6/30/2023 0 Comments Finale a novel of the reagan years![]() ![]() The Reykjavik summit produces some of Mallon's best writing. ![]() Hitchens arrives to report and issue cynical observations between cocktails, while Harriman knows that a successful summit for Reagan could scuttle her plans to help the Democrats take over the Senate in the ’86 midterms. Anders tags along as a stealth observer for the old cold warrior Nixon, who worries that Nancy Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz will pressure the president into disastrous concessions. The more public story deals with the seminal events of Reagan's second term: the 1986 arms-control summit with Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Iran-Contra affair, which erupted that same year.Īll the book’s key players have a stake in Iceland. Two major stories unfold in Finale: one tracking the historical record and the other delving into the private life of Anders Little. ![]()
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![]() This series, The Infernal Devices, follows bookworm Tessa Gray as she discovers the London Institute in Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince, and Clockwork Princess. The Mortal Instruments concluded in 2014, and includes City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls, and City of Heavenly Fire. She also created a prequel series, inspired by A Tale of Two Cities and set in Victorian London. In 2007, the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, City of Bones, introduced the world to Shadowhunters. She started working on her YA novel, City of Bones, in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favorite city. She spent her high school years in Los Angeles where she used to write stories to amuse her classmates, including an epic novel called “The Beautiful Cassandra” based on the eponymous Jane Austen short story (and from which she later took her current pen name).Īfter college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids. Since her family moved around so much she found familiarity in books and went everywhere with a book under her arm. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old. Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Teheran, Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Loren coleman mysterious america![]() ![]() The organization’s name was the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy. Woolheater and his associates formed the Texas Bigfoot Research Center in June of 1999. In January, 2007, the TBRC reorganized as a 501(c)(3), non-profit, scientific research organization. He searched long and hard to find a copy of John Keel’s book that he had read in his youth. When he got on the Internet in 1997, he started looking up websites and buying books on eBay about Bigfoot & Cryptozoology. One night in May of 1994, Woolheater had a sighting of a Bigfoot creature. Then he became interested in Bigfoot, and he saw the movie The Legend of Boggy Creek. ![]() Keel’s book Strange Creatures from Time & Space. Worth Star Telegram, and Craig Woolheater started imagining himself investigating the creature. In 1970, Woolheater obtained a copy of John A. When he was 9 years old, the story of the Lake Worth Monster hit the front page of the Ft. He is our first Cryptozoologist of 2019, the winner of the Golden Yeti. Cryptozoologist of the Year 2019: Craig WoolheaterĬraig Woolheater was born on March 25, 1960. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wollstonecraft died soon after giving birth to Shelley and was vilified for a previous illegitimate daughter. ![]() Wollstonecraft cited the benefits to society of mothers who can properly educate their children. She advocated for women to be treated as full human beings rather than as mere objects of beauty whose inherent “hysteria” made rational thought impossible. Mary Shelley was the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Women which in 1792 championed educational and employment opportunities for women. The novel’s two centuries of play, film, and book adaptations, most recently Kris Waldherr’s excellent Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women, attest to Frankenstein’s continuing relevance to profound aspects of human experience.įirst, let’s look at what might have influenced the writing of Frankenstein. Her novel 200-year-old Frankenstein Or a Modern Prometheus has much to say today about the essential matristic values of nurturing and life-giving, women’s reproductive and other rights, parenthood and child care, and more. The monster and Elizabeth from movie Frankenstein, 1931, Universal Studios, Public DomainĪs Mother’s Day beckons, Mary Shelley would like to have a word, or rather a novel’s worth of words. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Revolusi by David Van Reybrouck![]() A truly interdisciplinary study, this work shows how scholars working in different fields can effectively improve their methods for interpreting the deep past by understanding the historical challenges of adjacent disciplines. He goes on to show how the field of ethnoarchaeology has succeeded in circumventing the major pitfalls of such analogical reasoning. Such primate models, Van Reybrouck argues, continue the highly problematic 'comparative method' of the Victorian times. The belief that the contemporary world provides 'living links' still goes strong. Likewise, today's primatologists debate to what extent bonobos, baboons or chimps may be regarded as stand-ins for early human ancestors. ![]() Victorian scholars were keen to look at contemporary Australian and Tasmanian aboriginals to understand the enigmatic Neanderthal fossils. Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th century to this day - often far beyond the available evidence. ![]() ![]() ![]() To have wasted so much of our lives by not really living them, makes me feel so sad. Every time his words replay in my mind, a new list of regrets writes itself inside my head. Even though it’s starting to get dark, and it seems we might be lost in more ways than one.