![]() ![]() All future discussion or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies are now bound to begin with her book."-John Berger"Not many photographs are worth a thousand of words."-Robert Hughes, Time"After Sontag, photography must be written about not only as a force in the arts, but as one that is increasingly powerful in the nature and destiny of our global society."-Newsweek"On Photography is to my mind the most original and illuminating study of the subject."-Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker On PhotographyIn Plato's CaveHumankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth. "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world and at ourselves over the last 140 years."-Washington Post Book World"Every page of On Photography raises important and exciting questions about its subject and raises them in the best way."-The New York Times Book Review"A book of great importance and originality. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() His many books include the bestselling Tao Te Ching, Gilgamesh, and The Second Book of the Tao, as well as The Gospel According to Jesus, Bhagavad Gita, The Book of Job, and Meetings with the Archangel. Stephen Mitchell was born in Brooklyn in 1943, educated at Amherst, the Sorbonne, and Yale, and de-educated through intensive Zen practice. ![]() Historians debate whether Lao Tzu is a combination of multiple historical figures, a mythical figure, or an actual person. According to Chinese tradition, Lao Tzu lived in the 6th century BC. Lao Tzu was one of the great philosophers of ancient China, and is a central figure in Taoism. This rendering by eminent scholar Stephen Mitchell presents the Tao Te Ching as poetry, written with all the skill which Mitchell brought to his renowned translations of Rilke. Yet the clarity of the original has only rarely been captured. The Tao Te Ching is the most widely translated book in world literature, after the Bible. These lessons apply to all aspects of life, from government to love, from childrearing to ecology. It explains the Tao, or the basic principle of the universe, and teaches the reader how to work for good with the effortless skill that comes from being in accord with the Tao. In eighty-one brief chapters, the Tao Te Ching gives advice that imparts balance and perspective, along with a serene and generous spirit. Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or “Book of the Way,” is the classic manual on the art of living. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thorne must find a killer whose agenda is disturbingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer's identity, is unable to say anything. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: it isn't Alison who is the mistake, it's the three women already dead. ![]() In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer's made his first mistake. She can see, hear and feel but she is completely unable to move or communicate. 'A terrifically stylish debut novel' Independent on Sunday Alison Willetts has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. ![]() The classic first novel from Mark Billingham introduces DI Tom Thorne in a unforgettable and terrifying case that changed crime fiction forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Smith’s epic follows Fone Bone and his two cousins, Smiley and Phoney, as they meet the valley’s denizens, become embroiled in their society, and discover their own heroism in confrontation with the rat creatures and their mystical master, the Lord of Locusts.Īccording to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, the Bone series has faced several challenges and at least one ban over the years. In The Valley, the Bones find themselves surrounded by talking bugs, vicious rat-like monsters, magic, and the occasional dragon. Bone tells of three creatures known as the Bones, who are outcast from their home village of Boneville and lost in a human land called The Valley.
