![]() ![]() Merricatįrom page one until the end of the book we are in Mary Katherine’s (Merricat’s) head constantly. Trigger Warning: Murder, mental illness and talking about sexual abuse (in the Conclusion only). I’m not here to change your mind about the book but give you my interpretation of the events and my theories as to the mystery and the characters themselves and the conclusion that I came to. The most common complaints that I see in reviews is that it’s not scary, the mystery is too easy to figure out, the characters are too weird, it’s boring and part of the mystery is left unanswered. ![]() Even the ‘mystery’ of what happened to the Blackwoods isn’t too much of a mystery. There’s not much happening on the surface of We Have Always Lived in the Castle. It aligns itself more with the Gothics rather than horror so people who read it looking for a horror story generally come away confused and bored. It’s generally listed in the ‘horror’ category or, alternately, ‘Gothic’. We Have Always Lived in the Castle can be a very confusing book. Merricat, well, she’s a little harder to pin down, as are the characters around her. Eleanor’s issues are much more to the forefront and much easier to see. Eleanor and Merricat don’t have much in common, however. Both books deal with disturbed young women. On the surface they can seem very similar. We Have Always Lived in the Castle generally gets eclipsed by Shirley Jackson’s more well-known book, The Haunting of Hill House. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Coxey's Army; A Study Of The Industrial Army Movement Of 1894 by Donald L. McMurry![]() Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.Īrmy, army. Reprint, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1968. Coxey's Army: A Study of the Industrial Army Movement of 1894. Many of Kelly's supporters, however, continued their journey on foot and eventually joined Coxey's army in Washington. At Council Bluffs, Iowa, the railroad ejected Kelly's army. Coxey's army, which had recently captured national headlines by marching from Ohio to the nation's capital. In the spring of 1894, Kelly's followers boarded railroad boxcars bound for Washington, D.C. Kelly rallied fifteen hundred men, many out of work, to this cause. ![]() ![]() ![]() KELLY'S INDUSTRIAL ARMY was one of a number of "industrial armies," born of the panic of 1893, that pressed the federal government to help the unemployed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chapters highlight the fundamentals of material burning and the associated stages of heat, flame and smoke, properties and mechanisms, and preventive, delaying and extinguishing attributes of 27 chemical groups of flame retardants. ![]() As a perfect complement to The Databook of Flame Retardants, this book explains the roles, selection, mechanisms of action, use in different polymers and products, and health and environmental issues of over 350 different products. Handbook of Flame Retardants contains an extensive evaluation of the existing literature, products and patents related to flame retardance. The first two editions were very well received, making this handbook a must-have in all analytical laboratories using GC-MS. For this new edition the work has been now extended to two volumes, reflecting the latest developments in the technique and related instrumentation, while also incorporating several new examples of applications in many fields. It also features a glossary of approximately 300 terms and a substance index that facilitates finding a specific application. ![]() ![]() As such, it covers all aspects, including the theory and principles, as well as a broad range of real-life examples taken from laboratories in environmental, food, pharmaceutical and clinical analysis. The only comprehensive reference on this popular and rapidly developing technique provides a detailed overview, ranging from fundamentals to applications, including a section on the evaluation of GC-MS analyses. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Play by karel capek![]() ![]() Before diving into origins of the word ‘robot’, the way it was invented and the delicate details of the play I want to tell you something about Karel Capek himself, the literary heritage he left and his life. Typical models have no individuality whatsoever and most humans regard them as machines. They are mass manufactured as grown-up individuals, they eventually go out of order because of wear and tear and they can be designed as needed. Something like artificial stem cells.Īlthough Robots’ origins are biological they are ‘mechanical’ in any other sense of the word. ![]() In this play a scientist named Rossum manages to synthesize matter that can then be used to create artificial yet functional organs and tissue similar to natural ones. It has to be noted that robots in Karel Capek’s play are quite different from those machines we regard as robots today. Furthermore, it explores different issues that could arise if artificial life was created. ![]() First of all, this play is the reason why the word ‘robot’ was invented. The most important of his works from robotics point of view is definitely the play Rossum’s Universal Robots or R.U.R., published in 1921. ![]() In his works sci-fi is often used as a prism through which different issues can be explored. It has to be noted that at that time sci-fi wasn’t yet considered a separate genre. Apart from his other works he wrote a few science fiction and fantasy works. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The Devil You Know by K.J. Parker![]() He heard a faint whimpering noise, like a dog but it was a dark-skinned woman curled up in a ball next to the bed – tried to crawl under it, he guessed, but it was too low. He blundered across the floor, bumped into a small table, knocked it over, maps and papers everywhere. Needless to say, the tent didn’t have a back door. He reached round and felt the small of his back for an arrow, but there was nothing there, so it had to be from when Forza hit him. ![]() Nothing he’d ever experienced had hurt that much. He backed into the tent and turned, and then the pain hit him. It was a shame, a great shame, but there’d be another day. Senza saw the archers and realised he’d lost. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. ![]() The moral right of the author has been asserted.Īll rights reserved. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of SausagesĪll characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. You Don’t Have to be Evil to Work Here, But It Helps ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Ahmed women and gender in islam![]() The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. The report by Amnesty and ICJ, titled, “The Taliban’s war on women: The crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan,” cited the ICC statute, which lists gender-based persecution as a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists, or ICJ, underscored how the Taliban crackdown on Afghan women’s rights, coupled with “imprisonment, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment,” could constitute gender persecution under the International Criminal Court. ![]() ![]() Two top rights groups on Friday slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Delisle jerusalem![]() ![]() Jerusalem is a masterfully hewn travelogue topping Best of 2012 lists from The Guardian, Paste, and the Montreal Gazette, it was the graphic novel of the year. ![]() ![]() A sixteen-page appendix to the paperback edition lets the reader behind the curtain, revealing intimate process sketches from Delisle's time in Jerusalem. Drawing from his experience at animation studios in China and North Korea, Delisles graphic novels Shenzen and Pyongyang depict these two countries from a Westerners. Delisle has worked for numerous animation studios around the world, including CinéGroupe in Montreal. When observing the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim populations that call Jerusalem home, Delisle's drawn line is both sensitive and fair, assuming nothing and drawing everything. Born in Quebec, Canada, Guy Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College. It eloquently examines the impact of conflict on the lives of people on both sides of the wall while drolly recounting the quotidian: checkpoints, traffic jams, and holidays. Jerusalem explores the complexities of a city that represents so much to so many. Delisle expertly lays the groundwork for a cultural road map of the Holy City, utilizing the classic "stranger in a strange land" point of view that made his other books required reading for understanding what daily life is like in cities few are able to travel to. Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City is the acclaimed graphic memoirist Guy Delisle's strongest work yet, a thoughtful and moving travelogue about life in contemporary Jerusalem. " is a small miracle: concise, even-handed, highly particular." - The Guardian ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Amor towles civility![]() ![]() He combined the idea of luxury hotels with his knowledge of Russia's long-time historical tradition of house arrest. Towles's inspiration for the novel was his experience staying at luxury hotels, specifically, a hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, where some guests were permanent residents. Upon returning home from Paris after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, the Count was arrested. Demidov counseled him to be strong for his sister Helena, because ".adversity presents itself in many forms, and if a man does not master his circumstances, then he is bound to be mastered by them." The Rostov siblings are aristocrats, making social visits to nearby estates by horse-drawn troika or sleigh.Īs a young man, the Count was sent out of the country (as was the custom at the time) by his grandmother for wounding Helena's suitor, a cad who broke her heart. ![]() ![]() When the Count's parents died of cholera within hours of each other in 1900, Grand Duke Demidov became the 11-year-old's guardian. Rostov's godfather was his father's comrade in the cavalry, Grand Duke Demidov. He was raised on his Rostov family's estate "Idlehour" in Nizhny Novgorod. ![]() The protagonist is the fictional Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on 24 October 1889. It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011). A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the microbial soil that nourishes crops and the native grasses that lure pollinating bees to the ancient trees that shelter scavenger owls and the dedicated people who stay attuned to the delicate symbiotic relationships among them all, the thriving ecosystem of a family farm nurtures a world far beyond its borders." - Booklist, This book is wonderful on so many levels: the swift moving and dramatic story of Atina and Martin Diffley, the farmers of Gardens of Eagan, as they confront wild weather, development pressure, and pipelines. a satisfying, instructive book." - Library Journal "Diffley fluently conveys the mind-boggling demands of organic farming in intimately personal and intricately factual ways. All readers will enjoy the organic ethic beautifully demonstrated in the author's close observation of and deep deference to nature. Those seeking inspiration will enjoy the story of a single mother's dogged effort to follow her bliss. "By offering a look inside her own experience, and often her own heart, Diffley creates a multi-faceted, powerful, and compelling memoir about trying to live organically." - ForeWord Review "An education on organic farming and its importance, as well as a heartfelt love letter to the land." - Kirkus Reviews "Like her own farm, this book offers an abundant crop: practical-minded readers will appreciate the how-to's of soil building and crop rotation as well as information on the rigors of meeting FDA organic standards. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Oroonoko the royal slave![]() ![]() ![]() They all agree that she welcomed the return of the Stuart dynasty, was popular with Charles II, and even did some spying for him abroad (on a journey to Antwerp). There are at least four biographies of Behn, plus numerous introductions to her work. She lived through troubled times – growing up during the civil wars (1637 – 53) she was 9 or so when King Charles was executed in January 1649, lived through the Commonwealth of Oliver Cromwell and was 20 or so when Charles II was restored. She was a widely published poet, translator, essayist and writer of prose fictions. She was a very successful playwright, producing at least 15 plays, mostly Restoration comedies. Aphra Behn (1640 – 1689) is generally considered the first known professional female writer in England. ![]() |