![]() He presents complicated situations and difficult concepts in simple terms without over-simplifying, as when he explains Buddha's enlightenment or the Protestant Reformation. I found A Little History to be an excellent introductory history book for children (and adults), because it is filled with Gombrich's deep humanity, curious mind, wide-ranging knowledge, disarming candor, charming humor, avuncular voice, and passionate commitment to history and learning. A note about that religious history: in the context of an already short book, Gombrich's discussion of non-Western religious traditions is by no means skimpy: it's an outline, but a relaxed and anecdotal outline, and it shows a decidedly sympathetic and open mind.Ī Humane and Engaging Introduction to History Ralph Cosham is the perfect narrator for this, so much so that I kept confusing him in my mind with the author. ![]() It's particularly useful in emphasizing aspects of European history that many other short histories of the world gloss over or rush through. But if you go into it knowing what it is, it's a gem of a book, presenting the history of those areas of the world in a lucid, engaging, and graceful manner. ![]() There's a bit about India and China, mostly in the context of religious history (Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) but it's mostly about the Mediterranean and western and northern Europe. ![]() It's true, as others have said here, that this is mainly a history of the WESTERN world. ![]()
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![]() Obviously, you anticipate as much as you can, but there’s a lot of fixing in the room. These sudden callouts are, says Mantel, “the exhilaration of the process. ![]() Our scheduled interview was politely delayed because the director, Jeremy Herrin, needed Mantel in rehearsals (she attends most days) to answer questions from the cast about historical context and supervise the insertion of rewrites, an example of the emergency plumbing aspect of being a dramatist that distinguishes it from the slow isolation of book-writing, where novelists make changes, for themselves or editors, over years or months. But I don’t see the plays as deriving from the novels but as things in themselves.” But theatre is where I should have been, I think.” She doesn’t regret the novels? “No. ![]() The novel is a good form for someone who only has pencil and paper. And when I started I had no literary resources and no contacts. But if you’ve got poor health, as I’ve had, it’s hard to work in a team. ![]() On reflection, I’ve always known it: I’m devoted to the theatre. “That awful self-consciousness that beset me all my life just left me. “It surprised me, when we did the first plays, how comfortable I was in a rehearsal room,” she says. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lu's characterization of the main protagonist was inspired by her mother's computer skills as a computer scientist, perseverance and determination however, Lu concedes that Emika shares the same interests and flaws as her. ![]() In the creation process of Warcross, she took particular inspiration from League of Legends tournaments, stating that "fifty thousand people will pack into the Staples Center to watch the world championships, and that very much influenced the creation of Warcross." For the structure of the Warcross game, Lu compares it to "a mix between Overwatch, Mario Kart, and Quidditch". She is handpicked by billionaire Hideo Tanaka, creator of the virtual reality combat game Warcross to go to the game's world championship in Tokyo to investigate a security breach.īefore releasing her debut novel Legend in 2011, Lu worked briefly as an intern at Disney Interactive Studios. ![]() In a cyberpunk future, New Yorker 18-year-old Emika Chen works as a "hunter" (a kind of bounty hunter) who earns her living making arrests for minor crimes. The second, Wildcard, was released September 18, 2018. Warcross is the first book in the duology of the same name. Warcross is a young adult science fiction novel by Marie Lu, which was published on Septemby G.P. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book has an honesty and an authenticity which lift it from being a routine sports memoir into a memorable, poignant and entertaining read. You get a very real sense of Conley as a person in a way which many memoirs fail to achieve. It is a story of resilience, determination, ambition, love, heartbreak and ultimately the realisation of what truly matters.Īs well as detailing the trials and tribulations of life as a collegiate and professional football player, Conley also touches on his relationships, particularly with his wife and his late father. ![]() The Point After is Conley’s account of his kicking career and coming to terms with retiring from the game without having scaled the heights he believed were possible. The fact he made it to NFL training camps at all is quite remarkable given he never played American football in high school and after two years of college he had an appalling record for his Division III college team (he describes himself as statistically the worst place kicker in the country that season!) Due to injuries, mostly from overtraining, he never made it past a few NFL pre-season games and a season in NFL Europe. Sean Conley is a former professional football kicker who was signed by three different NFL teams. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, Wagamese’s use of imagery creates an incredibly visually engaging book that I would highly recommend for visual readers like myself. Wagamese’s attention to detail goes down to the stiffness of a shirt. He describes natural landscapes so richly that you never feel as if you’re in the same forest twice. He also uses some very powerful, carefully selected metaphors and motifs that enhance both his characters and his setting - and honestly, said setting is arguably given enough agency and depth to count as a character in its own right. Figure if I can help someone find that, I’m doin’ a good thing.’” ‘Comes to be a truth you carry in your bones. ![]() My favourite quote from the novel serves as one example. Wagamese draws on some very powerful themes in very elegant and straightforward ways. However, as with all of Richard Wagamese’s work, it’s not so much the story as it is how it’s told. This might sound like a fairly simple story - and in some ways it is. Their shared lives are flipped when they take in Emmy Strong and her daughter Winnie, who are on the run from an abusive ex and his henchman. With him is his farmhand turned best friend, Eugene Roth. ![]() The titular character of Richard Wagamese’s swan song Starlight, Frank Starlight, is a quiet rancher living on the land where he was raised, which he knows like the back of his hand. ![]() ![]() ![]() Be that as it may, I do not vouch for the fact, but merely advert to it, for the sake of being precise and authentic. This name was given, we are told, in former days, by the good housewives of the adjacent country, from the inveterate propensity of their husbands to linger about the village tavern on market days. Nicholas when they crossed, there lies a small market town or rural port, which by some is called Greensburgh, but which is more generally and properly known by the name of Tarry Town. In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St. Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye Īnd of gay castles in the clouds that pass, You should visit Browse Happy and update your internet browser today!įound among the papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker. The embedded audio player requires a modern internet browser. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the standard sailing season comes to a close, and the cold of October approaches, Carruthers agrees to join Davies for a bit of sailing and duck hunting on the Frisian Coast of the North Sea. ![]() Our heroes here are former Oxford pals Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British Foreign Office, and Arthur Davies, an yachtsman who doesn't appear to have any formal profession apart from exploring obscure coasts and sandbanks, with a penchant for chucking his belongings overboard and running aground on purpose. The Riddle of the Sands set the mold for the contemporary spy novel. Sailing the Frisian Islands, the two unravel a plot by the Germans to invade England sharply prescient, this 1903 novel accurately predicted the threat posed by Germany in WWII, which would not materialize until years after Childerss death. About the Book Described by bestselling novelist Ken Follett as the first modern thriller, The Riddle of the Sands follows Charles Carruthers, a minor official in the British foreign office, and his friend from his Oxford days, Arthur Davies, as a sailing holiday quickly takes a dangerous turn. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the days turn into weeks with no sign of rescue, Troy and Brian grow closer-and friendship deepens into desire.Īs they learn sexuality is about more than straight or gay and discover their true selves, the world they've built together is thrown into chaos. But although they can fish and make fire, the smallest infection or bacteria could be deadly. Marooned a thousand miles from civilization, the turquoise water and white sand beach look like paradise. Brian lost his passion for flying-and joy in life-after a traumatic crash, but now he and Troy must fight to survive when a cyclone strikes without warning. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:01:49 Associated-names Random House (Firm), publisher Boxid IA1772714 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() But it was only after ship and crew embarked on the last leg of their journey that the excursion took its most fearful turn.įour months after the Civil War was over, the Shenandoah's Captain Waddell finally learned he was, and had been, fighting without cause or state. Before its voyage was over, thirty-two Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be destroyed. ![]() The newly christened CSS Shenandoah then commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War: the 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's second most successful commerce raider. The subterfuge was ended off the shores of Madeira, where the ship was outfitted for war. The sleek, 222-foot, black auxiliary steamer Sea King left London on October 8, 1864, ostensibly bound for Bombay. Assembled from hundreds of original documents, including intimate shipboard journals kept by Shenandoah officers, Sea of Gray is a masterful narrative of men at sea ![]() |