![]() ![]() ![]() The story's central reference point is an arcane squabble called the Hesychast controversy that pitted humanist scholars led by the brilliant, acerbic intellectual Barlaam against the powerful monks of Mount Athos led by the stern Gregory Palamas, who denounced "pagan" rationalism in favor of Christian mysticism. Their heroic efforts inspired the Renaissance, the golden age of Islamic learning, and Russian Orthodox Christianity, which came complete with a new alphabet, architecture, and one of the world's greatest artistic traditions. In Sailing from Byzantium, Colin Wells tells of the missionaries, mystics, philosophers, and artists who against great odds and often at peril of their own lives spread Greek ideas to the Italians, the Arabs, and the Slavs. ![]() The story of Byzantium is a real-life adventure of electrifying ideas, high drama, colorful characters, and inspiring feats of daring. Yet very few of us have any idea of the enormous debt we owe them. Without Byzantium, the works of Homer and Herodotus, Plato and Aristotle, Sophocles and Aeschylus, would never have survived. Byzantium: the successor of Greece and Rome, this magnificent empire bridged the ancient and modern worlds for more than a thousand years. ![]() A gripping intellectual adventure story, Sailing from Byzantium sweeps you from the deserts of Arabia to the dark forests of northern Russia, from the colorful towns of Renaissance Italy to the final moments of a millennial city under siege. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments December by Phil Rickman![]() ![]() ![]() But attracting those readers in the first place has been the challenge. The value of his not knowing comes through in his writing, making his characters sympathetic and readers loyal. But the possibility of a benevolent super-being has to be more appealing than the thought of the most powerful entity in the known universe being the president of the USA.” Neither does the pope or the queen of the witches. ![]() But while his characters are allowed to draw conclusions on the existence of a god or goddess, Rickman does not. To accomplish this, Rickman placed his characters in situations where they are faced with things that go bump in the night, and sometimes the day, forcing them and the reader to look at long-held belief and value systems. “I wanted to write novels which didn’t attempt to understand the paranormal or mould it into human shapes, but to show what happens in people’s perceptions,” he explains during a recent phone interview from his home near Hay-on-Wye, Wales. While new writers are told to write about what they know, Phil Rickman has made a career out of writing about what he doesn’t know. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The appeal grisham![]() ![]() The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Who are the nine? How will they vote? Can one be replaced before the case is ultimately decided? The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it. In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. filled with deadly accurate characterizations by an author who knows both the law and politics from the inside.”- Los Angeles Times ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments After Cooling by Eric Dean Wilson![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Controlling and destroying refrigerants is the best path forward to mitigate climate change, he writes, and his message is as urgent as it is idealistic: he urges readers “to unravel the political, economic, and cultural structures that produce our desires for narrow, individualized, personal comfort, to shift the narratives that put the responsibility on individual will instead of collective community” in the hopes that they’ll consider the implications of such everyday decisions as switching on an AC unit. He points out that low-income people, “especially those of color,” are less likely to have access to air conditioning but are more affected by the environmental consequences of climate change (Black women, he writes, “experience the highest rate of complications during pregnancy due to heat and pollution”). ![]() He focuses on the coolant Freon and related chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) that have wrought havoc on the ozone layer, arguing that though air conditioning is seen as a necessity, it hasn’t improved people’s quality of life. Wilson, who teaches climate-themed writing and environmental justice at Queens College, debuts with a tour de force on the steep costs of living in a world that prioritizes personal comfort. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi![]() ![]() ![]() Then Harry begins to notice things: that, as well as Gaelic, the boy speaks flawless French, with an accent much different from Harry's Norman one. ![]() The Scottish boy is surly and violent and eats anything that isn't nailed down. Montagu gives the boy to Harry as his squire, with only two rules: don't let him escape, and convert him to the English cause. But nobody knows why the flower of English knighthood snuck over the border to capture a savage, dirty teenage boy. They ride north, to a crumbling Scottish keep, capturing a feral, half-starved boy within and putting the other inhabitants to the sword. