![]() ![]() (Interesting choice of metaphor, n'est-ce pas? Is it intended to evoke the intifadah, and the petrol-bomb-throwing youths in Gaza and the West Bank? Edward Said was a Palestinian, after all, and a vociferous critic of American policy in the Middle East.) Anyway, whether that's the idea or not, the Independent reviewer goes on to claim that "Irwin is the only man alive who could have carried it off." ![]() "Like a petrol-bomb lobbed into the the flames of dissent," says the front cover. I guess I kind of grew up on Edward Said's classic polemic text Orientalism (1978), so it came as quite a shock to run across this book in the public library the other day. The Orientalists and their Enemies (2006) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Color-coded speech balloons and Willems’s reliably expressive cartoon characters aid comprehension “Emote-acorns” show up “when the Squirrels have BIG feelings” to reinforce the mood. Quiz Squirrel’s “Fur Real” provides information about sleep habits of squirrels, armadillos, and house plants. The gang is full of good if misguided intentions: enthusiastic cheering (“GO, ZOOMY! GO, ZOOMY! GO, ZOOMY!”) and rival teams “PEACE!” and “Quiet!” keep Zoom awake until “THE STARS ARE GONE!” In one of two (mostly) nonfiction sections, “Squirrel to the Stars,” Nutshell reveals the stars aren’t really gone and a few other astral facts. The “BIG Story!” concerns the Squirrel friends’ attempts to make Zoom Squirrel’s dream of sleeping “under the stars” come true. 11/18 Who Is the Mystery Reader?) follows the format of silly main story, some informational follow-up, and three “A-corny” joke interludes. ![]() This installment of the early-reader series (I Lost My Tooth!, rev. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is always a friendly face to greet you at the door and help you find whatever you need. Items are arranged on shelves, hung on racks and placed on accent pieces of antique and restored furniture that Strickland calls “shabby chic.” Cecelia's Boutique and Gifts offers unique apparel, and accessories to women who value versatility, style, and we are passionate about providing excellent customer service. In addition to clothing, Cecelia’s Boutique has an exclusive gift section. Stuff that makes you feel good about yourself.” It’s unreal.”Īfter 46 years in the business, Cecelia has her own store and will continue to offer many of the popular clothing lines. Some of my girls come in every week just to see what I have, and I’ve been so impressed by new walk-in customers. “I have a relationship with my customers they feel like family,” owner Cecelia Strickland said. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, the longer their “fling” lasts, the harder it becomes to ignore their growing feelings for each other. Alexis and Daniel understand that their fling must be temporary…in addition to the 10-year age gap, Daniel can’t leave his Mayoral responsibilities and his family’s B&B in Wakan while Alexis has a family legacy to uphold and an upcoming promotion in Minneapolis. But to escape her irritating and relentless ex as well as her demanding family and their medical legacy at Royaume Northwestern Hospital, Alexis starts to travel to Daniel’s B&B in Wakan on a regular basis. ![]() After Alexis and the handsome stranger, Daniel Grant, both end up at the same diner later that night, Alexis ends up going home with Daniel and (seemingly) having a one-night stand. The story starts with big-city ER doctor Alexis Montgomery accepting a tow from a handsome stranger after she gets stuck in a ditch in the small-town of Wakan. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “That’s what the Florentines had really from the time of Dante forward,” says King. ![]() They really believed there was something to knowing how to read and write, and to numeracy. Compare that to Paris or Milan at the time, which boasted just a 20 to 25 per cent comparable literacy rate. Not Latin, mind, which was the language of education. “One of the best estimates is that it was seven out of every 10 adult males were able to read in the vernacular,” says King. “Clearly, it wasn’t something genetic or something in the water … something that had to be happening within that society that enabled people to shine,” says King, whose latest, “The Bookseller of Florence,” takes us through description and anecdote to 15th-century Italy and the heart of the Renaissance.Īnd the thing about the Renaissance that Florence commanded more than anyone else? Literacy. ![]() The city was producing geniuses including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, and one of the questions historians have had for decades, according to author Ross King is: How did a city of just 40,000 people create so much? So what was it about Florence that allowed Vespasiano da Bisticci, the son of a mere wool trade worker, to scale great economic and social heights, becoming one of the most influential men in the city and of the Renaissance?įlorence in the mid-1400s was punching above its weight in terms of art and culture and literature and ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The discovery of the spacecraft leads to the important information regarding the locations of several other abandoned flying saucers that were hidden in the Antartica region beneath the frozen tundra. A couple of flying saucers called the bouncers and spacecraft of about a mile long having an interstellar drive were found in the unreachable and remote deserts of Nevada on one day. The setting of the plots of the series is done in the late 1940s. After writing the first novel of the series in the year 1997, author Bob Mayer has tried to complete release at least one sequel every year till the final novel of the series in the year 2004. All the novels of the series deal with the interaction of the humans with the alien race and the consequences of their attempts in doing so. The series consists of a total of 9 exciting novels published between the years 19. The Area 51 series is a series of science fiction and thriller novels written by the New York Times Bestselling novelist and a well known American author, Bob Mayer under the pseudonym Robert Doherty. