"America’s possession obsession really goes back to 1692, when twenty men and women suspected of witchery were killed in Salem, Massachusetts. Always drawing on first-hand sources, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians - and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides - and astutely comments upon - the actual documents from the episode: transcripts of the examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," and the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but also of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan.
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Vince shows how four evolutionary drivers - Fire, Language, Beauty and Time - are further transforming our species into a transcendent superorganism: a hyper-cooperative mass of humanity that she calls Homo omnis. It is our collective culture, rather than our individual intelligence, that makes humans unique. Gaia Vince argues that our unique ability - compared with other species - to determine the course of our own destiny rests on a special relationship between our genes, environment and culture going back into deep time. * A TIMES BEST SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR * From the prize-winning author of Adventures in the Anthropocene, the astonishing story of how culture enabled us to become the most successful species on Earth 'A wondrous, visionary work' Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers Humans are a planet-altering force. Rather than playing the game of academic hyperspecialization, though, she has been our feminist Scheherazade: committed to undermining patriarchal authority by weaving together the textual threads of multiple women’s lives (some of them unknown and others reclaimed from venerable tradition) to create an alternative model of both the storyteller and the story. Her expansive interdisciplinarity, willingness to challenge entrenched taboos wherever she found them, and real gift for narrative writing together allowed her to make significant contributions in multiple fields. Eclectic in her interpretations and her methodologies, Mernissi wrote variously as a sociologist and a historian, a literary scholar and a novelist. Fatima Mernissi’s impact on scholarship and writing on Arab and Muslim women has been so profound that it is almost easy to overlook. 1 He followed this pattern of seeking the Lord’s will and obeying throughout his life. He prayerfully sought the will of the Lord, and when the answer came to teach at the academy, he obeyed. At the same time, he was asked to teach at Brigham Young Academy, a “missionary institution” that would yield little pay. As a young man, he was offered a well-paid position with the Provo public schools. Long before he wrote Jesus the Christ, James Edward Talmage was a man committed to the Lord. It is a unique book not only in terms of its content and influence but also in terms of its own story, a story that deserves retelling during this centennial anniversary. It has been used as a course of study for priesthood and Relief Society classes, is one of the texts in the approved missionary library, and has contributed to readers’ doctrinal understanding of the Savior the world over. For 100 years, the book has never been out of print, going through numerous reprints and editions in multiple languages and formats. In the century since its publication, Jesus the Christ has become a classic work among Latter-day Saints. This paper deals with the history of the syndemic, the failure of various risk reduction strategies, and treatment as prevention. In the more than three decades since the beginning of the HIV/ AIDS epidemic, there have been substantial advances in testing and treatment, yet the infection rate among MSM, and particularly young MSM, remains high, even as it has been dropping among other risk groups. While MSM are disproportionately affected by HIV, syphilis, and other STDs, health activists from the gay community have systematically resisted the application of the full range of public health strategies traditionally used to prevent their spread. These factors include the number of infectious diseases endemic in this population, the high rate of substance abuse problems and psychological disorders, and the significant percentage of MSM who have experienced childhood sexual abuse and other adverse events. The various elements of the syndemic have an additive effect, each one intensifying the others. The spread of HIV and other STDs among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been labeled a syndemic because in this population a number of different and interrelated health problems have come together and interact with one another. William Least Heat-Moon supposedly speaks with many of the people that inhabit these small towns, and yet he might as well have just spoken with one of them. He starts the journey angry and bitter and those emotions never change. To find himself? To look for "America?" To get a better perspective on his lot in life? I don't know, and he never quite says. He decides to drive all around the country in his van (named Ghost Dancer), just taking the back roads, which used to be labeled