Ĭan a weekend away save a marriage? That’s what my husband said when the counselor suggested it. The journey from London up to Scotland should have taken no more than eight hours, but I daren’t drive any faster in this storm. Adam has checked his seat belt a hundred times since we left home, and his hands are balled into conjoined fists on his lap. ![]() If you look after things, they will last a lifetime, but I suspect my husband might like to trade us both in for a younger model. The snow is falling faster now, it’s like driving in a whiteout, and the windscreen wipers on my Morris Minor Traveller are struggling to cope. It’s the sulky, petulant, “I told you so” version, so I concentrate on the road instead. ![]() I know the expression his face is wearing without having to look. ![]() Nobody else looks familiar to him either, but it is still strange to think that the man I married wouldn’t be able to pick me out in a police lineup. I feel him staring at me as I drive, and wonder what he sees. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Malleus dan abnett![]() His first successful persecution was that of the heretic Lemete Syre.Ĭarving out a stable and competent career, Eisenhorn eventually found himself being drawn into events that would change the course of his life in the year 240.M41. He studied alongside fellow Inquisition apprentice Titus Endor and was elevated to the rank of full Inquisitor in 222.M41, at the incredibly young age of 24. ![]() A younger Gregor Eisenhorn armed with his master-crafted Bolt Pistol, the tome of sorcery called the Malus Codicium and his Force Staff.īorn in 198.M41, on DeKere's World, Gregor Eisenhorn was taken at an early age by the Black Ships and in time he became an Acolyte of Inquisitor Hapshant. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Chalmers johnson nemesis![]() ![]() Take former CIA head William Casey, for instance, who “saw political Islam and the Catholic Church as natural allies in covert actions against Soviet imperialism.” It was Casey, in Johnson’s assessment, who was responsible for the United States’ strange-bedfellows alliance with the Islamic fundamentalists who morphed into the Taliban and al-Qaeda. (Hence the “blowback” of which Johnson has written at length elsewhere.) Secretively seeking to further America’s unacknowledged imperial aims, government officials authorize actions that do not befit a republic supposedly ruled by checks and balances. ![]() Bush and Dick Cheney have led the country into a perilous cul-de-sac, but they did not do it alone and removing them from office will not necessarily solve the problem.” The problem, writ large, is the post–World War II transformation of America into a super-state served by client governments around the world whose citizens, for various reasons, may not be happy about the association. But political scientist and liberal commentator Johnson ( Blowback, 2000, etc.) isn’t biting. A paean-perhaps premature, perhaps overdue-for a republic-turned-empire.įor those of a blue-state bent, the midterm election of 2006 may seem to have changed things for the better. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Frankenstein lost souls![]() ![]() They are drawn together in different ways, by omens sinister and wondrous, to the same shattering conclusion: Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. In their hands rests nothing less than the survival of humanity itself. ![]() It is up to five people to prove him wrong. With a powerful, enigmatic backer eager to see his dream come to fruition and a secret location where the enemies of progress can’t find him, Victor is certain that this time, nothing and no one can stop him. Using stem cells, “organic” silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans-the perfect melding of flesh and machine. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future-he’s ready to populate it. In Lost Souls, Koontz puts a singular twist on this classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong and forges a new legend uniquely suited to our times-a story of revenge, redemption, and a new invitation to apocalypse. #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz brings his fertile imagination and unparalleled storytelling abilities to one of the most timeless-and terrifying-creations in all of fiction: the legend of Frankenstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() From quirky independent bars to delectable restaurants – you’ll be set to have just as boozy and calorific a day as you would here in Manchester. □♀️ What to do: In a city as equally as bustling as Manchester, it’s not likely you’ll be bored in Liverpool. □ Distance from Manchester: 40 minutes from Manchester Victoria. Stroll down the pretty River Dee, do a spot of shopping at Cheshire Oaks, hit up Chester Zoo, or unleash your inner history buff with one of the city’s interesting Roman tours. □♀️ What to do: Known for its beautiful, Tudor-style architecture, the historic city of Chester is a fantastic place to visit for a day trip, rivalling the more Medieval city of York with its remaining city walls. □ Distance from Manchester: 1hr-1hr30 from Manchester Piccadilly. Chester Credit: Photo © G Laird ( cc-by-sa/2.0) From the idyllic retreats that’ll have you feeling like you’re abroad, to the historic towns and cities that simply provide some fresh sights for us to enjoy, here’s our guide to the best train trips to take from Manchester. If you’re planning a year packed full of ‘staycations’, you’ll be pleased to know that Manchester is pretty well connected – with tons of gorgeous destinations just a short train ride away. In desperate need of a bit of escapism? You don’t need to jump on a plane for that. ![]() |