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s well-written, cinematic, and entertaining. Yet I don’t mean to suggest that it’s a bad book.Ĭrossroads is a great book. Or maybe, more generously, A Christmas Carol. I remarked to a friend while reading it, without any irony, that it reminded me of Harry Potter. Yet for all the statements it makes-about altruism, about the dangers of over-indulgence in navel-gazing individualism, about the inefficacy of social justice, about mental illness, about faith in God and redemption, about liberalism and religion-it’s sex where Franzen seems to have the most to say.Ĭrossroads is both formulaic and moralistic, and it’s not very demanding from a literary perspective. The novel is an ambitious, almost six-hundred-page first installment of a family trilogy which has an equally ambitious title, A Key to All Mythologies. The most striking feature of Jonathan Franzen’s new book, Crossroads, is its sexual conservatism. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021, 592 pages ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the wizarding world.įlipping through the pages of Newt's famous journal, you'll journey around the globe and discover the many and varied creatures that he made it his life's work to study and protect. There are three in particular you might have heard mentioned by certain Hogwarts students and that you can add to your listening list too, including Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.Ī set textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. "A glance through Muggle art and literature of the Middle Ages reveals that many of the creatures they now believe to be imaginary were then known to be real."Īs every fan of the Harry Potter stories knows, the shelves of the Hogwarts Library are home to all sorts of fascinating books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviews: Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity and Race. Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mohanty’s probing and provocative analyses of key concepts in feminist thought-”home,” “sisterhood,” “experience,” “community”-lead the way toward a feminism without borders, a feminism fully engaged with the realities of a transnational world. Reviews: Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity and Race, ethnicity, and sexuality: intimate intersections, forbidden frontiers. Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 2003. She considers the evolution of interdisciplinary programs like Women’s Studies and Race and Ethnic Studies pedagogies of accommodation and dissent and transnational women’s movements for grassroots ecological solutions and consumer, health, and reproductive rights. Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. In between these essays, Mohanty meditates on the lives of women workers at different ends of the global assembly line (in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States) feminist writing on experience, identity, and community dominant conceptions of multiculturalism and citizenship and the corporatization of the North American academy. Availability Status : Available for order from suppliers. Feminism without Borders opens with Mohanty’s influential critique of western feminism (“Under Western Eyes”) and closes with a reconsideration of that piece based on her latest thinking regarding the ways that gender matters in the racial, class, and national formations of globalization. Feminism without Borders : Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is, however, a clearly expressed and wide-ranging book explaining the complexity of hieroglyphic interpretation and revealing the man whose achievements "meant the discovery of a whole new civilization." -Karen Tiley, .uk Highly instructive and fast-paced, The Keys of Egypt is perhaps less dramatic than it might be in portraying troubled times and groundbreaking discovery. Although no bibliography is given, there is a helpful passage on various levels of further reading. Chapters on Champollion's travels in Italy and Egypt include a good smattering of excerpts from his writings. Its sources include letters and journals, the authors having undertaken researches in major libraries and museums. ![]() The Keys of Egypt details Champollion's life and work, which were hampered by politics, poverty, and an almost hypochondriacal series of health problems. The breakthrough came after "20 years of obsessive hard work," not through the quick-fix solution often thought to have been provided by the Rosetta stone. ![]() By the age of 12, he was studying several ancient languages, and, amid a "wave of Egyptomania," he would beat rivals to discover the key to deciphering hieroglyphs. A gifted bookseller's son born in Revolutionary France, Champollion was to become "gripped by energetic enthusiasm" for Egypt. Jean-François Champollion's biography is neatly interwoven with Napoleonic history and the functions of Egyptian hieroglyphs in The Keys of Egypt. ![]() |