![]() ![]() ![]() Some were prodigies who couldn’t make it through school others were more disabled and were shunted into asylums. Over his many years at the Children’s Clinic in Vienna, Hans Asperger studied more than 200 children he would ultimately treat for what he called autistische Psychopathen (autistic psychopathy). ![]() The crucial difference is that Kanner had the fortune to publish his work in Baltimore, while Asperger had the misfortune to publish his in Nazi-controlled Vienna, and this accident of geopolitics lies at the tragic core of Silberman’s ambitious, meticulous and largehearted (if occasionally long-winded) history, “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.” and now autism, as the science journalist Steve Silberman informs us, identified separately by Leo Kanner and Hans Asperger. One can add to it sunspots, evolution, platinum, chloroform. The most fabled example is calculus, developed independently in two different countries by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, but the list stretches back centuries and unfurls right into the present. The history of science is studded with stories of simultaneous discovery, in which two imaginative souls (or more!) turn out to have been digging tunnels to the same unspoiled destination. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Pilger's attack on the British media, from the BBC to Rupert Murdoch, whose headquarters at Wapping, England, he calls ""a cultural Chernobyl,"" may fail to interest an American readership. ![]() Pilger's most accessible polemics are grounded in reporting, as when he observes the ""refined absurdity"" of an arms fair or depicts an arms dealer claiming to be a ""simple businessman."" Better still are his reports from Burma, where he not only met the resolute dissident Aung San Suu Kyi but also filmed slave laborers. This hefty collection of his dispatches and essays, some of which began as items in the Guardian and the New Statesman, concerns ""slow news."" In Pilger's words, ""slow news"" consists of stories that unfold in the shadows of fast-breaking, world-shaking events, but fail to register in a mass media dominated by infotainment-stories like the death of Iraqi civilians, the exploitation of Haitian children, the forced demise of the Caribbean banana trade. ![]() An Australian-born, London-based journalist and TV documentarian, Pilger might be thought of as Noam Chomsky with a journalist's chops, given his ability to unpack the power relations in the events he chronicles and his trenchant reports from the field. ![]() ![]() Georgeanne has loved John since the moment she jumped into his little red Corvette seven years ago, but she doesn't want to risk her heart again. But he is shocked to learn that their single unforgettable night in paradise produced a daughter, and he is determined to be a part of her life. 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Enchanted (Medieval Book 3) Elizabeth Lowell 4.6 out of 5 stars (267) Kindle Edition. ![]() New York Times bestselling and RITA® Award-winning author Rachel Gibson's ![]() ![]() ![]() Action and location are compellingly rendered – the heat of the South and the funk of war- and slavery-ruined bodies rises from the page. It is under her encouragement, or so he believes, that he joins the army. He meets and marries the impassioned Marmee, who drives him to become more deeply involved in the abolitionist movement. ![]() He becomes a chaplain, deciding that “the pulpit was the place from which to decry this barbarous system”. ![]() While March recounts his war time tribulations he explains how he came to be there, from his early witnessing of the slave system while a salesman in his twenties to becoming a avowed abolitionist in the radical Massachusetts enclave of Concord, alongside real figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He is writing from an island in the Potomac River, literally and figuratively on the border between the two sides. “I never promised I would write the truth,” March confesses, and indeed he leaves much out, the horrors of war and secrets from his own past. It begins with March writing a letter shortly after a disastrous Union attempt to gain some ground from the Confederates. In March, both the protagonist’s name and a suggestion of military movement, Geraldine Brooks fills in the blanks. 