![]() ![]() ![]() They could wield massive power and influence, yet are often overlooked. Roman women were the most liberated in the ancient world. Augustine, the church patriarch, and Constantine, Rome's first "Christian" emperor, rub shoulders with Julian the Apostate and Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, leader of the pagans. A centurion and a plasterer's wife share pages with the orator Cicero and the scholar Pliny the Elder, while a vestal virgin shares a chapter with Antinous, the boy-lover of Hadrian. This book spans the great chronological and geographical sweep of the Roman age and brings the reader face to face with those who helped create the empire, from consuls and commanders to ordinary soldiers, voters, and taxpayers.Īn extraordinary range of viewpoints is explored in these biographies. One hundred biographies reveal the mightiest civilization of the ancient world through the lives of its citizens.Īt its peak Rome's empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, yet it started as a primitive encampment above a riverside marsh. Lives Of The Romans - Lavishly illustrated with magnificent works of art, including portraits, sculptures, and Renaissance paintings of Roman scenes, this book reveals the real-life stories behind the rise and fall of Rome. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The young no longer undergo adolescent rites of passage-without this necessary psychological stage, they are anchorless flaunting authority, committing unspeakable crimes, etc. Making the connection to our present society explicit, Campbell says that the loss of ritual and myth can be seen merely by picking up the New York Times. In addition to the provocative discussion of the role of ritual in society, Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth (the story of Christ), and the early role of Shamans in primitive societies. Today, says Campbell, we no longer have a "thou" relationship with the animals we kill (or even many of the people) we have an "it" relationship. Using the Lascaux cave paintings as a starting point, Campbell discusses the importance of ritual in hunter/gatherer societies, and points out how early man had respect for the animals he killed, and always made rituals of appeasement to the animal's spirit-the myth thereby cleansing the guilt. ![]() In The First Storytellers, the third tape in the series, Campbell talks to interviewer Bill Moyer about the loss of ritual which has resulted in a present day depletion of the human spirit. Filmed over a three year period just prior to Campbell's death in 1987, this six-part PBS series has enjoyed amazing popularity, and the companion book is on many high demand lists in libraries across the country. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bear Bergman (Contributor), Tamiko Beyer (Contributor), Johnny Blazes (Contributor), Ahisma Timoteo Bodhrán (Contributor), Kate Bornstein (Contributor), Michael Cárdenas (Contributor), Sherilyn Connelly (Contributor), Adrian Dalton (Contributor), Katie Diamond (Contributor), Francisco Fernández (Contributor), StormMiguel Florez (Contributor), Judy Wawira Gichoya (Contributor), Luis Gutierrez-Mock (Contributor), Janet W. Andre (Contributor), Ryka Aoki (Contributor) - 46 more, Azadeh Arsanjani (Contributor), S. Other authors: Zev Al-Walid (Contributor), Roe-Anne Alexander (Contributor), Mercedes Allen (Contributor), A. ![]() ![]() It is soon over, and Arthur lies on the ground unconscious.Īfter a few moments, Arthur revives. Arthur is unwilling, but Adam calls him a coward and the fight starts. ![]() ![]() But Adam is not so easily placated "you've robbed me o' my happiness," he exclaims and challenges Arthur to fight. He is about to leave to join his regiment (he is a captain in the local militia), and points out that the affair is about to come to an end. Arthur tries to make excuses, saying he meant no harm. He berates Arthur for trifling with Hetty's feelings and for stealing her affection from him. He tries to pass the incident off with a few casual words, but Adam is furious now he knows where the locket came from. When they notice his presence, Hetty hurries away, and Arthur strolls casually towards Adam. As he walks along, he suddenly sees the pair a short distance before him they are kissing. Adam is superintending some repairs at the Chase Farm this day, and toward evening he has to pass through the grove in which Hetty and Arthur have been meeting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And Greer and Eb are way too attracted to each other for either of them to see reason. ![]() But Greer has a way of making things happen, regardless of obstacles. After a toxic paper plant closed, the bay has only recently been reborn, and Eb has no intention of letting anybody screw with his town again. A lifelong resident of Cypress Key, Eben wants the town to be revitalized, not commercialized. Eben Thibadeaux, the town mayor, completely objects to Greer's plan. There's one motel, a marina, a long stretch of pristine beach and an old fishing pier with a community casino-which will be perfect for the film's explosive climax. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida panhandle town called Cypress Key. ![]() Greer has been given one more chance, if she can find the perfect undiscovered beach hideaway for a big-budget movie. But her last project literally went up in flames, and her career is on the verge of flaming out. As a movie location scout, picture-perfect is the name of the game. ![]() ![]() ![]() The end words of lines one and two set the rhyme scheme.The first and second lines form an unrhymed couplet.And when we do, we get closer to all the human beings with whom we share the planet. Of course, we can’t duplicate the experience of grief, or love, or jealousy, or rage, or astonishment, or confusion or any of it through metaphors, and syntax, and line breaks. I think that’s an excellent definition of a poem. Carl Jung once defined a symbol as the best representation of that which cannot be represented. I can’t think of any better way to give our young women and men these skills than to sustain them with poetry. But if we’re going to get anywhere in this weary world we need engineers who can feel, doctors who can empathize with their patients, astronomers who can communicate the wonders of the universe to the rest of us, and mathematicians and coders who are firmly grounded in notions of what it means to be human. Yes, of course, we need great engineers, great doctors, great astronomers and mathematicians and coders. There are so, so many reasons to get poetry into the ears and mouths and hearts of our younger citizens. If we’re not very careful, teaching it is like refusing to give a starving kid dinner until she can recite every ingredient that went into its preparation. Bringing poetry to young people is an act of love. Well, this is like asking why it’s important to bring math into the classroom, right? And I love that the question refers to bringing poetry into the classroom, rather than teaching it. ![]() ![]() ![]() And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. ![]() But what is this “escape” really about?Īs the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland. Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauveng, though sometimes critical of mental health care, ultimately attributes her slow journey back to health to the dedicated medical staff who took the time to talk to her and who saw her as a person simply diagnosed with an illness-not the illness incarnate. Today, however, she calls herself a "former schizophrenic," has stopped taking medication for the illness, and currently works as a clinical psychologist. ![]() When she was diagnosed with the mental illness, it was emphasized that this was a congenital disease, and that she would have to live with it for the rest of her life. She paints a surreal world-sometimes full of terror and sometimes of beauty-in which "the Captain" rules her by the rod and the school's corridors are filled with wolves. Buy a discounted Paperback of A Road Back from Schizophrenia online from. ![]() Painful recollections of moments of humiliation inflicted by thoughtless medical professionals are juxtaposed with Lauveng's own understanding of how such patients are outwardly irrational and often violent. Booktopia has A Road Back from Schizophrenia, A Memoir by Arnhild Lauveng. Lauveng illuminates her loss of identity, her sense of being controlled from the outside, and her relationship to the voices she heard and her sometimes terrifying hallucinations. A Road Back from Schizophrenia gives extraordinary insight into the logic (and life) of a schizophrenic. A Powerful Memoir for Sufferers, Their Families, and the Professionals who Care for Them For ten years, Arnhild Lauveng suffered as a schizophrenic, going in and out of the hospital for months or even a year at a time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her monster of a brother will never let her go, but Vittorio has no intention of losing the woman whose shadow matches his own. Now that she's under his protection and his sole focus, she can't help wanting to get as close to him as possible.īut Grace knows her presence is putting the entire Ferraro family in danger. Grace Murphy has always been drawn to Vittorio Ferraro or at least to the billionaire's public bad boy persona. He would die for his siblings and the people they love, but what he really wants is to start a family of his own.ĭeep down, Vittorio has always known finding a woman who could ride shadows would be nearly impossible, let alone one who could accept his particular needs, but he never expected to find her in the middle of a kidnapping. Vittorio Ferraro is a man whose family loyalty knows no bounds. ![]() ![]() Danger inspires fierce passion when a serial killer threatens Chicago's infamous Ferraro crime family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although Foer developed a strong imagination of self and other as a child, in the summer of 1985, he sustained second-degree burns in an “extremely loud and incredibly close” accident while attending a chemistry camp and, in the immediate after-math of “The Explosion,” witnessed the severe wounds of several friends and classmates, an experience which lead to a nervous breakdown in the years that followed, a re-shaping of the imagined world around him, and to a Foer who wanted “nothing, except to be outside of his own skin,” as he recounted to Deborah Solomon in a 2005 New York Times interview. as the middle child in a close Jewish family, the grandson of Holocaust survivors. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.’” -JSF to Deborah Solomon, in “The Rescue Artist,” NYT, February 27, 2005īorn in 1977 Jonathan Safran Foer grew up in Washington D.C. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. I write because I want to end my loneliness. ![]() Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. As a writer, I am trying to express those things that are most scary to me, because I am alone with them. Home > Publication and Reception Histories > Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ![]() |