![]() ![]() His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student, which incorporates Bach's real-life plane crash. A former USAF fighter pilot, Air Force captain and latter-day barnstorming pilot, Bach continues to be an avid aviator-author, exploring and chronicling the joys and freedom of flying, reporting his findings to readers. With over 60 million copies of his books sold, Richard Bach remains one of the world's most beloved authors. Since Jonathan Livingston Seagull - which dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years - Richard Bach has touched millions of people through his humor, wisdom and insight. His most recent works include Travels with Puff, which recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff, and Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant S ![]() ![]()
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Unlock the groundbreaking advances of deep learning with this extensively revised new edition of the bestselling original. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Génessier to make his journey up many flights of stairs to Christiane’s room the first time we see her. Like Maya Angelou, she knows why they sing.įranju builds dread with long, slow, quiet takes - it seems to take half an hour for Dr. Meanwhile, Christiane moons around in the mirrorless house, catching sight of herself in any shiny surface (of which there are many in the movie, including Louise’s black raincoat), morosely listening to caged doves chirping. Génessier and Louise take no sadistic pleasure in capturing their prey it’s just what has to be done. The horror and dark comedy of the film is that this plan is presented more or less neutrally. He and his associate - Louise (Alida Valli), whose own face he once repaired - kidnap women who look enough like Christiane, remove their faces, and graft the thin meat onto Christiane’s skull. 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Georges Franju’s Les Yeux Sans Visage ( Eyes Without a Face) is a transfixing bad dream about beauty and the parody of beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages-after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned-Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. ![]() What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many-Black, queer, and transgender-to ever get his own happily-ever-after. ![]() He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.įelix Love has never been in love-and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the Dreadmount erupts, bringing with it an age of terror and violence, these women must find the strength to protect humankind from a devastating threat. Now someone from her mother’s past is coming to upend her fate. Samantha Shannon (Author) Hardback £18.99 £17.09 Paperback £9.99 £8.99 Ebook (Epub & Mobi) £13.29 Ebook (PDF) £13.29. ![]() In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. ![]() Dumai has spent her life in a Seiikinese mountain temple, trying to wake the gods from their long slumber. The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. The dragons of the East have slept for centuries. Their daughter, Glorian, trails in their shadow – exactly where she wants to be. To the north, in the Queendom of Inys, Sabran the Ambitious has married the new King of Hrâoth, narrowly saving both realms from ruin. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory’s purpose. “The stunning, standalone prequel to the New York Times bestselling The Priory of the Orange Tree. ![]() ![]() His second play, “Fireside Chats,” is about President Franklin Roosevelt. ![]() The first, “Centennial,” brings students of today together with those from the World War I era. His last two books - “Summer of Smoke” and “Candlemas Eve” - were self-published and focused on racism in New Jersey. More kids than we’re willing to recognize are looking at our books for that reason, to see what normal is, to get out of a bad situation.” I read books to see how normal people live. “Like a lot of kids, I was in a very uncertain family situation. “When I was a young reader I looked upon books to learn how to behave in the world,” he said. There’s money to be made, but there’s also citizens to be made in that genre.”īloor said he has been guided by a moral compass in his writing. It’s something teachers and parents work on. “The key thing about young-adult lit is you’re trying to create readers. He tries not to repeat himself, but he aims all his books at young adults. “That’s how I got someone to read ‘Tangerine.’ That’s the whole key - to get someone inside to look at your book,” he said.Īlong the way he has written a thriller (“Crusader”), a satire (“Story Time”) and science fiction (“Taken”). ![]() ![]() “What I wanted for Paul, he has the ability to see people in another way,” Bloor said.īloor worked for 30 years in the publishing industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Bathsheba's passionate nature leads her into serious errors of judgment, Hardy endows her with sufficient resilience, intelligence, and good luck to overcome her youthful folly. ![]() must hold its place among the great English novels." The book is often regarded as an early piece of feminist literature, since it features an independent woman with the courage to defy convention by running a farm herself. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right the method was right the poet and the countryman, the sensual man, the sombre reflective man, the man of learning, all enlisted to produce a book which. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. Troy is impulsivehe leaves his clerk job to enlist in the armyand is often described as a child who follows his instincts and can’t think of other people’s thoughts or desires over his own. Download cover art Download CD case insert Far from the Madding Crowdįar from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Bathsheba ’s third suitor is the son of a doctor who was ruined by debt after moving from town to country. ![]() ![]() ![]() They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident. ![]() This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. ![]() Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. Author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, Fort was a master cataloguer of the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre which the scientific establishment of his day chose to ignore and ridicule. Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) was as fascinating a man as one could hope to find. ![]() ![]() ![]() The later Wittgenstein, on the contrary, seems to have grown tired of serious thinking and. ![]() ![]() With access to Wittgenstein's papers, as well as to his friends, Monk has done an excellent job of elucidating the twin journeys of an extraordinary mind and soul, though it's not likely his insights into Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations will tempt many to do more than dip their feet in those decidedly choppy waters. The earlier Wittgenstein, whom I knew intimately, was a man addicted to passionately intense thinking, profoundly aware of difficult problems of which I, like him, felt the importance, and possessed (or at least so I thought) of true philosophical genius. Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was born into one of the wealthiest families in Austria but gave away his entire inheritance he fought in WW I, was Bertrand Russell's protege and then his master, became a reluctant Cambridge don who exchanged academia for solitude whenever possible and was drawn to younger men with brilliant minds. In a full-scale biography of him, British philosopher Monk tries to show that this possibly acutest and most influential mind of the century and the obsessional personality were one, driven by spiritual as much as by intellectual concerns. Moores report was masterfully succinct: I consider that this is a work of genius but, even if it is not, it is well above. Wittgenstein the philosopher and Wittgenstein the man have generated two largely separate industries. Genius Annotation 1 contributor Some Remarks on Logical Form ( Bemerkungen über logische Form in the original German), from 1929, was the only academic paper Wittgenstein published in his. ![]() |