![]() ![]() With the immediacy of a dispatch from the front lines, here are Watkins' firsthand observations and recollections, from combat on the battlefields of Shiloh and Chickamauga to encounters with Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Samuel Rush Watkins was a private in the confederate Army, a twenty-one-year-old Southerner from Tennessee who knew about war but had never experienced it firsthand. Told from the point of view of an ordinary foot soldier, this personal memoir has been hailed as one of the liveliest, wittiest, and most significant commentaries ever written on the Civil War.Īmong the plethora of books about the Civil War, Company Aytch stands out for its uniquely personal view of the events as related by a most engaging writer-a man with Twain-like talents who served as a foot soldier for four long years in the Confederate army. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The original copyright was 1952 and there was a condensed version in Boy's Life. IT'S BEEN A HARD WEEK 2009 IS THE RENEWED COPYRIGHT. ![]() NINETY FIVE INDEED, LAST WEEK YOU WERE EIGHTY FIVE. Oddly enough, it's also a true example of real family values, for when you're a Stone, your family is your highest priority. This lighthearted tale has some of Heinlein's sassiest dialogue - not to mention the famous flat cats incident. Before long they are headed for the furthest reaches of the stars, with stops on Mars, some asteroids, Titan, and beyond. ![]() It all starts when the twins decide that life on the lunar colony is too dull and buy their own spaceship to go into business for themselves. Join the Stone twins as they connive, cajole, and bamboozle their way across the solar system in the company of the most high-spirited and hilarious family in all of science fiction. Of course, anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel would know they came by it honestly. Even so, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" written in that spot on their birth certificates. It doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name. One of Heinlein's best-loved works, The Rolling Stones follows the rollicking adventures of the Stone family as they tour the solar system. ![]() ![]() ![]() The boat arrives, taking away Jinny’s best friend, Deen, replacing him with a new little girl named Ess, and leaving Jinny as the new Elder. ![]() The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts.And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them–and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen again.Today’s Changing is no different. Thought-provoking and magical.” –Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson seriesIn the tradition of modern-day classics like Sara Pennypacker’s Pax and Lois Lowry’s The Giver comes a deep, compelling, heartbreaking, and completely one-of-a-kind novel about nine children who live on a mysterious island.On the island, everything is perfect. ![]() ![]() A National Book Award Longlist title! “A wondrous book, wise and wild and deeply true.” –Kelly Barnhill, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon”This is one of those books that haunts you long after you read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Holmes shows how inclusion can be a source of innovation and growth, especially for digital technologies. A gamer and designer who depends on voice recognition shows Holmes his “Wall of Exclusion,” which displays dozens of game controllers that require two hands to operate an architect shares her firsthand knowledge of how design can fail communities, gleaned from growing up in Detroit's housing projects an astronomer who began to lose her eyesight adapts a technique called “sonification” so she can “listen” to the stars.ĭesigning for inclusion is not a feel-good sideline. Holmes tells stories of pioneers of inclusive design, many of whom were drawn to work on inclusion because of their own experiences of exclusion. Inclusive design methods-designing objects with rather than for excluded users-can create elegant solutions that work well and benefit all. In Mismatch, Kat Holmes describes how design can lead to exclusion, and how design can also remedy exclusion. ![]() These mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion. Something as simple as color choices can render a product unusable for millions. Sometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that only works for people who read English phrases, have 20/20 vision, and use a credit card. How inclusive methods can build elegant design solutions that work for all. