![]() ![]() ![]() That was a major achievement, and it led to a further achievement. They established a government propaganda commission, called the Creel Commission, which succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population which wanted to destroy everything German, tear the Germans limb from limb, go to war and save the world. ![]() The Wilson administration was actually committed to war and had to do something about it. The population was extremely pacifistic and saw no reason to become involved in a European war. Woodrow Wilson was elected President in 1916 on the platform "Peace Without Victory." That was right in the middle of the World War I. … the first modern government propaganda operation … was under the Woodrow Wilson Administration. Selections by Noam Chomsky Excerpted from < Media Control, 2002 ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first 75 years after it was published, it sold 14 million copies. The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas The Red Pony (1933) and Of Mice and Men (1937). He has been called "a giant of American letters." ĭuring his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. ( / ˈ s t aɪ n b ɛ k/ February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". ![]() ![]() ![]() “Of that I have no doubt,” I say tartly, and he chuckles. I’d put him at over forty, by the lines around his eyes. This is the first book in the Confetti Hitched series. Being snowed in together seems to offer the chance Lachlan needs, but does he have what it takes to get Joe to trust in love and their marriage again?įrom bestselling author Lily Morton, comes a romantic comedy about love, matrimony, and the best of second chances. He wants Joe back and is prepared to do anything to get him. Lachlan has missed Joe from the second his husband walked away. Or at least he was until he finds himself snowed in at a remote Scottish hotel with the wedding party from hell, a terrible ABBA tribute band, and his soon-to-be ex-husband. Nevertheless, even with his divorce pending, he’s getting by. His own marriage was a whirlwind affair that ended before the ink could dry on the wedding certificate. Joe Bagshaw doesn’t believe in love or marriage anymore, which is rather a hindrance for a wedding planner. Confetti Hearts by Lily Morton Confetti Hitched, Book 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() Thompson's time on the set of the 1957 musical film Funny Face inspired a new Eloise cartoon- Eloise in Hollywood (2006). By 2007, 11 titles had been released in that line. The same publisher began producing Eloise stories "in the style of Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight" to their early-reader Ready-to-Reads line in 2005. Other modern Eloise titles released by Simon & Schuster include Eloise's Guide to Life (2000), Eloise at Christmas (2003), Eloise's What I Absolutely Love Love Love (2005) and Love & Kisses, Eloise (2005). Eloise Takes a Bawth (2002), posthumously published.Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown-ups (1955).The illustrator stated that the image for Eloise was based on one that his mother, Katherine Sturges Dodge, had painted, during the 1930s. Thompson's goddaughter, Liza Minnelli, was often speculated as a possible model for Eloise. The character was developed by the author based on her childhood imaginary friend and alter ego, with a voice in which Thompson spoke throughout her life, according to her biographer, filmmaker Sam Irvin. ![]() The series consists of Eloise (1955) and four sequels.Įloise is a young girl who lives in the "room on the tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel in New York City with her nanny, her pug dog, Weenie, and her turtle, Skipperdee. Eloise is a series of children's books written in the 1950s by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight. ![]() ![]() “Indeed, on occasion, I take myself to be tested not by Stoic gods by the ghost of Seneca. “We should therefore be flattered if we encounter setbacks,” explains Irvine, taking up where Seneca left off. ![]() Since the gods were assumed to control all human affairs, if you fell ill or lost your fortune it was evidence that you'd caught the attention of deities it was Jupiter's way of testing your character. In a textbook case of reframing – what therapists call approaching a situation from a new perspective – Seneca encouraged his followers to view impediments positively. Seneca, the first century Stoic figurehead, made a clear distinction between experiencing a setback and suffering from it. Part of a growing band of philosophers popularising Stoicism, Irvine highlights how this ancient school of thought pre-empted many aspects of modern psychology. ![]() ![]() But what if there was a god, or a collection of gods, who could make you a calmer, better person, as well as helping you to think straighter and approach problems more objectively. Hardcore atheists like to say there’s as much evidence for God as there is for Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When bits and pieces of the past resurface, the characters are charged with putting the puzzle together and attempting to stay one step ahead of the Neverseen - which may be an impossible task. ![]() The Neverseen don't tell Keefe everything though, and surprise attacks happen, putting everyone on edge.