![]() ![]() Doctor Faustus is the masterwork of a writer who embodied German culture in the first half of the 20th century and a dauntingly complex novel whose execution is a testament to the author’s ability, both with words and ideas. With a plot that spans forty years and involves scores of characters, the work explores far more than the socio-political conditions leading up to World War II. ![]() Mann’s use of the Faust legend-the archetypal German literary symbol of pride, power, and progress-explores the relationship between the nation’s ideals and its position in history around 1945: did the development of German culture and tradition across the previous five hundred years necessitate the rise of the Third Reich and the nation’s own doom? Mann considered the book to be on par with Joyce’s Ulysses, with respect to its depth and richness, as well as its ability to redefine the genre of the novel itself. ![]() Built from layer upon layer of detail, the book is both a critique of modern bourgeois life in Germany and an allegory for the rise of the Nazi party. Thomas Mann’s final novel, Doctor Faustus: The Life of the German Composer Adrian Leverkühn, as Told by A Friend (1947), is a magnum opus as complex as it is symbolic. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Animalia, like many of Base’s books, is a vast puzzle, built with color and filled with creatures. Graeme Base’s work offers a color-packed palette and imagination-filled menagerie that has changed the way that children’s books are illustrated.
![]() ![]() When it came to the time of antiquity, the Romans had a creative solution for just that situation. ![]() Ever heard of hoards? These massive buried piles of treasure are just brimming with ancient age wealth, and when you think of securing wealth in the olden days you think of chests buried by pirates. This time, we wanted to go even further back – to ancient Rome! That’s right, even those most ancient of civilizations from thousands of years back had their own versions of a burglar security system! Secure and fashionable, these are Roman puzzle rings!Įver since mankind has had valuables, they have sought to protect those valuables from would-be thieves! Whether it started as a sack, a hole dug in the earth, or a simple wooden box, people have hidden their valuables. Welcome back to another entry here on the Central Alarm blog! We started off 2018 by getting back to basics and addressing how to get your home security set up. ![]() ![]() To find back this feeling of freedom and bliss he had in high school. For no destination in particular, but he has one goal in mind. His wife Janice is an alcoholic that frequently drinks while pregnant of their second child and one day Rabbit freaks out and leaves. He was a basket-ball star in high school and eight years after graduation day, he still can't adjust to the reality of working class. Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom is twenty-six years old and he's having a hard time. To understand the novel, you have to understand the character. ![]() ![]() Well, surprise surprise, Rabbit, Run is not perfect, but it's a gutsy novel that has the courage to dig deep where everybody always simplifies. I started reading Rabbit, Run with a knife between my teeth and the firm intention to find holes in the multiple prize winning author's game. Fellow writers will agree that total contentment is the beginning of the end. To me, a writer that smiles all the goddamn time is a writer who's very content about his body of work. I had this pre-reading beef with John Updike. ![]() ![]() To reveal how a new pandemic might develop, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera’s dramatic journey, from its emergence in the South Asian hinterlands as a harmless microbe to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world, all the way to its latest beachhead in Haiti. In Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond, the prizewinning journalist Sonia Shah-whose book on malaria, The Fever, was called a “tour-de-force history” ( The New York Times) and “revelatory” ( The New Republic)-interweaves history, original reportage, and personal narrative to explore the origins of contagions, drawing parallels between cholera, one of history’s most deadly and disruptive pandemic-causing pathogens, and the new diseases that stalk humankind today. While we can’t know which pathogen will cause the next pandemic, by unraveling the story of how pathogens have caused pandemics in the past, we can make predictions about the future. It could be Ebola, avian flu, a drug-resistant superbug, or something completely new. Ninety percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. ![]() ![]() Over the past fifty years, more than three hundred infectious diseases have either newly emerged or reemerged, appearing in territories where they’ve never been seen before. ![]() Scientists agree that a pathogen is likely to cause a global pandemic in the near future. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time they reached safety it was too late. Still in mortal fear of being shot at as they paddled away, they watched helplessly as their father bled to death in front of their eyes. His sons barely managed to drag him away as fast as they could to their small boat and row him to a small fishing port at Tubahin. The two boys frantically dragged their father into the shelter of nearby aroma bushes-the large hard thorns were piercing and painful, but their terror was worse.īleeding heavily, Emelio couldn’t move. Another shot struck his young son Diony in the leg. The first bullet shattered Emelio’s upper thigh. After a morning of hard work, Emelio sat down for a lunch break and was drinking a cup of coffee. It was March 8, 1961-the day before his 53rd birthday. Hero Soldier or Serial Killer? A New Documentary Reveals the Murderous Crimes of Hiroo Onoda CloseĮmelio Viaña went out to farm sweet potatoes with his two sons, Protacio and Diony, both in their early teens, at their farm near Yapusan on the western side of Lubang Island in the Philippines. ![]() ![]() This is for Editor Christa-my partner in this book-thank you for encouraging me and helping me to tell more of Chris, Kassidy and Dag’s story. …I love Kelly Jamieson’s books and the way that she depicts her characters… Jamieson once again gives the reader a richly detailed story that is brimming over with sexual tension, intoxicating desires and intriguing carnal needs that is edgy and psychologically intense… Kelly Jamieson now has a permanent place on my keeper shelf and I can’t wait to see what she writes next. Seductive and bewitching from the very start… Softly romantic and wickedly provocative ~ Carly Phillips, New York Times Bestselling Author Kelly Jamieson delivers a blazing passionate read that tugs at the heartstrings! ![]() ![]() No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental. ![]() The names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the writer’s imagination or have been used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. ![]() ![]() I found her without a lack of gumption and thought the budding romance scheme was laid out quite nicely. Iolanthe was an enjoyable character as well. That having been said, I am a very big fan of Thomas McKinnon. His determination and successes in all areas of his life spoke clearly enough throughout the book without having been listed in his introduction. I immediately found his humor charming, but was unable to really enjoy him with the resume of achievements we first had to wade through. Kurland's need to impress upon the reader how purposeful and successful Thomas McKinnon's character was did not serve her well in the beginning. I found this book in a used book store, and though I was not expecting much based on the cover, found myself buying it anyway. The saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover" rings true for me yet again. ![]() ![]() Erland tells her that she is the missing princess and that Levena is her Aunt, meaning Cinder is the true Queen of Luna. Levana exposes her being cyborg & Lunar, and orders Kai to imprison her. As the prince & mechanic grow closer, reality sets in. One day, crown Prince Kaito, brought his android, Nainsi, for her to fix, and while he tried to make light of the subject, it became apparent that it was a serious matter. Her unique makeup, combined with her adoptive father's invention, allowed her to become the best mechanic in New Beijing at the tender age of sixteen. She lives with her adoptive mother, Adri, and two stepsisters, Pearl & Peony, the latter of the two dying of Letumosis. The series revolves around Cinder, a lunar cyborg working as a mechanic in New Beijing. In a universe and galaxy filled with various species and man-made creatures, tensions have risen between Earth and it's former colony, the moon, as a deadly virus ravages the planet. ![]() ![]() Each of the four main books contains a modernized and science fictonal twist on a classic fairy tale, primarily Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel and Snow White. ![]() ![]() is the stuff of, quite literally, legend. ![]() ![]() The 28 days the Lutz family-George, Kathy and her kids Danny, Christopher and Melissa from a previous marriage-spent at 112 Ocean Ave. had killed his parents and four siblings in the house barely a year beforehand-but the couple wanted a nice place to start their life together, so they offered $80,000 and bought the lot, including some old pieces of furniture dappled with visible traces of blood. Well, George and Kathy Lutz knew-23-year-old Ronald DeFeo Jr. ![]() In 1975, a 4,000-square-foot house with a finished basement in a peaceful New York suburb, on a quarter-acre lot boasting a heated pool and its own boat dock, went on the market for $100,000.Ī listing that should have begged only one question: What's the catch? ![]() |