![]() ![]() He was the kind of kid we know all too well in reality and fiction, the kind who ends up recognizable by a single name, like Dahmer, or by a horrific nickname, like the Night Stalker. As a child, he tortured animals, flayed them and displayed them. The truth is sobering: There isn’t a time. When we meet him, he’s ticking down the last 12 hours of his life, hoping in equal measure for a reprieve from the state or a fantastic escape – neither seems like a realistic possibility – while also examining the choices he made that brought him to his ultimate fate: “There must have been a time… time before you were like this.” ![]() Serial killer Ansel Packer is on death row for four murders we know he committed. There’s no mystery at the heart of “Notes on an Execution,” Danya Kukafka’s poetic and mesmerizing second novel (William Morrow, 320 pp., ★★★★ out of four, out Tuesday). Watch Video: Martha Stewart reveals she dated Anthony Hopkins ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The chapters cover: first-wave feminism, a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which focused primarily on gaining women's suffrage second-wave feminism, which started in the '60s and lasted through the '80s and emphasized the connection between the personal and the political and third-wave feminism, which started in the early '90s and is best exemplified by its focus on diversity, intersectionality, queer theory, and sex-positivity. Feminisms 2nd edition (978-1580055888) today, or search our site for other textbooks by Rory C. Feminisms will provide historical context of all the major events and figures from the late nineteenth century through today. Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. ![]() Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S. Feminisms The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivity Updated and. The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism-intersectionality, sex-positivity ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The only one who seems to know what's going on is her cat. ![]() Between a hot 500-year-old vampire and a dishy detective inspector, both of whom always seem to be there for her, Lucy finds her life getting more complicated than a triple cable cardigan. What exactly is going on? When Lucy discovers that Gran did not die peacefully in her sleep, but was murdered, she has to bring the killer to justice without tipping off the law that there's no body in the grave. And a lot of people going in and out who never use the door-including Gran, who is just as loving as ever, and prone to knitting sweaters at warp speed, late at night. And a will, leaving the knitting shop to Lucy. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. 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In 1755 the High Court decided that these monies should be used for grants to “clergy poor livings” and, following the standardisation of stipends in 1960, these grants are now made to support clergy housing in England and Wales. ![]() The meaning of his final instruction, that the balance of any monies should be used for “the Mayntenance and Continuance of the sincere preaching of God’s most holie Word in this Land for ever” was unclear. The church was built in 1671, destroyed by enemy action in 1941 and re-built in 1960, and remains in the ownership of the Charity, who also retain the patronage of the benefice.Īs well as the provision of university scholarships for poor scholars native to the Borough of Southwark or from the town of Stamford, the Will provided funds for a weekly lecture in preparation for Holy Communion to be given at a Stamford church, and also for a dinner for his Trustees on the occasion of the annual audit. ![]() Download the preamble to the 1855 Marshall's Charity Act of Parliament, which includes the full text of the Will (pdf - 1.3Mb). ![]() ![]() ![]() That is, the prevailing sense of ambiguity and uncertainty compels the reader to consider two very different narrative interpretations: one is a traditional story of discontented and malicious supernatural specters while the other hints at an evil far more mortal, carnal, and dark. I assert that it is precisely these qualities that mark the schism between James’ ghost story and the generic tale. These tendencies finds their origin in the narrative structures and forms present within the novel: constructs that largely serve to augment the tale’s chief quality of ambiguity and insoluble mystery. ![]() However, in 1898 Henry James published The Turn of the Screw, a gothic ghost tale that is as defined by its propensity to engage in the traditional qualities of its genre as it is by its refusal to follow the traditional canon. James’ own collection of ghost stories in the 20th century, these five attributes seemingly recur perpetually. James’ insight delineated something of the archetype for the traditional ghost story from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to M.R. These narrative qualities identified were a ‘pretense of truth’, “a pleasing terror”, ‘little to no graphic bloodshed or sex’, no “explanation of the machinery”, and a setting in “the writer’s (and reader’s) own day”. James identified five essential attributes of the traditional ‘ghost story’. The Depth of Ambiguity: How Henry James’ Turn of The Screw Employs Our Imagination In 1929, M.R. ![]() ![]() How Henry James’ Turn of The Screw Employs Our Imagination ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “We may be after a celestial goal, but we still have to travel along the interstate,” he says. Smile/Quichotte sets out cross-country in his high-mileage Chevy Cruze on an utterly improbable quest to win the heart of one of the biggest stars in show business, a beauty several decades his junior called Miss Salma R. An aging immigrant from India who works as a traveling salesman for a pharmaceutical company owned by his cousin, he’s losing his mind but not his longing for romance. Whose quest is it? The book’s title is a nom de plume adopted by one of its central characters, Ismail Smile. Pretty much everyone will be familiar with the quest narrative, for which humans seem to be hardwired. ![]() Americans might be more familiar with Man of La Mancha. As he explains in a note at the front of the book, its title (pronounced key-SHOT) is the French version of Quixote’s name, a title shared with Jules Massenet’s opera about the befuddled knight-errant. Rushdie is far from the first to be inspired by it. Quichotte borrows its core idea, though, from Don Quixote, which is one of those classics more cited as influence than actually read these days. ![]() Related: Read a review of Salman Rushdie’s The Golden House. But he has lived in the United States for almost 20 years now, so, like his last novel, The Golden House, this one draws much from American politics and even more from American pop culture, especially television. Rushdie’s native India is a setting for some of the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Little is known of Caesar’s early years, but during his youth an element of instability dominated the Roman Republic, which had discredited its nobility and seemed unable to handle its considerable size and influence. SPOUSE: Cornelia (84–69 BCE), Pompeia (67–62 BCE), Calpurnia (59–44 BCE)īorn Gaius Julius Caesar on July 12, 100 BCE, Caesar hailed from Roman aristocrats, though his family was far from rich. After several alliances and military victories, he became dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted for just one year before his death in 44 BCE. By age 31, Caesar had fought in several wars and become involved in Roman politics. Allegedly a descendant of Trojan prince Aeneas, Caesar’s birth marked the beginning of a new chapter in Roman history. Julius Caesar was a leader of ancient Rome who significantly transformed what became known as the Roman Empire by greatly expanding its geographic reach and establishing its imperial system. ![]() ![]() ![]() He has been a schoolteacher and web designer but is now a full-time writer and book publisher. He read zoology at Cardiff University and software engineering at University of South Wales, and appears amongst both these universities' alumni authors. He has always lived in Wales except for a short spell in Kenya in 1993-94. ![]() ![]() Dave Lewis (born 1966) is a Welsh writer, poet and photographer based in Pontypridd, Wales. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For all subsidiary rights, please contact: Music is her love language, and traveling the country (and world) is the way she chooses to find most of her inspiration for whatever epic love story she will tell next!ĬE Ricci is represented by Weaver Literary Agency. She’s addicted to all things photography, plants, peaks, puppies, and paperbacks, not necessarily in that order. ![]() She is currently based out of Southern Michigan with her dogs, where she spends most of her days chilling lakeside or on hiking trails with a camera in hand. For all subsidiary rights, please contact: Join CE Ricci's reader grou CE Ricci is an international best-selling author who enjoys plenty of things in her free time, but writing about herself in the third person isn’t one of them. Music is her love language, and traveling the country (and world) is the way she chooses to find most of her inspiration for whatever epic love story she will tell next! CE Ricci is represented by Weaver Literary Agency. CE Ricci is an international best-selling author who enjoys plenty of things in her free time, but writing about herself in the third person isn’t one of them. ![]() ![]() ![]() But with Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future, and a guide to what we think we know about it at all scales, from the individual to the cosmological.Ĭhristian consults theologians, philosophers, scientists, statisticians, and scholars from a huge range of places and times as he explores how we prepare for uncertain futures, including the future of human evolution, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, and more. We all need such a guide because the future is where we will spend the rest of our lives.ĭavid Christian, historian and author of Origin Story, is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. ![]() Think of it as a sort of User’s Guide to the Future. This book is about future stories and future thinking, about how we prepare for the future. ![]() ![]() How do we construct those stories? Where is the future, the place where we set those stories? Can we trust our future stories? And what sort of futures do they show us? We cope with this never-ending uncertainty by telling stories about the future, future stories. The future is uncertain, a bit spooky, possibly dangerous, maybe wonderful. The New York Times bestselling author of Origin Story, who Bill Gates has “long been a fan of,” turns his attention to the future of humanity - and how we think about it - in this ambitious book. ![]() |