![]() Tesla (famous in her own right as a wealthy heiress & engineer/inventor, disabled after a major accident) and Shal (handsome, sweet retired detective who embroiders) are a delight, trying to travel incognito on a starship to Mars on their honeymoon. Absolutely worth your time if you enjoy people being smart, fashionable, and witty on film while solving murder.) Technically, it’s also a holiday movie since much of it is set in late December and there’s a major party scene. Everyone is witty and elegant and there is some power drinking. (CONTEXT: For those of you unfamiliar with this film from the 1930s, it’s a comedy where William Powell, Myrna Loy, and their dog Asta solve a murder. ![]() I’m clearly the target audience for this book, since the tag line is “The Thin Man in Space” and I adore The Thin Man. ![]()
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![]() He also wanted to apply his interpretative skills to asking what such exchanges meant, in order to explore the implications his analysis might have for modern, western cultures. What he sought to do in The Gift was to analyse the structures that governed how and when gifts were given, received, and reciprocated in order to grasp what implicit and unspoken reasons governed these structures. Mauss, along with many others, had noted that in a wide range of societies - especially those without monetary exchange or legal structures - gift-giving and receiving was carried out according to strict customs and unwritten laws. The Gift exploits Mauss's high-level analytical and interpretative skills to produce a brilliant investigation of the forms, meanings, and structures of gift-giving across a range of societies. ![]() Marcel Mauss's 1925 essay The Gift is an enduring classic of sociological and anthropological analysis by a thinker who is one of the founding fathers of modern anthropology. Mauss, along with many others, had noted that in a wide range of societies - especially those without moneta. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake-and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player. She knows their secrets, and they know her.īut as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help-and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. ![]() To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about. ![]() ![]() ![]() The wonderfully offbeat and bizarre illustrations, as well as innovative play with typography and book design, make for a one-of-kind masterpiece from two powerhouse children’s book creators. Publication date 1992 Topics Fairy tales, Childrens stories. From “The Stinky Cheese Man” to “Cinderummpelstiltskin” these unique, hilarious retellings poke fun at classic stories and characters. The Stinky Cheese Man and other fairly stupid tales by Scieszka, Jon Smith, Lane. In this fourth wall-breaking picture book, young readers will delight in the strange twists on familiar tales. The stories in this book are Fairly Stupid Tales. The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales. Makes for an extremely fun and funny read-aloud for the whole family.Ī long time ago, people used to tell magical stories of wonder and enchantment. They remember their work on the classic children's book and how their partnership began. ![]() This award-winning picture book is a wild, irreverent collection of reimagined fairy tales from the author and illustrator of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!. Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith created The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales in 1992. Jon Scieszka introduces some really stupid off-the-wall fairy tales including: ‘Chicken Licken’, ‘The Princess and the Bowling Ball’ ‘The Really Ugly Duckling’, and ‘Jacks Bean Problem’. ![]() ![]() ![]() He went back to the camp and told his wife and the others that they were turning back and settling in Colorado. "It was gigantic," says Michener, "thirty or forty feet tall, with wild, curving tusks and beady eyes that glowed." Levi went out one night to check on his oxen, and out of the shadows rose the great elephant. Then, just as they reached the far side of the mountains, where the going would be easier, it happened. In the Rocky Mountains, they ran into all kinds of troubles. They loaded all their belongings on a big Conestoga wagon and headed for Oregon. Michener described the migration of a young Mennonite farmer, Levi Zendt, and his new wife, Elly, from Pennsylvania to the West. ![]() He had seen it in Western novels, he said, and always in the context of somebody's being spooked on the trail by something - spooked so badly, in fact, that he would never return to that trail.Ī few weeks later, by coincidence, I was reading James Michener's massive novel Centennial, about the settling of the state of Colorado, and ran into the part of the phrase about the elephant. When I asked where it came from, my friend pleaded ignorance. ![]() Several years ago I was walking with a contractor friend through the lovely Japanese gardens in Fort Worth, Texas, when he said something about a certain man he knew, that he guessed he had "seen the elephant and heard the owl." I had never heard the phrase before, and was intrigued by it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This will be the realisation, as Belinsky rightly says himself, of the dream of “the Golden Age,” and this dream is what Belinsky refers to as “Socialism. but like God, will say to her: I want blessings, not sacrifices… There will be neither rich nor poor, neither kings nor subject, there will be brethren, there will be men, and, at the word of the Apostle