powerful story will be invaluable to organizers, feminist historians, and anyone concerned about contemporary threats to personal liberty., As a study of this remarkable but little-known phenomenon, this book will be of value to anyone interested in women's health, the women's movement, and women's reproductive health and rights, particularly now that those rights are coming under increasing attack., An extraordinary history. I just wish it was not so very timely., The Story of Jane succeeds on the steam of Kaplan's gripping subject and her moving belief in the power of small-scale change., This is lively, nuanced history that brings to life the hopes, terrors, and disappointments of a movement committed to giving women control over their own bodies., Kaplan's engrossing tales of the quiet courage of the women who risked their reputations and freedom to help others may remind many readers of other kinds of outlaws who have resisted tyranny throughout history., A firsthand account of an underdocumented moment in the history of abortion and women's liberation. This book is an excellent work of history and would work well in a variety of American Studies courses. could not come at a more critical moment in the history of abortion in the United States. This reissue of Laura Kaplan's 1995 study of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation.
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It is when Kawamura uses specific details or tells us that the origin of the Japanese word for cat, “neko”, is actually “’a sleeping child’” (same sound, different choice of kanji characters)” that the novel surges to life. There weren’t many surprises for this cat lover but it was lovely to find out eventually that that “whole other word” is “Neko-Manma”. But the devil is in the detail and the devil is, of course, central to this story of mortality, a blend of Faust with It's a Wonderful Life. It's hard to know what part translation has played here as it is always harder to translate a demotic voice from one language to another. But seemingly I haven't gone wrong because when the unnamed protagonist's cat Cabbage begins to speak halfway through the novel, he reveals he doesn't like this food either.Ĭabbage's voice is a little clichéd he speaks "like an upper class gentleman. I wondered again where I went wrong with my cat-rearing. It's just not the same as human food – we humans are way fussier." This was news to me, under pressure as I am every day to rustle up at least three innovative meals for my cats. At the beginning of Genki Kawamura's magic tale If Cats Disappeared from the World, we're told that "In Japanese, there's a whole other word for the food pets eat. In this book Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of the Italian Renaissance. Emphasis has been placed on recreating the experience of contemporary Italians - the patrons who commissioned the works, the members of the public who viewed them, and the artists who produced them. Yet the traditional story of the Renaissance has been dramatically revised in the light of new scholarship, and new issues have greatly enriched our understanding of the period. Between the `Black Death' in the mid-fourteenth century and the French invasions at the end of the fifteenth, artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo, working in the kingdoms, princedoms, and republics of the Italian peninsula, created some of the most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. With a strong narrative drive that never flags, the story engages all the reader's emotions. Binchy's lyrical prose has a lilt and musicality that makes it a joy to read. Patrick's joy at his homecoming is slowly eroded, and his teenage son Kerry breaks hearts, including his father's. Other charactersall memorably portrayedcome to be resentful of the ``Yank's'' money while they reveal their own cupidity. Kate (Binchy's most splendid character) and her husband own a pub that is bound to suffer when the hotel opens. But tragedy strikes when a bulldozer working on the hotel site crushes Kate Ryan's spine her adaptation to life in a wheelchair is brave and touching. The Firefly Summer (Hardcover) The Penderwicks meets The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street in New York Times bestselling author Morgan Matsons middle grade. The consequences of Patrick's arrival there early in the '60s are often hilarious: the local aristocracyespecially the widows and spinstersvies for his attentions, while the villagers are beguiled by his largesse and by thoughts of the prosperity the hotel will bring. Mountfern is the ancestral home of Patrick O`Neill, a rough, rich American whose wealth comes from bars and restaurants, and whose dream is to build a grand hotel in Mountfern. Binchy's latest novel (after Light a Penny Candle ) is set in the tiny Irish backwater of Mountfern, home to a handful of families and typical of hundreds of similar hamlets in the British Isles where life is lived to the rhythm of the seasons. Dresden and Cowl fight, and Dresden manages to make a quick getaway with Billy Borden.