![]() ![]() ![]() Through captivating stories of free speech's many defenders - from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Razi, to Mary Wollstonecraft, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and modern-day digital activists - Mchangama demonstrates how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. Hardback A Global History from Socrates to Social MediaĪ global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Is the past about to destroy the future for Faith when she discovers her new boy friend and her first love are in business together? ![]() All in all, a great book and a great find as an author, her other two books are on my Kindle already! There’s a gentle pace throughout I’d say (perfect for Saturday afternoon reading) and the romance is developed over time, not rushed into. I loved the characters, all of them (even bad boy Matt) – they were exceptionally well drawn and realistic too – everything that happens in the book you can imagine happening in real life, there’s no ‘yeah, right, as if…’ moments. Having indulged in a fair few of them in my time my interest was immediately piqued. I love the fact it’s centred round outdoor adventure sports. ![]() I’m not going to tell you what it’s all about, suffice to say it’s good – really good. However… ta da… I was lucky enough to receive a copy prior to publication and I say lucky because I could not put the book down! In fact, I took the children to the hell-on-earth that is Monkey Business on Saturday afternoon just so they’d leave me alone so I could finish it – they couldn’t believe their luck either! Call it chick lit if you must (I prefer contemporary romance), this is the story of Faith, Zane, oh, and Matt, or Aaron as he used to be called – a love triangle. ![]() Zanna’s third book (details of her first two are below) – If You Only Knew – is available to buy today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rummaging the close-at-hand will always turn up beauty and wisdom. Geographical boundaries, according to this tradition, do not fetter the literary imagination, but magnify its powers. Yet Dillard's wanderings in and around her valley issued, eventually, into her great theological-pastoral-evolutionary-tragic-metaphysical-almanac, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1975.Īmerican literature has long had an affection for parochialism - the intense concentration on the local - as an artistic approach. Hardly the landscape, one would think, to yield a classic of nature writing. The mountains which close off the valley's head are not nobly named: Brushy, Dead Man, McAfee's Knob. Down by the road, beat-up beer-cans roost in the bushes. Sassafras and ivy thrive in what she nicknamed "the weedfield" - a few acres of rough pasture. A felled sycamore trunk serves as a bridge to the grassy island which sits in the middle of the creek. Steers graze the meadow, rabbits fossick the scrub. There are farms, outbuildings, barbed-wire fences. Dillard's Virginian valley isn't particularly wild country. ![]() ![]() ![]() There before Mount Ida, he and his Myrmidons, “for nine years…have been cooped up here on the beach, all the vast hordes of them, Greeks of every clan and kingdom.” Malouf’s principal source, of course, is the greatest story any human has ever told, the majestic songs of the Iliad and Odyssey. “The man is a fighter,” writes Malouf, “but when he is not fighting he is a farmer, earth is his element.” It is the job of Achilles to put other men into the earth, many of them, as he takes his part in the ugly curse of the House of the Atreus. ![]() A man stands on the shore, his ear cocked, listening for what we might imagine to be the whispering spirit of his mother. ![]() Malouf ( The Complete Stories, 2007, etc.) opens on a characteristically quiet note as he looks back more than 3,000 years to the plains of Scamander. The Australian poet of absences and silences reimagines the terror and exhilaration of the Trojan War. ![]() ![]() ![]() We exist to spread a passion for the supremacy of God in all things - all things - for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ - all the time. We have seen even among our own people, some very peaceful, but also some very terrible deaths. We formulated our mission in the real world of pain and suffering and evil and death. We did not formulate our mission in a rosy world - and then get surprised and embarrassed by the reality of suffering. When we say that, we do not mean: “except in calamities,” “except in war,” “except when Al Qaeda blows up a building or a train,” “except when cancer takes a mom or a child is born with profound disabilities.” There are no “except” clauses in our mission statement. The mission of our church is that we exist to spread a passion of the supremacy of God in all things for the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ. One of the truths of the Bible that we embrace with trembling joy is the truth of God’s supremacy in all things. Therefore, it seemed good to us to step back and pose the question again about the meaning of the supremacy of Christ in an age of terror. ![]() ![]() ![]() This weekend is the first anniversary of 9/11 that has occurred on the Lord’s day, Sunday. ![]() ![]() This fun story is the first of a trilogy, along with Runaway Ralph and Ralph S. The Mouse and the Motorcycle is perfect for independent reading or for shared reading at home or in a classroom. This timeless classic now features a foreword written by New York Times bestselling author Kate DiCamillo, as well as an exclusive interview with Beverly Cleary herself. Whether dodging a rowdy terrier or keeping his nosy cousins away from his new wheels, Ralph has a lot going on! And with a pal like Keith always looking out for him, there's nothing this little mouse can't handle. ![]() But with all this freedom (and speed!) come a lot of obstacles. So when Keith leaves the bike unattended in his room one day, Ralph makes his move. When the ever-curious Ralph spots Keith's red toy motorcycle, he vows to ride it. ![]() In this imaginative adventure from Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, a young mouse named Ralph is thrown into a world of excitement when a boy and his shiny toy motorcycle check in to the Mountain View Inn. