![]() ![]() The author also offers high-sounding asides on the coincidental nature of human life, socioeconomic events, and other weighty matters. ![]() Michener provides a cursory, consistently upbeat account of his VIP excursions in Poland during a period when winds of change were beginning to whistle through Eastern Europe, and in a subsequent trip to Rome, where he renewed acquaintances with Pope John Paul II as well as with the US ambassadors to the Vatican and Italy. Apparently eager for a reconciliation, Party officials awarded the octogenarian author an unspecified medal and gave him and his entourage the run of the country. Years earlier, he had recounted the buffer state's bloody, checkered history in a best-selling novel (Poland, 1983) that, while well received by the populace, had made him persona non grata with the Communist regime. Michener was invited to visit Poland in 1988, ostensibly by the Writers' Union but actually by the government. ![]() A pretentious trifle from a writer whose fiction, whatever its artistic deficiencies, can at least usually be described as substantial. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At a time when losing a limb made a soldier a hero, but losing a face made him a monster to a society largely intolerant of disfigurement, Gillies restored not just the faces of the wounded but also their spirits. ![]() There, Gillies assembled a unique group of practitioners whose task was to rebuild what had been torn apart, to re-create what had been destroyed. Returning to Britain, he established one of the world’s first hospitals dedicated entirely to facial reconstruction. Gillies, a Cambridge-educated New Zealander, became interested in the nascent field of plastic surgery after encountering the human wreckage on the front. The Facemaker tells the extraordinary story of such an individual: the pioneering plastic surgeon Harold Gillies, who dedicated himself to reconstructing the burned and broken faces of the injured soldiers under his care. In the midst of this brutality, however, there were also those who strove to alleviate suffering. The First World War claimed millions of lives and left millions more wounded and disfigured. ![]() ![]() Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true story of a visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War’s injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery.įrom the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: humankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. ![]() ![]() ![]() You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. ![]() Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. 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Now, for the first time, based on numerous interviews with key insiders at the FBI and CIA as well as with Chinese agents and people close to them, David Wise tells the full story of China’s many victories and defeats in its American spy wars.Two key cases interweave throughout: Katrina Leung, code-named Parlor Maid, worked for the FBI for years, even after she became a secret double agent for China, aided by love affairs with both of her FBI handlers. For decades, while America obsessed over Soviet spies, China quietly penetrated the highest levels of government. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical - which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others.Ĭitizen weaves essays, images and poetry together to form a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society. Claudia Rankine is the author of Just Us: An American Conversation, Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. 'And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description.' Citizen: An American Lyric Paperback Octoby Claudia Rankine (Author) 3,170 ratings Goodreads Choice Award nominee See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 10.99 189 Used from 1.36 46 New from 5.68 4 Collectible from 56. 'Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR POETRY 2015 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015 WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015 ![]() ![]() ![]() That such an appearance is deceptive, and that on the contrary the ego is continued inwards, without any sharp delimitation, into an unconscious mental entity which we designate as the id and for which it serves as a kind of façade-this was a discovery first made by psychoanalytic research, which should still have much more to tell us about the relation of the ego to the id. ![]() This ego appears to us as something autonomous and unitary, marked off distinctly from everything else. Normally, there is nothing of which we are more certain than the feeling of our self, of our own ego. The following line of thought suggests itself. one is justified in attempting to discover a psychoanalytic-that is, a genetic explanation of such a feeling. letter to LAS: Even the assurance most clearly expressed in Grabbe's Hannibal that "we shall not fall out of this world" doesn't seem sufficient substitute for the surrender of the boundaries of the ego, which can be painful enough.) refers to a line from Hannibal by C D Grabbe. ![]() Pages numbers in these notes give SE before Penguin if only one: SE, unless 'P' for Penguin is added.Ħ4-73 Text in the standard edition runs 64-145 (82pp.), editor's introduction 59-63 in the Penguin edition text is 251-340 (90pp.) Penguin Freud Library volume 12: 243-340. from Das Unbehagen in der Kultur, GW 14: 421. > Freud Resources > 1930a Civilization and its Discontentsįreud, Sigmund 1930a, Civilization and its Discontents, SE 21: 59-145, trs. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Hard Choices, “a rich and lively narrative” ( Entertainment Weekly), Hillary Clinton offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive. By the end of her tenure, Secretary Clinton had gained a truly global perspective on the major trends reshaping today’s landscape. Along the way, they grappled with tough dilemmas, especially the decision to send Americans into harm’s way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Secretary Clinton and President Obama had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. “ Hard Choices is a richly detailed and compelling chronicle of Clinton’s role in the foreign initiatives and crises that defined the first term of the Obama administration…it teems with small, entertaining details about her interactions with foreign leaders ( Los Angeles Times). To her surprise, newly elected President Barack Obama asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. ![]() In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United States Senate. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” ( The New York Times). ![]() 2016 Democratic Nominee for President of the United States ![]() ![]() Also, "chi" apparently sounds like the Japanese word for pee, which is funny because when they're trying to box-train her, they keep yelling "pee" at her while taking her bag to her box after every pee incident, to the point where she thinks it's her name. They are not allowed to have pets in their apartment but nobody wants to adopt Chi, so they kind of end up stuck with her. ![]() Spoiled? I think so.Īnyway, Chi is distraught when she's separated from her mama cat and embarks on a series of misadventures that culminate in her winding up with a family that consists of a mom, dad, and toddler. Now she's a lazy fatty who- I kid you not- has her very own chair, and a toybox where she keeps enough toys for like five cats. She came to our house starving and shivering, and you could see all her little kitten bones through her fur. I actually have a cat that we rescued as a kitten. ![]() A book about a family that adopts a lost kitten? Be still, my heart. I found a full-color version of Chi's Sweet Home in a Little Free Library and it was honestly just the thing I needed after a slew of books about dark shit and murder-joy. ![]() ![]() Just SKIP SKIP SKIP the whole of chapter 55, don't even LOOK at it, chapter 56 starts on p545 so just DON'T GO THERE, the only important thing is one of the characters (not saying who for spoiler related reasons) explains their plans for the next day, it's pretty easy to pick up on if you don't read it. ![]() Chapter 42 starts innocent, but does get a little spicy, so you might want to be aware of that (you know what you're comfortable with, just skim when it starts getting too spicy - although the last two pages or so are vaguely important so it might be worth reading those). Not gonna do spoilers but I'll just mention the basics:Ĭhapter 26 in ACOTAR, start reading the first half and just skip to the end when it gets uncomfortable. ![]() Sorry I'm late, but I should be queen of this by now. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yoshi wishes to prove himself to his wife, and Sergei is willing to spend seventeen months in isolation to escape his broken down marriage and set an example to his two sons. Each of the astronauts has their own reason for taking part in the mission and their relationships with their families will be put to the ultimate test as they begin this journey of discovery and escapism.įor Helen, her relationship with her daughter is strained but this mission allows her to go in to space one last time. Helen Kane, Yoshi Tanaka, and Sergei Kuznetsov are the trio selected for the mission, but they must first prove themselves by spending seventeen months in a simulation that mirrors conditions on Mars. Set in the near future, NASA prepares to send three astronauts in to space to put the first humans on Mars. The Wanderers focuses on the feelings and the strain such a mission has on human relationships, but ultimately it falls a bit flat. Summary: A character-focused yet somewhat slow novel about three astronauts on a training mission to Mars. ![]() |