The mouse dived for cover, heading toward a hole in the ground. With one final check on his prey's position, Rusty pushed back hard on his haunches and sprang, kicking up leaves on the forest floor as he rose. Slowly he lowered his body into position, crouching for the attack. He swallowed, stifling his rumbling stomach. Rusty knew it was a mouse he could feel the rapid pulsing of a tiny hearty deep within his ear fur. It was hiding in the leaves less than two tail-lengths away. Musty odors of leaf mold mingled with the tempting aroma of a small furry creature. He opened his jaws slightly to let the warm smells of the forest reach the scent glads on the roof of his mouth. His stomach growled, reminding him of his hunger. This place was unfamiliar, but the strange scents drew him onward, deeper into the shadows. The young tomcat's eyes opened wide as he scanned the dense undergrowth. It was very dark. Rusty could sense something was near.
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Ormondroyd’s writing is light, quirky and humorous, and the pace of the story carries the reader along with enough tension to arouse curiosity about what is going to occur next and how the problems which arise are to be resolved. Susan has always seemed a very sensible girl, even if she does have a flair for dramatics and enjoys taking the lead in school plays. Susan’s father and the eavesdropping cleaning lady naturally have trouble accepting her version of events. After several days of frantic searching by the local residents and police, she suddenly reappears and relates a bizarre tale involving an eccentric old woman she met on the street, an elevator ride back in time to 1881, and an adventure with two children who are anxious to prevent their mother from making a terrible mistake. One unremarkable afternoon in the month of March some time in the 1960s, a girl called Susan Shaw vanishes from the New York apartment building where she lives with her widowed father. Amie Hornaman and uncover how you can take control of your own health and wellbeing. Tips and tricks for permanent recovery from symptoms.ĭon't miss out on this powerful episode! Tune in as we unlock the secrets of healing a thyroid disorder with Dr.Natural, nutrition-based alternatives to help manage thyroid health.How to test for the most accurate diagnosis.The truth behind conventional treatments for thyroid disorders.After her own experience of insufferable symptoms, misdiagnoses, and improper treatment, Amie set out to help others on the same dead-end medical roller coaster. Amie Hornaman is known as The Thyroid-Fixer. She’s on a mission to help thyroid patients recover around the world. Hornaman that doctors don't tell you about healing thyroid disorders.ĭr. Amie Hornaman on the show who will share her expertise as a Certified Functional Medicine practitioner. Join us for a deep dive into understanding what a thyroid disorder is, why conventional medicine often fails to treat it adequately, and innovative tips to help heal your body naturally! We have Dr. These may be signs of an underlying thyroid disorder that affects many women. Are you often tired and can’t seem to get enough rest, no matter how many times you hit the snooze button? Or, maybe your hair is thinning and you’ve been told it’s due to genetics. Pinker is known for his wide-ranging explorations of human nature and its relevance to language, history, morality, politics, and everyday life. Steven Arthur Pinker is a prominent Canadian-American experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, and author of popular science. 'A terrific book, much-needed for our time' Peter Singer Brimming with insight and humour, Rationality will enlighten, inspire and empower. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. These tools are not a standard part of our educational curricula, and have never been presented clearly and entertainingly in a single book - until now. Instead, he explains, we think in ways that suit the low-tech contexts in which we spend most of our lives, but fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning we have built up over millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, causal inference, and decision-making under uncertainty. After all, we discovered the laws of nature, lengthened and enriched our lives and set the benchmarks for rationality itself. In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are simply an irrational species - cavemen out of time fatally cursed with biases, fallacies and illusions. It’s a narrator’s voice, a very self-consciously booky voice, full of self-satisfied vocabulary and jokes about the nature of text. A chipper, breezy, insouciant, and simultaneously dire sense of humor carries through the book’s silly story about the apocalypse, and the combination of lightness and darkness in its tone is an impressively fitting match for a book about an angel and a demon who become friends. The experience of reading Good Omens, maybe first and most intensely, is the sense of its voice. In the case of Good Omens, a new Amazon miniseries based on the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett book of the same name, one of the trickiest elements of adaptation works astonishingly well. There are a lot of pitfalls for a TV adaptation of a book: translating the characters onto the screen doesn’t