![]() ![]() Davis-Kimball regarding her findings during the excavations at PokrovkaĬomplete with a few photos of the dig, weapons and the female skeleton. Titled: Ancient Nomads, Female Warriors and Priestesses Written by Dr. Davis-Kimball also has a book out: Warrior Women. I would like to add that, though the website is a bit different by some standards, I am very grateful for it's creator, as it has led me onto various important information.ĭr. Somehow they like sending whiny, hipster-wannabe, numb-nut "reporters" who completely ruin what would be a fantastic bit of journalism.)Ī great interview with Dr. (Just don't bother watching the 'Vice' video. There are several websites and videos out there, but seeing as articles come and go, I've decided play it safe and simply to link to Google images. There's something to be learned in each one. ![]() Video for the program can be purchased here. This US television company has a short, yet fantastically informative write-up on actual archeology digs by Jeannine Davis-Kimball. ![]() (with an 's')Ī more 'traditional' tale closer connected to the Amazon of Greek myth, nearer the time of the Trojan Wars, as suggested in The Illiad.Ī simple, one-paged website with links to stories, poetry and moving quotes of fact and fiction. A short story titled: The Amazon Chronicles. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We all know what monsters are, but, as Emezi puts it, “when you think you’ve been without monsters for so long, sometimes you forget what they look like.” ![]() Yet this idea also underlies the novel’s poetic complexity. We’re reminded of the simplicity of it all: Monsters hurt people, angels can save us. There was a revolution and, in the end, the angels won. Once there were monsters everywhere in Lucille. Emezi opens “Pet” with an evocation of the struggle of good against evil. The city represents a sacrifice redeemed, a battle won - but not forever. Lucille is more than a safe space for Jam. ![]() In Akwaeke Emezi’s beautiful, genre-expanding debut young adult novel, PET (203 pp., Make Me a World, $17.99 ages 12 and up) - a finalist for a National Book Award - the lines serve as both a clarion call and a reminder that utopian communities like Lucille are not only created, they must be fought for and maintained.Īt the center of “Pet” is 15-year-old Jam, a trans girl who is loved and protected by her family, and an entire city. “We are each other’s business we are each other’s magnitude and bond,” the verse continues. ![]() “We are each other’s harvest.” For the people of the fictional city of Lucille, these words, written by the poet Gwendolyn Brooks in homage to the great Paul Robeson, are the battle cry of their revolution. ![]() ![]() Chalmers, on the subject of the ‘call’ in the appointment of ministers, in a speech of two hours' length, which made a great impression. In 1833, in the general assembly, he supported the motion of Dr. His singular ability as a controversialist debater soon became apparent. Having gone through the theological curriculum, he became a licentiate in 1828, and in 1830 was ordained as assistant-minister of the Middle Church, Greenock. During his vacations he devoured books with extraordinary avidity, a list of books read during six vacations amounting to 520, besides pamphlets and magazines. Gordon, and accepted very earnestly his lifelong views of evangelical truth. While in his undergraduate course he was greatly impressed by the preaching of the Rev. At the university of Edinburgh he was distinguished for scholarship, purity and honesty of character, and general ability, and for the part he took in the societies (especially the Diagnostic) and the other active work of the university. ![]() Berwick, where Cunningham received his early education. ![]() The father dying very early, the family removed to Dunse (now Duns), co. (1805–1861), church leader and theological writer, was born in 1805 at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, where his father was a merchant. ![]() ![]() Makenna is one of our favourite heroines out there. Or, rather, because they were part of who he was. ‘She didn’t love him despite of all his issues, she loved him because of them. We just loved being back with Makenna and Caden, experiencing that first moment they connected and felt every emotion and passion once more before diving straight into Love in the Light. Which meant that he mattered, whether he felt it or not.’ ‘What Caden did mattered to a lot of people. Two opposites in almost every way yet they fit perfectly! It was where two souls found each other knowing they were home. A man with demons after a tragic childhood, a woman with a huge heart who loves with everything she has. Two strangers – a brief glimpse before they’re plunged into darkness. She’d never experienced this kind of passion before – at least not from a kiss alone.’ ‘The darkness combined with the intensity of their connection made her feel like nothing else existed in the world. ![]() We wanted that intensity and emotionally laden moment back. ![]() We wanted to hear what happened after that fateful day they ended up stuck together in an elevator for four hours. ![]() This sequel has been one we’ve wished for with all our hearts as we’ve never forgotten Caden and Makenna. Also it’s one of our favourite stories as well as couples so we wanted the full impact. We decided to re-read Hearts in Darkness as we read it back in 2011 pre-blog days therefore never reviewed this 5 star read. “I will fight for you until you can fight for yourself.