This neat trick of viewing the past as concluded was on display again on a recent family holiday to the Republic of Benin. Had Shakespeare, I asked, anticipated how the UK’s history of conquest and dominion would be made manifest each time millions opened their mouths to speak? For educators like me, the challenge, then, is not only the fight to have this history included in our curriculum, but to contextualise for our pupils how it relates to the world today.Ī visualisation of Benin’s Marina Project in Ouidah, which will include a full-scale replica slave ship. Think, I prompted, of Caliban’s curse to his master, Prospero, because he taught him his language : “You taught me language and my profit on ‘t/ Is, I know how to curse: the red plague rid you,/ For learning me your language!” What parallels could we draw between that and Unesco’s prediction that of the 6,000 languages spoken in the world today, half are threatened with extinction? Their biggest predator? English. My response as his teacher was to emphasise that, yes, there is much more to black history than enslavement, but that, still, this bitter history matters to us all. The question revealed a great deal, not least a belief that this history had nothing to do with him. I couldn’t say much of the above to the pupil who, during a lesson on Caliban in Shakespeare’s The Tempest, asked what good Black History Month was, if all that was taught related to slavery.
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Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Thirty years of official nutritional advice has only made us sicker and fatter while ruining countless numbers of meals. Yet the professionalization of eating has failed to make Americans healthier. Both stand to gain much from widespread confusion about what to eat, a question that for most of human history people have been able to answer without expert help. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.īut if real food - the sort of food our great grandmothers would recognize as food - stands in need of defense, from whom does it need defending? From the food industry on one side and nutritional science on the other. In the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion. Many of them come packaged with health claims that should be our first clue they are anything but healthy. Instead of food, we’re consuming “edible foodlike substances” - no longer the products of nature but of food science. So why should anyone need to defend it?īecause most of what we’re consuming today is not food, and how we’re consuming it - in the car, in front of the TV, and increasingly alone - is not really eating. There’s plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. Now the new Duke of Hollinburgh, Nicholas Radnor has two duties to fulfill: locate the mysterious woman mentioned in his late uncle’s will and acquire a suitable bride. The Sins Of Lord Easterbrook, February 2009īy Arrangement/By Possession, October 2005Ī Thrilling Regency Romance with a Dash of Mysteryįans of Bridgerton and Lisa Kelypas will be utterly charmed by this enthralling new love story that resolves the mystery of an eccentric and wealthy Duke bequeathing three seemingly unknown women with shares in his fortune. When the heir to the Duke’s title meets with the charming and stunning last heir to the fortune, will he be able to resist her charms long enough to learn why she was named in the will? The Surrender Of Miss Fairbourne, March 2012 The Conquest Of Lady Cassandra, March 2013 The Most Dangerous Duke in London, June 2017 (Summary by olorou)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. It is the life's work of a very sophisticated, efficient and active man which gives us a deep insight to the occurences of his time and human nature.Īncient text read with contemporary Greek pronunciation. Thucydides' Histories is the history of the first 20 years of the war between Athens and Sparta, which lasted from 431 until 404 B.C., also known as the Peloponnesian War. It tells the tale of great power conflict between the Greek city states of Athens and Sparta in a war that would last almost 30 years. και είναι γνωστός ως Πελοποννησιακός Πόλεμος. Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War is a book that all who seek to understand the influence of war must read. By 2006, with over 58 Million copies of her books have been sold worldwide, with translations appearing in 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world's most popular authors of historical romance. Johanna Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977 "on a whim", and the book was a success. After her husband's death, Johanna moved to Maine, New England, to stay near her family. The marriage had three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who already have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he passed away in 1964 Johanna and her mother settled there to honor him. The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. Herriot sold 60 million books-and stayed right where he was until his death in 1995. His accountant said to him: You’ve written five books for the tax man, and one for yourself.” But he simply didn’t want to leave home. “He was paying tax at 83 percent and 98 percent of investment income. His son James Wight-also a vet-told me that Herriot was one of the only famous British writers who stayed in the 1970s. Herriot never left the Dales, even when it was in his financial interest to do so. “At times,” he wrote, “it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work for driving out in the early morning with the fields glittering under the first pale sunshine and the wisps of mist still hanging on the high tops.” After he arrived in the Dales in 1940 to begin working as a vet, Herriot fell in love with Yorkshire. Herriot’s stories encourage not only nostalgia, but also a subconscious desire for home. The consensus is that amid the frenetic news cycle and the pandemic, Herriot’s hilarious, warm, and touching tales of the people and creatures of another time and place are precisely what the doctor ordered.