The Hundred Penny Box received a Newbery Honor Award and is a recipient of the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award and also an American Library Association Notable Children's Book. Her book Ray Charles, a nonfiction biography of Ray Charles, received the Coretta Scott King Award. Mathis has written many books for children and young adults, and has received many accolades in her career. In 1958, she earned a degree in Sociology from Morgan State College and, in 1975, went on to earn a master's in Library Science from the Catholic University of America. Her mother, a poet, encouraged her to write. She started writing at an early age, and her love of reading was fostered by her parents. Mathis was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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The essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts that notion of German cultural exceptionalism which posits a Hellenophile Sonderweg – culminating in the tyranny of Germany over Greece imposed by force of arms under the Third Reich – when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship. This review essay surveys historiographical developments in the literature on German philhellenism which have emerged in the past dozen years (2004–16), drawing on research in German studies, classical philology and reception studies, Modern Greek studies, intellectual history, philosophy, art history, and archaeology. Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than considering the very real, at times reciprocal, at times ambivalent or even brutal, relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.īut her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father’s vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.Īntigone’s parents-Oedipus and Jocasta-are dead. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. Mucking this up would mean Hudson and Wes missing their second chance at happily-forever-afterlife. Throw in a surprise visit from Hudson's niece-who may or may not be on the run from European paranormal police (who may or may not exist)-and guardianship of a teen shifter who might be the key to solving the whole mystery (if only she could recover her memory), and Wes and Hudson have never been busier.or happier.īut when a nightmare from Hudson's past comes back to haunt him, their weird, little found family is pushed to the brink. Now Wes and Hudson must connect the dots between the shifter deaths and an uptick in brutal vampire attacks across the city. So what if their hoity-toity new neighbors haven't exactly rolled out the welcome mat for the paranormal pair? Their PI business is booming, and when a suspect they've been tailing winds up in the morgue, it's alongside a rash of other shifters in apparent drug-related fatalities. Ghost/god Wes Cooper and his not-life partner, vampire Hudson Rojas, have settled into cohabitation in an upscale part of Toronto. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Rose wakes up the next morning to find that Rain has disappeared and wasn’t wearing a collar. On the night of the storm, Wesley lets Rain outside, and the dog doesn’t return. Hatford is in the path of an oncoming hurricane expected to turn inland, and Rose and Wesley hurriedly prepare for storm damage. Rose enjoys taking care of her pet and feeling an emotional connection with Rain. Rose and Rain are inseparable, with Rain providing a calming, stabilizing presence in Rose’s life. Wesley found the dog behind the bar without a collar and assumes that she’s a stray. Rose owns a dog, Rain, that Wesley brought home with him one day. Rose’s uncle Weldon lives in Hatford and is a kind, caring, involved part of Rose’s life. He is impatient and dismissive of Rose’s needs. Wesley works intermittently at a local garage and spends much of his free time in a neighborhood bar. Rose sometimes feels isolated from her peers because of her disability. Rose has been diagnosed with high-functioning autism, which makes learning in a conventional classroom environment difficult. Wesley has always told her that her mother left the two of them when Rose was young, and she doesn’t remember her mother at all. Eleven-year-old Rose Howard lives with her father, Wesley, in the small town of Hatford in upstate New York. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgment of human nature based on science and common sense. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the dogma that the mind has no innate traits-a doctrine held by many intellectuals during the past century-denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-good slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. On second reading, it all looks different. One of the world's leading experts on language and the mind explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. On first reading The Blank Slate in 2002, one felt that a lot of what Pinker said was probably right, or at least common sense. also highly persuasive." -Michael Lemonick, TimeĪ brilliant inquiry into the origins of human nature. Front cover image for The blank slate : the modern denial of human nature. "Sweeping, erudite, sharply argued, and fun to read. slate : the modern denial of human nature. Please consider visiting at least one or two and thanking them personally. Thank you to the following bloggers who are sponsoring this giveaway. It includes a quad-core processor for great performance, a vivid HD display, front and rear-facing cameras, and Dolby Audio PLUS comes with a Kid-Proof Case, and a 2-year worry-free guarantee - if they break it, return it and Amazon replaces it for free. This is a HOT PRODUCT! 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One reason this interview proved so special was that, as French director Olivier Assayas says, to Truffaut this was no peripheral project, it was “an essential part of his body of work,” something he put as much time and preparation into as one of his films. When the peasants attack, he realizes he's already too late, and now he must protect Angelette, whose sharp tongue is far from angelic. But after meeting the raven-haired beauty, he tries to persuade her to leave France with him. On his way out of the country, he stops at the comtesse's house party out of obligation. Hugh Daventry visits France frequently to import wine for the family business. But when danger closes in, will the viscount stand at her side or save himself? Daventry rescues her, and the two are forced to run for their lives. Angelette assumes it's all exaggeration…until her chateau is attacked and her life threatened. When the handsome British lord arrives-two days late-he's full of unnerving tales of unrest and violence in Paris. T he true story of the Scarlet Pimpernel…Īngelette, the recently widowed Comtesse d'Avignon, only invited Viscount Daventry to her country house party as a favor to her sister. |