Under the tutelage of Jeremy and his cousin Regina, Danny blossoms into a lady. Intrigued by her beauty and spunk, Jeremy hires Danny as his upstairs maid, although he really wants her to be his mistress. She demands Jeremy give her a legitimate job so she can become respectable. When Danny, a young woman from the streets of London with no memory of her real family, helps handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, she is kicked out of her gang. This “delightfully engaging” ( RT Book Reviews) entry in New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey’s Malory-Anderson Family series follows the son of a gentleman pirate as he falls in love with the streetwise young woman he hires as his maid.
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The English translation by Fitzgerald focuses on one complete day in which Omar Khayyam wakes up, contemplates life and death, drinks, and describes the experience of being alive. The rhyme scheme of these Persian verses follows an aaxa pattern, though some verses stray from this scheme. The Rubaiyat is actually a collection of four-lined verses called rubai, often referred to as quatrains in English verse. To define The Rubaiyat as a translation is not altogether accurate in fact, the original work may not even be entirely authored by Omar Khayyam. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia. Whatever its definition, The Rubaiyat is a stunning work of poetic revision, popular since the Victorian era, and still influential today. The work is typically described as a translation of poems attributed to twelfth-century Persian mathematician and scholar Omar Khayyam, but whether The Rubaiyat as we read it in English is a translation, a retelling, or something in-between, has often been debated. Part translation, part creation, part nihilistic vision, and part joyful celebration of nature and wine, English scholar and translator Edward Fitzgerald’s The Rubiayat of Omar Khayyam is a widely influential work from the Victorian period. Many current business models and products on the market make this number increasingly hard to meet through designed obsolescence - products are designed to end up in a landfill after just a few years of use. The current economy needs to reach 17% circularity by 2030 to stay on the 1.5 ☌ pathway of the Paris Accord. This production of waste and pollution, of course, has contributed to climate change exponentially. In other words, the resources used and levels of carbon emitted to source new materials is not only exorbitantly high but it is also wasted on products that are designed to inevitably end up in a landfill. 91% of virgin materials - materials that are newly extracted from the earth for processing - end up in landfills, and 70% of greenhouse gasses are produced during material handling and use. Today the world economy is 8.6% circular. The circular economy means to lower emissions and reduce waste before it occurs. But their version of the American Dream is a nightmare: low-paying, dead-end jobs the profound failure of government to improve upon decaying housing, health care, and education the failure of families to break the patterns of child abuse and substance abuse. Shipler makes clear in this powerful, humane study, the invisible poor are engaged in the activity most respected in American ideology hard, honest work. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Arab and Jew, a new book that presents a searing, intimate portrait of working American families struggling against insurmountable odds to escape poverty. Introduction: At the edge of poverty - Money and its opposite - Work doesn't work - Importing the third world - Harvest of shame - The daunting workplace - Sins of the fathers - Kinship - Body and mind - Dreams - Work works - Skill and willĪn intimate portrait of poverty-level working families from a range of ethnic backgrounds in America reveals their legacy of low-paying, dead-end jobs, dysfunctional parenting, and substance abuse and charges the government with failing to provide adequate housing, health care, and education. Includes bibliographical references and index Renae: Lots of sugar! I’m the mother of two young kids, and my first “job” is seeing to their well-being and keeping the house. RJ: I touched on how stressful writing and publishing can be. I grew up in the country and I get a little stressed when I’m boxed in. I think I just have a large personal space. I have to laugh, because I don’t feel prolific. Thank you for the welcome and the “prolific” bit. I mean, yes – authoring is really stressful and I use sugar to keep from bouncing off the walls. **Accepts the coffee gratefully** What? No cake? She usually waves hello from a safe distance. *hands over coffee* (Now you may have heard Renae isn’t a hugger. It’s too bloody stressful.” Now look at us! I remember thinking “I’m never going to start writing. At the time I hadn’t started writing myself and I found it fascinating to hear the trials and tribulations she had gone through to get to that point. Renae has been a prolific author for the past year or so and I had the pleasure in meeting her just before her debut novel was released. All of Renae’s books are set in Australia which is just one reason why readers love her. We all know