His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His colorful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh service at the court of Brunswick, Germany election to the French Tribunate and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Home | Profile | Benjamin Constant Benjamin Constantīenjamin Constant \(1767–1830\) was born in Switzerland and became one of France’s leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician.
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Titus groanBBC Television adaptation of The Boy in Darkness (animated, cable only? 5 February 2000, 30 minutes ).Gormenghast: BBC Television adaptation (international co-production - Ontario? 2000) of Titus Groan / Gormenghast.BBC Radio adaptation of Titus Groan (and Gormenghast, 1980s?).The following lists of adaptations will include the source for each work, who produced the adaptation, when and where it was produced (if applicable). Over the years there have been a number of adaptations based upon one or more of the series of Gormenghast books. (written by Maeve Gilmore based upon author's notes, published posthumously) (last author's draft written while ill, then edited by publishers) Of these, Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone are usually collected as The Titus Books or more recently The Gormenghast Trilogy. Depending on your perspective, there are between two and five works in the Gormenghast 'trilogy'. Alas, all of this has been molded into being a more straightforward mystery story that doesn’t quite have the same multilayered intrigue and commitment to creeping dread. It even has its own version of an insightful yet eccentric Log Lady, albeit one who has a duck as her companion. When it starts to throw in some occasional visions here and there as it peers deeper into darkness, it almost feels like a light echo of that iconic show is reverberating through it. However, this new series does begin as being about an outside investigator, played by Alfred Molina, coming to a small community to look into a murder. Sure, the numbers are different, and, yes, one refers to trees instead of mountains. Upon first hearing the title Three Pines, my mind inexorably jumped to Twin Peaks. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Bark george bookIt all makes for a witty, laugh-out-loud play on the old favorite about the old lady who swallowed a fly." -ALA Booklist *(Starred Review)* "Feiffer's characters are unforgettable.the pictures burst with the sort of broad physical comedy that a lot of children just love. Plus don't miss Jules Feiffer's wonderful new follow-up: Smart George!ĪLA Booklist Editors' Choice Maryland Children's Book Award Parents' Choice Silver Honor Keystone to Reading Book Award (Pennsylvania) Georgia Children's Picture Storybook Award Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (North Dakota) Florida Children's Book Award Charlotte Zolotow Award Honor Book Buckeye Children's Book Award (Ohio) Arizona Young Readers' Award ALA Notable Children's Book When she asks him again, he goes "Oink." What's going on with George? Readers will delight at the surprise ending! When George's mother tells her son to bark, George goes "Meow," which definitely isn't right because George is a dog. bark! This picture book geared for the youngest readers is perfect for those who love Mo Willems's Pigeon series. Named one of 100 Great Children's Books by The New York Public Library and #9 on School Library Journal 's list of the Top 100 Picture Books!įrom acclaimed author-illustrator Jules Feiffer, Bark, George is a hilarious, subversive story about a dog who can't. Comment on “What then shall we say in response to this…” by private learjet cost.Comment on “Mighty Mouse” by 1mouthpiece.11.5 Different perspectives on Arab-Israeli Conflict.Decision to use the atomic bomb: Alternative interpretations History can be pieced together in order to create a broad story of what most likely happened. He goes on to say that if postmodernism is true, the accounts of those that believe that the Holocaust was a myth should be as reliable as first hand accounts of those that were present in concentration camps.Įvans believes that analyzing postmodernism can prove that it is impossible for it to be fully true. Evans Evan’s talks about how it is possible to piece sources together and produce “fair and adequate accounts” of history. One version of history cannot be proved true more than another. It also says that writing objective history is pointless and impossible. They were someones interpretations of what happened. In simple terms, it is a belief that all accounts of history are constructs. According to Merriam Webster, postmodernism can be defined as: of, relating to, or being a theory that involves a radical reappraisal of modern assumptions about culture, identity, history, or language. In order to explain this, we must first define postmodernism. Richard Evan’s wrote the book “In Defense of History” in 1997 to fight of those who believe in Postmodernism. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Why we broke up book reviewMin Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. For now, I post reviews on Goodreads whilst I dream up the perfect title for my own book blog… I’m practising on here by talking about Why We Broke Up by Daniel Hadler, illustrated by Maira Kalman. I think my love of books will always make me go back to it one day. I was once a librarian as a Saturday Job, something I will miss when I head into the working world as a mathematician. So here’s me trying to get back into the world of books and be transported to another world, or anywhere really, so long as its not here… It’s fallen out of focus with my degree course and I miss it. I’m Kathryn! 