īut there is more to it than that. Herriot’s books about life as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s have been republished with new covers, and the TV series has received rave reviews (“pastoral perfection,” “a return to simpler times”). Thanks to the new PBS show All Creatures Great and Small, there has been a surge of interest in the books on which the series is based: the stories of Alf Wight, better known by his pen name, James Herriot. "Farrah Rochon writes delectable love stories with characters so warm that I want to hang out with them in real life. This is my new favorite romance series!" - Suzanne Brockmann Couldn't put it down!" -Abby Jimenez, USA Today bestselling author of The Happy Ever After Playlist * Listed as a Best Book of the Year from: NPR, Cosmopolitan, Buzzfeed, Frolic, Insider, BookRiot *Book of the Month selection *LibraryReads selection * O, The Oprah Magazine: Must-Read Black Romance Novels * Cosmopolitan: Best Summer Reads 2020 * Insider : The Best Romance Books of 2020 What are the chances? But is Daniel really boyfriend material or is he maybe just a little too good to be true? "A smart, funny digital-age romance about real women living in the real world. Which is the exact moment she meets the deliciously sexy Daniel Collins at work. No men and no dating. For once Samiah is putting herself first, and that includes finally developing the app she's always dreamed of creating. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone viral online. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. A smart and delightful romantic comedy featuring fabulous female friendships and " a great love story." - Jasmine Guillory, bestselling author of Party of Two Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. He would also be a meticulous proof-reader for Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, and Lawrence Durrell's The Greek Islands. Stephanides would later send Lawrence Durrell medicines for the British Embassy in Cyprus (as noted from correspondence in Spirit of Place: Letters and Essays on Travel" (1969), by Lawrence Durrell). It was around this time, in 1936, that he was introduced to the Durrell family, including Gerald Durrell and Lawrence Durrell, who would remain lifelong friends. He started Corfu field work in 1933, based on directives from Corfiat health authorities, to prepare a report on the principal localities where anti-malarial measures would be necessary. He married Mary Alexander, granddaughter of a former British Consul and of English and Greek parentage, shortly afterwards. He returned to Corfu in 1930 to establish the island's first X-ray unit. He published two works of translated poetry in 19, but pursuing an alternative career path, went to Paris in 1929, to study Medicine. Stephanides served as a gunner in the Greek Army during World War I on the Greek Macedonian front, and again in the War in Asia Minor, 1919-1922 against Turkey. At age 11, after his father's retirement, he went to live in Corfu with his family, learning Greek there. Theodore Stephanides was born in India to Greek parents, hailing from Thessaly. For me, it felt kind of like she realized she hadn't paired Daine up with anyone and since she was trapped all alone with Numair, the two might as well be a couple. Age difference aside, there weren't any hints in the previous books (minus I think one statement where Numair called her pretty when she put on a dress) that their student-teacher relationship would progress further. The final fight between Daine and Ozorne was exciting, but it took a lot of work to get there.I also didn't believe the romance between Daine and Numair. Not exactly what I expected to find in what should be the most powerful and intense book of the series. They come across a trap every now and then and you get little insights into the battle that's occurring in Tortall while they're trapped, but it's still a lot of walking. That means four-fifths of the book is her and Numair walking. The book, like the other three, follows Daine and in this final volume, Daine spends about four-fifths of the book trying to get back to the mortal realm. Will Daine and Numair be able to make it back in time to help King Jonathan drive off Ozorne and his Stormwing legion or will all of Tortall be destroyed in the upcoming battle?As for being the "final battle" of this quartet, The Realms of the Gods was a bit of a letdown. Daine and Numair are sucked into the Divine Realm at the worst possible time: right before Ozorne's forces strike Tortall. I love this book so much that I have also read the written version of it and I have listened to the audiobook, I think, 2.5 times at this point. I was instantly taken aback by how powerful this book is because I have been thinking about how I could break away from overworking and how it might benefit me and others in my life to do more of nothing. It blew me away but I feel like that term does not quite do it justice. I was listening to this audiobook on a cross-country road trip. This is an incredible author who I fell in love with. I believe it was in September 2020 when I started listening to the audiobook version of Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving. Officially, we have been talking about having this guest on our show for a couple of months. It has been at least months in the making. I am absolutely thrilled about this episode. The Do Nothing Revolution: Relief, Happiness, And Overarching Goals With Celeste Headlee It is with great joy that we get to hear more of Celeste’s insights in this conversation with Jason Wrobel and Whitney Lauritsen. Understanding this can help us a lot in achieving relief, happiness, and our overarching goals in life. Celeste Headlee, the author of Do Nothing: How To Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, believes that we have to pulse from social interaction and solitude, that we don’t have to be pressured to show up at all times. |