5/24/2023 0 Comments My dear hamilton by stephanie drayWhen a duel destroys Eliza’s hard-won peace, the grieving widow fights her husband’s enemies to preserve Alexander’s legacy. The last surviving light of the Revolution… From glittering inaugural balls to bloody street riots, the Hamiltons are at the center of it all-including the political treachery of America’s first sex scandal, which forces Eliza to struggle through heartbreak and betrayal to find forgiveness. They fall in love, despite Hamilton’s bastard birth and the uncertainties of war.īut the union they create-in their marriage and the new nation-is far from perfect. And when she meets Alexander Hamilton, Washington’s penniless but passionate aide-de-camp, she’s captivated by the young officer’s charisma and brilliance. Haunting, moving, and beautifully written, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources to tell Eliza’s story as it’s never been told before-not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal-but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.Ĭoming of age on the perilous frontier of revolutionary New York, Elizabeth Schuyler champions the fight for independence. From the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton-a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy.
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Nehru by Walter CrockerHad my job in Delhi been anything else, I would have still watched him, out of interest, almost helpless interest. He himself said, “Over two periods between 19, it was my job to watch Nehru day by day. Crocker keenly observed the functioning of the Nehru government as that was his job. It was republished in 2008 with some updates. This widely-acclaimed first-hand account was first published in 1966. Walter Crocker, an Australian diplomat who spent around 10 years in India during Nehru’s regime as the Australian High Commissioner has given a detailed account of this misgovernance in Nehru: A Contemporary’s Estimate. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that the roots of three main malaises of our governance mechanism - corruption, nepotism and inefficiency - can be traced back to the Nehru era. While there have often been detailed discussions and debates on Nehru’s policies on foreign affairs, Muslim appeasement and mishandling of Kashmir, there hasn’t been much talk about Nehru’s track record on the governance front. That brings us to this question: Is the Nehru model of governance a legacy or a burden for which Indians have paid a huge price? The Congress has done this before as well. This stung the Congress and it hit back flaunting Nehru’s legacy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently mentioned independent India’s first prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a debate in Parliament. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Portraits mccurry“There’s the heat and the crush of humanity, but it’s a fascinating place.”Īfter 18 months he found himself in Pakistan, where he came across Afghan refugees. McCurry says the environment in that part of the world was intense. “I researched story ideas before I left and I hit the ground running," he says. McCurry’s first stop was the Indian sub-continent, where he spent two years producing photojournalistic images. It’s a quality that brings an opulence to a scene. Originally this was a term used by cinematographers to denote that time of day when the setting or rising sun casts everything in a rich golden light. In this shot McCurry has captured Agra’s train station during the ‘golden hour’. “I wanted to see the world and visit cultures all over the planet.” “I wanted to follow my instincts and intuition,” he says. Stills photography, however, was a craft where you could work outdoors, and more importantly to the young photographer, you could simply “start work”. He had studied filmmaking at university, but discovered that it was a collaborative effort, usually involving a large number of people. He wanted to see the world he says, “to wander and explore at my own pace”, and he wanted to do it in far-flung locations, where the cultures and environments were vastly older than that of his home country. Some photographers can spend a lifetime on local news and develop a satisfying career, but McCurry always had other plans. Steve McCurry’s career in photography first began with a job on a local paper in the unusually named town of King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA. 5/24/2023 0 Comments In Shock by Rana AwdishMy brother was leaning forward in the crib, onto his hands, drooling, and seemed to be gulping the air rather than breathing. The first time I viewed the world through medicine’s transformative lens I was five years old, listening as my mother offered a seemingly vague description to the pediatrician by phone. Truly caring for a patient necessitates traversing borders and inhabiting the view of another with the humility of a visitor who knows he or she can choose to look away. If empathy is the ability to take the perspective of another and feel with them, then, at its best, the practice of medicine is a focused, scientific form of empathy. Medicine does this by asking questions and listening for not just what is said, but what may be true. A man’s burning stomach pain transforms into gastritis, which has both a cause and a cure, whereas his nonspecific pain had neither. A swollen, red “strawberry” tongue in a feverish child will lead the doctor to examine the heart and affirm a diagnosis of vasculitis. Focus its light on an unsorted pile of symptoms and it will converge them neatly into a diagnosis. Medicine can be a magical lens through which to view the human body. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra( May 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) This section may require copy editing for Formatting could use a bit of tidying up. For non-scientists it will provide a rare insight into the world of scientific endeavours for all readers alike this will be a useful synthesis of the histories of all branches of qualitative and quantitative enquiry. For physicists the book is an instructive guide to why and how today's new science may affect tomorrow's society. His argument is clearly and strongly expressed, for a wide readership, presuming no prior knowledge of any branch of the sciences. He writes that these paradigms are now inadequate to guide human behavior and policy with regard to modern technology and ecology, then argues that society needs to develop the concepts and insights of holism and systems theory to solve its complex problems. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture is a 1982 book by Fritjof Capra, in which the author examines perceived scientific and economic crises through the perspective of systems theory.Ĭapra outlines and traces the history of science and economics, highlighting flaws in the Cartesian, Newtonian, and reductionist paradigms which have come to light in the context of contemporary empirical understanding of the physical sciences. 5/24/2023 0 Comments The borriblesHe struck the gunwale of the boat in anger. 'This must be Wandle Creek,' said Napoleon." p65: "After ten minutes they heard Napoleon swear loudly and then call out urgently for them to stop. We're going to steal a boat.'" p44: "The great factories and towering flats loomed around the tiny octagonal steeple of St Mary's like idiots surprised by beauty." p44: "Two sailing barges were moored against the river wall which skirted the graveyard." p65: "In the flat wall of the Thames embankment, hidden behind a flotilla of barges, a gap had appeared. 'I'm taking you to the lake in Battersea Park. They were making for an empty house standing opposite the end of Trott Street." p22: "'Yes,' concluded Knocker as he turned into Rowena Crescent, Spiff had come up with a good idea, but then Spiff was as sharp as a cut-throat razor." p36: "Knocker walked over to where the Eight were waiting, propped up on their elbows, their interest aroused by the discussion. They saw no one and no one saw them, it being well into the early hours of the morning. went through Battersea Church Road, by St Mary's down by the river, and then into the High Street. Rachel Holdsworth London Literary Locations: The Borribles p7: "Knocker and Lightfinger. 5/24/2023 0 Comments Bridge of souls city of ghosts 3It was just as fun as the others and of course in Victoria Schwab's dark style. How can we know what really happened if we weren’t there? We are, all of us, speculating…” In this city full of tours and tombs, raucous music and all kinds of magic, Cass could get lost in all the legends, but soemhow she manages to attract a foe more dangerous than anything she's faced before: a servant of Death itself. Now she is in New Orleans, a city which wears all of its hauntings on its sleeve. I still really liekd it, but it just wasn't as strong as the other two.Ĭassidy Blake has been to Edinburgh and Paris now and had two unfortunate encounters in both. This is probably my least favourite in the Cassidy Blake series. “Fear is a perfectly rational response, the body’s way of telling you not to do something.” 5/24/2023 0 Comments Chely wright memoirI mean, we all want to be Emmylou Harris or Loretta Lynn, don’t we?” I want to be an artist that can be 60 years old sitting on stage at the Ford Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame telling stories and singing songs that would be appropriate for a 60-year-old woman. “I had somebody ask me, ‘Why don’t you just go pop?'” Wright tells Rolling Stone Country. While the material on I Am the Rain finds her opening and exploring a new musical chapter, one that is certainly closer to the all-encompassing Americana format than contemporary mainstream country, the Kansas-born singer continues to adhere to the assertion that she is, at heart, a country artist. She and her family currently reside in New York City. Wright, who also chronicled her coming-out in the award-winning Wish Me Away documentary, married Lauren Blitzer in 2011 (before same-sex marriage was legal across the entire U.S.) and gave birth to the couple’s twin sons in 2013. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Rough Surrender by Cari SilverwoodIf you have to tell readers about it in a nutshell? Iron Dominance is book one of the series. One thing I will mention is that I added in the frankenstructs, who are human clones stitched together from many pieces. You’ll have to read the stories to get the details. I made Asia into the Greater Asian Monarchy and I turned the US and part of Europe into The Pan-continental Mexican Empire. I went for continental drift, where the continents are much closer. I think restricting your steampunk to merely Victorian England is no longer necessary with steampunk. I guess the one thing I kept in mind was, this is fantasy, and so I set out to create something that was not actually Victorian and yet that still had nuances of it. Welcome, Cari! Tell us more about the setting in your Steamwork Chronicles. Her Steamwork Chronicles take place in a world of her own devising, and she's here today to answer a few questions. We go back many years, to writers' groups where we were both members, and now we're at the stage of our careers where I've edited her novel, Rough Surrender, and I've proofread numerous other works. Cari Silverwood needs little introduction here on my blog. His writing has been celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, having attracted a number of prestigious awards, and his international renown is clearly on the ascendancy as his works find their way into ever more translations. Neuman has written nearly 20 distinct works, including four novels, nine books of poetry (a tenth compiles them), four short story collections, a book of essays, and a book of aphorisms (in addition to his translations of German poet Wilhelm Müller). Its author, Andrés Neuman, is a young Argentinian writer, born in 1977, whose relative youth is belied by a remarkably prodigious literary output. Traveler of the Century is an exquisite, dazzling work of fiction. |
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