![]() ![]() ![]() Isenberg joins us to discuss her bestselling new book, "White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America." It is, as one critic for The Boston Globe has noted, "an eloquent synthesis of the country's history of class stratification, one that questions whether the United States is indeed a place where all are created equal. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU, writes regularly for, and was formerly on the History faculty here at The University of Tulsa. ![]() (Note: This program originally aired back in August.) On this edition of ST, we speak with the author and historian Nancy Isenberg, who is the T. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Ebershoff has naturally changed some of the characters, giving Einar an American wife from his own native city of Pasadena, thereby introducing a New World perspective on the drama. His book is based on the real-life story of Einar Wegener, a Danish artist who 70 years ago became the first man to be medically transformed into a woman-long before the much better-known case of Christine Jorgensen. That it comes off triumphantly is a tribute to his taste and restraint and to the highly empathetic quality of his imagination. Ebershoff, the publishing director at Modern Library, has taken a highly unusual subject-and a big chance-for his first novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Unmissable.”, “…incredible…”, “…an unstoppable read…”, “…a powerful book…”, and “…an exceptional story.” - Readers’ Favorite (★★★★★) Thais is left to discover what her mother bargained for while lies, deceit, and secrets propel her and all of her people into one epic struggle for survival.Įxperience the rise of tyranny, discover the power of a people amid a sea of lies, deceit, and secrets, and unveil the legacy behind the legend. Seeing no other option to end the pending war, Thais' mother strikes a bargain with their Mother Goddess, trading her life for her daughter's future. Yet the biggest threat to the people of Tiryns is not the soldiers on the plains but the growing division within the city. ![]() Thais, the Tiryns chieftain's daughter, is caught between her father's wish for peace without bloodshed and the senior councilman's desire to wage war. In 1650 BC, King Oceanus, a self-proclaimed lord of the sea, arrives with his soldiers on the shore of Tiryns and begins a struggle for power and dominance. Grab this gripping historical drama, and go back to a time when men became legends and kings became gods. Before the Muses spoke of Medusa, a woman inspired the myth. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Artist's Guide to Sketching by James Gurney. The resulting product of their trip was this 1982 book, The Artist's Guide to Sketching: Yes, that Thomas Kinkade, the notorious "painter of light." That friend was his roommate at UC Berkeley: Thomas Kinkade. In a recent interview with the Norman Rockwell Museum, he describes how his art career began after college, when, inspired by Charles Kuralt and John Steinbeck, he and a friend traveled around the country hopping trains and sketching, "sleeping in graveyards and on rooftops." But his artistic career began riding the rails, sketching gritty scenes from around the country. ![]() Artist James Gurney is best known for the gorgeous, nearly photorealistic illustrations that appear in his Dinotopia books, which imagine a world in which humans and dinosaurs live together. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wants so badly to believe her life is finally getting back on track, but she'll soon discover that the greatest danger to herself and her children are the lies people tell themselves. Nina works hard to bridge the divide that's come between her daughter and Simon. ![]() Nina's teenage son, Connor, embraces Simon as the father he wishes his dad could have been, while her friends see a different side to him, and they aren't afraid to use the word obsession. Simon, a widower still grieving the death of his first wife, thinks he has found his dream girl in Nina, and his charm and affections help break through to a heart hardened by betrayal. Now, a year and a half later, Nina has found love again and hopes she can put her shattered world back together. ![]() But with Glen gone-presumably drowned while fishing on his boat-she couldn't confront him about the affair or find closure to the life he blew apart. Nina Garrity learned the hard way that her missing husband, Glen, had been leading a double life with another woman. He would never betray her like her first husband. ![]() He knows all her favorite foods, music, and movies. The New Husband is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. Is a riveting thriller about the lies we tell ourselves from D. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Colin just saved her family from Jack’s ( Rupert Young) schemes, and he told Penelope that he’d always be there to protect her, even going as far as to say that she’s special to him. The last time we saw Colin and Penelope in Season 2, Colin told a group of men that he wouldn’t dream of courting Penelope Featherington, unbeknownst to the fact that Penelope was eavesdropping. RELATED: 'Bridgerton' Showrunner Explains Why Season 3 Will Follow Colin and Penelope The following will obviously have spoilers from Romancing Mr. Though many of the book scenes are subject to change due to where Season 2 has Colin and Penelope currently, here are the top things fans need to see in Season 3. There are so many things Polin fans are dying to see adapted from Romancing Mr. Though the pivot to them is a surprise to many, fans of Polin (the official portmanteau name of Penelope and Colin) couldn’t be more thrilled. Instead, the third season on Netflix will focus on the third son and third daughter, adapting Quinn's fourth book, Romancing Mr. This move marks a shift from Julia Quinn’s original book series order, hopping over Benedict Bridgerton ( Luke Thompson) and his love story since his book, An Offer From a Gentleman, is technically third in the Bridgerton series. Dearest members of the ton – more Bridgerton romance is on the way! Netflix has announced that the third season of its hit series will center on Colin Bridgerton ( Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington ( Nicola Coughlan). ![]() ![]() ![]() Presented here are all four chapters of Mills essay written in 1861, which ad. Urn:lcp:basicwritingsofj0000mill:lcpdf:c6daeec9-b9da-442b-8b28-c278f75084b4 A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nine-teenth century. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:00:59 Boxid IA40210611 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() *FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY 2021*ĭetermined not to read Plath's work as if her every act, from childhood on, was a harbinger of her tragic fate, Clark presents new materials about Plath's scientist father, her juvenile writings, and her psychiatric treatment, and evokes a culture in transition in the mid-twentieth century, in the shadow of the atom bomb and the Holocaust, as she explores Sylvia's world- her early relationships and determination not to become a conventional woman and wife her conflicted ties to her well-meaning, widowed mother her troubles at the hands of an unenlightened mental-health industry and her Cambridge years and thunderclap meeting with Ted Hughes, a true marriage of minds that would change the course of poetry in English.Ĭlark's clear-eyed sympathy for Hughes, his lover Assia Wevill, and other demonized players in the arena of Plath's suicide promotes a deeper understanding of her final days, with their outpouring of first-rate poems. ![]() The first biography of this great and tragic poet that takes advantage of a wealth of new material, this is an unusually balanced, comprehensive and definitive life of Sylvia Plath. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AND THE TIMES* ![]() *WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED PRIZE 2021* ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because Gentili’s contribution to the law of the sea is ‘strikingly innovative’, significant, and ‘foundational’, it deserves further scrutiny. Such scrutiny is both timely and important, as developments in the law of the sea have shaped world history over the past 500 years. ![]() The chapter explores how Alberico Gentili addressed these key questions contributing to early modern developments of the law of the sea. Is the sea capable of being owned? If so, who owns the sea? Or, does the sea belong to all? Or, if ownership of the seas is materially impossible, can nations exercise some control over activity at sea? For nations and private actors alike (be they merchants and sailors as well as adventurers and pirates), the ocean of law ( oceanus iuris) was no more secure than the forces of nature and men on their maritime routes. As a result, the regulation of the world’s oceans, that is, the main conduit of movement of peoples and transmission of goods and ideas at the time, remained a site of contestation. ![]() In parallel, the existing customs addressed issues of the law of the sea only in a ‘patchy’ way, and the network of doctrinal authorities led to many inconsistencies. Only a few treaties addressed issues of the law of the sea bilaterally and in a fragmentary fashion. In the early modern period, the law of the sea ( ius maris) remained vague, incomplete, and inconsistent to a large extent. ![]() |