![]() The Cold War was more of a global conflict than was either of this century's two major wars far more than a confrontation between states or even empires, it was, as Martin Walker puts it, "a total war between economic and social systems, an industrial test to destruction." ![]() ![]() ![]() Now that it's over, it's crucial to our future to understand how the Cold War has shaped us and, especially, to recognize it as the economic and political dynamic that determined the structure of today's global economy.įrom the origins of the Marshall Plan, which revived Europe after World War II, and the strategic decision to rebuild a defeated Japan into a bulwark against China, to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, this authoritative work reveals how the West was built into an economic alliance that overpowered the Soviet economy while also unleashing global economic forces that today challenge the traditional nation-state. So begins The Cold War: A History, a wide-ranging narrative by award-winning political commentator Martin Walker, which was one of the first major studies of its kind. "The history of the Cold War has been the history of the world since 1954." ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair.features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. ![]() ![]() ![]() But I’m getting better.Ĭan I ask about the PTSD therapy, if particular approaches were useful for you? Obviously, there was a quite a lot of PTSD. ![]() The hand that was badly damaged is recovering quite well with a lot of therapy. And that’s to say, the eye is not coming back. Do you have a notion of what recovery will look like? I wouldn’t say I’m 100% back, but I’m on the way. The human body has a remarkable capacity for healing. ![]() Salman Rushdie: I’m, you know, I’m getting there. But if Rushdie is less than delighted with how the fatwa has defined much of his life, he’s game enough about acknowledging the surge in public interest when, 34 years later, it nearly ended it. The acclaimed 2012 memoir was titled for the alias Rushdie used during the 10 years he spent underground after the fundamentalist leader of Iran put a $3 million bounty on his head over a few passages of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. And yet on the day that Rushdie, 75, spoke with me from his New York City home, it was into the camera of the laptop on which he’s pecking out what will be something of a sequel to Joseph Anton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much is murky about Tamerlan’s life leading up to the deadly attack on Boylston Street. Her book examines evidence that Tsarnaev had been enlisted by the feds to collect information about potential terrorist plots (the FBI denies this). An excerpt of it first appeared in Boston in 2017: Federal Informant?“Ī book exploring the theory that Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an FBI informant will soon be made into a docu-series, and now it has an Oscar-winning director on board, the production company Propagate/Electus has announced.įew details were immediately available, but Deadline reports that directors Charles Ferguson, whose credits include 2008’s Oscar-winning Inside Job, and Shimon Dotan, who directed the Sundance prize-winning Hot House, have been tapped to direct a series based on Maximum Harm, the explosive account written by local journalist and Boston contributor Michele McPhee. Photo collage by Eric Mongeon and Toan Trinh for “ Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. ![]() ![]() ![]() You see Beast Boy's family in "Beast Boy" and "Beast Boy Loves Raven." I liked the idea of continuing a family theme where you're not only seeing the found family and the Teen Titans group form, but you're also looking at real sibling dynamics. You see her new mom, which is really her aunt. In "Raven," you see her foster mom who's about to be her adoptive mom. All of the books are about found family, but they all have different bits of family in them. The idea of a brothers' story came to mind, and that's in line with the series anyway. He was like, "I really want to have Dick too." That was complicated because I was planning on one Robin, but then I tried to figure out how would I incorporate both of them since Dick is his favorite and Damian is mine. ![]() ![]() Even though he liked Damian, he was sad and sounded upset. He saw there was a Robin pitch, but he didn't realize it was Damian. ![]() Then, once Gabriel was the artist for the project, and we were co-creating together - Dick is his favorite Robin. In my original pitch, it was a Damian-Robin pitch. What made Robin - both Damian and Dick Grayson - the next characters you wanted to focus on? It's nice to see that payoff when the books come out and the readers are so excited about them. We all know each other, and we feel comfortable with what everyone else brings to the table. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In orang, Tarzan means “white skin”, but his real name is John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke. When his parents die, Tarzan is taken in by a tribe of big monkeys, the orangs, a race unknown to science, but who shares common characteristics with gorillas, chimpanzees and the first Hominid, in particular a primitive form of language. Tarzan is the son of English aristocrats who have been landed in the African jungle after a mutiny. ![]() This first volume will be followed by 25 others. Tarzan is a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1914 in the novel Tarzan of the Apes, which will be published for the first time in France by Fayard in 1926 under the title Tarzan chez les singes. Hall Printing Company, Chicago” printed in gothic letters on 2 lines on the verso of the title leaf, and it also possesses the binding in first issue, without the acorn design that will appear at the bottom of the spine on the second issue. This copy belongs to the first issue of the text, with the mention “ W.F. First edition and first issue of the adventures of Tarzan, mythical fictional character of the 20th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() If students are having a hard time with making connections, create a list or graphic organizer of events that happened in the story. We talk about how relating and making connections to a story helps you understand it better. I really start to focus on text-to-self connections. Many families go on road trips or trips in general during this time of the year. ![]() You wouldn’t be reading it for that reason though. Obviously, they are getting together for the holiday season. Which is a total bummer because most students (even adults) learn thematically…Īnyways, this is a great story to read this time of the year because it’s a story about families getting together. A lot of “holiday” talk or thematic teaching is frowned upon. I am lucky enough to work in a school where our principal trusts us and we don’t feel too much pressure from administration. I know there are a lot of teachers out there that are very limited on what they can teach this time of the year. ![]() She is just one of my favorite authors in general. One of my favorite books to read this time of the year is “The Relatives Came” by Cynthia Rylant. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Victor Hugo's sensational, evocative novel brings life to the medieval Paris he loved, and mourns its passing in one of the greatest historical romances of the nineteenth century. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. In the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. ![]() More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love, Notre-Dame de Paris, is translated with an introduction by John Sturrock in Penguin Classics. ![]() ![]() ![]() “When I first met Michael, he was making commercials and came to see me one day in a gigantic, perfectly manicured Rolls-Royce,” recalled Deric Washburn, a relatively inexperienced screenwriter whose day job was carpentry. Trouble started early, at the script stage. Albeit a powerful film that displayed Cimino’s talents to the full, with long, languorous takes that allowed the spectacularly gifted cast the freedom to make the most of a bone-crushing story, it tore open barely healed wounds with its vicious portrait of the North Vietnamese, who subjected poor American GIs confined in cramped tiger cages to games of Russian roulette while cackling like monkeys as they bet on the outcome. The Deer Hunter was released a scant three years after the fall of Saigon, which marked the end of the most divisive war in American history, excluding, of course, the Civil War. During the course of his roller-coaster ride through Hollywood, this short, slight man with a nimbus of auburn hair became a magnet for controversy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, thousands of Youngie in large Amish settlements are dedicated smartphone and Internet users, forcing them to navigate carefully between technology and religion. ![]() ![]() Once hidden in physical mailboxes, announcements of weekend parties are now posted on Facebook. Stevick, who says that Amish teenagers are now exposed to a world that did not exist for them only a few years ago. Accurately reveals the challenges faced by Amish youth caught between the expectations of traditional community and the pressures and temptations of adolescence.On the surface, it appears that little has changed for Amish youth in the past decade: children learn to work hard early in life, they complete school by age fourteen or fifteen, and a year or two later they begin Rumspringa-that brief period during which they are free to date and explore the outside world before choosing whether to embrace a lifetime of Amish faith and culture.But the Internet and social media may be having a profound influence on significant numbers of the Youngie, according to Richard A. ![]() |