![]() ![]() ![]() Michaela Coel Is Redefining the Romantic Comedy.So I left, to “tell stories.” My mum was concerned she was an NHS mental health nurse at the time, and what could she do but watch my future fall into uncertainty? Where was I climbing to? Why was there no clear sign of safety at the end of the ladder? The lecture was fine, was good, but I bumped into a friend on the way out and found out I’d just sat through a lecture for law students. It was my second go at it, and in two years I’d been to only one English lecture. I was told to apply for something called a drama school, so I dropped out of uni, again. Not the Scottish bit, the Royal Bank bit. We lived directly opposite the Royal Bank of Scotland, which somehow felt “other” and slightly bizarre. Even now, there may be someone rushing past it for the hundredth time, briefcase in hand, with no idea this council estate exists. It was originally built in 1977, with the aim to help homeless people in London, and that’s my proud home. Right there, in plain sight, yet somehow unseen. The Square Mile, sometimes considered Tower Hamlets, sometimes considered “City of London” home to both the Stock Exchange and the Bank of England.īetween its modern corporate skyscraper towers and medieval alleyways exists a social housing estate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() America views itself as a 'city on a hill', a beacon to the world, whose values have universal validity. For over 2000 years the Chinese have seen 'all under Heaven' as being tributary to the Chinese Emperor. Islamic states have looked to their destined expansion over regions populated by unbelievers, a position exemplified today by Iran under the ayatollahs. Since the end of Charlemagne's empire, and especially since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Europeans have striven for balance in international affairs, first in their own continent and then globally. Kissinger identifies four great 'world orders' in history - the European, Islamic, Chinese and American. As if taking a perspective from far above the globe, it examines the great tectonic plates of history and the motivations of nations, explaining the attitudes that states and empires have taken to the rest of the world from the formation of Europe to our own times. ![]() World Order is the summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft. In World Order, Henry Kissinger - one of the leading practitioners of world diplomacy and author of On China - makes his monumental investigation into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rousseau was renowned for being optimistic about human nature. Émile is a thought experiment, in which the philosopher imagines a system of education designed to protect the natural unity of his pupil’s consciousness from the ills of civilisation. And his insistence on the value of learning in nature lies in the background of today’s Forest School movement.Īnd yet Rousseau referred to his text as ‘less an educational treatise than a visionary’s reveries about education’. His observation that children develop via a series of clearly demarcated stages, each with its own unique cognitive and emotional capacities, underpinned the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget’s theories of child psychology in the 1920s. ![]() His stress on the training of the body as well as the mind was the forerunner of the mania for organised sports that swept English boarding schools in the 19th century and inspired Baron Pierre de Coubertin to found the modern Olympic Games in 1896. ![]() Rousseau’s advocacy of learning via direct experience and creative play inspired the Swiss educational reformer Johann Pestalozzi, the German educator Friedrich Fröbel and the kindergarten movement. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Émile or On Education (1762) is perhaps the most influential work on education written in the modern world. ![]() ![]() If he had made them his responsibility, either by dissuading them from their ambitions or by bailing them out of their folly, the greatest botanist of our time would have been reduced to a babysitter. ![]() He hadn't rescued them! He hadn't been their father and mother! I will tell you, none of that troubled his sleep. They couldn't slander him as a scientist but they said no end of scurrilous things about him as a man. Then they changed their tune entirely, then they said Dr. ![]() People were quick to accept these terms until they themselves were weak. They had chosen to get themselves in and they would simply have to figure the means to get themselves out. He would not ferry back the weak and the lame. He remained beautifully consistent: he was to work and he would continue to work. Some took a day, two days, others were gone in a matter of hours, and Dr. Once they were out on the trail they fell like flies. ![]() But what I quickly learned was that their tenacity was for going, not for staying. All of the energy they could have put into their intelligence they had used to develop their tenacity. He didn't waste his time discouraging them because frankly there was no discouragement they could not withstand. ![]() He made his policy clear: he was not responsible for their food, their shelter, their safety, or their health. An endless succession of mongrels and malingerers, the laziest dropouts who fancied themselves explorers. