This book provides an accessible and informative introduction which is ideally suited to the general public and students up to undergraduate level, whilst still containing some material to interest (and provoke) scholars. Interest in one of the most famous figures of antiquity remains strong. This latest reception of the slave leader is briefly mentioned in Urbainczyk’s generally excellent and concise account of Spartacus and the slave wars. Howard Fast’s novel, the source for the famous 1960 film, was again adapted, this time as a four-hour TV miniseries by the USA Network. 1 Yet within a couple of years, the film and television industry, eager to capitalise on the success of Gladiator, had once again turned to Spartacus. Shaw declared that “it seems that the romantic myth of Spartacus has had its day”. In his 2001 anthology of sources on the slave uprising of 73-71 BC, Brent D.
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As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. Silver working-the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars-has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization.įor Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation-also known as Babel.īabel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. Traduttore, traditore : An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.ġ828. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Then, a few short months later, Cam realized that she would never fulfill her dream of dancing for the New York City Ballet.Now working as a go-go dancer in an upscale club in Manhattan, Cam is unexpectedly brought face-to-face with the man she once loved.And it's now her turn to walk away from him.After five He just didn't think it would come with a tragedy that would change how he viewed the boxing world forever.After staying out of the spotlight for a year, it's now time for Zeus to make his return to the ring.Cameron Reed was in her second year at Juilliard when her childhood sweetheart, Zeus Kincaid, walked away from her without a backward glance. KINDLE Read Now Ruin (Gods, #1) by Samantha Towleĭescriptions : From Samantha Towle, the New York Times bestselling author of Wardrobe Malfunction and Breaking Hollywood, comes a dramatically powerful and passionate new contemporary romance.And the new heavyweight champion of the world is.Those are the words that Zeus Kincaid has been waiting to hear since he first put on a pair of boxing gloves. Effective communication depends on emotional feedback from others and much of our most important communications over the eons by necessity focused on danger: Is that sound in the forest coming from something that wants to eat me? If so, I need to decisively warn the other humans.īut then we added, in just a few short decades, many new ways to communicate and our brains haven’t been able to keep up. We humans have learned to communicate over hundreds of thousands of years, evolving from cave dwelling days of grunts and gestures to modern day. Human communications developed over thousands of years, but digital communications is new That’s a huge problem that leads to boredom, lack of clear communications, and perhaps even our increasingly polarized political world.įortunately, Nick Morgan has been studying these issues for the past several years and he writes about ways to break through and communicate well in his new book from Harvard Business Review Press releasing today Can You Hear Me? How to Connect with People in a Virtual World. But the nuance, emotion, and detail that helps us to understand deeply is mostly lost in our virtual world of email, telephone, webcams, text messaging, and online content. Humans are hardwired to connect with each other using many different in-person cues including tone of voice, a lift of an eyebrow, a shake of the head, and other things we don’t quite understand like air pressure changes. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story "The Customer is Always Right" which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series. That Yellow Bastard focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The Big Fat Kill follows a private investigator who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police and the mob. The Hard Goodbye is about an ex-convict who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer. Much of the film is based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. It is based on Miller's graphic novel of the same name. Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film produced and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece - the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer.īut wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. The Larkin family isn't just lucky - they persevere. From a stunning new voice in YA literature comes an epic, utterly unforgettable contemporary novel about a lost shipwreck, a missing piece of family history, and weathering the storms of life. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. But in the end, is the choice actually hers to make? Caught between history and her heart, she must decide whether she’s willing to let go of the life she knew for a love she never thought she’d find. Mistaken for the boy’s long-missing mother, Anne adopts her identity, convinced the woman’s disappearance is connected to her own.Īs tensions rise, Thomas joins the struggle for Ireland’s independence and Anne is drawn into the conflict beside him. Thomas Smith, guardian to a young boy who is oddly familiar. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything….Īnne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. But he had his story, and from there his sports-writing career never looked back. The results were spectacular Gallico was knocked out within two minutes. He was removed from this job as his "reviews were too Smart Alecky" (according to Confessions of a Story Teller), and took refuge in the sports department.ĭuring his stint there, he was sent to cover the training camp of Jack Dempsey, and decided to ask Dempsey if he could spar with him, to get an idea of what it was like to be hit by the world heavyweight champion. He then worked for the National Board of Motion Picture Review, and after six months took a job as the motion picture critic for the New York Daily News. He graduated in 1921 with a Bachelor of Science degree, having lost a year and a half due to World War I. He went to school in the public schools of New York, and in 1916 went to Columbia University. His father was an Italian, and his mother came from Austria they emigrated to New York in 1895. Paul William Gallico was born in New York City, on 26th July, 1897. “But I have boundless love & faith in Man, and will work for the race day and night.” “I feel neither love nor pity for men, for individuals,” she declared as a young doctor, in a letter to one of her brothers. Elizabeth, especially, would rhapsodize about humanity in the abstract, even as actual experiences of clinical intimacy could unnerve her. They treated the women in their care with sympathy, but empathy - the sense that they inhabited the same ordinary plane as their patients, or even other women - seemed mostly to elude them. Their temperaments were decidedly different: Elizabeth was self-assured and occasionally grandiose Emily was quieter and more methodical, though her apparent equipoise concealed an inner turmoil. The Blackwell sisters had initially cast themselves as exceptions, seemingly content to be the only women allowed into the room. Together they ran the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children and founded a women’s medical college - even though, as Nimura puts it, opening a separate school for women was just about the last thing they had planned to do. Nimura, in her enthralling new book, “The Doctors Blackwell,” tells the story of two sisters who became feminist figures almost in spite of themselves.Įlizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, in 1849, and she later enlisted her younger sister Emily to join her. It’s tempting to presume a clear line between intention and accomplishment, but Janice P. The long-awaited Behind Blue Eyes prequel trilogy is now available. Will their desperate Last Stand be enough to avert a catastrophe?įind out in the next chapter of Behind Blue Eyes-THE modern-day cyberpunk saga. And only Nephilim can lead them into battle. Only the Guardian Angels can stop the invasion. Meanwhile, Rosprom is preparing its biggest military offensive against Olympias with the goal of total destruction. If this means going against the Board of Olympias and starting a war with the elites, then so be it.īut Cillian Stavros is expecting an attack, and he isn’t the only powerful player who wants to see Metatron dead… Metatron takes the assault on Nephilim personally and will make those responsible pay. While Nephilim recovers from her injuries at Guardian Angel HQ, the High-Archangel plots revenge. Her body has been horribly damaged, yet her spirit is as unbroken as ever. Nephilim barely survived the dramatic events of Behind Blue Eyes-War Games. Now it’s finally available and despite the title, it’s not the last book in the series!ĭescription: Don’t mess with Metatron– just don’t. Fans of the series had to wait twelve months to learn how Behind Blue Eyes continues. |