After completing all of the mundane tasks from his clerical day job he would retire to his rectory and his recreational scholarship. Today Baring-Gould might look like the supremest manifestation of the Victorian amateur. Has anybody else ever thought of writing whilst standing upright since Baring-Gould had done it? Perhaps the only reason that Baring-Gould had written so many books was that he had fixed his body to the maximum productive advantage. Make of it what you will that Baring-Gould had supposedly written all of his 248 books while standing before a lectern. Whereas the werewolf is half man, half beast, this book stands half-upright with the dignity of science and it hunches half-over with its ghoulish sensationalism. We might suspect that a little of the wolf has already crept into its own writing. Sabine Baring-Gould was a Victorian clergyman and his The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) aims to achieve a historical and scientific overview of lycanthropy.
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(Oscar winner Brie Larson plays the teenage and young-adult versions. Then there’s the new movie version of the book, adapted by filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton and starring three different actresses as Walls at various ages. Notable episodes of mistreatment by Rex include being thrown into water over her head so that she would learn to swim and being left alone, at the age of 13, with one of her father’s lecherous adult male co-workers. The book, described by the New York Times as “an alternately wrenching and exhilarating yarn,” chronicles the harrowing childhood that Walls and her three siblings (Lori, Brian and Maureen) experienced with their father, Rex, and mother, Rose Mary, wandering from town to town before settling in Rex’s hometown of Welch, West Virginia. It’s the same when she’s speaking about her best-selling 2005 memoir “The Glass Castle,” whose child protagonist - Jeannette Walls - was the daughter of a nomadic, often jobless and homeless alcoholic and his painter wife. When talking about her former life as a gossip columnist for such venues as New York magazine and MSNBC, she uses the first person: “I was a ‘journalist,’ in air quotes,” she jokes. Jeannette Walls has to be careful with pronouns. The peace and harmony in their separate worlds comes at a horrifying price. When Sarah and Clarice reach for basic human rights and challenge the law, their playful indulgences are treated as dire crimes. Soon, she figures, she'll be back outside, free to 'sin' privately once again. Finding herself at a moral rehabilitation facility once again, she doesn't expect things to be much worse than before. Clarice dares to break through the taboos the old-fashioned way: with sex. When someone finally notices her heresy, her status as a threat to peace of mind will be dealt with.Ī strict Caste system rules dry, distant Indus. She steals words, swears, and indulges in forbidden vices. The tube city is a tranquil, clean paradise-exactly the wrong place for her. The city of Corinth is beautiful, but a cancer eats at its soul. What crimes are committed in the name of peace, control, and harmony? Clarice and Sarah are about to find out. It now remains for me to give certain counsels whereby the soul may know how to enter this night of sense and may be able so to do. John of the Cross for Beginners is an invaluable introduction for anyone entering or considering Christian inner work, or wishing to go further on their path of development. Ascent of Mount Carmel / Book 1 by John of the Cross Chapter XIII Chapter XIV CHAPTER XIII Wherein is described the manner and way which the soul must follow in order to enter this night of sense. Meninger unfolds for contemporary contemplative seekers the essence of these classical texts, section by section. These two texts- The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night of the Soul-explore the inner spiritual journey in all its revelations and challenges, its moments of joy and its moments of profound torment. Ascent of Mount Carmel (Paperback) Publisher: Wilder Publications ISBN: 9781604592795 Number of pages: 360 Weight: 526 g Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm. In this concise and beautifully written exposition, he guides the reader through two of the basic works of inner development by one of the most significant and influential of all Christian mystics, St. William Meninger, OCSO, is one of the leading figures in the centering prayer movement. Providing a history of knowledge from the Enlightenment to Postcoloniality, she also discusses the fate of concepts such as "discovery", "claiming", and "naming" through which the west has incorporated and continues to incorporate the indigenous world within its own web. Extending the work of Foucault, she explores the intersections of imperialism, knowledge and research, and the different ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and methodologies as "regimes of truth". In the first, the author critically examines the historical and philosophical base of Western research. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decolonization of research methods. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.'įrom the vantage point of the colonized, the term "research" is inextricably linked with European colonialism the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the worst excesses of imperialism remains a powerful remembered history for many of the world's colonized peoples. 