![]() ![]() It takes us to the present, when African Americans, descendants of those on the White Lion and a thousand other routes to this country, continue a journey defined by inhuman oppression, visionary struggles, stunning achievements, and millions of ordinary lives passing through extraordinary history.įour Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. ![]() The story begins in 1619-a year before the Mayflower-when the White Lion disgorges “some 20-and-odd Negroes” onto the shores of Virginia, inaugurating the African presence in what would become the United States. ![]() Jones on Jamestown's first slaves to historian Annette Gordon-Reed’s portrait of Sally Hemings to the seductive cadences of poets Jericho Brown and Patricia Smith, Four Hundred Souls weaves a tapestry of unspeakable suffering and unexpected transcendence.”-O: The Oprah Magazine a gateway to the solo works of all the voices in Kendi and Blain’s impressive choir.”-The Washington Post “A vital addition to curriculum on race in America. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist, and Keisha N. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I could have read them discretely as I often do with such collections, but I found the central conceit of these stories - that a pair of technologies developed in the early 21st century allowed entire Earth cities like New York and Los Angeles and Pittsburgh and Scranton to lift themselves bodily, buildings, subways and all, from the planet's surface and go into space as giant spaceships** - so compelling that I just kept right on going after the first novel, which detailed the development of the twin technologies, a gravity defying/harnessing field called the "spindizzy" and anti-aging drugs, that would allow this weird feat to be possible. ![]() And the author.*Ĭities in Flight is actually an omnibus edition of four novels Blish published in the 1950s: They Shall Have Stars, A Life for the Stars, Earthman Come Home, and The Triumph of Time. That's one of the disadvantages of scooping up a whole lot of ebook titles at once if you don't examine the cover art, you're just going on author and title unless you take the trouble to look up the blurb. Oh man, if I had known from the beginning just how literally this title, Cities in Flight, was meant - I took it to feature the word "flight" in the sense of fleeing pursuit, rather than maneuvering through air or space - I would have attacked this book a lot sooner. ![]() ![]() ![]() I saw the Christmas Carol movie this weekend, and I have mixed feelings about it. ![]() It’s definitely been a grand adventure, from the Harry Potter pilgrimage that took my friends and I from London to the wilds of Scotland (read: Cursed Child and the House of Minalima, the Warner Brothers London Studio Tour, and Scotland I will write about for Harry’s birthday this year - come back to read it, please!) down to today’s festivities: a tea party to launch the Harry Potter 20th Anniversary covers by Caldecott award-winning illustrator Brian Selznick.Ĭontinue reading “#HarryPotter20” Author Sumthinblue Posted on 1 July, 2018 1 July, 2018 Format Chat Categories Book Events Tags brian selznick, harry potter, Harry Potter 20th anniversary, Harry Potter Brian Selznick covers, Harry Potter collection, national book store, scholastic Leave a comment on #HarryPotter20 Bah, Humbug! I’ve been celebrating the Harry Potter 20th anniversary for two years now (2017 for the UK anniversary, and 2018 for the US anniversary) and the last two years have been no less magical than the moment I read my first Harry Potter book. My life is marked by so many Harry Potter memories that if you plot them out on a timeline, you would see them spread out through about two-thirds of my life. ![]() ![]() ![]() It had a big impact on me as a 15 year old. You realise that there's no way to escape the cumulative effect of the whole lot, it's been built up in all the books, and then it comes to get him, completely and uncontrollably. ![]() You're so absorbed in the banal, hilarious but also horrific world of Milligan's war, you're almost comfortable with it, and he's sort of distanced from everything awful that happens around him, or a least able to look for the absurd in it, and find pleasure where he can (music, collegiality, japes, the endless search for women to sleep with), that when he is finally and unexpectedly taken by an extreme breakdown it shocks and moves. Anyway - I loved the whole 'trilogy', but this is the one that packs the real punch. I really find him a comic genius, if such a thing can be said of anyone, not necessarily because he's funnier than anyone else (that sorta depends on context, I reckon) but because his vision of the world is so different to everyone else's. I read this many years ago, as a teenager, the whole series of Milligan's war memoirs in fast succession, actually. ![]() ![]() Alibrando, in addition to promoting his book and incredible system, is also available for training, seminars, speaking engagements, and will soon be producing a webinar based on his triangle system of interpersonal behaviors and communications. ![]() Alibrando has written articles on such topics as executive coaching, organizational development, and managing difficult people, as well as recent assessments of Donald Trump and Michelle Obama's Emotional Intelligence.ĭr. In addition to The 3 Dimensions of Emotions, Dr. He has worked with business of all sizes, including non-profits, focused on diminishing conflict, enhancing communication, and accelerating sound decision-making. Alibrando has worked with senior executives coping with critical business and change-management challenges, interpersonal challenges, and transitions. ![]() Sam Alibrando, a noted psychologist, leadership and executive coach and trainer who has been working on this for over 35 years, explains, "I've worked hard over the years, through executive and leadership training, one-on-one sessions and now through this book, to provide a roadmap that leads from painful reactivity to productive proactivity." This valuable book delves into the interpersonal world of power, heart, and mindfulness, and examines how to navigate these powerful dimensions to achieve balance in friendships, relationships, leadership, and life in general.