The descent of woman by elaine morgan5/30/2023 ![]() was that people are different from apes because apes’ ancestors stayed in the trees and our own ancestors went out onto the plain and became hunters,” she recalled. ![]() ![]() An avid reader of popular science books, Elaine Morgan had found herself growing increasingly irritated by theories, propounded by writers such as Robert Ardrey and Desmond Morris, which painted a picture of human evolution based around the needs of males chasing game on the savannah. Before that, however, in 1972, she had scored an unexpected success with The Descent of Woman, which became, almost by accident, a bestseller and an important text of the Women’s Liberation movement. Her script for a Horizon documentary about Joey Deacon, the disabled fundraiser, won her the Prix Italia in 1975 and in 1979 her serialisation of Vera Brittain’s wartime memoir, Testament of Youth, won her the Royal Television Society’s writer of the year award. As a television writer Elaine Morgan wrote dozens of drama series for the BBC, winning two Baftas and two Writers’ Guild awards. Elaine Morgan, who has died aged 92, rose from a poverty-stricken upbringing in the Welsh valleys to become an award-winning television writer and, more controversially, a proponent of a feminist theory of evolution. ![]()
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Kill creek novel5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() “ Creative Spirit is a story about the coming together of writers, painters, photographers, musicians and sculptors. ![]() A book I prefer is Scott Nicholson’s Creative Spirit. They HAVE to complete this assignment – in one weekend – or face the consequences.”Īs it turns out, this is not one of my favorite books. “A mysterious blackmailer forces three authors to meet at a cabin and write a “rough draft” for a prospective horror novel about the cabin, the surrounding woods and a nearby town. Here at this blog, I reviewed Micheal Robertson Jr.’s Rough Draft. ![]() That creek would be “Kill.” Full name = Kill CreekĪside from my shit’s creek/Kill creek pun, how did that description sound? Engaging? Terrifying? Or the opposite – tired?, hackneyed? Despite the overwhelming positive reviews for this Scott Thomas’s novel, I went into the book expecting the “tired” and “hackneyed.” Four horror authors of different backgrounds meeting at a real haunted house to face certain horrors that their own macabre minds cannot fathom – haven’t we seen this setup many times? A publicity stunt that unleashes a series of harrowing events to eventually force four horror authors to go toe-to-toe with the mysterious evil that manifests from the old Finch House. A gathering at a rumored haunted house livestreamed for a popular horror podcast. ![]() The great menagerie5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In the episode, Spock abducts his former commander Christopher Pike, locks the starship Enterprise on a course to the forbidden planet Talos IV and turns himself in for court-martial where he presents an elaborate story explaining his actions. Part I was broadcast by NBC on November 17, 1966, and Part II was broadcast on November 24, 1966. Written by series creator Gene Roddenberry and directed by Marc Daniels (part one) and Robert Butler (part two), it is the only two-part story in the original series. It comprises the eleventh and twelfth broadcast episodes of the series. The Menagerie is a two-part episode from the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. ![]() Star Trek: The Original Series (season 1) Sean Kenney – Fleet Captain Christopher Pike.Jeffrey Hunter – Captain Christopher Pike. ![]() The meaning of life by terry eagleton5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Thus the human enterprise is much like the mole’s: ![]() All consciousness is false consciousness. So the final chapter claims life = love, which is a fitting conclusion to a book that aspires to so little (or so much, which is the same thing when dealing with these large issues).Įagleton does usefully summarize certain philosophers like Schopenhauer, in particular, showing how the Will, as completely self-determining, is based on the model of appetite. For Eagleton, life isn’t about preserving the body, but only about meaning-giving processes that find their fullest expression in acts of altruism or love. ![]() Unfortunately, he fails to treat life as a biological necessity, but only as the source of meaning that he has spent so much time calling into question. Spends a long time “deconstructing” the word “meaning” before turning, very briefly, to the concept of life. That each page only contains about 50 words makes this feet all the more impressive. The West conflicts, decontextualized poaching of Wittgenstein aphorisms, and cursory reading of all of Beckett in 9 pages. A shockingly disappointing collection of armchair impressions including commentary on current Isalm vs. ![]() How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He describes his father’s efforts to cover up his diminishing abilities, and the effect those final years had on his mother.įranzen is struck by the fact that when his father was really far gone-at the level of a one year old at best-he could still pull it together once in a while, albeit in a minimal and very temporary way. My Father’s Brain is a thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on Franzen’s father’s deterioration and death from Alzheimer’s disease. How to Be Alone consists of fourteen essays. They are somewhat similar writers (same generation, critically highly regarded, mostly think of themselves as novelists but also write intelligent nonfiction social commentary essays like those in this book), and from what I understand were friends and mutual admirers before Wallace’s suicide. ![]() I suspect I was a little more interested in or a little bit more receptive to How to Be Alone because of the connections between Wallace and Jonathan Franzen. ![]() I feel a kind of connection with him that I rarely feel with authors. I have in recent years become quite interested in the writer David Foster Wallace. ![]() The highlander kerrigan byrne5/30/2023 ![]() She began her post-graduate career as an investment banker for Piper Jaffray.