![]() ![]() Such will indeed be one of the conclusions of the present essay. ![]() Hence should result this consequence that our intellect, in the narrow sense of the word, is intended to secure the perfect fitting of our body to its environment, to represent the relations of external things among themselves-in short, to think matter. ![]() It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the faculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and supple adaptation of the consciousness of living beings to the conditions of existence that are made for them. ![]() The history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already reveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted progress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to man. Cover.jpg angel1.jpg Henri Bergson Creative Evolution Angel2.jpg top10-world.jpg ![]()
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5/30/2023 0 Comments The winter king epix![]() James Buddy Day ( The Lover’s Lane Murders) serves as executive producer and director. Alex Winter entered show business as a child actor with co-starring roles on Broadway in The King & I and Peter Pan and came to prominence in. ![]() With new witnesses and evidence on hand, the shocking story of a town caught in the frenzy of “Satanic Panic” will unfold. ![]() Cult leader Carl Drew was captured and sent to prison for life without parole, but 20 years later, inconsistent evidence continued haunting the lead investigator, throwing the entire case into question. The series chronicles a satanic cult that police alleged was practicing human sacrifice. The series is helmed by producer/writer/director Edward Burns.Īlso on deck is Fall River, a documentary series about a group of brutal murders in 1979 Fall River, Mass. Gibson Station, a dramedy set in 1984, centers on three 20-somethings and best friends who set out to pursue their dreams and leave their stamp in Ronald Reagan’s America. Written by former British actress Lizzie Mickery, the series will follow the 1558 romance between Ned Willard and Margery Fitzgerald, continuing on through half a century of political intrigue and turmoil. ![]() A Column of Fire is based on author Ken Follett’s Elizabethan-era dramatic novel of the same name. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Adam dalgliesh cover her face![]() ![]() ![]() I followed the advice of my rehabilitation therapists: reading a book that I had already read is easier. I felt my cognitive abilities change and suddenly realized that I was reading more. And then I was enrolled in a drug research trial in March. Too many characters to follow, plots that meandered beyond my ability to follow, writing at a higher level than I had reached… It was kind of disappointing to see his new books come out over the years and to know that I would do not read them. After my injury however, with my reading ability fried, I could no longer read any of his books. Before the injury, I read each of his books and enjoyed them immensely for their good writing and good stories. Goodreads: After my brain injury, PD James became a marker for me in my reading progress.Since then, author James has featured him in more than a dozen other mystery series novels.Adam Dalgliesh’s first appearance was in 1962 in the first book in the series called Cover Her Face.At 42, his first book, Cover Her Face introducing readers to Scotland Yard detective hero Adam Dalgiesh, was published.James published Cover Her Face, his first murder mystery starring Chief Detective Inspector Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard. At the time, Agatha Christie was still the dominant voice in the field, selling millions of mysteries each year and releasing new novels on an annual basis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaney plays Quasimodo, the horribly misshapen, deaf and half blind bell-ringer at Notre Dame, nominally raised by Don Claudio (Nigel De Brulier), the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. ![]() This adaptation largely hews to the narrative of Victor Hugo's novel. ![]() It made him one of Hollywood's biggest screen stars. The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1923 was his first major production, a lavish period drama based on a classic novel and created at a cost of over $1 million by Universal, at the time a second-tier studio with ambitions to compete with the majors in the blockbuster realm. In an industry that celebrates physical beauty and charisma, Chaney won over audiences by playing characters that looked or acted like monster while communicating their inner drives and torments with his eyes and his face and his body language. In some ways, you could see him as the De Niro of the silent era, sinking himself into each role so deeply he loses himself in it, at least as far as the viewer in concerned. Talented and ambitious, he fearlessly took on roles of tortured victims, twisted villains, and misshapen outcasts, parts that he brought to life with a mix of elaborate make-up, physically demanding incarnations, and emotionally intense performances. ![]() Lon Chaney was the most unlikely of Hollywood superstar actors. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder![]() ![]() He has held fellowships in Paris, Vienna, and Warsaw, and an Academy Scholarship at Harvard. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1997, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. Timothy Snyder is Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. Twenty Lessons is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience.” As he writes, “Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism and communism. ![]() With Twenty Lessons, Snyder draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. In his books Bloodlands and Black Earth, he has carefully dissected the events and values that enabled the rise of Hitler and Stalin and the execution of their catastrophic policies. Timothy Snyder is one of the most celebrated historians of the Holocaust. ![]() Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates in history had swept the electoral college, elevating a man with open contempt for democratic norms and institutions to the height of power. