![]() ![]() The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. A brilliant and mesmerizing debut from a gifted new author. ![]() Asher has created an entrancing character study and a riveting look into the psyche of someone who would make this unfortunate choice. Her pain is gut-wrenchingly palpable, and the reader is thrust face-first into a world where everything is related, an intricate yet brutal tapestry of events, people and places. Evincing the subtle-and not so subtle-cruelties of teen life, from rumors, to reputations, to rape, Hannah explains to her listeners that, “in the end, everything matters.” Most of the novel quite literally takes place in Clay’s head, as he listens to Hannah’s voice pounding in his ears through his headphones, creating a very intimate feel for the reader as Hannah explains herself. Listening to the tapes, Hannah chronicles her downward spiral and the 13 people who led her to make this horrific choice. After her death, Clay Jensen-who had a crush on Hannah-finds seven cassette tapes in a brown paper package on his doorstep. ![]() “Everything affects everything,” declares Hannah Baker, who killed herself two weeks ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() AN EXTREMELY EARLY PRINTING OF THE FEDERALIST AND QUITE SCARCE, and very much so in contemporary tree calf and fully original condition. Ex-libris on front paste-down, contemporary ownership inscription on title-pages, some notes in text also, all in pencil, a few instances of authorship emendations made in ink by a contemporary hand. ![]() The rare and handsome contemporary calf only very lightly worn at the edges and extremities, overall near-fine, the text with some light tonging and foxing, but much less than is expected on such early American imprints. 8vo, in very handsome contemporary tree calf, the spines with gilt ruled flat bands and with black morocco labels gilt ruled and lettered, gilt volume numbers with leather labels. With engraved frontispiece portraits in each volume. Of the other works included, these are generally the first obtainable editions. First edition of the collected WORKS and only the third printing of the FEDERALIST according to Sabin. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has countless bestselling novels under her belt, including several popular series, and she’s also racked up some pretty impressive accolades. The book’s publication in 1987 marked the start of a long and glittering career that reshaped the historical fiction genre and made her a household name. Gregory wrote her debut novel, Wideacre, while working on a Ph.D. If you’ve ever wondered what life might have been like for some of the most prominent figures in European history, then her books are for you. Her stories combine real-life historical facts with an enchanting fictional twist to educate and entertain us equally. British novelist Philippa Gregory is one of the world’s most renowned historical fiction authors. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East – then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. ![]() Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors – men… ( tovább)Īs remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid – an epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. ![]() In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having no pictures, this book can fire children’s imaginations to draw the pictures that it conjures up how about drawing a hippo called Boo Boo Butt, robot monkeys or even a robot monkey whose head is made of blueberry pizza!? The words in this book could be extended into activities for children such as writing their own nonsense words and trying to get people to pronounce them. This is of course, hilarious for any young child as they hear a grown up say things like, “I am a monkey who taught myself to read.” and “my head is made of blueberry pizza.” As well as randomly having to shout out nonsense words there is also the opportunity for the adult to burst in to a rather absurd song about eating ants. The book then takes complete advantage of that by presenting the reader with all manner of silly things to say out loud. ![]() This book is designed to be read aloud to a child and starts by letting them know that when someone is reading a book that means they have to read every word, no matter what it says. Novak and published by Puffin is a picture book with one major difference, there are of course, no pictures. When I asked if he’d like to read a book called The Book With No Pictures during a trip to the library he exclaimed, “No pictures? No way that will be really boring!” I convinced him to trust me on this and once he’d reluctantly agreed to listen he was not disappointed. ![]() “And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures.” This quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is one that my four-year-old very much agreed with until recently. ![]() ![]() The case-study areas examined here have been made the nodal-points of these cycles of accumulation and financial investment. First, as Arrighi (2010) outlines, there has been 'a recurrent pattern of historical capitalism' whereby phases of stable growth based on technological innovation alternate with periods of crisis and the rise of a new economic, social and technological regime. The selection of these case studies has been based on two connected criteria. These assertions are made using three case studies: Renaissance Europe, 17th century England and 20th century U.S.A. ![]() There are also important dialectical relations between economic patronage and cosmology, cosmologies resonating in different ways with the economic interests patronising them. Using insights from Bourdieu's social theory, this paper shows how cosmologies are invested in by owners of economic capital seeking power and social status. ![]() But, like all forms of intellectual endeavour, cosmology is a product of society. Cosmology and Society: Developing a Bourdieusian PerspectiveĬontemporary sociology has paid very little attention to cosmology. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, the story goes, some young men discovered an element. Samatar’s stories are always doing multiple things at once, and this persistent multiplicity is perhaps best articulated in the following passages from the title story, “Tender”: Scholarship itself is a foremost element in Tender, a collection spanning five years of short fiction: the narrators often have an intimate relationship with writing, stories, books, or correspondence. Because the stories are so layered with ideas, a close reading can be an intensely cerebral experience to skim the surface is to miss the story. Motifs of displacement, colonialism, and mythology are prevalent throughout. To her fiction, Samatar brings an academic background in African and Arabic languages and literature. In the year Olondria was released, it won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Crawford Award. Similarly, she uses diverse genre elements - drawing upon science fiction, myth, and the fantastic - as a means to explore ideas and offer deeper layers of stylistic intricacy. One has only to page through any of her works to see why: with prose that functions on multiple levels at once atop stories that do the same, Samatar’s fiction embodies a beauty and complexity reminiscent of Ursula K. ![]() THOUGH RELATIVELY NEW to fiction - her first novel, A Stranger in Olondria, was published in 2013 - Sofia Samatar already stands as a formidable literary force. ![]() ![]() Otherwise make available this publication (or any part of it) in any form, or byĪny means (including without limitation electronic, digital, optical, mechanical, You may not copy, distribute, transmit, reproduce or The right of Hanan al-Shaykh to be identified as the author of this work has beenĪsserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988Īll rights reserved. This electronic edition published 2010 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Translation copyright © Hanan al-Shaykh 1989 She lives in London.įirst published in English by Quartet Books Limited 1989 Her most recent book is The Locust and the Bird. She is the author of the collection I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops and her novels include The Story of Zahra, Beirut Blues and Only in London, which was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. ![]() She was a successful journalist in Beirut, then later lived in the Arabian Gulf, before moving to London. She was born in Lebanon and brought up in Beirut, before going to Cairo to receive her education. Hanan al-Shaykh is one of the contemporary Arab world’s most acclaimed writers. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them drew on his teenage experiences of raising frogs, mice, rats, and fish. An unknown budding writer in September 1966 when he saw Star Trek’s first episode, he almost immediately began thinking of story premises. “The Trouble with Tribbles” was the first professional sale for David Gerrold, a 23-year-old California college student. Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, once dismissed it as “frivolous.” Surprisingly, it irritated some of those who helped put it on screen-including Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. It was an unintentional comedy that has delighted generations of fans. ![]() But in the fictional Trek universe, tribbles were cute, purring, alive and-because they bred so rapidly-hilarious.įifty years after its small-screen debut, “The Trouble with Tribbles” may be the most famous episode of any iteration of Star Trek. Enterprise and its brave crew, were merely sewn-up pouches of synthetic fur stuffed with foam rubber. These small, plush alien beings, which swamped the U.S.S. When America tuned in to Star Trek on December 29, 1967, it got its first glimpse of tribbles. ![]() ![]() ![]() But on his arrival in England, Nat falls deathly ill and wakes up in the year 1599. And Nat is good at what he does and he’s excited. Nat is to play Puck, the witty spirit who causes most of the trouble in the play. They’re going to perform Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream just the way that Shakespeare intended it – with only male actors. Nat Field is a brilliant, young American actor who has been chosen by a very strict and eccentric director to perform in a Company of Boys who are set to perform at the New Globe (this story takes place in 1999). This book is the kind of book that I read and think to myself, ‘Damn, I wish I had written that.’ But maybe there’s more to it than just that. ![]() I love Shakespeare more than most things in this world. Did this book spark my immense love of Shakespeare? Probably. But I think this was the first time that I read a book that I was supposed to be studying and really enjoyed it. I read this book during my O Levels, as it was part of the exam and I had to study it. ![]() |