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James, a Booker Prize winner, also wrote “John Crow’s Devil.” He received a master’s degree in creative writing from Wilkes University and is currently a professor of literature at Macalester College in Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now you can discover for yourself the insights, the vision, and the uncanny accuracy of "The Celestine Prophecy". By word of mouth alone, news of this magical, moving work spread throughout the country, until - within months of its first printing - over hundred thousand readers had become excited by its predictions and touched by the way it made sense of what was happening in their lives. ![]() ![]() They told their friends about it, and friends in turn told their friends. When James Redfield first published this extraordinary book - an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery - people picked it up, read it, and were stunned by its contents. Are three decades of interest in modern physics, ecology, mystical religion and interpersonal psychology finally synthesizing into a new spiritual "common sense"? Are we now beginning to live this new common sense? Can it become the dominant paradigm of the next century? ![]() ![]() ![]() I rate the first 94 pages five stars, but the rest average one and a half. Life-long learners will value the content. Nevertheless, I discovered sound tools and techniques to incorporate into my writing. The author holds strong opinions and states them forcefully. Originally published in 1976, I read the 30th anniversary edition, which has been updated but still feels dated – such as references to printouts and word processors. Leave ‘ilk’ to anyone who will take it away.” I smiled often at his use of humor: “Leave ‘myriad’ and their ilk to the poets. I particularly liked Zinsser’s analysis of writing samples, with suggestions for improvement. Zinsser’s background, as a published author and former professor at Yale and Columbia, gives him credibility. This book is geared toward writing in English, but the concepts can be applied to other languages. It covers intangibles such as setting high standards, gaining confidence, and taking risks. The last section explores finding your own voice. The third shows examples of different types of writing, such as travel, memoir, science, business, sports, arts, and humor. The second focuses on organization, presentation, and structure. It conveys tips on writing in a straight-forward uncluttered manner with emphasis on action verbs. It is logically organized into four sections: Principles, Methods, Forms, and Attitude. ![]() On Writing Well provides advice on how to write non-fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Night of the Owls began as single issues in April 2012 and lasted until May 2012. Night of the Owls crossover uses issues from Batman, Nightwing, Catwoman, Red Hood and the Outlaws, Batman & Robin, Batgirl, Detective Comics, Birds of Prey and The Dark Knight. The main plot line belongs to Batman much like the next crossover arc – Death of the Family.Ĭlick here for the full Batman New 52 Reading order. Night of the Owls plot line surrounds an ancient family who have operated in the shadows in Gotham City for many years and feel now is the time to strike against the Bat family and take over Gotham for good. ![]() which started almost immediately when it started in 2012. Night of the Owls, sometimes referred to as Court of Owls or City of Owls is the first Bat-family crossover of the new 52 and the second chronologically after Zero Year. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1757, under the command of Robert Clive, Company forces defeated the ruling Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey, through a combination of superior artillery and even more superior chicanery. Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. When the British left it was just above 3 percent. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India?s share of world GDP was 23 percent. ![]() Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British?in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain?s ?conscious and deliberate bleeding of India? greatest crime in all history?. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has published a number of novels, including Taming the Country Star, Legally Undead, Waking Up Dead, and Fairy, Texas. Margo Bond Collins is the author of contemporary romance, urban fantasy, and paranormal mysteries. ![]() But as much as Cole can’t forget her, Kylie wonders if she can forgive him…Ĭheck out the Taming the Country Star Release Day BlitzĪ good book can change your view for life…: ![]() After writing a song just for her, he sets off for her hometown to prove he’s not the player she thinks he is. Ever since Kylie left him, he hasn’t been able to forget her sweet country smile. But when Kylie’s eyes meet Cole’s again, she can’t deny the electric chemistry that drew her to him the first time around.Ĭole Grayson is on a mission. As if months of changing the radio station and tearing down his posters weren’t bad enough, now she has to deal with a town of fans swarming toward the man who deceived her the year before. She’ll do anything to keep him away.Ĭountry star Cole Grayson is in town, and Kylie Andrews is less than thrilled. CST: –the amazing Ophelia London will also be there with her new release, Making Waves! Welcome to the Taming the Country Star Release Day Blitz!Ĭheck out all the cool blog spots below–but first, be sure to RSVP & join us at the Surf & Turf Bliss online book release party for tonight, 6 – 9 p.m. ![]() |