![]() More compellingly than most biographies, Goldsworthy's exhaustive, lucid, elegantly written life makes its subject the embodiment of his age. The author's vivid portrait of the late Roman Republic that Caesar toppled is correspondingly jaundiced: its politics are about nothing except the personal ambitions of powerful men, and chaos, corruption and violence reign beneath the ritualistic niceties of republican procedure. In this biography, Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of a man who has inspired politicians, military leaders and philanderers throughout history. In his telling, Caesar's massacres and group enslavements, though "utterly ruthless," are considered and pragmatic, not wanton, and the conqueror seems to possess a moderation and magnanimity that sprang from the same idealized self-image that fed his ambition. Caius Julius Caesar remains the most famous Roman - and indeed one of the most famous people - ever to have lived. But he doesn't stint on the nonmartial aspects of Caesar's life-his dandyism, his flagrant womanizing (which didn't stop enemies from gay-baiting him), his supple political genius and the flair for drama and showmanship that cowed mutinous legionaries and courted Rome's restive masses. ![]() ) gives a comprehensive, vigorous account of Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his victories in the civil war that made him master of Rome. ![]() Military historian Goldsworthy ( The Complete Roman Army The man who virtually defined the West's concept of leadership comes alive in this splendid biography. ![]()
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![]() The voices belong to the things in his house - a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. When it comes to towns, Hope, Alabama, becomes the same as Hope, Wyoming, or, for that matter, Hope, Alaska, and in the end, all that remains of our pioneering aspirations are the confused and self-conscious simulacra of relic culture: Ye Olde Curiosities ‘n’ Copie Shoppe, Deadeye Dick’s Saloon and Karaoke Bar-ingenious hybrids and strange global grafts that are the local businessperson’s only chance of survival in economies of scale. The Book of Form and Emptiness Ruth Ozeki 4.06 22,093 ratings3,373 reviews One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. But to a documentarian of American culture, Wal-Mart is a nightmare. The 2022 prize was won by Ruth Ozeki for The Book of Form and Emptiness. There is nothing I like more than to consign a mindless afternoon to those aisles, suspending thought, judgment. She Reads Romance Books is the most popular romance book blog with over 650K+. If there is one single symbol for the demise of regional American culture, it is this superstore prototype, a huge capitalist boot that stomped the moms and pops, like soft, damp worms, to death. Goodreads review published 03/08/19 Ive been intending to read Fitzgerald for some time and Im. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When I returned.I found that all the local businesses from my childhood had been extirpated by Wal-Mart. Everybodys youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. “Main Street is dead, which is no news to the families whose families ran family businesses on Main Street. ![]() ![]() ![]() What made you decide to continue writing about Dana Pierson and Father Giovanni Borelli after introducing them in Lost and Found in Prague? ![]() Q&A with Kelly Jones Bloodline and Wine is your first sequel, and now you’ve added a third book, Angel Boy, to the Dana Pierson series. She is a mother and grandmother and is married to former Idaho Attorney General and retired Supreme Court justice, Jim Jones. An art history class in Florence fueled a love for the history of art, which has become an integral part of her writing. She spent her junior year in Italy at the Gonzaga-in-Florence program and developed a love for travel, a passion she now shares with her husband, Jim. She attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, graduating with a degree in English and an art minor. ![]() Kelly Jones grew up in Twin Falls, Idaho. ![]() ![]() He is studying in the library at the school's Radcliffe campus because it is quieter and, perhaps most importantly, has more girls there. ![]() Now, in his senior year at Harvard, he is heir to his family's fortune and will soon be heading off to Harvard Law School. The movie adaptation, released in December 1970, is still one of the highest grossing films of all time. ![]() The book was released on Valentine's Day that year, and it became the bestselling fiction book of 1970. Segal originally penned the tale as a screenplay that was picked up by Paramount Pictures, but the company requested that he also write a novel adaptation. ![]() Set in contemporary Northeast America, Love Story (1970), a romance novel by Erich Segal, follows the trials and tribulations of a young couple's ill-fated relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wurtzel portrays, from the inside out, an emotional life perpetually spent outrunning the relentless pursuit of what she describes as a black wave, often sacrificing her likability on the altar of her truth."- Vanity Fair "A very important book, particularly to the countless number of people who aren't sure what's wrong with them but are suffering from the negative thinking, erratic behavior, and dark moods associated with clinical depression. ![]() "Wrenching and comical, self-indulgent and self-aware, Prozac Nation possesses the raw candor of Joan Didion's essays, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and the wry, dark humor of a Bob Dylan song."