The Lion by Joseph Kessel5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:lelion00jose:epub:1432e594-1dd9-45d2-8cf5-36438bba144d Foldoutcount 0 Identifier lelion00jose Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6546nc1x Invoice 1213 Isbn 2070235815ĩ782070235810 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL12392535M Openlibrary_edition Author of over eighty works, including The Lion and The Horsemen, Joseph Kessel expected to become an actor. He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:46:44.199557 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA1139120 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Containerid S0022 Donor Joseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist. ![]()
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Twivortiare book5/23/2023 ![]() I've got insights through the book that made me think about what the relationship is, the person who I want to have in my life and the important thing is how to be sincere when I face everything in life. ![]() ![]() I swear, those things don't help me but in otherwise make me feel frustrated. At my age, there are a lot of pressure about this topic and I don't know how to respond to every question about "where is your boyfriend?" or the statement about the time of my marriage. My emotional condition at that time was not good, I was shaking because there were so many things that bothered me in term of relationship/love story etc. Long-short story, I ended up buying her other's novel, Twivortiare, and started to read. ![]() I am saying it again that it was coincidence reading the novel because I was triggered with the other movie based on Ika Natassa's novel, Critical Eleven. No offense, I will not give the bad score to the movie but I want to talk more about why I love Twivortiare more than anything. For me, the movie is good enough as a movie but I prefer the novel more. ![]() Finally, the movie is now showing on theatres and I've watched it last night. I've said many times in every platform and people used to it already. ![]() Righteous Anger by Lynda Williams5/23/2023 ![]() ![]() I’m wondering if that last phrase is connected to your overwhelming emphasis in your ministry on delighting in God and desiring God. Anger is not just a relationship destroyer it is a self-destroyer. I have seen the destructive power of anger in relationships, especially marriage, to such a degree over the last forty to fifty years that I am far less sanguine about so-called righteous anger than I once was. I was much more optimistic about a righteous place for anger when I was 30 than I am now. But later you were asked about the distinction between unholy anger and holy anger. It witnesses to the world the degree of such an injustice. ![]() ![]() And then those staunch positions, and the resulting strong language, is justified by Christians in terms of righteous anger - like Jesus flipping tables and not sinning.Ī long time back, in an episode on abortion, APJ 672, you made a case for using righteous anger to call out the evil of killing the unborn. “Pastor John, hello and thank you for this podcast! I think we are living in an age where Christians are taking hard stances on just about anything and everything, making decisions about vaccines and politicians and masks - decisions all held with unflexing, biblical conviction. ![]() Does holy anger kill our delight in God? It’s a good question from Matt, a listener in Wisconsin. ![]() March book two5/23/2023 ![]() Wow, book two in the March series was even more powerful than book one. Come to think of it, buy all three volumes, and give them to a young person you love. This is both a great graphic narrative and an accessible and accurate history of a crucial period in American history, a time filled with bravery and heroes. ![]() And as before, we see all the great turmoil and petty trials of the past framed by the story of Barack Obama’s first inauguration. In addition to the powerful portrayal of the dramatic events, I like the way the narrative includes realistic details of compromise and weakness: MLK’s refusal to join the Freedom Riders by saying he wishes to chooses his own “Golgotha” and then being mocked as “De Lawd,” Stokely Carmichael’s dangerous intransigence, the March on Washington’s reluctance to accept the services of accomplished organizer Bayard Rustin because he was was openly gay, and Lewis himself frustrated by demands that he alter his speech until he is persuaded by his idol A. ![]() Just as in the first volume, the stark black-and-white illustrations complement the somber and often disturbing events, but now, as the atmosphere becomes darker and more intense, the illustrations become more cinematic, more ominous. ![]() ![]() This second volume in the graphic biography of civil rights stalwart John Lewis begins with the Freedom Riders and Parchman Farm and ends with the March on Washington and the fatal bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church. ![]() The arrest of arsène lupin 19055/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The fun in the Arsène Lupin books is different from the Holmes books, where the excitement is in catching the criminal along with Holmes, as Watson narrates how it’s solved. Thus, Lupin was a "gentleman burglar" or "gentleman thief," someone who steals from those who deserve stealing from, and doing so by being classy and suave, as a master of disguise who rarely takes himself seriously. Lupin was created as a French response to Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), a character somewhat intentionally created to be a contrast to Holmes being so serious and straitlaced (there are actually several short stories and novels where Lupin faces a version of Sherlock Holmes). Many of the English translations by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos have lapsed into public domain and are available for free online in places such as Project Gutenberg. There are 17 novels and 24 compilations of novellas and short stories, made from 1905 to 1939, with a good number available in English translation. Lupin first made his debut in 1905, in the short story The Arrest of Arsène Lupin. Arsène Lupin is the creation of Maurice Leblanc. ![]() The origins of totalitarianism5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It became clear, Arendt writes, that you only had human rights if you belonged to a state - the League of Nations could not help you. “The first great damage done to the nation-states as a result of the arrival of hundreds of thousands of stateless people was that the right of asylum, the only right that had ever figured as a symbol of the Rights of Man in the sphere of international relationships, was being abolished.” See for yourself if any of Arendt’s warnings sound familiar: 1 - It begins with a refugee crisis…Īmong the ‘ origins’ of ‘ totalitarianism’, Arendt argues, is the fact that human rights became unenforceable when people without a state - usually persecuted minorities - became rightless: forced to leave their own state, no other community was willing to guarantee them any rights whatsoever.