![]() ![]() Love also gets its due, with true tales of the lifelong bonds between military men, history's first cougar and her devoted relationship with Julius Caesar, and the deification of lovers. She explains citizens' fear of hermaphrodites, investigates the stinging price paid for adultery despite the ease of divorce, introduces readers to a surprising array of saucy pornographers, and even describes the eco-friendly dildos used by libidinous ancients. León goes far beyond what we think we know about sex in ancient times, taking readers on a randy tour of aphrodisiacs and anti-aphrodisiacs, contraception, nymphomania, bisexuality, cross-dressing, and gender-bending. Now, in this book of astonishing true tales of love and sex in long-ago Greece, Rome, and other cultures around the Mediterranean, she opens the doors to shadowy rooms and parts the curtains of decorum. In her previous books, Vicki León put readers in the sandals of now obsolete laborers, ranging from funeral clowns to armpit pluckers, and untangled the twisted threads of superstition and science in antiquity. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The more he learns, the more he comes to realize that ball lightning is just the tip of an entirely new frontier. His search takes him to stormy mountaintops, an experimental military weapons lab, and an old Soviet science station. When Chen’s parents are incinerated before his eyes by a blast of ball lightning, he devotes his life to cracking the secret of this mysterious natural phenomenon. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Three-Body Trilogy, Cixin Liu's Ball Lightning is the story of what happens when the beauty of scientific inquiry runs up against the drive to harness new discoveries with no consideration of their possible consequences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With such high, democratic aims, Bateson’s prose is strangely difficult. ![]() His theory of what is wrong and his hope for a truly transformative, holistic philosophy, are very much in the main line of western regional writing and will seem familiar to students of the field. Bateson means to be subversive, and to do his part toward the ultimate healing which has already been suggested by systems theory, cybernetics, ecology, and humanistic psychology, not to mention the works of John Muir, Mary Austin, Frank Waters, Gary Snyder, Joseph Wood Krutch, and many other western American writers. ![]() Further more, they lead, in Bateson’s view, to “greed, monstrous overgrowth, war, tyranny, and pollution.” Unfortunately, however, they continue to run the world. That is, they do not fit the systematic nature of things, which Bateson embodies in the book’s title and subtitle. In brief, it is a series of proofs that Cartesian dualism and Lockeian sense-data theory - and be hind them, one might say, the entire dominant epistemology of Western Civilization - are incorrect. 238 pages, $12.95.) This book is the capstone to the philosophical edifice which Gregory Bateson has been building for several decades. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:ġ50 Western American Literature Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yes, totally, I deeply admire Hokusai, Utamaro and all the Ukio-e artists. I discovered him during my adolescence and I read everything that I could find from him. Actually I haven’t look at his books since years, but he was the first artist that show me how stunning the comic could be, how many possibilities it could have. ![]() I love going out when the sun is out now in winter, especially Sunday’s or Saturday’s mornings when the streets are empty and everything is bright and cold.Ĭould you describe your style, your inspiration ? I guess I am not the first one seeing a bit of Moebius in your way of using colors and gradients… As well as some Japanese print (Ukio-e style) influence, in the landscapes and the characters. Apart from drawing, I do enjoy reading, taking walks with my dog, and also I’m practicing Aikido since a couple of months ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() The text contains many clues: obvious clues, not-so-obvious clues, truly obscure hints which I was shocked to see some readers successfully decode, and massive evidence left out in plain sight. ![]() The best term I've heard for this fic is "parallel universe". This is not a strict single-point-of-departure fic - there exists a primary point of departure, at some point in the past, but also other alterations. You can leave reviews on any chapter, no login required, and there's no need to finish reading it all before you start reviewing chapters - but do please leave at most one review per chapter. * Open job positions at a related nonprofit * How to learn everything the main character knows * Trigger warnings page (warnings about possible traumatic associations for some readers to avoid spoilers for most readers, there are no warnings inside the main story) * Links to TV Tropes page and discussion forum * Cameo list (characters named after fan artists) ![]() * Lovely fan-made book-style PDF version * Current Author's Notes and progress updates * Easy email notification system, RSS feed, and Twitter feed for new chapters If you still don't like it after Chapter 10, give up. This fic is widely considered to have really hit its stride starting at around Chapter 5. Rowling owns Harry Potter, and no one owns the methods of rationality. