![]() She teaches workshops that reflect her scholarship in Buddhism, depth psychology, spirituality, and creative writing. Kushner’s widely regarded writings on the divine feminine, creativity, and intergenerational trauma are published in anthologies and collected works. Her novel, The Conditions of Love, published by Grand Central, was nominated for the Texas Library Association Award for Outstanding Adult Fiction. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant and has been honored by fellowships to the Wurlitzer Foundation, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute. Her study of Jungian psychology informs Transcending the Past her popular monthly online column for Psychology Today. Dale M. Kushner is a poet, essayist, and novelist deeply engaged at the intersection of personal and historic trauma and views the search for spirit as foundational to the creative process. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Even if they cost her everything, all over again. Feelings that would have been impossible once and may be impossible still, but which Viola cannot deny. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become.Īs Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself, fresh desires give new names to old feelings. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. I loved A Lady for a Duke, it’s a must-read for historical romance fans looking for a new take on Regency friends-to-lovers. ![]() Many of the book’s themes are around friendship–loving a friend but hiding parts of yourself, learning to connect with other women, and the perils of competitive friendships. ![]() Trust me, it’s worth the $3! Shana just reviewed this one and gave it a Squee grade: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal. ![]() ![]() It appeared at and is reprinted here with the permission of the author and Jadaliyya.įATEMA MERNISSI, WRITER, professor, sociologist and a central figure of Arab feminism, passed away at the age of 75 on Monday, 30 November, in Rabat, Morocco. This tribute is to Fatema Mernissi: mentor, insightful teacher, organic intellectual, incisive feminist, powerful voice, charismatic presence, craftswoman, generous host, and friend. Zakia Salime is associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. The Contested Haymarket Affair: 130 Years Later.American Literature and the First World War.An Introduction to the Life of James Connolly. ![]()
![]() Thank you General Seidule for signing our books. Part history, part memoir, part demythologization, and part polemic, Robert E. He is one of of our most respected authors of military history. TY SEIDULE (pictured below from our Wall of Fame) commanded a cavalry unit of the 82nd Airborne Division in the Gulf War, and is a presidential advisor to the World War Two Museum in New Orleans. Martin's Press, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers. It is a new, unread hardback opened only for signing and comes with a certificate authenticating the signature. European Journal of American Studies, suppl. THIS COPY will be hand signed by General Ty Seidule on the title page at the store. Lee and Me: A Southerners Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause. Pulitzer Prize historians Rick Atkinson, Ron Chernow, and James McPherson, as well as General David Petraeus praise this book and all agree it presents the truth, and should be required reading. ![]() Lee, a fact that would later play a prominent role in his academic career. ![]() citation needed He was raised just blocks away from the home of Confederate States Army commander Robert E. Today, as a retired the Brigadeer General, and former head of the History Department at West Point, his studies of the Lost Cause have given him an honest evaluation that he shares with readers. Ty Seidule was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on July 3, 1962. Lee throughout his youth and early military service. ![]() LEE AND ME: A SOUTHERNER'S RECKONING WITH THE MYTH OF THE LOST CAUSE is the definitive, plain-words truth about one of the most important subjects in our nation - told by the best crendentialed living American. ![]() ![]() ![]() These “lessons” appear in The Story however, there they appear as commentary lightly interspersed within the overall mass of the eleven volumes. ![]() Perhaps this is to be expected from people making judgments on the human condition. They are clearly historians in The Story, taking the view, in Will Durant’s words, that “the real history of man is…in the lasting contributions made by geniuses to the sum of human civilization and culture.” In The Lessons, they are advocates, learning from history but also using history to buttress their philosophical positions. One sees the same authors in both, but their attitude is different in The Lessons. This provides a different perspective on the book than one would get reading the Durants for the first time. I come to The Lessons of History later in life, having read The Story of Civilization three times. It is a short book, less than 100 pages, in which they comment on lessons they have learned from history as it pertains to the earth, biology, race, character, morals, religion, economics, government, and war. ![]() Having completed the 10 th volume of The Story of Civilization (with The Age of Napoleon yet to come), Will and Ariel Durant took time to reflect in The Lessons of History. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, in a single fraction of a moment, gravity and all the other forces that govern physics were produced. This was the Big Bang, the moment when everything began, including space and time. ![]() One not-so-very special day about 13.7 billion years ago, for some mysterious reason, the singularity, figuratively speaking, just exploded. Yet, it contained within itself all the energy and space-time of the known universe. The initial singularity was so compact it practically had no dimensions. ![]() Scientists nowadays refer to this spot as a singularity. Next, you’ll need to gather up everything there is in our universe and squeeze it into that tiniest of spots. And yet, if you want to understand how our universe began, you’ll need to shrink one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size. There are more protons in the dot of an “i” than there are seconds in half a million years. In case the title itself isn’t a giveaway, “A Short History of Nearly Everything” is a book about “how we went from there being nothing at all to there being something, and then how a little of that something turned into us, and also what happened in between and since.” That’s a lot of ground to cover, so get ready for the intellectual odyssey of a lifetime! Lost in the cosmos ![]() ![]() ![]() This book is HOT, like, wake your husband up NOW and get busy yourself-HOT! As many have said, it's very similar to 50 Shades, except there's no freaky business, whips, chains, major dominance, etc. This ends up blooming into something special, something deeper than sex and fun. They both have some abuse from their past that has warped them and they find that this abuse both pushes them away from each other, and brings them together at the same time. He's willing to work on some of his habits/rules just to have her, though. Like most women, she wants some sort of connection to him but he's been known to keep his lady friends and bed mates in two separate categories. ![]() She's thrilled and offended at the same time. ![]() Not just the building he works in, literally HIS building (and he happens to own quite a bit more.did I mention wealthy?) Eva bumps into him in the lobby and he makes her tingly in her lady bits but she thinks nothing more of it until he point blank tells her what he wants: sex, nothing more and. Right now, his priority is to nail Eva, the girl who just moved to NYC and has started working in his building. Cross is a powerful and wealthy business man who knows what he wants and is used to getting what he wants. First thing's first: make sure you dedicate some time to read this book straight through, you're not going to want to put it down! Mr. Thanks to the author, publisher, and goodreads for this opportunity. ![]() Review 1: I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads. ![]() ![]() Not only is the ambitious Ganya actually in love with Aglaya, but he must also deal with an aristocrat named Totsky. As the General and Ganya talk, Myshkin overhears Ganya discuss his plans to marry Nastasya Filippovna. Myshkin rents a room from the General's assistant, Ganya. ![]() He meets Madame Epanchin and their three daughters: Alexandra, Adelaida, and Aglaya. Myshkin visits the Epanchin home and charms his way into a job with the family patriarch, General Epanchin. Rogozhin explains his plan to use his new wealth to seduce a young woman named Nastasya Filippovna. On the train, Myshkin meets Rogozhin, who has recently inherited a fortune, and a young clerk named Lebedev. He rides the train to Saint Petersburg to visit the Epanchin family, distant relatives whom he hopes will be able to help him. ![]() ![]() After spending several years in Switzerland to receive treatment for epilepsy, he returns to Russia as a penniless, pitiable figure. Prince Lev Myshkin is a young man from one of Russia's oldest, most aristocratic families. ![]() ![]() A secondary storyline follows 15-year-old Kaeda, who, since childhood, has been held hostage by an overlord who wants to keep her father, a less powerful lord, in check. ![]() It’s also revealed that Takeo is a member of an ancient clan of pseudo-magical beings with sorcerous ninja-like powers-useful during an assassination attempt on Shigeru. ![]() Shigeru spirits the traumatized boy back to Otori lands and adopts him after noting a strong resemblance between Takeo and his own late brother. ![]() When Iida shows up to destroy the village, 16-year-old Takeo is wandering in the hills, though even then he would have been killed by Iida’s soldiers if it hadn’t been for the fortunate appearance of Shigeru, a lord of the Dairyo’s rival clan, the Otori, who was doing some wandering of his own and demonstrated his handy way with a sword. The village in question is in Dairyo country, ruled by Iida Sadamu, a devil in warrior’s garb, and many of the villagers belong to a secretive, Christian-like cult called The Hidden, which has aroused Iida’s wrath with its subversive talk of kindness. In a preface, he admits using “echoes of Japanese customs and traditions” as he sets his action in a resolutely imaginary country where warring clans battle for supremacy. The village is doomed, but British-born newcomer Hearn still makes you care about it and its inhabitants. 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