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack's ruse is a rebellious younger brother named Ernest, who needs frequent help out of jams. ![]() They've taken the concept of the pretend friend to an expert level, each using one to shirk their duties and help them look good at the same time. Jack and Algernon are a pair of well-to-do young gentlemen in the Victorian era, both in the habit of telling lies to help them wriggle out of tiresome commitments. Fun to read, but a ridiculous load of nonsense. This is my Classic Play category of the 2019 Back to the Classics Challenge. I remember thoroughly enjoying it as a High School Drama student who got to watch a movie version on TV during a lesson. The rapid-fire wit and eccentric characters of The Importance of Being Earnest have made it a mainstay of the high school curriculum for decades. Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements still delights readers more than a century after its 1895 publication and premiere performance. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She began writing romance novels in middle school, which were often confiscated by her teachers. Children of New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes from a long line of fortune-tellers, musicians and spinners of tales. Her Shattered Realms quartet comprises Flamecaster ( 2016) Shadowcaster (2017) Stormcaster (2018) and Deathcaster (2019.) Her newest series, Runestone Saga, marries Norse magic and mythology with swordplay (axeplay?) and romance. Chima's Seven Realms series comprises The Demon King The Exiled Queen The Gray Wolf Throne and The Crimson Crown ). The Dragon Heir The Enchanter Heir, and the Sorcerer Heir. ![]() Her Heir Chronicles series (magic comes to contemporary Ohio) comprises The Warrior Heir The Wizard Heir. New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes from a long line of fortune-tellers, musicians and spinners of tales. ![]() ![]() ![]() This volume releases Apfrom Scholastic/Graphix. Pick up a copy via IndieBound here, Book Depository here, or from your favorite book retailer! It will be available in paperback, hardcover, and ebook. As Tabby learns more about this strange world, she discovers that she is destined for something far greater than she ever could have imagined. He has his own dangerous secrets, but he has promised to help Tabby get home. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is periodically invaded by a nearby planet desperate for resources. While Tabby searches for the truth surrounding her father’s death, she meets a handsome blue-haired boy named Philip. Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. This is the first volume in a fantasy middle-grade graphic novel series that follows Tabby Simon, a young girl determined to learn what happened to her father who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. Hello friends! Today, I’m thrilled to be kicking off the Colored Pages tour for Realm of the Blue Mist by Amy Kim Kibuishi. A banner for the book tour which is light blue with text that reads: Book Tour, February 23rd-March 1st and displays a picture of the cover along some tree and cloud silhouettes and the Colored Pages logo. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written by Tee Franklin, the first ever Black queer disabled autistic woman to write Harley Quinn, the Franklin manages to capture everything that made the series one of the best shows that DC has ever made, as well as taking the characters in a wonderful new direction. Tour comes in, as the new comic series picks up right where the show left off. This is where Harley Quinn The Animated Series: Eat. By the end of the second season Ivy's wedding to the costumed villain Kite Man was ruined, and the two women had declared their love for one another, driving off into the sunset like Thelma and Louise. One of the things the show did in its second season was to explore the relationship between Harley and Poison Ivy, two characters that have been together in several versions of DC books, usually in separate universes and timelines than the main continuity. Harley Quinn The Animated Series was the first time that the character got to headline her own show, an animated series was designed for an adult audience, a decision that allowed the writers to take Harley in fun new directions and explore her character in ways that the comics didn't often do and all with frequent swearing and gore. ![]() Originally the Joker's girlfriend and sidekick, over the years the character was given more depth and chance to grow, and has spent the last few years as her own person away from the abusive relationship she once had with the Joker and has been so much better because of it. ![]() Since first appearing on screens in Batman: The Animated Series Harley Quinn has been an instant hit with fans. ![]() |
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