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The typical SF protagonist is not a revolutionary but a rebel, one who rises in the world from a powerless position and individualistically and voluntaristically changes society by means of newly gained personal power-seldom is the change collective, class-based and revolutionary. In this vision, capitalist society and science is criticized for its dehumanization, alienation, and often physical destruction of people and for its misuse of science and technology but just as there is a critique and even wish for escape so there is all too often a desire simply to reform and control rather than to negate and transform. Tom Moylan Ideological Contradiction in Clarke's The City and the Starsįrom the works of Wells on, science fiction has been primarily a petit-bourgeois literature: written and read not by the elite who control technological capitalist society but by the merchants, farmers, teachers, technicians and their children who are not part of the ruling class but who seek reforms, usually characterized by populist ideology, that would bring them into positions of power and end their own alienation and oppression. ![]() ![]() ![]() It also seems that religious ideas and imagery featured prominently in the neuroses of some of his patients. It is likely that during his childhood he had a basic acquaintance with the teachings of Judaism and Christianity. Once Freud had developed the basic ideas of psychoanalysis he found religion a promising subject of study. ![]() Moses and Monotheism will not feature in this post and will be explored in a subsequent entry. ![]() There is a third: Moses and Monotheism (1939). Freud’s engagement with religion was not limited to these two books. We return to these criticisms and limitations, as well as to Freud’s theories on religion presented in two important works: Totem and Taboo (1913) and The Future of an Illusion (1927). There we concluded that his theory holds little value as a theory of religion given Freud’s own clear philosophical convictions and his goal to explain religion away rather than explain religion itself. We previously produced a shorter version of Sigmund Freud’s (1856-1939) theory of religion as it is of use to Religious Studies as an academic discipline. ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) which has far-reaching consequences for all involved. ![]() Memorable characters include the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn, the friendly but depressive John Jarndyce and the childish Harold Skimpole. Dickens tells all of these both through the narrative of the novel's heroine, Esther Summerson, and as an omniscient narrator. Supposing Bleak House is an extended meditation on what many consider to be Dickenss and nineteenth-century Englands greatest. It is widely held to be one of Dickens' finest and most complete novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. Download cover art Download CD case insert Bleak Houseīleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts between March 1852 and September 1853. ![]() ![]() Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run “Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. ![]() ![]() 2018 GRAMMY AWARD NOMINEE for BEST SPOKEN WORD or NON-MUSICAL ALBUM ![]() ![]() But the baggage both women carry is heavy and the universe has a way of cutting them off right when they’re about to connect time and again. When the two women catch sight of each other, their connection is immediate. Impulsively, she decides to take on a job arranging flowers for the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena-where Sara works. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she years for beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but can’t find it in herself to commit-to anything or anyone. Across the city, Emily Dubois is struggling to get started with her future. Years later, she is a sought-after bartender in Los Angeles, as much renowned for her concoctions as the air of mystery surrounding her and her past. ![]() Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen to leave the losses behind her that have shattered her ability to trust and be intimate with others. ![]() Yerba Buena follows two women over the course of their childhood to their late twenties. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I spoke to her recently about Machiavelli’s legacy and what he might teach us about Trump and the decline of liberal democracies around the world. He wrote about why democracies get sick and die, about the dangers of inequality and partisanship, and even about why appearance and perception matter far more than truth and facts.Įrica Benner, a professor of political philosophy at Yale, writes about all of this in her new book Be Like the Fox: Machiavell i in His World. Machiavelli also had plenty to say about things that matter today. ![]() He was, in other words, giving both sides the handbook. He taught rulers how to govern more ruthlessly, yes - but at the same time, he also showed the ruled how they were being led. ![]() But there’s more to Machiavelli than that. Machiavelli’s most famous book, The Prince, is widely viewed as an instruction manual for tyrants, and it kind of is. He was warning citizens of the 16th-century Republic of Florence not to be duped by cunning leaders. The infamous Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli wrote those words in 1526, near the end of his life. “I’d like to teach them the way to hell, so they can steer clear of it.” ![]() |