![]() ![]() It's interesting to find that pregnant women could ‘plead their belly’ in capital cases to avoid death, and that consequently most gaols had one or two ‘child-getters’ who could ‘qualify the ladies for that expedient’. Foreign visitors learned this lesson quickly. I am happy to learn, for instance, that some people dined at 3pm, though the fashionable hour was 5 and that if you heard a shout of ‘By your leave, sir!’ while walking the streets, you should rapidly get out of the way so as not to be run over by the ‘chairmen’ carrying a sedan chair. There is nothing in here about eighteenth-century politics or court machinations – just a wealth of detail about how ordinary people in Georgian London dressed, how often they washed, where they went to get false teeth made, how often they ate turtle, what they did to get rid of bedbugs, and how they got around town. ![]() If you're one of those people who reads old novels not for the plot, but for the bizarre details that can be extracted about daily life, then Liza Picard's books are a goldmine, not to mention a huge timesaver. ![]()
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![]() According to him, he didn’t even know whether he was dreaming that he was the butterfly or whether the butterfly dreamed that it was Zhuang Zhou. ![]() All of a sudden, he woke up and found that he was Zhuangzi, a solid and unmistakably human man and not a butterfly as his dream had earlier revealed to him. Supposedly, all he was conscious about was his happiness as a butterfly and he was completely unaware that he was Zhang Hou. The story of the butterfly dream as translated by Lin Yutang, tells that once upon a time, he Zhuangzi slept and dreamed that he was a butterfly, flitting and fluttering around, in a happy and ecstatic manner doing whatever he pleased whenever he wanted to. Reportedly, the story has hand great impact on later philosophies that came up in the Eastern and Western parts of the world. According to most interpreters and other Chinese historians, the story of the butterfly dream serves as a clear articulation of the Daosim challenge towards the definition of reality and that of illusion. One of the most popular Daoism parables that are attributed to Zhuangzi/Chuang-Tzu-the Chinese philosopher is the story of the butterfly dream. ![]() ![]() He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent.īut the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. ![]() It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times-modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society-and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. ![]() ![]() The First World War created the modern world. ![]() ![]() ![]() discovers a connection between the two that brings her to a confrontation where the line between friend and enemy is redrawn to frightening effect.Īfter having finished Burn Marks last night, I read the on-line reviews here. doesn’t know whether it’s the politicians, the police, or the developers who are after her.As this, her sixth investigation, takes her deep into the workings of both the construction business and Cook County politics, V.I. After three terrifying attempts on her life, V.I. is warned off the case by both a high-ranking police officer and a major Chicago developer- who also happens to be a close friend of the chairman of the Cook County Board. ![]() is hired to investigate the fire at the hotel, her aunt disappears, and her aunt’s young friend is found dead at a construction site. vows that it will be a short visit and uses some old political contacts to find Elena a room.When V.I. Burned out of her SRO hotel, Elena has turned to V.I. ![]() Warshawski’s derelict aunt, re-enters her niece’s life at three in the morning. “Victoria, sweetie, you look terrific!” With those words-and the sour yeasty smell of stale beer-Elena, V.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() Georgetown College and the Georgetown School of Medicine are in the process of developing a cross-campus, collaborative undergraduate major in Medical Humanities. ![]() She also authored Infectious Madness, Deadly Monopolies. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. Harriet Washington has been a fellow in medical ethics at the Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University, and the recipient of a John S. Culture,” featuring Harriet Washington, National Book Critics’ Circle award-winning author of Medical Apartheid. ![]() On February 10, the Medical Humanities Initiative, in collaboration with the Georgetown Humanities Initiative and Howard University, hosted the lecture “A Distant Mirror: Seeing Medical History and Race Through the Lens of U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() Update: Study Hall of Justice is now available for purchase from. It will feature Arthur Curry (Aquaman), Victor Stone (Cyborg) and other young super heroes. The second novel in the series will come out in Spring 2017. And when in doubt, it doesn't hurt to write in ninjas or have class clowns throwing pies." But I remember my years in school fondly and tried to tap into that. The three young super heroes form a detective squad to find out what the faculty at the school is plotting.