![]() ![]() ![]() Paul-Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian and political activist who is considered one of the most noteworthy thinkers of the 20th century. Finally, we will examine Foucault’s key concepts and contributions to sociological theory.We will look at a list of his most famous works. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Americans - Conquest: the Europeans - Death on a coastal fringe - The "hammerours" regime - Recruitment, expansion, and transformation - "A flood, a flood of bloud" - Terra-Maria - The Chesapeake's new world - The Dutch farrago - Carnage and civility in a developing hub of commerce - Swedes, Finns, and the passion of Pieter Plockhoy - God's conventicle, Bradford's lamentation - The New-English Sionists: fault lines, diversity, and persecution - Abrasions, utopians, and holy war - Defiance and disarray - Emergence - The British Americans. Full Bibliographic Record Publication information:įoundations. ![]() ![]() ![]() French's re-creation of the police investigation will have you enthralled. Seventy-five years after these events, Paul French finally gives the case the resolution it was denied, in a story that will make you hold your loves ones close. Even as the Japanese noose on the city tightens, this bizarre murder transfixes the people of Peking. It belongs to the daughter of a former British consul, and when the details of her death become known, people find it hard to credit that any human could treat another in such a fashion. Then one bitterly cold night, the body of an innocent mortal is dumped there. ![]() Locals believe it to be haunted by fox spirits that prey upon innocent mortals. Fear reigns inside the ancient city walls, on one of which, not far from the nefarious Badlands, is a massive watchtower. Japanese troops are poised to attack, and word has it the Chinese government is about to cut a deal with Tokyo, leaving Peking to its fate. ![]() Some 75 years later, deep in the Scotland Yard archives, British historian Paul French accidentally came across the lost case file prepared by Edward Werner. In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreigners are jumpy. With a network of private investigators and informers, he followed the trail deep into Peking's notorious Badlands and back to the gilded hotels of the colonial Quarter. January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock is ticking down on all of it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 100,000 first printing 10-city author tour. Relying on interviews with survivors and oral histories, and writing with his customary verve, Kershaw delivers another memorable tale of uncommon courage. O'Kane, who earned the Medal of Honor, weighed only 88 pounds when liberated. They were picked up by a Japanese patrol boat and taken to a POW camp, tortured and starved. Alex Kershaw (born 1966) is an English journalist, public speaker and the author of several best-selling books, including The Liberator, The First Wave, The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter. The explosion threw O'Kane and several others into the ocean, but most of the rest were trapped below only nine of 87 survived. The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau. ![]() Richard O'Kane, was a celebrated maverick whose "contempt for the enemy was absolute." He was offered the opportunity to operate alone in the dangerous Formosa Strait, and the boat's crew sank 13 ships on "one of the most destructive patrols of the war." But the last torpedo malfunctioned and boomeranged on the Tang, killing half the crew instantly and sinking the sub. Popular historian Kershaw (The Bedford Boys) chronicles the extraordinary WWII heroism of the crew of the USS Tang, "the deadliest submarine operating in the Pacific," in this spellbinding saga. ![]() ![]() Our mother was the one who washed and starched and pressed my uniform each night, as if that would fool the sugar heiresses and Senate daughters at my school into mistaking me for one of their own. He’d already be muddling through traffic on EDSA Boulevard by the time I rose and got into my own X-shaped necktie and school girl pleats. Each morning, Andoy woke before they did, put on his gloves and trousers in the dark, and drove from the suburbs to the slums to collect me. The car belonged to the family my brother worked for, as a live-in chauffeur. And certainly we weren’t fooling anyone: not the neighbors in our barangay, not the nuns who’d given me a scholarship to their convent school in San Lorenzo. ![]() It wasn’t his, of course, any more than the rented uniform I wore was mine. When I was in high school, long ago, my brother Andoy used to drop me off and pick me up from campus in a Cadillac. The following is a story from the collection. The heart of these stories can be found in their exploration of universal themes such as displacement, the desire for human connection, loss, and, ultimately, hope. Her debut collection sheds light on the Filipino diaspora, with each story following the various journeys of men, women, and their families as they leave their homes in search of a new, but not always better, life abroad. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for In the Country: Stories. ![]() Mia Alvar is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Robert W. ![]() ![]() Or so he thought-for faced once more with his bitterest enemy, Mo Xi is left with more questions than answers. The public clamors for his death, and no one yearns for vengeance more than Mo Xi. Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, also known as 'Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat,' is a prolific Chinese author of danmei novels who has a passionate global fanbase and novels translated into multiple languages, including The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, Remnants of Filth, and the newest series Case File Compendium. ![]() Now Gu Mang has been returned to the empire a ruined man, a shadow of the military genius he once was. ![]() ![]() His comrade, the lowborn Gu Mang, was Mo Xi’s brother-in-arms, best friend, and-secretly-his lover, until the day Gu Mang turned traitor and joined the ranks of their nation’s greatest enemy. Once he was one of two promising young commanders, twin stars of the empire. 1 Synopsis Also known as BAB, the newest Chinese danmei/Boys’ Love novel series from the blockbuster author of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun A modern tale with a sci-fi edge: an elite young man with a dark side develops a deep, aggressive relationship with his former doctor. Noble-born Mo Xi is the foremost general of Chonghua, known for his ruthless temper and ascetic air. The wildly popular danmei/Boys' Love novel series from China set in the universe of The Husky and His White Cat Shizun!Ī historical fantasy epic about two war generals who were once close.until dark circumstances ripped them apart. ![]() ![]() She also taught continuing education courses at Brigham Young University, and wrote newspaper columns for the Malibu Monitor, the Santa Monica Outlook, and the California Intermountain News. ![]() After attending University of California at Los Angeles and Brigham Young University she started working as an Adolescent Phycologist. Their family includes four children, and several grandchildren. She moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA, where she met and married LaVorn G. She grew up in Logan, Utah the third of five children. Sparks was born to Vivian Johns and Leonard Clarence Mathews on Januin Goldberg, Idaho. She is a specialist in child and adolescent psychology, and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ![]() ![]() Jorg's personality and decisions are called into question. The world-building and how magic can exist when these books take place in a post-apocalyptic future is more thoroughly explained. This book is, in almost every way, better than the first. But playing fair was never part of Jorg’s game plan. But King Jorg is not a good king.įaced by an enemy many times his strength Jorg knows that he cannot win a fair fight. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. ![]() Every decent man prays this shining hero will unite the empire and heal its wounds. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them.Ī six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. ![]() I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood… ![]() To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "Moreover, it was no secret that Cleopatra had ruthless cunning and superior intelligence." US News (Dec 9, 2014) cunning Shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception "The seller can then accept, counter or reject the offer." BBC (Aug 25, 2013) counter Speak in response "There was tumbling, human pyramids and bodies stretched into extraordinary contortions." New York Times (Oct 23, 2014) contortion A tortuous and twisted shape or position "Today, the link is more conspicuous: highlighted in blue, it appears directly beneath the site's login form." "There are some food combos that blend with each other to create truly tasty concoctions." - US News (Sep 4, 2014) conspicuous Obvious to the eye or mind MSNBC (Sep 26, 2014) concoction A mixture of ingredients or elements "Moments later came commotion, followed by shouts of 'Stop pushing me!'" BBC (Dec 1, 2014) commotion Confused movements "That's almost 10 times the circumference of the Earth, which is a surprisingly small 24,859.82 miles." Circumference The size of something as given by the distance around it ![]() ![]() ![]() Miserable condition or the status quo which could never be changed. This proverb might also depict a conspiracy done by imperialism or by malicious thought to let people accept their nothing new, nothing creative is attained. it explains also why this poor society remains static. this might also explains why the poor and uneducated Hard work or struggling to improve one's standard of living. ![]() it might also echo a philosophy of life which discourages This is an echo of a fatalistic attitude to life. No matter how u r toiling yourself to make money, or to get promoted or to improve your lot in life, Women then r keen to get numerous kids as the husband might exchange one less fertile wife byīut, only yr allotted income (lot or livelihood.) is what u can get. They believe that countless kids r real power.Īgain kids represent source of income for the family since children r pushed to work and get money. praying forĮspecially among the poor and uneducated, Grafiti hidden by a Chinese French programmer in a rather highly-esteemed editor:ġ) and then there was that breathless tired (egyptian)woman NON PROVERBS GOOGLE TRANSLATE ARABIC ENGLISHĪRABIC / EGYPTIAN REVERSIBLE / SYMMETRICAL / MIRRORABLE WORDSĪmerican / British reversible proper names.htm Question/Answer Egyptian Colloquial / Baladi Proverbs ![]() |