7/8/2023 0 Comments The wall of winnipeg![]() To honor the art of Revueltas, Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, who among others led the artistic movement a century ago, the baroque building that currently serves as a museum hosts an exhibition that reflects on the significance of their monumental art. The mural was created by Mexican artist Fermín Revueltas between 19, when the walls of Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso became the canvases for the country’s emerging muralist movement. ![]() ![]() MEXICO CITY (AP) - Across the main entrance of a former Jesuit college in the heart of Mexico City, a bright-colored mural depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe represents both the Indigenous religiosity and the Christianity that shaped the culture of post-colonial Mexico. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As readers we have an inkling that what has happened to the girls is far more sinister and awful than anything in Pia’s fairytales, but Pia herself is hell-bent on the idea of a fantastical explanation. The mystery of the missing girls is made all the more frightening by the fact that the events are being recounted in the innocent voice of Pia. Though this story's heroine is a child, the book will certainly appeal to adults for its twisted and layered mystery plot. Amidst the hunt for the missing girls, Pia is told ghost stories and German folklore that she comes to believe may be the answer to finding the abducted girls. Soon more girls go missing, and the parents of Bad Münstereifel are forced to take drastic measures, question everyone, and trust no one to keep their children safe. ![]() Every member of the German town of Bad Münstereifel was present, but none know what happened to Katharina Linden. A girl is presumed abducted when she goes missing during a town parade. ![]() This opener perfectly sets the tone for the rest of this edgy YA novel. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Lisa kleypas devon ravenel![]() He burns his bridges with Kathleen upon his arrival. Along with it, Devon has inherited a large, virtually bankrupt estate with no visible means of sustenance, much less enduring profitability. Kathleen is the widow of the late Earl of Ravenel, whose cousin Devon has now inherited the title. ![]() Reading this book was a joy and reminded me of this quote by poet Adrienne Rich: “An honorable human relationship - that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” - is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truth they can tell each other.” I am so glad to see her return to her roots and do it well despite the long gap in between Cold Hearted Rake and her last historical romance five years ago. So I eschewed reading the other reviews of this book so as to maintain a pristine reading experience. ![]() ![]() Lisa Kleypas is an auto-buy author for me for her historicals and Travis contemporary series. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Beyond redemption fletcher![]() ![]() As these forces converge on the boy, there's one more obstacle: time is running out. Trouble is, there are many who would see a god in their thrall, including the High Priest's own doppelgangers, a Slaver no one can resist, and three slaves led by possibly the only sane man left. For the High Priest Konig, that means creating order out of the chaos in his city-state, leading his believers to focus on one thing: helping a young man, Morgen, ascend to become a god. ![]() Sustained by their own belief-and the beliefs of those around them-they can manipulate their surroundings. Violent and dark, the world is filled with the Geisteskranken-men and women whose delusions manifest. And someone is just mad enough to believe he can create a god. When belief defines reality, those with the strongest convictions-the crazy, the obsessive, the delusional-have the power to shape the world. and the fulfillment of humanity's desires may well prove to be its undoing. Brett, and Neil Gaiman conjures a gritty mind-bending fantasy, set in a world where delusion becomes reality. A darkly imaginative writer in the tradition of Joe Abercrombie, Peter V. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments The book of lies moloney novel![]() ![]() But the final battle will be with the Book of Lies itself, as only it can provide Marcel with his true identity. For Marcel is not the only orphan who has had his identity changed by the Book of Lies, and he is soon thrown into an adventure that will see him encounter wolves, a flying horse, elves, a usurper king and his army and enchanted prisons. A powerful magic user, Lord Alwyn, uses the lies the Book contains to erase Marcel's former life, and give him a new identity.īut there is someone else in the room, someone who fills Marcel's ears with wax to prevent him absorbing the lies flowing from the Book. But this is no ordinary book - it is the Book of Lies. A book is placed in front of the boy and opened. ![]() All traces of anything that could identify the boy are removed, including the gold ring he wears, engraved with the name Marcel. In the dead of night, an unconscious boy is brought to an orphanage. The Book of Lies Prince of Lies The Book of Lies On Trust Seven Lies: A Novel Ball of Lies Flood of Lies Lies You Wanted to Hear The Continent of Lies Lies. If the Book speaks a lie over and over, it will convince you it is the truth, so a lie and the truth become one… If you tell the Book a lie it has heard before, it will speak the lie out loud. What is the Book of Lies? It is a collection of all the lies ever told… If you open the Book and tell a lie the Book has not heard, it will add it to its collection. A spectacular fantasy adventure, where three children, led by Marcel, battle against