![]() ![]() Underpinning these (and other) intellectual traditions was a generalized belief that good communities were small, cohesive places where local customs governed relations among neighbors and kin. Provincial American readers devoured their caustic criticism of "Old Corruption," as they described the political settlement in Georgian Britain. "Commonwealth" or "real Whig" English writers were profoundly suspicious of all political power and the people who wielded it. One source, especially among New England intellectuals, was the heritage of Puritanism, which had overturned the monarchy, beheaded King Charles I, and abolished the House of Lords. But colonial radicalism also drew on presumptions that a great deal was wrong with the world as it was. colonial tensionsīroadly speaking, pre-independence radicalism was "conservative," seeking to turn back changes that Britain sought to impose. It also can describe the various visions people formed of the new America that the Revolution made possible. The word radical can apply equally well to deep criticism of both the British-American social order and British policies during the pre-Revolutionary crisis. Within the American Revolution there was no single radical position from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() Politically it means addressing matters from their roots. "Radical" stems from the Latin radix, root. ![]()
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Aliens move among us-warriors, soldiers, explorers, and more-testing fate and finding love with their true mates. ![]() ![]() My father was an Italian prisoner of war during World War II and my Mom was a local Sicilian girl in the French Quarter.” I was floored, and immediately thought, “someone should write a book about this.” It took me a while, but eventually I was that someone.īarb: Most people associate New Orleans with people with French, Spanish, and Creole backgrounds. We were swapping stories about growing up in Italian families and he said, “well, my parents were a little different. I stumbled across the story when I met a man named Joe Faroldi, a local chef in New Orleans, back in about 2003. How did you get interested in this topic?Įlisa: You’re not alone! I’ve talked to so many people-World War II history buffs, Italian Americans, New Orleans folks-unless people had some direct interaction with these prisoners of war, most people have no idea. ![]() ![]() I have since learned there were 4000 German POWs in Maine. I also think of it a “book club fiction,” because it’s the kind of novel that gives you plenty to think about and discuss after you’ve read it.īarb: I have to admit I knew nothing about WWII POWs in this country until I read your book. From a genre perspective, it is historical fiction. ![]() ![]() The Italian Prisoner is about Italian prisoners of war in New Orleans during World War II and the Sicilian-American community that offered them goodwill and support. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Madame Serpent by Jean Plaidy![]() Review Quotes Plaidy has crafted a compelling narrative, full of historical detail and fascinating characters. Tortured by what she sees, Catherine bes consumed by a ruthless ambition destined to make her the most despised woman in France: the dream that one day the French crown will be worn by a Medici heir. Humiliated and unloved, Catherine spies on Henry and his lover, the infamous Diane de Poitiers. Amid the glittering ftes and banquets of the most immoral court in sixteenth-century Europe, the reluctant bride bes a passionate but unwanted wife. The brokenhearted Catherine has left her true love in Italy, forced into trading her future happiness for marriage into the French royal family. Fourteen-year-old Catherine de Medici arrives in Marseilles to marry Henry, Duke of Orleans, second son of the King of France. ![]() Book Synopsis Back in print after more than twenty years and for the first time in eBook, Madame Serpent, the first novel in Jean Plaidys classic Catherine de Medici trilogy, introduces readers to the young de Medici princess. About the Book Originally published in Great Britain in 1952 by Arrow Books-T. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang![]() ![]() ![]() Some panels directly address the creative process, such as those depicting an interaction between Yang and a Punjabi student regarding the way small visual details cue ethnicity in different ways. Yang seamlessly blends a portrait of the Dragons with the international history of basketball while also tying in his own career arc as a graphic novelist as he tries to balance family, teaching, and comics. While Yang ( Team Avatar Tales, 2019, etc.), a math teacher and former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is not particularly sporty, he is intrigued by the potential of this story and decides to focus his next graphic novel on the team’s ninth bid for the state championship. Backed by Coach Lou Richie, an alumnus himself, this could be the season the Oakland, California, private Catholic school breaks their record. The Dragons, Bishop O’Dowd High School’s basketball team, have a promising lineup of players united by the same goal. The trials of a high school basketball team trying to clinch the state title and the graphic novelist chronicling them. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The gift of therapy book![]() ![]() Yalom’s 35+ years of practicing psychotherapy. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. The Gift of Therapy is a bestselling book filled with stories and insights gleaned from Dr. This new edition includes over twenty additional pages of new therapy tips by the author reflecting on the major issues and changes he has seen in the world of therapy since he first wrote this book in 2002. This is an entertaining, informative and insightful read for both beginner (and experienced) therapists, patients, students and everyone with an interest in the subject. Personal, and sometimes provocative, Yalom includes some unorthodox suggestions: Let the patient matter to you Acknowledge your errors Create a new therapy for each patient Three kinds of therapist self-disclosure Revealing the therapist's personal life: use caution Full interpretation of a dream? Forget it! Freud was not always wrong. Yaloms more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. Presented as eighty-five 'tips' for 'beginner therapists', Yalom shares his own fresh approach and the insights he has gained while treating his patients. From the Back Cover The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr Irvin Yalom's forty-five years' work as a therapist, this book illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. 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Most of what you hear about Leo Strauss-his work, his supposedly malign political influence-is the product of misguided political animus. They have taken one of the most willfully misunderstood and unfairly vilified philosophers of modern times and treated him to the lucid scrutiny of dispassionate analysis. “Catherine and Michael Zuckert have performed a signal intellectual service. Their judgments are balanced yet sharp, exceptionally well informed, and persuasive.”-Rogers M. “Writing with their typical thoughtfulness and scrupulous care, Catherine and Michael Zuckert dispel many distortions and misunderstandings in their invaluable account of The Truth about Leo Strauss. ![]() ![]() It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.”-William Galston, Brookings Institution ![]() “ The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. ![]() |