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himself and jumps at the chance when a powerful English baron, William Montagu, invites him on a secret mission with a dozen elite knights. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments One day nicholls![]() ![]() ![]() He arrives still under the influence from a night of heavy partying, infuriating his father. By 1993, Dexter is a successful television presenter with a raucous late-night show.ĭexter visits his parents on 15 July 1994 after his mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. They go to France in 1992 despite their mutual attraction, Emma turns down Dexter's advances. He visits her on 15 July 1991 and suggests they take a holiday. ![]() Meanwhile, Dexter travels the world, staying in touch. Finding little success by 1990, she ends up a waitress in a Mexican restaurant, where she meets Ian, an aspiring comedian. One year later, Dexter helps Emma move to London to become a writer. On 15 July 1988, after their graduation from the University of Edinburgh, Dexter and Emma spend a platonic night together and agree to “just be friends”. The film follows Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley on the same day-15 July, St. It was released in the United States on 19 August 2011 by Focus Features and in the United Kingdom on 24 August 2011 by Universal Pictures. It stars Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, with Patricia Clarkson, Ken Stott and Romola Garai in supporting roles. One Day is a 2011 romantic drama film directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on Nicholls' 2009 novel of the same name. ![]() ![]() We have Mallworld, the shopping center almost the size of a planet. The Selespridar have locked us, the planet Earth, part of our solar system, and our sun up in a force field because the rest of the Galaxy plain and simple does not want to associate with us. This edition will also contain two new Mallworld stories written by Somtow along with their new interior illustrations by the original artist Karl Kofoed. ![]() Included in The Ultimate Mallworld are all the original stories and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition, all the ads for the Mallworld products left out in the TOR mass market re printing, and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed the artwork was not included in the TOR edition. Here collected together for the first time are all the short stories, ads, and illustrations for S. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments John busby the year we disappeared![]() "I wasn't aware of how angry (my father) was," Cylin Busby said in a telephone interview. ![]() In alternating chapters, father and daughter recall that first traumatic year after the shooting - Busby writing about his long, grueling recovery that included being fed through a tube in his stomach, and Cylin countering with the sad tale of a 9-year-old girl suddenly living life under 24-hour guard.įor both father and daughter, the writing was eye-opening, sometimes cathartic and oftentimes painful. 29, 1979.īusby's struggle for recovery, his thirst for revenge and his family's ultimate decision to flee Falmouth because of a botched criminal investigation is chronicled in "The Year We Disappeared: A Father-Daughter Memoir." The book, co-authored with his daughter, Cylin, was published by Bloomsbury USA and hits book stores Tuesday. ![]() Recovering from two shotgun blasts that ripped through his jaw, Busby, a Falmouth police officer, was plotting a way to get back at Melvin Reine, the man he was convinced pulled the trigger the night of Aug. FALMOUTH - John Busby wanted something more than justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Keywords: Zeina Abirached, autobiography, graphic novel, Lebanon, memory, space, war She also discusses the influence of OuLiPo, and especially the writings of Georges Perec, on her comics. She focuses especially here on the dimensions of time and space, history and geography, and memory and autobiography in her work. In this artist's statement, originally written for a keynote lecture given at the American Bande Dessinée Society conference held at Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) on 3 November 2012, she presents her four comic books published to date, all of them autobiographical: Catharsis (2006), 38, rue Youssef Semaani (2006), Mourir, partir, revenir: Le jeu des hirondelles (2007), published in English as A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Live, To Return (2012), and Je me souviens: Beyrouth (2008), published in English as I Remember Beirut (2014). Zeina Abirached, born in 1981 in Beirut, is a cartoonist who studied at the Académie libanaise des beaux-arts (ALBA) in Beirut and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, France. ![]() ![]() Trapped in Time, or It's about Time by Bernal C.Parsley Sage, Rosemary, and Time by Jane Louise Curry.Tomorrow's End (The Girl From Tomorrow: Part II) by Mark Shirrefs.The Girl from Tomorrow by Mark Shirrefs.Can I Get There by Candlelight? by Jean Slaughter Doty.The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui Ogawa.Tut, Tut #6 (Time Warp Trio) by Jon Scieszka.The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha by Lloyd Alexander.Both Sides of Time / Out of Time by Caroline B.Time Stops for No Mouse by Michael Hoeye. ![]()
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