![]() ![]() If you are considering cancelling or wish to cancel a product you have ordered from us, please be aware of the following terms that apply:Īpplicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. If you are a non-EU customer, please see our returns policy. ![]() For further information about your statutory rights, contact your local authority Trading Standards department or consumer advice center (for example the Citizen's Advice Bureau if you are in the UK). Refunds for orders cancelled under the provisions of the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations will be processed in accordance with your legal rights. If you are a UK/EU consumer, you have the legal right, under the Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 to cancel your order within twenty eight (28) working days following your receipt of the goods or the date on which we begin provision of the services. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() In other words, the addictive consciousness brought into the world a new foreground and put other things into the background. They lost old friends, broke with old families. They picked up new friends, new relations and whole new ways of acting. For instance, you see people who become addicted to crack or something, entering into a whole world and social system that before they became addicted, they hardly noticed. Social situations that you might not have even recognized until you entered into a new level of consciousness. So do not look at consciousness as some abstraction.Īnd notice if you change your consciousness or change your values and orientation, you enter into a different world. We need to organize our consciousness and our personalities and our culture and see them as instruments of power, and use them as instruments of power to transform our situation. And we have the power, ladies and gentlemen. And consequently then, we must interpret what we are about in terms of power. You need power to act, to behave in the world. ![]() We’ve been made to think that power is sinful, and that to pursue it is a sinful pursuit.īut you cannot exist without power. To a great extent, the problems that we are confronted with today as African people and African people in America flows from our powerlessness, or our inappropriate use of power. ![]() Because, ultimately, this is what this whole struggle is about: Power. We’re going to talk about African-centered consciousness, personality and culture as instruments of power. ![]() ![]() ![]() The "forgotten war" becomes unforgettable. ![]() This is an intimate, deeper kind of history, whose meticulous research and rich detail, drawing on recently unearthed materials and eyewitness accounts, bring the true face of the Korean War, and the vastness of its human tragedy, into a sharper focus than ever before. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of 20 individuals who lived through it - from a North Korean refugee girl to an American nun, a Chinese general to a black American prisoner of war, a British journalist to a US Marine hero. In this vivid, emotionally compelling, and highly original account, Charles J. The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history - as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, and the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. ![]() A powerful, character-driven narrative of the Korean War from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who helped uncover some of its longest-held and darkest secrets. ![]() ![]() ![]() Charlie sometimes comments on a situation or on the behavior of other characters. Tom is also somewhat more childish and naïve than Douglas, often failing to understand the seriousness of Douglas' thoughts about his life nonetheless, he often acts as the voice of reason when Douglas' imagination gets the better of him.Ĭharlie: A friend of Douglas and Tom, Charlie often hangs around with them. ![]() Tom Spaulding: Douglas' younger brother, Tom is the more logical and skeptical one, often questioning his brother's seemingly inexplicable actions. Bradbury has stated that Douglas is based on the childhood version of him, and in fact, "Douglas" is Bradbury's actual middle name, while "Spaulding" is his father's middle name. Most of the time, he aims to have fun as a 12-year-old kid, but sometimes he lapses into philosophical brooding on topics, including life and death, more mature topics than what would be expected of his age. Douglas is imaginative, fanciful, and occasionally meditative on the state of the world. Douglas Spaulding: The protagonist of the novel, the entire summer is seen mostly through his eyes as a time of joys and sorrows. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After the 1965 communist coup and massacres, Anderson published three studies, one of which was an outline of the coup. As part of his doctoral research, Anderson went to Jakarta, Indonesia in 1961. under the guidance of George Kahin and Claire Holt. ![]() Working part-time as a teaching assistant in the department of politics, Anderson worked on his Ph.D. There, he developed an immense interest in Asian politics and later enrolled in Cornell University’s Indonesian studies program. in classics from Cambridge University, England in 1957. In 1941, the Anderson family moved to California, where Benedict received his initial education. Veronica was English and came from a family of conventional businessmen, judges, and policemen. James was an officer in the Imperial Maritime Customs in China and according to his son, a Sinophile he was also of mixed Irish and Anglo-Irish descent, and his family had been active in Irish nationalist movements (see Yeats and Postcolonialism). Benedict Richard O’Gorman Anderson was born on Augin Kunming, China to James O’Gorman and Veronica Beatrice Mary Anderson. ![]() ![]() ![]() What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. ![]() The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe allies scattered throughout space and time can join forces. Once there, they must signal its location to future generations, to bring the battle to the enemy. If it succeeds, those chosen will travel to a hidden enclave thousands of light years away. And while millions have fled to seek refuge in space, others continue to fight an apparently unwinnable war.Īs Earth's defeat draws near, a team attempts to infiltrate the Salvation of Life – the Olyix’s arkship. ![]() One by one, cities are falling to their devastating weaponry. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price.įor two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. ![]() This is a high-octane adventure from 'the most powerful imagination in science fiction' (Ken Follett). Humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat, in this extraordinary conclusion to Peter F. ![]() ![]() ![]() She pals around with Hilly Holbrook, domineering socialite, and Elizabeth Leefolt, who jumps at Hilly’s every beckon call attempting to keep her tenuous hold on her homespun standing in Jackson’s social circles. Twenty-three year old Skeeter Phelan plays the white female protagonist who feels alien to her native Jackson after studying literature and journalism at Ole Miss. Minny is the younger, sassy, often fired maid and mother of five children of her own. Aibilene is the older, calmer, wiser maid who loves the children she cares for. The two African American women, Aibilene and Minny, work as maids in the homes of Jackson’s white families. The novel recounts the lives of six women in 1960s Jackson, MS. Even Stockett’s use of vernacular feels natural rather than strained. At 522 pages, The Help reads very quickly and smoothly. ![]() ![]() She lives with her husband and baby son in the Pacific Northwest, though she’ll always be a Boston girl at heart. She was a 2015 RITA Award finalist, a 2014 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award winner, a 20 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee, and a 2010 Golden Heart Award finalist. Her stories have been acclaimed for their smart, modern voice and defiance of convention. For release-day alerts: Since she began writing in 2008, Cara McKenna has published nearly forty romances and erotic novels with a variety of publishers, sometimes under the pen names Meg Maguire and C.M. This edition includes Curio and the five follow-up Curio Vignettes: Coercion, Craving, Reversal, Confession and Exposure. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. She was a 2015 RITA Award finalist, a 2014 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award winner, a 20 RT Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee, and a 2010 Golden Heart Award finalist. Read Curio by Cara McKenna with a free trial. ![]() Since she began writing in 2008, Cara McKenna has published nearly forty romances and erotic novels with a variety of publishers, sometimes under the pen names Meg Maguire and C.M. ![]() ![]() But as the prosecution reminded the jury over and over, Requiem’s many faces were not to be trusted. What he didn’t look like was a man who killed a woman in a sordid back-street squabble over the dividing of the profit from an afternoon of pick-pocketing. With his long dark curly hair, and the rough beard he’d grown in prison, Requiem did indeed look like the Man of Sorrows in certain lights. He knew how to smile, he knew how to look penitent, he knew when to play the fool, and when to simply do nothing, and leave his admirers to project upon his beautiful face all that they wanted to see there. ![]() THOUGH THERE HAD been men in recent history who had committed crimes far worse than those of Tom Requiem, none drew the crowds the size of those who came to the Requiem Trial. “Bethany Bled” Copyright © 2004 by Clive Barker.Ĭopyright © 2017 by Desert Isle Design, LLC. “The Sabbaticus” Copyright © 2004 by Clive Barker. Fetter’s Family of Freaks” Copyright © 2004 by “The Golem, Elijah” Copyright © 2004 by Clive Barker. “Mary Slaughter” Copyright © 2004 by Clive Barker. ![]() “Tom Requiem” Copyright © 2004 by Clive Barker. ![]() |