always go the way it should finding ways to replicate a book character’s interiority (this is where the final season of Game of Thrones failed) bulking up or trimming down various plots as needed rebalancing various characters’ roles to improve on the original (see: The Magicians). In my personal experience learning poetry in school was a complete drag. Despite the wave of modern poetry that has recently taken the world by storm it is still a completely underappreciated art form amongst young people. This is one of the most important young adult novels of this generation because not only does it touch on racial injustice but it is written completely in verse. But going forward I can only try to do better, to read better, so this is what led me to Punching The Air. I sobbed for Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam (the Exonerated Five who were falsely accused of the assault of a jogger in New York City’s Central Park). If people of colour have to live in fear for their lives in the streets every day I can watch a miniseries that is only going to illicit a fraction of the pain POC suffer through every single day (I also read and watched The Hate U Give, and 13th in the same weekend-more tears but more self education). But as #BLM was hitting our screens with rightful rage once more, I decided I had to be a big girl and face the truth. Admittedly, I had avoided the series for a while as I was not ready to confront the harsh realities and I wanted to protect myself from the hurt I knew I would face. I watched When They See Us at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement when anger and upset was reignited by the murder of George Floyd on the 25th of May 2020. If you have any question, please feel free to message me. I do my best to provide an assessment of the condition of each item, but in addition to reviewing the description, please use the photos to view the item in detail. Please note: All items are pre-owned unless otherwise stated in the item description. He was also an inspector of schools for thirty-five years, and supported the concept of state-regulated secondary education. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Some minor page darkening, otherwise, clean.ĬULTURE & ANARCHY/FRIENDSHIP'S GARLAND 1908~ ? FIRST EDITION Tiny rip on title pageĮSSAYS IN CRITICISM SERIES ONE 1891 ? FIRST EDITIONĮSSAYS IN CRITICISM SERIES TWO 1891 ? FIRST EDITION Otherwise, they are in VERY GOOD Antique Condition! Pages intact with no other writing, rips or loose pages. Inscription or bookplate on some front end pages. 1906-8 MATTHEW ARNOLD Set of 3 "Essays in Criticism" Series 1 & 2 / Culture and Anarchy- Friendship's Garland Antique Hardcover stoneridgebooks FREE ShippingĬondition: Cover wear in good condition for its age. Matthew Arnolds famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and. By posting, you indicate your agreement to comply with our terms and conditions in the same manner as if you had personally signed a document. 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I think ultimately Rachel’s story would have made me feel understood, less alone, and like I wasn’t the only one who felt different.ĭL: Even though scoliosis affects so many kids, particularly girls, there are surprisingly few novels that explore what it’s like to live with it. Reading Braced would have given me a chance to hear from someone my own age who was going through a similar experience and managing this really big responsibility. Editorial Director David Levithan joins Alyson to ask a few questions.ĭavid Levithan: First, I’ll ask you the Great Authorial Paradox question – namely, what do you think your 11-yr-old self would have gotten from Braced?Īlyson Gerber: When I was 11, I didn’t know anyone else who had to wear a back brace twenty-three hours a day, and my mom was actually the only other person I knew who’d been treated for scoliosis. Today, we have the pleasure of introducing you to debut author Alyson Gerber, whose brave new novel, Braced, explores a disorder that bends the lives of ten percent of all teenagers: scoliosis. The book was inspired by the author’s own childhood experience. With rare acumen and evocative prose, in The Far Field Madhuri Vijay masterfully examines Indian politics, class prejudice, and sexuality through the lens of an outsider, offering a profound meditation on grief, guilt, and the limits of compassion. In the wake of her mother’s death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bangalore, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir.Ĭertain that the loss of her mother is somehow connected to the decade-old disappearance of Bashir Ahmed, a charming Kashmiri salesman who frequented her childhood home, she is determined to confront him.īut upon her arrival, Shalini is brought face to face with Kashmir’s politics, as well as the tangled history of the local family that takes her in.Īnd when life in the village turns volatile and old hatreds threaten to erupt into violence, Shalini finds herself forced to make a series of choices that could hold dangerous repercussions for the very people she has come to love. Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madhuri Vijay’s The Far Field follows a complicated flaneuse across the Indian subcontinent as she reckons with her past, her desires, and the tumultuous present. |