![]() ![]() It is interdisciplinary: it explores the interrelationship of various modes of expression - art, music, literature - as they work to create, define, and reflect the unique culture of a given time and place. ![]() With the ability to incorporate new extended readings, streaming music, and artwork, LANDMARKS renews the understanding of the relationship between world cultures and humankind’s creative legacy. Enhanced by McGraw-Hill Education’s SmartBook 2.0, Fiero delivers a learning experience tailored to the needs of each institution, instructor, and student. Understanding that a global humanities course is taught in varying ways, Gloria Fiero redefines the discipline for greater flexibility via a variety of personalized digital tools that meet and refine your teaching goals in less time. The landmarks that mark this journey are the great works of their place and time they have been transmitted from generation to generation as a living legacy. Focusing on prominent landmarks from prehistory to the present, LANDMARKS introduces students to the creative endeavors of the human imagination and to the prominent ideas and issues that have shaped the course and character of the world’s cultures. For humanities students, LANDMARKS provides a chronological journey through the history of culture in one semester. Gloria Fiero Landmarks in HumanitJanu9781260220759 All travelers appreciate a personal guide. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published in 1999, Gaelen Foley’s Princess is the second book in her Ascension trilogy and contains enough cheese to keep several branches of McDonald’s going for the next decade. There may possibly be some snark within :P I've given this a B for narration and a C- at AAR, which equated to a C+ overall, so I'm leaving it at 3 stars. (See She is hard at work on her next book. Gaelen lives in western Pennsylvania with her college-sweetheart husband, Eric, a schoolteacher, with whom she co-writes middle grade fantasy adventure novels under the pen-name, E.G. It was here, while studying the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Byron, and Keats that she first fell in love with the Regency period in which her novels are set. ![]() in English literature with a minor in Philosophy from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, a quaint lakeside village where Mark Twain once owned a home. ![]() Her books are available in sixteen languages and have won numerous genre awards, such as the Bookseller's Best, the NJRW Golden Leaf (three times), the CRW Award of Excellence, the National Reader's Choice Award, the Beacon, and the Holt Medallion.Ī Pennsylvania native, Gaelen holds a B.A. Gaelen Foley is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of twenty historical romances set in the glittering world of Regency England. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet this unknown lawyer shares with his famous adversary a compulsion to win at all costs. Edison is a wily, dangerous opponent with vast resources at his disposal - private spies, newspapers in his pocket, and the backing of J. The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society - the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. Paul's client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the lightbulb and holds the right to power the country? The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history - and a vast fortune.Ī young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. ![]() Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. ![]() From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times best-selling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel - based on actual events - about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both appear to be enjoying themselves, rattling merrily through all the stage-managed mischief, the flamboyant high jinks, the showboating satire. Virginie Efira plays the novice nun who sparks mass hysteria Charlotte Rampling the sour Mother Superior who insists that God’s greatest miracles rarely happen in bed. True, the plot (freely lifted from Judith C Brown’s 1986 book Immodest Acts) hinges on the appearance of a dildo whittled from a statue of the Virgin Mary – an incident which no doubt led to the film being picketed at the New York film festival and outright banned in Singapore.įor all that, Verhoeven’s handling is more silly than savage, more playful than profane, which ensures that the picture’s cloistered heat never comes to the boil. P aul Verhoeven is one of world cinema’s great provocateurs (the creator of Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers and Elle) and yet the most shocking thing about Benedetta – his tale of lesbian nuns in 17th-century Tuscany – is how tame and even tasteful it turns out to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elisabeth Hauptmann, the co-author of “The Threepenny Opera,” lived in Mandeville Canyon, at the actor Peter Lorre’s ranch. Alma Mahler-Werfel, the widow of Gustav Mahler, lived with her third husband, the best-selling Austrian writer Franz Werfel, on North Bedford Drive, next door to the conductor Bruno Walter. Vicki Baum, whose novel “Grand Hotel” brought her a screenwriting career, had a house on Amalfi Drive, near the leftist composer Hanns Eisler. His colleague Lion Feuchtwanger occupied