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The profound premise of Dan Lungu.s novel resides in an examination of the following paradox: how is it possible that many, even very many, people who formerly lived under a totalitarian, inhuman regime, without having enjoyed privileges or favours, can now be capable of nostalgia ? The author, through the intermediary of an old woman, who relates her life in the first person, attempts to deconstruct the mechanisms of nostalgia and to unravel this psychological enigma. ![]() ![]() The word rang in her head as sweat popped out on her face. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction: The characters are productions of the authors’ imagination and used fictitiously. This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. ![]() Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. 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What Price Paradise Copyright© 2005 Katherine Allred ![]() ![]() ![]() The nurse, Hadassah Peri, who served as a private-duty nurse for Huguette in the hospital for twenty years, and received from Huguette $31 million in gifts while Huguette lived.Although portions of their testimony appeared in "Empty Mansions," this is the first time the video excerpts and full transcripts have been available to the public. The five - Huguette's nurse, personal assistant, goddaughter, attorney, and accountant - testified in videotaped depositions as part of the court battle over her $300 million estate. 1 bestselling biography "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune." Huguette Clark's inner circle speaks Watch 25 video excerpts from testimony by the reclusive heiress's nurse, personal assistant, goddaughter, attorney, and accountantįive members of the inner circle of the reclusive copper heiress Huguette Clark speak out in 25 video excerpts of sworn testimony, newly available on the website of the No. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By reflecting the ambiguity and density of the original, Hinton continues to create compelling English poems that alter our conception of Chinese poetry. David Hinton’s translation of Li Po’s poems is no less an achievement than his critically acclaimed The Selected Poems of Tu Fu, also published by New Directions. Legendary friends in eighth-century T'ang China, Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally celebrated as the two greatest poets in the Chinese canon. He wrote 1,200 years ago, half a world away, but in his poems we see our world transformed. However ethereal in spirit, his poems remain grounded in the everyday experience we all share. There is a set-phrase in Chinese referring to the phenomenon of Li Po: "Winds of the immortals, bones of the Tao." He moved through this world with an unearthly freedom from attachment, and at the same time belonged profoundly to the earth and its process of change. His work is suffused with Taoism and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism, but these seem not so much spiritual influences as the inborn form of his life. Li Pos work is suffused with Taoism and Zen Buddhism, and the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a thousand years. ![]() Li Po (AD 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound’s translations, Li Po became central to the modernist revolution in the West. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ship-of-the-Line USS Independence seaman William Oaty accidentally killed by pistol shot. Sloop-of-War USS Epervier disappeared in Atlantic Ocean. ![]() Gun Boat #146 blew up owing to magazine explosion. Schooner USS Alligator sank in Port Royal Sound during a heavy storm. Gun Boat #164 sank in a squall in Chesapeake Bay. Schooners USS Hamilton and Scourge capsize in a heavy squall on Lake Ontario. 5 October 1811.ĭuring the unsuccessful pursuit of HMS Belvidera, one of frigate President's bow chasers exploded, wounding 16 men. Gun Boat #2 sank in gale in Chesapeake Bay. Gun Boat #159 lost in Chesapeake Bay with all on board. Ketch Intrepid, fitted out as an "infernal" or fire ship, blown up in premature detonation of powder charges during blockade of Tripoli. Thomas McDonald, William Fountain and John Bartlett drowned. 14 July 1804.įrigate USS John Adams small boat accident. Jacob Hendrickson, USS Constitution, killed by fall from aloft.ĭavid Darling, Ships' Boy, USS Constitution, fell from the booms into the hold and was killed by the fall. USS Constitution sailor, Richard Beedland fell from aloft and was killed. ![]() Approximately 105 lost.įrigate USS Insurgent lost with all hands, presumably in a gale after leaving Hampton Roads on 8 August 1800, bound for the West Indies. Last seen 20 August 1800 when she departed for the West Indies. Brig USS Pickering presumably sank with all hands in a gale in September 1800. ![]() ![]() ![]() The protagonists then talk about “the Harry Potter lady,” referring to Rowling, 56, who has received death threats for her comments about biological sex and the transgender community. ![]() They find themselves at war with “TERFs,” the derogatory acronym for so-called trans-exclusionary radical feminists - including the “Knights of J.K. Gretchen Felker-Martin’s debut novel, “ Manhunt,” follows two trans women “attempting to survive in a world ravaged by a plague which transforms anyone with enough testosterone in their system into a shrieking monstrosity.” Why making more ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies is a terrible ideaĪ transgender novelist has come under fire after penning a self-confessed “depraved psychosexual horrorshow” in which J.K. JK Rowling’s abusive ex-husband claims he helped write ‘Harry Potter’ JK Rowling slams ‘mob’ after trans critic is doused with tomato juice Rowling in talks to produce ‘Harry Potter’ series for HBO Max ![]() ![]() ![]() Stated another way, the selfish gene concept holds that natural selection takes place at the gene level. From there, Jarvis describes Dawkins’s selfish gene concept - the idea that a gene can be seen as a “selfish unit” that exploits an organism to carry out its own process of replication. Here, he outlines four key points in The Origin of Species, while paying special attention to one challenge Darwin faced: the Cambrian explosion. He first describes the origin of the universe and the history of Earth, and moves on to Darwin’s theory of evolution. Jarvis, who holds a PhD in biology from the University of Cape Town (where he focused on zoology), takes his reader on a historical journey. Michael Jarvis considers that question, asking whether recent findings in biology match the predictions of Dawkins’s selfish gene concept. ![]() ![]() In his recent book, Selfish Genes in ICU?, Dr. Nearly half a century later, we’re entitled to wonder how the work has held up. Photo credit: Mufid Majnun, via Unsplash.īiologist Richard Dawkins came to prominence in 1976 with his book The Selfish Gene. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is always a certain element of mysticism, or touch of science fiction, or a better way to phrase it – out worldly. Whether it be dealing with some beast that kills employees at the New York Museum of Natural History in Relic, or uncovering a serial killer who happens to be Pendergast’s great-grand uncle who had discovered the elixir of life and managed to live to be over 100 years old in the Cabinet of Curiosities, or dealing with the destructive trail left by his psychopathic brother Diogenes, a Pendergast novel is never normal. One thing that makes a Pendergast novel special is that the crimes that this FBI agent investigates are far from normal. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have recently added book #18, Verses for the Dead, to the Pendergast series. But writers are going to continue writing novels within a series even after I have done my review, so I plan on reviewing the individual novels as they come into circulation. ![]() The focus of my blog is to review book series and not individual novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The outcome of this clan war will determine the fate of all Green Bones - and of Kekon itself. When a powerful new drug emerges that lets anyone - even foreigners - wield jade, the simmering tension between the Kauls and the rival Ayt family erupts into open violence. Ancient tradition has little place in this rapidly changing nation. They care about nothing but protecting their own, cornering the jade market, and defending the districts under their protection. Now, the war is over and a new generation of Kauls vies for control of Kekon's bustling capital city. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and killed for - and for centuries, honorable Green Bone warriors like the Kaul family have used it to enhance their magical abilities and defend the island from foreign invasion. Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. * World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, winner ![]() *Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. ![]() |