![]() She later attended UC Santa Cruz, dropping out in her sophomore year. ![]() Miranda grew up in Berkeley, California, where she first began writing plays and staging them at the all-ages club 924 Gilman. Miranda was encouraged to work on her short fiction by author and friend of a friend, Rick Moody. In 1974 they founded North Atlantic Books, a publisher of alternative health, martial arts, and spiritual titles. Her parents, who taught at Goddard College at the time, are both writers. Miranda July was born in Barre, Vermont, the daughter of Lindy Hough and Richard Grossinger. ![]() Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with a high school friend called "Snarla." She currently resides in Los Angeles, California, after having lived for many years in Portland, Oregon. Miranda July (born February 15, 1974) is a performance artist, musician, writer, actress and film director. ![]()
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![]() ![]() To Churchill, the British would be second to none. Hitler underestimated the depth of Churchill’s reverence for England’s imperial traditions. ![]() As he saw it, the United Kingdom would retain its colonies but assume the role of Germany’s junior partner in world domination. He sought to emulate, not supplant, the British Empire: the German empire would comprise the Slavic countries to the east. Hitler believed that the so-called Nordic race, which in his view included Germans and Britons, was destined to rule the world. What is it about Churchill and Britain that Hitler misunderstood in this regard? You write that Hitler never fully embraced the Indian nationalist cause because he expected Britain to reach some accommodation with Germany that allowed it to retain most of its empire, and specifically India. I put six questions to her about her book and some of the pushback it has drawn from Churchill’s defenders:ġ. ![]() Madhusree Mukerjee, a former editor at Scientific American and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, has published a bombshell book about Churchill’s attitudes toward India and the steps that he took during World War II that contributed to a horrific famine in Bengal in 1943. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Persuasively argues that our society is suffering from the consequences of an over-dominant left hemisphere losing touch with its natural regulative 'master' the right. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Ī pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemispheres and their effects on society, history, and culture-"one of the few contemporary works deserving classic status" (Nicholas Shakespeare, The Times, London) ![]() 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. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Des’ darkness and Callie’s innocence complement one another, their dynamics so adorable – Des was the King of Nightmares, yet was so gentle with her. We see Des and Callie’s relationship when she is a teen. Honestly, this made the reading experience so amazing. The book alternates between present and past which delves into her life when she is 16, and the present – seven years from then. ![]() And one day, he disappears from her life, breaking her heart. The friendship develops into something more, which Des, despite his devious nature, doesn’t give in to. They become friends, where Des (The Bargainer) helps her face her demons, all the while collecting favors from her as beads that formed a bracelet around her wrist and arm. She calls on the Bargainer again, his charisma and darkness calling out to her, wanting to know more about this dark creature. ![]() The Bargainer doesn’t make deals with minors but helps Callie out for some unfathomable reason with no charge.ĭespite starting a new life in a Paranormal University, she’s battling loneliness, burdened by her dark past, and all her actions. The story follows Callie, a siren, who at the age of 16, calls on the Bargainer to deal with a situation she is in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Witty repartee between the central characters, as well as the occasional well-done set piece, isn’t enough to hold this hefty debut together. Complete with clouds of vampire bats, mesmerized orphans and a massive underground pipeworks filled with blood, this fast-paced adventure makes for a delightfully gruesome alternative to Twilight. ![]() This Gothic adventure is both marred and blessed by all of the excesses of the classic Dracula-esque tale. But meanwhile, life goes on: Liz has been given the chance of a lifetime to replace an actress who’s ill with a strange wasting disease, and George has been invited to join the elite Damnation Club. It seems like half of London is pasty-pale and avoiding cameras, and our heroes are sure a tragedy is on the verge of befalling the city. Assistant museum curator George, aspiring actress Liz and thieving urchin Eddie are back for another round of fighting mystical evil ( The Death Collector, 2006). ![]() Victorian London’s taste for ancient Egyptian artifacts might lead to the destruction of humanity when the British Museum inadvertently frees an ancient vampire master. ![]() ![]() ![]() Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, Poppy Z. ![]() Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his art to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his art to new heights. To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a guidebook to hell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee, Alabama to James McCauley, a carpenter, and Leona McCauley, a teacher. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a seminal event in the Civil Rights Movement and was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. and Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Alabama during the 1955 bus boycott. This brave woman, Rosa Parks, was arrested and fined for violating a city ordinance, but her lonely act of defiance began a movement that ended legal segregation in America, and made her an inspiration to freedom-loving people everywhere. ![]() That was the day when an unknown seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Most historians date the beginning of the modern civil rights movement in the United States to December 1, 1955. ![]() ![]() ![]() The film opened in line with pundits’ modest expectations imagine how much more poorly it would have done without such a vivid and apt title. Indeed, the title may have been the biggest selling point of the movie not its horror/action premise, not its stars (despite The Avengers and The Bourne Legacy, Jeremy Renner is not a proven box office draw, and neither is erstwhile Bond girl Gemma Arterton), and not the 3D retrofitting that helped keep the movie on the shelf for a year. If it is, you probably were among those who helped it debut at Number One this weekend with an estimated $19.0 million. It tells you everything you need to know about the movie, including whether or not it’s your kind of movie. Whatever you may think of the film itself, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is a terrific title. ![]() ![]() William Kane and Abel Rosnovski are born miles apart and lead completely separate lives until fate brings them together. ![]() I must say that this book was no exception and I even thought that it was his best book to date. I find it so intriguing how he delves into his characters’ minds, decorating each with a unique voice and ultimately creating an original yet plausible scenario that leads to a domino chain of events. After finishing The Clifton Chronicles saga my hands were immediately itching to pick up another Jeffrey Archer novel and get lost in the web of mystery and deception he weaves in all his books. I must admit that I love Jeffrey Archer novels. “They had only one thing in common… William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant – two men born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, their paths destined to cross in the ruthless struggle to build a fortune.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Krakauer’s book and a Sean Penn film skyrocketed Chris McCandless to worldwide fame, but the real story of his life and his journey has not yet been told – until now.Ĭarine McCandless, Chris’s sister, featured in both the book and film, was the person with whom he had the closest bond, and who witnessed firsthand the dysfunctional and violent family dynamic that made Chris willing to embrace the harsh wilderness of Alaska. The story of Chris McCandless, who gave away his savings, hitchhiked to Alaska, walked into the wilderness alone, and starved to death in 1992, fascinated not just New York Times bestselling author Jon Krakauer, but the rest of the nation too. ![]() The key missing piece of Jon Krakauer’s multi million, multi territory bestseller and widely acclaimed Sean Penn film Into the Wild is finally revealed by his best friend and sister, Carine. ![]() |