![]() ![]() ![]() Sen and the more obvious one in Eliot will last, indicating an interpretation of the story as intervening into the current postcolonial discourse. The story does suggest, however, that the hardly noticeable change in Mrs. Through reading the narrative and its counter narrative simultaneously, a third space opens up in which change and approximation become possible, albeit for a very short period. ![]() Sen to Eliot as clandestine hero of the story, a second narrative emerges, which lends empowerment and agency to members of minority cultures. Sen's processing of food and her (minority) cultural ways triggers that transformation. And then theres the whole business of merging into oncoming traffic: Each time they approached the grove of pine trees where the asphalt loop met the main road, she leaned forward, pinning all her weight against the brake as cars hurtled past. ![]() Sen is'continuously distracted' (MS 39) in fact. Lahiri's complex narrative, however, forms the backdrop of an even more intricate underlying, indeed subversive, narrative, of Eliot, an eleven-year-old American boy, who transforms through his exposure to Mrs. Its hard to do, especially if youre a distracted driver, which Mrs. Sen's” from the collection Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, researchers almost exclusively focus on the title character's perspective and describe the text as a narrative of a first-generation female from India not being able to assimilate in the United States This perspective is valuable in its own right and belongs in the tradition of diasporic or postcolonial storytelling. ![]()
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![]() ![]() My favorite characters in this book were Sookie Stackhouse and Bill Compton as they are truly a unique couple that cannot be reckoned with! Sookie Stackhouse is such an interesting character as not only is the story told from her point of view, but she was also the first mind reader character that I have read about in any paranormal romance novel. ![]() ![]() Words just cannot describe how much I really enjoyed this book since I actually stayed up most of the night trying to finish reading this book because it was so interesting! Charlaine Harris has definitely done an awesome job at writing this larger than life paranormal romance novel that takes place in the South! There are just so many awesome things that I loved about this book, but I will have to narrow it down to a few things and what I loved the most about this book were the two main characters and the awesome action scenes. ![]() ![]() Non-clinical health professionals and those working in the insurance and legal fields will find this guide to be useful as a point of reference for understanding the importance and impact of the death certificate. As an essential component to the comprehensive care of the patient, this guide will also serve as an indispensable tool for medical educators and aid clinicians in fulfilling continuing educational requirements. ![]() This text will fill the gap of knowledge pertaining to death reporting and death certification while highlighting the vital link between the practice of clinical medicine and the practice of forensic pathology. ![]() Written from the perspective of an experienced forensic pathologist, Essentials of Death Reporting and Death Certification-Practical Applications for the Clinical Practitioner is created especially for those in clinical practice who will inevitably experience the death of a patient. ![]() ![]() ![]() Travelling around the world, the author was surprised to discover that “the Internet wasn’t a shadowy realm but a surprisingly open one.” Nearly everywhere he went, he was offered a tour by people happy to share their work and expertise (Google’s data center was the lone exception). From there, Blum visited the companies that form the Internet’s “backbone”: hubs of networked servers where billions of bits of data zip through every second. He traveled to UCLA to see one of the first networked computers and meet 75-year-old professor Leonard Kleinrock, one of the fathers of the Internet. Blum begins by chronicling the birth of the Internet in the late 1960s. Ted Stevens' much-ridiculed 2006 description of the Internet as "a series of tubes," this debut deftly combines history, travelogue and jargon-free technical explanations. ![]() ![]() When an errant squirrel disrupted his Internet connection, Wired correspondent Blum embarked on a journey to discover the roots and structure of the Internet. Captivating behind-the-scenes tour of how (and where) the Internet works. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Publishers Weekly It is a corporate scandal to rival Enron and Lehman Brothers.Ewing weaves a conspiratorial tale of corporate greed run amok. Barron's A fascinating expos.Ewing's compelling prose makes his book read like entertainment more than education and the story of Volkswagen's fall.is a study in corporate hubris. Richard Epstein (Forbes) Perversely engaging. Patrick McGee (Financial Times) Exhaustive. The Guardian A damning indictment of corporate malfeasance and.an accessible account of one of the most expensive business mistakes ever recorded. The Atlantic A shocking and incredibly compelling expos of one of the great corporate scandals of all time.reads like a fast-paced thriller. Bethany McLean (New York Times Book Review) Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal takes readers through the combination of pressures that produced what may be the biggest corporate scandal ever, detailing the company's personalities and the history behind the saga with fluency and wit. It's a rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic. ![]() This will go down in history books as a great corporate scandal, but the story told by the New York Times reporter Jack Ewing.is also much more than that. ![]() ![]() The random digressions into science fiction are jarring and confusing. I'm not sure where the author is going with this, but he labels String Theory as "monotheistic" and Loop Quantum Gravity as "pantheistic". The first third of the book is