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![]() ![]() This new translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy. A Deconstruction of The Discourses on Livy: a biography of Niccolo Machiavelli and his Political. Machiavelli's theories became a dangerous ideology. In an age of increasing political absolutism, His discussion of conspiracies in Discourses on Livy is one of the most sophisticated treatments of archetypal political upheaval every written. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics - the belief that a healthyīody politic was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli’s idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state.Ĭomparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. ![]() ![]() IDiscourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. ![]() ![]() Returning to today’s video, we will discuss Michael Mann’s betrayed and disowned horror classic, The Keep, and go into great detail about it. According to sources, Wilson was so concerned by the final product that he wrote a short fiction called Cuts about a writer laying a voodoo curse on a film director for what the latter did with his work. Paul Wilson’s 1981 horror novel The Keep, which was also titled The Keep. Mann’s film was based on American writer F. You may be surprised to learn that the movie’s audio mixing was never completed properly, and the film’s original release date, which was intended to be in June, was eventually postponed to December due to ongoing post-production issues. In fact, the final minute cuts featured numerous flaws, including multiple plot gaps, several consistency errors, extremely poor editing, and blatant scene and audio jumps. We are talking about his British horror film The Keep, which was released by Paramount Pictures in 1983.ĭespite Mann’s requests, this critically acclaimed film, which was originally 210 minutes long, was reduced to a total run time of 96 minutes. Having said that, there is one film in particular that Mann would rather forget. His most well-known works include classics such as Thief (1981), Heat (1995), The Insider (1999), Collateral (2004), and Public Enemies (2009), to name a few. ![]() ![]() Michael Kenneth Mann, the director, is a man who does not require any introduction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Īs with most of her books, Thunder Cake is based on experiences from Polacco’s own childhood, which you can read about in the introduction to the story. Thank you for considering making a purchase through my links! To read my full disclosure CLICK HERE. As an affiliate I earn from qualifying purchases. Thunder Cake both feeds their fascination with storms, helps them overcome their worries about thunder, AND is all about cake! Read on to see what makes Thunder Cake delightful enough to have been on repeat in our house all summer. As a result, afternoon thunderstorms are something they really look forward to, but nighttime thunderstorms can scare them.Įnter Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco. ![]() Are your children scared of thunder or fascinated by it? In our house, the answer is a very strong “Yes!” to both! We live in an area of the country that gets little rain and even fewer storms, so thunder is a real novelty for our girls, something they only experience when we visit family in the summers. ![]() ![]() ![]() If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall. Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina’s footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out-for her and possibly for the world. Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. ![]() ![]() Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. ![]() Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. That’s number one on my list, but some of these look good too. I am really surprised that Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy (Book II: Greater Good) by Timothy Zahn is not on the list. All the books here fit in either the sci-fi or fantasy genre. It’s a new month! This means that new books are being released and Goodreads has shared with me a list of the most anticipated books for the month according to their members. ![]() ![]() ![]() A third figure in the story is a resourceful, formerly enslaved African who guided the explorers through hundreds of miles of inhospitable terrain, helping negotiate physical obstacles and the demands of tribal leaders.Ĭandice Millard is a former editor at National Geographic who's written three previous books. But when they returned to London, the two men engaged in a bitter public quarrel over their discoveries, leading to moments of high drama. ![]() Their expeditions would indeed reveal the source of the world's longest river. They would share arduous journeys into East Africa in the process, getting serious injuries and suffering from fevers and afflictions that at times rendered one or another of them deaf, blind or paralyzed. ![]() The other, an aristocratic soldier and surveyor devoted to hunting big game. ![]() One was a brilliant linguist, writer and explorer with endless self-confidence and a lifelong interest in pornography. Her latest book details the efforts of mid-19th century British explorers to find the source of the Nile River. Our guest, writer Candice Millard, has a knack for burrowing into a little-explored corner of history and spinning out a page-turning yarn that illuminates a part of our past. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator lives with an older man who has a vulture-like blue color eye, which triggers the narrator’s anxiety and he plans to murder the older man.Īlthough the narrator has no problem with the older man, the narrator loves him, but somehow the sight of the vulture-like eye influences the narrator. The tell-tale heart is a short fiction horror story narrated by an unnamed narrator who suffers from a rare nervousness disease. ![]() At one end, he can get an influential audience about his sanity, and at the other end, he describes a murder that the narrator committed.ĭespite telling about what makes him kill a person, the narrator emphasizes that at the end of the tell tale heart essay, the narrator heard a thumping sound from the body’s heart while he was hiding it. ![]() The story blends fiction and horror in a very particular way that is why it can secure the author’s reputation as a master of macabre. The story was narrated by an unknown person who acts like a homicidal madman. The Tell Tale Heart comes in the genre of short gothic horror stories written by Edgar Allan Poe, an American writer it was published in 1843 in one of the leading papers, The Pioneer. ![]() ![]() When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. ![]() And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war. ![]() The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.īilly’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.ġ911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. ![]() ![]() To top it off, Gregory’s ex-boyfriend makes an appearance just when he is at his most vulnerable. ![]() Then Marcus and Gregory disagree over whether to involve A Slice of Heaven in a civil rights dispute. ![]() Soon he’s looking forward to spending time with Marcus, but as the business-and their relationship-grows, so do the complications: First Marcus’s stepmother involves him in a cause that could give the bakery a reputation it doesn’t need. Gregory takes a second job at the bakery to help pay the bills now that his health is improving. He needs more help than he can afford, so when he hires accountant Gregory Southland, it’s for hours in the shop as well as on the books. ![]() Unfortunately, Marcus doesn’t have a large fortune-just a bakery, A Slice of Heaven, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and the determination to make it successful. That’s the advice Marcus Wilson has heard. To make a small fortune, start with a large fortune and open a bakery. ![]() ![]() ![]() Underlying this project is a curiosity about what happens when literature acts like ethnography, or is mistaken for ethnography, or when ethnography acts like literature. Ways of Knowing Small Places brings to critical attention two bodies of writing: fiction conceived as a critique of/an alternative to ethnography and fiction by anthropologists. Meanwhile, many anthropologists resorted to more self-reflexive modes of writing, such as autobiography and fiction. ![]() In the 1960s, however, the natives of those small places usurped the right to represent themselves in social science and the literary marketplace. Small, isolated places – particularly islands – had been key sites for studying non-western peoples through participant observation. ![]() Confronted by unprecedented social, economic, and epistemological change initiated by decolonization and the Civil Rights movement, American ethnographers and minority writers of fiction had to rethink their relation to the small places and cultures that had hitherto been central to their writing. ![]() Ways of Knowing Small Places analyzes several responses to a crisis in American ethnographic and literary representation that began roughly in the 1960s. ![]() |