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationalityĭisclaimer: J. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She has always been interested in the subject, but the way it resonated strongly with readers really struck home.Īliya was contacted by an editor at Elliott & Thompson who had read a few of her novels and thought she might be able to bring something unusual, elements of strangeness and surprise, to a non-fiction book about fungi they had planned. Her novel, The Beauty, imagines a future in which fungi and humanity combine, and since its publication in 2014 people have sometimes sent her photographs and news clippings about fungi. She explained she had no plans to write a non-fiction book on any subject. In my Research Secrets slot in February issue of Writers’ Forum Aliya Whiteley told me about her debut non-fiction book, a fascinating insight into fungi entitled, The Secret Life of Fungi: Discoveries from a Hidden World.Īliya usually writes speculative fiction such as her horror short stories Fearsome Creatures from Black shuck Books (Oct 2020) and her novel Greensmith from Unsung Books, which deals with seed banks and viruses and the current global threat to diversity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A devotee of '70s survivalist movements, her father structures their lives in the woods with his paranoid philosophy, insisting that an apocalypse has destroyed everything - and everyone - in the world outside their forest. Abducted by her father after marital earthquakes she's too young to understand, 8-year-old Peggy Hillcoat trudges obediently after him into a primeval forest and spends the next nine years growing up with him in "die Hütte," an isolated cabin right out of a fairy tale. ![]() Spend nine years in the wilderness with the young heroine of Claire Fuller's debut novel, "Our Endless Numbered Days," and you might get an inkling. Reading once-familiar stories now populated with as many incestuous fathers and cannibalistic mothers as wolves and witches, one can't help but wonder who would spin such grisly yarns for children. Last year's newest translation of the unexpurgated first edition of "The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" gave many English readers their first glimpse of the German folk tales with all their original bloodlust and perversity intact. ![]() ![]() ![]() They think rules are infallible, like Picoult puts it. For example, bright lights, noises, and colors. They have triggers that lead them into meltdowns. It severely limits the patient’s social and communication skills, making them socially awkward. I must say I love the book, though I have a few complaints about its repetitiveness.Īsperger’s Syndrome is a personality disorder that falls on the autism spectrum. ![]() ![]() Though I bought three of Picoult’s books earlier, it was House Rules that I read first. But when I read through the summary of House Rules, I was intrigued and I immediately snapped it up at a relatively cheap price. The most highly praised of Picoult’s books in the group were My Sister’s Keeper and Picture Perfect, according to my observation. So a few months ago, I started acting on this list and bought a few books (to put it modestly) to add to my TBR. Thanks to this group, I built up a list of more than 500 books that I want to read. Every day, there are scores of discussions on books and reading, not to forget the long list of book recommendations that the members dole out. ![]() I am part of an awesome group on Facebook that has thousands of other readers like me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Rourke needs a lot of money, really fast, in order to vanish before it’s too late. But being around Charlie challenges Cain’s self-control.and it’s been a long time since any woman has done that. Cain abides by a strict “no sleeping with his staff” rule. And then blond, brown-eyed Charlie Rourke walks through his door, and things get really complicated. With long hours, a staff with enough issues to keep a psych ward in business, and the police regularly on his case, twenty-nine-year-old Cain is starting to second-guess his unspoken mission to save the women he employs. Owning a strip club isn’t the fantasy most guys expect it to be. When a gorgeous young dancer walks through his door, a strip club owner must decide whether to follow his rules or his heart in the third novel by the author of One Tiny Lie and Ten Tiny Breaths. ![]() ![]() These dreams hinted that Joseph’s family would “bow to him” in the future. ![]() Granted, most of the time he spent interpreting dreams ( Genesis 41), but he did have a dream of his own before he entered Egypt ( Genesis 37).
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