![]() ![]() After that, she decided to speed up her new son's development. As she bids farewell to her son, Talia makes sure to show him that she's already cloned him, in an effort to create a new son who she can mold to her desires. After an attempt to control her son's body to kill Grayson failed, Talia was forced to disown Damian, who had chosen to follow his father's path as a crime fighter. While Batman was missing for a year, his former sidekick, Dick Grayson was acting as Batman at the time. So she turned to science to provide her with the perfect child: a clone of Damian Wayne. Unfortunately, Batman turned her down, and her plan to send her son to usurp the name of Batman backfired. Talia al Ghul had a romance-story plan for herself and Batman: she would bear him a child, and they would unite as a family to rule the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj was published in 2012 and is also to be highly recommended. There’s more fascinating social history in 1939: The Last Season, about life in England just before WWII changed things forever, while her Debs at War: 1939 – 1945 looks at the period of the war itself. She has also written an excellent biography of Diana Mitford, second wife of Oswald Mosley, and another of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry. It was packed with juicy social detail of the era, and was a fabulous read. One of the girls married Oswald Mosley, and all were glamorous, rich and wilful. My introduction to her work was her 2000 book The Viceroy’s Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters about the lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, and his American wife Mary. She was born in 1927, so I fear we can’t expect too many more books from her. I love social history and good biographies, and one of my favourite authors in this area is Anne de Courcy. ‘The Story of an African Farm’ – Olive Schreiner. ![]() ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ – Muriel Spark.‘The Leopard’ – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.‘The Doll’s House’ – Katherine Mansfield.‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ – Alexandre Dumas.‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ – Thomas Hardy.‘Seven Little Australians’ – Ethel Turner.‘Little Red Riding Hood’ – The Brothers Grimm.‘Gone with the Wind’ – Margaret Mitchell.Terms of Service, Privacy Policy & Refund Policy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The legitimacy of an emperor's rule depended on his control of the army and recognition by the Senate an emperor would normally be proclaimed by his troops, or invested with imperial titles by the Senate, or both. Emperors frequently amassed republican titles, notably princeps senatus, consul, and pontifex maximus. Early emperors also used the title princeps civitatis ("first citizen"). Another title often used was caesar, used for heirs-apparent, and imperator, originally a military honorific. Often when a given Roman is described as becoming "emperor" in English, it reflects his taking of the title augustus (and later basileus). The emperors used a variety of different titles throughout history. The Roman emperor was the ruler and monarchial head of state of the Roman Empire during the imperial period (starting with the granting of the title augustus to Octavian in 27 BC). Roman Senate (officially) and/or Roman Military ![]() ![]() ![]() Rich in characters and conflict-physical, emotional, and ethical-Crisis in the Red Zone is a full immersion into one of the great public health calamities of our era, and a stark warning of viral outbreaks to come. CRISIS IN THE RED ZONE: THE STORY OF THE DEADLIEST EBOLA OUTBREAK IN HISTORY, AND OF THE OUTBREAKS TO COME BY RICHARD PRESTON. The ensuing global drama activated health professionals in North America, Europe, and Africa in a desperate race against time to contain the viral wildfire, and posed questions about the charged ethical dilemma over who should, and did, receive the rare doses of an experimental treatment with the power to save lives. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston is a non-fiction thriller, published in 1994, two years after his article Crisis in the Hot Zone appeared in The New. In this taut and suspenseful medical drama, Richard Preston chronicles the outbreak, in which we saw for the first time the specter of the virus jumping continents, crossing the Atlantic, and infecting people in America. The 2013-2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever-and the outbreaks continue. ![]() ![]() This is the gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses-from the #1 bestselling author, of The Hot Zone. opened a door marked with a red toadshade, and stepped into the gray. Richard Preston tells an unforgettable story that explains the eruption of new, lethal viruses into the human species-viruses that have the power to infect anyone, anywhere. Military people consider this air lock a gray zone, a place where two worlds meet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Zumbach, ‘The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction’ by Jerrod Hogle and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings’ by Edgar Allan Poe. I’m going to carry out my researches primarily with the help of the books: ‘Poe’ by Walter Lenning, ‘Poe – A Biography’ by Frank T. I will examine which further motives and images Poe uses in this two stories and which function they fulfil. ![]() In this term paper I’m going to draw a comparison between two of Poe’s short stories, which both deal with the above mentioned concepts and images and therefore, are counted to the Gothic Genre - ‘The Black Cat’ and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart.’ The main focus of my work will lie on the similarities of the storytelling structures and the speech Poe uses to convey this certain feeling of suspense, horror and thrill. The reader is offered a deep glance into the abyss of the human mind and psyche. Madness and horror, sins and the ‘Imp of the Perverse’ - The Evil, which lies within all of us - are popular and frequently recurring motives in Poe’s literary works and thereby create a mood and atmosphere quite dark and nightmarish. This line taken from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Conquerer Worm’ perfectly describes the essential elements featured in many of Poe’s poems and stories, on which I am about to write in particular. ‘ And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul to the Plot.