![]() ![]() She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics-carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts-without having too much guilt about any of it. Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there’s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what’s left. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. ![]()
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![]() I recognize that most women are prepared to go through various controversial situations to ensure that their marriage flowers for the good of their families and to safeguard the reputation of the feminine gender (p.39).Īccording to me, Amin Maalouf further describes his position on women through Jahan, a scholar who writes literary works like poems. According to Kittay (p.39), Shireen’s submission to her husband’s wish shows how the feminine gender is committed to marriage. However, Shireen exercises her role as a woman in marriage and agrees to accompany her husband to the United States. ![]() Shireen has only been married for three weeks but is forced to set for a long voyage despite her reluctance to make the journey. Further, I believe that Samarkand explores the place of women in marriage and their relations with their husbands. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book's unique perspective on the roots, dynamics and shaping force of civil war will be essential to our ongoing struggles with this seemingly interminable problem. And the language of civil war has burgeoned as democratic politics has become more violently fought. The West’s age of civil war may be over, but elsewhere it has exploded – from the Balkans to Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Sri Lanka and, most recently, Syria. From the American Revolution to the Iraq war, pivotal decisions have hung on such shifts of perspective. The theme of David Armitages fascinating book is the impossibility of arriving at a straightforwardly neutral definition of civil war, such as would enable the. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn’t, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining the term is acutely political, for ideas about what makes a war "civil" often depend on whether one is ruler or rebel, victor or vanquished, sufferer or outsider it can also shape a conflict’s outcome, determining whether external powers are involved or stand aside. Publishers Link ABOUT CIVIL WARS We think we know civil war when we see it. ![]() Yet ideas of what it is, and isn't, have a long and contested history. We think we know civil war when we see it. A highly original history of the least understood and most intractable form of organised human aggression, from ancient Rome to our present conflict-ridden world ![]() ![]() The answers are revealed in a climax so stunning that it could only have been written by the author of The Exorcistâ?William Peter Blatty.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) appl … ( more) But more than this, it is an extraordinary journey into the uncharted depths of the human mind and the most agonizing questions of the human condition. Legion is a novel of breathtaking energy and suspense. ![]() ![]() Why does each victim suffer the same dreadful mutilations? Why are two of the victims priests? Is there a connection between these crimes and another series of murders that took place twelve years agoâ?and supposedly ended with the death of the killer? Lieutenant Kinderman follows a bewildering trail that links all these people, confronting a new enigma at every turn even as more murders surface. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a macabre sense of humor and a guilty secret? A mysterious mental patient, locked in silent isolation? ![]() From the author of The Exorcist â? Legion, a classic tale of horror, is back in print!Ī young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Meredyth’s deceitful heart (you’ll understand that reference if you’ve already read the book) convinced her that she couldn’t be forgiven. I could only feel heartbroken over the thought of anyone feeling this way. But I couldn’t be annoyed by this because it made sense. Forgiveness wasn’t an option for her because she didn’t deserve it. One thing that I would have expected to annoy me was how determined Meredyth was that she was bound to Vance and nothing at all could ever change that. It was still very interesting reading how things worked out with her in the end. I love this guy! (I couldn’t help but think how nice it would have been to see things from his perspective sometimes, but the story just wouldn’t have been the same if his pov had been included.) And Wynn… Such a sweetheart! I did figure out the “mystery” surrounding her quite quickly, but that’s okay. And Lawry! May I just say that Lawry is my new favorite hero? Because he is. And the first person pov really enhanced that. And then I cried over the happy ending too! I think my very favorite thing about this book was getting to see Meredyth grow and change the way she did. After all, I knew it was going to end well and happy. □ I thought at first that I would be able to keep from crying over this story. That being said, it’s official: this book is very well written. I have long held the opinion that only a very well written book can bring both sad and happy tears to my eyes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Margaret Hale constantly steps beyond her boundaries as a woman in Victorian England. North and South is all about challenging authority, especially when