a condensed and meager survey of physics up to the standard model. Întrebarea tulburătoare la care răspunde Bojowald în cartea de faţă este ce putem afla despre precedentul univers. Concluzia sa – împărtăşită de mulţi fizicieni – este că, înaintea universului pe care îl vedem astăzi în expansiune, a existat un alt univers, care s-a contractat. Martin Bojowald este unul dintre pionierii acestei noi direcţii de cercetare şi e iniţiatorul cosmologiei cuantice cu bucle – aplicarea teoriei la cosmos în ansamblul lui. ![]() ![]() ![]() Există însă şi o teorie complementară, gravitaţia cuantică cu bucle, care porneşte de la ideea că spaţiul şi timpul nu sunt divizibile la infinit. O primă tentativă de unificare e dată de teoria corzilor, prezentată pe larg în Universul elegant de Brian Greene, carte apărută în seria de ştiinţă a Editurii Humanitas. Cel mai ambiţios proiect ştiinţific al vremurilor noastre este, probabil, încercarea de a uni mecanica cuantică (teoria valabilă la scara microcosmosului) cu relativitatea generală (teoria care îşi vădeşte importanţa la scara cosmosului) – două domenii ale cunoaşterii ce par să se afle pe poziţii ireconciliabile. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Binghams don’t just have money, they have old money, and arranged marriages within their set aren’t remarkable. ![]() For David Bingham, the central character of the 19 th century portion of the novel, his family’s wealth and status are both a fortress and a prison. ![]() Like Washington Square, To Paradise is essentially about class. Reading it, I was often reminded of a fanfiction subgenre known as “hurt/comfort,” in which the sufferings of one character provide a cathartic emotional payoff when that character’s beloved rushes to console him, as Willem does for Jude over and over again in A Little Life. It is that rare product of a complex, acutely private fantasy life that successfully communicates the intensity of that life on the page. Francis, A Little Life has a cloistered, obsessive quality reminiscent of fanfiction. A polarizing doorstop that begins as a four-college-friends-in-New-York soap opera and resolves into a saga of the elaborate physical, sexual, and emotional mortifications of a character named Jude St. The first question most readers will have about Hanya Yanagihara’s new novel, To Paradise, is whether it replicates the appeal of her surprise bestseller, 2015’s A Little Life. Slate has relationships with various online retailers.īut note that deals can expire and all prices are subject to change.Īll prices were up to date at the time of publication. ![]() ![]() ![]() Only nine months old when his father's sudden death made him king, Henry VI became a tormented and pathetic figure, weak, sexually inept, and prey to fits of insanity. Both Henry IV and his son, the cold warrior Henry V, ruled England ably, if not always wisely-but Henry VI proved a disaster, both for his dynasty and his kingdom. The first battle erupted in 1455, but the roots of the conflict reached back to the dawn of the fifteenth century, when the corrupt, hedonistic Richard II was sadistically murdered, and Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king, seized England's throne. In The Wars of the Roses, Alison Weir reconstructs this conflict with the same dramatic flair and impeccable research that she brought to her highly praised The Princes in the Tower. ![]() The war between the royal House of Lancaster and York, the longest and most complex in British history, profoundly altered the course of the monarchy. Old noble names were ruined while rising dynasties seized power and lands. For much of the fifteenth century, these two families were locked in battle for control of the British monarchy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe, just maybe, some Rules are meant to be broken. 'Light a Single Candle' and its sequel, 'Gift of Gold', were written by Beverly Butler, who lost her sight at about the same age as her protagonist. But avoiding her past quickly proves impossible, and the more Parker learns about what really happened-both with Scott, and her dad-the more she starts to question if things are always as they seem. She has enough on her mind already, like trying out for the track team (that's right, her eyes don't work but her legs still do), doling out tough-love advice to her painfully naive classmates, and giving herself gold stars for every day she hasn't cried since her dad's death three months ago. ![]() When Scott suddenly reappears in her life after being gone for years, Parker knows there's only one way to react-shun him so hard it hurts. Just ask Scott Kilpatrick, the boy who broke her heart. That's why she created the Rules: Don't treat her any differently just because she's blind, and never take advantage. Light a single candle by Butler, Beverly, 1932-2007. Parker Grant doesn't need 20/20 vision to see right through you. ![]() Not If I See You First. Poppy reprint edition (2016). ![]() ![]() Insecurity about her lack of suitors shifts into confusion at her growing feelings for two men-one she's never met but whose words deeply resonate with her heart, and one she has come to depend on but whose behavior is more and more suspicious. And even more shocked when the duke returns her note with one of his own that initiates a courtship-by-mail. When Marlow accidentally discovers and mails one of the letters to her unwitting confidant, Miranda is beyond mortified. Meanwhile, she also finds herself intrigued by Marlow, her brother's new valet, and although she may wish to break free of the strictures that bind her, falling in love with a servant is more of a rebellion than she planned. Entering her fourth Season and approaching spinsterhood in the eyes of society, she pours her innermost feelings out not in a diary but in letters to her brother's old school friend, a duke-with no intention of ever sending these private thoughts to a man she's heard stories about but never met. ![]() ![]() Sparkling Regency Romance from a Captivating New VoiceLady Miranda Hawthorne acts every inch the lady, but inside she longs to be bold and carefree. ![]() |