Weaving deeply personal storytelling with extensive research on mnemonics, Songlines: The Power and Promise offers unique insights into Indigenous traditional knowledges, how they apply today and how they could help all peoples thrive into the future. Much more than a navigational path in the cartographic sense, these vast and robust stores of information are encoded through song, story, dance, art and ceremony, rather than simply recorded in writing. Songlines are an archive for powerful knowledges that ensured Australia's many Indigenous cultures flourished for over 60,000 years. 'An act of intellectual reconciliation.' - Lynette Russell 'Let this series begin the discussion.' - Bruce Pascoe
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When she arrived at Katmere Academy, mortal Grace's world turned upside down. And as Grace is drawn further under his spell, she begins to wonder: did she come to Katmere by accident, or was she brought here. Something in him calls to Grace - something that could spell her death.īecause Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. Then she meets Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. As the lone mortal, the only thing Grace is sure of is that she doesn't belong. Shapeshifters, witches and vampires roam the halls, existing in uneasy cooperation. Soon she realises she's entered a world like nothing she has ever known. Her uncle's exclusive and secretive boarding school is the last place Grace wants to be, but after the tragic deaths of both her parents, she is left with no choice. There is nothing normal about Katmere Academy, or the students in it. Sometimes, they used violence to drive the inhabitants out. The first Europeans in the Americas often built their settlements on top of Indian settlements. Lots of crops struggle in the Amazon, but fruit orchards thrive.Īmazonian Indians discovered sustainable farming thousands of years ago.Ĭentral American agriculturalists changed the way the world eats. Modern agricultural practices are destroying the Amazon rainforest. So many Indians died after 1500 that it changed the global climate. North American Indians used fire to redesign the landscape. Native Americans didn’t live off the land – they shaped their environment. The Beni was home to an advanced pre-Columbian society. Scholars studying native cultures have often missed the forest for the trees. What’s in it for me? Discover the real New World In 1491, Charles Mann sets out to recover their ways of life and remarkable achievements. Within a century of Columbus’s “discovery” of the New World, some of humanity’s most sophisticated cultures had all but disappeared. 1491 (2005) is a study of the Western Hemisphere before 1492, the year in which an Italian sailor employed by the Spanish empire first set foot in the Americas. In The Little Sister, Chandler packs about ten pounds of plot into a two pound sack. In his quest to locate the man in question, Chandler will take Marlowe into the world of Hollywood and the shady characters that occupy it. Out of a Texas car hop with the literacy of a character in a comic strip it will make an international courtesan, married six times to six millionaires and so blasé and decadent at the end of it that her idea of a thrill is to seduce a furniture mover in a sweaty undershirt.”Ī woman from small town Kansas travels to California and hires Marlowe to track down her missing brother. It will make a radiant glamour queen out of a drab little wench who ought to be ironing a truck driver’s shirts, a he-man hero with shining eyes and brilliant smile reeking of sexual charm out of some overgrown kid who was meant to go to work with a lunchbox. “Wonderful what Hollywood will do to a nobody. terrorists attack a Cuban farmer and his wife on the pretext of searching for guns being hidden at his house. On his way to Miami, Denny Merlin comes across two stranger women, who hitch a ride on his Lincoln.Īn army searching for A.B.C. Plot summaries "Get a Load of This" Ī society columnist witnesses the murder of an entertainment biz manager by one of the latter's models at a show in a restaurant, and follows up the events that result. Initially Chase's publisher was not in favour of him writing short stories, but he wrote a letter to them with the script, and the book was accepted. The book was written by Chase while he was still in the Royal Air Force and was first published in early autumn 1941, and subsequently reprinted in 1988. The stories are not inter related, and most have twisted endings. Unlike most of his other books, it is not a single story throughout, but a collection of 14 different short stories. Get a Load of This is a 1942 book by British writer James Hadley Chase. Two, I thought the narrative confusing at first. But would the apathetic Murderbot really have named a mildly intrusive artificial intelligence it just met an 'asshole?' It set the wrong tone and in some ways, the character of Murderbot backslid to be a socially inept human, not a killing machine trying to create behavior patterns. One, I felt Murderbot had become more colloquial in its speech without accompanying change in comfort level with others. Why not five stars, you wonder? I do enjoy the character of Murderbot a great deal, but found myself with some sticky points on my first read-through. It was an enjoyable read, but suffered from a few issues. Though the beginning felt a bit awkward, I remained confident that Wells would end up somewhere interesting. I read quickly, finishing in one sitting. After its thrilling adventures on its last expedition as a SecUnit, I was curious to see what 'Bot would do with freedom. It was with anticipation of pleasure that I picked up the second installment in the Murderbot series. I could already feel my performance capacity dropping." Interacting meant talking, and eye contact. I had imagined it as taking place from a distance, or in the spaces of a crowded transit ring. I would have to interact with humans as an augmented human. I noticed three important things about his philosophy that impressed me. Shaw lived to be 94 years old, and he seemingly lived his purpose to its fullest. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. "This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I borrowed some wisdom from George Bernard Shaw, playwright and political activist (1856-1950). The original Grinch book has sold nearly 10 million copies in North America alone and like other Seuss books has been translated into multiple languages. "One of the most asked questions we receive from Seuss fans of all ages is 'What do you think happened to the Grinch after he stole Christmas?" said Alice Jonaitis, executive editor at Random House Children's Books, in a statement. The sequel entitled "How the Grinch Lost Christmas!" is not based on a newly discovered manuscript by Seuss - whose real name was Theodor Geisel - but was written and illustrated by an author and artist with previous experience in the Dr. Seuss Enterprises and Random House Children's Books announced Thursday. The new book picks up one year after the original, and like the first, teaches a valuable lesson about the true spirit of the holiday, Dr. Seuss fans might find their hearts growing three sizes this coming holiday season with the release of a sequel to the 1957 classic children's book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" Do not engage in hate speech, harassment, arguing in bad faith, sealioning, or general pot stirring. 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For updated information regarding ongoing community features, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. As such, Candide is the story of education of its hero, a young and naïve man called Candide, raised in a Westphalian baron’s estate and truly believing his preacher Pangloss that all is for good in this world and things cannot be different from what they are. Candide can be viewed as “a satire on systems a discussion of the problem of evil a comparison of Utopia and reality a pursuit of the secret of happiness an education…” (Pearson 110). Voltaire’s renowned shrewd outlook and sober judgment found reflection in his famous satire Candide, or Optimism – a book which, met with a scandal immediately after publication, has enjoyed great popularity for centuries due to the vital and burning problems discussed in it. In the scope of classical literature, the writings of Francois Voltaire occupy a prominent position. |