![]() As a result of his predecessors’ triumphs, Xerxes had ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. ![]() Victory-rapid, spectacular victory-had for decades seemed to be their birthright. Military adventures of this kind had long been a speciality of the Persian people. In 480 BC, some forty years before Herodotus began his history, Xerxes, the King of Persia, had led an invasion of Greece. Difference had bred suspicion-and suspicion had bred war.Ī war like no other. These, at least, had been made all too recently and tragically clear. Yet if the origins of the conflict between East and West appeared lost in myth, then not so its effects. Perhaps the kidnapping of a princess or two by Greek pirates had been to blame? Or the burning of Troy? “That, at any rate, is what many nations of Asia argue-but who can say for sure if they are right?” As Herodotus well knew, the world was an infinite place, and one man’s truth might easily be another man’s lie. ![]() ![]() Asiatics, so Herodotus reported, “believe that the Greeks will always be their enemies.” But why they should have come to this conclusion in the first place was, he acknowledged, a puzzle. His goal was to explain what would now be termed “the clash of civilizations,” the inability of the peoples of East and West to live together in peace. ![]() In around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing the wrath of Achilles, composed the Iliad, a Greek by the name of Herodotus embarked upon a project no less epic. ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Rawls a theory of justice 1971![]() ![]() Together, they dictate that society should be structured so that the greatest possible amount of liberty is given to its members, limited only by the notion that the liberty of any one member shall not infringe upon that of any other member. ![]() A significant reappraisal was published in the 1985 essay " Justice as Fairness" and the 2001 book Justice as Fairness: A Restatement in which Rawls further developed his two central principles for his discussion of justice. The resultant theory was challenged and refined several times in the decades following its original publication in 1971. Rawls's theory of justice is fully a political theory of justice as opposed to other forms of justice discussed in other disciplines and contexts. The theory uses an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social contract theory. A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by the philosopher John Rawls (1921–2002) in which the author attempts to provide a moral theory alternative to utilitarianism and that addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). ![]() ![]() Until the 18th century, scientists didn’t have a clear idea that species could become extinct. Unless we change our ways, she argues convincingly, we will certainly cause our own demise. We humans have been bad news for most of the world’s living things, causing massive extinctions of species with which we share the planet. In her new book, “The Sixth Extinction,” she provides a tour de horizon of the Anthropocene Age’s destructive maw, and it is a fascinating and frightening excursion. “It may seem impossible,” Kolbert concluded, “to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the process of doing.” ![]() The last chapter of that book, “Man in the Anthropocene,” underscored that we had entered an era in which human beings had begun to change everything about the planet’s interlocking ecosystems, and that we had put much of those systems and our own species at enormous risk. ![]() Whether the New Yorker columnist was visiting a utility company in Burlington, Vt., ice sheets in Greenland or floating cities in the Netherlands, she deftly blended science and personal experience to warn of the enormous harm created by human-generated climate change. Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Field Notes From a Catastrophe” (2006) presented a powerful account of how climate change was disrupting lives around the planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() His intent, born out in his creation, was to mold Christian values, European literary structure and Native American culture into a single great “American” epic to rival those of the European classics. Longfellow’s poem was much more than a retelling of traditional Ojibwe tales for a white audience. Before this ending, Hiawatha defeats malevolent gods, and gifts his people with greater crop yields, and the invention of reading and writing. In the end, he leaves after white settlers arrive, feeling his time has passed and that his people will manage. The poem traces his life from childhood adventure, falling in fast love with Minnehaha, marrying, and losing her from illness. Later, Hiawatha’s grandmother falls from the moon, and he is eventually born. Before Hiawatha’s arrival, the reader enjoys various interwoven scenes, such as the case of the personified South Wind, Shawondasee, falling in love with a dandelion he takes to be a golden-haired young woman. Its main focuses are the adventures of a fictional Ojibwe hero, Hiawatha, his gifts to his people, and his tragic love story with a Dakota woman, Minnehaha. Primarily, the epic poem highlights the stories of the Ojibwe people of the Lake Superior region. ![]() Longfellow used rhythmic poetry to convey various Native American myths to a popular audience. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Voices in the Ocean by Susan Casey![]() ![]() Susan Casey’s journey takes her from a community in Hawaii known as “Dolphinville,” where the animals are seen as the key to spiritual enlightenment, to the dark side of the human-cetacean relationship at marine parks and dolphin-hunting grounds in Japan and the Solomon Islands, to the island of Crete, where the Minoan civilization lived in harmony with dolphins, providing a millennia-old example of a more enlightened coexistence with the natural world.Īlong the way, Casey recounts the history of dolphin research and introduces us to the leading marine scientists and activists who have made it their life’s work to increase humans’ understanding and appreciation of the wonder of dolphins. ![]() “Part science, part memoir, part impassioned plea for change.” -People** ![]()
