![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. All the obvious areas are tackled - the Ancient Greeks, Christian theology, the ideas of Jesus, astrological thought, the soul, the self, beliefs about the heavens, the ideas of Islam, the Crusades, humanism, the Renaissance, Gutenberg and the book, the scientific revolution, the age of discovery, Shakespeare, the idea of Revolution, the Romantic imagination, Darwin, imperialism, modernism, Freud right up to the present day and the internet. Looking at animal behaviour that appears to require some thought - tool-making, territoriality, counting, language (or at least sounds), pairbonding - Peter Watson moves on to the apeman and the development of simple ideas such as cooking, the earliest language, the emergence of family life. The book begins over a million years ago with a discussion of how the earliest ideas might have originated. In this hugely ambitious and exciting book Peter Watson tells the history of ideas from prehistory to the present day, leading to a new way of telling the history of the world. ![]()
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For a more detailed explanation of the subreddit, click here.ĭo not private message individual mods regarding official nosleep business. NoSleep is a place for authors to share their original horror stories. Trigger warnings enabled Trigger warnings enabled ![]() ![]() "Thousands of insect species are suffering from habitat loss and pesticide exposure, but none is more precious to our collective psyche than the monarch. ~ Joe Lamp’l, Producer & host of the PBS series Growing a Greener World® I can’t imagine a better person to write this book! How fortunate we are that she’s now sharing her years of study and monarch-saving wisdom from the trenches with all of us. ![]() Kylee Baumle is more passionate about monarchs (and saving them) than anyone I know. Brower, Research Professor of Biology, Sweet Briar College Kylee Baumle’s lovely new book will appeal widely to schools, conservation folks, general readers and to the gamut of people interested in submerging themselves in what she richly paints as a noble cause, saving our most-loved butterfly." The intricacies of the butterfly’s life history, migration and overwintering biology are engagingly narrated and beautifully illustrated. " The Monarch is a riveting tale of biology and conservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The most significant departure that Mitchell makes from the traditional narrative concerns the reason for Eurydice’s presence in the underworld, or “Hadestown.” At the last minute he looks back and loses her forever. Orpheus goes before Hades and Persephone and manages to win Eurydice’s freedom with his song on the condition that he not look back as she follows him out. She ends up in the underworld, here referred to as “Hadestown.” ![]() Orpheus and Eurydice are in love and preparing for marriage. “ The plot of Hadestown follows the overall framework of the narrative that we know from antiquity, established most thoroughly by Vergil in Book 4 of the Georgics and Ovid in Book 10 of his Metamorphoses. Last week, the 2019 Tony award nominations were announced.Īn unusual, but very worthy musical was nominated– Hadestown.ĭo you know it? It’s awesome, but don’t take my word for it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Învăluit în mister și prizonier al unui trecut despre care refuză să vorbească, regele-vampir începe să îi pară Isoldei tot mai puțin un monstru. Speriată că ar putea deveni lucrul pe care îl urăște cel mai mult pe lume, tânăra caută alte modalităţi de a-l sfida pe suveran și de a supraviețui revărsării de violență, dar și mașinațiunilor politice de la cumplita curte regală a vampirilor.ĭoar că nu de acestea se teme cel mai mult prințesa, ci de însuși Adrian și de atracția nestăpânită pe care o exercită asupra ei. Totuși, tentativa ei de asasinat este zădărnicita, iar Adrian o avertizează pe frumoasa lui logodnica, Isolda, că, dacă va mai încerca să îl ucidă, o va transforma în strigoi. Pentru a pune capăt unui război care durează de ani buni, dar și pentru a-și proteja supușii din regat, prințesa trebuie să se mărite cu regele-vampir Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev și să-l omoare. Pentru Isolda de Lara, ziua în care va fi mireasa va fi și ziua în care își va îngropa sufletul. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When they awakened on the surface for the first time, these "Adams and Eves" believed a God to have created them on Safehold, to live according to the teachings of the archangels – demigod identities assumed by the control staff under Administrator Eric Langhorne.