![]() The first edition for the common reader, regardless of religious background, providing full notes and a comprehensive glossary of vocabulary and technical terms.A unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer that brings together the texts of three different versions - 1549, 1559, and 1662 - to provide a panorama of the history of ritual in England from the Reformation to the twentieth century.The Book of Common Prayer The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 Edited by Brian Cummings Oxford World's Classics ![]() ![]() Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series. ![]()
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5/29/2023 0 Comments Capital ideology![]() ![]() Piketty’s socialism is not just a socialism without the working class. ![]() And as the incomes of the rich become reliant more on asset wealth than salaries, the old forms of redistribution, based on income tax and corporation tax, cease to work. In a free-market economy, he argues, inequality inevitably rises faster than growth. Piketty’s 2014 book Capital in the 21st Century showed how inequality is baked into our current economic model. If we don’t do something radical to reduce inequality, Piketty argues, “xenophobic populism could well triumph at the ballot box and initiate changes that will destroy the global, hypercapitalist digital economy”. The social coalition that drove redistribution in the mid-20th century has disappeared. ![]() But the main focus of the book is the present, which is marked by extreme and rising inequality, alongside the breakdown of traditional, class-based politics. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments About That Night by Julie James![]() This "date" with Jordan Rhodes is merely an assignment- one they're both determined to pull off even if they can't be together for five minutes before the sarcasm and sparks begin to fly. As the top undercover agent in Chicago, Nick McCall has one rule: never get personal. In exchange for her brother's release from prison, Jordan is going to be there-with a date supplied by the Bureau.Īgent McCall just wants her. ![]() But there's only one party the FBI wants to crash: the charity fundraiser of a famous restaurateur, who also happens to launder money for the mob. As the daughter of a billionaire and the owner of the city's top wine store, Jordan Rhodes is invited to the most exclusive parties in Chicago. ![]() Previous edition for this ISBN found here Cliffhanger: View Spoiler » No « Hide SpoilerĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Ripped Bodice | Google Play Books ![]() ![]() ![]() Luo, who adores the Little Seamstress, dreams of transforming her from a simple country girl into a sophisticated lover with his foreign tales. To the village tailor and to read Balzac to his shy and beautiful young daughter. Enchanted by the prose of a host of European writers, they dare to tell the story of The Count of Monte Cristo ![]() When another city boy leaves the mountains, the friends steal a suitcase full of forbidden books he has been hiding, knowing he will be afraid to call the authorities. The two friends are good at storytelling, and the village headman commands them to put on "oral cinema shows" for the villagers, reciting the plots and dialogue of movies. Only their ingenuity helps them to survive. ![]() Sijie's unnamed 17-year-old protagonist and his best friend, Luo, are bourgeois doctors' sons, and so condemned to serve four years in a remote mountain village, carrying pails of excrement daily up a hill. The Cultural Revolution of Chairman Mao Zedong altered Chinese history in the 1960s and '70s, forcibly sending hundreds of thousands of Chinese intellectuals to peasant villages for "re-education." This moving, often wrenching short novel by a writer who was himself re-educated in the '70s tells how two young men weather years of banishment, emphasizing the power of literature to free the mind. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gave me the severance package I wasn’t offered when he let me go-plus enough money in my bank account to raise ten kids.” “He offered me more money than I’ve ever seen in my life. “Why not just use it yourself? Tell the world how he wronged you?” I don’t mean to seem paranoid, but this situation has made me that way. Names, dates, transactions, everything Chandler doesn’t want anyone to know-and something he doesn’t know that I have.” ![]() I turn the envelope over, and a small flash drive falls into the palm of my hand. I should have given this to you the first time you came out here to see me, but I wasn’t ready yet.” I guess you’re right, I’m just kind of rambling, aren’t I? Fine, let’s get to the point.” She reaches down into her bag and pulls out a small envelope. It’s all making more sense now, but I’m still curious about just what it is that she’s getting at. That’s why I confided the truth in you that day.” I could tell that you were a decent man, even when you were throwing me out of the building. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Babette's feast by isak dinesen![]() ![]() ![]() When French opera singer Achille Papin (Jean-Philippe Lafont) promises vocal student Philippa the Paris bigtime - and correspondingly when cavalry officer Lorens Lo wenhielm gets too close to Martina - Dad puts the Protestant nix on everything. In an intricate scenario, a pastor (Pouel Kern) keeps beautiful daughters Philippa (Hanne Stensgard) and Martina (Vibeke Hastrup) on the strict and narrow. Dinesen's story, an episodic meander with potentially stolid cinematic results, is suffused with cinematographer Henning Kristiansen's beautiful compositions and captured light, and warmed by Axel's affinity for actors and details (he also scripted). With blinis Demidoff and sherry now flooding your hungering eyes, you - like the appreciative dinner guests - suddenly look fondly upon everything that's gone before.