the Villa Aurora, a Spanish-style mansion overlooking the Pacific among its amusements was a Hitler dartboard. Alfred Döblin, the author of “Berlin Alexanderplatz,” had a place on Citrus Avenue, in Hollywood. The screenwriter Salka Viertel held gatherings on Mabery Road, near the Santa Monica beach. The novelist Heinrich Mann resided a few blocks away, on Montana Avenue. ![]() Bertolt Brecht lived in a two-story clapboard house on Twenty-sixth Street, in Santa Monica. You can visit all the addresses in the course of a long day. ![]() ![]() ![]() I like how Katherine Addison continues to build her strange fantasy steampunk world. She’s not even that emotional but Thara is so introverted that she still comes off as a refreshing change of pace. She provides a much needed contrast to Thara’s stoic and conflict-adverse nature. I think The Grief of Stones is slightly better than Witness for the Dead because we introduce Thara Celehar’s apprentice, Velhiro Tomasaran, who is a young widow that has recently come into her own power to communicate with the dead. Thara soon finds himself investigating a school for young girls, the insidious new technology called photography, and more. In this case, a beloved noblewoman heavily involved in the education of young girls has died mysteriously, and an autopsy confirms it was poisoning. ![]() Thara Celehar has been continuing his work in the city of Amalo when he finds himself recruited for yet another murder investigation. It is his job to talk to the dead and give them justice if they have any lingering regrets. All three books are set in the same universe, but this is only the second installment of the adventures of Thara Celehar, Witness for the Dead. THE GRIEF OF STONES by Katherine Addison is the third installment of The Goblin Emperor series as well as the second in The Cemetaries of Amalo series. ![]() ![]() There Ember attempts and fails to escape, only succeeding when her old love interest Chase intervenes and runs away with her to Virginia. The FBR have captured the two of them and have sent Ember to the Girls Reformatory and Rehabilitation Center of West Virginia. Women that break Article 5 and have children out of wedlock are taken away and imprisoned, as is the case with Ember Miller's mother. ![]() The FBR have started a new war, and that's a war on sex. It was followed by two sequels titled Breaking Point and Three.Ī war has torn through the United States, leading to the establishment of the Federal Bureau of Reformation (FBR) and a re-writing of the Bill of Rights, leaving the Moral Statues. The novel tells the story of Ember Miller and Chase Jennings, two teenagers who are on the run from the government in a post-War dystopian America. ![]() The book was published in January 2012 by Tor Teen and is the first installment in a trilogy. Article 5 is a 2012 young adult dystopian novel by Kristen Simmons. ![]() ![]() Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. ![]() As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. ![]() One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. ![]() Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel-inspiration for the upcoming major motion picture from Universal Pictures ![]() ![]() ![]() Dendler, freelance editor and award-winning author, edits manuscripts for publishing houses and for independent authors. ![]() An excellent editor.” Carolyn Wilkins, author of the cozy mysteries “Melody for Murder” and “Mojo for Murder” ![]() She really understood what I was trying to say and helped me to express myself clearly and concisely. She did a terrific job, uncovering errors that, if gone unnoticed, would have ruined my books! Meg was thorough and patient. “Meg Welch Dendler edited both of the cozy mysteries I published with Pen-L Publishing. Books I've edited/proofread have gone on to earn best-seller status (specifically a true crime novel) and won multiple awards, including Killer Nashville (Best Fiction Book of the Year and Best Suspense Book of the Year), Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards (Thriller), WILLA Award Finalist status, and a Western Fictioneers Award (YA). I work across genres but am not your best bet for horror, graphic erotica, or gore of any kind. Please see website for pricing levels of service available. Editing packages available to support authors in their quest for publication of any kind. ![]() ![]() ![]() And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves. Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. The women and the children watched their men talking to the owner men. In the open doors the women stood looking out, and behind them the children-corn-headed children, with wide eyes, one bare foot on top of the other bare foot, and the toes working. The tenant men stood beside the cars for a while, and then squatted on their hams and found sticks with which to mark the dust. And at last the owner men drove into the dooryards and sat in their cars to talk out of the windows. The tenants, from their sun-beaten dooryards, watched uneasily when the closed cars drove along the fields. They came in closed cars, and they felt the dry earth with their fingers, and sometimes they drove big earth augers into the ground for soil tests. ![]() THE OWNERS OF THE land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman for the owners came. ![]() |