the Book of Lies to find their true identities. ![]() ![]() Everything he says is perpetuated with concise explanations and purpose. ⭐Introduction to Quantum Mechanics, along with Griffiths’ other magnificent piece: Introduction to Electrodynamics together, are two of the best undergraduate textbooks available.Professor Griffiths’ approach in this one is pretty mathematical, though he doesn’t ever sacrifice conceptual reasoning for mathematical sophistication. Other than that, great content, and really fun and engaging writing style. The electron spin singlet state falls out of some nice derivation but doesn’t even get called entangled until much later the EPR paradox and the Bohm inequality are in the afterword. ![]() ![]() The only aspect I would have loved to see more discussion of is quantum entanglement. First part is theory, second part has lots of approximations and techniques like perturbation theory. Unlike other quantum mechanics textbooks that start with matrix mechanics, this book starts with the Schroedinger equation, but then ends up really nicely deriving everything else step by step. ![]() ![]() ⭐The book provides a good introduction to quantum mechanics.The seller delivered the book on time and it was in excellent condition Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website: ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Maurice em![]() ![]() In his introduction, David Leavitt explores the significance of the novel in relation to Forster's own life and as a founding work of modern gay literature. Compellingly honest and beautifully written, it offers a powerful condemnation of the repressive attitudes of British society, and is at once a moving love story and an intimate tale of one man's erotic and political self-discovery. A tale of passion, bravery and defiance, this intensely personal novel was completed in 1914 but remained unpublished until after Forster's death in 1970. Through Clive, whom he encounters at Cambridge, and through Alec, the gamekeeper on Clive's country estate, Maurice gradually experiences a profound emotional and sexual awakening. Modest and generally conformist, he nevertheless finds himself increasingly attracted to his own sex. ![]() Maurice Hall is a young man who grows up confident in his privileged status and well aware of his role in society. ![]() ![]() In addition to her numerous poetry collections, she wrote many children’s books. She served as the state of Maryland’s poet laureate from 1974 until 1985, and won the prestigious National Book Award for Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000. Her collection Two-Headed Woman (1980) was also a Pulitzer nominee and won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts. Awarding the prestigious Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize to Clifton in 2007, the judges remarked that “One always feels the looming humaneness around Lucille Clifton’s poems-it is a moral quality that some poets have and some don’t.” In addition to the Ruth Lilly prize, Clifton was the first author to have two books of poetry chosen as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir, 1969-1980 (1987) and Next: New Poems (1987). ![]() ![]() A prolific and widely respected poet, Lucille Clifton’s work emphasizes endurance and strength through adversity, focusing particularly on African-American experience and family life. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Stephen larson rent![]() So after three years of editing and collaborating and polishing the musical for release, it was ready to debut, and would go on to become a worldwide sensation. Rent had humble beginnings and started as a stage reading at the New York Theatre Workshop, but it grew and grew and had the potential to be a big stage performance. The rock musical is loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Boheme and tells the story of impoverished artists living in lower Manhattan who are struggling to survive and build a life with the HIV/AIDS crisis in the background. ![]() Tick, Tick.Boom! is a creative, thought-provoking work, but Rent is the true crown jewel in the Larson catalog. ![]() Though Tick, Tick.Boom! was originally intended as a solo piece it was later adapted into a stage performance. ![]() ![]() It touched on his feelings of rejection and disappointment following the not-so-great success of Superbia, getting older, stressing over achieving his dreams and goals, and navigating the life of a starving artist in NYC. Though he didn't get to put out as much work as he may have hoped to, Larson's creations always had an autobiographical element to them, especially Tick, Tick.Boom! which was essentially just a rock monologue for Larson to perform solo with a piano and backing band. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Dirtbag, Massachusetts, Fitzgerald, with warmth and humor, recounts his ongoing search for forgiveness, a more far-reaching vision of masculinity, and a more expansive definition of family and self. But before all that, he was a bomb that exploded his parents' lives-or so he was told. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, a biker, a prince of New England. pulling no punches on the path to truth, but it always finds the capacity for grace and joy." – Esquire, "Best Memoirs of the Year" A TIME Must-Read Book of the Year * A Rolling Stone Top Culture Pick * A Publishers Weekly Best Memoir of the Season * A Buzzfeed Book Pick * A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Book * A Chicago Tribune Book Pick * A Book You Should Read * A Los Angeles Times Book to Add to Your Reading List * An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Month Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction "The best of what memoir can accomplish. ![]() |