blue on maps. The author takes his trek around the forgotten parts of America after the failure of his marriage and the loss of his teaching job. Since then, I've read quite a few recollections of random journeys.and I can safely say that Blue Highways is the worst of them. Back in High School, I would read Michael Crichton's Travels, some parts many times over, just imagining what it would be like to be able to visit the places he wrote about. I've been to many places in America and I throughly enjoy exploring everywhere I haven't yet been. I love to travel and to take the roads less traveled. I am predisposed to enjoy this kind of book. There’s definitely a The Shop Around the Corner buildup to the romantic chemistry, but in addition to their charming banter and online-quiz exchanges, Bailey and Porter also tackle substantive issues such as anxiety, PTSD, drug abuse, cheating, and sexual experience. As she futilely attempts to find Alex via chat-transcript clues, readers will figure out his identity long before she does. Porter, who’s Hapa (half Polynesian/Chinese, half white), has a unique way of exasperating Bailey. Her first day working at a mansion-cum-museum, introverted Bailey, a white girl who sports platinum-blonde Lana Turner pin curls, meets Porter Roth, a “ridiculously good-looking” but cocky 18-year-old security guard from a legendary local surfing family. The one perk of moving is that “Alex,” her favorite chat-mate on a classic-film fan forum, lives there too, and she plans to surprise him-not that they know one another’s real names (she goes by “Mink” online). to her father’s small beach town on the Central California coast. The summer before senior year, 17-year-old Bailey Rydell moves from D.C. A movie-obsessed teen moves to her dad’s beach town and unexpectedly falls for an edgy surfer rather than the “film-buff soul mate” she was expecting to meet. I so enjoyed the little glimpses of emotion we got from each of the brothers when dealing with or talking about Ian. They love him fiercely and, of course, protect him from himself when things get rough because of his condition. That brings me to the next part of the book that I like the best. And all of that is doubled in the fact that in the era this story takes place, people have no idea what is wrong with Ian and he spends ten years in an asylum. Ashley does one heck of a job showing us his frustration when he doesn’t understand certain aspects of speech or human emotion, but then his innocence and his extraordinary gifts are astounding. I came much too close to missing one of the best books I’ve ever read.ĭespite his “madness,” Ian Mackenzie is a terrific hero. Talk about misjudging a book way too early. What? I had that feeling you get when you want to put a book down and not go any further. I have to tell you, when reading the first few pages of this book, I was so sure I wasn’t going to like it. Historical Romance published by Leisure Books 28 Apr 09 Sandy M’s review of The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie (Highland Pleasures, Book 1) by Jennifer Ashley If he tried, would it still be the truth, or would he poison the words by saying them aloud? Would it be instinctive to twist it? He wouldn't risk it. He didn't know how to tell the truth now. Review 2: Favorite quote: "Something like this demanded complete honesty, and Neil had been lying since he was old enough to speak. (Review Note: These books are not mm romance. more my hope this third book will be just as OTT as the other two and allow this brilliantly misfit cast of characters their deserved moments of revenge and (hopefully) celebration.And I need Andrew. I've been punished lately by series finales that don't just fall flat, they fizzle like a dollar store firework that you stare at saying "Is that it?"Somehow I don't think the Foxhole Court will go quietly into the night. As of the writing off this review, the author is in the midst of finishing the third (and supposedly final) book. So our understanding of who Andrew is has come slowly and with extreme prejudice. Andrew.The unraveling of this character has been done masterfully. Far from itSo why do I need the third book now?Because. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Review 1: Is it OTT (over the top)? Oh yeahIs it way more violent and twisted than I thought it would get? Fucking hell, yesIs it perfect? Nope. The Raven King (All for the Game Book 2) - Kindle edition by Sakavic, Nora. There are outdoor games and indoor games, games to play solo and games to play with others, arts and crafts, songs and rhymes, playdates and party favorites––even instant activities to do at the kitchen table while dinner’s cooking. Will help parents give their children the kind of childhood that more and more children are missing.”––Mary Piper, PhD., author of Reviving Ophelia Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girlsįrom Animal Doctor to Lunch Bag Puppet, Letter Hunt to Life-Size Me, here are more than 200 screen-free games and activities to help kids enjoy the wholesome, old-fashioned experience of playing creatively and freely.without technology. Unplug Your Preschooler with more than 200 screen-free games and activities! |