Īnother group of administrators, however, opposed the " Archangel Langhorne" and his followers, believing that it was vital to keep humanity's knowledge of technology, of its own history, and – most importantly – the memory of the Gbaba threat alive. However, in order to keep this last colony from attracting the Gbaba's attention with emissions of any kind, the administrators of the colonization project Operation Ark had the memory of the Safeholdians altered. After the rest of humanity has been annihilated by a mysterious and ruthless alien species known as the Gbaba, Safehold was populated with the last eight million human survivors. The main setting of the series is the world of Safehold, a planet slightly smaller than Earth orbiting a sun many light years away from the Sol System and the late Terran Federation. ![]() ![]() ![]() : The obvious leader of the party - Big Brother. ![]() The imprisonment, torture, and re-education that followed were not only to physically defeat or give him but also to eradicate his independent spiritual existence and spiritual dignity until he could no longer fall in love with the person he hated the most. Smith had a love affair with a like-minded person, but they were both arrested by the thought police. His desire for truth and decency led him to secretly rebel against the government, and the government constantly rewrote history by systematically distorting the facts in order to achieve its own purpose and continue its rule. ![]() The British protagonist Winston-Smith in the book is a small office in one of the states. The novel takes place in an imaginary future in which the world is ruled by three totalitarian police states and is in an endless war. After thinking for many years about the double threat of Nazism and Stalinism, he wrote this passage as a warning. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is George Orwell's second novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These, along with the unfinished, book-length poem De Rerum Natura by his Roman admirer Lucretius and the dialogue On Moral Ends by his Roman critic Cicero-both of whom lived three centuries after him-provide nearly all we know about Epicureanism. All we have of his own words are four letters to friends and some collections of quotations. The loss of Epicurus’s writings puts Austin at a disadvantage, though. That’s why it’s so fitting-and so welcome-that Oxford University Press’s new series of “Guides to the Good Life” would include Emily Austin’s volume exploring the ideas of this oft-neglected thinker. He rejected mysticism in favor of an atomic theory of matter and urged people to jettison religious morality in favor of a secularism that focused on living a fulfilling life on Earth. ![]() What little we know about him shows that Epicurus was among history’s greatest advocates of reason and happiness. Most probably were destroyed by medieval Christian monks who thought his views incompatible with their own. The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is said to have written four hundred books on subjects ranging from physics to morality, but almost all his writings are lost today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Evie’s late mother knew the royal court was a treacherous place, and advised her to hide her gift, which she did. What Evie hasn’t told anyone is that she also has an ability to snuff out another person’s magic after touching them, a gift she calls her immunity. Evie has no elemental magic she does have the ability to smell magic, but this is considered a lesser, inconsequential power. In this world magic is largely elemental although there are supernatural creatures like shapeshifters and gargoyles as well. That means she does her best to earn her keep at the castle and avoid the Mean Girls who torment her, including her cousin, Vasilia. She’s never going to inherit the crown and, in a world that values magic, she has no real magical power. Lady Everleigh Saffira Winter Blair is a low ranking member of the royal family of Bellona. ![]() It’s tremendous fun, although it wraps up quickly. Kill the Queen by Jennifer Estep is the first book in a fantasy series that features a badass female gladiator on a quest to reclaim the throne from her murderous cousin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Social Determinants and Health Care: Getting to Root Causes | Washington University in St. Housing Instability and Maternal & Child Health: Analyzing the Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) Program in Massachusetts | Washington University in St. Louis City: System Dynamics Simulation Model and Model Brief | With Rainy Tang, Washington University in St. Louis’s Community Investment Strategy | Developed for United Way, with Health Communication Research Laboratory | January 2020Ĭhildhood Lead Poisoning in St. Everyday Ambassador will inspire you to believe in your personal capacity to make a. 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