![]() ![]() There’s also Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas… and I just discovered that there are Pippi comics as well, like Pippi Moves In. Tommy and Annika have a new neighbor: red-haired, freckle-faced Pippi Longstocking, who has upside-down braids and no parents to tell her what to do. (I don’t have the Puffin Modern Classics edition of Pippi Longstocking but I have Roald Dahl’s Matilda, which is awesome.)Īnother colorful copy, this one featuring the rollicking Villa Villekulla in the background.Īnd of course, that’s just the original Pippi Longstocking. I really like these Puffin Modern Classics – they’re affordable and they practically fit in your pocket. Pippi Longstocking: Book 1 Book by Astrid Lindgren (PAPERBACK). ![]() (She’s an author as well as an illustrator.)Ĭheck out this edition: Pippi in her original Swedish language. ![]() This version ( hardcover on the left, paperback on the right) is illustrated by Lauren Child, creator of the fab British kids show Charlie and Lola. (When I was a kid I totally had a stage where I tried to sleep with my head at the foot of the bed, in an effort to be more Pippi-ish.) This is actually the one I have it was originally published in 1972 and just look at it. Penguin is always coming out with new sets of old books – Puffin Chalk! Penguin Threads! Penguin Ink! Penguin Couture Deluxe! I love them all. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The little township of Bashan was once the kingdom so famous in Scripture for its bulls and its oaks. They were all in sight but the last, and it was not far away. We were only one little hour’s travel within the borders of Holy Land - we had hardly begun to appreciate yet that we were standing upon any different sort of earth than that we had always been used to, and see how the historic names began already to cluster! Dan - Bashan - Lake Huleh - the Sources of Jordan - the Sea of Galilee. Its banks, and those of the brook are respectably adorned with blooming oleanders, but the unutterable beauty of the spot will not throw a well-balanced man into convulsions, as the Syrian books of travel would lead one to suppose.įrom the spot I am speaking of, a cannon-ball would carry beyond the confines of Holy Land and light upon profane ground three miles away. This puddle is an important source of the Jordan. The Innocents Abroad: Table of Contents| The Name Palestine| Partition PlanĬhapter 46 Chapter 47 Chapter 48 Chapter 49 Chapter 50 Chapter 52 Chapter 53 Chapter 54 Chapter 55 Chapter 56 Chapter 57 Chapter 61 Chapter 46Ībout an hour’s ride over a rough, rocky road, half flooded with water, and through a forest of oaks of Bashan, brought us to Dan.įrom a little mound here in the plain issues a broad stream of limpid water and forms a large shallow pool, and then rushes furiously onward, augmented in volume. ![]() ![]() They are usually comfortable with their jobs and find it difficult letting go of their current expertise for career advancement. Women are too focused and loyal towards their current roles trying to master it by ignoring their own future aspirations and ways to reach there. However, it is important to take the responsibility of getting noticed by being prepared to talk about their own accomplishment and their careers plans. They expect people to notice their hard work and contribution. Women usually don’t talk about their contributions, which affects their visibility and positioning in the organization. Expecting Others to Spontaneously Notice and Reward your Contributions: ![]() ![]() It is often observed that while talking about achievements, they are reluctant to use the “I” word, which makes them good people but doesn’t help in career advancement.Ģ. A lot of women are uncomfortable taking credit for their work, therefore they would usually spread the credit around to their colleagues and team members. ![]() ![]() ![]() These books are- first, Kim by Rudyard Kipling (1901) second, A Passage to India by E. They have also associated the problems faced in a country during and after colonization. Each of them has tried to portray the crisis of an individual in terms of his national identity in different ways. ![]() ![]() Besides, this thesis deals with three novels by three different authors. This thesis looks at first, the search of national identity of an individual (both colonizers and colonized) during and after the colonial period second, the biased and stereotypical representation of the Indian culture and education third, the problems that were created by these prejudices which kept intact the distance between colonizers and colonized fourth, the conflicts within post- colonial nations and societies and conflicts and differences which define Indian politics. People of such countries have to go through three levels in the development of their national and cultural identity. The concept of identity is complex and complicated, especially in people of those countries which once were colonized. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The amazing success of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton has stoked an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Alexander Hamilton, the brilliant and divisive founder who profoundly shaped the American republic. An unfaithful husband whose commitment to personal honor brought his life to a tragic early end. ![]() A fierce partisan whose nationalist vision made him Thomas Jefferson’s bitter rival. Go beyond Lin-Manuel Miranda ’s Hamilton and get to know the real Alexander Hamilton in this Library of America collection of the Founding Father’s own public and private writings.