![]() ![]() The Tories were flocking to his standard from every quarter.” Revolutionary soldier James Collins wrote that before the Kings Mountain battle, Cornwallis’ trusted commander Major Patrick Ferguson “was coming on with his boasted marksmen, and seemed to threaten the destruction of the whole country. “In one hour, a bunch of rednecks from the back of beyond changed the course of history.” ![]() Blair, prompted me to learn more about the Revolutionary War and the way it was fought here.įor his book, Southern collected a set of writings from people who actually experienced those times and wrote descriptions of what they saw and learned first hand.įor instance, there are several accounts of the Patriot victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, which, Southern says, led “a little more than a year later, to Cornwallis” surrender and the end of the war ![]() Are there lessons for us from the American Revolution as it was fought in the backcountry of the Carolinas? Could anything that happened so long ago be relevant to today’s challenges facing America’s military?Ī new book, “Voices of the American Revolution in the Carolinas,” edited by Ed Southern and published by John F. ![]()
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![]() Calls for radical reform make for good newspaper copy but ignore the practicalities of achieving change. ![]() I was disappointed by his column with Jonathan Aldred in last Sunday’s paper, which pretends that it’s only a beleaguered but wise minority of economists who want to see curriculum change, and dismisses the CORE curriculum that’s under development without – on the internal evidence of the column – having looked at it. And a good thing too – far too important to be left to us economists.Įconomics: The User’s Guide: A Pelican Introduction (Pelican Books) It starts: “Why are people not very interested in economics?” A false premise surely? All the evidence from rising student numbers to popular economics book sales (not to mention the Piketty phenomenon) is that people are *hugely* interested in economics. ![]() Ha-Joon Chang’s new book, Economics: The User’s Guide, is sitting enticingly on my desk. ![]() ![]() ![]() DeMille to Ridley Scott's Gladiator-will instantly recognise their origins in sets and costumes Alma- Tadema invented. Anyone who has ever enjoyed the great epic films of antiquity-from Italian silent classics and Cecil B. ![]() Lawrence Alma-Tadema's paintings were immensely popular among his contemporaries, and have since enchanted a wide audience through the medium of cinema. This important re-evaluation of the Dutch-born painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema traces his personal and artistic journey towards international fame and success in London and investigates how this exceptionally creative artist used his own houses and studios as laboratories to produce vivid paintings of life in ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Larkwood lives in England with her wife and their cat. I realize now, I am forcing you to choose between reading this interview first, or reading the excerpt first.Ī.K. The better news is that this is the first book in a series, so you'll get to spend more time in this world. The good news is that there is a lengthy excerpt available at Tor.com. If that didn't get your attention, when Tor announced the deal with Larkwood last May, her quote was “ The Unspoken Name grew out of my long-standing curiosity about villains’ sidekicks: what might it take to stay loyal to a boss who is clearly bad news? What do you owe to someone who saves your life, and what do they owe to you?” Consider my attention grabbed and owned! A novel that offers Gods who may not have your best interests at heart, a sacrifice who becomes an assassin, witty dialog, complex relationships, and characters who have to deal with escaping their own destinies, this is the kind of story that pulls you right in from the first chapter. ![]() Larkwood's debut fantasy novel, The Unspoken Name, is already garnering rave reviews ahead of it's February release. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Steve even goes on to (indirectly) blame women for their cheating spouses their child's uninvolved father. On the other hand-and I suppose this has a lot to do with the fact that I was raised in a time where chivalry was (and still IS) unheard of, and feminist views were strongly imparted in schools and within society- I simply cannot accept Steve's obvious conclusion that women need to put forth MORE than half the effort to land a GOOD man. set standards for yourself, RESPECT yourself in order to be respected, don't accept being just his "plaything".like, cmon now). He made some very valid points, though I felt that many of them should ALREADY be obvious to woman everywhere (i.e. On one hand, I admire the fact that Steve Harvey gives it to you straight and without a TRACE of subtlety (or sugar-coating if you will), the reasons why the majority of men ARE the way they are, and why we, as women, are unknowingly encouraging them to continue bad habits. Ok so, I definitely have mixed feelings about this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Right from birth, Mary’s father never wanted her. The author attributes her physical appearance to her being born in India. Sadly, it is an accurate observation considering she has a little-thin yellow face, a little-thin body, and yellow hair. The very first impression that people have about Mary is that she is the most disagreeable-looking child. She resides in India, but due to a cholera epidemic, she is forced to relocate to England to live in her uncle’s mansion. The book tells the story of a young girl known as Mary Lennox, who is nine years old at the start. The Secret Garden is one of those books that play desirable in grooming morals in children. The moral lessons in this children’s classic book are as suitable for the children as they are for parents. ![]() Whereas Dickon Sowerby, who Mary and Colin perceive as thrillingly strange and exotic, is nourished by his parent’s love. ![]() Mary and Colin grow into disruptive children due to the absence of this love. She meets her cousin, Colin Craven who also faces his father’s rejection. She is later relocated to England to live with her uncle. The rejection from her parents goes a long way in defining her character. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett revolves around Mary Lennox, a nine-year-old girl who initially resides in India with her wealthy British parents. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author's ability to reexamine and reinvent himself despite a debilitating setback may motivate readers to seize their own ambitions. LeGrand's faith and optimism power through even the darkest details of his slow recovery, yet he still honestly explores what the accident has cost him. This quote is a great description of what the books message is and what Eric is all about. ![]() ![]() Despite the reverberations of the accident, the moment of the tragedy isn't the climax of the story%E2%80%94rather, it's LeGrand's decision to move forward with courage. He starkly details the physical and emotional effects of becoming paralyzed (for example, feeling brutally cold even in midsummer and the agony of not being able to scratch his nose). Believe is the profoundly moving story of Eric LeGrand, the former defensive tackle for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights football team, who suffered a severe spinal cord injury and was left paralyzed by a crushing on-field tackle during a heated game with Army. Adapted from an adult memoir, published simultaneously, the book's tight structure builds tension, with LeGrand's narrative shifting between life before and after the accident. Paralyzed from the neck down, LeGrand had to depend fully on nurses and his mother, whose devotion helps form the heart of this wrenching yet uplifting story. When Rutgers junior Eric LeGrand collapsed on the field in October 2010 after a tackle gone wrong, his football career, along with his ability to walk and care for himself, disappeared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like a vinyl single, it has a Side A and Side B which can be read in any order. ![]() Jeff Jackson's "Destroy All Monsters" was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Fall 2018. "Jeff Jackson is a fresh and startling voice in contemporary fiction-a hallucinatory realist whose prose has the scary energy of rock and roll, and who writes with the assurance of a born storyteller." -David Gates His strangely serene yet gripping, unsettling, and beautifully rendered novel has within it all the earmarks of an important new literary voice." -Dennis Cooper "Jeff Jackson is one the extraordinarily gifted young writers I've read in a very long time. With astounding precision, Jackson weaves a moving tale of discovery and mad hope across a startling, vibrant landscape. ![]() ![]() A journey across a shifting dreamlike landscape, featuring feral children, teenage oracles, mysterious cassette tapes, and a reclusive underground rockstar. It's a coming-of-age story for people who hate coming-of-age stories. Mira Corpora is the debut novel from acclaimed playwright Jeff Jackson. I hope the book finds serious readers who are out there waiting for this kind of fiction to hit them in the face." -Don DeLillo "It's fine work in its manic pacing and its summoning of certain cultural emblems. ![]() |