6/26/2023 0 Comments Country Women by Jeanne Tetrault![]() ![]() ![]() Authors Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas lived this philosophy and lifestyle as they eventually networked with like-minded women to share ideas, stories, and knowledge.Ĭountry Women (not the glossy upstart Country Woman Magazine) started as a small newsletter to share information between the small farms, collectives and communes scattered about the country, eventually reaching 17,000 people by word of mouth. Encouragement and practical information infuse the reader with a deep respect for the land and personal journal entries throughout inspire a sense of self-sufficiency rooted in the earth.īorn of the "back to the land" movement, this handbook chronicles the aspirations of tireless women seeking a new life on small farms around America. Written from the perspective of women learning and sharing all manner of farming knowledge on a small scale, it remains an invaluable guide. This classic reference, which has informed two generations of women, is taken from the original homesteading publication Country Women. ![]() The Indispensable Reference for the Self-Sufficient Homesteader ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Quatrefoil james barr![]() This is a very moving, sad and yet positive book which I enjoyed more and more as the story progressed. First published in 1950 it reveals what it was like for homosexuals when such an inclination could mean ruin, and so makes all the more interesting reading today. ![]() The plot twists and turns intriguingly and as the story develops Phillip becomes an ever more complex and appealing individual. I found this to be a really absorbing novel, rich in detail and peopled with interesting well drawn characters. The Court Marshall turns out to be the least of Phillips troubles as he battles with among others his family, his fianc?e and her mother, and his own sexuality. On his journey to Seattle Phillip encounters Tim Danelaw from whom he accepts a lift, not knowing then who Tim is or how much he will subsequently figure in his life. ![]() Set in 1946 after the Second World War mainly in Seattle, Phillip Froelich is facing Court Marshall following insubordination to his captain during an incident towards the end of the war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lord Wyldon convinces the king to put Keladry on probation for a year, which greatly angers Alanna. ![]() The novel opens with a discussion between King Jonathan and the training master, Lord Wyldon of Cavall, during which the Lioness is present. Keladry of Mindelan wishes to be the first female page to legally try for her knighthood in over a century. Set in Tortall during the reign of King Jonathan III and Queen Thayet, First Test, launches the Protector of the Small series, which chronicles the coming of age of a heroine who is far more than she seems.' " -Cover flap summary of the 1st Random House paperback edition May 2000 Contents Kel is the first girl in ten years to take advantage of the decree that permits girls to train for the knighthood, and she is about to smash everyone's preconceptions about what girls can and cannot do. This is the typical attitude that Keladry of Mindelan is up against. " "Girls are fragile, more emotional, easier to frighten." ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Aristotle metaphysics ross![]() ![]() In 1895, he gained a first class MA honours degree in classics. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and the University of Edinburgh. He spent most of his first six years as a child in southern India. William David Ross was born in Thurso, Caithness in the north of Scotland the son of John Ross (1835-1905). Ross also critically edited and translated a number of Aristotle's works, such as his 12-volume translation of Aristotle together with John Alexander Smith, and wrote on other Greek philosophy. Moore's consequentialist form of intuitionism. His best-known work is The Right and the Good (1930), in which he developed a pluralist, deontological form of intuitionist ethics in response to G. ![]() Ross, was a Scottish Aristotelian philosopher, translator, WWI veteran, civil servant, and university administrator. Sir William David Ross KBE FBA (15 April 1877 – ), known as David Ross but usually cited as W. Robert Audi, Tom Beauchamp, Tara Smith, Bernard Gert ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Emily wilson the illiad![]() Pat Barker’s brilliant new novelistic retelling of The Iliad puts the experience of women like Andromache at the heart of the story: the women who survive in slavery when men destroy their cities and kill their fathers, brothers and children. He hopes only to be dead before he has to hear her screams. ![]() Hector knows this, but he insists that his own need to avoid social humiliation as a battle-shirker trumps it all: “I would be ashamed before the Trojan men and women,” he says. If Hector dies, their child will be hurled from the city walls, Troy will fall and Andromache will be made the concubine of the son of her husband’s killer. She has already endured the sack of her home city by Achilles, and seen the slaughter of her father and seven brothers, and the enslavement of her mother. Andromache pleads with her Trojan husband Hector not to leave her and their infant son to go back to fight Achilles. They grieve for their dead sons, dead fathers, dead husbands and dead protectors for the city of Troy, soon to fall, and for their own freedom, taken by the victors of war. The women are not entirely silent, and goddesses always have plenty to say, but mortal women speak primarily to lament. I n The Iliad, a poem about the terrible destruction caused by male aggression, the bodies and pretty faces of women are the objects through which men struggle with each other for status. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments Kiss me deadly spillane![]() ![]() So, single-handed, he defied police and F.B.I., determined to even his personal score with the head man of the Mafia. Overall in great shape for a vintage paperback!