6/29/2023 0 Comments Labyrinth mosse![]() The author has combined an ingenious adventure story with a wonderfully detailed account of the historical background of the Languedoc. Skilfully blending the lives of two women divided by centuries but united by a common destiny, LABYRINTH is a powerful story steeped in the atmosphere and history of southern France. Although she cannot understand the symbols and diagrams the book contains, Alais knows her destiny lies in protecting their secret, at all costs. ![]() Puzzled by the words carved inside the chamber, Alice has an uneasy feeling that she has disturbed something which was meant to remain hidden.Eight hundred years ago, on the night before a brutal civil war ripped apart Languedoc, a book was entrusted to Alais, a young herbalist and healer. But it's not just the sight of the shattered bones that makes her uneasy there's an overwhelming sense of evil in the tomb that Alice finds hard to shake off, even in the bright French sunshine. When Dr Alice Tanner discovers two skeletons during an archaeological dig in southern France, she unearths a link with a horrific and brutal past. ![]() ![]() TV tie-in edition of the SUNDAY TIMES No. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A vivid depiction of the late sixties rock n roll scene and the stark realities behind Hollywood s perceived glamor, this memoir is also the most revealing and intimate portrait of Frank Zappa ever written. 1 Butcher was a 21-year-old secretary whose firm sent her to type up the lyrics from Zappa’s second. ![]() Often working nights and sleeping days, for three years Pauline served as Zappa's secretary, running his fan club, the United Mutations and organising rehearsals, live appearances and recording sessions for the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), an all-female rock act supported and produced by Zappa.įreak Out is the captivating story of a naive young girl thrust into the mad world of a musical legend. Freak Out My Life with Frank Zappa is a 2011 book by British author Pauline Butcher, which is an account of the four years (19671971) she worked as the secretary to rock and roll musician Frank Zappa. There, the 'straight' young girl from Twickenham spent her days in the company of a succession of famous names, including Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Captain Beefheart and Tiny Tim. The assignment would change her life forever.Īfter this chance encounter, at Frank's request, Pauline moved with him, his family and his band the Mothers of Invention to a log cabin in the Hollywood Hills. In 1967, 21-year-old Pauline Butcher was working for a London secretarial agency when one evening a call came through from a Mr Frank Zappa asking for a typist to come to his hotel room. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments The white princess book review![]() The fact is, that if Elizabeth Woodville (the mother-in-law or Queen) would've said anything publicly, it would've been very bad for them. It wasn't until Shakespear's "Richard III" that we get his version of events, which was 100 plus years after the fact and incorrect. Contemporary writers of the day make little or no mention of the Princes in the Tower and The White Queen and White Princess reaction to the Princes. ![]() Most important, their role was to produce male heirs. Third, women in the 15th Century were auctioned off like cattle to form alliances or end disputes. Second, Elizabeth Woodville did not smuggle Richard out of the country. Those who challenged him weee met with brute force. He was ruthless to anyone who challenged his rule. He was a hardened warrior who came to England and ended The War of the Roses, a bloody civil war that lasted decades. ![]() He was not the weak, whining moron that appears in the series. First, Henry VIi was not anything like the Henry portrayed in this series. As one who studied British History, at length, in college, it's premise is ridiculous. ![]() Whether or not it follows the book is secondary to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() (You can add Crooked Letter i, Coming Out In The South to your Goodreads shelves Here!) ![]() It’s a love story and a look at the sometimes conundrum of having faith and being queer.Īuthor Links: Website Her sophomore novel, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, released August 30, 2016, also from Harper Teen, and is the story of Jo Gordon, the out lesbian daughter of a moderate evangelical minister and what happens when he marries for the third time and they move from Atlanta to small-town Northern Georgia. In April 2016, a companion novella, Will’s Story: A No Place To Fall Novella, released from Epic Reads Impulse, a digital only imprint, and follows Will McKinney’s side of the story. It’s also a love song to small town girls and mountain music, both of which shape the area that Jaye now calls home. It’s about dreams, singing, friendship, love, betrayal, family, and mistakes. Her debut young adult novel, No Place To Fall, came out in the fall of 2014 from Harper Teen. ![]() ![]() Boston baby! And though she’d like to think brownstones might find a way into her fiction, she figures kudzu will always be what comes to her imagination first. She’s a Southerner at heart, by way of Alabama, then Atlanta, and for many years just outside of Asheville, but now she’s moved north for a bit of city living. Jaye Robin Brown, or Jro to her friends, has been many things in her life – jeweler, mediator, high school art teacher – but recently she’s taken the plunge into full-time writer life. ![]() ![]() Coming from a working-class Scottish Catholic family, Fern wasn’t exactly poised to receive an open-minded acceptance of her neurodivergence. Strong Female Character is about the years in between, and the unique combination of sexism and ableism that so often prevents autistic women from getting diagnosed until adulthood. But it took until she was thirty-four for her to get diagnosed. ![]() ![]() In this frank and surreal memoir, she delivers a sharp and often hilarious portrait of neurodivergence and living unmasked.Īfter reading about autism in her teens, Fern Brady knew instinctively that she had it-autism explained her sensory issues, her meltdowns, her inability to pick up on social cues-and she told her doctor as much. Scottish comedian Fern Brady was told she couldn't be autistic because she'd had loads of boyfriends and is good at eye contact. ![]() “Witty, dry, and gimlet-eyed, this is a necessary corrective in a world where Autistic women are all either written off as quiet and docile, or erased entirely.” -Devon Price, Ph.D., author of Unmasking Autism. ![]() |