![]() ![]() ![]() Four years earlier, in 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, had commissioned the renowned architect to design a new home for them. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. "I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. "Truly artful fiction."- The New York Times "A fascinating love story."- San Francisco Chronicle ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The House of Lincoln, an "enthralling" novel that brings "the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pirates challenged and subverted prevailing conventions of race, class, gender, and nationality, posing a radical democratic challenge to the society they left behind. This unprecedented social and cultural history proves that the real lives of this motley crew - which included cross-dressing women, people of color, and the "outcasts of all nations" - are far more compelling than contemporary myth. At their best, pirates constructed their own distinctive egalitarian society, electing officers, dividing their booty equitably, and maintaining a multinational social order. This novel exploration shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. Award-winning historian Marcus Rediker focuses on the high-seas drama of 1716-1726, which featured the dreaded black flag, the Jolly Roger swashbuckling figures such as Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard and the unnamed pegleg pirate who was likely Robert Louis Stevenson's model for Long John Silver in Treasure Island. ![]() Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. ![]() ![]() There is evidence that artificial fever works as an immune system stimulant by increasing the number of white blood cells in the body.Malignant cells are selectively destroyed at temperatures of 106 to 110 degrees F, so the frequent fever attacks of people in the malaria-infected area may have mobilized the body’s own defenses too frequently for cancer to take hold. After a generation, the cancer incidence level of that area had reached the level of the rest of Italy. However, during the next decades, that area, which had before been almost free of cancer, saw an increase in cancerous diseases. ![]() The swamps were dried out, and the malaria disappeared. Paavo Airola in his book, Worldwide Secrets of Staying Young related the story of the Pontine swamps near Rome in Italy, which, until a few decades ago, were a breeding ground for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. ![]() There is evidence that the frequent fevers of malaria might function as a cancer-protecting factor. ![]() ![]() Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives. ![]() ![]() ![]() The process was fine, but the finished product was always ugly. This was the saddest moment of the chase, the silent wait for the apologetic parents or the angry spouse or the law. ![]() “Whenever I found anybody, I always suspected that I deserved more than money in payment. His thoughts upon locating his quarry are worth repeating in full. He tracks Traheane for weeks down endless stretches of black top and numerous dead end bars, almost entering a dream like state, before finally finding him. The Last Good Kiss starts off with CW Sughrue being paid to search for an alcoholic, larger than life, Norman Mailer-type writer called Abraham Traheane. ![]() I was determined to mark the most memorable passages but gave up by page 30. ![]() The story is a terrific piece of distilled hard-boiled noir, and Crumley is such a fine writer. It’s certainly the best one I can remember reading, and I’ve read a lot. Second, it may very well be the best piece of private investigator fiction written. Whatever the case, I came away from the book thinking two things.įirstly, it probably has the greatest opening line of any book I’ve ever read. It was maybe my third or fourth time, I’m not sure. I recently re-read James Crumley’s The Last Good Kiss. “When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside Sonoma California, drinking the heart out of a fine spring afternoon.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation."-Dust jacket. Simpson makes clear that the resistance's goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around refusing the dispossession of Indigenous bodies and land. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. ![]() Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and This Changes Everything. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. ![]() ![]() "Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. A dazzlingly original thinker and an irresistible stylist, Simpson has gifted us with a field guide not to mere political resistance but to deep and holistic transformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() It doesn’t hurt that Cardan Greenbriar, the “cruel” prince of Elfhame, falls in love with her. She outsmarts political foes that are centuries older, becomes a skilled and masterful swordswoman and, eventually, finds herself on the throne. Throughout the trilogy, Jude grows from a stubborn human girl with a thirst to prove herself, to one of the most powerful beings in Elfhame. ![]() In this realm, she must learn to survive as a non-magical creature with her twin sister, Taryn, and her half-fey half-sister, Vivi. ![]() After losing her parents as a child, Jude is forced to live in the kingdom of Elfhame with Madoc, the fey that murdered her parents. The “Folk of the Air” series is a fantasy YA trilogy that centers on the life of Jude Duarte and her trials of existing as a human in the High Court of Faerie. The “Folk of the Air” trilogy by Holly Black, however, has given me a fresh new reason to spend my money through the spectacular reviews for “The Cruel Prince,” “The Wicked King” and “The Queen of Nothing.” Spoiler Warning Now, people have to wrestle me into a bookstore since I fear blowing my paycheck. When I was a tween, there was nary a time when you would find me without a book. ![]() Unfortunately, purchasing books has become a part of this category - especially sad for an avid book lover like myself. As a broke college student, I can’t always splurge on luxuries, like getting my nails done or buying two-ply toilet paper. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel has retained its power to shock, disturb, and move readers today. This novel by award-winning author Marian Engel works within the logic of a fever dream as the young woman comes to an even greater, and unexpected, understanding of herself.īear was first published in 1976 and won the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language fiction. She sinks her fingers into the bear's fur-and soon realizes her darkest desire is for this large, powerful animal to be her lover.īut there's more to the story than the price to be paid for forbidden passion. ![]() Fascinated, Lou brings the bear into the house and slowly gains the animal's trust. In a cabin on the island, she discovers the colonel had a secret as well. Lou, a shy and secretive young librarian is called to a remote Canadian island to inventory the estate of the recently deceased Colonel Cary. But as summer blossoms across the island and Lou shakes off the city, she realises the bear. "A quietly sensual, feminist story."- The New Yorker She soon begins to anticipate the bears needs for food and company. This is the story of a 27-year-old, lonely, woman who, alone on an island, who discovers an obsessive passion-one that breaks an ancient taboo and that could very well become deadly. ![]() ![]() ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse ![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her grip on the all-important details of her life a life that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned? And if so, why does it seem like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is Doug of all people suddenly acting as if something significant happened between the two of "them"? Zoey dimly remembers Doug pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to admit how much is a blank to her. Feeling like her life is about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail to make sure she s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon.īut then Zoey is in a car crash, and the next day there s one thing she can t remember at all the entire night before. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. Like Zoey s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom s nervous breakdown. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four- year old girlfriend. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Read moreĪnne Gracie spent her childhood and youth on the move, thanks to her father's job, which took them around the world. But Rose never did follow the rules, and as she takes matters into her own unpredictable hands, Thomas finds himself in an unexpected and infuriating predicament: he's falling in love with his wife. Thought to have died four years ago he's returned, a cold, hard stranger with one driving purpose-revenge.Įmbittered by betrayal and hungry for vengeance, Thomas will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place, even if that means using Rose-and her fortune-to do it. There's just one problem: the fierce-looking man who crashes her wedding to the Duke of Everingham - Thomas Beresford, the young naval officer she fell in love with and secretly married when she was still a schoolgirl. Lady Rose Rutherford-rebel, heiress, and exasperated target of the town's hungry bachelors-has a plan to gain the freedom she so desperately desires: she will enter into a marriage of convenience with the biggest prize on the London marriage mart. A rugged and ruined naval officer comes to claim his bride in an unforgettable tale of love, revenge and redemption from the national bestselling author of Marry in Scandal.Ī rugged and ruined naval officer comes to claim his bride in an unforgettable tale of love, revenge and redemption from the national bestselling author of Marry in Scandal. ![]() |