īack at Billy's place, Dresden overhears some of Georgia Borden's concerns about Dresden's behavior. On the way out he is attacked by a strange man called Cowl, and his assistant Kumori. Dresden visits Artemis Bock, a bookseller at Bock Ordered Books, and meets Shiela Starr who helps him find Die Lied der Erlking. He leaves Butters at his home under the protection of his wards and Thomas Raith, and heads off to find information. The two manage to escape alive and Dresden briefs Butters on the workings of the supernatural world. While checking out a corpse in the morgue, he and Waldo Butters are attacked by a necromancer. If Dresden does not deliver, Murphy will pay the price. Dresden is contacted by a Black Court vampire Mavra who is searching for the Word of Kemmler. Karrin Murphy ventures on a vacation to Hawaii with Jared Kincaid, while Harry Dresden is left in Chicago. The Captain of the Wardens, in charge of the security for the White Council. Europe and the Roots of African Underdevelopment - to 1885 - 4.1 The European Slave Trade as a Basic Factor in African Underdevelopment - 4.2 Technological Stagnation and Distortion of the African Economy in the Pre-Colonial Epoch - 4.3 Continuing Politico-Military Developments in Africa - 1500 to 1885 - 4.4 The Coming of Imperialism and Colonialism - Chapter Five. Africa's Contribution to European Capitalist Development - the Pre-Colonial Period - 3.1 How Europe Became the Dominant Section of a World-Wide Trade System - 3.2 Africa's contribution to the economy and beliefs of early capitalist Europe - Chapter Four. How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century - 2.1 General Over-View - 2.2 Concrete Examples - Chapter Three. 1.1 What is Development - 1.2 What is Underdevelopment? - Chapter Two. Includes bibliographical references and index In the search for an understanding of what is now called underdevelopment in Africa, the limits of enquiry have had to be fixed as far apart as the fifteenth century, on the one hand and the end of the colonial period, on the other hand.". It delves into the past only because otherwise it would be impossible to understand how the present came into being and what the trends are for the near future. "This book derives from a concern with the contemporary African situation. In middle age he served in the trenches of World War I, during which time a German high-explosive shell came in through the roof of his dugout and blew his mess orderly’s head clean off. As a young man he was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery fighting alongside the Malakand Field Force on the North-West Frontier, and subsequently he took part in the last significant cavalry charge in British history at the Battle of Omdurman in central Sudan. Lack of courage was never Churchill’s problem. “If that is not courage,” Lord Mountbatten, the First Sea Lord, said later, “I do not know what is.” He had always found the depiction of the mouse too indistinct, so he retrieved his paint brushes and set about “improving” on the work of Rubens by making the hazy rodent clearer. In April 1955, on the final weekend before he left office for the last time, Winston Churchill had the vast canvas of Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Lion and the Mouse” taken down from the Great Hall at the prime ministerial retreat of Chequers. CHURCHILL Walking With Destiny By Andrew Roberts Illustrated. About Hugh’s stunning gentleness, depth, and courage. Hugh’s proposal salvages Lillias’s honor but kills their dreams for their futures…until they arrive at a plan that could honorably set them free.īut unraveling their entanglement inadvertently uncovers enthralling truths: about Lillias’s wounded, tender heart and fierce spirit. And the inevitable indiscretion? Soul-searing-and the ruination of them both. Nothing can stop Hugh Cassidy’s drive to build an American empire…unless it’s his new nemesis, the arrogant, beautiful, too-clever-by-half Lady Lillias Vaughn. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks…and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. She’s the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. He’s the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long continues her Palace of Rogues series with a brand-new romance about an ambitious American and a headstrong British heiress. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. It was written between 18, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil-to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. Walking/ Wild Apples is a compilation of two classic philosophical nature essays by the great American naturalist and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. Quixote attacks a windmill, believing it to be a giant, destroying his lance in the process. Panza quickly realizes that his master is mad, but the squire hopes that Quixote will make good on his promise to name Sancho as the Governor of an island. This second sally provides the story for the rest of Book I. Having found a squire, a common peasant named Sancho Panza, Quixote leaves yet again. Quixote believes it was the sage Friston, his mortal foe. When Quixote recovers, he asks for his books and his niece tells him that the sage Muñaton has taken them. The niece and housekeeper deliberate with two of Quixote's friends, the priest and barber, and they decide to destroy Quixote's library, burning many of the books of chivalry. A commoner rescues Quixote and brings him home. Returning home for clothes and money, Quixote is beaten and left for dead. Quixote believes that the inn is a castle. He insists on having an innkeeper knight him into the chivalric order. Neither his niece nor his housekeeper can stop him from riding his old horse, Rocinante, out into the country. He has read many of the books of chivalry and as a result, he has lost his wits, and he decides to roam the country as a knight-errant named Don Quixote de La Mancha. Alonso Quixana is an older gentleman who lives in La Mancha, in the Spanish countryside. |