![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, he is a stereotypical fictional math professor, and he goes on to play a major role in this novel and its sequel. One of those kidnapped researchers is mathematician Daniel Sheppard who is shown to be unfashionable, socially awkward, not physically fit, brilliant but reluctant to express his opinion on anything about which he is less than 100% certain, and comforted by the unquestionable reliability of numbers. A list compiled by Alex Kasman ( College of Charleston)Īlthough it appears to the world as if many of the leading scientists and mathematicians coincidentally died during the same year, what actually happened to them in this YA novel is that they were kidnapped and taken to a secret research facility to collectively address a problem that threatens the future of all life on Earth. ![]()
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![]() It's quite a revelation from a woman typically credited with boundless strength and energy. "I will never forget waking up in that hospital bed, seeing the leather restraints on my ankles, my bandaged wrists tethered to the bed rails. "There are moments forever etched in memory, indelible imprints," she writes in her new memoir, Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story (University of Wisconsin Press). In the early `50s she was in a mental institution after nearly killing herself with a razor blade, a casualty of her own homophobia. Retrieved from īetty Berzon almost wasn't the pioneering lesbian psychologist and author we know today. APA style: The doctor is out: embracing her lesbian identity took Betty Berzon from a mental ward to an honored place among gay psychologists.The doctor is out: embracing her lesbian identity took Betty Berzon from a mental ward to an honored place among gay psychologists. ![]() ![]() MLA style: "The doctor is out: embracing her lesbian identity took Betty Berzon from a mental ward to an honored place among gay psychologists. ![]() ![]() ![]() So a mail-order bride seemed the easiest way to find a partner. ![]() What she didn’t expect was the beefy cowboy who walked in and literally swept her off her feet.Ĭash McCallister didn’t have time to date and find a wife. Clean the house, cook for his men, and warm his bed at night. She was the mail-order bride of the owner, and she was to fulfill her duties. When Clare Stevens walked onto the McCallister ranch, she expected her life to be a certain way. ![]() ![]() Barber-Crossing the Lines (Neighborly Affection #2) ~ Character Flash Fiction & #Giveaway The Kiss That Shocked Me – Stories in 5 Minutes on Spotlight and #Giveaway: Selena Blake’s Pursued by a Werewolf (Mystic Isle, Book Lockner on M.Q.Substitute Bride by Noelle Adams - Best Romance Novels Today on Book Tour and Interview w/ #Giveaway: Noelle Adams – Seducing the Enemy.The Cowboys of Chance Creek Tour - DAY 4 - Cora Seton on Book Blast and Amazon GC #Giveaway :The Cowgirl Ropes a Billionaire by Event: Sword of the Gladiatrix blog tour - Raggedy Moon Books on Interview and #Giveaway: Sword of the Gladiatrix by #lesbianromance #historical.Red Hots: A Valentine Anthology by Caitlyn Lynch+17 February 1, 2017.Angelic Anarchy by JP Epperson #Giveaway #Paranormal February 20, 2017.Review: Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour #1) by Olivia Cunning February 9, 2018. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Why were nearly all of the "afflicted" people women? What kind of mentality did the Puritans possess to place a four-year-old child in prison? What were the politics behind the witch hunts and trials, and what similarities exist in the witch hunts of the twentieth century (for example, the "witch hunts" of the McCarthy era)? In A Delusion Of Satan, Frances Hill answers these questions and many more in a conversational and frighteningly realistic narrative as she maps out details of the witch trials and subsequent hangings-information never revealed before. Now acclaimed British writer Frances Hill has applied contemporary psychology to the Salem phenomenon and come up with startling results. ![]() This compelling study of the horrific Salem Witch Trials-the first of its kind in over forty-five years-draws strength from new psychological insights into the roots of the hysteria that spurred the witch hunts of the late 1600s, and links them to the contemporary "witch hunts" of the twentieth century.įor more than three hundred years, the hysteria that gripped Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of the late 1600s has fascinated readers worldwide. ![]() ![]() In terms of “heat”, we'd place them at just above your typical cosy mystery. They're wonderful books for anyone who enjoys a bit of ongoing storyline and character development alongside their mysteries, and while you don't have to love historic fiction to enjoy them (they're that good), they'll be especially appealing to someone who enjoys stories set during that period of British history. ![]() The series is set mostly between WW1 and WW2, though earlier books in the series include insight into Maisie's earliest years as a servant, and the most recent books have started to bring us into the World War 2 years. ![]() Though she comes from humble beginnings, her brains and sheer determination have helped her to get an education and make a better life for herself. Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs mystery series offers us one of the most formidable heroines to come along in some time. In some cases, we earn commissions from affiliate links in our posts. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That question sent Beam in pursuit of answers. “How can we be spending upwards of $22 billion nationally and nobody - not the kids, not the foster parents, not the bio parents, not the administrators, not the policymakers, not the lawyers - nobody thinks this is working?” she asked. This was the message shared by Cris Beam - author, educator and herself the foster mom to a transgender young woman - at a UCLA Luskin Lecture on March 5, 2019.īeam’s talk included many moments of insight and encouragement, even as she described a foster care system that is woefully broken. Restoring that trust requires taking a hard look at what these youth really need, not just to navigate the child welfare system but to lead rewarding lives. LGBTQ youth in the foster care system often grapple with rejection, harassment, violence - and their own mistrust of the individuals and institutions charged with protecting them. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of psychology’s pioneers focused so heavily on the individual that their works underestimated the importance of community in the formation of whole and healthy individuals. “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.” “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”ġ2. “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”ġ1. “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”ġ0. “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”ĩ. “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”Ĩ. “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”ħ. ![]() “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”Ĥ. “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”ģ. “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”Ģ. Here are 12 more rules that explore the theme:ġ. This book is about the dangers of too much stability and control, and the dynamism and meaning that can be lost when individual lives and societies become too rigid. ![]() Too much chaos is obviously harmful, but so is too much order. The first book was about finding antidotes to life’s chaos: “Put your house in perfect order before criticizing the world,” “Stand up straight with your shoulders back,” and so on. ![]() ![]() But now the gates of prejudice are rolling back up, even in so-called paradise. ![]() It’s 1948, and Easy (born Ezekiel) Rawlins is home from World War II, where he fought alongside white, Japanese, and other Americans at the Battle of Normandy. So much seethes in that one line: the easiness of its tone and the unease of its content the segregation of the times and the arrival of something new. Mosley was 38, it was his first published novel, and, carried by Easy’s warm, skeptical, brilliant voice, Devil launched one of the best hard-boiled mystery series of the 20th century. That’s how Mosley introduced us to Easy Rawlins 30 years ago in Devil in a Blue Dress. ![]() “I was surprised to see a white man walk into Joppy’s bar.” American literature features some killer first lines, and here’s why Walter Mosley belongs right up there with the best spinners of them, from Toni Morrison to F. ![]() ![]() More recently Charley has gone solo, traveling overland for BBC series Charley Boorman: Wicklow to Sydney By Any Means where he traveled by any means of transport appropriate to the country from his hometown of Wicklow in Ireland to Sydney, Australia. ![]() Following the success of this series McGregor and Boorman went on to star in Long Way Down, again travelling by motorbike, this time from John O’Groats to Cape Town. His first big adventure was the award winning series Long Way Round biking overland from London to New York with good friend Ewan McGregor. ![]() He has successfully been producing adventure travel documentaries for the BBC, SKY and National Geographic Channel since 2004. He went on to star in films such as Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope And Glory and, more recently, Karaoke, The Serpent's Kiss and The Bunker. Husband to Ollie with two daughters, Doone and Kinvara, he is very much a family man, and when he is not travelling the world, for which he spends six months of his year, he can be found at his home in Barnes, London.Ĭharley’s career on screen began at an early age with his first film role as Ed's Boy, Jon Voight's son in Deliverence, directed by his father John Boorman. ![]() ![]() Born in London in 1966, Charley grew up in Ireland, LA and the UK, spending much of his childhood riding motorcross cycles. ![]() ![]() ![]() But Never Land isn’t quite the place she imagined it would be. So when an opportunity to travel to Never Land via pirate ship presents itself, Wendy makes a deal with the devil. After nearly meeting her hero, Peter Pan, four years earlier, she still holds on to the childhood hope that his magical home truly exists. Wendy’s only real escape is in writing down tales of Never Land. The doldrums of an empty house after her brothers have gone to school, the dull parties where everyone thinks she talks too much, and the fact that her parents have decided to send her away to Ireland as a governess-it all makes her wish things could be different. ![]() Sixteen-year-old Wendy Darling’s life is not what she imagined it would be. What if Wendy first traveled to Neverland… with Captain Hook? ![]() |