Īrendt traces the first cracks of a free state to the failure to help refugees: ![]() Here are some of the scariest parts of the book, that are basically a warning to future societies that racism can destroy a free state. ![]() Most articles have focused on the totalitarianism - the book’s eerily familiar description of demagoguery, propaganda and eventually, dictatorship - but not the origins - the trends, or early stages, that evolved into the darkest moments of human history. ![]() Guns germs steel book5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Yet the emergence of such societies in Eurasia was no accident. Even so-called world histories focus overwhelmingly on literate Eurasian states since 3000 BC. That broadest pattern poses history’s biggest unsolved question, which historians scarcely discuss today. ![]() Why did history unfold that way? Why didn’t Africans instead conquer Eurasia, bringing Native Americans as slaves? Obviously, that is why Eurasians (especially Europeans) conquered peoples of other continents. By 1492 AD, that was still true in all of Australia, much of the Americas, and some of sub-Saharan Africa, but populous Eurasian societies already had state governments, writing, iron technology, and standing armies. In 11,000 BC, all societies everywhere were bands of preliterate hunter-gatherers with stone tools. History’s broadest pattern is its different unfolding on different continents over the last 13,000 years. My focus is on trends over whole continents since the last Ice Age his, on much smaller areas for shorter times. Without disputing the value of McNeill’s approach, I believe that our differences arise from the different historical scales that we consider. McNeill identifies two contrasting approaches to history: the traditional emphasis on autonomous cultural developments that he favors, versus my book’s emphasis on environmental factors. After warmly praising my book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies as “artful, informative, and delightful”, the distinguished historian William H. ![]() David olusoga books5/22/2023 ![]() The great white bard of the title is just that type of idealised cultural construct, she suggests. It is a clever deployment of Shakespearean wisdom on how to love without a distorting “fancy bred in the eye”. Karim-Cooper’s broader sociopolitical scope makes us see certain lines and characters afresh But in order to love him, she argues, we have to know him fully, and not only his genius but the darker aspects of his legacy. Karim-Cooper felt an instant connection to Shakespeare at the age of 15, during an English lesson on Romeo and Juliet. It is a thorough analysis but also a kind of love letter. Far from being cowed by the experience, she has produced a book-length study of the bard through the lens of race theory. Efforts to decolonise Shakespeare have been fiercely contested in the past and as co-director of education at the Globe theatre, Karim-Cooper navigated her own storm when she organised a series of webinars on anti-racism in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder. ![]() Book one last stop5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() August has had enough of playing detective in a decades-old cold case and has escaped to New York in an attempt at a new start. ![]() August grew up as an only child to a single parent who at times seemed only to have raised a child to create a partner in her relentless quest to discover what happened to her older brother who disappeared when she was in her early teens. In this story, we meet August, newly arrived in New York City and alone. One Last Stop is simultaneously similar to RWRB and completely different. I fell in love with the characters, humor, and perfectly described locations, so when I heard that McQuiston would be releasing a new novel, One Last Stop, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it this summer. My favorite read in 2020 was Red, White, and Royal Blue, an LGBTQ romcom starring Alex (the son of America’s first female president) and Henry (the Prince of England). Trigger Warnings: homophobia, sexual content (consensual) Please note: This post contains affiliate links. Today’s book review is One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston. Follow the Pride Month tag to find all the content in one space (including LGBTQ content from previous years), and keep checking back for more throughout the month. Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month with lots of LGBTQ content. ![]() Hijabs and hymens5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In Headscarves and Hymens, Eltahawy takes her argument further. The response it generated, with more than four thousand posts on the website, broke all records for the magazine, prompted dozens of follow-up interviews on radio and television, and made it clear that misogyny in the Arab world is an explosive issue, one that engages and often enrages the public. When the Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy published an article in Foreign Policy magazine in 2012 titled 'Why Do They Hate Us?' it provoked a firestorm of controversy. ![]() ![]() A passionate manifesto decrying misogyny in the Arab world, by an Egyptian American journalist and activist ![]() |