of Paulette Wilson,, and coming to a head with an article that told the stories of 18 individuals, ). I’ve been thinking about names and naming lately for a few reasons. ![]()
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![]() We have to learn everything we come to know as human beings. To be born human is to be in great danger because you are free of the instincts which largely determine the behavior of other animals. ![]() When you put intelligence and confusion together you really don't get intelligence, you get a terrible mess. "Homo-Sap" is the appropriate definition at the present time, because he has become so confused as a creature, at the same time being the most intelligent. The species characteristic of homosapiens, which by the way is the most officiously arrogant and primitive definition ever self-bestowed by a species. All that early experience determined what I would become by way of solving this question, "what are human beings born for?" ![]() At the same time, I studied cultural anthropology and the history of science and medicine. I studied anatomy, embryology and zoology and the science of heredity. ![]() Trying to understand why women and men were as they were led to my book, The Natural Superiority of Women, why education wasn't what it should be led to my book Education and Human Nature in the Direction of Human Development, why aging isn't what it should be led to Growing Young, and so on. It always puzzled me - why human beings were the way they were. ![]() ![]() ![]() As an example of her broad appeal, she is the all-time best-selling author in France, with over 40 million copies sold in French (as of 2003) versus 22 million for Emile Zola, the nearest contender. ![]() UNESCO states that she is currently the most translated author in the world with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions superseding her. An estimated four billion copies of her novels have been sold. Only the Bible sold more with about 6 billion copies. Her works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the 'Queen of Crime' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.Ĭhristie has been called - by the Guinness Book of World Records, among others - the best-selling writer of books of all time, and the best-selling writer of any kind together with William Shakespeare. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Dame Agatha Christie Mallowan, Order of the British Empire, DBEĭame Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire, DBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English crime fiction writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Something about this young woman, Elfa, fascinates the Duke and reluctantly he agrees to do as she asks of him.Īnd despite the constant attentions of Society beauty, Isobel, the Countess of Walshingham, who is determined to keep him for herself, the Duke finds himself becoming enchanted by Elfa’s quiet intelligence, innocence and beauty – just as she is spellbound by him. ![]() ![]() Not only because she does not love the Duke but also because she is already madly in love with another, the charming and handsome Edward Dalkirk.ĭesperate to help her older sister, the aptly named young ‘elfin’ beauty, Lady Elfa Allerton, secretly waylays the Duke of Lynchester in his chaise and begs him to marry her instead and to leave her sister free for the man who she truly loves and adores.Įlfa from her childhood is fascinated by woods and goes to a wood to talk to the trees and immerses herself in the magic all around her and in times of difficulty she prays to the God of trees, Sylvanos, for his help and guidance and he always helps her. When their father, the Duke of Northallerton, offers his daughter Caroline’s hand in marriage to his neighbour, the Duke of Lynchester, purely as a means of settling once and for all an ancient land dispute, she is appalled. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although we had never talked or otherwise acknowledged each other’s existence in the two years of sharing a campus, we suddenly felt that we belonged to the same tribe, united along this slim axis of affiliation as we faced a shared Other in the municipal bureaucrats and surrounding strangers.Īs philosopher David Whyte aptly observed, “our sense of slight woundedness around not belonging is actually one of our core competencies.” “It takes a lot to wrest identity out of nothing,” James Baldwin told Margaret Mead in their extraordinary conversation on identity and belonging, and yet wrest we do when we must: The boy and I locked eyes in relieved recognition of affinity amid alienating otherness. Across the mass of dejected strangers, resigned to countless hours at the mercilessness of bureaucrats, I spotted a boy from my high school. One Friday morning, I stepped into a municipal office to apply for the coveted certificate of identity and lined up behind - or, rather, herded with, as is customary in Eastern Europe - a large lot of my fellow humans also in need of some government document. ![]() But this long-awaited event also marked my first brush with the violence of bureaucracy. As a teenager in Bulgaria, the great joy of turning sixteen was finally qualifying for a passport. ![]() ![]() Ascension is a continuation of Savage, a novella that tells of Jeremy's rise to Alpha. Men of the Otherworld is the first of Kelley Armstrongs collection of Otherworld short stories and novellas. A Bitten prequel novella, covering Clayton's childhood.
![]() ![]() ![]() As such it is a remarkably human piece of work, a story of both tribute and strife, but with a focus on the heart. Nomadland is a deliberately paced film about living life but also a reflection on its many wild directions. It is the perfect, involving, atmospheric setting in which to capture such an intimate and soulful movie experience, in a film that has earned the unanimous praise it has received.īased on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, acclaimed director Chloe Zhao’s film follows Fern (Frances McDormand), as she has lost her job and husband, and has sold her possessions, and literally lives on the road in her van, travelling across America for work in order to fund her life as a Nomad.įern’s journey is one of freedom and independence on one hand but also one of struggle and resilience on the other, and Zhao’s film captures all these complex angles. ![]() Despite it being available on Disney+, there is something to be said in seeing this year’s Best Picture Academy Award winner Nomadland in a cinema. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Birchers, Dallek adds, focused on “the so-called erosion of the moral fiber of the United States, but also the struggle to rid the country of what they regarded as really the socialist left wing”. He points out that though the Birchers were not the only ones promoting book bans in the 60s, “they were likely the most visible group promoting book bans or promoting the policing of content in schools, libraries, movie theaters, even on newsstands”. ![]() Matthew Dallek, a professor of political management at George Washington University, is the author of Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right. In the early 1960s, Skousen was a hero to and a defender of the John Birch Society, a far-right group that campaigned against what it claimed was the communist threat to America. Under “resources that we have found helpful”, the only resource offered is The Making of America, a book by W Cleon Skousen. Moms for Liberty seeks to organise “ Madison Meetups”, events it describes as “like a book club for the constitution!”, featuring discussion of “liberty, freedom and the foundation of our government”. ![]() ![]() Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like "love" and "illness" now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself Smith, whose "lyric brilliance and political impulses never falter" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) New poetry by the award-winning poet Tracy K. ![]() * A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * * A New York Times Notable Book of 2011 and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() OL24295398W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 97.73 Pages 486 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.22 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20230415195545 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 259 Scandate 20230403171012 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781554684106 Tts_version 5. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:14:26 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40895011 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() |