![]() ![]() ![]() Queen of the Desert is her story, vividly told. ‘Riveting … few women have had a life more worth reading about. Desert Queen: Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia. ‘Howell sketches in the gradations of colour and emotion that have been lacking in hitherto monochrome accounts of Bell’s life … Exemplary’ Sunday Times ![]() ‘What a great Oscar-laden biopic this will make …the combination of epic scenes and personal drama makes Georgina Howell’s saga a winner’ Daily Express Previously published as Daughter of the Desert, this is a compelling portrait of a woman who transcended the restrictions of her class and age and in so doing created a remarkable and enduring legacy. Queen of the Desert is her story, vividly told and impeccably researched, drawing on Gertrude’s own writings, both published and unpublished. Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921. ![]()
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![]() His efforts at synthesis are tantalizingly and cryptically suggestive.This is a book we should all read and ponder. ![]() " view of the world, of science, of culture, and of man is vast and challenging. examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and his species and with the universe at large."-D. Steps to an Ecology of Mind Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. Bateson has come to this position during a career that carried him not only into anthropology, for which he was first trained, but into psychiatry, genetics, and communication theory. "This collection amounts to a retrospective exhibition of a working life. ![]() With a new foreword by his daughter Mary Katherine Bateson, this classic anthology of his major work will continue to delight and inform generations of readers. Bibliographic information Author, Gregory Bateson Edition, illustrated, reprint Publisher, Aronson, 1987 ISBN, 0876689500, 9780876689509 Length, 545 pages. Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as the husband and collaborator of Margaret Mead. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Jade War by Fonda Lee![]() ![]() What a fun, gripping read!" -Ann Leckie, Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. "A beautifully realized setting, a great cast of characters, and dramatic action scenes. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich - or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals.įaced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival-and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon. ![]() ![]() Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers they alone have possessed for hundreds of years.īeyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. ![]() The Kaul siblings' battle with rival clans reaches new heights in the heart-pounding continuation of the Green Bone Saga, an epic trilogy about family, honor, and those who live and die by the ancient laws of blood and jade. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. He served for thirty-three years as the senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the author of more than fifty books, including Desiring God Don’t Waste Your Life This Momentary Marriage A Peculiar Glory and Reading the Bible Supernaturally.įounder and Teacher, Chancellor, Bethlehem College & Seminary author, Desiring God John Piper (DTheol, University of Munich) is the founder and teacher of and the chancellor of Bethlehem College & Seminary. Pastor, Anacostia River Church, Washington, DC author, What Is a Healthy Church Member? He and his wife, Kristie, have three children. He serves as a council member of the Gospel Coalition, is a lead writer for 9Marks Ministries, and regularly blogs at The Front Porch and Pure Church. Anyabwile (MS, North Carolina State University) serves as a pastor at Anacostia River Church in Washington, DC, and is the author of numerous books. The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. ![]() 5/11/2023 0 Comments Oh the thinks you can think![]() ![]() The books he wrote and illustrated under the name Dr. From The Cat in the Hat to Oh, the Places You’ll Go!, his iconic characters, stories, and art style have had a lasting influence on generations of children and adults. Seuss -is one of the most beloved children’s book authors of all time. ![]() Seuss, Beginner Books encourage children to read all by themselves, with simple words and illustrations that give clues to their meaning. Oh, the Thinks you can think up if only you try.” about thinking! “Think left and think right and think low and think high. Young readers will delight in Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! which celebrates the imagination and encourages young readers to think. ![]() Seuss's classic Beginner Book-the perfect gift for grads, from kindergarten to college! ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Eden by Stanisław Lem![]() ![]() The Chicago Tribune lauded Stanislaw Lem as “not only a marvelous spinner of tales of the fantastic but also a challenging philosopher of the meanings and ramifications of technology. ![]() But as the crew unlocks the secrets of this twisted society, the most haunting fact they must face is how similar it is to their own. Something is wrong with the inhabitants of Eden. And everywhere there are images of death: mass graves, bodies in ditches and wells, clusters of egglike structures filled with skeletons. In a labyrinth of plant-shaped buildings are dead ends, passageways, domes, vaulted ceilings, and giant statues. But it is the signs of humanity that are most puzzling. ![]() The landscape is bizarre, hosting acrid deserts, hissing trees, and thick spider-like vegetation. Six explorers-the Captain, Doctor, Engineer, Chemist, Physicist, and Cyberneticist-crash land on a beautiful but strange planet, fourth from another sun. From the author of Solaris, this novel of an encounter with an alien intelligence creates “a terrifyingly plausible picture of a world gone mad” (Kirkus Reviews). ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments War Talk by Arundhati Roy![]() ![]() Desperately working against the backdrop of the nuclear recklessness between her homeland and Pakistan, she calls into question the equation of nation and ethnicity. demands for a war on Iraq, Roy confronts the call to militarism. From the horrific pogroms against Muslims in Gujarat, India, to U.S. Her work highlights the global rise of religious and racial violence. ![]() War Talk collects new essays by this prolific writer. Invited to lecture as part of the prestigious Lannan -Foundation series on the first anniversary of the unconscionable attacks of September 11, 2001, Roy challenged those who equate dissent with being "anti-American." Her previous essays on globalization and dissent have led many to see Roy as "India's most impassioned critic of globalization and American influence" ( New York Times ). The eloquence, passion, and political insight of Roy’s political essays have added legions of readers to those already familiar with her Booker Prize-winning novel. ![]() ![]() As the United States pushes for war on Iraq, Arundhati Roy, the internationally acclaimed author of The God of Small Things, addresses issues of democracy and dissent, racism and empire, and war and peace in this collection of new essays. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Regretsy by April Winchell![]() ![]() She was also considered for the part of Regan in The Exorcist until she fell ill and was taken out of consideration.īesides her many contributions to radio advertising as a performer, writer and director, Winchell also hosted a radio talk show program on KFI, a Los Angeles radio station. Winchell portrayed the "Glendale Federal Bank" lady – a cranky, cynical customer mollified by the service at her new bank – in a series of highly successful radio commercials, which Winchell wrote and directed herself. She has also voiced roles in numerous films, including Antz, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Rob Zombie's The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. As a voice actress, she has been heard in hundreds of animated television programs, such as King of The Hill, Robot and Monster, Phineas & Ferb, Pucca, Kim Possible, Recess (as Miss Muriel Finster), Lloyd in Space (as Lloyd's mom), Goof Troop (as Peg Pete), Disney's House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (as Clarabelle Cow), Pepper Ann (as Lydia Pearson). ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Stephen king duma key review![]() I liked the characters, for the most part, especially the key characters of Elizabeth and Wireman and Jack, the people that help Freemantle discover the solution to the mystery of Duma Key.īut I didn’t like the way the novel went bad. I also liked the scenery: set in the Florida Keys, in a salmon-colored beach house that the hero calls Big Pink, there are wonderful descriptions of the Gulf, of walks on the beach, of overgrown greenery, of grand old Florida houses. I love when King is able to describe what it’s like to make art, to feel the need to make art, and especially the down side of it: the emptiness and exhaustion that come after working on art, the constant self-doubt and that nagging belief that these people only like your work because they like you. I loved that the main character, Edgar Freemantle, is an artist. Well, now I’ve read it, and: it’s not one of my favorites. Which, actually, is probably entirely appropriate. ![]() And in terms of book format, I didn’t like it. Maybe that’s the reason, actually: maybe Duma Key sat on the shelf for so long because it’s not a hardcover we bought it in mass market paperback, and what’s more, we bought one of those tall paperbacks – the “Summer beach read” edition, I’ve seen them labeled. ![]() My wife and I read every Stephen King book, and we generally get them and read them within a year or so of publication this is one author we are willing to pay full hardcover price for. For some reason it took me a while to get to this one. ![]() 5/10/2023 0 Comments Perfect on paper novel![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If he did, her best friend and long-time crush, Brooke, would discover that Darcy abused the locker’s power to do something horrible to her last year. But when it-boy Alexander Brougham (known throughout the book as Brougham) catches her in the act and discovers her identity as the girl behind locker 89, Darcy is forced to become his personal dating coach for fear he might expose her secret. The beauty of Darcy’s service lies in its anonymity, which Darcy has managed to maintain for the last two and a half years without a hitch. Slip your payment, contact information and a letter with an explanation of your problem into the aforementioned locker, and in return, Darcy will send you personalized love advice, guaranteed to work or your money back. What would you have been willing to give for completely anonymous, personalized relationship advice in high school? Probably a lot more than 10 dollars, but that’s all Darcy Phillips, the mastermind behind locker 89 in Sophie Gonzales’s conventional yet refreshingly original teen romance “Perfect on Paper,” charges for her services. ![]() |