This prodigious narrative tells the story of pre-Islamic Persia, from the mythical creation of the world and the dawn of Persian civilization through the seventh-century Arab conquest. Originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan in the tenth century, the Shahnameh is among the greatest works of world literature. Davis’s elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shahnameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly marked explanations to ease along modern readers. The definitive translation by Dick Davis of the great national epic of Iran-now newly revised and expanded to be the most complete English-language editionĭick Davis-“our pre-eminent translator from the Persian” ( The Washington Post )-has revised and expanded his acclaimed translation of Ferdowsi’s masterpiece, adding more than 100 pages of newly translated text.
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The book was an instant best-seller, with 300,000 copies purchased in the first six weeks. Francie grows up nurtured by the loving gallantries of her father, a singing waiter who drinks too much, and the rigorous austerities practiced by her brave mother, a janitress who reads to her children each night from the complete plays of Shakespeare and the 'Protestant Bible'. "Forty years before Holden Caulfield abandoned Pencey Prep to begin his ill-fated Manhattan odyssey, Francie Nolan struggled to obtain an education in the teeming tenement neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. 23, 1943." Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket with some professional restoration. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication, "For Foster and Marian Best Love Betty Smith Aug. First edition of Smith's classic first novel about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1943. For instance, nutritionist Jean Mayer persuaded Americans that exercise leads to weight loss when in fact, writes Taubes, exercising may increase hunger and calorie intake. He also reveals how charismatic personalities can force the acceptance of unproven theories. For example, he charges that when scientists figured out how to measure cholesterol in the blood, they became “fixated on the accumulation of cholesterol in the arteries as the cause of heart disease, despite considerable evidence to the contrary.” Taubes is a relentless researcher, shining a light on flaws in the scientific literature. Carbohydrates, particularly refined ones like white bread and pasta, raise insulin levels, promoting the storage of fat. Obesity is caused, he argues, not by the quantity of calories you eat but by the quality. In Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes tries to bury the idea that a low-fat diet promotes weight loss and better health. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities - or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation. Slave to Sensation is the foundation on which the 16 books and nearly as many novellas have been built. But a passionate Changeling will tempt her to reveal everything - and risk her very soul. Having read Nalini Singhs collection of paranormal romance novellas Wild Embrace last year, I wanted to find out where the powerful Psy and their Changelings cousins began. Born a Psy, Sascha Duncan must hide the emotions that mark her as flawed. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion - and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind - and none of the heart. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several changeling women. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of "rehabilitation" - the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was.īoth human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind-and none of the heart. He travels to the ancestral river of the Yupik Eskimos to see the only Fair Trade–certified fishing company in the world. He visits Norwegian megafarms that use genetic techniques once pioneered on sheep to grow millions of pounds of salmon a year. In Four Fish, award-winning writer and lifelong fisherman Paul Greenberg takes us on a culinary journey, exploring the history of the fish that dominate our menus - salmon, sea bass, cod, and tuna - and investigating where each stands at this critical moment in time. We stand at the edge of a cataclysm there is a distinct possibility that our children’s children will never eat a wild fish that has swum freely in the sea. Today, rampant overfishing and an unprecedented biotech revolution have brought us to a point where wild and farmed fish occupy equal parts of a complex and confusing marketplace. Just three decades ago, nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild. Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. With this novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades. Named one of 2016’s most influential people by Time Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world’s most read and beloved writers. She moves between both in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: a Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and a Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. “There’s no doubt will be the literary event of the year.” ( Elle) A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography. Search for related items by subject Subject: ((Reviewed January 1 & 15, 2005)) Copyright 2005 Booklist Reviews. Although biographies of Dolley Madison are plentiful, Cote's reinterpretation of her life provides a very human profile of a legendary historical figure. Lauded as a national heroine for her courageous and quick-thinking behavior during the War of 1812, she earned a well-deserved place of honor among the pantheon of beloved First Ladies. An accomplished hostess and fashion trendsetter, she was also practical, levelheaded, and politically astute, able to charm dandies and statesmen alike. A young Quaker widow, Dolley Payne Todd was introduced to James Madison by Aaron Burr, becoming an indispensable domestic and political helpmate to the often diffident and ailing Madison. Cote represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. According to the author, the "best-loved first lady of the nineteenth century" was respected for her intelligence, wit, and interpersonal skills. The item Strength and honor : the life of Dolley Madison, by Richard N. Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2005 January #1 Based on more than 2,000 letters, this intimate portrait of Dolley Madison is buttressed by a wealth of primary sources. By mid-2021, the number of people forced to flee their countries had grown to a record high 24.5 million.A decline in the labour share of income from 2014 to 2019 ‐ from 54.1 per cent to 52.6 per cent ‐ represents upward pressure on inequality.One third of persons with disabilities experience discrimination. In some countries, women are more than twice as likely as men to experience discrimination on the grounds of sex.Roughly one in five people have experienced discrimination on at least one of the grounds prohibited under international human rights law, such as ethnicity, age, sex, disability, religion and sexual orientation.Income inequality within countries will also have increased around 1 per cent, on average, in emerging market and developing countries, halting the steady decline seen in these countries since the start of the millennium.Before the pandemic, inequality was expected to have fallen by 2.6 per cent over the same period. Projections suggest that between-country inequality rose by 1.2 per cent between 20, the first such increase in a generation. Among the 18 countries which have data for 2020, two thirds saw rates of relative low income increase in 2020. The effects of the pandemic have intensified social exclusion. It's as if they just showed their family findings over and over because they have no clue themselves what they say! When they gave all these examples of handwriting they showed all these examples of what they looked like but not what they were.so you don't know. Unrealistic & unfortunately put all their " eggs in one basket" trying to obtain "stories" instead of facts. However, after listing "interviewing" relatives and neighbors & such.giving over 95% further information on a variety of interview questions and how to conduct those interviews, even after stating that many of avenues to be nearly impossible on some categories they kept harping on it! (even mentioned you could be the older generation but needed to interview complete strangers & family members that were too young to know anything) I nearly laughed when they used the assumption that everyone was from a small town that actually everyone knows their neighbors & one could just start knocking on doors and find out things from everyone on town, even those who just moved to town. Was disappointed! It started off good listing different ways to search. So it is with the opening story of the six here, “Nirvana,” which takes its title from the Kurt Cobain–led rock band but shares a spirit with near-future films like Her and Gattaca. Tragedy is always close to the surface in Johnson’s work-with tragicomic layerings, sometimes, but it’s tragedy all the same. A half-dozen sometimes Carver-esque yarns that find more-or-less ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges and somehow holding up. |