Īll of this mistrust drives a wedge between the Black Swan, the leaders of the elf world and other species leaders such as the goblins and the ogres. Tensions ease up a little when Sophie is able to use her telepathic powers to check in with Keefe to find out the Neverseen's secrets and even warn the elves of impending attacks. While Sophie and her friends and family hope Keefe has good intentions for his betrayal, they still feel its sting and wonder who they can trust or if anyone is really who they say they are. With this fifth installment in the Keeper of the Lost Cities series, "Lodestar," Shannon Messenger picks the reader up right where she left them in the fourth book: reeling from the fact that Keefe, comic relief and sidekick to Sophie, the special Moonlark in secret group Black Swan's operation, has left them and joined their nemesis, the Neverseen. " LODESTAR: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 5 ," by Shannon Messenger, Aladdin, $17.99, 688 pages (f) (ages 9-12) ![]() ![]() The official website of the British Monarchy. Family tree of the British royal family (more detailed).Family tree of English monarchs (more detailed).King of Great Britain, then the United Kingdom ![]() ![]() Queen of England and Scotland, then Great Britain Publication date 1995 Topics Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422 - Drama, Great Britain - History - Henry V, 1413. For kings before Alfred, see House of Wessex family tree. King Henry V by Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. For a more detailed chart see: Family tree of English monarchs (from Alfred the Great through Queen Elizabeth I) Family tree of Scottish monarchs (from Kenneth MacAlpin through James VI and I) Family tree of Welsh monarchs and the Family tree of the British royal family for the period from Elizabeth I's successor, James VI and I, until the present day. The following is a simplified family tree of the English, Scottish, and British monarchs. ![]() Simplified chart representing family connections of British monarchs ![]() ![]() There are likely too many strong women deciding who they want to have sex with for your tastes, also death, torture, and the difficulty of births without medical care. Even Saint Mary the Dusky (and I loved the author's version presented as what might be true if it weren't filtered by a man seeking attention.) What baffles me after reading it, in a good way, is to realize how many of the characters in this novel (who feel elevated and perhaps unreal) actually lived and are on record. ![]() ![]() She is not overly directive in saying "And now the goddess is doing this" but lets her words narrate some of the shifts in time and place. One thing I know is that I appreciate that the author lets the reader do the work to fit the pieces together and fill in the gaps. I feel like all of it is still swirling around in my head. ![]() In fact I am feeling I should not have read it the way I did, all but 50 pages in one sitting. There is a lot going on here - African mythology, ancient ritual, an international cast of women spanning different time periods, magic or voodoo, slave revolutions, slavery, freedom, etc., etc. This is the third book I have read by Nalo Hopkinson, still until Veronica chose it for the Sword and Laser pick, it was unknown to me. ![]() ![]() I liked Constance since I always love it when the heroine is something other than the beautiful belle of the ball society girl and is a wallflower, shy, "on the shelf," or whatever. The book had such potential because although the story is not very original, Camp is a talented writer and I found her characters interesting. I don't know if this is how Camp normally writes her novels, but if it is I don't think I will continue reading her books. ![]() ![]() Though I kept on waiting for that to happen here, it NEVER did and it was extremely disconcerting. Every historical romance I have ever read is written in third person narrative and the writer takes us back and forth between the hero and the heroine's POV (sometimes adding that of secondary characters). As others have remarked there was nothing really unusual or innovative about this book, but it would have been an enjoyable and sweet read if it hadn't been for one hugely annoying thing that I could *not* get over: we never hear Dominic's thoughts. The Marriage Wager is the first in Candace Camp's Matchmaker Series and I wish I could give it a higher rating, but I just cannot bring myself to. ![]() Had such potential but the narrative completely ruined it for me - we *never* hear the hero's perspective! ![]() ![]() She chronicled her own struggle with manic depressive illness (also called bipolar disorder) in a 1995 best-selling memoir, "An Unquiet Mind."īipolar disorder and other mental illnesses - depression, eating disorders, anxiety, suicide - are common throughout society, she said - including on college campuses. Jamison, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center, gave the talk "Personal and Professional Reflections on Mental Illness" as this year's Robert E. "Even now, I can see in my mind's rather peculiar eye an extraordinarily shadow and shifting of light inconstant but ravishing colors laid out across miles of circling rings and the almost imperceptible, somehow surprisingly pallid, moons of this Catherine wheel of a planet." ![]() This is what Jamison remembers, she said, from one of her earlier episodes of mania - when her mind took her, thrillingly, on a solo flight to the outskirts of Saturn. ![]() "So perhaps it is not surprising that as a meteorologist's daughter I found myself gliding, flying, now and again lurching through cloud banks and ethers, past stars and across fields of ice crystals." ![]() "People go mad in idiosyncratic ways," said author and psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison Sept. ![]() |