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() After school, Wang worked alongside her mother in clothing sweatshops and a sushi processing plant. Unable to speak English or Cantonese, Wang was initially placed in a special-needs classroom, but was returned to mainstream instruction after she was observed teaching herself to read English through picture books. 124 in Chinatown, but few of her classmates and teachers spoke Mandarin Chinese, thus isolating her even within a seemingly familiar community. After their temporary visas expired, the Wang family remained in the United States as undocumented immigrants in Brooklyn. Wang's father fled China to the United States when she was five Wang and her mother followed two years later in 1994. Wang's mother was a professor of mathematics, while Wang's father was a professor of English and critic of the government, which led to the family being persecuted. Qian Wang was born in Shijiazhuang, China to academic parents. ![]() Qian Julie Wang ( Chinese: 王乾) is a Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having majored in chemistry, I long fancied myself as a talented cook. Time to tackle one of those eternal verities: to choose good, or to choose evil is it nature, or nurture hang to the left, or to the right? Can a cookbook be treated as read based on completion of a statistically significant sample of the recipes or do I have to go over every page of the damn thing? As home cooks who have used Marcella’s classic books for years (and whose copies are now splattered and worn) know, there is no one more gifted at teaching us just what we need to know about the taste and texture of a dish and how to achieve it, and there is no one more passionate and inspiring about authentic Italian food. Designed as a basic manual for cooks of all levels of expertise-from beginners to accomplished professionals-it offers both an accessible and comprehensive guide to techniques and ingredients and a collection of the most delicious recipes from the Italian repertoire. ![]() The most important, consulted, and enjoyed Italian cookbook of all time, from the woman who introduced Americans to a whole new world of Italian food.Įssentials of Italian Cooking is a culinary bible for anyone looking to master the art of Italian cooking, bringing together Marcella Hazan’s most beloved books, The Classic Italian Cook Book and More Classic Italian Cooking, in a single volume, updated and expanded with new entries and 50 new recipes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There were so many great parts, so it is hard to pick just one. This way the book can be used as a read aloud and then referred to throughout the day when teaching other subjects. ![]() From a teachers perspective I appreciate how the author sprinkles a variety of educational content (from math, english/grammar to social studies and art) throughout the story. What made the experience of listening to From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. I'm not going to spoil it by spelling it out, but just want to say that this book is about so much more than running away, the Metropolitan Museum, and Michelangelo, and well worth listening to by children AND adults. When I read this as a child, the poignancy of the ending went over my head, but as an adult and mother, this really stands out for me now. I hadn't thought about how different this rereading might be, 45 years later, but if anything I'm even more convinced that this is one of the best works of fiction ever, for children and adults. Konigsburg had passed away, I decided to reread the book. Like every other child that has read the book, I was jealous and dreamed of planning, saving, and running away to the Metropolitan Museum. I read this book as a child, loved it, and had wonderful memories of the excitement, mystery, and thrills that E.L. How to be different on the inside, where it counts ![]() ![]() "I have long been a fan of David Christian. ![]() With stunning insights into the origin of the universe, the beginning of life, the emergence of humans, and what the future might bring, Origin Story boldly reframes our place in the cosmos. By focusing on defining events (thresholds), major trends, and profound questions about our origins, Christian exposes the hidden threads that tie everything together - from the creation of the planet to the advent of agriculture, nuclear war, and beyond. In Origin Story, Christian takes readers on a wild ride through the entire 13.8 billion years we've come to know as history. These were the questions David Christian set out to answer when he created the field of Big History, the most exciting new approach to understanding where we have been, where we are, and where we are going. But what would it look like to study the whole of history, from the big bang through the present day - and even into the remote future? How would looking at the full span of time change the way we perceive the universe, the earth, and our very existence? Most historians study the smallest slivers of time, emphasizing specific dates, individuals, and documents. into a single, accessible historical narrative (Bill Gates) and presents a captivating history of the universe - from the Big Bang to dinosaurs to mass globalization and beyond. ![]() ![]() Description This New York Times bestseller elegantly weaves evidence and insights. ![]() ![]() It was a fitting time to settle down with the book, as Cut off from Crumpets begins just after Christmas, when the Ridleys are forced to cancel a family holiday to Switzerland and instead decide to visit an old family friend (‘Aunt’ Borage) at her cottage, Moleharbour, in Somerset. I was delighted to receive Cut off from Crumpets, the sequel to Castaway Christmas, from my Mum, and I read it at the start of January. How the children don’t lose courage, but deal with flooding, food shortages and a near death-by-drowning makes for an entertaining as well as warm-hearted read. I thoroughly enjoyed following the adventures of siblings Lincoln, Miranda and Pinks Ridley, who are accidentally separated from their parents and have to fend for themselves in a country cottage hired for Christmas, as treacherous flood waters rise all around them. ![]() Baker, an old Puffin paperback children’s book that I’d been meaning to pick up for ages. ![]() Over the winter holidays, I read Castaway Christmas by Margaret J. ![]() |