![]() ![]() ![]() The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature. The extracts are presented in a new reader-friendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places, figures, and scenes. Lacy builds on the book's source material, presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modern-spelling versions of Arthurian texts. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain, as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Middle English, and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts, encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance. Lacy is the Edwin Erie Sparks Professor of French at Penn State University and Honorary President of the International Arthurian Society. ![]() Wilhelm's classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. Summary: "The Romance of Arthur, James J. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The prevalent philosophical school of Chuang Tzu’s time was Confucianism, one that he openly criticized with humor and wit. ![]() In fact, Taoism had not yet evolved into the balance of forces, the emphasis of flow, or the fidelity to one’s own nature as we know it today. Taoism, the philosophical school with which Chuang Tzu is most associated, was not a predominant one during his time. Let’s explore the man, the way of Chuang Tzu, and a few fundamental practices of Taoism. ![]() He wrote (although scholars debate exactly which portions he wrote himself) a book known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of a few fundamental texts of Taoism. Chuang Tzu (or Zhuangzi) was a key contributor to what is known as a golden age of Chinese philosophy. He was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC. Who was Chuang Tzu? 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The English translation was nominated for the 2004 Edgar Award for Best Novel. This novel is currently published by Vintage, part of Random House, in Britain and has been translated into English by Stephen Snyder. It is Kirino's first novel to be published in the English language. The novel won the 51st Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Best Novel. Out ( アウト) is a 1997 Japanese crime novel written by Japanese author Natsuo Karin and published in English in 2004. ![]() ![]() “You know, fingernail polish, that was always one big issue for the Taliban,” she added. ![]() Plus, they lost their income, not to mention that they’ve lost their livelihood,” Rodriguez explained. “You’re doing something that’s completely against what the Taliban thinks is good and that the Taliban thinks is against Islam and so they feel very vulnerable that way. 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Illustrator: Anngee Neo is a freelance illustrator whose work has been seen in magazines, promotional materials, advertisements, posters, game apps, as well as in her first children’s book, I Pura the Cat, published by Marshall Cavendish in October 2012. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kruse, a professor of American history and author, was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts. ![]() Hopefully, Myth America is one step in correcting that. The public’s lack of understanding of American history has been well documented. The list goes on: American exceptionalism, immigration, the American empire, white supremacy and confederate monuments. and they explore how claims of voter fraud have been used for well over a century to pass voter suppression laws to keep some citizens from voting. They examine big government programs such as the New Deal and the Great Society to see if they failed in the end. For example, they untangle falsehoods about the dangers of socialism and how the feminist movement supposedly set out to undermine motherhood and family values. ![]() Kruse and Zelizer, both historians at Princeton University, assemble an impressive number of well-published historians and legal scholars who cover a wide range of issues and document that many have roots in our past. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been a bank cashier, a fire performer, and a juggler. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and has had close encounters with black bears, killer whales, and great white sharks. She was raised in the wilds of Cornwall and split her childhood between books and the beach. ( From the publisher.)īeth Lewis is a managing editor at Titan Books in London. ![]() The Wolf Road is an intimate cat-and-mouse tale of revenge and redemption, played out against a vast, unforgiving landscape-told by an indomitable young heroine fighting to escape her past and rejoin humanity. ![]() If she’s going to survive, Elka will have to turn and confront not just him, but the truth about the dark road she’s been set on. But judging by the trail of blood dogging her footsteps, she hasn’t left Trapper behind-and he won’t be letting his little girl go without a fight. And now that Elka knows the truth, she may be his next victim.Īrmed with nothing but her knife and the hard lessons Trapper’s drilled into her, Elka flees into the frozen north in search of her real parents. 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This shattering condition decimates the lives of both its sufferers (or as Alice describes them “strugglers”), and those who are forced to watch the path of destruction it weaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() What is it like to lose yourself, piece by piece? What is it like for your loved ones to watch you disappear, knowing that there is virtually nothing they can do to stop the process? Watching the film Still Alice (based on the book by Lisa Genova) gives us some insight into the devastation that Alzheimer’s Disease causes. ![]() ![]() ![]() The natural view had me hooked, enough to make me decide to come to the U.S. “In 1971, I passed by Jackson Hole toward Yellowstone when I visited the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as an economist sent by the Bank of Korea that is the counterpart of the Fed. without losing anything in the main story.) (In this article, my own part is “shadow,” so it is italic to distinguish it from the main text. ![]() The year 1971 was not only for America to have to stop the gold conversion, but it was a fateful year for me to change the course of my life at age 32 (with wife and two sons) from the safe and comfortable life with the best job in Korea (at that time) to a risky, challenging, and adventurous life in a new world, America. But after 1971, exchange rates have been "managed" (or "dirty" or "manipulated"). In 1971 (when I left my first footprint on American soil), President Nixon discontinued the gold conversion by the Smithsonian Agreement, proclaiming, "I am a Keynesian." Exchange rates of each country were pegged to the dollar in the original system. ![]() |