![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art, burial customs, class divisions, jewellery, kingship, poetry and family life. %%%Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. The result is a rich and compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation. For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today' Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and far-flung consolidation. ![]() For 300 years, from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century, the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships, and left traces that are still part of life today Thoroughly updated and with a new foreword 'The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure. ![]()
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![]() Davis talks to experts from clothing designers to psychologists, historians to neuroscientists, and tomboys from 8 to 80, to illuminate debates about what is masculine and feminine what is biological versus socially constructed what constitutes the categories of boy and girl and the connection between tomboyism, gender identity, and sexuality. Davis critically investigates the word "tomboy," but lauds the ideas and ideals it represents. ![]() It looks at tomboyism from a Victorian ideal to a twenty-first century fashion statement, chronicling the evolution of the pink/blue divide and what motivates those who cross or straddle it to gender independence-and who they grow up to be. ![]() TOMBOY is a revealing dive into the forces that have shifted and narrowed our ideas of what's normal for boys and girls, and for kids who don't fall neatly into either category. ![]() ![]() Strong Is the New Pretty meets All the Single Ladies, a heartfelt celebration and exploration of the tomboy phenomenon and the future of girlhood, based on the author's viral New York Times op-edInspired by her thought-provoking op-ed for The New York Times, Lisa Selin Davis's TOMBOY explores the history, and imagines the future, of girls who defy societal expectations based on their gender. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With an accidental assist from some fortuitous magic, Jamie arrives in New Jersey, looking to all the world like Siri, and Siri steps off her flight sporting a Jamie glamour. It’s time they get to know and confront each of their estranged parents. ![]() Now, reunited after over a decade apart, they hatch a plot to switch places. They’ve grown up living completely separate lives: Jamie with their Dad and Siri with their Mom. Jamie and Siri are sisters, torn apart at a young age by their parent's volatile divorce. When they run into each other, their worlds turn upside down. They’ve both signed up for the same session at an off the grid Re-Discover Yourself Retreat in Colorado. Siri’s a stunning ballerina from New Jersey nursing a career-changing injury. Jamie’s an aspiring standup comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Freaky Friday meets The Parent Trap in New York Times bestselling author Christine Riccio's Better Together, a sparkling and heartfelt story about sisters, second chances, finding romance, and finding yourself. ![]() ![]() ![]() "If the casting were designed to attract a television audience, goodness knows what it will make of this gurning caricature." Claudia Pritchard leads the charge in the Independent on Sunday: "As the central character Christy, Robert Sheehan … is out of his depth in this," she says. Robert Sheehan is famous for playing one of the Misfits on TV here, some say, he plays one less deliberately. Most other reviews hover, likewise, around the good-but-not-great mark.Īnother part of the problem – at least to some eyes – is the lead. ![]() "Synge's play is part of the problem," suggests Michael Billington, blaming it for why this "perfectly creditable revival … never achieves the right ecstatic quality". ![]() Since then, however, it has been installed in the repertoire – because it's brilliant, yes, but also because people like the riots story. O ne hundred and four years ago, John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, which tells the story of a young man charming Ireland's credulous peasantry, caused riots in Dublin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cover illustration 1421: The Year China Discovered The World (Bantam Press, edition 2013) Could Antilia possibly be the leeward island of Puerto Rico and Satanazes represent the windward island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Antilles? Furthermore, how could a nautical chart produced in 1424 identify islands which, according to conventional history, were first discovered by Columbus on his four voyages between 14? How can the discovered have been identified before the discoverer had even been born? In his book *1421: The Year China Discovered the World** Gavin Menzies answers these questions and offers life-altering insights into modern world history. Upon comparison with modern maps, Menzies was unable to locate any islands at that longitude. ![]() Particularly, clearly displayed on the map are four islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean bearing the names Satanazes, Antilia, Saya and Ymana. Signed and dated 1424 in the name of Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano, the map illustrates the coastlines of Europe and Africa with surprising accuracy for that period. ![]() In the early 1990s, former British Naval Officer and Commander of HMS Rorqual Gavin Menzies came across a map in the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota which aroused his curiosity. but Columbus wasn’t the only one who sailed to the East away from the sun, ![]() ![]() ![]() In this book we take a broader approach to the subject. pop music with that intangible, upbeat “bubblegum” sound.