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments The calculating stars series![]() ![]() ![]() That’s the thrilling setup for Mary Robinette Kowal’s Hugo- and Nebula-nominated novel The Calculating Stars. When Elma York finishes her calculations and shares them with her rocket scientist husband Nathaniel, he sums up the situation rather neatly: “We have to get off this fucking planet.” Most people urge the fledgling space program to focus on satellites meant to detect and possibly stop future meteors, but a meteorologist and a brilliant mathematician work together to understand the lasting impact the strike is likely to have on Earth. ![]() ![]() and devastates the rest of the East Coast of the United States. In an alternate version of 1952, a meteorite hits the Atlantic Ocean and triggers a tidal wave and earthquake that annihilates Washington, D.C. A book club where we let you know what we’re going to be reviewing so you can join the conversation? Reviews of brand new releases? Analysis of books that have been or will be adapted for the screen? Let us know in the comments! We want to hear from you about what you’d be interested in when it comes to book coverage. There’s so much genre fiction released every year that we’re not sure how to cover it. ![]() ![]() ![]() I flop onto my bed with a book, an Eileen Chang novel I found by chance at the library. ![]() Isn’t today supposed to be a big deal for you? Kim thinks this is a horrible way to live. I read once that a lot of important people have a uniform to save their mental energy for things that actually matter, so I’ve started doing it, too. In fact, this is basically how I dress every day. To be fair, what I’m wearing is a big polyester sweater the exact grey of parking-lot asphalt, and it isn’t anybody’s idea of a good look. I push up my sleeves and they fall right back down again. That’s what you’re wearing? She points her mascara wand at me, the disbelief thick enough to flake off. I share a bedroom with my older sister, Kim, which wouldn’t be a problem except she has this habit of making a face whenever I walk in. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments There there book![]() ![]() They usually end up with the protagonist returning to reservation to reclaim their indigeneity and get back to their roots. ![]() Some are set in the city, but end up being a cautionary tale of what happens when you step away from your community. Many stories use the reservation as the center of Native community and culture. However, while I loved reading stories by Native authors, I didn’t see myself reflected in them. (I was and still am disheartened by the allegations of sexual harassment against Sherman Alexie). That movie, and the short story collection it was based on, opened up a new world for me of Native stories authored by Native People. This changed for me when I saw Smoke Signals and read The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. I grew up without a connection to a Native community and so a lot of my references of Native Americans – aside from my mother, aunt, and uncle – came from the media, which usually does a poor job of representing Natives. ![]() Books were a way to explore my identity and learn about Native people. I’ve read a lot of books by Native authors. ![]() I read There There when it came out two summers ago. This week MSA is collaborating with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research and the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and the American Indian Center of Chicago to host author Tommy Orange, who will discuss his book There There. ![]() ![]() Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, “is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.” And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, “lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town her weakling husband and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. The novel’s characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai’s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Lszl Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai’s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. The Hungarian master’s first work to appear in English, and still one of the best The Melancholy of Resistance by ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Ivy and bean the book![]() ![]() But, after stealing her sister’s money, then trying to trip and scare her, Bean decides to run away instead of facing consequences. She talks very rudely to her mother, she does not respect the neighbors, and she is especially mean to her older sister Nancy.īean comes across as a saucy, pranking, pestering, rude little girl, and that is not a good example for children.Īt first Bean does not even want to meet Ivy because she looks too nice, she looks like a good girl, who behaves herself. Here’s how it got differentīean, whose real name is Bernice, is, well to put it nicely, a brat. However, though it started out very similar, both girls live on the same street, they see each other, but don’t meet right away, it quickly got very different. I thought it might be a little like Betsy-Tacy ,which by the way I really enjoyed. It was supposed to be a story about this little girl, named Bean who meets another girl named and Ivy, and they become fast friends. ![]() I remember having read the book before, when I was much younger, but I couldn’t seem to remember what it was about, if it was good or bad, I just knew I’d read it before. I recently read Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows. ![]() |
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