Paul, Christ will pass his power to the Father, and Father-Reason will hold sway once more, but this time in a new heaven and above a new world.” “And there will come a time – I fervently believe it – when no one will be burned, no one will be decapitated, when the criminal will plead for death… And death will be denied him… When there will be no senseless forms and rites, no contract and stipulations on feeling, no duty and obligation, and we shall not yield to will but to love alone when there will be no husbands and wives, but lovers and mistresses, and when the mistress comes to the lover saying: ‘I love another,’ the lover will answer: ‘I cannot be happy without you, I shall suffer all my life, but go to him whom you love,’ and will not accept her sacrifice. Joseph Frank, whose magisterial, five-volume life of Fyodor Dostoevsky was frequently cited among the greatest of 20th-century literary biographies, alongside Richard Ellmann ’s of James Joyce. ![]() ![]() ![]() These stories deserve to be readapted, so that way a new generation can be exposed to the excitement of this late author’s blockbuster appeal, in a refreshingly modern context. Plus, his work has always been just right for the moment, but just ahead of the curve to be novel, which means that the Crichton library of stories is kind of timeless when you think about it. The world of Michael Crichton knows no limits when it comes to asking interesting questions in the world of fiction. But as the world has evolved, so should this tale of a man harassed by his boss, as the post Me Too world feels ready to see Disclosure take the stage yet again, only updated for our times in a limited series event that makes sure to approach this controversial thriller in just the right way. ![]() When Disclosure hit, both as a best-selling novel and an eventual Demi Moore/Michael Douglas thriller, the concept of sexual harassment was finding its footing in the public discourse. ![]() Michael Crichton wasn’t only a master of adventurous thrills and science fiction potboilers, he also had a taste for tackling corporate America and its evolution throughout the ‘90s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now with twenty pages of bonus material, including an exclusive interview with Peter V. ![]() ![]() Yet as old allegiances are tested and fresh alliances forged, all are unaware of the appearance of a new breed of demon, more intelligent-and deadly-than any that have come before. Once, the Shar’Dama Ka and the Warded Man were friends. JEWELRY Angelarium Boneshaker Borden Dispatches Demon Cycle Dracula Dresden Files Finishing School. Leesha Paper, The Demon Core Cycle by Peter V. Contents 1 Books in the Series 2 Major Characters 2. But the Northerners claim their own Deliverer: the Warded Man, a dark, forbidding figure. Five books which tell the story of a war between humans and demons which takes the action from. He has proclaimed himself Shar’Dama Ka, the Deliverer, and he carries ancient weapons-a spear and a crown-that give credence to his claim. Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the desert tribes into a demon-killing army. ![]() But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. What did you think about the series as whole, about the writing, characters and plot What was your favorite character and favorite event in the book For me the series was fairly good. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. The Demon Cycle consists of the Warded Man, the Desert Spear, the Daylight War, the Skull Throne and the Core. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She was voiced by the late Betty Lou Gerson in the first film, April Winchell in the TV series, Susanne Blakeslee in 101 Dalmatians 2: Patch's London Adventure, House of Mouse and Mickey's House of Villains, Barbara Goodson in Disney On Ice, and Michelle Gomez in the TV series 101 Dalmatians Street. She is arch-nemesis of the Dalmatians and the Radcliffes (Roger in particular).Ĭruella is one of the most iconic and well-known Disney Villains and is a primary member of the franchise, she is remembered for her unique name, extravagance, and practical worship of fur. ~ Cruella De Vil suggesting ways to kill the dalmatian puppies.Ĭruella de Vil is the main antagonist of Disney's 101 Dalmatians franchise, serving as the main antagonist of Disney's 17th full-length animated feature film 101 Dalmatians, and its 2003 direct-to-video sequel 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, a major antagonist of House of Mouse, one of the secondary antagonists of Mickey's House of Villains, and the main antagonist of 101 Dalmatian Street. ~ Cruella De Vil foreshadowing her obsession.Īny way you like! Poison them, drown them, bash them in the head! You got any chloroform? I don't care how you kill the little beasts but DO IT! AND DO IT NOW! Darling, I live for furs, I worship furs! After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't? ![]() ![]() ![]() Interest in floriography soared in Victorian England and in the United States during the 19th century. William Shakespeare ascribed emblematic meanings to flowers, especially in Hamlet. ![]() ![]() Plants and flowers are used as symbols in the Hebrew Bible, particularly of love and lovers in the Song of Songs, as an emblem for the Israelite people, and for the coming Messiah. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practiced in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. Color lithograph Langage des Fleurs (Language of Flowers) by Alphonse Mucha (1900)įloriography ( language of flowers) is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. ![]() |