Ī very strict definition of bubblegum insists on faceless bands, either shifting studio groups or music fronted by a television presence (usually a cartoon) with, as Bill Pitzonka describes it, “a contrived innocence that transcends its contrivance.” This is the music of the Kasenetz and Katz bands (Ohio Express, 1910 Fruitgum Co.) and cartoon groups like the Archies within the first era of bubblegum chart dominance. pop music produced in an assembly line process driven by producers and using faceless singers 5. pop music contrived and marketed to appeal to pre-teens 4. the classic bubblegum era from 1967 1972 2. Defining bubblegum is a tricky proposition as the term variously describes: 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Devina’s wish for true love is finally granted, Balthazar and Erika unwittingly become the gateway for the rebirth of an old enemy of the Brothers. Mutilated bodies that cannot be explained are all over her case list-and then there are her nightmares in which she’s hunted by shadows and captivated by a mysterious man who is both a suspect and a savior. As a homicide detective, Erika Saunders knows there is something otherworldly going on in Caldwell, New York. As a thief, he has stolen a lot of things…but he never thought his heart would be taken by another. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Possessed by the demon Devina, Balthazar is once again on the hunt for the Book of Spells-and fighting an undeniable attraction to a woman. ![]() ![]() True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. ![]() ![]() George Gissing wrote in a letter to his brother Algernon that the novel was "quite admirable, approaching Scott as closely as anything since the latter". It received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Thomas Hardy. The following year it was republished in an inexpensive one-volume edition and became a huge critical and financial success. ![]() Publication history īlackmore experienced difficulty in finding a publisher, and the novel was first published anonymously in 1869, in a limited three-volume edition of just 500 copies, of which only 300 sold. In 2003, the novel was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. It is a romance based on a group of historical characters and set in the late 17th century in Devon and Somerset, particularly around the East Lyn Valley area of Exmoor. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor is a novel by English author Richard Doddridge Blackmore, published in 1869. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Our research consistently shows that businesses put economic concerns ahead of environmental concerns, but that means they're missing the win-win to be had by addressing both simultaneously. "Businesses are understandably distracted by economic concerns and other competing pressures right now," says Bye. Jo Bye, Group Manager of Marketing and Communications at EECA, says the figures highlight growing pressure for businesses to be more active when it comes to reducing emissions. ![]() It showed that only 55 percent of businesses believe climate change is an 'important' or 'very important' issue – in contrast to research showing 71 percent of Kiwi rank climate change as a pressing issue. In fact, according to research by EECA (the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority), many businesses are deprioritising climate action, given current concerns about the economy.ĮECA's most recent Business Monitor survey, conducted in November 2022, surveyed 521 business decision-makers across the country. With many companies already preoccupied with inflation and the threat of a looming recession, it's understandable that a climate action plan is not top priority for many Kiwi businesses. In fact, by beginning to both measure and reduce carbon emissions, businesses can strengthen their brand's reputation and cut costs. But the reality is, embarking on a climate action journey doesn't have to be difficult. ![]() ![]() For many businesses wanting to become more climate-friendly, taking the first step towards cutting carbon emissions can seem daunting. ![]() ![]() Parini does not depart radically from the contours of Frost’s life outlined in Laurence Thompson’s groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning work, including discussions of his alcoholic father, years of uncertainty as a farmer, the poetic breakthrough he achieved in his two years in England, and his sorrow and self-reproach over the death of his wife. ![]() The triumph was all the more striking in that Frost had battled against modernist tendencies in poetry, collectivist tendencies in politics, and his own fears of madness. In old age, Frost was as full of honors as of years, a literary lion who received four Pulitzers and innumerable honorary degrees and recited his poetry at John Kennedy’s inauguration. ![]() ![]() Parini, a poet (House of Days, 1998), biographer (John Steinbeck, 1995), and novelist (Benjamin’s Crossing, 1998), delivers a sensitive life of Frost that highlights the poet’s struggle to find light and stability in an existence filled with darkness and chaos. ![]() |