Īnd there's a whole lot of that. ![]() And you breathe easier because life in this movie has been excruciatingly ascetic. Its hedonistic delights loosen up the sensually uptight Danes Babette (an elegant Ste'phane Audran) is feeding. This banquet is the glorious finale of Gabriel Axel's "Babette's Feast," his handsome, understated adaptation of the Isak Dinesen short story. When gourmet chef Babette does her thing, we're talking quail stuffed with truffles and foie gras, turtle soup, baba au rhum, Veuve Clicquot. ![]() ![]() ![]() “By the time I met them, the guys were not in the least downhearted,” recalls LaBrie when asked about the scenario he found himself walking into. The missing piece of the jigsaw was James LaBrie, a member of the Canadian band Winter Rose whose CD found its way into Dream Theater’s clutches at a point when one might reasonably have expected them to be abandoning hope. ![]() After letting Charlie Dominici go, everyone went back to their day jobs, but the one thing we still did was practice regularly, for three or four days of every week.” “We were still very young guys and with Operation Desert Storm going on there were some worries that we might have got drafted. “It was tough to keep the dream alive,” Petrucci admits. It would take the singer-less, impoverished Dream Theater two years to find the right frontman, during which time they performed the occasional show as an instrumental four-piece and even hired a guy called Steve Stone, who lasted for a solitary concert. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Unmasking Sin by Mary Lancaster![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She suffers two robbery attempts in the same night: the first as she is leaving the Gardens and two thugs try to steal her purse and the second in the middle of the night, when someone tries to rob her house. ![]() However, it seems someone is trying to hurt more than just her reputation. Shunned by Regency London high society, cut off by her parents who disapproved of her second marriage, harassed by her in-laws, the lonely Lady Rebecca comes to the Maida Gardens “where she could be anonymous and part of society in a way she could control.” Lancaster wastes no time making us doubt Rebecca’s innocence: both of her abusive husbands died as a result of their own excesses and the rumors of her poisoning them were started by her second husband’s relatives, who want control of her young son Tom, along with his inheritance. She, in turn, is watched by Ludovic Dunne, a solicitor who has been hired by the relatives of her dead second husband to investigate her. Masked couples dance on the lantern lit lawn and, alone, on a table with no other chairs, Lady Rebecca Cornish, also known as the Black Widow, watches them. Unmasking Sin, the third book on Mary Lancaster’s “Pleasure Gardens” series, opens, fittingly enough, on the Maida Pleasure Gardens. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Louise erdrich's tracks![]() ![]() She is a strong, independent woman who refuses to be held back by societal norms and expectations. Fleur challenges traditional gender roles and expectations, refusing to be defined by the men in her life and instead carving out her own path. She struggles to find a balance between the two, ultimately choosing to embrace her heritage and use it as a source of strength and resilience.Īnother important theme in the novel is the role of women and their place in society. Fleur grapples with the challenges of preserving her cultural identity and traditions while also trying to adapt to the changing world around her. ![]() One of the central themes of "Tracks" is the conflict between traditional Native American values and the influence of modern society. ![]() Despite these struggles, Fleur remains determined and resilient, using her gifts to help those around her and striving to find her place in the world. The novel follows Fleur's journey as she navigates the challenges and hardships faced by her community, including poverty, alcohol abuse, and the loss of cultural traditions. The main character is Fleur Pillager, a young Ojibwe woman who is known for her powerful ability to heal and her connection to the natural world. "Tracks" by Louise Erdrich is a novel set in the late 1960s on a Native American reservation in North Dakota. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Has been produced in North America and has tended to focus upon such well-known figures as The emphasis on British writers is a timely one, since most available critical material Of this compilation are clearly literary. In spite of the fact that two of theĮssays collected here are discussions of SF film and the film industry, the main concerns SF by women writers, most of them also British. New ground in its focus on a number of relatively unknown writers and their works.Ĭomprised of thirteen essays by both literary critics and SF writers, all of them womenĪnd most of them British, it brings a variety of perspectives to bear on a wide range of ![]() Takes a rather conservative approach to feminist studies, while at the same time it breaks $59.95 cloth $16.95 paper.Īs a collection of essays, Where No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction No Man Has Gone Before: Women and Science Fiction. ![]() |