![]() ![]() Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. ![]() ![]() In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. ![]() At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. “A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” -The Wall Street JournalĮmily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener-sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. From New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell, an illustrated exploration of how gardening and plants inspired Emily Dickinson, one of the most beloved poets of all time. ![]()
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However, once he's inside the mafia and developing his Talent, he starts to realize that he's not as concerned about his own skin as he is young Matteo. ![]() When Angel agrees, he expects to play the feds until he can make his own escape plans. And they want him to inform on a group that has been recruiting and disposing of magic users. But now two crazy feds show up to tell him he has undeveloped magic. ![]() Angel Zamora has always looked out for numero uno, even after getting sent to prison for robbing a convenience store at knife point. ![]() ![]() Written on vellum, it is estimated that the skins of 185 calves were needed for the project. The scale and ambition of The Book of Kells is incredible. A few years later it reached Trinity College where it remains today. According to the Annals of Ulster it was found “two months and twenty days” later “under a sod.” After fighting in the Cromwellian period, the church at Kells lay in ruins, and in 1653 the book was sent to Dublin by the governor of Kells for safekeeping. But medieval sources do record that an illuminated manuscript was stolen from the stone church of Kells in 1006 which is likely to have been the Book of Kells. The most likely theory is that the monks took the manuscript with them.Īmazingly since they were written, the majority of the pages have been passed down through the generations with just 60 pages missing. ![]() ![]() In 806, following a raid that left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a newly-founded monastery at Kells in County Meath in Ireland to keep them safe. ![]() The monastery, like many early Christian communities, came under the threat of Viking raids. But it wasn't just forces of nature with which the monks had to contend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Beauty is able to sidestep tragedy, she soon finds herself embarked on an adventure of vast consequences. Set against a backdrop both enchanted and frightening, the story begins with a wicked aunt's curse that will afflict a young woman named Beauty on her sixteenth birthday. Drawing on the wellspring of tales such as "Sleeping Beauty," Beauty is a moving novel of love and loss, hope and despair, magic and nature. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel that evokes all the richness of fairy tale and fable. tgw-pl::::C40 B1 SC1077::Beauty A Novel by Sheri S. Summary: The diary of a half-mortal, half-fairy fifteen-year-old girl named Beauty, written in 1347, describes the magical and frightening course of her life, in this retelling of the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty." With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. Tepper 1991 See our photos for the detailed condition of the item. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, I provide lucid explanations of Nihilism and the death of God to lay the foundations for a more detailed investigation. In this essay, I clarify this misconception by examining Nietzsche’s claims that Nihilism is both terrifying and (potentially) liberating. ![]() ” This enigmatic declaration is associated with the philosophical subject of Nihilism, of which Nietzsche is often misconceived to have been a proponent. But perhaps Nietzsche’s most piercing statement was that “God is dead. Many of his ideas have a continuing influence today, such as the notion, “hat which does not kill me, makes me stronger,” and his descriptions of the Übermensch. While Friedrich Nietzsche is considered to be one of the most important philosophers to have lived in the 19 th century, he is also one of the most misinterpreted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Others, which Perlstein described in the text, are illuminating: for example, a segment on Stokely Carmichael’s introduction of the establishment-quaking phrase “black power” to the national discussion during an angry demonstration in Mississippi, and Walter Cronkite’s meticulous detailing of what was then known of the Watergate scandal, before Watergate had even become a household word. Some of these replace and augment the coverage in Perlstein’s book based on NBC or ABC reports. ![]() The videos, few longer than two minutes and most considerably shorter, cover race riots, anti-war demonstrations, assassinations, the war in Vietnam, the chaos of the 1968 Democratic convention, presidential speeches to the nation and so on. This enhanced e-book version replaces the photos illustrating the book with more than 30 contemporary video clips scattered throughout, all made available by CBS News. In its hardcover format, Nixonland succeeded in telling the complicated story of the 1960s partly through a deft use of narration based on the medium most Americans relied on in that turbulent decade: network TV news reports. ![]() ![]() ![]() Personal benefit includes, but is not limited to: financial gain from sales or referral links, traffic to your own website/blog/channel, karma farming, critiques or feedback of your work from the community, etc. Interactions should not primarily be for personal benefit. Interact with the community in good faith. Respect for members and creators shall extend to every interaction. Visionīuild a reputation for inclusive, welcoming dialogue where creators and fans of all types of speculative fiction mingle. We reserve the right to remove discussion that does not fulfill the mission of /r/Fantasy. We welcome respectful dialogue related to speculative fiction in literature, games, film, and the wider world. ![]() r/Fantasy is the internet’s largest discussion forum for the greater Speculative Fiction genre. For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. ![]() Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() Seldom have I had so much fun reading history. all served up by the most delightfully eccentric author I've ever encountered. This book is packed with delicious kernels of knowledge. she's experienced almost every activity she describes. Most historians simply research the past she lives it. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 'Ruth is the queen of living history, long may she reign!' - Lucy Worsley ![]() Exploring how the Tudors learnt, danced and even sat and stood according to the latest fashion, she reveals what it all felt, smelt and tasted like, from morning until night. ![]() Using a vast range of sources, she takes you back to the time when soot was used as toothpaste and the "upper crust" of bread was served to the wealthier members of the house. But while we know about the historical dramas of the times - most notably in the court of Henry VIII - what was life really like for a commoner like you or me? To answer this question, the renowned "method historian" and historical advisor to the BBC Ruth Goodman has slept, washed and cooked as the Tudors did - so you don't have to! She is your expert guide to this fascinating era, drawing on years of practical historical study to show how our ancestors coped with everyday life, from how they slept to how they courted. The real Wolf Hall - a time traveller's guide to daily life in Tudor England The Tudor era encompasses some of the greatest changes in our history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We should take risks because that's how we also improve ourselves. Same with our goals in life, if we're very eager to reach something, we must not settle in our comfort zones. Brida is ready to risk everything to reach one of her goals which is to find her soulmate. However, it is not the usual, fancy love we see. As long as you keep looking, you will triumph in the end.īrida is also a story of a search for love. By risking failure, disappointment, disillusion, but never ceasing in your search for love. How sure are you that this is the suitable one?īut how will I know who my Soul Mate is? You could tell your Soul Mate by the light in their eyes, and since time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love. In life, we might be faced with different opportunities. Every experience will create lessons for us but once we got the right opportunities that will be with us for the rest of our lives, commit to it, drink the whole bottle.ĭrink everything, but make sure you drink the appropriate thing. Sure there are lots of experience, opportunities out there and the story of Brida encourages us to face them all. All wines should be tasted some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.īrida is a story about experiencing things and with this part, it tells us that once we get our focus, we should fully drink it. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newitz’s approach is based on the idea that we can learn from the past to help us avoid similar mistakes in the future. Rather, Newtiz takes a down-to-Earth approach to the lives of ordinary people within cities, talking to many archaeologists and historians about current theories behind the destruction and abandonment of these cities. While the title suggests sensationalism, the content of the book is anything but. In their recent book, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Norton, 2021), journalist and science fiction author Annalee Newitz explores the life and death of four cities across three continents and many millennia. From before the volcanic eruption that shattered the Cycladic Island Thera, through the destructions at the end of the Bronze Age, and beyond, we know of many cities that were destroyed or abandoned throughout and before history. Readers of Ancient World Magazine will be familiar with the idea that cities die. ![]() |