īooks are stored in my smoke-free home but I cannot guarantee where they were before they came to me.įriends and enemies alike warned Mike Hammer to drop his feud with the dread Mafia, the sinister international crime network which spread its slimy web over a taxi dancer, a Central Park psychiatrist, a Yonkers millionaire and his impossibly beautiful sister, an ex-pug and a blonde with hair like snow.īut Mike was thirsting to revenge the murder of a satin-skinned Viking. Binding is tight and pages are clean and intact. ![]() From The Cellar of Treasures we have this 1952 paperback copy of Kiss Me, Deadly by Mickey Spillane.īook is in good condition with minimal wear around edges and light creasing on spine. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments George martin a game of thrones![]() ![]() ![]() It's hard to know who to really trust here. It does seem disingenuous for him to say now that he was iced out by the showrunners when he originally said that he was moving away from the show to focus on writing Winds of Winter, which he has still not even come close to finishing, it seems. My energies are best devoted to WINDS.”Īgain, this is 2015, eight years ago, and we appear to be no closer to the release of Winds of Winter than we were back then, with Martin having blown so many deadlines at this point it’s just a meme in the industry and among Game of Thrones fans. Weiss, and Bryan Cogman on board, the scriptwriting chores for season six should be well covered. ![]() Writing a season six script would cost me a month's work on WINDS, and maybe as much as six weeks, and I cannot afford that. And really, it would cost me more time than that, since I have never been good at changing gears from one medium to another and back again. Writing a script takes me three weeks, minimum, and longer when it is not a straight adaptation from the novels. “After wrestling with it for a month or so, I've decided not to script an episode for season six of GAME OF THRONES. This was from a blog post back in March of 2015, and this is what Martin said about the situation: ![]() ![]() She has defended it in other aspects, but other historians have said the project's accounting of U.S. In 2020, she won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary for her essay in The 1619 Project. Now, the new book, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, expands upon that initial initiative. ![]() She told Fox News Digital that despite her objections to the claim that the American Revolution was fought to preserve the institution of slavery, The Times went forward with it anyway. Nikole Hannah-Jones is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice. ![]() The most significant error was that The American Revolution was fought in order to preserve slavery when most historians say it was a disrupter of slavery.ĭuring the fact-checking process, The Times reached out to Leslie Harris, a professor at Northwestern who has specialized knowledge of pre-Civil War American history, to help verify some claims. It won a Pulitzer Prize but has come under criticism for some historical inaccuracies.Īfter the project was published, five historians penned a letter to The New York Times demanding corrections for the errors they found. RT MSNBC: Republicans spent years targeting Nikole Hannah-Jones’ 'The 1619 Project, but her reporting has threatened the conservative psyche for years. ![]() Hannah-Jones' six-part docuseries is based on her New York Times work of the same name that sought to put slavery and its consequences at the center of the founding and history of the United States. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments The case of the perfect maid![]() ![]() She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 100 foreign languages. ‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily MirrorĪgatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. But, one day there appears a perfect maid, a paragon to replace her, or so they think… 'And it's my opinion,' said the outspoken Miss. and entertained a feathered gathering to meals every day. ![]() The old lady had a passion for birds G.P.2 could possibly understand her case. Whilst one sister malingers with mysterious ailments, the other sees to her every need, and they’ve both decided that Gladys must go. A rich and eccentric old lady and her maid hoped her health would improve under it. Poor Gladys believes herself to be accused of stealing and hiding a precious brooch belonging to her employers, the rather reserved Misses Skinner. When Miss Marple’s maid asks her to intervene in the delicate problem of her rather opinionated cousin Gladys, she is a little hesitant to see that much can be done. ![]() A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. ![]() ![]() In prison, he discovers the truth and decides to take revenge on them. A young ignorant sailor, Edmond Dantès, is sucked into the political games of the time just before the Hundred Days in the year 1815 that would bring back Napoleon. The story speaks to the reader from the first page to the last and, although it consists of about 1600 pages, it never bores. When this novel appeared for the first time between 18, it was instantly a huge success. The Count of Monte Cristo operates very much like the Russian mafia if a wrongful act is committed, the wrong-doer's entire family and fortune is extinguished before his or her very eyes. "Pede poena claudo", or "retribution comes limping." To seek justice for the three men who so selfishly stole 14 years of his life, Edmund Dantes uses deception to emotionally and financially destroy his foes. ![]() The sum of the book can be understood in three simple words. ![]() Genius plot writer, Alexander Dumas, constructed a story so evil, so clever, and so violent that future reads will just be boring. Telling others that this novel is your favourite can reveal a malevolent side to your personality. ![]() |