![]() ![]() “Ninguém escreve sobre a realidade econômica na literatura fantástica como Patrick Rothfuss – o peso da distância às vezes intransponível entre o que desejamos e necessitamos e o que temos no bolso. ![]() Desde sua publicação em 2007, O nome do vento encantou milhões de leitores com a história de coragem e sobrevivência de um herói contada em sua própria voz – a busca de um homem por significado em seu universo e como essa busca e a vontade indomável que a impulsiona deram origem a uma lenda.Īgora, esta edição de luxo nos faz mergulhar no incomparável mundo de Patrick Rothfuss com mais de 50 páginas de material inédito, incluindo uma nota do autor, dezenas de ilustrações, novos mapas e um apêndice sobre a história, as moedas e o calendário dos Quatro Cantos da Civilização, além de um guia de pronúncia de nomes da série. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() While at Charterhouse in 1912, he fell in love with G.H. ![]() Robert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985), born in Wimbledon, received his early education at King's College School and Copthorne Prep School, Wimbledon & Charterhouse School and won a scholarship to St John's College, Oxford. Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audienceĪnd, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons.” His work covers, in nearly two hundred sections, the creation myths the legends of the births and lives of the great Olympians the Theseus, Oedipus, and Heracles cycles the Argonaut voyage the tale of Troy, and much more.Īll the scattered elements of each myth have been assembled into a harmonious narrative, and many variants are recorded which may help to determine its ritual or historical meaning, Full references to the classical sources, and copious indexes, make the book as valuable to the scholar as to the general reader and a full commentary on each myth explains and interprets the classical version in the light of today’s archaeological and anthropological knowledge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are the stories of girlfriends and wives, who always bare the brunt, the abuse, and often the role of the murdered on the path of Responsibility and Greatness for The White Patriarchal Male Superhero. This novella is a love letter style fuck you to the Patriarchal White Male Superhero of decades, told in the style of the The Vagina Monologues about by the 'Women in Fridergators' as Gail Simone termed them. The deadest girl in deadtown," and continues to pluck and interview with the words of Holly Black short story-then-novel 'The Coldest Girl in Coldtown,' the alliterative mimicry of both likely fusing them forever into my mind. I think because I knew how long this would sit with me, and how true it would bleach itself into my bones. I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley, and picked up the Audible and Kindle versions as soon as they were available but even with all three I had not sat down and devoured it, even as I'd plowed through so much else that Valente had written from Labyrinth forward. I have been meaning to read this novel since long before it was released. ![]() Spring 2109 (Netgalley, Audible, & Kindle) ![]() ![]() ![]() The results are very excellent indeed, Ruby’s precise calculations and overflowing creativity expressed in a just-right backyard bastion. It’s telling that such traits find favor with more evolved individuals: her parents and a grandmother materialize as willing assistants to her ambitious project. ![]() ![]() Here’s a girl in a family in which she manages to merrily rise above the dismissive attitude of boys, additionally unpacking from her toolkit reams of gracious willpower and generous patience toward the immature behavior of others. They run circles around laziness, mockery, playing silly games, and resorting to various electronic distractions. Maier’s droll tale celebrates enthusiasm and an ardor for learning, a fast-witted design sense, and the ability to improvise. But her building tools really start with her mind, which is “always full of ideas,” and determination. ![]() In Brenda Maier’s fun, freeing The Little Red Fort, a variation on the classic folktale “The Little Red Hen,” the idea that their sister, Ruby, a mere girl, wants to build a fort seems especially ridiculous to them.Ĭonceded, Ruby’s initial inspiration springs from a bunch of old boards. José and his tendency to say “no way” where anything outside his comfort zone is concerned has two brothers who echo that sentiment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gordon strips engineering of its technical mathematics and communicates the theory behind the structures of a wide variety of materials.Chapters on ”How to Design a Worm” and ”The Advantage of Being a Beam” offer humorous insights into human and natural creation. In a style that combines wit, a masterful command of his subject, and an encyclopedic range of reference, J. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down is an informal explanation of the basic forces that hold together the ordinary and essential things of this world from buildings and bodies to flying aircraft and eggshells. For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse under eight lanes of traffic, how dams hold back or give way under thousands of gallons of water, or what principles guide the design of a skyscraper, a nightgown, or a kangaroo, this book will ease your anxiety and answer your questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() What exotic creatures does tomorrow hold? Dougal Dixon's classic work of speculative anthropology blends science and fantasy in a stunning zoology of the future. 4 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified What exotic creatures does tomorrow hold Dougal Dixons classic work of speculative. ![]() ![]() Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night-but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. ![]() ![]() After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life. Goodreads says, " When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Intellectually precocious, Asimov obtained his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1939, majoring in chemistry, and proceeded to take his MA in 1941 and PhD in 1948, after a wartime hiatus which he mostly spent working in the US Naval Air Experimental Station alongside L Sprague de Camp and Robert A Heinlein. He was not strongly involved in sf Fandom, but was for a while associated with the Futurians, one of whose members, Frederik Pohl, later published several of Asimov's early stories in his magazines Astonishing Stories and Super Science Stories, and with whom Asimov collaborated on one of his very last works, the timely nonfiction polemic Our Angry Earth ( 1991). He discovered sf through the magazines sold in his father's candy store, though his first precocious publication, Little Brothers (Spring 1934 Boys High Recorder 1988 chap), was nonfiction. (1920-1992) Russian-born US author, the original form of whose name was Isaak Iudich Azimov, but who was brought to America with his family in 1923, and became a US citizen in 1928 his second marriage, in 1973, was to fellow writer J O Jeppson (who later signed herself Janet Asimov). ![]() ![]() The Modern Love column is also celebrating its 15th anniversary this month. The first season, which “ destroyed all our emotions” and is the “ subject of all our group chats with friends who also binged the show,” featured a star-studded cast that includes Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Julia Garner, Anne Hathaway, John Slattery, Cristin Milioti, Dev Patel, Brandon Victor Dixon and Andrew Scott. “Modern Love is sending Twitter over the edge,” wrote Cosmopolitan. “Everyone spent the weekend binging Amazon Prime’s Modern Love,” wrote Refinery29. “Modern Love…has become an instant hit after just three days of streaming - and Twitter is in tears over it,” wrote People Magazine. The New York Times is thrilled to announce that Modern Love, the Amazon Prime Video series inspired by the popular Times column, is coming back for a second season in 2020 in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.Īmazon renewed the series within days of its premiere because of the overwhelming response it received from viewers around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jude sees his son’s suicide as symbolic of an impending universal death wish, and he mournfully reassures Sue that she could not have averted the tragedy. Located near Father Time’s body is a note with the victim’s last words: “Done because we are too menny.” The suicide letter reveals the boy’s belief that his father, Jude Fawley, and stepmother, Sue Bridehead, would be better off without the children, who only add to the couple’s woes in a Malthusian world. As if the boy’s suicide is not terrible enough, Hardy has him hang his younger half-brother and half-sister, the three children suspended from closet hooks. ![]() Little Father Time’s suicide in Jude the Obscure (1895) is the turning point of a novel demonstrating the cruelty that pervades nature and society. Ashoka’s book that explores self-love in the works of Thomas Hardy, in his erudite research, in the weekly column. We serialise a chapter, in eight parts, from Prof. More importantly, Father Time’s actions foreshadow the murderous impulses culminating in Sue’s grim return to her former husband, Richard Phillotson, and Jude’s own self-destruction. However artistically contrived Father Time’s ending may be, the fictional suicide reveals many of the characteristics of real-life suicides. ![]() Jude the Obscure remains one of the most psychologically rich novels in our language, as the published criticism confirms. ![]() |