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Ottessa Moshfegh's Death in Her Hands is told from 72-year-old Vesta Gul's first person point of view, and divided into seven chapters which subvert a traditional narrative arc. The following version of this book was used to create the guide: Moshfegh, Ottessa. ![]() ![]() ![]() From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibitions, they are one of the few insects we’ve encouraged to infiltrate our lives. In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world’s most resilient creatures-the butterfly-shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives.īutterflies are one of the world’s most beloved insects. In this awe-inspiring book, Williams shows us how these animals can also transform whole ecosystems, scientific disciplines, and human hearts.” -Abigail Tucker, New York Times bestselling author of The Lion in the Living Room ![]() “The butterfly’s life cycle has always symbolized transformation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Simon Prebble’s masterful narration of Laurens’ tale will leave listeners feeling exhilarated. But what she does need is an heir-will the charming Richard Cynster be willing to give her what she wants? Facing unavoidable marriage, Richard savors the challenge of taming spirited Catriona. Like her mother before her, Catriona is a beautiful, independent woman who needs no man to rule over her or the Vale. She is aghast when it is decreed by her guardian that she must marry the scandalous Richard Cynster within one week’s time. Cynster men are invariably handsome rogues, and Catriona Hennessy, Scottish Lady of the Vale is well aware of their reputation. Lauren’s Scandal’s Bride is the hot and exciting third novel in her riveting Bar Cynster series. Stephanie Laurens authors USA Today best-selling historical romances such as A Rake’s Vow and Devil’s Bride. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the bungled finale, the couple's chemistry is undeniable and James's dialogue is skillful as ever. The relish taken with their early sparring and scintillating courtship sadly disappears in the inevitable third-act misunderstanding, which is sloppily rendered and unbelievable. ![]() ![]() ![]() She overhears him insulting her to his uncle, dismissing her as "not a real Wilde." Her indignation frees her from her shyness, allowing her to display a biting wit and surprising backbone when she confronts him, leading Devin to fall hard and fast. In the standout scene of Viola and Devin's first meeting, Devin retreats from the festivities for the library, where Viola has arranged a clandestine meeting with her vicar. Meanwhile, the reclusive Devin Elstan, Duke of Wynter, feels obligated to find a wife and plans to approach Viola's stepsister at their joint coming out ball. But her crush on her family's new vicar has her determined to come out of her shell for her first London season. Viola Astley, stepdaughter to Hugo Wilde, Duke of Lindow, is painfully shy in company due partly to her insecurity that she will never measure up to her vivacious stepfamily. James delivers all the banter and sizzle her fans expect in the nuanced fifth Wildes of Lindow Castle Georgian romance (after Say No to the Duke). Say Yes to the Duke by Eloisa James (ebook) Say Yes to the Duke The Wildes of Lindow Castle Eloisa James, Click to preview A shy wallflower meets her dream man-or does she-in the next book in New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James' Wildes of Lindow series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Iris Murdoch on Philosophy and Literature.Bernard Williams on the Spell of Linguistic Philosophy.Herbert Marcuse on the Frankfurt School.You can watch select interviews of Men of Ideas and The Great Philosopherson YouTube, including: ![]() Both series brought BBC viewers in-depth, uncut conversations with many of the day’s most famous philosophers. ![]() When Magee played to both these strengths at once, he came up with two philosophical television shows in the span of a decade: Men of Ideas, which began in 1978, and The Great Philosophers, which ran in 1987. He also wrote another memoir called The Television Interviewer, and philosophically inclined laymen may fondly remember him as just that. Students and professors of philosophy probably know him from his large print oeuvre, which includes volumes on Popper and Schopenhauer as well as several guides to western philosophy and the autobiographical Confessions of a Philosopher. You can watch them online.