5/24/2023 0 Comments Airborn the bookShe convinces Matt to accompany her into the woods in search of them, despite Matt's objections and reservations. When Kate realizes her good fortune, she is determined to find evidence of the creatures her grandfather described, and restore his good name in the scientific community. An unexpected confrontation with air pirates causes the Aurora to crash land on the very island Molloy described and drew so carefully. A year later, Molloy's granddaughter Kate de Vries follows the closest flight path she can in the hopes of seeing the miraculous creatures he describes in his journal for herself. The balloon's pilot, Benjamin Molloy, lives long enough to ask Matt if he'd seen 'them', and dies shortly after realizing Matt had not. The story begins with the discovery of a hot air balloon, adrift and in distress. When his father is killed in a freak accident, Matt is given a job by the captain of the ship, enabling him to continue to support his mother and two sisters. The story centers around a cabin boy named Matt Cruse who works aboard the airship Aurora, just as his father before him had. Instead, airships of the day use a fuel called hydrium and resemble hot air balloons more closely than they do airplanes of today. This work of fiction portrays what the world might have been like had the aircraft as we know it not been invented. "Airborn" by Kenneth Oppel is a story of possibilities.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments NeuroDiversity by Judy SingerNeurodiversity & neurodivergent: Meanings, types & examples. Neurodiversity: An insider’s perspective. Sensitivity to social differences: Examples include taking it in stride rather than reacting negatively if someone speaks loudly, has tics, stammers, or finds it difficult to socialize in a typical manner, as well as repeating words or speaking more slowly to improve comprehension.ĭen Houting J.Options for different ways of taking in and communicating information: These may include oral vs.Technological supports for managing time and schedules: These can include smartphone alarms, calendars, and other time-management software.Positive responses to sensory challenges that may cause physical discomfort: These may include replacing fluorescent light bulbs with less-harsh incandescent or LED lights, reducing ambient noise, eliminating air fresheners, moving one's workplace to a quieter spot, and providing natural light.Awareness of neurodivergence and willingness to be flexible at school or in the workplace when specific, reasonable requests are made: These may range from wearing noise-blocking headphones in school corridors to a preference to work from home or communicate via text vs. Includes bibliographical references and index. The Third Reich in Power is the fullest and most authoritative account yet written of how, in six years, Germany was brought to the edge of that terrible abyss."-BOOK JACKET. The war he unleashed was to plunge the world into a maelstrom of genocide and destruction. Evans, covering the rise and collapse of Nazi Germany in detail, with a focus on the internal politics and the decision-making process. After six years of foreign policy brinkmanship that took the Nazi regime from success to success, Hitler's drive to prepare Germany for the war that he saw as its destiny reached its fateful hour in September 1939. The Third Reich Trilogy is a series of three narrative history books by British historian Richard J. The Nazi regime took more and more radical measures against the racially "unfit," including Germany's Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, mentally ill, "asocial" and "habitual" criminals. "Those who were seen as unworthy to be counted among the German people were dealt with in increasingly brutal terms. His book shows how the Nazis attempted to penetrate and reorder every aspect of German society, encountering many kinds and degrees of resistance along the way, but gradually winning the acceptance of the German people in the long run." Every area of life, from literature, culture and the arts to religion, education and science, was subordinated to the relentless drive to prepare Germany for war. Evans tells the story of Germany's radical reshaping under Nazi rule. The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 / Richard J. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival-in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Taming Rafe by Suzanne EnochAuthor Biography: A lifelong lover of books, Suzanne Enoch has been writing them since she learned to read. And after one unforgettable night of ecstasy, Lady Vixen is determined to unmask the true Sin.to satisfy a passionate heart that craves far more than freedom. But she suspects there is more to this enigmatic, remarkable man, that his rakish persona is merely a pose. At first the very liberal lady relishes the thought of an unfettered marriage to an indifferent, unrepentant scoundrel. Caught by Victoria's father in a shockingly sensual kiss, Sin and Vixen have no recourse except a wedding. And when the stunning Vixen and the handsome rogue find themselves momentarily alone at an elegant gala, their passion gets the best of them. A Most Unexpected Marriage Victoria Fontaine's mischievous nature and brilliant, biting wit have scandalized the ton.and earned her the nickname "Vixen." But her reputation pales before the infamous Lord Althorpe's, known as "Lord Sin." The years Sinclair Grafton spent on the Continent have done nothing to quell the rumors about his past. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Isaac fitzgerald dirtbagReading Dirtbag, Massachusetts for the first time is akin to digging into an open wound, hoping to find the offending shard of glass and in the process learning that there’s far more beneath the surface. Throughout it all, he’s evolved, both physically as an innocent altar boy but also mentally as he grows to understand himself and his inner battles.įitzgerald’s confessional has a punk rock grittiness to it that sets it apart from the traditional memoir-in-essays in ways that are simultaneously unsettling and heartfelt, unflinching and loyal, and broken and mended. With this memoir-in-essays, Fitzgerald traces a traumatic upbringing that included struggling with homelessness in Boston, making his way to San Francisco, and eventually ending up in Burma. That, however, has changed with the release of his latest book, Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional. Despite years of storytelling, however, the best-selling author had yet to reveal his true self, warts and all, for the world to read. Isaac Fitzgerald has been in and around the literary scene for many years, telling both his own stories and heralding the stories of others in print and even on The Today Show. David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide. You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. Publisher: Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781447299769 Number of pages: 624 Weight: 484 g Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 42 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.īlack British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. In this vital re-examination of a shared history, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean.ĭrawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan 'blackamoors' and the global slave-trading empire. My right, not just to regard myself as a British citizen, but even to be in Britain seemed contested. When I was a child, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions.to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain. This book was originally published on May 23, 2006, and is a non-fiction autobiography. Happiness is intentionally misspelled in the book's title as "happyness" because Gardner saw it printed like that on a daycare sign while looking for affordable childcare, and later decided to use the misspelled word in the title of his book. The book is not only about education, relationships, and work, it is about self-motivation, facing real-world problems, and grappling to overcome adversity. The author provides a detailed description of his rags to riches saga: the story of a single, sometimes homeless parent who raised his son on the streets and later fulfills his dreams of financial success. Father Chris is in his cheap salesman suit and baby Christopher is in his kindergarten dress. The book focuses on Gardner's quest for success in his career and a healthy and happy future for his child. The Pursuit of Happyness Plot Synopsis In the first scene, we meet Christopher Gardner (Will Smith) and his son Christopher Gardner Junior (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) walking down the avenue of downtown San Francisco. He faced many challenges in his life but overcame adversity to succeed above all odds. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner tells the story of a struggling salesman who never gave up trying to find true happiness for himself and his son. Introduction: The non-expression of sexual orientation and gender identity can affect mental health in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex population in Peru. It aims to shed more light on the apparent differences and similarities between autobiographies written by a woman and a man respectively and try to analyse the mode with reference to gender inequality and caste. The paper would study the representation of gender divide and its intersection with caste atrocities in the selected works. In the proposed paper, there will be a comparative study of the two chief autobiographies- one by a male author, second by a female author. Dalit women are more marginalised than Dalit men due to the economic, social and cultural factors. Second, it has been used as a potential tool to address how women are doubly marginalised in the Dalit community. One, where it discusses the Dalit community's battles against the horrors committed by the higher caste. However, there are two methods to approach this resistance. Dalit autobiographies discuss the plight of the Dalit in India and provide insight into how they challenge the power of the upper caste. It has been a crucial confessional instrument for expressing the plight of the underprivileged and bringing attention to several levels of oppression experienced by the outcaste. In Dalit literature, autobiography has been an influential mode of narrative. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Ray bradbury book dandelion wineOnce read, his words are never forgotten. His more than 500 published works-short stories, novels, plays, screenplays, television scripts, and verse-exemplify the American imagination at its most creative. Ray Bradbury was one of those rare individuals whose writing changed the way people think. Education-schools in Waukega and Los Angeles.Aka-Leonard Douglas, William Elliott, Douglas Spaulding, Leonard Spaulding.A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding-remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. |