21 years old and an Actuarial Trainee in York, UK.ĭespite my love of maths, I also love the written word. She likes Disney, Sherlock, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, John Green, Numb3rs, tea, photography…need I go on? Go say hello to her, she’s awesome.ĪNYWAY, as I’m (hopefully) avoiding getting a tan and clambering up volcanoes and squealing over giant turtles AT THIS EXACT MOMENT, I’ll let Kathryn take the wheel…. Hello! Hopefully I’ve scheduled this correctly… my first EVER guest post on ! The honour goes to the lovely Kathryn, a maths geek and fellow bookworm who I originally met through my boyfriend a few years ago and then proceeded to stalk her rather excellent tumblr blog about all about the brilliant little moments in life and fangirl with her obsessively over twitter. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Toxicity by Fiona FraserHere we present a case-study testing the applicability of GRACIOUS IATA to form an evidence-based group of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) posing a similar predicted fibre-hazard, to support read-across and reduce the burden of toxicity testing. The IATA is structured in tiers, allowing grouping decisions to be made using simple in vitro or in silico methods in Tier1 progressing to in vivo approaches at the highest Tier3. The HARN IATA, based on the fibre paradigm for pathogenic fibres, facilitates structured data gathering to propose groups of similar HARN and to support read-across by prompting users to address relevant questions regarding HARN morphology, biopersistence and inflammatory potential. Application of grouping reduces the need to assess toxicity on a case-by-case basis and supports read-across of hazard data from substances that have the data required for risk assessment (source) to those that lack such data (target). The EU-project GRACIOUS developed an Integrated Approach to Testing and Assessment (IATA) to support grouping high aspect ratio nanomaterials (HARNs) presenting a similar inhalation hazard. Virginia Woolf, left and Vita Sackville-West. The freedom of male dress and male privilege is inverted in Woolf’s biography, as Orlando as a woman discovers how cumbersome are the clothes she must wear, and how restricted are her freedoms. Sackville-West liked to cross-dress, calling herself Julian. It is likely that the title of Woolf’s novel comes out of As You Like It, where the heroine Rosalind disguises herself as Ganymede, and in that guise teaches the man she loves – Orlando – how to love in return. Shakespeare loved gender disguises – a girl who’s a boy who’s a boy who’s a girl – and of course as women were not allowed on the London stage in Shakespeare’s day, every female role was cross-gender. In The Arabian Nights, there are both gender switching plots and cross-dressing. Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a playful and serious treatise on the shiftability of form – especially human form, as humans turn into trees or animals, or the gods embody themselves as human to pursue their love interests. O rlando is not the first piece of fiction about a sex change. 6/28/2023 0 Comments Cicada shaun tanFor the last few years, he has been picking apart humanity’s complicated relationship with animals while writing and painting his book Tales from the Inner City, a beautiful and bleak anthology of stories, poems and artworks that pose unsettling questions about how we treat nonhuman life. Shaun Tan has been watching as the owls and possums in Melbourne’s suburbs have become more brazen, and feels troubled by it. “WE are the virus,” quickly became the most overrused meme of the pandemic. Sheep visited a locked-down Welsh McDonald’s. A herd of fallow deer peacefully grazed on a London housing estate. Schools of fish were suddenly visible in Venice’s cruise-ship-free waters. I n the days, weeks and months after the world went into lockdown, we marvelled as animals began to venture out into the habitats we had deserted. From 1915 to 1918, he attended the Leys School in Cambridge, where he also became editor of the school magazine. His parents were schoolteachers at Walthamstow, a suburb of London where James grew up and studied in public schools. James Hilton, the only son of John and Elizabeth Hilton, was born on 9 September, 1900 in Leigh in Lancashire, England (at his grandfather's house). But who was James Hilton and how did he come to write this novel? Why did Lost Horizon (both the novel and the film) become so popular around the world? And which place(s) inspired Hilton's Shangri-La? Here we explore these questions. James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon published in 1933 established Tibet in Utopian literature and introduced a new word to our language - Shangri-La. Soon after that the journey to Shangri-La was begun. He was also interested in the mountain beyond the valley it was a sensational peak, by any standards, and he was surprised that some traveller had not made much of it in the kind of book that a journey in Tibet invariably elicits. James Hilton and Shangri-La Rasoul Sorkhabi |