![]() Lovecraft (1890-1937) has, in the over sixty years since his death, become both a legend and an enigma. Along the way, Joshi probes the literary, philosophical, cultural, and historical forces that shaped Lovecraft’s work and thought,… ( tovább) Joshi-the leading authority on Lovecraft-has gone back to primary sources to set the record straight on the many-faceted “gentleman from Providence”: his early interests in science, mythology, and literature his involvement in the “amateur journalism” movement his towering presence in the pulp magazines of the 1920s and the fantasy fandom of the 1930s and the posthumous rescue of his work by friends and devotees. In this, the first full-scale biography in more than twenty years, S.T. ![]() He has come to be regarded as the leading American writer of horror fiction in this century and continues to be a major influence upon the field today but his life, work, and thought remain poorly understood, and many myths about the man and his work persist. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() But author Richard Reeves writes it’s the upper middle class that matters most. This talk was part of the Haas Institute faculty-designed Research to Impact lecture series. Watch a recording of the talk above, which includes the sharp responses from Pierson and Fox, or read a transcript of it below. ![]() ![]() The talk was based off his recently published book, titled Dream Hoarders: How the American Middle Class is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, and drew rebuttals from two leading faculty at UC Berkeley: Cybelle Fox, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Paul Pierson, Professor of Political Science, both Haas Institute affiliated faculty. Reeves said we should instead be focusing on the top 20 percent who have tremendous influence over policy and use that sway to pursue their personal interests to the detriment of the bottom 80 percent. There's too much emphasis on the top 1 percent of wage earners when looking at who controls wealth and power in the US, Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institute argues at this Janutalk at UC Berkeley, co-sponsored by the Haas Institute and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary housecat named Rusty… who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all. Noble warriors are dying-and some deaths are more mysterious than others. The sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. But the warrior code has been threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. Read the book that began a phenomenon-and join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a #1 national bestseller.įor generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their ancestors. For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid. Enjoy this special serialization of the complete audiobook of WARRIORS #1: INTO THE WILD by Erin Hunter, to occur over two weeks starting on Monday May 4th!Įpic adventures. Read the book that began a phenomenonand join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a 1 national bestseller. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was only the fine balance of power in the northern theatre that redirected the attentions of the USA and the USSR elsewhere, and resulted in outbreaks of proxy warfare elsewhere in the globe - in Korea, in Vietnam and in Africa. In this view, the Berlin Wall mattered more than the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and the Soviet intervention in Hungary was vastly more significant than Soviet intervention in Korea. ![]() For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents that determined its course took place in the northern hemisphere, specifically in the face-off between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Es autora de Enciende tu Cerebro (Switch On Your Brain) y Think and Eat Yourself Smart, entre muchos otros libros. Leaf Show, y un programa semanal de televisión llamado Switch On Your Brain, que se transmite por TBN. ![]() Tiene su propio programa de televisión, The Dr. Ella ha publicado numerosos artículos en boletines académicos y revistas de consumidores y es entrevistada con frecuencia en estaciones de televisión y otros medios alrededor del mundo. La doctora Leaf es una solicitada conferencista nacional e internacional en tópicos relacionados como estrés, pensamientos tóxicos, diferencias entre los cerebros masculino y femenino, pensamiento y aprendizaje, controlar nuestras vidas de pensamiento, y cómo identificar y utilizar la unicidad. Desde la década de 1980 ha estudiado e investigado la conexión entre la mente y el cerebro. La doctora Caroline Leaf es neurocientífica cognitiva, con un doctorado en patología de la comunicación, especializada en neuropsicología. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe Miles should take his dad’s advice and focus on saving himself.Īs Miles tries to get his school life back on track, he can’t shake the vivid nightmares that continue to haunt him. Maybe kids like Miles aren’t meant to be superheroes. ![]() After all, his dad and uncle were Brooklyn jack-boys with criminal records. When a misunderstanding leads to his suspension from school, Miles begins to question his abilities. Oh yeah, and he’s Spider Man.īut lately, Miles’s spidey-sense has been on the fritz. He’s even got a scholarship spot at the prestigious Brooklyn Visions Academy. Dinner every Sunday with his parents, chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend, Ganke, crushing on brainy, beautiful poet Alicia. Miles Morales is just your average teenager. And Miles knew hustling was in his veins.” “Everyone gets mad at hustlers, especially if you’re on the victim side of the hustle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruiz Zafón’s editor at Planeta publishers, Emili Rosales, explained that the writer had the four books mapped out in his mind from the very start. Two more big-selling sequels to The Shadow of the Wind followed: the lighter, more humorous El Prisionero del Cielo ( The Prisoner of Heaven, 2011) and El Laberinto de los Espíritus ( The Labyrinth of the Spirits, 2016), to make up the quartet The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Whereas The Shadow of the Wind was a slow starter, its prequel El Juego del Angel ( The Angel’s Game, 2008), set in the 20s, had an initial print run in Spanish of one million copies and had a rock-star launch in front of 150 journalists in Barcelona’s grand opera house, the Liceu. The weather reflects the novel’s gothic gloom: Barcelona becomes an unreal city of “ashen skies”, drizzle and fog swirling through chilly streets. Daniel’s destiny is set: he will search for the author of the book he selects, the elusive Julián Carax. There the books lie unloved in dust until someone comes to choose one. The opening grips the reader by the arm (or throat): the 10-year-old Daniel, anguished because he can no longer remember the face of his dead mother, is taken by his father, a bookseller, to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a secret labyrinth in Barcelona’s Gothic quarter. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her protagonists are all similar in that they're independent and powerful and stand up for themselves and others. What I didn't realise before was how much I related to so many of Pierce's other characters and how much stronger and complex these series become as you work your way through them. Rereading the series so many years later, Alanna still holds the same place in my heart. Switching places with her twin brother, disguising herself as a boy, and training to become a knight, she was my hero. I fell in love with Alanna, from the Song of the Lioness series, when I was much younger than I am now. ![]() Impressively, she also writes well-rounded and relatable male characters. Pierce is a young adult fantasy legend who writes incredible young female protagonists as strong and resourceful role models. There were a few misses but generally, I really enjoyed most of them. Several of the series set in the Tortall universe are super nostalgic for me, but I hadn't realised how many, especially in the Emelan universe, I had never read before. ![]() ![]() ![]() She decides in an effort to get to ultimate happiness in her last third of life, she must bring some kind of closure to the men in her past. ![]() Georgia is in her fifties, has two grown daughters, good friends, and a complicated past with two ex-husbands and several almost husbands and temporary boyfriends. Georgia is I Almost Forgot About You's strong, but floundering, main character. In addition, A Day Late and a Dollar Short and How Stella Got her Groove Back are two more of her better known works. She has written several books including the two book series, Waiting to Exhale and Getting to Happy. ![]() A newly published book I read recently was I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan. ![]() ![]() ![]() Persephone inadvertently finds herself in one such bargain, and the terms are not in her favor – she must either create life in the Underworld or face eternity in Hades’ realm. As she is keen to hide her divinity and pass as a mortal, Persephone has so far not been tempted to break that promise, but all that changes after she accompanies one of her friends to Nevernight, Hades’ infamous nightclub where mortals and gods alike can strike bargains with the god of the dead himself. Her freedom, however, is contingent upon a promise that she made to her mother, the goddess Demeter: she will not associate with any of the gods, least of all the God of the Underworld, Hades. In this modern-day spin on the Hades and Persephone myth, Persephone is a journalism student, who after years of forced confinement at home, is enjoying her newfound freedom in the city of New Athens. ![]() |