Empire sathnam sanghera5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() He acknowledges that a laissez-faire approach to integration has sometimes allowed immigrant communities to “become isolated and myopic”. Mr Sanghera, a writer for the Times, justifiably criticises Britons for not being more receptive to immigrants, but he is no reflexive admirer of “pure multiculturalism”. The empire is laid bare in all its contradictory complexity. And just as Britain has an imperial past, he recognises that it also has a liberal, anti-imperialist history-of abolishing the slave trade and spreading democracy, albeit in limited form. “Empireland” is the result.Īs well as chronicling the familiar sins of empire, particularly in India, the author gives a fair hearing to those who emphasise the more positive aspects of imperial rule, railways, courts and all. But as wrangles about Brexit and racism swirled around him, he resolved to read up. ![]() He learned nothing about the British Empire at school, he writes. The son of Punjabi immigrants, Mr Sanghera was born in the mid-1970s in Wolverhampton, an industrial town in the West Midlands and a focal point of anti-immigrant politics. ![]()
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The last hours book series5/13/2023 ![]() Scorsese won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Director for the film.Īfter a boring day at work, Paul Hackett, a computer data entry worker, meets Marcy Franklin in a local cafe in New York City. The film won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature. ![]() The film follows Paul Hackett, portrayed by Griffin Dunne, as he experiences a series of misadventures while making his way home from New York City's SoHo district during the night.Īfter Hours was critically acclaimed for its black humor, and is considered to be a cult film and in 2023, it got a release on the Criterion Collection. ![]() ![]() After Hours is a 1985 American black comedy thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Joseph Minion. ![]() Dellawisps5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Frasier asks Zoey to go through her apartment to find some missing papers and to clean the hoarded mess of this woman. One resident, an intrusive, angry, bitter lady, dies as soon as Zoey moves in and she can't help being interested in this woman. They are lonely and sad and try to hide these feelings but instead they wear them like a cloak they can't take off. It was as if her dad, stepmother, and her two step siblings were waiting for her to finally move out of their house so they could really be a family without her intrusion in their lives.Īll the residents and the manager of the property have hurts and longings that keep them from living their lives fully. Her father is wealthy, wanted little to do with her even though she lived in his home, and neither did the woman he married after Zoey's mom's death. Her mother died when she was seven and she's lived a lonely life since that time. Nineteen year old Zoey has just arrived at the apartment complex so that she can inhabit her late mother's studio apartment. ![]() ![]() These little birds seem to have a lot to say, strong opinions about everything, and are every bit as scary, for some folks, as they are tiny. This birds inhabit the courtyard garden of the apartment complex, and they can be found around and on the apartment manager, Frasier, too. The Dellawisps are the tiny turquoise birds that the five unit, well hidden, apartment building in Mallow Island, South Carolina, is named after. I don't always know what to think of stories that deal with magical realism but this one is a winner for me. ![]() Love violet picture book5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() This is usually the case with picture books, and I seldom have direct contact with the author. I enjoyed that! Charlene: As Charlotte mentioned, we really didn’t have much contact when actually working on the book. We did connect online, though, and shared our personal thoughts about the project. Charlene gets freedom over her style and vision, just as I did. I sent my words and magical art appeared! I was invited to offer feedback, but that’s usually focused on representation (say gender or orientation) or how the pictures reflect the text. ![]() To start off, can you both tell us about your process of working together? Charlotte: As is typical, Charlene and I didn’t have direct contact during the creation of the book. Kaitlyn: It’s so wonderful to have you both. ![]() Charlotte: Thank you for inviting us to chat about Love, Violet! Charlene: Hello and thank you from me too. ![]() Devil in winter kleypas5/13/2023 ![]() ****spoiler ahead*** And then when he betrayed his best (and only) friend, Marcus, by abducting his fiancee Lillian, I was so pissed at him!***end of spoiler*** Now how was Lisa Kleypas going to redeem this devilish rake and make me fall in love with him? And how was he ever going to find love with shy, timid Evie? ![]() Sure, he was wickedly handsome (and he knew it!) with his blond, 'fallen angel' looks, and he was funny and charming, but he seemed to have no ambition in life except to go about seducing anything in a skirt. Vincent was introduced in It Happened One Autumn, I had my doubts about him. But when the hero of this book, 32-year-old Sebastian, Lord St. ![]() I've always loved the stammering, shy, yet beautiful red-headed 'Wallflower' character of Evie Jenner, and could hardly wait to read her story. ![]() What a truly beautiful, romantic book, with so many sigh-worthy moments, so many humorous moments, lots of wickedly sexy dialogue.and featuring some very satisfying emotional growth from both the hero and heroine. ![]() Notes on a case of melancholia5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() One refers to this as delirium in the case of lycanthropy, cynanthropy, gallantropy, and so forth (see these words). One can count as many kinds of melancholia as there are people afflicted by it: some imagine themselves to be kings, lords, gods others believe that they have been transformed into animals, wolves, dogs, cats, rabbits. In the case of melancholia, delirium often combines with insurmountable sadness, a dark mood, misanthropy, and a firm penchant for solitude. This is different from mania as well as frenzy. A diagnosed person, without fever or fury, will fixate on one or two objects. Hippocrates used this diagnosis for a malady he believed to be produced by black bile with generic yet distinct characteristics of a particular delirium. Originally published as "Melancholie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 10:308–311 (Paris, 1765). Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2007. "Melancholia." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. of "Melancholie," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. ![]() ![]() Please see for information on reproduction.ĭiderot, Denis. This text is protected by copyright and may be linked to without seeking permission. ![]() Love and friendship quotes jane austen5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() Here is one famous passage toward the conclusion, which I find so amusing. They are in turns hilarious and overly sentimental, a parody of the cult of “ sensibility” that Jane Austen would revisit in a more serious light with her novel Sense and Sensibility. Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. The novella contains 15 letters which begin with the narrator Laura and her friend Isabel, and continue with Laura and Isabel’s’ daughter Marianne. To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. The misspelling of the third word in the title “freindship” is the customary spelling as it appeared on the original manuscript in Jane Austen’s hand. It was first published in 1922, and can often be found in versions of her work entitled “ Minor Works“. ![]() Love and Freindship, (note the original misspelling on friendship) a novella written as an epistolary inscribed “Deceived in Friendship & Betrayed in Love” was dedicated to Madame la Comtesse de Feuillide (Jane Austen’s cousin Eliza Hancock who married a French Count, Jean-Francois Capot de Feuillide) and completed on 13 June 1790 when she was 14 years old. Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while youre climbing it. I have been reading Jane Austen’s Juvenilia and find it delightful. Short Quotes About Friendship 150 Best Short Quotes 1. ![]() Read bared to you5/13/2023 ![]() Provided by for tracking user actions on other websites to provide targeted content to the users. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads. ![]() Want to watch the book trailer or find out which book gave Sylvia the idea to write Bared to You? Check out Book Extras.Īdvertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. ![]() If you haven’t read Bared to You (or if it’s been a while - it’s never too late to join the world in falling in love with #gideva), Sylvia invites you to read this online excerpt. Subscribe here for News, and/or follow Sylvia on social media. We promise: if it’s not updated here or in Sylvia’s FAQ, it might not be confirmed info. When will books 2-3-4-5 become available in print with these fab new covers? When with the new covers be available in the US & Canada? What about new Boxed Sets? Stay tuned for info as TeamSylvia gets the official go-ahead. UK & Commonwealth ebook links: Bared to You Join Sylvia as she celebrates a decade of Crossfire® with brand new covers! The 10th anniversary edition of Bared to You, book 1 in The Crossfire® Saga, arrived in UK Bookstores on January 19th.Īnd a bonus for ebook readers: the entire 10th-anniversary quintet is available now digitally throughout the UK & Commonwealth (see below for individual buy links). Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Crossfire! The new edition of Bared to You is now available - see details Jan 25, 2023 ![]() Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This was a manual on number theory, the purest form of mathematics, concerned with the study of whole numbers, the relationships between them, and the patterns they form. The 17th century mathematician Pierre de Fermat created the Last Theorem while studying Arithmetica, an ancient Greek text written in about AD 250 by Diophantus of Alexandria. He promised himself that he would devote the rest of his life to addressing the ancient challenge.Įric Temple Bell's classic book, which caught the eye of young Andrew Wiles Pierre De Fermat Bell predicted that civilisation would come to an end as a result of nuclear war before Fermat’s Last Theorem would ever be resolved. There can be no problem in the field of physics, chemistry or biology that has so vehemently resisted attack for so many years. ![]() The book recounted the history of Fermat’s Last Theorem, the most famous problem in mathematics, which had baffled the greatest minds on the planet for over three centuries. The boy was Andrew Wiles, a schoolchild with a passion for mathematics, and the book that had caught his eye was ‘The Last Problem’ by the mathematician Eric Temple Bell. In 1963 a 10-year old boy borrowed a book from his local library in Cambridge, England. The Quest to Solve the World’s Most Notorious Mathematical Problem If this is a bit daunting, click here to see Fermat’s Last Theorem in 100 Words. This is it – the entire story of Fermat’s Last Theorem in a couple of thousand words. ![]() Capital volume i5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() does not include updated Vintage/Penguin page citations. version uses the pages in the Vintage/Penguin edition of Capital Volume 1 taken from the appendix of the 1979 reprint available from the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection.Įpub, PDF, MOBI files also available at. Although Raya Dunayevskaya did not develop the dialectic in the Outline as deeply as it was later to be developed in both Marxism and Freedom and Philosophy and Revolution, we reproduce it here in response to requests from students who wish seriously to study Marx’s work, because it can now be studied together with both the section on Capital from Marxism and Freedom, and the section on “The Adventures of the Commodity as Fetish” from Philosophy and Revolution. Thus, the Outline of Capital we are reproducing here was prepared in the mid-1940s, when it had become clear that the totality of the crises which culminated in World War II had ushered in a whole new economic stage – state-capitalism – as well as a new stage of revolt, arising within each orbit, against both Russia and the U.S. ![]() All crises have called upon a new re-examination of Marx’s Capital and its historic laws of motion. ![]() |