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you buy into the main premise of Hill’s argument that success and material wealth can be accomplished through constant and consistent thought – harnessed with faith and desire, then this book will hold limitless power. PRESTON AND STIG’S GENERAL THOUGHTS ON THINK AND GROW RICHĪlbert Einstein has an amazing quote: “There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle or you can live as if everything is a miracle.” We find this quote very accommodating for the way you might receive this book. ![]() This book has gone on to be the #1 selling success book ever written. In the end, Hill’s research was simplified to the 250-page book we have today: Think and Grow Rich. Lucky for us, Hill was up for the challenge and he actually spent 20 years of his life conduct the research Carnegie charged him with conducting. Carnegie promised to open the doors to America’s 500 wealthiest people if Hill was up to the challenge. In an effort to document the elements of his success, Carnegie solicited the help from an ambitious journalist, Napoleon Hill. ![]() In today’s value (2015), Carnegie would have been worth a whopping $310 billion dollars. At the turn of the 20th century, Andrew Carnegie was one of the wealthiest men the world has ever seen. ![]() ![]() Gabe learns what it takes to rule an empire with his mentor, yet when the time comes for Gabe to take over Angelo's operation, he refuses, choosing a normal life despite his deep love for Vestieri. Vestieri takes the boy under his wing and ushers him into the world of organized crime. ![]() Slipping back in time to the Depression, the narrative tracks the rise of the famed mob boss from a simple Italian immigrant to the most powerful man of Manhattan's underworld, when a ten-year-old Gabe, by chance, walks into Vestieri's bar. In Gangster, he surpasses even his bestselling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption. The novel opens in 1996 as Gabe, now middle-aged, keeps watch over an old Angelo Vestieri on his hospital deathbed. ![]() ![]() Gangster is a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra, published in 2001, narrating the life of Angelo Vestieri from the early 20th Century until his death, and his rise to power in the New York City underworld. ![]() ![]() ![]() At its best, his writing is distinguished by infectious enthusiasm, a lighthearted style and often lyrical descriptions of the natural world. ![]() As the birds mature, Heinrich details how these and other ravens feed, nest, mate, play and establish a society with clear hierarchical levels. As he describes tending to the demanding babies, chopping up roadkill, cleaning up after them and enduring their noisy calls for food, readers will marvel at how much Heinrich knows and at how much joy he derives from acquiring that knowledge. ![]() Although he has raised many ravens through the years (beginning with a tame pair that shared his apartment at UCLA in the 1960s), Heinrich focuses much of his attention on four nestlings he adopted from the Maine woods near his home. In a book that demonstrates the rewards of caring and careful observation of the natural world, Heinrich (Ravens in Winter, etc.), a noted biologist, Guggenheim fellow and National Book Award nominee (for Bumblebee Economics, 1979), explores the question of raven intelligence through observation, experiment and personal experience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But despite the potentially challenging subject matter, it was important to me to steer clear of doom and gloom - it’s a fun sci-fi comic about friendship, romance and kicking ass. ![]() So, as I was sketching characters and situations, they pretty naturally materialized into a story about queer women fighting tooth-and-nail for their independence.Ĭontending with homophobia and misogyny while navigating a supposedly modern world, I wanted to explore that tension with the neo-medieval setting of Cosmoknights, where technology is advanced but gender roles are bound by these archaic rituals of jousting and costumes and prizes … of “winning” someone’s “hand” in marriage. I first came up with Cosmoknights back in 2016 while wrestling with issues in my own life around gender, sexuality, marriage and the culture I was raised in. There’s really no way of answering this without getting a little personal. 'The Idol' Stars Defend Controversial Show: "We Always Knew We Were Going to Make Something Provocative" ![]() ![]() Her characters are all unsteady on their feet in one way or another they all yearn for connection and betterment, though each in very different ways, but they are often tripped up by their own baser impulses and existential insecurities. There’s something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh’s stories, something almost dangerous, while also being delightful, and even laugh-out-loud funny. Homesick for Another World is the rare case where an author’s short story collection is if anything more anticipated than her novel.Īnd for good reason. ![]() But as many critics noted, Moshfegh is particularly held in awe for her short stories. Garlanded with critical acclaim, it was named a book of the year by The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle, nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction. ![]() ![]() Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut novel Eileen was one of the literary events of 2015. An electrifying first collection from one of the most exciting short story writers of our time. ![]() ![]() Samarov said, 'I was 7 years old when my family moved to this country from the Soviet Union, so I didnt grow up with. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.Ĭome on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home. Other popular works by Silverstein included Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up and Everything On it.' Artist and author Dmitry Samarov was the featured speaker at the stamp dedication in Chicago. ![]() Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. This digital edition also includes twelve poems previously only available in the special edition hardcover.Ī Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. take th garbage out), Silversteins funny bone seems to function wherever he goes.' She further noted that Where The Sidewalk Ends 'is an ideal book for teachers to have handy.' The book has proved popular with child readers as well it continues to sell many copies, as does Silversteins 1981 follow-up collection of poems, The Light In The Attic. ![]() From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings-a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old. ![]() |