Pages off-white, with a whisper of tanning, commensurate with age & paper quality. Softcover book is in Fine condition (our highest grade): nearly as bright & clean as when first issued! Binding straight & strong-feels never opened. published in 1916, this is a trade paperback version from 1980 of one of the "white cover" reprints first issued in the late 1950s-1960s, which retains the original cover art & internal illustrations in pen-and-ink throughout the 320 pages. From a single little girl's collection from long ago, this is the 10th book in the original Oz series written by Baum & illustrated by John Neill.
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One cannot underestimate the power of a group activity the participants have a sense of belonging, of power, of safety, and they can be what they cannot be at home. What is her role? She cannot protect her siblings, she cannot speak out (they tell her not to or "he will kill us"), she feels unloved because she doesn't get hurt (strange, but accurate), and her relationship with others suffers.Īs the summary says, Anke finally finds her voice through participating in a school sports team. What a mistake, I should have read this book as soon as I heard about it!Īnke is like a number of women I knew when I was growing up: in an abusive family, but not the one being abused. However, it is written in verse so I put it off for a while. Review: I have been meaning to read this book for so long since the author lives in my town. …God invented and made the universe – like a man making a picture or composing a tune. … a God who takes sides, who loves love and hates hatred, who wants us to behave in one way and not in another… If you do not take the distinction between good an bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God Non-Pantheists Pantheists usually believe that God, so to speak, animates the universe as you animate your body: that the universe almost is God, so that if it did not exist He would not exist either, and anything you find in the universe is a part of God… …these people think that long before you got anywhere near the divine point of view the distinction would have disappeared altogether… If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all those religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth… as in arithmetic – there is only one right answer to a sum…but some of the wrong answers are much nearer being right than others Pantheism If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. You can look at my more detailed notes, but this is an overview of the content of Book II of “Mere Christianity”… Chapter 1 – “Rival Conceptions of God” Quotations Truth in other religions With the Big Bang, it expanded from a state of unimaginable density to an all-encompassing cosmic fireball to a simmering fluid of matter and energy, laying down the seeds for everything from black holes to one rocky planet orbiting a star near the edge of a spiral galaxy that happened to develop life as we know it. Mack as she speculates about five different ways the universe might meet its maker in the far, far future (or maybe at any moment!), based on all the clues we’ve gleaned about its past and present: In The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), join Dr. That’s why she’s penned a whole book about its ultimate cosmic demise! Katherine Mack to you, pal! (he writes to himself, not at all losing his grip on reality) - is nothing if not an optimist about the universe. Astrophysicist Katie Mack - hey, that’s Dr. There's crossover, AU, Hentai, OoC, Uber, Mary Sue, slash fic, hate fic, anti fic and even wing fic (in which familiar characters sprout wings and discover their new beauty through acts of mid-air coitus). There have been phases, fads, peaks and controversies throughout its history and it displays an incredibly diverse range of sub-genres. It's tempting to get caught up in paradigm-shift apocalypticism, but a closer inspection reveals that fanfic is not new at all. Since it hit 31 million sales in 37 countries worried voices are asking: is this the beginning of an era in which fanfic overthrows original creation? From this perspective it's a disaster when a work of fanfic becomes the world's number one bestseller and kickstarts a global trend.Īs we all know, Fifty Shades of Grey, originated as a piece of fanfic based on the Twilight series. Fanfic is seen as the lowest point we've reached in the history of culture – it's crass, sycophantic, celebrity-obsessed, naive, badly written, derivative, consumerist, unoriginal – anti-original. It may seem like a joke, but for many the rise of fanfic is "the end of the world". This is actually the plot of a piece of fanfic from the 1950s, in which sci-fi fans survive Armageddon and rebuild civilisation in their own image. I f you were to lock a group of pop culture junkies and TV addicts in a bunker, tell them that the end of the world had arrived and that they had to preserve culture for posterity by writing books, what they would produce would be fan fiction (fanfic). 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That came after navigating personal and professional trials over the past two-plus years that left her “exhausted.” Because of changes in my life that I’d like to make,” the 57-year-old Holloway told the Observer in an extensive interview about how she landed her new job as community affairs manager for Radio One Charlotte, which owns WLNK and five other area stations. It’s all absolutely, positively fantastic. To maybe even phrase the word as a question.īut the longtime on-air partner to Matt Harris is here to tell you: It’s not just all good. As soon as the surprise announcement was made last Monday that Charlotte radio station The Mix 107.9 (WLNK-FM) would air the final installment of “The Matt & Ramona Show” the next day because one half of it was stepping away from her microphone, it would have been easy to jump to conclusions.Īnd there certainly might have been an inclination to hold your breath a little if given a chance to offer “congratulations” to Ramona Holloway after hearing the news. Let students vote on which idea would be the best most likely, they will decide that sharing their markers would be the smartest way to go about making their rainbows. These ideas might include going home to get more colors, labeling each layer of the rainbow, just drawing a rainbow with only one color, and sharing their markers with each other. On the board, list their ideas of how they could draw a rainbow. Students will quickly realize that they cannot draw a picture of a rainbow with only one color. Encourage students to brainstorm ideas about how they could do so. Ask students to imagine that they have each been asked to draw a picture of a rainbow. Hand out markers to the class, with each student receiving a different color. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. "Very enjoyable" Paul Craig - Author of the Underworlders seriesĨth out of 252 books for Best Books about Creepy Crawlies.ġ0th out of 264 books for Best Books for Children that Adults should also read. "This delightful book has beautiful illustrations.Fun stories.Highly recommend" - Margaret Dendler - Award winning children's author Reviews: "This is actually a really good book" - Bill Oddie - TV presenter The book also contains a lovely foreword from Nature expert and TV personality Bill Oddie who shares his high regard for both book and author with quotes like "if you think you can write better, I bet you can't!".Ī book you and your young one's will love and share together. 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The lead went to 4-0 in the third when Deere walked, stole second and score on a single by Freeman who finished the day 2-2 with three RBI. The Fighting Tigers got a run in the second on a triple by Trevor Kleinman and Peyton Aldridge’s sacrifice fly. Kyle Howell led off with a double, Cameron Deere was hit by a pitch, they pulled off a double steal and came home on a hit by Cole Freeman. Ironton (15-3, 9-1) took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Loveday went six innings allowing five hits, five earned runs with nine strikeouts and six walks. Trevor Kleinman pitch the final 1.1 innings to get the save as he struck out two and walked one. Sloan allowed only two hits, struck out three, walked three and the two runs were unearned as the Ironton Fighting Tigers took a 5-2 Ohio Valley Conference win over the Blue Devils. Jim Sloan was going up against Gallipolis 6-foot-6 ace Zane Loveday on Monday, but it was Sloan who came away as the ace of diamonds. |