Violet and Liv fall for each other in coastal Maine in this character-driven novel full of complicated, messy relationships. A sisterhood of girls plays out an over-the-top revenge fantasy as they scheme, manipulate, and murder the guilty parties. Macbeth meets #MeToo in this brutal, rage-filled, bloody tale of sexual assault and vengeance. An empowering story of support and female friendship.įoul Is Fair. 2016.Ī gripping take on The Winter’s Tale, this is an intensely emotional look at cheerleader Hermione Winters, who is drugged and raped, and the aftermath of this horrific crime. A tale about fate and ambition that addresses racism, classism, and homophobia.Įxit, Pursued by a Bear. A séance reveals cryptic prophecies and opens the door to spirits, leaving the characters unable to control their actions. Something wicked comes to Virginia’s elite Acheron Academy in this modern retelling of Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s darkest works. "To Teach or Not To Teach: Is Shakespeare relevant to today’s students?"Īs I Descended.
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It is a vision that returns the world to life, and us to a better way of living in it: one we must embrace if we are to survive. And he shows us how to recognise the 'signature' of the left hemisphere in our thinking, so as to avoid making decisions that bring disaster in their wake.įollowing the paths of cutting-edge neurology, philosophy and physics, he reveals how each leads us to a similar vision of the world, one that is both profound and beautiful - and happens to be in line with the deepest traditions of human wisdom. He suggests that in order to understand ourselves and the world we need science and intuition, reason and imagination, not just one or two that they are in any case far from being in conflict and that the brain's right hemisphere plays the most important part in each. Iain McGilchrist has spent the 11 years since the publication of The Master and his Emissary' assembling, arranging, tuning the left hemisphere tools he has to use - words - to try to evoke in our minds the cloud of right hemisphere ideas that he wants. In doing so, he argues that we have become enslaved to an account of things dominated by the brain's left hemisphere, one that blinds us to an awe-inspiring reality that is all around us, had we but eyes to see it. Nobody who understands Iain McGilchrist to be a Master, as I do, could commit the folly, fall into the trap, of trying to be his Emissary. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, matter, space and time? Is the cosmos without purpose or value? Can we really neglect the sacred and divine? In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Her family life was also similar to those classic detectives, since she lived with her father and her mother died when she was a child. She reminds me of Nancy Drew and Flavia de Luce. With the help of her governess, Miss Judson, Myrtle investigates the murder of her neighbour. They think it was natural causes but there are too many clues that suggest to Myrtle that this was murder. She calls the police and they find that her elderly neighbour has died. One evening, she notices some strange activity at her neighbour’s house. Her father is a prosecutor and her mother studied medicine. In 1893, Myrtle Hardcastle is a twelve-year-old girl who loves to study crimes. With her unflappable governess, Miss Ada Judson, by her side, Myrtle takes it upon herself to prove Miss Wodehouse was murdered and find the killer, even if nobody else believes her - not even her father, the town prosecutor. When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious Circumstances, Myrtle seizes her chance. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England. Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Genre: Middle Grade, Mystery, Historical Fiction Title: Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries #1) Even when I overlook the many spelling and grammar mistakes (which were truly excruciating), it’s still impossible for me to like this book. Your premise is so promising: magic, mystery, clever animals, and an underdog main character…what could be better? Unfortunately, the delivery didn’t live up to the promise. Oh, Frost Arch…I wanted to like you so much. It all eventually leads to a deadly battle between Avalon and the most powerful Mage in all of Frost Arch. As the novel goes on, Avalon’s life repeatedly gets threatened with each secret she uncovers, from her Master’s hidden collection, to the reason why Frost Arch is stuck in a constant winter. While there, she becomes friends with a Healer, Jack Greenwood, and, with his help, raises the winged fox (named Hawthorne) that she rescues earlier in the story. She works as a maid for the Forsythe household. Avalon, whose power is midlevel, moves to the city of Frost Arch, a place where curiosity and telling the truth can make your life very difficult. Frost Arch, by Kate Bloomfield, is the story of Avalon “Ava” Redding, a Fire Mage who lives in a world where Humans are slaves, Mages are in charge, and how you live depends on how much power you have. It includes the fully annotated primary text responding to the church officials the letter that ultimately provoked the writing of The Answer an expanded selection of poems an updated bibliography and a new preface. This expanded, bilingual edition combines new research and perspectives on an inspired writer and thinker. Known as the first feminist of the Americas, Sor Juana was a brilliant scholar and poet and an outspoken defender of womens rights. 