ĭustin Nguyen says in a statement, "I don't know what it's like to shoot lasers from my eyes, fly an Invisible Jet, or dress like a bat. Young Bruce does not fit in at the school and he befriends two outsiders very familiar to comics fans, Clark Kent and Diana Prince. Bruce Wayne is the new kid at Ducard Academy, a prep school for gifted kids. Scholastic says the novel reimagines Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman as middle-grade students in a mysterious school. The first book, Study Hall of Justice, will be published in February 2016. They will be written and illustrated by Dustin Nguyen and Derek Fridolfs. ![]() The novels will be based on DC Comics super hero characters. Scholastic has announced it will publish three DC Comics: Secret Hero Society novels. ![]() Scholastic Anounces DC Comics: Secret Hero Society Novels Academy in Gotham City, where a young Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman start their very own Junior Detective Agency. ![]() ![]() ![]() But at the last moment, he calls out to the Cyclops to declare that it was he, Odysseus, who defeated him, so that the Cyclops can spread his fame and win him glory. Odysseus escapes the Cyclops with most of his crew in part by naming himself Nobody – a symbolic act of self-effacement. For example, Odysseus blinds the Cyclops Polyphemus in order to avenge the deaths of six crew members: the violence is an act of honor because vengeance is customary and just. Sometimes the two pursuits conflict with one another, since striving for glory can lead to reckless, proud behavior that violates customs and angers the gods. Glory is attained mainly by victory in battle and by feats of strength and cunning, while honor is attained by just, lawful behavior. In the course of the story, the two terms acquire distinct meanings. ![]() ![]() Odysseus and other characters are motivated by pursuit of glory and honor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() WrittenĪ lot of Steampunk is, much like its futuristic counterpart Cyberpunk, rooted in literary traditions, especially among the works of Jules Verne and H.G. Steampunk is popular in cosplay, but it can also be expressed more casually. ![]() Popular motifs include cogs, clocks, and sea creatures (particularly octopodes). These elements are often used as decorative accents on jewelry pieces, and can give the jewelry a unique and industrial look. Steampunk jewelry often incorporates gears, cogs, and other mechanical elements that are inspired by the technology of the Victorian era. One of the defining features of steampunk is its use of technology and machinery. Accessories are also important to steampunk popular ones include brass/copper jewelry, pocket watches, and goggles. Lace, leather and brass are common materials. Steampunk fashion often includes Victorian-style clothing, such as suits, waistcoats, top hats and long dresses. Those are always made of metals, wood, or even glass, but never plastics or other modern materials. Steampunk engineering often includes visible gears and screws, as well as analog clocks, steam-powered machines (including vehicles such as airships that often carry flying wooden ships), rotating propellers and dials. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rose trilogy continued with The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose. Jennifer’s first novel, The Tea Rose, an epic historical novel set in London and New York in the late 19th century, was called “exquisite” by Booklist, “so much fun” by the Washington Post, a “guilty pleasure” by People and was named a Top Pick by the Romantic Times. She grew up in New York State, in Lewis and Westchester counties, and attended the University of Rochester where she majored in English Literature and European History. ![]() ![]() She is a co-author of Fatal Throne, which explores the lives of King Henry VIII's six wives, for which she wrote the part of Anna of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife. Jennifer Donnelly is the author of thirteen novels - Poisoned, Stepsister, Lost in a Book, These Shallow Graves, Sea Spell, Dark Tide, Rogue Wave, Deep Blue, Revolution, A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose and The Wild Rose - and Humble Pie, a picture book for children. ![]() ![]() ![]() IT was a time when I was at school, I was just finding books, my imagination was running riot and it felt like there was nothing that appealed to me.Īnd then I came across the Usborne series of books, there were books on space flight and robots and all sorts of amazing things, part factual, part fictional, they mercilessly borrowed material where ever possible, sometimes explaining it, sometimes totally repurposing it but every page was a dream to a young boys imagination. A nostalgia of when science fiction was still new and different and totally crazy. The reason I put everything aside to read this was simple - I saw a reference to it on a 70s Sci Fi artwork page and was instantly over taken by nostalgia. ![]() To be honest it took me longer to find it than it did to read - but thats a whole different story. Okay I took some time out to dig this book out and reading it. ![]() |