![]() ![]() Not having many friends at school and the problems he is having with ![]() His parents' divorce and how much he misses his dad. Pretend Henshaw." This makes Dear Mr Henshaw aĪloud to your class when trying to inspire students in either ofĬleary covers a number of different personal and family issues that many The format is clever, told through a combination Pretend Henshaw", since Leigh feels better if he's writing to someone. Henshaw's advice, and the letters turn into a journal-with entries addressed to "Dear Mr. Leigh wants to be a writer too, so follows Mr. ![]() This one letter becomes the first of many over the next few years, until the busy author suggests to Leigh that he keep a journal. In the story, second-grader Leigh's favorite book is Ways to Amuse a Dog by Boyd Henshaw, so he writes to the author to let him know that he "licked" the book. Henshaw is a classic middle grades chapter book that kids love today just as much as they did two decades ago when it first came out and became that year's Newbery Medal winner. ![]()
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R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lions, tigers, and bears: Walton Ford’s large-scale, highly detailed watercolors of animals are anthropomorphic, allegorical narratives, rich in symbols, suggestions, and hidden meaning. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have. It is in the same condition as I received it from Taschen and I am starting the bidding at $950. Again, this beautiful book is one of a limited edition that retails for $2,000. ![]() Please visit it if you’d like to learn more about this book. Below are descriptions taken from Taschen’s website as is the final stock photo. This is a very large, heavy book and the shipping cost will reflect this. I’d be happy to provide more photos to any serious bidders. Thus, my photos are fewer than I would normally include. I have not included photos of any of the pages of the book as I did not want to compromise its “new” condition and because I’m assuming any buyer/bidder will already be generally familiar with the contents of this book. The book was opened and removed from its slipcover for a few moments in order to photograph its title page. ![]() It is in new condition and is still in the original shipping box with all original packaging. This a limited edition book of the art of Walton Ford published by Taschen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alas, Hackman apart, most everybody’s great days were over. The Gypsy Moths is a particular disappointment from this cast and director, who is taking a nosedive himself, especially as it is a film reuniting Kerr and Lancaster from From Here to Eternity. ![]() William Hanley’s turgid screenplay is based on a novel by James Drought. It might have worked either as a tale of disillusioned people or as a grand action yarn, but both halves of the movie nosedive. There seems to be somebody for everybody in Kansas: a student Annie Burke (Bonnie Bedelia) for the kid Malcolm Webson (Wilson), a waitress (Sheree North) for Joe Browdy (Hackman), and a bored wife (Kerr) for Mike Rettig (Lancaster). The Gypsy Moths ** (1969, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9713ĭirector John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in a Kansas dead-end town, where young Malcolm Webson (Wilson)’s aunt Elizabeth Brandon (Deborah Kerr) and uncle V John Brandon (William Windom) put them up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most historians consider 1968 the apex of the Global 1960s movements when power relations and social movements for justice erupted in intense conflict. It was a critical time in which relations within the global Pan-African world shifted, and out of necessity radicalized. ![]() the Poor People's Campaign, and the Olympics Black Power salute which followed thereafter. It comprised the primary year of the shift from the Civil Rights to Black Power movements and Black Consciousness the emergence of Black and Ethnic Studies programs the “Rodney Riots” in Jamaica innumerable assassinations, uprisings, and student movements globally open social conflicts as seen in the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that year the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968 was a truly momentous year in the history of global social movements, a year of global revolution. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All this is ending.In The End of the World is Just the Beginning, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging.The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Billions of people have been fed and educated as the American-led trade system spread across the globe.All of this was artificial. American security policy forced warring nations to lay down their arms. Complex, innovative industries were created to satisfy American consumers. The American dollar underpins internationalized energy and financial markets. when you decided you wanted it.America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.Globe-spanning supply chains are only possible with the protection of the U.S. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of GlobalizationĪ New York Times Bestseller!2019 was the last great year for the world economy.For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. ![]() ![]() ![]() Since even the Japanese versions of the Tale of Genji tend to be translations (from old to modern Japanese), this translation is based on 日本古典文学大系 (nihon koten bungaku taikei) edition and checked by Odagiri Hiroko and Ikeda Tadashi. It’s basically an arbitrary selection of chapters that tries to cover as much of the story in as reasonable a wordcount as possible, something which suits me quite well as an introduction to this book. Mostly because I was really excited and the only e-copy the library has is an abridged one.Īccording to the introduction, this version contains 12 chapters and is about one-quarter of the original novel. So to start, I decided to read an abridged version of The Tale of Genji. ![]() I’m planning to look into the culture of Heian Japan, in particular, their clothing and how they might have been influenced by Tang dynasty China. After the course finished, we were asked to sign up for projects that we’re interested in and I chose The Tale of Genji. ![]() I’m starting a new project! A while back, I answered a call for people interested in learning about Chinese culture and went for a couple of lectures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vowing to liberate her entire family, she made repeated trips south during the 1850s and successfully guided dozens of fugitives to freedom. This book will become a landmark resource for scholars, historians, and general readers interested in slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and African American women.īorn in slavery in Maryland in or around 1820, Tubman drew upon deep spiritual resources and covert antislavery networks when she escaped to the north in 1849. Humez's comprehensive Harriet Tubman is both an important biographical overview based on extensive new research and a complete collection of the stories Tubman told about her life-a virtual autobiography culled by Humez from rare early publications and manuscript sources. ![]() Harriet Tubman's name is known world-wide and her exploits as a self-liberated Underground Railroad heroine are celebrated in children's literature, film, and history books, yet no major biography of Tubman has appeared since 1943. ![]() ![]() In the autumn, in season, there is deer hunting and Key tells of killing his first buck, at 12 years old, after which he is ceremoniously “blooded” and then hoodwinked. Key and his brothers build a tree house, go shrimping, and fish in the bay, sometimes for trout. It was a different Point Clear, that is clearer, simpler, more natural, almost Edenic.Ĭhildren stay overnight in the woods but are not kidnapped. ![]() It would, as they say, make a good gift for your maiden aunt. ![]() Readers should know this is a very quiet book, no violence, and sex and drugs had not yet been invented. The Keys spent summers in their little house on the bay, with no air conditioning, the children often sleeping on the wharf, to catch the breezes. The Grand Hotel was long-established but the whole area had not become so very posh. This book, “Bay Boy,” is another collection of nonfiction pieces, but Key takes us further back in time to when he was a boy, growing up, especially in summers, in Point Clear, Alabama. ![]() Watt Key established himself as a writer of young adult fiction with three successful novels, “Alabama Moon” (2006), “Dirt Road Home” (2010) and “Fourmile” (2012), then published a collection of nonfiction stories set in the Mobile-Tensaw River delta, “Among the Swamp People.” In that book we explore this geographically near but hard-to-access piece of nature and some of the odd folks who make it their home or their hide-out. “Bay Boy: Stories of a Childhood in Point Clear, Alabama” ![]() ![]() ![]() It disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning and cooking. ![]() Today, our economics focuses on self-interest and excludes all other motivations. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love. Selfish and cynical, economic man has dominated our thinking ever since and his influence has spread from the market to how we shop, work and date. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest When Adam Smith wrote that all our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain he brought to life 'economic man'. ![]() |