![]() “A tale of feminist ambition that reads like a pulpy novel. Longlisted for the 2015 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Using new scholarship, Downey’s luminous biography tells the story of this brilliant, fervent, forgotten woman, the faith that propelled her through life, and the land of ancient conflicts and intrigue she brought under her command.įinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize ![]() Yet history has all but forgotten Isabella’s influence. Whether saintly or satanic, no female leader has done more to shape our modern world. ![]() She also annihilated all who stood against her by establishing a bloody religious Inquisition that would darken Spain’s reputation for centuries. She sponsored Columbus’s trip to the Indies and negotiated Spanish control over much of the New World. She laid the foundation for a unified Spain. ![]() She ended a twenty-four-generation struggle between Muslims and Christians, forcing North African invaders back over the Mediterranean Sea. ![]() In 1474, when most women were almost powerless, twenty-three-year-old Isabella defied a hostile brother and a mercurial husband to seize control of Castile and León. An engrossing and revolutionary biography of Isabella of Castile, the controversial Queen of Spain who sponsored Christopher Columbus's journey to the New World, established the Spanish Inquisition, and became one of the most influential female rulers in history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The unique quality of The Arrival offers three amazing benefits for using it in the classroom. The story speaks equally by what it reveals and by what it leaves unsaid. The pictures’ somber muted tones create a sense of realism, while the images of monsters and strange creatures evoke a host of symbolic associations each reader must figure out on their own. The protagonist enters a busy, strange city and works to set up a life so that he can bring his family to join him. This wordless graphic novel follows a man who immigrates to a new land to escape persecution and poverty at home. It places the reader, regardless of their language, on the same journey of discovery. The Arrival is written entirely with pictures. We find it hard to understand the immigrant experience of inquiry, confusion, frustration and wonder. When you find yourself in a new culture, where you don’t know the language, customs or ways of life, how do you make sense of it all? Many of us have never traveled alone to a new country where a different language is spoken. ![]() ![]() Like Gothic, Domestic Suspense has transformed itself to fit the current culture, as in the work of Gillian Flynn. The stories herein remind me less of ’80s horror than of Twilight Zone and even more of what is now called Domestic Suspense or Domestic Noir (see the anthology, Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, or the two volume Library of America publication, Women Crime Writers), a sub-genre that flourished from the 1940s into the 1970s and which, at least peripherally, would include some of the work of Shirley Jackson. ![]() First published in England in 1986, it’s a shame American readers have had to wait thirty-three years to read this collection. Not long after, Barker’s editor offered Tuttle the chance to compile this collection. According to Errickson in his introduction, publishers were unwilling to take chances on story collections from relatively unknown writers until Clive Barker’s Books of Blood became hugely popular in England. The spider won’t be able to do a thing but lie in the home of his enemy and wait for the egg to hatch and start eating him.” He smiled his unpleasant smile.Ī Nest of Nightmares by Lisa Tuttle is one of the titles Valancourt Books has reissued in conjunction with Paperbacks from Hell written by Grady Hendrix with help from Will Errickson. She’ll dig a hole and pull the spider into it, then lay her egg on his body. ![]() ![]() “The wasp is making sure that her sting has completely under control before going on. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you’re concerned, or even just interested, in what researchers currently believe to be true about the dangers involved in giving a phone to a kid before they’re ready, I humbly suggest watching my presentation. ![]() Earlier today, I also released it as a standalone video. In my talk, I ended up not only summarizing the current state-of-the-art thinking about kids and phones, but also diving into the history of this literature, including how it got started, evolved, adjusted to criticism, and, over the last handful of years, ultimately coalesced around a rough consensus.Īssuming that other people might find this story interesting, I recorded a version of this talk for Episode 246 of my podcast, Deep Questions. This invited lecture therefore provided me a great opportunity to bring myself up to speed on the research relevant to this topic. ![]() I’ve written extensively on the intersection of technology and society in both my books and New Yorker articles, but the specific issue of young people and phones is one I’ve only tackled on a small number of occasions (e.g., here and here). Not long ago, my kids’ school asked me to give a talk to middle school students and their parents about smartphones. ![]() ![]() ![]() There! Away at the sunset edge of the land soldiers! Soldiers in the millions, fighting a great war, which seems to be without end. He doesn’t see the bear padding through the snow just half a league away, but neither does the bear see him, and in the remote depths of the forest, half a league is as good as a thousand. He carries an ax slung on his back, for he’s a woodcutter, and despite the snow, he has to