![]() ![]() The New York Times Book Review called Mo “the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in the 00's." In addition to such picture books as Leonardo the Terrible Monster, Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn’t Know She Was Extinct, and Time to Pee, Mo has created the Elephant and Piggie books, a series of early readers, and published You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When it Monsoons, an annotated cartoon journal sketched during a year-long voyage around the world in 1990-91. #1 New York Times Bestselling author and illustrator Mo Willems is best known for his Caldecott Honor winning picture books Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus and Knuffle Bunny: a cautionary tale. But when they finally get there, Trixie can't find her best friend Knuffle Bunny anywhere! With the absence of her beloved fluffy friend, everyone tries their best to help Trixie enjoy the rest of her holiday. Knuffle Bunny and Trixie are going on a very exciting holiday abroad to visit 'ma' and 'pa' in Holland. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Koch Brothers were playing a long term game, which started bearing fruit after three decades. One more mystery is how issues such as climate change became wedge issues after, it seems, almost all politicians, from all sides, agreed it’s an issue until… they didn’t.Īccording to the author two things happen, one was the election of Ronald Reagan, a movement conservative, the other was a campaign by two rich oil men in Kansas who decided to dedicate enormous amount of money to elect conservatives to every level in the American local and federal governments. I’ve read several books about the subject but it’s still a mystery to me. It has always been fascinating to me how politicians manage to convince people to vote against their own best interest. Regardless of your political affiliation, or even if you don’t have one, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer makes a fascinating, informative, and very convincing argument. ![]() ![]() If you’re a news / political junky like myself, put this book at the top of your “to read” list. Mayer is a writer for the New Yorker and author of several bestselling nonfiction books. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer is a nonfiction book tracing how rich and powerful people shape the world to fit their image. ![]() ![]() Todd White, a historian of the gay rights movement in Los Angeles, noted that the Brandstetter character "never wanted to flaunt his sexuality. ![]() Such was the tenor of the times (two years before the Stonewall riots) that just presenting a protagonist who was straight-forwardly gay was near revolutionary. Who also, at least in the case of Dave Brandstetter, happens to be gay. While that’s not exactly true-George Baxt’s Pharoah Love comes to mind as the first to be acclaimed-Hansen’s series falls evenly into the tradition of hardboiled Southern California detectives imagined by Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald: a tough, stoic, competent detective. Thanks to his Dave Brandstetter mystery series, Joseph Hansen’s entry in American Hard-Boiled Crime Writers states unequivocally that he’s the “Father of the gay mystery novel”. Joseph Hansen, quoted in “ The Mystery Novel As Serious Business” ![]() The best novels do this now as they have always done it. ![]() “The point of fiction is to give the reader for a few hours the chance to be somebody else, to broaden and deepen his understanding of himself and the strangers among whom he has to pass his days. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. ![]() Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique.ĭrawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. ![]() For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. ![]() ![]() ![]() And the part where I push you flush against the wall and every part of your body rubs against the bricks, shut up I'm getting to it. ![]() And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later. Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. I walk through your dreams and invent the future. I can tell already you think I'm the dragon, that would be so like me, but I'm not. Love always wakes the dragon and suddenly flames everywhere. Sing lady, sing! Of course, she wakes the dragon. Love on the water, love underwater, love, love and so on. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I couldn't come to your party. So maybe I wanted to give you something more than a catalog of non-definitive acts, something other than the desperation. Every morning the same big and little words all spelling out desire, all spelling out You will be alone always and then you will die. ![]() Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other. Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed OutĮvery morning the maple leaves. ![]() ![]() ![]() There have been many books on the subject, but, extraordinarily, no-one has really listened to what the secret societies themselves say. This history shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have worked themselves into this altered state - and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. Everything in this history is upside down, inside out and the other way around.At the heart of "The Secret History of the World" is the belief that we can reach an altered state of consciousness in which we can see things about the way the world works that are hidden from us in our everyday, commonsensical consciousness. From the esoteric account of the evolution of the species to the occult roots of science, from the secrets of the Flood to the esoteric motives behind American foreign policy, here is a narrative history that shows the basic facts of human existence on this planet can be viewed from a very different angle. Here for the first time is a complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is soon faced with an even greater challenge: staying alive long enough to learn how to handle a power she had no idea she possessed–a gift that allows her to see beyond the world of man, into the dangerous realm of the Fae.Īs Mac delves deeper into the mystery of her sister’s death, her every move is shadowed by the dark, mysterious Jericho Barrons, a man with no past and only mockery for a future. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Monosexual’ is a term meaning anyone whose attractions are to only one gender, whether that be a gender different than theirs, or the same. gathering of LGBTQ activists, involving thousands of people and rotating between regions of the country each year.ģ. Creating Change has occurred since the late 1980s and is the largest annual U.S. Creating Change is the annual training event and resource conference sponsored by the National LGBTQ Task Force (what was known for many years as the National Lesbian and Gay Task Force). ‘Cisgender’ is now in the dictionary, but for those still familiarizing themselves with the term, it simply means everyone who isn't transgender, i.e., those who feel comfortable with the sex/gender assigned them at birth.Ģ. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Modern Times, Johnson highlighted political, geopolitical, and social trends that have reached fruition in our own time. Kennan’s assertion that if you look to history for an understanding of what is happening in the world of the 21 st century, all the lines of inquiry lead back to World War I. In fact, Johnson’s book confirms George F. And the book’s central themes continue to have relevance in our 21 st century world. ![]() ![]() Some of Johnson’s vivid descriptions of the leading personalities and events of that time period are unforgettable. British historian Paul Johnson’s 1983 book Modern Times is a brilliant and eminently readable history of the world from the end of the First World War to the early 1980s (Johnson later updated it in 1992). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() First comes Plato and then a universal goddess named Asura and then Siddartha, the Buddha, and Jesus of Nazareth. The novel ranges from the creation of our planet and universe all the way to its near-death from entropy, the end of all heat in the universe, plus the characters. Alan Cheuse has our review.ĪLAN CHEUSE, BYLINE: "Ten Billion Days and A Hundred Billion Nights," that's a lot of time, but Ryu Mitsuse covers all of it in under 300 pages, and the result is quite fabulous. It's called "Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights" by Ryu Mitsuse. ![]() But perhaps the greatest Japanese science-fiction novel of all time, first published in 1967, is now available in an English translation. Most people's idea of Japanese science fiction begins and ends with Godzilla, the 1950s nuclear-spawned creature from the deep. From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. ![]() |