![]() ![]() Brady is a millenial who has 2 lower-rung jobs and lives with his mother. ![]() We learn who the killer is almost immediately. (In 2009? Was the internet really so unknown back then?) He refuses to ask his own police department for help, (why?) and adopts a neighboring teen handyman, Jerome, who is good with computers, as his “cop buddy.” Jerome’s tech ability is fortuitous, as the killer wants to communicate in a chat room, and Bill is strangely lacking in tech skills. ![]() ![]() Hey, I know! What if a killer – a serial killer – taunts him about the case he never solved: the Mercedes Killer? (The killer had plowed the car into a line of job-seekers, 2 of whom we got to know briefly.) Bill immediately cheers up with this challenge and goes to work on figuring out this nutcase. There is a teeny tiny yellow smiley sticker on it, which I mention later! An umbrella only features in the first scene, so this object is not related to the book much, but still, makes a good graphic. He’s a little depressed - maybe a lot depressed - living alone, job over, ex-wife gone, only TV left. Bill Hodges, recently retired police detective, lives in some town in the midwest. For decades, I have been depending on Stephen King to take away the pain of living. Mercedes ~ Book Review by Stephen KingĢ014, Hardback - straight Mystery!, serial killer ![]()
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![]() ![]() Clearly, this is an oversimplification of an issue that requires as much of my refrain (nuance!) as any other human endeavor, but the broad strokes are hard to refute. It only stands to reason that this methodology is the very definition of unsustainable. Now, this is the part that has always fascinated me about us as a population: This kind of farmer is doing all they can to make their factory quota for the company, of grain, or meat, or what have you, despite their soil, climate, water, budget, or talent. On the other end of the spectrum is full-speed-ahead robo-farming, in which the farmer is following the instructions of the corporation to produce not food but commodities in such a way that the corporation sits poised to make the maximum financial profit. It’s tough as hell, and in many cases impossible, to farm this way and earn enough profit to keep your bills paid and your family fed, but these farmers do exist. Variety is one of the keys to this technique, eschewing the corporate monocultures for a revolving set of plants and animals, again, to mimic what was already happening on the land before we showed up with our earth-shaving machinery. ![]() They observe how efficacious or not their efforts are proving, and they adapt accordingly. On one end of the spectrum we have farmers like James, interested in producing the finest foodstuffs that they can, given the soil, the climate, the water, the budget, and their talent. “propose that we consider our farmers on a spectrum, let’s say, of agrarianism. ![]() ![]() ![]() John Thornton and begins to challenge the previously assumed role of women in society. Among the differences in the two areas, Margaret is exposed to an entirely new social and class structure. Elizabeth Gaskell addresses a number of critical political and social issues stemming from the protagonist Margaret Hale’s relocation from Southern to Northern England. North and South was originally published in 1855 in segments as a part of a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens. She is undoubtedly one of the great writers of all time. Her writing is timeless, seeing that much of her work is still being published, read, and admired some hundred years later. ![]() She also challenged the traditional roles of women in society in many of her novels, including North and South, Wives and Daughters, and Mary Barton, but especially through her biography of fellow author Charlotte Bronte, who wrote the famous novel entitled Jane Eyre. Elizabeth Gaskell spread the message for the need for better understanding between employers and workers, and between the highly-regarded and the outcasts, through her writing and her active humanitarian role in society. ![]() ![]() ![]() The couple is at the center of the novel’s investigation of the complexities faced by those millions of African Americans who moved from the rural South to the North during the great migration in search of jobs and a better life in the cities. The novel tells the story of the New York neighborhood Harlem from the perspective of its ordinary inhabitants, namely Joe and Violet Trace. The woman was dead the next day and so intentionally did not betray her lover, the man who had murdered her. The idea for the novel originated with a James Van Der Zee photograph of a dead teenaged woman who, knowing she was dying, told her friends that tomorrow she would give them the name of the man who had shot her with a silenced gun at a rent party. ![]() Jazz (1992) is the second of a trilogy of Morrison’s novels reflecting on the idea of love and its manifestations. ![]() ![]() ![]() At once a guidebook to pessimistic thought and a relentless critique of humanity's employment of self-deception to cope with the pervasive suffering of their existence, The Conspiracy against the Human Race may just convince readers that there is more than a measure of truth in the despairing yet unexpectedly liberating negativity that is widely considered a hallmark of Ligotti's work. The book is a goldmine of truths that one needs to be reminded of regularly as they can be easily forgotten in a stop-gap happy world. ![]() Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it on his audience, causing them to grapple with the brutal reality that they are living a meaningless nightmare, and anyone who feels otherwise is simply acting out an optimistic fallacy. ![]() It may be stated thus: Behind the scenes of life lurks something pernicious that makes a nightmare of our world." His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. "There is a signature motif discernible in both works of philosophical pessimism and supernatural horror. ![]() In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument that proves the greatest horrors are not the products of our imagination but instead are found in reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kenneth Hindle-May I found the exact same thing. Explicit psychological tampering through AI programming, human "re-education", and the creation of ancillaries from dissidents and prisoners of war). Threat of physical harm to the ships, humans, and those they care about.