5/10/2023 0 Comments The black jacobins reviewIt is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of plantation owners toward enslaved people was horrifyingly severe. James, was the first major analysis of the uprising that began in the wake of the storming of the Bastille in France and became the model for liberation movements from Africa to Cuba. Provocative and empowering." - The New York Times Book Review The Black Jacobins, by Trinidadian historian C. "One of the seminal texts about the history of slavery and abolition. Book Synopsis This powerful and impassioned history of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803 is the classic account of the largest successful revolt by enslaved people in history.
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In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their invasion plans with elaborate decoy ships and planes. But he hasn’t planned for a storm-battered island and the remarkable young woman who lives there. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's historical thriller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, The Needle ruthlessly races to a U-boat waiting to convey him and his critical message to Germany, with MI5 on his tail. In England he uncovers the Allies’ D-Day plans but his cover is blown in the process. He is Hitler’s prize undercover agent – a ruthless and professional murderer. His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. If they can land a force on mainland Europe they will gain the upper hand in a war that has ravaged the world for years, and take the fight to the Nazi menace. several are killed before his identity becomes. In the weeks leading up to D-Day the Allies are disguising their invasion plans with elaborate decoy ships and planes. A German spy is at the center of the story, and hes infiltrated the British military intelligence agency. Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett's historical thriller, is a heart-racingly exciting tale about the fate of the war resting in the hands of a master spy, his opponent and one brave woman.ġ944. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Farbe bekennen. by Dagmar SchultzMay Ayim, Katharina Oguntoye, and Dagmar Schultz Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out Editors For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 9,470 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.View a machine-translated version of the German article. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Diesel den of vipersThis was a dirty filthy mafia story and it was very good. “Throw me to the wolves and I will come back leading the pack!” Along with graphic sex scenes and violence. Warning this book contains scenes and references of abuse/assault that some readers may find triggering. The Vipers? I’m going to make them regret the day they took me. They can own my body, but they will never have my heart. They want everything I am, everything I have to give, and won’t stop until they get just that. Their scarred, blood-stained hands holding me tight. The old man ran up a debt with them and then sold me to cover his losses. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel-The Vipers. Bouncing, rhythmic text from New York Times bestselling author Andrea Davis Pinkney rolls off the tongue and begs to be read aloud, in these poems that include "Count to Love," "Hey, Baby Girl!," and "Baby Boy, You are a Star."Ī celebration of Black and brown joy, babies, and families, this beautiful picture book treasury is the perfect gift item, bookshelf staple, and long-lasting classic in the making. Warm, winsome, and welcoming illustrations from Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator Brian Pinkney exude joy and love on every page. Dive into these five beautiful poems that celebrate the tender, cozy, early days between parent and child, and the exuberant joy of watching a brand-new life take shape. A rhythmic, whimsically illustrated celebration of Black and brown babies and the joy, tender moments, and boundless love shared between children and their caregivers, from New York Times bestselling and award-winning duo Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney.Ĭuddle up with your little one, read aloud, and REPEAT: This gorgeous picture book treasury is sure to become your favorite storytime anthem. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Keegan small things like theseThere are murmurings in the town about what goes on there, misgivings quelled by the righteous thought that the girls are "of low character … doing penance by washing stains out of the dirty linen." Whatever the case, the signal fact is that the nuns are formidable operators with "a finger in every pie" and to go beyond furtive talk would exact a stiff penalty.