![]() I kept it inside because Rory and I made a pact that our friend, Amber, was off-limits. Growing up, the three of us were friends.ĭeep down, I only ever wanted her. It is only appropriate for adult readers age 18+ Read onlineįrom New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new, sexy standalone novel. **Contains graphic sexual content and harsh language. Stepbrother Dearest is a standalone novel. I had a feeling my heart was about to get broken again. When tragedy struck our family, I’d have to face him again.Īnd holy hell, the teenager who made me crazy was now a man that drove me insane. Just as quickly as he’d come into my life, he was gone back to California. ![]() Then, things started changing between us, and it all came to a head one night. I hated that he brought girls from our high school back to his room.īut what I hated the most was the unwanted way my body reacted to him.Īt first, I thought all he had going for him were his rock-hard tattooed abs and chiseled face. ![]() ![]() I hated that he took it out on me because he didn’t want to be here. ![]() When my stepbrother, Elec, came to live with us my senior year, I wasn’t prepared for how much of a jerk he’d be. You’re not supposed to want the one who torments you. ![]() ![]() Rabbit and the Lovely Present simply being the tender and enchanting narrative of a little girl (with Mr. And after carefully considering a multitude of diverse objects that would in fact not make much sense as birthday gifts for Mom (coloured red, yellow, green and blue), the little girl and her rabbit companion finally decide on red apples, yellow bananas, green pears and blue grapes as a present (in other words, on a basket of fresh and delicious fruit). Rabbit (who is indeed a genuine bunny, but might also in fact be an imaginary and make-believe helper and companion) about what kind of present the little girl should get for her mother (for her mother's birthday). Rabbit and the Lovely Present features and shows simply and beautifully, descriptively an utterly sweet and charming back-and-forth dialogue between a rather serious (and perhaps even somewhat mildly introverted) little girl and her friend Mr. ![]() Nothing in any way earth shattering and with no real narrative tension and excitement (or even minor conflicts), Charlotte Zolotow's Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() As a bond of friendship forms between them, Brown must face the realization that - being unlike the typical man - he may be deprived of the thing he has come to crave: a romantic relationship. Eileen Cole (Fiona Shaw), Brown makes great strides in his physical development. When he undergoes treatment from the unorthodox Dr. Nevertheless, his determined mother (Brenda Fricker, Oscar®-winner for Best Actress in a Supporting Role) finds ways to stimulate the deprived boy's imagination, and nurtures his ability to express himself, beginning with a piece of chalk held between his toes.Īs an adult, Brown manages to express himself through painting, as well as writing (most of the story is told in flashbacks, as a nurse reads Brown's autobiography). ![]() Daniel Day-Lewis's landmark performance earned him his first Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the young man born into poverty who, due to the congenital condition, had muscular command of little else but his titular left foot.īrown (played in his childhood years by Hugh O'Conor) is raised in a house crowded with siblings and without the financial resources to allow him medical treatment, or even a wheelchair. The extraordinary struggles of an Irish writer/painter born with severe cerebral palsy are dramatized in Jim Sheridan's 1989 film My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown. ![]() ![]() He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.įirst in the acclaimed Earth's Children® series ![]() But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza's way of healing, most come to accept her. To them, blonde, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly-she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear.Ī natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the official synopsis: Across the ages, gods are vanishing - and the God of Thunder must unite with his past and future selves to stand against Gorr the God Butcher! Meanwhile, Malekith the Accursed begins a bloody rampage that will spread war throughout the realms. With the Original Sin event, the God Butcher, the now-famous female Thor, and the War of Realms, Jason Aaron saw big and wrote some surprising and huge stories. Not as big as Dan slott’s run on Spider-Man, Jason Aaron’s one on Thor is still big and full of now historic events. In 2012, after Kieron Gillen and Matt Fraction wrote Thor stories for a few years, Jason Aaron picked up where they left off and started to build an epic that lead us to The War of Realms (full reading order here). ![]() ![]() ![]() There has to be something in the water in Inglewild (I've said this before). Borison, narrated by Pippa Jayne & Julio Maxwell Mixed Signals is a standalone romance and the third book in the Lovelight series, a collection of interconnected novels.īy B.K. Our story features a bashful man who can rock a Hawaiian shirt, a hopeful and dreamy bakery owner, enough sweets to give you a cavity, and your favorite Inglewild residents. Mixed Signals is a sweet and steamy small-town romance. Will the heat between them boil over? Or will it be another case of mixed signals? The chemistry between them is red hot and the urge to take things to the next level is more tempting than Layla’s double fudge mocha brownies. All the benefits of dating, without the added pressure of feelings and unmet expectations.īut there’s one ingredient they haven’t considered. He’ll do his best to renew her faith in men while she rates his dating game. ![]() ![]() ![]() Good thing Caleb Alvarez has the perfect solution.Īfter saving Layla from another date gone bad, he has a simple proposition: One month of no-strings dating. All she wants is a partner who gives her butterflies, not someone who ghosts her at dinner and leaves her with the check. Apparently owning the bakery at Inglewild’s most romantic destination does not help one’s love life-despite her best efforts. She’s waded through all of the fish in the sea, each one more disappointing than the last. ![]() |