![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Quoted everywhere from Parenting to The Wall Street Journal, with more than a million copies of their books in print, bestselling authors Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond Satran are the baby-name experts. Linda Rosenkrantz and Pamela Redmond SatranNo one knows baby names like these two experts-whose first book Beyond Jennifer & Jason predicted back in 1988. ![]()
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![]() ![]() An Premier, Ere Spatiale Year 1 Of The Space Era (1959) was about the first faster-than-light spaceship. Le Chant des Astronautes The Astronauts' Song (1958) dealt with the battle against energy creatures from Algol. In accordance with Henneberg’s philosophy, the astronaut was the hero, and the poet the misguided villain. ![]() In it, a scientist, an astronaut and a poet stranded on another planet discover they can psychically create life and, eventually, vie for supremacy. ![]() La Naissance des Dieux (1954) adapted Greek and Nordic mythologies in a science fiction context. German-born Charles Henneberg wrote a series of flamboyant space operas featuring superheroic protagonists, often soldiers or mercenaries, full of violent, romantic passions. Henneberg got her start writing with her husband, apparently collaborating without attribution on several of his novels. She was married to, and collaborated with, Charles Henneberg zu Irmelshausen Wasungen (1899–1959). Nathalie Henneberg (October 23, 1910, Batumi – June 24, 1977, Paris) was a French science fiction writer, a precursor of modern French heroic fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But cyberpunk, the sci-fi subgenre that gave us cyberspace, now seems a thing of the past, an old dystopian daydream of Reaganomics gone global. It spawned sub-subgenres, of course-splatterpunk with its ballistic gore and, more recently, steam-punk, a sentimental mixture of info-tech and industrial chic that answers globalization with Victoriana. ![]() Cyberpunk has been bleeding slowly ever since, never quite dying but no longer capable of the dazzling fictional displays that made it seem, for a time anyway, immortal. Neal Stephenson dealt the genre a killer blow with his virtual swift sword in Snow Crash (1992). But in retrospect, like the musical movement it invokes, cyberpunk appears shockingly short-lived: Gibson's Neuromancer (1984), Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix (1985)-only a few novels still wear all that black with panache. It was Goth angst meets digital wizardry. It has been over twenty-five years since Gibson hacked his way onto the science fiction continuum, creating a subgenre that became instantly infamous: cyberpunk. Old punks get day jobs, like Joe Strummer-or William Gibson. Old punks never die, only young ones (think Sid Vicious). The king called up his jet fighters He said you better earn your pay ![]() ![]() ![]() They utilized natural remedies and herbal remedies. Most were taught by their mothers, grandmothers, or other women in the community. These women were called ‘wise women,’ ‘midwives,’ and sometimes ‘healers.’ These women held powerful status due to their healing ‘powers.’ Even today, women are often stereotyped with qualities of caregiver and nurturer. In the 18th and 19th centuries, most healthcare was provided by women. They were often charged specifically with possessing medical and obstetrical skills.” One reason purports that “…they are accused of having magical powers affecting health-of harming, but also of healing. ![]() During this time, women were accused of being witches for multiple reasons. Yes, sorry to all the men out there, but guess what? It’s your fault! All kidding aside, ” The rise of the male medical profession in 19th century America” is to blame, according to the linked article titled A History of Women Healers. One theory lays the blame for the witch hunts and the relationship of nurses to witches on the MEN. The Witch trials of Northern Europe and the Salem Witch Trials all have some relationship to healthcare practices. Multiple documents address this historical relationship. ![]() ![]() There is a distinct correlation in the history of Witches, Nurses, and Midwives. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But most of her fans will find this book inspiring and unintimidating. For the millions of urbanites who love her style, but cannot find an organic tussock, Stewart fails to suggest a substitute-say, a couple of bunches of parsley. Following the success of Entertaining, Stewart released. ![]() Yet some of the rusticity espoused in the recipes verges on artificial: a country ham is to be baked atop a bed of grass. The result was her first book, Entertaining (December 13, 1982), ghostwritten by Elizabeth Hawes. Gone are the gilded pumpkins of yore instead, Stewart's Halloween party calls for pumpkins stuffed with a savory mix of vegetables and chicken, topped with puff pastry and served with a cognac cream sauce on the side. In 20 chapters, she gives step-by-step instructions for assembling a theme party-whether a spicy Thai lunch or a fried green tomatoes brunch. Entertaining, her first book, was published in 1982. ``Light'' this isn't, but preparation and menus are indeed more spare than in the author's earlier efforts. In the early 1980s, Martha Stewart was working as a caterer and couldnt find a good book on entertaining so she wrote her own. Though she claims in her introduction that she now prefers simpler foods and fixings, Stewart's mashed potatoes still call for a stick of butter, a quarter cup of heavy cream and a cup of softened cream cheese. Just when you thought the lavish style of '80s-era entertaining was gone forever, Stewart (Martha Stewart's New Old House) releases another book destined to make party-givers want to blow up balloons and repolish their candelabras. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Discharged, a shocked Muriel returns to the flagship location of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, where she reveals her news, but when she arrives, she is devastated to learn that Sonny (Dev Patel) and Sunaina (Tina Desai) are leaving the hotel and Jaipur and moving to Delhi with Sunaina's family for six months. ![]() Six months after the events of the last film, in a hospital bed in Jaipur, Muriel Donnelly (Maggie Smith) expects the worst, but a doctor happily tells her that a treatment is available for her and she'll hopefully make a full recovery. It is the sequel to the 2011 sleeper hit film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and its sequel and features an ensemble cast consisting of stars Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Tina Desai, Lillete Dubey, Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Rajesh Tailang, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Robbie Coltrane, Dev Patel and Richard Gere. PG-13 The Third Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a 2017 comedy-drama film directed by John Madden and written by Ol Parker. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perfect for study, reference or just simply appreciation. ![]() I also studied and practiced woodblock printing as an art student and so understand the workings of the medium a little better.Ī splendid and most comprehensive collection of Hokusai’s art work, all in one book. I adore Hokusai’s landscape woodblock prints the most, for their austere forms and vistas which I find to be pleasantly calming. “The Dream Of The Fisherman’s Wife” (above right) is undoubtably his most famous piece. (above & below) Hokusai’s subject matters were greatly varied and he also created some Shunga ( Japanese erotic art ). (above) “The Great Wave Off Kanagawa” is Hokusai’s most iconic and recognizable wood block print. This big and beautiful book (published by Phaidon) presents a comprehensive survey of the work of one of Japan’s greatest and most influential artists, with over 700 pieces of art work spanning 520 pages. program to bring state-of-the-art exhibition to the Spanish city of A Corua. Katsushika Hokusai was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (1600-1800s). Steven Meisel are releasing a new book with publishing house Phaidon. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Four Feet, Two Sandals was inspired by a refugee girl who asked the authors why there were no books about children like her. As the girls go about their routines washing clothes in the river, waiting in long lines for water, and watching for their names to appear on the list to go to America the sandals remind them that frie ndship is what is most important. But soon Lina and Feroza meet and decide that it is better to share the sandals than for each to wear only one. Ten-year-old Lina is thrilled when she finds a sandal that fits her foot perfectly, until she sees that another girl has the matching shoe. When relief workers bring used clothing to the refugee camp, everyone scrambles to grab whatever they can. ![]() ![]() ![]() "When No Man Pursueth"-The guest, Mortimer Stellar, is based on Asimov himself.Each story involves the club members' knowledge of trivia. ![]() It collects twelve stories by Asimov, nine reprinted from mystery or science fiction magazines and three previously unpublished, together with a general introduction, and an afterword following each story by the author. This book is the second of six that describe mysteries solved by the Black Widowers, based on a literary dining club he belonged to known as the Trap Door Spiders. The first British edition was issued by Gollancz in April 1977. It was first published in hardcover by Doubleday in October 1976, and in paperback by the Fawcett Crest imprint of Ballantine Books in November 1977. More Tales of the Black Widowers is a collection of mystery short stories by American author Isaac Asimov, featuring his fictional club of mystery solvers, the Black Widowers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When the narrator moves to Chicago, he and Cletus pass each other in the corridor of their new school but each remains silent. Isolated by his mother’s sudden death the narrator’s fleeting friendship with Cletus Smith comes to a sudden end when Cletus is caught up in a domestic tragedy which culminates in the murder of his mother’s lover and the suicide of his father. Set in small town Illinois, Maxwell’s novel is narrated by an elderly man looking back over fifty years to his painful adolescence and an incident that still torments him: his decision to ignore a friend in need. He was the friend and editor of J D Salinger, Eudora Welty, Vladimir Nabokov and John Updike, and published six novels of his own my favourite of which is So Long, See You Tomorrow. Maxwell became fiction editor of The New Yorker in 1937, remaining there for forty years. I’m not sure if all editors make fine writers but William Maxwell’s prose exemplifies the elegant, clean, quietly understated style that I so admire. ![]() This is the latest in a series of occasional posts featuring books I read years ago about which I was wildly enthusiastic at the time, wanting to press a copy into as many hands as I could. ![]() |
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