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Master’s opinion, acquiring knowledge is of the utmost importance, and one must develop effective learning techniques. Parents need to be treated with reverence. ![]() For the Master, this is silly-one provides one’s animals with food, as well without deep respect for one’s parents, then, providing them with food is essentially offering them the same treatment that one offers one’s animals. This is what it means to be filial, at least in antiquity nowadays, the Master explains, many people interpret being “filial” as simply providing one’s parents with food and drink so that they don’t have to worry about supporting themselves in their old age. For him, one can judge whether a son is loyal or not to his parents if, three years after his father’s death, the son has not strayed from copying his father’s ways. ![]() Indeed, the Master believes that respect for one’s parents is of the utmost importance. Yu, one of his disciples, comments that the root of a man’s character is his behavior during childhood if, during childhood, a boy is obedient, he will grow into a man who has respect for his superiors and does not instigate rebellion. Confucius, also known as the Master, says that he enjoys studying philosophy and slowly integrating the lessons he has learned into his daily life. ![]() ![]() Twice in her life she ‘saw’ Hercule Poirot - once lunching in the Savoy and once on a boat in the Canary Islands.She is the only crime writer to have created two equally famous and much-loved characters - Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.The Mysterious Affair at Styles earned her the princely sum of £25.As an inexperienced novelist, she capitulated, but she received many letters from acquaintances noting the "coco" spelling and commenting that she was "never a good speller." Christie thought this was "most unfair." When she published The Mysterious Affair at Styles, she was forced to use the spelling "coco" instead of "cocoa" due to the insistence of an editor.It was some four years before The Mysterious Affair at Styles was published, having been rejected by six publishers.She wrote her first detective novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, after a bet with her sister, Madge.The first ever story that she wrote when she was younger was called The House of Beauty, and she wrote it to stave off boredom while in bed recovering from influenza.These facts were compiled by Agatha Christie experts John Curran and Chris Chan, alongside Agatha Christie Ltd ![]() ![]() We learn that Willa, faced with a grisly task, The melon of belly expanding, contracting.Įach chapter ends with the title of the following chapter. She lay with her chin on her forearms admiring the baby’s wren-feather eyelashes and delicate nostrils, the bottom lip tucked into the infant overbite.Willa Knox, the hero of the contemporary cycle, admires her grandson: Her eyes flared like a struck match before she looked away.Īs the cover says, the book is – in many ways – magnificent.When Thatcher Greenwood, the hero of the 1870s cycle, scolds his wife Rose, we hear that: Unsheltered pulses with exquisite prose about two families living in a crumbling house in Vineland, New Jersey, 150 years apart. “Unsheltered” shows Barbara Kingsolver is a great writer ![]() ![]() “Unsheltered”, by Barbara Kingsolver, is a beautiful book that expresses eloquently the mood of contemporary America. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() An American Library Association Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults An Amazon Best Book of the Decade.So Far A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year leave breathless for the third."- School Library Journal " near-genius balance of breathtaking romance and action."- VOYA "Teens will relish this new adventure and hunger for more."- Booklist "Meyer's trilogy seethes with the archetypal tumult of star-crossed passions, in which the supernatural element serves as a heady spice." - The New York Times " the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice" - Entertainment Weekly ago Very, so much more content in there Lanthuas 4 mo. ago I think so I have the hardcover edition for my collection and the paperback for reading. "The legions of readers who are hooked on the romantic struggles of Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this third installment" - Publishers Weekly The Twilight illustrated guide answers a lot of the FAQs in this subreddit. ![]() ![]() ![]() This Sunday morning, David French once again wrote about the link between a new crop of white evangelicals who identify with their faith almost solely on the basis of supporting Donald Trump. ![]() In just one generation, American religion has gone from 70% belonging to a specific church or synagogue, to under 50%-47% to be exact-according to a recent Gallup poll. That last link, about being one generation from Hell, was breathlessly published in early July by yours truly. It’s easy to be captured into the crisis. In short, the church is failing.Īll of those statistics may very well be true, but the more I meditate, and-yes-pray, about this, the more I am convinced that their relevance is overrated. Trump, that we’re just one generation from Hell. I, like most evangelical Christians, am constantly reminded that the evangelical church is in trouble, that evangelicals have been hijacked by a political movement linked to the GOP and Donald J. ![]() ![]() "Les amoureux de la fiction historique et policière doivent absolument connaître cette nouvelle série qui se déroule dans l'Angleterre de la reine Victoria. Pour l'aider dans sa tâche, l'inspecteur Pitt peut compter (d'ailleurs, elles ne lui laissent pas le choix) sur son épouse, Charlotte, ainsi que sur la s ur de celle-ci, Emily. Il entreprend dès lors une enquête dans ce lieu habité par la grande bourgeoisie, qui n'apprécie pas beaucoup de voir ses secrets mis à jour. Alerté, l'inspecteur Thomas Pitt se rend sur les lieux, où il découvre un second corps. ![]() Résumé : En creusant dans Callender Square, deux jardiniers découvrent un cadavre de bébé. ![]() |