ĭr. ![]() 8, 2016 - PRLog - Since its release, The 3 Dimensions of Emotions (New Page Press) is receiving outstanding reviews. ![]() ![]() These intricate, magical drawings from Secret Garden by Johanna Basford are just waiting to be brought to life.' The Guardian 'Joanna Basford's Secret Garden is an 'inky treasure hunt and colouring book' filled with intricate drawings waiting to be brought to life. It has been translated into over 44 languages. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Book was her first book. Johanna Basford has sold over 21 million books worldwide. ![]() Use felt tip pens to add a splash of colour or a black pen with a fine nib to create your own doodles and details. ![]() There are pictures to colour, mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. ![]() This interactive colouring book takes you on a ramble through a garden created in beautifully detailed pen-and-ink illustrations by Johanna Basford. Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Colouring Bookby Johanna Basford is one of the world's bestselling adult colouring books with 96 colouring pages waiting to be brought to life with colour. ![]() Independent Bookshop Editions and Autographed Books ![]() ![]() ather I'll be your friend But don't hang me up all at once It's best not to barter with how much Your martyr will overstretch With arms held out so wide You once nuzzled up inside Now they're padlocked. ![]() song I wrote you this lullaby Hush now baby don't you cry Anything you want could not be wrong So baby tell me yes And I 2 9.Break Me Open A desert hush I packed up my old childhood And threw it in the abyss If someone would only dive down And recover it Break me open I've got my. Album ( Page Link ) Song ( Page Link ) ( Partial Lyrics ) 1 1.The Cure arms May not have the fancy things But I'll give you everything You could ever want it's in my arms So baby tell me yes And I will give you e. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the years since, friends have told me they would stop by Dad-dad’s even without me.It’s explained by both privilege and a different era that my brothers and our friends were free to play tag across an entire block’s worth of yards, or knock on doors without thinking twice. ![]() “And a lot of goodies.”Sam and a friend, Olivia, said nearly identical things when I asked about memories of neighborliness in Silver Spring, Maryland: “I was always being sent to a neighbor’s to borrow ingredients” and “there was not a day that we were not outside.”I cherish these memories, but what I cherish most is my grandfather’s curiosity and openness, and his joy to see children knock at the door, whether they were his grandkids or not. An accomplished woodworker, he finished an eave in his attic, intuiting correctly that it was a perfect space for forts.“We knew we had a haven there,” said my brother Sam. We knew we could stop by anytime for a treat, or for tea and cookies at 4 p.m. ![]() ![]() I would hop on my bike and head over for a mini Horizon chocolate milk.My brothers and I called him Dad-dad, and so did our friends. When I was 6, I found independence in journeys to my grandfather’s house, two blocks away. ![]() ![]() Though the characters are two years older – smarter and more mature – it didn’t make that much of a difference to the book. It was just as captivating and magical and lovely. The Apprentices is equally as good as The Apothecary, a thing that rarely happens with sequels. ![]() The three friends are thrown into a desperate chase around the world to find one another, while unraveling the mystery of what threatens them all.Īcclaimed author Maile Meloy seamlessly weaves together magic and adventure in this breathtaking sequel with stunning illustrations by Ian Schoenherr. ![]() When Benjamin discovers that she’s in trouble, he calls on their friend Pip for help. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his father are treating the sick and wounded in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. But Benjamin has also been experimenting with a magical new formula that allows him to communicate with Janie across the globe. ![]() Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This chapter investigates the mythology of originary matriarchy and the Great Goddess, and examines Wicca, Feminist Spirituality (primarily Goddess-centred but also within the Judeo-Christian tradition) and the broader Pagan movement as new traditions actively reviving the Goddess. In the twentieth century these intellectual currents crossed the boundary between academic interest and actual religious practice, and dramatically manifested in a variety of new religions devoted to the revived worship of the Goddess, including Wicca (the Craft), Feminist Spirituality and Ecopaganism (Hanegraff, 1998: 85-88). However, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries saw an upsurge in scholarly and popular interest in non-Christian religions, both ancient and modern. The secularization thesis initially argued that religion would wither and die entirely such faith would be unnecessary, as science would provide undisputed and rationally evidenced meaning for human life (Clark, 2003: 559-560). With the advent of modernity and particularly the Enlightenment, reason and secularism challenged Christian normativity and the influence of churches declined. In the early modern era colonial expansion and missions established this form of religion throughout the world (Neill, 1975 Lewis, 2004). The historical transition from the Late Antique world to the Early Middle Ages was characterized by the decline of traditional polytheistic paganism and its replacement by Christian Trinitarian monotheism in Europe. ![]() |