5/30/2023 0 Comments Tacky's revolt book![]() ![]() In the second half of the eighteenth century, as European imperial conflicts extended their domain, warring African factions fed their captives to the transatlantic slave trade while masters struggled to keep their restive slaves under the yoke. "A sobering read for contemporary audiences in countries engaged in forever wars.It is also a useful reminder that the distinction between victory and defeat, when it comes to insurgencies, is often fleeting: Tacky may have lost his battle, but the enslaved did eventually win the war." ![]() "Not only a story of the insurrection, but 'a martial geography of Atlantic slavery, ' vividly demonstrating how warfare shaped every aspect of bondage.Forty years after Tacky's defeat, new arrivals from Africa were still hearing about the daring rebels who upended the island." ![]() "'s profound analysis and revolutionary vision of the Age of Slave War-from the too-often overlooked Tacky's Revolt to the better-known Haitian Revolution-gives us an original view of the birth of modern freedom in the New World." Winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award Rawley Prize in the History of Race Relations Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments Ribsy by beverly cleary![]() ![]() ![]() There are difficulties to overcome and petty annoyances to get through, reflecting how many family lives are largely devoid of any big social or moral messaging. Throughout the Ramona titles, including Ramona the Brave (1975), Ramona Quimby, Age 8 (1981) and Ramona Forever (1984), the home life of the Quimbys, the school life of the girls and the wider concerns of the community they live in are all readily recognisable through the characters and in the small-scale adventures that concern them. Starting school will help, she is sure, but she soon discovers that being in kindergarten does nothing to reduce the gap between the two of them. She is driven by an ambition to grow up quickly so as to catch up with Beezus. From the first Ramona is both spirited and reflective. Ramona the Pest (1968), the first solo story about her, followed some time later. When readers sent letters curious to know more about the other characters in the stories, Cleary, encouraged by an editor who wanted stories about a child in kindergarten, wrote Beezus and Ramona (1955), in which she established the Quimby family. Photograph: Alamyĭrawing on her experience as a children’s librarian, Cleary had the gift of appealing directly to young readers beginning to choose books for themselves. ![]() Beverly Cleary in the mid-1950s, around the time she established the Quimby family as the centre of her books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. ![]() This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). ![]() The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Lamentation cj sansom summary![]() ![]() ![]() At the center of it all is Catherine Parr, Henry's last queen and a devoted Protestant. Lamentation follows the maneuverings of this divided group of Protestants and Catholics both sides feverishly plotting to influence the King. ![]() Sansom uses the gruesome spectacle of the burning to reintroduce us to Shardlake, his hunchbacked, mystery-solving lawyer, and most of the king's inner circle. It's 1546 the dying King Henry VIII - having broken with Rome a decade before - is wavering on religious policy, and supporters of his previous reforms fear for their lives as the hunt for heretics intensifies. Sansom uses this horrific scene to set the stage for Lamentation, the sixth installment of his Matthew Shardlake mysteries, set in Tudor England. We start with a pyre: A young woman and three men are to burn, condemned as heretics. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lamentation Author C. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The Continuum by Wendy Nikel![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.ġ-2 days after each item has arrived in the warehouseġ The expected delivery period after the order has been dispatched via your chosen delivery method.ģ Please note this service does not override the status timeframe "Dispatches in", and that the "Usually Dispatches In" timeframe still applies to all orders. Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ms Archer revealed she had no interest in watching the broadcast of the coronation, while Mr Haikerwal said that although his father had attended the late Queen's coronation, he had no interest in watching Saturday's ceremony. 'Every time we get elected to the parliament, we have to start by pledging allegiance or affirming or swearing allegiance,' he said. Mr Butler said he had campaigned for a republic, and pledging allegiance wasn't necessary at this time. Tasmanian Liberal MP Bridget Archer, and former president of the Australian Medical Association, Mukesh Haikerwal were also among the guests. The panel featured American literature expert Sarah Churchwell, Aboriginal affairs commentator Anthony Dillon and Health Minister Mark Butler. ![]() 'What if you're not going to pledge allegiance?' he asked, as nearly everyone in the crowd raised their hand. Only two people raised their hands to confirm they would say the pledge. ![]() Just two members of the audience rose their hands to signal they would be pledging their allegianceĪll the guests responded they would not before host David Speers turned to the audience and asked the same question. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments John marshall indian removal act![]() During this time span, the affluent groups usually viewed themselves as more superior compared to the lower ones in the society. Other groups of persons that occupied the southern region included the traditional southern gentry, cotton entrepreneurs, smallholding planters, the poor freemen and the planters’ elite. These groups included yeoman farmers, landless whites, free blacks, slave-owners and slaves. ![]() Both believed that the decisions that they stood for were for the betterment of the Americans.īy the 1860s, there are various groups that made the south increasingly complex society. However, both Jackson and Marshall were guided by the rule of law in all their decisions that they made. Jackson was not a fan of this and this forced him to pressure the leaders of Cherokee to sign a removal agreement. Georgia that states should not enforce lands on tribal lands and he saw Native American tribes as nations equal to the United States (Henretta 23-64). Marshall and Jackson held contrasting views about how the federal and state governments could deal with Native American tribes. ![]() ![]() One of the differences between Jackson's and Marshall's opinions on the Indian Removal Act were that Jackson emphasized the removal of the Indians to avoid any further clashes, while Marshall argued that it was important that the Indians not be relocated because they were on their territory. ![]() ![]() ![]() His Andrew Lang ( 1946) throws light on an author whose relationship to sf has been almost forgotten (see Andrew Lang) a later study, Andrew Lang ( 1962 chap), is less thorough. Into Other Worlds: Space-Flight in Fiction, from Lucian to Lewis ( 1957) is one of the earlier books on sf, but is primarily pitched at a rather anecdotal and trivial level. Lewis: A Biography ( 1974) with Walter Hooper (1931-2020), for which he was awarded the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in 1975. Among his many works those most relevant to sf studies concern his university tutor, C S Lewis: C.S. Tellers of Tales ( 1948) is an invaluable early companion to this literature. ![]() (1918-1987) UK scholar, critic, translator (from classical Greek) and author, with a special interest in Fantasy, much of his fiction comprising retellings of traditional material for young readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After the Liberation of France, he became a professor at the University of Bordeaux and wrote 58 books and numerous articles over his lifetime, the dominant theme of which has been the threat to human freedom created by modern technology.Īs early as 1928, Edward Bernays recognized propaganda as a modern instrument to produce productive ends and "help bring order out of chaos". The book contains Ellul's theories about the nature of propaganda to adapt the individual to a society, to a living standard, and to an activity aiming to make the individual serve and conform.Īfter being discharged as a professor from French universities by the Vichy regime Ellul became a leader in the French resistance during World War II. It presents a sophisticated taxonomy for propaganda, including such paired opposites as political–sociological, vertical–horizontal, rational–irrational, and agitation–integration. This book appears to be the first attempt to study propaganda from a sociological approach as well as a psychological one. Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (1965/1973) ( French: Propagandes original French edition: 1962) is a book on the subject of propaganda by French philosopher, theologian, legal scholar, and sociologist Jacques Ellul. ![]() Propaganda and the Formation of Men's Attitudes ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Killadelphia vol 1![]() ![]() He's our 'patient zero.'" - homicide detective-turned-vampire James Sangster "Second president of the United States John Adams. There were too many great horror comics to fit them all into October's buddy reads, so we're just kind of reheating the leftovers. I have the second volume, so we'll see how it goes from here. ![]() I liked all the characters minus the John Adams musical bullshit. ![]() I can feel the Hamilton fans swarming me now. So when I read the author's note at the end and he said he got the idea from Hamilton, I actually laughed out loud. But I just assumed there was something pertinent I was missing because, let's face it, I'm usually missing something pertinent. The main thing I couldn't figure out was why John Adams as the head vampire? To me, it seemed kind of random and smelled a bit of that Hamilton musical. The angry father/son stuff felt familiar, but the cop thing with the vampire spin on it pushed the dynamic far enough away from other things I've read that it made it seem like a very fresh sort of story. I actually liked this quite a bit more than I thought I would. ![]() |