Renae from her best sellers, Loving Jay, The Blinding Light and more recently, You Are the Reason. Today I have the pleasure in interviewing fellow Perth girl, Renae Kaye. They won't mistake sex for more, even if it only gets better-month after month. So what if it's the best sex they've ever had? It's still only temporary. Some guaranteed exchange of heat as the long winter sets in seems just what they need to pass the time. That is, until they strike a no strings bargain. It's entirely natural for Morgan and Reese to be friendly, but Reese's repeated reminders that she's not sticking around make it impossible for anything more between them. A girlfriend would still be nice, and the new sheriff is easy on the eyes. The pace, the quiet and the many friends make life there well worth the lack of dating material. Morgan has lived in Lake City long enough to be considered a local. She takes the job of sheriff seriously, but makes it clear to one and all: this year is just a blip in her life. Used to the busy playground of Winter Park, police chief Reese Daniels is shipped off to sleepy Lake City, Colorado. And the one who controls that code controls that space. It is a uniquely artificial space, built by software that controls the form, shape, and depth of that reality. interaction is the most sustained human contact of their lives.")] Second, Cyberspace is unique because it is constructed entirely of code. Cyberspace is distinct because individuals can live their entire lives there (even if only a select few chose to do so). He selects an online subculture of individuals whose total social interactive experience is mediated through computer screens, and defines the whole by this part. Picking up on the exceptionalist mantra, Lessig affirms Cyberspace as a unique and distinct place in two ways.įirst, he posits it as a unique oasis where people (some people) can live out their entire lives. Lessig selects one core tenant of that era, but rejects another. Lessig's CODE is a reaction against the exceptionalist era. The message of the book, reduced down to a slogan, is "Code is Law." Larry Lessig's book CODE and Other Laws of Cyberspace was published in 1999 and quickly became required reading. Out of the utopian-cyberlibertarian era emerged a voice that became a drum major for the cyberprogressive movement. 6Īrchitecture is a kind of law: it determines what people can and cannot do. Left to itself, cyberspace will become a perfoect tool of control. E have every reason to believe that cyberspace, left to itself, will not fulfill the promise of freedom. Drawing on the latest research from a diversity of scientific fields and healing modalities, Dr. In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for SelfHealing as well as an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she’d learned with others-and soon “The Holistic Psychologist” was born. Wanting more for her patients-and for herself-she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual wellness that equips people with the interdisciplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Andersen was more than a little neurotic, and being buried alive was far from his only fear. The note was a fixture of Andersen’s bedside table-some say he even wore it around his neck. Dorothea “joked that he could do as he had often done, and leave a note saying ‘I only appear to be dead' beside him.” He spent his final days at the home of his friends Dorothea and Moritz Melchior in Copenhagen, and as the end neared, begged Dorothea to cut his veins after he’d breathed what appeared to be his last breath. Hans Christian Andersen suffered from taphephobia, which only became worse when he fell ill.Īccording to his biographer Jackie Wullschlager, Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was deathly afraid of being buried alive. Taphephobia, as it is called, is not so rampant in the era of modern medical care, but for some folks in the past, it was terrifying. Once that fear takes hold of one’s consciousness, it can become an obsession. It’s not so much the fear of death as it is the fear of waking up trapped in a grave. No matter how remote the possibility, the thought of being buried alive is ghastly. Now on his knees, the gun pointing at his head. When I open my eyes again, Jojo’s still whole. I blink and I see the bullet cleaving the soft butter of him. …the sound raw and carrying in the air, and Jojo shakes his head without pausing and staggers when the officer kicks his legs apart, the gun a little lower now, but still pointing to the middle of his back. The novel is written from various perspectives, and the page below is from a chapter narrated by Leonie.Ĭlick on the highlighted words to see Ward’s insights. When Jojo reaches for his pocket, the officer points a gun to his face. The family has just been pulled over, the mother Leonie has swallowed a small bag of methamphetamine to hide the evidence, and a police officer has handcuffed Leonie, her boyfriend, Michael, and their 13-year-old son Jojo, as 3-year-old Michaela cries and calls out for her brother. The scene takes place during a traffic stop. Below, Jesmyn Ward isolates a pivotal moment from her novel, “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” and explains the writing choices she made. |