0 Comments
It is also a tale of relationships among islands whose inhabitants did not always see eye-to-eye and among individuals who fought private and public battles in those islands. “The tale is one of interplay between four sequential colonial regimes (Spain Germany, Japan, and the United States) and the diverse island cultures they governed. Hezel demonstrates a fine understanding of the complicated relations between administrators, missionaries, traders, chiefs and commoners, in a wide range of social and historical settings.” -Pacific Affairs This is a ‘conventional’ history, and a very good one, focused mostly on political and economic developments. “Hezel has written an authoritative and engaging narrative of succession of colonial regimes, drawing upon a broad range of published and archival sources as well as his own considerable knowledge of the region. The Sociopath: Somerled from Wolfskin.Selkies and Wereseals: Watcher in Foxmask is a descendant of a selkie mother and a human father.There doesn't seem to have been time for him to actually do everything he's supposed to have done, particularly given the time it must have taken for a member of an enemy tribe to win the trust of the Priteni king. In the second and third books, we find out that he started out as a bard in Ireland, then became an assassin, then was in prison for awhile, then somehow made his way to Scotland and made a career there. In the first book, he's a spy and bodyguard with a Mysterious Past. Expansion Pack Past: Faolan from The Bridei Chronicles.Death of the Old Gods: The Bridei Chronicles series has this, it's set in Scotland and England during their conversion from paganism to Catholicism.Her books are often set during pivotal points in history and sometimes include actual historical figures. A fantasy writer who is best known for The Sevenwaters Trilogy. Yet not everyone is pleased by a royal purchasing a breeder, especially one like Percy, and tensions rise both in Heritage and in the palace. Prince Edward is immediately infatuated with the shy, nervous and enchantingly beautiful Percy, and claims him for his own. Afraid he'll be bought by a wretched old man or a deviant monster, Percy is terrified when he is dragged from his cell and presented to the most prestigious client Heritage has ever welcomed.a Cassian Royal. Yet when his creator and Master dies, leaving Percy alone at the mercy of the callous stable masters and the new owner of Heritage, he fears his future. Percy is the result of a master DNA architect designing himself his own personal sex slave and breeder. Not wishing to saddle himself with royal and meddlesome in-laws, and a wife he would have no desire to bed, Prince Edward goes to Heritage Breeders, and finds far more than just a warm body to sate his lust and carry on his lineage. In a world where humans are genetically designed, altered and sold for sexual pleasure and breeding, a young prince of the powerful Cassian Dynasty decides to take a mate and sire heirs. You can purchase MP3s and PDFs at Dust-to Digital’s website (but I can’t fathom why people wouldn’t want to hold these beautifully made items in their hands. (They also have over a dozen releases of music from around the globe.) They preserve it by disseminating it, not merely by archiving it, virtually or otherwise. I’ve bought some of their 60-odd releases myself, and the Ledbetters were kind enough to send more to illustrate what they’ve done to preserve American music. What was a one-off project turned into a record label, Dust-to-Digital, helmed by the Ledbetters in Atlanta, Georgia. The set, Goodbye, Babylon, received a Grammy nomination, and Bob Dylan thought enough of it to give Neil Young a copy. I slid back the top of the box to find a thick book, a few clumps of Georgia cotton, and six CDs crammed with rare gospel songs from 1902 to 1960-blues, Sacred Harp, country & western, bluegrass, early jazz, a cappella quartets, you name it-the result of four years of hard work from Lance and April Ledbetter. In 2003, a cedar box appeared in my mailbox, with the words “Goodbye, Babylon” and an illustration of Babel’s famed tower on the front. The geeks we hear about are men like Bill Gates, a notorious computer geek who runs one of the worlds largest corporations and George Lucas who has created some of the most successful science fiction movies and videogames of the past 30 years. Book Synopsis Geeks may be outcasts in mainstream society, mocked for their lack of social graces, but theyre still taking over the world. More than anything, ShesSuch a Geek is a celebration and call to arms: its a hopeful book which looks forward to a day when women will invent molecular motors, design the next ultra-tiny supercomputer, and run the government. Editors Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders bring together a diverse range of critical and personal essays about the meaning of female nerdhood by women who are in love with genomics, obsessed with blogging, learned about sex from Dungeons and Dragons, and arent afraid to match wits with men or computers. About the Book Shes Such a Geek is a groundbreaking anthology that celebrates women who have flourished in the male-dominated realms of technical and cultural arcana. The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets", where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification". Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the 21st century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the 20th. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism", and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In his novel Pamuk (2002) permits multiple narrators to tell their version of the story from which the reader understands the conflicting viewpoints that developed as the miniaturists and their society came into increasing contact with other cultures, thereby interpreting their artistic works and incorporating certain ideas and elements from them into their own work. Each one of the different narrators in the novel contributed to the formation of the historical events depicted in it, exposing wishes on the mind of the author to be at peace with those distinguishing differences forming each civilization as those characters gave a personalized view point, they also represented an exploring effort intended by Pamuk to shed light on differences between east and west, with the art of miniature painting as the differentiator. The paper exposed how in the novel the concept of historiography is brilliantly used depending on an intricately woven web of characters that directly expose their inner thoughts to the reader. In this paper the novel My Name Is Red by the Turkish writer Pamuk was analyzed all the while clarifying the implementation of historiography (the usage of historical events under the influence of a certain narrator) which stemmed from the postmodernist trend followed in the novel, touching on its effect on major themes developed in the novel. This isn't typically my genre, but I was looking for a lighter read and I'm always interested in reading queer stories. I came to this book after I saw it won the Lammy for Gay Romance. Read Camille’s review in its entirety here. Most of the events, however, are concentrated around what happens in the time between his mother dying and his being imprisoned and the resolution of that event. Because this is Joseph’s autobiography, we get to follow him from as young an age as the character can remember to his present day, which is 1778 or so, when he is about sixteen. This helps establish the system of employment-by-apprenticeship, medical aid consisting of bleeding the bad “humours,” the supposed evils of bathing, and the villification of the poor by sending people to workhouses. Through Joseph, readers enjoy first-hand accounts of how life is lived. I think this choice in narrative style allows for the realities of life in 1770s London to be made amply clear without resorting to long descriptive paragraphs. Joseph Chapman, My Molly Life is a story told from first-person perspective and, as we later find out, is something of an autobiography of (the fictional) Joseph Chapman. She doesn’t do it for her country, but for her family and her future. When Germany invades the Soviet Union, Mila leaves all of that behind to join the fight against the Nazis. She takes up shooting in her spare time to prove that her son doesn’t need his absentee father – she could and would teach him anything he was interested in. Mila Pavlichenko is a young, single mother and student trying to do everything – be the perfect mother and father to her son, excel in school in order to realize her dream of becoming a historian. “An unforgettable World War II take of a quiet bookworm who becomes history’s deadliest female sniper.” (from the book jacket) It’s a story of a Soviet student turned sharpshooter, her life during WWII, and her tumultuous goodwill tour of the United States. The Diamond Eye is a story of war and secrets love and friendship. |