![]() ![]() With Secret City, we go back to the Gotham that has been taken over by crime, back when Bruce Wayne was still legally dead and when Batman faced an uphill battle to reclaim the city. I mean, how often do I have to see Uncle Ben get shot in a Spider-man story? Surprisingly, though, I absolutely loved this installment and this volume may be my favorite of the four I’ve read so far. I’m not big on revisiting origin stories. We also get to see him take on the Red Hood gang, and the potential origin story of Batman’s greatest foe. We don’t have to sit through another retelling of that time Bruce Wayne’s parents got killed, but we do get to see Bruce Wayne when he first returned to Gotham and tried to reclaim the city. ![]() Zero Year takes a step back six years, and is essentially The New 52 version of Batman: Year One. When we last left Batman, it was Death of the Family, the huge event that sprawled through the Batman family of comics. I haven’t been reading many comics these days I’ve actually been reading books without pictures recently, but I just took my honeymoon, so I was able to blow through the fourth installment of the Batman New 52 arc during the flight back home. The Comic Spot is back in some familiar territory. Synopsis: Taking place six years prior to the events of Death of the Family, Bruce Wayne is legally dead, but operating as a vigilante in the Narrows while Gotham City is under control of the Red Hood gang. ![]()
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After losing her father and nearly losing her life when their ship sank off the coast of Cornwall, Adelaide Hampton Parke is faced with a terrible dilemma. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When news of her three hundredth kill makes her a national heroine, Mila finds herself torn from the bloody battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America on a goodwill tour. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself from studious girl to deadly sniper-a lethal hunter of Nazis known as Lady Death. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son-but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. ![]() "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. ![]() ![]() ![]() For 20 years, he was the Washington editor of The Nation magazine. He is also the author of the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA’s Crusades. His novel, Deep Background, was hailed as one of the best novels of the year by the Los Angeles Times. Bush, and the e-book, 47 Percent: Uncovering the Romney Video that Rocked the 2012 Election. ![]() He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Showdown, Hubris (with Michael Isikoff), and The Lies of George W. He won the 2012 George Polk award and a National Magazine Award for breaking the 47-percent video story that influenced the Obama-Romney presidential contest. He is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine and an on-air analyst for MSNBC. Political keynote speaker David Corn is a veteran Washington journalist and political commentator. ![]() ![]() ![]() Many have disagreed with his conclusions and offered refutations on one level or another, but all who have come after Kant have been required to address him. So great was the importance of this Prussian professor, we may justifiably think in terms of pre-Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. With the later appearance of The Critique of Practical Reason (1788) and The Critique of Judgement (1790), Kant had articulated a complete system of philosophy of incredible depth and complexity, wholly original and unique in its solution to the age-old problems of reason, ethics, and logic. Between those editions he also published a shorter “easier” introduction to his philosophy, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics (1783). ![]() Immanuel Kant published the first edition of The Critique of Pure Reason in 1781, with an extensively rewritten second edition appearing in 1787. ![]() This the first of a three-part series discussing the relevance of Kant’s philosophy to Advaita. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sam McBratney was a classroom teacher before he became an author.īorn in Belfast, McBratney attended Trinity College in Dublin and was a teacher before he started writing. And for those six months, every word you write is fighting for its place on the page, you know." In an interview with Reading Rockets, McBratney said his editor warned him: "She did say people think it's easy, Sam, but it's not easy. McBratney once called Guess How Much I Love You "a lighthearted little story designed to help a big one and a wee one enjoy the pleasure of being together." But he also acknowledged that writing a picture book for children was hard work. The now-classic story of two bunnies who try to outdo each other with their affections was translated into 57 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. With illustrations by Anita Jeram, Guess How Much I Love You was published in 1994. McBratney died at his home in County Antrim, Northern Ireland surrounded by family on September 18, according to his publisher, Walker Books. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Guess How Much I Love You Author Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram ![]() ![]() ![]() In topic from Palaeolithic campsites to a 19th-century sawmill, from food remains With no restriction regarding time period or cultural region. ![]() Publishes articles presenting the results of archaeological research worldwide, ![]() The Journal of Field Archaeology is a scholarly quarterly that The results of the West Stow study can shed light on the ways in which farming communities are established in new environments as a result of population movements and political changes. All other aspects of the faunal assemblage showed broad continuities with the preceding Roman and Iron Age periods. Once the farming community had been established at West Stow, cattle and sheep increased at the expense of pigs, and beef and mutton may have replaced pork in the Anglo-Saxon diet. ![]() Analysis of the West Stow fauna indicated that pigs played an important role in the initial Anglo-Saxon settlement of eastern England. An extensive series of excavations at West Stow yielded an exceptionally well-preserved vertebrate faunal assemblage of over 180,000 bones and fragments that can inform us about the animal husbandry practices of the earliest Anglo-Saxon settlers in England. West Stow is an early Anglo-Saxon settlement site located on the banks of the River Lark in eastern England, occupied between the 5th and 7th centuries A. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a lot of trigger warnings for this series including sexual assault and rape, domestic abuse, death, death of animals, child abuse, self-harm, racism and many other warnings. But with all this darkness, there is also light, romance and family. It’s hard and heavy and sometimes really difficult to read. This series deals with things from religions cults to drug cartels and the KKK. But if you like dark series with questionable characters and events – then go for it. It’s dark, it deals with a lot of triggering issues and the characters do some very questionable things throughout the series. I’ve said it before, but I do want to focus on that here again. I’ve been able to read books that include darker themes. But as I’ve read more and more romance, especially MC romances over the past couple of years. If I read this series a few years ago I would have hated it. ![]() I tried to keep them to a minimum but it’s hard to talk about the series as a whole, without talking about certain characters and events. It kept on popping up in places, but I was never really ready to pick it up. I’ve wanted to pick the series one up for a while. ![]() I’ve talked about this series a few times in the past couple of months and I thought it was time for me to share my thoughts on the Hades Hangmen series by Tillie Cole. ![]() ![]() ![]() Psychotherapist and complex trauma (C-PTSD) expert Pete Walker coined the term ‘fawn’ response to describe a specific type of instinctive response resulting from childhood abuse and complex trauma. For children, fawning behaviors can be a maladaptive survival or coping response which developed as a means of coping with a non-nurturing or abusive parent. The ‘fawn’ response is an instinctual response associated with a need to avoid conflict and trauma via appeasing behaviors. ![]() But in reality, ‘fawning’ and maladaptive coping behaviors serve no one in the end. You may instead seek to ‘appease’ those who treat you badly as a means of avoiding conflict, or even deny the sad truth of your situation altogether. If you identify as being highly sensitive, intuitive, or an ‘empath’, you may tend to avoid conflict as much as possible and will deny your truth in an attempt to make those you feel dependent upon or care about comfortable.Īlthough you might easily stand up for others, you may find it difficult, even impossible, to stand up for yourself when being maltreated by others – including in regard to your family. If you are a 'fawner', you may have not been sure if you were loved and accepted as a child, so you learned to meet the needs of others and appease them to prove your value and worth. ![]() A healthy adult relationship requires that the two people involved create a relational environment that is reciprocal, truthful, respectful, and interdependent. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She wished with all her heart that this had happened differently, but she had learned that words were like eggs dropped from great heights: You could no more call them back than ignore the mess they left when they fell. To just read my overall thoughts, skip to the bottom! - ii. The themes the book covers isn’t my cup of tea, especially compared to a lot of her other works, but it was a great book nevertheless. She has one of the most creative minds I’ve ever encountered in fiction, and Salem Falls is no exception. ![]() I always think there’s not much more to tell, but as usual, she proves me wrong. If an entire community identifies a guy by his past convictions, how will anybody ever get past that to accept his presence?ĭamn, throughout Jodi Picoult’s canon, I feel like she’s covered so much throughout the contemporary world. “I think,” she said finally, “that all of us have got our ghosts.” - i. There’s so many she’s written, so it’s tough to get through them all when there’s so much out there to read-but with the closing of this story, I’m about three quarters of the way to finishing her canon. I’m so excited that I had the chance to read another Jodi Picoult novel. ![]() |