īryan Magee comes from a tradition that produced some of the twentieth century’s most impressive media personalities: that of the scholarship-educated, Oxbridge-refined, intellectually omnivorous, occasionally office-holding, radio- and television-savvy man of letters. Below, we bring you a post from our archive that highlights Magee’s many televised interviews with influential philosophers. Note: We woke this morning to the news that Bryan Magee, academic and popularizer of philosophy, has passed away. ![]() ![]() Insightful and witty with a keen style all its own, The Cover Girl Killer is a superb mystery full of thrills and tenderness. Title: The Cover Girl Killer Title Record 16681 Author: Richard A. In this, the fifth novel in the series that began with The Comic Book Killer, Lindsey and his girlfriend, Berkeley detective Maria Plum, are sent headfirst into the dust world of vintage paperbacks on a search that turns up an old nemesis, an old love triangle, and the sinister side of America's Golden Age. ![]() His job: find the girl in Vansittart's policy, "the woman on the cover of Death in the Ditch" - a hardboiled novel of the early fifties.īut did this beautiful model ever exist? Or was she just the creation of another long-forgotten pulp artist's lurid imagination? Vansittart to the bottom of Lake Tahoe, International Surety's ace claims adjuster Hobart Lindsey is on the case. When a suspicious helicopter crash sends millionaire P. ![]() Martin's Press first edition: ""She had smoldering eyes and gams like Grable's!" And if she really existed, she had four million dollars coming to her. ![]() ![]() ![]() Possessing a person has a downside, as it renders them vulnerable to death by whatever they are vulnerable to by anyone that has that weapon. Not all humans are even compatible to house angels, and those who are incompatible and house them, will quickly degenerate and explode into blood, similar to the process of Molecular Combustion. Archangels require their true vessel, otherwise they will burn out the body they are inhabiting. While in a lesser vessel, an angel's abilities are limited when compared with their true vessel, and, as evidenced by Lucifer and Hael, may be damaging to the human. ![]() Additionally, demons require vessels to interact on Earth in physical form, even to hold a conversation as noted by Mary Winchester.Īngels have multiple people that can be vessels for them, but only one person is their "true" vessel. ![]() Although, the angel's true vessels can withstand their respective angel's form and voices. Angels' true forms can fry humans to rotting corpses and their voices, outside vessels, can render humans deaf. Angels, of every variety, use possession as the means to interact with humans on Earth, and they require the vessel's permission before they can take any form of control, under a law mandated by God. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is probably most well known for writing “The Princess Diaries” which was made into a movie starring Anne Hathaway. She writes historical romance, young adult fiction, and contemporary fiction. She is a diverse writer who has gained success in several genres. Since then she has published almost 44 works of fiction. Seven years and a bagful of rejection letters later, her first novel was published in 1998, after almost throwing in the towel. When she moved to New York City, she landed a job as a freshman dorm assistant manager, which gave her plenty of free time to write. She ended up pursuing neither and graduating with a fine arts degree. She dreamed of being a vet or an actress. Meg had never planned on becoming a novelist. ![]() ![]() She also lived in Grenoble, France and Carmel, California (the setting for her bestselling Mediator series) before moving to New York City after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Indiana University. Meg Cabot was born on 1 February 1967 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, daughter of Barbara and C. ![]() ![]() ![]() For labor it could be an hour of work time. ![]() For instance, if one is going to claim that one economy uses more capital (in relation to labor) than another, there must be some common unit for each factor. Symbolic mathematics begets quantification. The new vision thus raised the uses of machinery over the social role of its owners and legitimated profit as the just return to an indispensable contribution. This notion of capital permitted mathematical expression of the “production function,” so that wages and profits could be linked to the respective “marginal products” of each factor. Capital was reframed as a physical item, which paired with labor to produce output. It was the power that capital gave to capitalists, namely the authority to make decisions and to extract surplus from the worker.Įarly in the last century, neoclassical economics dumped this social and political analysis for a mechanical one. But the essence of capital was neither physical nor financial. ![]() Capital could be money, it could be machines it could be fixed and it could be variable. What is “capital”? To Karl Marx, it was a social, political, and legal category-the means of control of the means of production by the dominant class. ![]() |