Įrin is a recognized industry expert on dealership buy/sells, valuation, real estate and private equity, and is a frequent speaker at leading auto retail events and conferences held by JD Power, NADA (#1 speaker in 2012), American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), National Association of Dealer Counsel (NADC), Canadian Auto Dealers Association, and DrivingSales’ President’s Club. Early in her career, she was dealer operator of her family’s dealership, which she sold in 2006. Prior to Presidio, she was a Senior Vice President at AutoStar, a subsidiary of iStar Financial (NYSE: SFI), where she led transaction origination. Prior to founding Kerrigan Advisors, Erin headed Presidio Automotive. In addition to sell-side advisory services, Kerrigan Advisors raises capital for its clients who are seeking a financial partner and provides consulting services to dealers looking to increase the value of their business. Since its founding, the firm has sold over 175 dealerships, including more of the Top 150 Dealership Groups than any other firm, representing over $3 billion in client sales proceeds. ![]() ![]() Kerrigan Advisors is the leading sell-side advisor and thought partner to auto dealers in the US. Erin Kerrigan is Managing Director of Kerrigan Advisors, which she founded in 2014. ![]() List of curious george books5/30/2023 ![]() From there they returned to Brazil, where they had met five years earlier, but this time they continued to New York, New York. The Reys' odyssey brought them to the Spanish border, where they bought train tickets to Lisbon. ![]() Among the meager possessions they brought with them was the illustrated manuscript of Curious George. ![]() Hans built two bicycles, and they fled Paris just a few hours before it fell. As Jews, the Reys decided to flee Paris before the Nazis seized the city. Their work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War II. ![]() The result, Rafi and the Nine Monkeys, is little remembered today, but one of its characters, an adorably impish monkey named Curious George, was such a success that the couple considered writing a book just about him. While in Paris, Hans's animal drawings came to the attention of French publisher, who commissioned him to write a children's book. They married in 1935 and moved to Paris, France that same year. While there, she met her future husband Hans (who was a salesman and also from Germany). Rey), the co-author and illustrator of children's books, best known for their Curious GeorgeĪlthough she was born in Germany, she fled to Brazil early in her life to escape Nazism. ![]() Margret Elizabeth Rey (– December 21, 1996), born Margarete Elisabeth Waldstein, was (with her husband H. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Part cautionary tale, part expose" (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK "illuminates the surprising scope of the movement" (The New Yorker) the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass "Klonvocations" prior to its collapse in 1926-but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this "second Klan" spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant "hordes" landing on American shores. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice SelectionĪn urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes "required reading" for our time (New York Times Book Review).Įxtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon's disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. ![]() The sanatorium book 25/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() With the storm closing off all access to the hotel, the longer Laure stays missing, the more the remaining guests start to panic. ![]() And when they wake the following morning to discover Laure is missing, Elin must trust her instincts if they hope to find her. Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge-there's something about the hotel that makes her nervous. ![]() But Elin's taken time off from her job as a detective, so when her estranged brother, Isaac, and his fiancée, Laure, invite her to celebrate their engagement at the hotel, Elin really has no reason not to accept. An imposing, isolated getaway spot high up in the Swiss Alps is the last place Elin Warner wants to be. Long plagued by troubling rumors, the former abandoned sanatorium has since been renovated into a five-star minimalist hotel. Half-hidden by forest and overshadowed by threatening peaks, Le Sommet has always been a sinister place. and twists you'll never see coming." -Richard Osman, New York Times bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Sarah Pearse's next book, The Retreat, is forthcoming. REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A New York Times bestseller! "An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat." - Reese Witherspoon "This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all. ![]() Smoky the Brave by Damien Lewis5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The extraordinary, touching true story of Smoky, the smallest-and arguably bravest-dog of World War II Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. ![]()
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