authority tries to work against compassion and justice. Even right up until the 1930s, critics' main view of Elizabeth Gaskell was that she "makes a creditable effort to overcome her deficiencies but all in vain". But more criticism was directed at the fact that Elizabeth Gaskell (a woman!) dared to write sympathetically about the rights of English workers. Its editor, the super famous Charles Dickens, said the story was way longer than it needed to be. When it was first published in 1854, North and South was met with some pretty harsh criticism. ![]() Because if anyone deserves to be called fierce, it's Elizabeth Gaskell. Let's get back to that "fierce social commentary" part. Three hundred pages, multiple deaths and some fierce social commentary later, they realize that okay, yes they do like-like each other. These seemingly polar opposite scenarios both describe what happens in North and South when Southern (southern England, that is) belle Margaret Hale encounters Northern self-made man John Thornton. An uptight girl meets a working-class boy who's made his fortune, and mayhem (and love) ensues. A younger version of Daddy Warbucks meets the female version of Eugene Debs, and mayhem (and love) ensues. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jordan earned a degree in civil engineering from Georgia Tech. Before long, she was reading Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart romances. She credits her mother with instilling her love of romance novels, as she began reading aloud to her from Pride and Prejudice and The Scarlet Pimpernel when Jordan was ten years old. She graduated from high school in Germany. Her father was in the US Army, so the family moved frequently. Jay Leno pretended to read aloud her novel Touch Me With Fire during a skit on The Tonight Show. ![]() Jordan has won the Dorothy Parker Award of Excellence for best historical. She has been a finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award and a runner-up for RWA's Favorite Book of the Year. Jordan's historical romances have appeared on best-seller lists, including the New York Times, USA Today, Waldenbooks, and. ![]() Nicole Jordan (born Anne Bushyhead in 1954 in Oklahoma) is a best-selling American author of romance novels. For the beauty queen, see Nicole Jordan (Miss Tennessee). ![]() ![]() No wonder his father did not like him and preferred Mirza Jawan Bakht, born to his favourite queen Mumtaz Mahal II. The name was later changed to lal Bibi to give it a better connotation. Abu Zafar, the elder son of Akbar Shah Sani, was born to his concubine, a dancing girl, Kallu Bibi, who as the name suggests, was dark complexioned and probably not a Muslim. However, Amar Farooqui, professor of history at the University of Delhi, has come out with a book, Zafar and the Raj ,that seems to take the cake with its account from pre-1800 to 1862 and after. Contemporary interest in the last Mughal emperor is such that several treatises have been written on him. It might sound like an exaggeration, but is nevertheless not wrong to surmise that Bahadur Shah Zafar has hogged more limelight than even Babar and Humayun, the two founding fathers of the Mughal dynasty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Amar Farooqui, professor of history at the University of Delhi, has left uncovered no aspect of the colourful yet tragic life of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, writes RV Smith ![]() ![]() Looser’s writing on Austen has appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and Entertainment Weekly. Her most recent is The Making of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), which was named a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction). Looser, whose upcoming Penguin Classics Deluxe edition of Sense and Sensibility will be released in November, will talk about Jane Austen’s celebrity and the history of Sense and Sensibility in pop culture, including 19th- and 20th-century print culture, illustrations, dramatizations, and film.ĭevoney Looser is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of seven books on literature by women. ![]() A book signing and reception will follow.ĭr. ![]() in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404). ![]() Devoney Looser, author of The Making of Jane Austen, will give a talk titled “The Afterlife of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility” for the English department’s Dean Family Speaker Series October 23, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. ![]() ![]() ![]() Irene dismisses this idea, as she does not believe that Clare is sufficiently intelligent and sophisticated for a man with Hugh's subtle mind. Irene is still vexed by Clare's consistent presence in her household, and she and Brian turn their talk to the possibility of a romantic linkage between Clare and Hugh Wentworth. Irene falls asleep Brian wakes her in the late afternoon and informs her that the preparations for the tea guests have been completed. After settling in, Irene reflects that Brian has changed in mood and temperament recently: he is more irritable and seems to be in a state of anticipation and secrecy. She spends a morning wandering around Harlem, and then returns home, where she is expecting guests for tea. Although Christmas is nearing, Irene does not feel the high spirits characteristic of the holiday season. ![]() It is now December, and the weather is usually warm. ![]() As "Finale" opens, the action of Passing shifts to later in the same year as the previous station. ![]() |