1 Sor Juana Ins de la Cruz, La Respuesta, trans. A feminist classic, The Answer/La Respuesta is the letter by 17th century Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to a priest who hoped to silence her and all women. While earlier translators have ignored Sor Juana's keen awareness of gender, this volume brings out her own emphasis and diction, and reveals the remarkable scholarship, subversiveness, and even humor she drew on in defense of her cause. (The Poets Answer to the Most Illustrious Sor Filotea de la Cruz), more. The Answer/La Respuesta (1691) is is Sor Juana's impassioned response to years of attempts by church officials to silence her. Known as the first feminist of the Americas, the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz enjoyed an international reputation as one of the great lyric poets and dramatists of her time. Defiant writing by the first feminist of the Americasthe Mexican nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruzin response to the church officials that tried to silence her. This week, Michelle Obama declared in front of a stadium-size audience, “And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that shit doesn’t work all the time.” I found myself vigorously nodding in agreement with the former first lady. A May 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek piece points out that five years later, Lean In may have helped with some incremental advancements for individual women in corporate America, but it doesn’t seem to have moved the needle at all on big issues like overall pay equity. I documented the year-long experience at Slate and was even quoted in a later edition of the book, extolling the virtues of starting a circle.įast-forward to today, when Sheryl Sandberg has been in the news for several storms of criticisms related to how she handled Russian election meddling on Facebook, where she’s the chief operating officer. I devoured its contents, and I decided to create my own Lean In Circle of women following a program created by Sandberg’s companion nonprofit,. The manifesto felt like a cross between a playbook and a bible. When Sandberg’s book, Lean In, came out, I was a 29-year-old hard-charging New York social media strategist and editor. In 2013, I was a Sheryl Sandberg superfan. If the book and documentary reveal Black horror as a centuries-old tradition, Shudder's new anthology feature, Horror Noire showcases how expansive the storytelling tradition can be in six separate tales of terror.įANGORIA caught up with Tananarive Due, co-writer (alongside husband, Steven Barnes) of two of the film's six segments, to talk about Horror Noire, her writing practice, what Black horror has been, and what it can be. Robin Means Coleman- exhibits how the history of Black horror is as old as the history of film itself indeed, as old as the history of America itself. Shudder's 2019 documentary, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror- adapted from Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films From 1890's to Present by Dr. The release and subsequent success of Jordan Peele's Get Out shifted public perception of what a horror movie could be at the cellular level, but masterful as his understanding of the genre may be, Peele did not invent Black horror. There has been a sharp uptick in hate crimes against Jews, and prominent politicians and heads of state, including Donald Trump and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, have wooed voters with anti-Semitism (and, perhaps, just expressed their honest opinions). In Lipstadt’s latest book, “ Antisemitism: Here and Now,” she examines the recent rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S., the U.K., and Europe. She went on to write a book about it, “ History on Trial,” which was the basis of the 2016 film “ Denial,” starring Rachel Weisz as Lipstadt. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history at Emory University, is perhaps best known for the libel suit filed against her, in the United Kingdom, by the Holocaust denier David Irving. Examples include how our brain can order our body to eat the muscles of our body for energy or make us eat things we would usually find disgusting, and also covers dreaming. ⁕Brainpower - This episode covers how our brain takes control of our body and can order our body to do things it usually could not or would not do. We can see much better and see details we normally can not see. ⁕Sight - This episode covers the aspect of how our eyes react in emergency situations. It covers stories of how people can suddenly lift masses 6 times his or her weight or run at speeds that even olympic runner can't match. Miniseries: Pushing the Limits (Book 1) On Sale: Release Month: Aug 2012 4.05 (121166 ratings by Goodreads) Ebook 5.49 Hardcover 14.39 Trade Paperback 7.99 Hardcover 14.39 17. ⁕Strength - This episode covers how our muscles react when we are pushed to the limit. It is made up of four episodes that all concentrate on a certain aspect of our body when we are "pushed to the limit". This show covers topics on how the body reacts to moments of extreme stress like being stuck in a cave or running away from forest fires. These videos were released after the final 2 episodes on March 9 at 9:00 and 10:00pm eastern time. Since then "The Discovery Store" has had many requests to buy the DVD set. Millions watched the first 2 episodes of this 4 part series on March 2. Titles in this series include "Strength", "Sight", "Brainpower", and "Sensation". Human Body: Pushing the Limits, is a television program that premiered on the Discovery Channel on Main North America. The book’s focus is not only Muslim women but also those who want to save them, and thus its boundaries are both local and global, with women standing firmly on a demarcation line that many in both the West and the Muslim world would prefer to remain firmly drawn. Lila Abu-Lughod’s book is a critical reflection on this mushrooming industry, and its representatives, representations and bureaucracy. Saving Muslim women is now a global undertaking in which the participants are both Muslim and non-Muslim. They have inflamed the imagination not only of ordinary observers and feminists but also of Western activists and politicians, with a few claiming to want to save them from the alleged oppression of their culture and religion. Muslim women are now truly the “other” against which the West defines its difference and superiority. |