Īlready uneasy about the plight of these girls, Furlong, delivering coal to the convent, finds one of them locked in the coal shed, cowering and asking where her baby is. Though Furlong has risen from being spat upon in the schoolyard to owning a modest business, he is keenly aware that it "would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything." Indeed, the fate his mother escaped is embodied in the nearby "training school" run by nuns for girls who, imprisoned, work in the convent's commercial laundry. His mother, pregnant with him at 16 while in domestic service, was unexpectedly lucky in her employer, a Protestant widow who treated her and the child with kindness and generosity. It is 1985 and Bill Furlong, 39, married father of five daughters, is a fuel merchant in New Ross, County Wexford, in Ireland. "Small Things Like These" is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one man's conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Claire Keegan, award-winning author of two collections of short stories and a novella, now gives us her best work yet. 5/9/2023 0 Comments The plains of passageAs a side note, I have to mention the God-awful movie adaptation they made starring Darly Hannah years ago. These are Auel’s life work and she has finally finished the last one of the series and it’s coming out in March of 2011. Being such good stories, I’ve reread them many times. And Auel’s supurb description of the time period makes you feel like you could be there, standing next to the glacier in all its beauty. Filled with love stories, action, and suspense, you get lost easily. I often compare them to Harry Potter in that they are just all around good stories. If they put as much money into them as they have Harry Potter, they would be as popular as Harry Potter. It tells of her story of fitting in, being raised by people so different, yet so similar, and her struggle to be like them without loosing herself. A type of cave people that becoming extinct while Ayla’s race thrives. She gets seperated from her people by an earthquake and near death, gets found and rescued by the Clan of the Cave Bear people. It’s a story of a girl named Ayla, who lived during the ice age in Europe. Along with Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, these are my favorite books. *The Earth Children Series by Jean Auel are outstanding books. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Flatterland by ian stewartYou go back into the black hole and give the past version of yourself (2) the portable white hole.Another future version of yourself (6) appears and gives you a time machine.You use the portable white hole to escape the black hole. A future version of yourself (4) appears and gives you a portable white hole. This is a Feynman diagram explaining how to escape from a black hole as mentioned in the book. Hopper and Victoria also visit the Domain of the Hawk King to discuss time travel and the theory of relativity. Topology and hyperbolic geometry are also discussed, as well as the Projective "Plain" (complete with intersecting "lions") and the quantum level. After showing Vikki higher dimensions, he begins showing her more modern theories, such as fractional dimensions and dimensions with isolated points. The Space Hopper, more than being able to move between Flatland and Spaceland, can travel to any space in the Mathiverse, a set of all imaginable worlds. This prompts her to invite a sphere from Spaceland to visit her, but instead she is visited by the "Space Hopper" (a character looking somewhat like the "Space Hopper" children's toy with a gigantic grin, horns and a spherical body). (which we find out stands for Albert) Square's adventures that were related in Flatland, his great-great-granddaughter, Victoria Line (Vikki), finds a copy of his book in her basement. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Tootle little golden book 1945And the cover illustrations were always beautiful and seemed to promise something wonderful to be found inside.”Īll three books have a Richard Scary/Margaret Wise Brown-heavy retro vibe, which I love, as Muldrow said she selected the illustrations - all from the 1940s to 1960s - with baby-boomers in mind. In this classic Little Golden Book from 1945, Tootle is a young locomotive who loves to chase butterflies through the meadow. Crampton was born in New York in 1909, and studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “I liked the feel of the sturdy cardboard covers. GERTRUDE CRAMPTON (1909-1996) wrote the beloved classic Little Golden Books Tootle (published in 1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (published in 1946), both of which have never been out of print. “Like all children, I loved the cute little animals that decorated the shiny gold foil tape that ran along the spine,” Muldrow told me. by Bonnie Bader (Hardcover) Little Golden Books 28 5. I smiled as soon as I opened the first book, just seeing the old golden Little Golden Book illustrated pattern on the first few pages, and the white box that in curly cursive proclaimed: “This Little Golden Book Belongs to: _,” where I would write in shaky capital letters: “LAUREN S. My Little Golden Book about Martin Luther King Jr. Muldrow’s other love advice includes: “Be ready to take a chance on love,” “Love is worth fighting for,” and “There is glory and grandeur in love,” all with wonderfully fitting and utterly charming illustrations. 5/9/2023 0 Comments Book we have always been hereThere’s an obviously artificial nature to many key plot elements. The story is hampered by plot holes and some distractingly bad science. There’s a hint of a really interesting horror element in Park’s possibly-misguided emotional attachment to the androids, the idea that she’s spent her life caring about empty simulacra the novel doesn’t do more than flirt with this potentially devastating idea, however, and its increasingly magical treatment of consciousness reduces the impact of its musings on artificial intelligence. It feels like Nguyen is using her robots to grapple with metaphors of class and racial oppression. Robots and androids are We Have Always Been Here’s strongest suit: it’s most striking in the sections where it considers anti-automation sentiments, or examines Park’s preference for androids over human company. a kind of multi-layered ghost story in space. |