'NOW AVAILABLE- FULLY UPDATED SECOND EDITION OF DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES. When she’s not writing, she’s visiting schools to talk about her books with the kids who read them, or teaching writing at Arizona State University, where she is the Piper Endowed Chair and Founding Artistic Director of the Virginia G. Jewell has received numerous honors including the American Book Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award in Fiction, the Black Caucus of the American Library Award for Literary Excellence, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Coretta Scott King Honor. The material covered in the classroom is gentle and oblique, but Deja feels there’s a much more gruesome truth that no one dares to tell her. She has also published six adult novels, two writing guides, and a memoir. As their teacher, Miss Garcia, begins a unit about history connecting to the present, the class learns about the World Trade Center towers falling on September 11, 2001. Her other books include Paradise on Fire, Towers Falling, and the Louisiana Girls Trilogy: Ninth Ward, Sugar, and Bayou Magic. Now she is the author of seven books for children including the New York Times bestsellers Ghost Boys and Black Brother, Black Brother. She wrote six novels for adults, two writing guides, and a memoir, but writing for children remained her dream. She began college as a dance major, but when she discovered there were novels by African Americans, she knew she wanted to be an author. Born and raised in Manchester, a largely African-American neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh, she was a voracious reader as a child. Jewell Parker Rhodes has always loved reading and writing stories. With lucid explanations and incisive wit, Sam Kean explains the brain's secret passageways while recounting forgotten stories of common people whose struggles, resiliency, and deep humanity made modern neuroscience possible. But a few scientists realized that these injuries were an opportunity for studying brain function at its extremes. An injury to one section can leave a person unable to recognize loved ones some brain trauma can even make you a pathological gambler, pedophile, or liar. In many cases survival was miraculous, and observers could only marvel at the transformations that took place afterward, altering victims' personalities. Science writer Sam Kean visited Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book, 'The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of. From the author of the bestsellers The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist's Thumb, fascinating tales of the brain and the history of neuroscience.Įarly studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidents - and see how the victim coped. On television he has been a featured guest and on-air talent on Today, The Early Show, The View, Oprah, Rosie, as well as CNN and BBC/Discovery Networks. Stephen has been a Contributing Home Editor with a monthly column of his own for Better Homes and Gardens magazine called "House Calls with Stephen Saint-Onge" and Family Circle magazine called "Designer Dad." He was part of the founding team for the magazine Cottage Living where he also had a monthly column called “At Home with Stephen Saint-Onge.” Stephen’s design work and expertise has been featured in magazines such as House Beautiful, Elle Decor, This Old House, Bedford Magazine, In Style, Connecticut Cottages and Gardens and in newspapers such as The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune to name a few. Stephen is known for his home makeovers working with the regular family homeowner as well as celebrity clients - to help them all make their homes be the best they can be. Stephen believes that "good home design has the power to change lives." Stephen Saint-Onge, a Vermont based designer and author of the book NO PLACE LIKE HOME. The only way to keep these ships afloat is by sending teams of divers down to Earth’s surface to find the resources from the ancient factories the ships were built in. These airships were not designed for long-term habitation. The only option was for humanity to live in vast airships (ironically, the very same airships that had dropped the bombs that doomed the Earth). Hell Divers takes place two-hundred and fifty years after World War Three effectively destroyed the Earth rendering it an uninhabitable world to live on. Having not really sank my teeth into any science-fiction novels as of late, I decided to rectify that by diving (see what I did there …) straight into the Hell Diver series. But there’s something down there that’s far worse than the mutated creatures discovered on dives in the past-something that threatens the fragile future of humanity. When one of the remaining airships is damaged in an electrical storm, a Hell Diver team is deployed to a hostile zone called Hades. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers: men and women who risk their lives by diving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago. More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search for a habitable area to call home. Soon they realize they share more than a passion for jazz-but their differences seem insurmountable, and Aiyi is engaged to another man.As the war escalates, Aiyi and Ernest find themselves torn apart, and their choices between love and survival grow more desperate. His instant fame makes Aiyi’s club once again the hottest spot in Shanghai. When she hires Ernest to play piano at her club, her defiance of custom causes a sensation. He loses nearly all hope until he crosses paths with Aiyi. Ernest Reismann is a penniless Jewish refugee driven out of Germany, an outsider searching for shelter in a city wary of strangers. Aiyi Shao is a young heiress and the owner of a formerly popular and glamorous Shanghai nightclub. In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and the freedom of music…1940. |