![]() It's a formula that makes for can't-lose entertaining moments, sure to please devoted fans. She's recently moved to Sunnydale, a benign-looking Southern California town that in actuality serves as ""evil's very own ground zero."" Buffy must weigh her love for her mother and school against the grisly tasks she's required to perform. Buffy is a normal teenage girl who moonlights as a ""slayer"" under the guidance of her ""watcher,"" Rupert Giles. (On the TV series, she plays Cordelia Chase and has a starring role in the spin-off series, Angel.) While the descriptive passages might seem overwrought and ponderous as written, she transforms it all into bubbly good fun. Though this original novel is available in print, its dramatic play seems naturally dynamic in its spoken incarnation-thanks, in part, to reader Charisma Carpenter, who works hard to live up to her first name, translating the tale's gothic flourishes into full-on Valley Girl speak. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like the ongoing Star Trek audio series, this tape is aimed at a television-bred cult audience hungry for ancillary product (this is the first Buffy title to be adapted to audio). ![]()
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![]() ![]() Anyone who holds a fascination for the era of prohibition, flappers, and speakeasies will enjoy reading about the music that went along with it. ![]() ![]() Robert Rawlins discusses each of the 250 songs in his previous publication The Real Dixieland Book , and takes readers backstage to share the intriguing, sometimes unbelievable stories associated with their publication and subsequent history. With a Foreword by Vince Giordano (Musical Director for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire), this colorfully illustrated book embarks on a musical journey through the era of speakeasies, gangsters, and hot jazz. Tunes of the Twenties is the first book of its kind to tell the stories behind the classic songs of the Jazz Age. ![]() ![]() His first foray is brief, and he is brought back home by friends from his native village. ![]() As the elderly Alonso Quixano the Good (if that is his name) pores over the pages of these books in his study, his “brain dries up” and he imagines himself to be the champion who will take up the vanished cause of knighterrantry and wander the world righting wrongs, helping the helpless, defending the cause of justice, all for the greater glory of his lady Dulcinea del Toboso and his God.Īs he leaves his village before dawn, clad in rusty armor and riding his broken-down nag, the mad knight becomes Don Quixote de la Mancha. ![]() Many critics maintain that the impulse that prompted Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) to begin his great novel was a satiric one: He desired to satirize chivalric romances. Analysis of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote ![]() ![]() Furthermore, I find The Iliad to be so profound, so true in what it says about being a human being and living in this world, that it never fails to make me see and understand the world differently and, I hope, better.įor a number of reasons, The Iliad is different from most of the literature we are accustomed to, and it helps to know something about those differences and the reasons behind them before reading the poem. When I read these books, I visit with these friends. So why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? A better answer is because I love it.Īs I said earlier, I like to think of books-the physical objects, books-as holding a world that I can enter and as I also said, some of my best friends, some of the people I know best, live in books. ![]() I obviously could teach the book without rereading it, and besides, no one requires me to teach this particular book. ![]() Why have I read Homer’s Iliad fifteen or twenty times? The simple answer is that I have taught it many times and each time I teach a book I like to reread it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World is your guide to joining the ranks of hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity professionals around the world. Looking for real-world advice from leading cybersecurity experts? You've found your tribe. While this version features a new cover design and introduction, the remaining content is the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product. ![]() ![]() Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World (9781119643371) was previously published as Tribe of Hackers: Cybersecurity Advice from the Best Hackers in the World (9781793464187). ![]() ![]() ![]() These case studies are also highly effective points of reference for student revision. ![]() Contemporary examples, including the Iraq war, racism and the rise of the far right, are used to illustrate and support her theory that far from combating extremism, the quest for consensus politics undermines the ability to challenge it. Going back first to Aristotle, she identifies the historical origins of the political and reflects on the Enlightenment, and the social contract, arguing that in spite of its good intentions, it levelled the radical core of political life. Arguing that liberal 'third way thinking' ignores fundamental, conflicting aspects of human nature, Mouffe states that, far from expanding democracy, globalization is undermining the combative and radical heart of democratic life. ![]() What does this mean for political and social life? Is there a 'Third Way' beyond left and right, and if so, should we fear or welcome it? This thought-provoking book by Chantal Mouffe, a globally recognized political author, presents a timely account of the current state of democracy, affording readers the most relevant and up-to-date information. ![]() Abstract: Since September 11th, we frequently hear that political differences should be put aside: the real struggle is between good and evil. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your favorite travel destination and why? What are your three favorite things right now?įaded hydrangea blossoms in the garden, a hand-painted teapot from Pakistan, and a pair of thick grey cashmere socks. When you’re not reading or writing, what are you doing?Ĭooking, cleaning, gardening. I began writing at the age of 47, and have no regrets about that. When this run of luck comes to an end I hope I will not take them too much to heart, but fear I might throw myself onto the couch, wailing ‘Is there one who understands me?’ If you could tell your younger writing self anything, what would it be? Reviews in the press have been terribly kind, so I have not yet had to deal with a bad one. Do you read your book reviews? How do you deal with bad or good ones? I stick doggedly at every idea until I get it to work. How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have? ![]() Does writing energize or exhaust you?īoth I feel happily wrecked after a few hours at the desk. ![]() In a shed in my back garden, but when it is very stormy I work at the kitchen table. Where do you get most of your writing and editing done? I was already 5ft 8in and felt like a giant in the tiny rooms. I visited Jane Austen’s house in Chawton, Hampshire when I was 14. What literary pilgrimages have you gone on? It seemed like such a grand put-down I was terribly impressed. One day at practice, we were giddy, and the choir master exclaimed that our ‘Danny Boy’ was diabolical. What was an early experience where you learned that language had power? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This bias didn't surprise me, and I assumed it would take little Summed up as the pervasive negativity of the human condition in Africa. Virtuosity with the novel's subject matter, rather inaccurately Tendency, from the beginning, to contrast this supposed authorial Of it focused on the author's perceived artistry. It attracted considerable attention then, much THE BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE Not Yet Born was first published by Houghton And he has a little issue to settle with Chinua Title or the thematic core: the provenance of the concept and image of ![]() Preface to the new edition, and tells how-to this day-no criticalĪssessment of the book has zoomed in on the conceptual content of the (first published in 1968 and recently reprinted by PER ANKH) writes a Retrieved from Īyi Kwei Armah, author of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born APA style: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born." Retrieved from MLA style: "The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() ![]() They always went back to her.Īn end of an era. ![]() If my thoughts were chaos, she was my anchor. Please see inside the book for a detailed list. Warning: The story contains explicit content, violence, profanity, and topics that may be sensitive to some readers. It’s the fourth and final book in the Twisted series but can be read as a standalone. Twisted Lies is a steamy fake dating romance. Theirs is a love twisted with secrets and tainted by lies…and when the truths are finally revealed, they could shatter everything. ![]() ![]() Sweet, shy, and introverted despite her social media fame, Stella Alonso is a romantic who keeps her heart in a cage.īetween her two jobs, she has little time or desire for a relationship.īut when a threat from her past drives her into the arms-and house-of the most dangerous man she’s ever met, she’s tempted to let herself feel something for the first time in a long time.īecause despite Christian’s cold nature, he makes her feel everything when she’s with him. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal she can’t refuse.Įvery monster has their weakness. She’s the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can’t solve. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can’t deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. He’ll do anything to have her…including lie.Ĭharming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Each planet is focused on one core trait, similar to the varying factions in Divergent. Each planet is named after the one of the signs of the zodiac. Zodiac takes place in a galaxy with twelve planets, much like the twelve districts of The Hunger Games’ Panem. ![]() ![]() If the world of Zodiac looks slightly familiar, it’s probably because you’ve already seen it before in various incarnations. Rho, the newly-named Guardian of the planet Cancer, and her advisor, Mathias, travel from planet to planet, attempting to warn the other systems while at the same time avoiding attacks from an unknown and extremely hostile entity. Rhoma - or Rho, as she is called - and her bandmates are some of the only survivors of a brutal attack on one of their planet’s moons, an attack that Rho saw coming but was convinced was not real. The premise is intriguing, the universe is interesting, but I found it to be more style than substance. Zodiac attracted me because I will always be the girl who watched one of the Star Wars movies every day for a week, and I am forever searching for YA novels that take place in space. In the case of Rhoma Grace, the heroine in Romina Russell’s action-packed new book Zodiac (available today from Razorbill), it is up to her - and the requisite gaggle of companions - to essentially save the entire universe. It’s a commonly reoccurring theme in young adult literature - a teenaged girl discovers she is somehow special and must embark on a harrowing journey to save the known world. ![]() |