keep his orphaned grandchildren warm. There’s a forest as large as a country, and in the heart of the forest is a single hut, from where we see a man, an old man with a great gray beard, staggering out in the winter-deep snow. ![]() In summer salmon leap through the cool fresh water, in winter the ice is as thick as a house is tall. Nevertheless, here it is: Here’s a river as wide as a sea, and into it flows a stream as wide as a river. From where we sit, on the far edge of history, we can see across Time itself, and yet this land is so big we struggle to see all of it at once. BEYOND THE SUNRISE, halfway to the moon, and so very far away it would make your feet weep to think about it, lies a land vast in size and deep in sadness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: ![]() Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. It then concludes that the film’s meaningfulness and documentary value are sustained despite skepticism about the objective truth of its cathartic ending. The chapter explores the stitches hiding behind this unusual cut and suggests an alternative, subversive reading of the final sequence. Waltz with Bashir’s final sequence, which cuts from animation to archival footage, grounds the story’s moment of catharsis in solid historical proof and appears to retreat from the film’s creative strategies. ![]() Ari Folman), a groundbreaking animated documentary, and its unique slew of strategies for making powerful non-indexical truth claims about the reality of war experiences and the creative, post-traumatic ways in which they are remembered. ![]() Under this light, the chapter re-examines Waltz with Bashir (2008, dir. Contemporary documentary practices are strongly challenged by growing suspicions of the cinematic claim to truth by indexical capture-the notion that footage objectively captures traces of the past is becoming increasingly less convincing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, he’s the competition, but he’s also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation’s favourite baking show, Paris is sure he’ll be the first one sent home.īut not only does he win week one’s challenge-he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() IO’s world invited the animal nature of shifters to the table and then threw it a party. I, Omega and Collected Shorts Kari Gregg 3.89 18 ratings1 review I, Omega After one mind-shattering night with a stranger at a local leather bar leaves him forever changed, Gabriel lives on the streets as a vagrant to elude the master who hunts him, but the were-shifter is a fierce, stubborn predator who reclaims him soon enough. □ For one, IO’s my first BDSM title - and let me pause to say OMG, is there anything more woot-worthy than writing kink? (hint: no) - and for another…The world Gabriel and Cal live in is just so wonderfully feral and bizarre. Suffice it to say, Gabriel and Cal forced me outside my writerly comfort zone, as in outside that comfort zone and into another dimension entirely. IO’s a spectacularly pervy little story that I just adored writing. Gabriel falls for the shifter who is both lover and destroyer, owner and…friend? He is the rarest among their kind: a human omega.Īs Gabriel’s father, the Distinguished Gentleman from Pennsylvania and stalwart of the conservative party, pushes the considerable resources at his disposal to locate his missing son, Gabriel explores who and what he is under his master’s careful protection. ![]() Gabriel is carried away to the pack’s home territory where his instruction on what it means to be the pet of an alpha begins. Ze blurb:Īfter one mind-shattering night with a stranger at a local leather bar leaves him forever changed, Gabriel lives on the streets as a vagrant to elude the master who hunts him, but the were shifter is a fierce, stubborn predator who reclaims him soon enough. World? Meet Gabriel, payroll accountant and experienced sub. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ms Holmes is not the only one implicated in the debacle. For example, Safeway, a grocery chain, and Walgreens, a pharmacy giant, respectively stumped up around $400m and $140m to collaborate with Theranos. ![]() According to the SEC, she and Sunny Balwani, her deputy (and, says Mr Carreyrou, secretly her boyfriend), misled investors and other corporations about the state of Theranos’s technology and sales. What went wrong? Mr Carreyrou suggests Ms Holmes cared less for patients than about advancing her own interests and personal brand. A criminal inquiry is believed to be in train. Earlier this year Ms Holmes settled civil charges brought by America’s financial regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), of defrauding investors. It was Mr Carreyrou who first raised questions about Theranos, suggesting in the Wall Street Journal in 2015 that its testing technique yielded unreliable results. “Bad Blood”, an enjoyable book by John Carreyrou, an investigative journalist, charts Ms Holmes’s rise and dramatic fall. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when the girl's body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on. ![]() Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion had disappeared, supposedly having run off with an unknown man. this engrossing story looks like the start of a highly enjoyable series' - Scotsman It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Ann Granger's Inspector Ben Ross series, set in the heart of Victorian London, will enthral fans of Sherlock Holmes and Anne Perry. Lizzie Martin risks her life to solve a murder.A Rare Interest in Corpses introduces Lizzie Martin and childhood friend, Inspector Benjamin Ross as they investigate the death of a young girl. ![]() |