- The New York Times " is smart, she is funny.she is thoughtful and.she is very, very brave. ![]() ![]() Many key leaders were captured and killed and their precious books burned. In fact, there were at least two full-scale government sponsored persecutions intended to exterminate your people. Your people were a despised and illegal group for most of that time. You are selected to tell in detail the story of your people. Suppose you are part of a people whose origins go back to around the 1690’s, almost a century before America was an independent nation. To get an idea of the challenge, picture this. ![]() Think of the incredible task he set out to accomplish! Eusebius is going to cover over 300 years of church history. Then Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea in Israel, saw the importance of preserving the story of the early Christian church for us who would become believers in later generations. ![]() But after that there was no major effort to record the history of the church, at least not one that anyone is aware of, until around the year 325. ![]() He also gave us the book of Acts, an account of the early church during the time of Peter and Paul. Who was the first church historian? Most Christians would immediately say the Gospel writer Luke. ![]() ![]() ![]() But right now, I just couldn’t handle it. When that happens, I’ll come back to it, back to the Starkadders (who comes up with these names? Oh, wait–the English), come back to a bunch of cows with names like Feckless, Graceless, and other -lesses, and swarthy men that make women swoon with all their hairy manliness…. Maybe someday when I’m older, wiser, more mature…and can handle satire rooted in 1930s England. Cold Comfort Farm Paperback Januby Stella Gibbons (Author) 2,227 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle from 1.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 24.99 12 Used from 6.27 13 New from 19.71 Paperback 6.45 18 Used from 2.74 1 New from 9. And she could always write a novel about it. She DOES have a one hundred pounds a year income, for what it’s worth…but living on a farm in the middle of nowhere sounds more interesting. It’s a satire about 19-year old orphan Flora Poste who decides to go live with her distant relatives (or something) instead of getting a job and becoming a productive member of society. As part of this year’s UK Reading Challenge, I tried to read Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. ![]() ![]() Inspired by cutting-edge trauma-informed research on attachment, developmental psychology, and interpersonal neurobiology, The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma provides counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and trauma-sensitive helping professionals with the theoretical background and practical skills they need to help clients transform complex trauma. ![]() NARM helps clients resolve C-PTSD, recover from adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and facilitate post-traumatic growth. ![]() A practical step-by-step guide and follow-up companion to Healing Developmental Trauma-presenting one of the first comprehensive models for addressing complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is an integrated mind-body framework that focuses on relational, attachment, developmental, cultural, and intergenerational trauma. ![]() ![]() ![]() In later centuries, it went through something like Renaissance and Enlightenment as the old armed power became more of a cultural influence in distant backwaters like Eren, the little southern kingdom that kept its ties to empire while northern Caeris vegetated – according to the snooty upper crust in Laon, chief city and seat of the royal court.Įlanna has spent 14 years getting an education and adapting to the south while her parents became vague memories from an unlikely childhood. The setting is a divided country, conquered by an empire that banned and eliminated magic (except for in the wilds of the far north), introduced its own tame gods, then retreated like the contracting Roman Empire. ![]() She was forced from her parents’ side as a five-year-old, when a newly crowned king held a gun to her head and took her into his court as hostage for father’s good behavior, events recalled with both clarity and confusion, in a prologue whose past tense can’t hide the shocking pain. The Waking Land is a fast-paced, mostly present-tense account that expertly immerses us in the early trauma, active mind, and mixed emotions (passion initially suppressed) of Elanna Valtai during the last year of her teens. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re trained biologists and red state stockmen, “former hairdressers, physician’s assistants, chemists, and child psychologists.” But one thing Beaver Believers do seem to share is a certain unabashed fervor: an adherent we meet in Eager, Martinez resident Heidi Perryman, campaigns for the animal tirelessly on social media, maintains what Goldfarb describes as “the world’s largest collection of beaver-themed tchotchkes, knickknacks, and memorabilia” in her home, and founded and organizes the Martinez Beaver Festival every year. “There is no single trait that unites Beaver Believers, besides, of course, the unshakable conviction that our salvation lies in a rodent,” he writes. ![]() Early on in Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, journalist Ben Goldfarb introduces us to a particular sect of animal enthusiasts-cum-environmentalists: Beaver Believers. ![]() |