![]() ![]() Thomas Johnson, editor of Harvard’s variorum edition of The Poems of Emily Dickinson, brings to this volume an artist’s understanding, imagination and a completeness of information not available to previous writers. The Emily Dickinson Archive makes manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from scholarly editions, available in open access-inspiring new scholarship and discourse on this literary icon. ![]() They are also available to institutions in ten separate subject-area packages that reflect the entire spectrum of the Press’s catalog. The 2,800 titles in the “e-ditions” program can be purchased individually as PDF eBooks or as hardcover reprint (“print-on-demand”) editions via the “Available from De Gruyter” link above. Harvard University Press has partnered with De Gruyter to make available for sale worldwide virtually all in-copyright HUP books that had become unavailable since their original publication. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She turned down Vassar and chose instead to study at Mary Washington, an all-girls college in Virginia. Let me backtrack-born Hettie Cohen in 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, Hettie was of Jewish descent. Through Hettie’s life we view the Beat scene. They were into jazz, wrote poetry and strove to get their writings published and known. Together, they partied, smoked grass, took drugs and exchanged views and partners. She writes of her life, on the periphery of their lives. ![]() She rubbed shoulders with many of the Beat Generation living here, those mentioned above and many more. The autobiographical piece here is about Hettie’s younger years in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, living in Manhattan-Greenwich Village, Chelsea and Cooper Square on the Lower East Side. Having recently enjoyed the writing of Joyce Johnson, next up to try was this- How I Became Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones. Well, what about the women of the group?! I wanted to check them out too. Everybody knows of the male poets and authors of the Beat Generation, those such as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Joel Oppenheimer, Frank O'Hara and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. ![]() ![]() ![]() Its not quite an awful film, it has potential but it just doesn't quite.work for me and usually I like character dramas and I like quite a lot of Robin Williams' films, so it was a little bit of a disappointment. Its a quirky and a fairly watchable film, with the titular characters conception being explained in a slightly disturbing way at the start of the film. I felt that Garps mother - her feminist manifesto aspect, I didn't feel it really fit into the film somehow. It felt a bit too long drawn out, although, to be fair, I thought Roberta Muldoon, played by John Lithgow, was another interesting character - I enjoyed the scenes featuring 'her' (a transsexual) and him. The main character is certainly quirky and somewhat interesting but the plot narrative didn't really work for me, as I felt that not much in the way of context was given to things. ![]() The main character is certainly quirky and somewhat interesting but the plot narrative didn't really work for me, as I felt that not much in the way of context was given to This is a strange film, I think its fair to say - sort of madcap but not in the usual way for Robin William films. This is a strange film, I think its fair to say - sort of madcap but not in the usual way for Robin William films. Other articles where The World According to Garp is discussed: John Irving: his reputation with the novel The World According to Garp (1978 film 1982). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Honey is looking to prove that she doesn’t need anyone telling her how to survive, but the route can be treacherous, and some folks aren’t as keen to let a woman pave her own way. Picking up her mother’s old packhorse library route, Honey begins to deliver books to the remote hollers of Appalachia. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. ![]() In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. An Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestsellerīestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Mary Angeline Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free. ![]() ![]() ![]() For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. Ongoing Covid restrictions, reduced air and freight capacity, high volumes and winter weather conditions are all impacting transportation and local delivery across the globe.
![]() When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers' only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. In Failure Is Not an Option Gene Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. ![]() He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. ![]() ![]() Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. Kennedy's commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. ![]() As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. ![]() ![]() ![]() Infant formula changed that.īut the single biggest factor in women’s enslavement to their biology has been the inability to control their fertility - blighting sexual enjoyment, imposing tremendous economic hardship of unwanted children, and bringing death to young mothers who agonized over being torn from their older children. Epidurals changed that.īreastfeeding bound women to the home and posed serious health problems for babies of mothers who couldn’t produce enough milk and turned to unsafe supplements. ![]() Hospital birth changed that.Ĭhildbirth is routinely agonizing and has always been a source of tremendous fear and suffering. Opposition to the Pill is the next logical step of that philosophy.įor most of human history, women have been reduced to slaves to their biology.Ĭhildbirth is inherently dangerous and has always been a major cause of death for young women. She’s part of a natural parenting movement that is anti-hospital birth, anti-epidural and anti-formula - technological innovations that have made the legal, political and especially the economic liberation of women possible. Surprisingly, the path is rather straightforward. How did Lake, who advocates women’s empowerment by taking childbirth out of hospitals and returning it to the home, come to criticize what is arguably the greatest source of women’s empowerment of all time, as well as a tremendous boon to women’s health? ![]() ![]() ![]() Fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook is ambitious, adventurous, and sick to death of listening to her mother. ![]() I released the handle and the bucket splashed, a distant sound.Īugust 1793. Her mother repeated that over and over, ‘she sewed by candlelight after dinner.’ And then she collapsed.” “And?” I waved a mosquito away from my face. “I spoke with her mother, with Mistress Logan,” Mother answered softly, looking at her neat rows of carrots. ![]() “Where’s Polly?” I asked as I dropped the bucket down the well. Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (IN) Volunteer State Book Award Master List (TN) Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (FL) Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (IL) Nutmeg Children's Book Award Nominee (CT) Maud Hart Lovelace Award Master List (MN) Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ) Buy the Book Amazon Barnes & Noble Books-A-Million Indiebound AwardsĬBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book ![]() ![]() ![]() But in Project Hail Mary, Grace has no such luck Rocky turns out to be from a species of roughly similar intelligence and technological ability as humans. Spoiler alert: there’s a plot twist early in the tale, so look away now if knowing it would annoy you. Some sci-fi stories solve the communication problem by gifting the aliens such superior intelligence that they learn English from terrestrial broadcasts that leak into space, arriving ready to talk turkey. And just like in The Martian, the protagonist’s survival in this new book depends on his ability to solve problems, troubleshoot mishaps, and generally science the sht out of things. ![]() How the two would communicate if they don’t share anatomy or biochemistry is not only an interesting philosophical problem, but is being studied for real, just in case. Project Hail Mary is the latest work of fiction from Andy Weir, best known for his debut novel The Martian. The “first contact” moment when humans meet an alien species has, like world ending events, long been fertile ground for sci-fi. What’s more, in order to save our star and therefore Earth, he needs to be able to talk to this alien, which he names Rocky because of its appearance. Spoiler alert: there’s a plot twist early in the tale, so look away now if knowing it would annoy you. And that isn’t even the most interesting aspect of this tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. It inspired me as a writer and still remains hugely inspirational.' -Kevin Kwan, author of Crazy Rich Asians Amy Tan's beloved, New York Times bestselling tale of mothers and daughters Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's 'saying' the stories. ![]() For me, it was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading experiences that you cherish forever. From the moment I first started reading it, I knew it was going to be incredible. Description or summary of the audiobook: 'The Joy Luck Club is one of my favorite books.Duration of the summary (audio): 25M42S (6.8 MB).You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Vorbis, MP3, MPEG4, OGG, WAV, FLAC, WMA, Shorten (compression TAR.BZ2, IMG, ZIP, CPIO, CBZ, RAR). ![]() |