ģ. Appeals to abstract principles: justice, propriety, benefit, and civilization.Ģ. And thus understanding how the Radchaai compel obedience in humans would also answer the question of how they compel obedience among ships (who are also sentient beings, with feelings and free will, who choose obedience over the alternatives). ![]() that you’re slaves?” could just as easily be posed by Breq or any ship AI to any of the humans subject to the rule of the Lord of Radch. What stops you from killing them all and declaring yourselves free? I’ve never been able to understand how the Radchaai can keep the ships enslaved.” The officers inside are at your mercy every moment. “Doesn’t it bother you,” Strigan continued, “didn’t it ever bother you, that you’re slaves?” ![]() Fred Baba Looking back a sentence, the exchange goes: “Doesn’t it bother you,” Strigan continued, “didn’t it ever bother you, that you’re slaves?” “Who?” “The ship …more Looking back a sentence, the exchange goes: ![]() ![]() A short history of the Philippines by Agoncillo, Teodoro A. ![]() * Published several historical books, essays and poems (His essays were later collected and published with the title History and Culture, Language and Literature: Selected Essays of Teodoro A. People A short history of the Philippines. * Faculty Member and later Chair of the Department of History, University of the Philippines * Served as an instructor at the Far Eastern University and the Manuel L. ![]() ![]() * Worked as a linguistic assistant at the Institute of National Language Post Graduate (Doctorate) : Doctor of Letters honoris causa from Central Philippine University ![]() Post Graduate (Masteral) : University of the Philippines Teodoro Agoncillo (Photo credit: )īirthplace : Lemery, Batangas, PhilippinesĬollege : University of the Philippines (1934) History of the Filipino people by Agoncillo, Teodoro A Publication date 1990 Topics Philippines - History, Philippines, Philippines - History Publisher Quezon City Philippines : Garotech Pub. ![]() ![]() ![]() OL7978489W Pages 34 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.13 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210524132437 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 187 Scandate 20210520224046 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780618963317 Tts_version 4. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), 6.95 (47pp) ISBN 978-6-3 Those lighthearted hippo pals are back in five short stories. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:10:47 Boxid IA40121703 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier BUY THIS BOOK George and Martha Tons of Fun James Marshall. George and Martha are hippos who do everything together, including playing tricks on each other, going to the beach, and jump, or not, off the high dive at the. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rich and diverse sources supply the framework for fruitful class discussions. Over 220 primary sources underscore the wide range of documents available for historical inquiry and offers instructors a treasure trove of teaching materials that will resonate with students. Provides a useful format for teaching and learning women’s history, combining an overarching narrative with a wealth of primary sources. ![]() ![]() history, including abolitionism, progressive reform, industrialization, immigration, wars, and civil rights movements. Through Women’s Eyes emphasizes the ways in which women’s lives aligned with major historical changes and movements in U.S. Examines women’s history in the context of the forces that shaped American society. Integrating women from a broad range of classes, ethnicities, religions, and regions into its interpretive framework, Through Women’s Eyes pays particular attention to Native American, African American, Latina, Asian American, and working-class women, reflecting not only current scholarship but the diversity of today’s classrooms. Emphasizes the diversity of women’s experiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poems are not "about" life: rather, they are a startling mimesis of its instability and transience.' 'Alison Croggon's transformative and impassioned translation of Rilke's Duino Elegies attempt the extraordinary - to bring existence into a temporal-spatial focus. As she says in her introductory essay: 'The turbulent currents that make the Elegies so enthralling are generated by the dynamic contradictions of a mind acutely conscious of its own movements¿. Alison Croggon's radical new translation captures the energies of the German poems with an urgent, acute clarity. They remain powerful testaments to Rilke's struggles with the mysteries of existence and the endlessly opening miracle of the everyday. The restless movement of these poems reflects his lifelong struggle to reconcile the dichotomies of joy and suffering, life and death, masculine and feminine, that ruled his life. He considered the Duino Elegies - a cycle of ten poems written in inspirational bursts between 19 - to be his major achievement. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of Germany's major Modernist poets, notable for the lyric intensity of his work. Print Duino Elegies - Translated by Alison CroggonĪuthor(s): Rainer Maria Rilke Alison Croggon (Intro and Notes by, Translator) John Kinsella (Preface by) ![]() |