Ī brash immigrant who rose to become George Washington’s right-hand man. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the process, I suggest, the transglobal fictional world of Delany’s novel counters totalizing notions of the global and of the literal globe which is a planetary world by exposing the “plural singularity” of any and all worlds. Delany’s 1984 novel, Stars in My Pockets Like Grains of Sand, dramatizes such an insight via a literally “transglobal” extrapolation of our current transnational dynamics. In recent critical work on SF, critics such as Fredric Jameson have persuasively argued that contemporary SF is a privileged literary mode of “cognitive mapping” of the inherently unrepresentable, technologically conditioned global economy. ![]() ![]() This essay begins with the recognition that science fiction, classic as well as contemporary, has always possessed a global, postnationalist imaginary, shying away from if also secretly conditioned by contemporary nationalist and imperialist scenarios. ![]() ![]() Interior images shared with permission from Penguin Random House. ![]() A third-generation Filipino-Hawaiian, Simeon details what it means to be Hawaiian and the important role that ethnicity plays in that definition: 'See, in Hawai i we identify ourselves ethnically rather than geographically. Through stunning photography, poignant stories, and dishes like wok-fried poke, pork dumplings made with biscuit dough, crispy cauliflower katsu, and charred huli-huli chicken slicked with a sweet-savory butter glaze, Cook Real Hawai‘i will bring a true taste of the cookouts, homes, and iconic mom and pop shops of Hawai‘i into your kitchen. Two-time Top Chef competitor Simeon celebrates Hawaiian cuisine in this enticing collection. With uncomplicated, flavor-forward recipes, he shows us the many cultures that have come to create the cuisine of his beloved home: the native Hawaiian traditions, Japanese influences, Chinese cooking techniques, and dynamic Korean, Portuguese, and Filipino flavors that are closest to his heart. ![]() He dedicated himself instead to the local Hawai‘i food that feeds his ‘ohana-his family and neighbors. ![]() The story of Hawaiian cooking, by a two-time Top Chef finalist and Fan Favorite, through 100 recipes that embody the beautiful cross-cultural exchange of the islands.Įven when he was winning accolades and adulation for his cooking, two-time Top Chef finalist Sheldon Simeon decided to drop what he thought he was supposed to cook as a chef. ![]() ![]() ![]() But a night of birthday celebration doesn't go exactly as planned and descends into a night she'll never be able to forget. Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. ![]() ![]() Now, on the cusp of her fortieth birthday, it appears Ellie has everything she ever wanted- a handsome husband an accomplished, college-age stepdaughter a beautiful ten-year-old girl adorable and rambunctious six-year-old twin. ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm excited to share my own omegaverse(s) with you. I'm a total fan of M/PREG Paranormal Romances, first and foremost as a reader. 18+ readers only please! And yes, this book contains M/PREG, knotting, adults doing lots of sexy naughty things to each other, and the more than occasional use of potty mouth language. You can read them on their own, but it's advised to read them in order for maximum appreciation. ![]() ![]() Every book is about 30k and guaranteed to have an HEA. This is the fifth book of the Northern Lodge Pack series. Daniel is not only an alpha, but he is actually claiming to be Luke's alpha! Can Luke trust this claim with his sense of smell suddenly gone and his wolf not responding?ĭaniel knows that Luke is his mate.if the stubborn omega won't take him at his word, then he will just have to romance the heck out of him until he does! Daniel is skilled at planning, but does he have the skills to plan his way into convincing his omega to accept Daniel as his fated mate? When orphaned omega, Luke, wakes up from a coma after being struck by a car, the last person he expects to see at his bedside is uptight, pack leader Daniel. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Lastly, 1977’s Harry Novak-produced The Child is a gloriously delirious slice of horror mayhem in which a young girl raises an army of the dead against the people she holds responsible for her mother’s death. ![]() Meanwhile, 1976’s Dark August stars Academy Award-winner Kim Hunter (A Streetcar Named Desire) in a story of a man pursued by a terrifying and deadly curse in the wake of a hit-and-run accident. Starting off with a little-seen 1970 offering from underrated cult auteur John Hayes (Grave of the Vampire, Garden of the Dead), Dream No Evil is a haunting, moving tale of a young woman’s desperate quest to be reunited with her long-lost father – only to find herself drawn into a fantasyland of homicidal madness. Continuing its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of US independent genre moviemaking, Arrow Films is proud to present the long-awaited second volume in its American Horror Project series co-curated by author Stephen Thrower (Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents). ![]() |