In fact, technically I’ve been operating a personal boycott against the company’s comics for almost thirty years, since the dispute over Jack Kirby’s original art, though it’s difficult to determine the point at which my attitude passed from boycott to indifference. I’ve never particularly been a fan of Marvel Comics, though I did dip my toe into the Marvel Universe for a period of time roughly equal to the classic Claremont/Byrne partnership on X-Men (started following it about six months after they started, dropped out about six months after they broke up). Trout Nation – Your One-Stop Procrastination Stop.The Infinite Jukebox: The Animals’ ‘It’s My Life’.Rumpole of the Bailey: s01 e05 – Rumpole and the Learned Friends.Hecatae Comics: James Robinson’s Witch Craft. The Infinite Jukebox: The Monkees’ ‘The Door into Summer’.
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Lost was the knowledge that Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. The great ships rotted at their moorings and the records of their journeys were destroyed. When they returned Zhu Di lost control and China was beginning its long, self-imposed isolation from the world it had so recently embraced. The journey would last over two years and circle the globe. Their mission was ‘to proceed all the way to the end of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas’ and unite the whole world in Confucian harmony. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the finest teak, were under the command of Emperor Zhu Di’s loyal eunuch admirals. “…On the 8th of March, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. 1421: The Year China Discovered the World Bad History - 1421 by Gavin Menzies EmperorTigerstar 459K subscribers 9. In his newest book, Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, Dr. Overall, I feel amazingly blessed to have the opportunity in this life to ride the dharma stream and share its gifts with others! I am especially interested in using these approaches to heighten the learning - the cultivation (bhavana) - from beneficial experiences (otherwise often wasted on the brain) to reduce the underlying sense of deficit and disturbance that causes the craving that causes suffering and harm. More recently, I've explored grounding the dharma in modern evolutionary neuropsychology - "neurodharma" - recognizing how mind arises dependently upon the body, especially the nervous system as it tries to meet ancient needs for raw survival. Over time I gravitated to the original teachings of the Buddha, embodied in the Theravadan tradition, for their down-to-earth clarity, and important sources for me have included the teachers of Spirit Rock Meditation Center and the Pali Canon itself. I first encountered Buddhism in 1974, and it blew the doors wide open for me with its profound and practical insights into the mind, suffering, and true happiness. Wind and shadow : the story of Joan of Arc / written by The Daughters of St. The silver bullet : tour of the universe / K. These books have the subjects freedom seekers, slavery, and underground. ISBN 0-06-440237-1 Ĭontent: Naledi's plan The road Oranges! Ride on a truck The city of gold A new friend Mma The police The photograph Grace's story Journey home The hospital Life and death Waiting Hope Stealing South: a story of the Underground Railroad - Ayres, Katherine. Journey to Jo'burg : a South African story / by Beverley Naidoo ill. (auth.) Ekman, Marlene (ill.) ĭesert dog : / by Jim Kjelgaard. The strom toys : a perpetual wish book : / by Janet A. The art of keeping cool / Janet Taylor Lisle. Stealing South : a story of the underground railroad / Katherine Ayres. Green, Roger Lancelyn (ed.) Ambrus, Victor (ill.).Gilbert The castle of Kerglas / Emile Souvestre The magician and his pupil / Amelia Godin The magicians' gifts / Juliana Horatia Ewing The princes and the cat / E. Manuel de Falla: Noches en los jardines de Espana ( Nights in the Gardens of Spain) (1915)Ī true Andalusian, García Lorca was born in 1878 in Fuente Vaqueros near Granada. The ‘Ay’ in García Lorca’s poem recalls the Flamenco tradition of the ‘cante jondo’, the profoundly musical tradition of Andalusia, which García Lorca and Mañuel de Falla started to revive in 1922. Who is this rider, what does his destiny hold for him, and why does death await him before reaching Córdoba? The Moorish poets of the Middle Ages used similar forms of allusion and repetition. In this poem ‘Canción de Jinete’ (from Lorca’s Canciones) García Lorca uses an ancient Hispano-Arab form of poetry, wonderfully musical in its repetition and sound, where the real meaning of the poem is obscured. Until the discovery of an ancient manuscript in Oxford’s Bodleian Library throws her into the heart of a dangerous mystery, and into the path of enigmatic geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont (Matthew Good), who hides a dark family secret.Īs Diana and Matthew embark on a journey to understand the secrets of the manuscript and their relationship develops, events threaten to unravel the fragile peace between witches, vampires, daemons and human, a peace overseen by the Congregation, a shadowy institution made up of a handful of powerful vampire, witch and daemon representatives.Īlex Kingston plays Diana’s aunt, Sarah Bishop, a practising witch and coven member. The Sky original production stars Teresa Palmer as brilliant academic and historian Diana Bishop, a reluctant witch denying her magical heritage. Adapted from Deborah Harkness’s best selling All Souls Trilogy, A Discovery of Witches is a modern-day love story, set in a world where Witches, Vampires and Daemons secretly live and work alongside humans, hidden in plain sight. The book is divided into six key sections, which makes the gargantuan task Bryson sets himself feel much more approachable. At close to 700 pages, it makes a valiant attempt to distill history from the big bang to right now, taking in what we know about the nature of our world, the universe, time, space and even what the future might hold. What makes it great, in a nutshell?Ī Short History of Nearly Everything is a genuinely lovely book with a decent claim to being Bryson’s most well-known (and ambitious) work. I hope that if you’ve been inspired to read any of these recommendations, they’ve proven as valuable to you as they have to me, but for this last entry, we’re looking less at life lessons, and instead, exploring the wonders of life itself. In this series we’ve picked apart some great books, some of them very well known, others less so, but what they’ve all had in common is they seek to impart key lessons, whether about work, life or successfully balancing the two. No, these are the opening words of A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. Not the words of a proud wealth planner congratulating a client on achieving their long-term goals (although they could be). In fact, I suspect it was a little tougher than you realise.” The book became the first Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in 1992. Later, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman created Maus, which relayed his father’s experiences during the Holocaust through pictures in which Jews were mice, Germans were cats and Poles were pigs. Later, to help others understand the term he coined the definition: “a long comic book that would need a bookmark.” The term graphic novel first came about when cartoonist Will Eisner used the phrase to get publishers to recognize his 1978 work, A Contract with God: And Other Tenement Stories, as a novel rather than a comic book. As young people get more vocal about these issues, this trend is being reflected in the graphic novels they are reading. Teen activists worldwide are making headlines for their social justice advocacy on everything from climate change and immigration to substance abuse and LGBTQ issues. Discovering that Thornhill was carrying with him a pearl necklace for Johanna Oakley, the lover of a man lost at sea, Jeffrey questions the young girl. Last seen on Fleet Street while entering the barber shop of Sweeney Todd, his mysterious disappearance inspires Colonel Jeffrey, a friend, to investigate. In London in 1785, a young sailor named Lieutenant Thornhill goes missing while on leave. Originally serialized in cheap volumes, the novel marks the debut of Sweeney Todd, a villain whose story inspired Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), which won a Tony Award for Best Musical and an Olivier Award for Best New Musical before serving as source material for Tim Burton’s 2007 film of the same name. Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street (1846-1847) is a penny dreadful novel by British writers James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest. 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