![]() I couldn't put into a book review all the reasons why I relate to Asher, an artist, even as I, a writer, don't share his rather somber outlook on life or what life apparently must be for a serious creative. ![]() The walk through this novel was rather dry and tedious to me at times, but I remained curious to see where this mysterious, mystical leg of Asher's journey would lead.īesides, I already knew how this author's measured and understated but intentional plot development can eventually bring certain details and questions into startling light, which does happen in places in this story. Now, in all honesty, if I hadn't already gotten to know and relate to Asher in the preceding novel, My Name is Asher Lev, one of my all-time favorite books, it's doubtful that I would have stuck with this sequel from start to finish. ![]() He's stayed away from the rest of his family and Jewish community back in Brooklyn, but the passing of his uncle draws Asher into a difficult and perplexing journey he isn't prepared for in The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok. ![]() Asher Lev, now a husband and father living in France, has become a world-renowned artist, even as his art continues to grate against his Hasidic Jewish observance. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While research and statistics get their due here, Solnit’s book speaks most eloquently through the stories of individuals.Ī young Muslim man from Pakistan, Usman Farman, who was near the collapsing towers in New York City on Sept. The research includes more than 700 studies of disasters showing that public panic is rare.Īn engaging book, full of fascinating detail, “Paradise” especially deserves a close reading by political leaders at every level, as well as the news media who cover disasters. Those who study disasters already know this, she says. “The image of the selfish, panicky, or regressively savage human being in times of disaster has little truth to it.” ![]() “In the wake of an earthquake, a bombing, or a major storm, most people are altruistic, urgently engaged in caring for themselves and those around them,” she writes. Often the “heroes” of the disasters aren’t police or other official workers, but ordinary people caught up in the event, who organize themselves to do what is needed. Looking principally at five North American disasters of the past century, Solnit finds that people caught in them generally behave remarkably well. ![]() ![]() ![]() In recent times, it became the powerhouse of global industry, a nexus of pop culture and a harbinger of post-industrial decline. The Samurai emerged as a warrior caste in Medieval Japan and would have a powerful influence on the history and culture of the country from the next 500 years. It was the terminus of the Silk Road and the edge of the known world, a fictional construct for European arts and crafts, and an enduring symbol of the mysterious east. Despite a reputation for sprawling cities and cutting-edge technology, seventy-three percent of its land comprises uninhabited mountains and forests.įirst revealed to the West in the Travels of Marco Polo, Japan was the legendary faraway land defended by the fearsome Kamikaze storm, and ruled by a divine sovereign. Japan is a country of paradoxes, a modern nation steeped in ancient traditions a democracy with an emperor as head of state a famously safe society built on 108 volcanoes and an active earthquake zone. ![]() ![]() Stretching for nearly 2000 miles and encompassing almost 7000 islands, Japan has the fourth largest GDP and the tenth largest population in the world. This fascinating book tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion. ![]() ![]() After inadvertently drawing the sultan’s attention, Loulie is blackmailed by the crown to retrieve a priceless artifact from the legendary lost jinn city of Dhahab, deep within the deadly Sandsea. ![]() In the sultanate ruled from the great city of Madinne, where magical jinn are persecuted on sight but still prized for their miraculous blood, Loulie al-Nazari, the mysterious Midnight Merchant, makes a living scouring the desert for jinn-enchanted relics to sell to the highest bidder. ![]() ![]() Abdullah’s ambitious debut, the first in the Sandsea Trilogy, weaves an intricate tale that draws from the legends of One Thousand and One Nights to create something entirely new. ![]() ![]() ![]() In my belief that a large acquaintance with particulars often makes us wiser than the possession of abstract formulas, however deep, I have loaded the lectures with concrete examples, and I have chosen these among the extremer expressions of the religious temperament. I hope to be able at some later day to express them in more explicit form. ![]() In Lecture XX I have suggested rather than stated my own philosophic conclusions, and the reader who desires immediately to know them should turn to pages 501–509, and to the “Postscript” of the book. ![]() In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten lectures each for which I thus became responsible, it seemed to me that the first course might well be a descriptive one on “Man’s Religious Appetites,” and the second a metaphysical one on “Their Satisfaction through Philosophy.” But the unexpected growth of the psychological matter as I came to write it out has resulted in the second subject being postponed entirely, and the description of man’s religious constitution now fills the twenty lectures. This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. ![]() ![]() Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2003.Ĭontributor to Our Right to Love: A Lesbian Resource Book, edited by Ginny Vida, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1978. (Editor) Fierce with Reality: An Anthology of Literature on Aging, North Star Press of St. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement, Routledge ( New York, NY), 1992. (Editor) New Lesbian Writing: An Anthology, Grey Fox Press (San Francisco, CA), 1984. (Editor) Lesbian Studies: Present and Future, Feminist Press (Old Westbury, NY), 1982. (Editor) The Lesbian Path, 1980, revised and enlarged edition, Grey Fox Press (San Francisco, CA), 1985. Thomas Babington Macaulay, Twayne Publishers (Boston, MA), 1978. Professor of English at universities, including Loyola University, Chicago, IL, Central College of Iowa, Pella, and City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1981-97 affiliate scholar at universities, including Stanford University Center for Research on Women, 1981-88, University of California at Berkeley Bain Research Center, 1996-97, and University of Southern Maine, Portland, 1999, 2003. E-mail- ĬAREER: Mankato State University (now Minnesota State University), Mankato, director of women's studies, 1975-77 University of Maine, Orono, women's studies lecturer, 1977. (English).ĪDDRESSES: Offıce-Women's Studies, 5728 Fernald Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. ![]() Education: San Francisco State University, M.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() The general himself, a hardened soldier, retreated horrified and nauseated. One account from an Ottoman general described approaching Vlad’s encampment only to find a sea of over 20,000 impaled bodies, screams, and blood. ![]() Posthumously dubbed “The Impaler,” Vlad III was notorious for impaling thousands of prisoners after a victory, as both a deterrent and a warning. To his ancient enemies, however, like the Ottoman Turks, Vlad was vilified for his brutal military tactics, and use of psychological warfare. ![]() For modern day Romanians, Vlad is a modern day folk hero, and an emblem of defiance in the face of oppression. Stoker was inspired after reading a history of Wallachia’s crown prince, Vlad III. Bram Stoker is largely credited with spreading, and popularizing, our modern conception of the vampire through his infernal creation, Count Dracula. ![]() ![]() ![]() She traveled under the name Margaret (Peggy) Marcus that her parents-racially Jewish, politically Zionist, religiously members of the then quite fashionable Society for Ethical Culture-had given her, but to herself she was Maryam Jameelah (the Beautiful Mariam). In May 1962, when the first groups of America's newly established Peace Corps were flying out to various "underdeveloped" countries to help them along the road of "progress", a 28 year-old woman set off in a Greek freighter from New York, to a self-imposed exile in one of those same countries, Pakistan. ![]() Who was the woman behind the Burqa? CM Naim reviews a new book about the enigmatic convert from America Maryam Jameelah, formerly Peggy Marcus of New York, was considered an important Islamic polemicist in the 60s and 70s. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together-and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past-even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. ![]() While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. The #1 New York Times bestseller, Oathbringer is the third volume of Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive fantasy epic where humanity faces a new Desolation with the return of the Voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance.ĭalinar Kholin’s Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. ![]() ![]() Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast who assists Dr Moreau with his scientific experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas with plentiful coffers. ![]() ‘The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling’ – New York TimesĬarlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula, the only daughter of a genius – or a madman. ![]() ‘ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022’ – She Reads ![]() From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. ![]() |
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