6/12/2023 0 Comments John steinbeck travels![]() ![]() The Canadians warn him about the US requirement for a certificate that Charley has had his rabies vaccination, so Steinbeck turns back only to be detained by the US Customs officer. After a disturbing encounter with an empty restaurant, Steinbeck attempts to cross the border into Canada. He shares a bottle of fine cognac with the workers who appreciate the gift very much due to their French ancestry. There he meets a clan of Canadian migrant workers who help with the potato harvest. His route takes him through Vermont, where he discusses politics with a farmer, and up to the northernmost part of Maine. His purpose is to learn something about the vast United States and write a book about his experiences. ![]() He drives a brand new three-quarter ton pickup camper truck and travels with his dog Charley. ![]() 27, 1902 - December 20, 1968) embarks on a journey to discover America in the fall of 1960. ![]()
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6/12/2023 0 Comments Aristotle on democracy![]() This means that whomever is in office, and all have equal access to office because of democracy’s concept of equality, may not act in the best interests of the State and its citizens.Īristotle famously said: ‘When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the State soon comes to an end’. ![]() He believed a democracy is a failure where the majority is poor and non-virtuous. He believed that someone who is virtuous in ruling a democracy, must be able to put the common good above their own individual good. In discussions about ancient Greek democracy, the most often referenced text is the Politics of Aristotle. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa, and he created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India He was born in Pella in 356 BC and succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of twenty. He studied there for twenty years and later became tutor to Alexander who would become Alexander the Great, master of the Persian Empire.Īlexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher (384 BC – 322 BC) who had, at the age of seventeen, joined Plato’s Academy in Athens. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Time of wonder mccloskey![]() OL4638373W Page_number_confidence 76.39 Pages 74 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200319063521 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 105 Scandate 20200313042422 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 3. Teacher Andrew reads a sweet, slow, and beautiful book from 1957, 'Time of Wonder' by Robert McCloskey. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:03:34 Associated-names Viking Press, publisher Livermore & Knight Co., lithographer Boxid IA1795618 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Sphinx by anne garréta![]() ![]() Sphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for the first time. Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.Ī beautiful and complex love story between two characters, the narrator, I, and their lover, A***, written without using any gender markers to refer to the main characters, Sphinx is a remarkable linguistic feat and paragon of experimental literature that has never been accomplished before or since in the strictly-gendered French language. ![]() ![]() One of Bookriot's 100 Must-Read Books Translated From French Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garreta, one of the few female. Sphinx is the debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the inventive French author Anne Garrta, one of the few. One of Entropy Magazine's Best Fiction Books of 2015 Nominated for the 2016 PEN Translation Prize ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The swamp charles addams![]() ![]() Through this initiative, Penn Medicine has been awarded five grants totaling more than $22 million to apply scientific solutions to reverse the national opioid crisis. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced awards from the Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (NIH HEAL Initiative), which was launched in April 2018 to improve prevention and treatment strategies for opioid misuse and addiction and enhance pain management. Efforts to stem the epidemic have included prescribing fewer painkillers, providing free naloxone trainings across the city, offering recovery programs in emergency departments and launching dedicated research efforts to examine the cause and impact. While data is showing slight declines in overdose deaths, the opioid crisis remains a public health emergency. ![]() The nation has been grappling with the opioid epidemic for years-and the city of Philadelphia has been hit hard by the crisis. ![]() Penn Medicine: $22 Million from NIH HEAL Initiative to Address the National Opioid Crisis ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Small Spaces by Katherine Arden![]() ![]() Small Spaces is the story of Ollie Adler, a sixth grade math whiz and fierce feminist who has withdrawn from her friends and dropped all school activities in the wake of her mother’s death. Perhaps I’ll add a small engraving of a scarecrow to give ghost hunters an extra fright…īut I digress. Such is the wisdom of Katherine Arden’s eerie middle grade novel Small Spaces she doesn’t know it, but she has written the words that will one day go on my tombstone. Wherever you go in this big, gorgeous, hideous world, there is a ghost story waiting for you. Could it be the story about the smiling man is true? There she stumbles upon the graves of the very people she’s been reading about. Ollie is captivated by the tale until her school trip the next day to Smoke Hollow, a local farm with a haunting history all its own. As she begins to read the slender volume, Ollie discovers a chilling story about a girl named Beth, the two brothers who both loved her, and a peculiar deal made with “the smiling man,” a sinister specter who grants your most tightly held wish, but only for the ultimate price. ![]() So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn’t think - she just acts, stealing the book and running away. ![]() After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Revelation space series books![]() r/Nightwind - A Mass Effect role-playing community centered around an Ardat-Yakshi monastery. r/MassEffectPhoenix - A roleplaying community set on the Normandy. r/Indoctrinated - Indoctrination theory discussion. r/masseffectlore - Mass Effect lore discussions! r/MassEffectComics - Mass effect comic strips. r/masseffectfics - All your ME fanfiction needs. r/ShareYourSheps - Show off your custom Commander Shepard! r/ShareYourRyders - Show off your custom Ryders! r/MECoOp/ - Mass Effect's online cooperative multiplayer! Other media of the Mass Effect universe - Exploration of non-game Mass Effect! Mass Effect Wiki - For your random question needs. MEA SPOILER Related Places & Useful Links Which will show up in your post like this:įor game-specific versions: (#s "Femshep is best Shep.") ![]() Spoilers can be posted in the comments using the following formatting: (#s "Femshep is best Shep.") ![]() If you have a question about a removal or the reason for removal, please message the mods via modmail. RulesĪll rules are subject to moderator discretion. ![]() This version of the subreddit is no longer updated or supported. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Brandon taylor new yorker![]() An introverted young man from Alabama, black and queer, he has left behind his family without escaping the long shadows of his childhood. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post , New York Public Library, Vanity Fair, Elle, NPR, The Guardian, The Paris Review, Harper's Bazaar, Financial Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Shondaland, Barnes & Noble, Vulture, Thrillist, Vice, Self, Electric Literature, and Shelf AwarenessĪ novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, from an electric new voice.Īlmost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is working uneasily toward a biochem degree. “A blistering coming of age story” - The Oprah Magazine A FINALIST for the Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the VCU/Cabell First Novelist Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the NYPL Young Lions Award, and the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Autobiography of bb king![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Actual tips on playing blues are scarce sorry, fret-heads, this isn’t an instruction manual.) King’s descriptions of his Delta youth and his early musical growth have a texture and sweetness, and a sense of progress and place, that the rest of his life – spent on a circular track of touring and recording – can’t help but lack. But his wrenching voice found a new audience this year when sampled on the hit single, Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand, by Primitive Radio Gods.īut the first steps in his life are the tallest and the most interesting to follow. ![]() His biggest hit, The Thrill Is Gone, is 27 years old. He collaborates with younger pop acts: blues guitarist Bonnie Raitt, Irish rockers U2. In a folksy voice that sometimes rings false when handled by sideman Ritz, King narrates his climb from sharecropper’s child to street musician to radio deejay to band leader to global superstar and “King of the Blues.”Ī millionaire several times over, he travels the world with his orchestra and his famous guitar, “Lucille,” playing more than 200 concerts a year. “This is a blues story,” the author says up front. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Desert Soliloquy by David Rice![]() ![]() ![]() At times my humor isĬerebral, and at other times it's that of a troglodyte: I have found that this engages readers and leaves them with the sense that they are on an exhilarating ride as they read. I believe it has excellent potential for a successful commercial publication and would recommend it to an agent on that basis." My "voice"Īs a writer is entertaining, uncommon in the current non-fiction market, and informative I treat the reader as an adult, and assume they are above average in intelligence. It is a cynical, fabulous, outrageous, politically incorrect,įoul-mouthed and absolutely hilarious modern-day Walden. Theīest-selling author Douglas Preston wrote about my manuscript, "I have read DESERTPHILE by David Rice and I couldn't put it down. People who passed through the East Mojave, and I have included the most interesting historical events (such as the "last great gun fight" in the USA Southwest) in an easy, humorous narrative. I performed several decades of original research on the region and the historical ![]() How I interacted with theĭesert and the people I encountered while living in "my" cave is the theme that binds the manuscript together. Learn more about precise location detection Showing : Public Libraries K-12 Schools Sorry, no libraries found. OverDrive: ebooks, audiobooks, and more for libraries and schools « Back to Desert Soliloquy Find a Digital Library with Desert Soliloquy near you."Desert Soliloquy A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert" is like combining Walden with Blazing Saddles with a bit of history about the East Mojave Desert. Desert Soliloquy by David Rice is available in these libraries ![]() |