And he leads us out of the lab to illustrate how profoundly political medicine can be, whether describing how feminists agitated against disfiguring mastectomies or how 1980s AIDS activists inspired cancer patients to fight for drug approvals. With a Dickensian command of character and an instinct for the drama of discovery, he makes science not merely intelligible but thrilling. From the simplest questions-how old is cancer? what does it look like?-Mukherjee, a physician and professor, plunges us into a sweeping history with a colorful cast of renegade scientists, their patrons, and patients. Ubiquitous but taboo ( The New York Times refused to print the very word in its pages during the early 1950s), cancer is the "morbid, hypnotic" villain of Siddhartha Mukherjee's stirring saga, The Emperor of All Maladies. Even as cholera and tuberculosis-the scourges of the 19th century-wilted in the wake of medical advancements and vigorous public health campaigns, the cancer cell continued to bloom. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfictionįor 4,000 years, cancer has stalked us.
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Thomas Wallace Craik was born in Warrington, Cheshire, in 1927, and educated at the Boteler Grammar School there, from which he won an Open Exhibition in French and English to Christ's College Cambridge, where he studied under F. A master of dramatic monologues, he is considered one of the foremost Victorian poets. Robert Browning (1812-1889) was an English poet and playwright. This unique book is intended for all ages. This work contains over 40 illustrated pages with hand lettering and includes a foreword by Roger Craik detailing this book's creation by his parents. From the pillaging rats to the gluttonous council members, every pen and brush stroke brings Browning's moral home. The pages have bold, imaginative drawings, deep lines, rich colors and fine (often idiosyncratic) details. The dramatic events that Browning recorded in 1842 marvelously unfold in the Craiks' illustrations. Robert Browning's poem captures the mysterious nature of the Piper legend and the resplendent, rich time period in which the tale took place, which has inspired many great illustrators such as Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Margaret Tarant, and Maxfield Parrish. BlazeVOX presents for the first time this wonderful edition, originally created in 1959 as a gift by the illustrators to their young son. This facsimile of Robert Browning's THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN: A CHILD'S STORY is beautifully illustrated and colored by T. Throughout his time in the army, Werner remains devoted to his sister, Jutta, and often thinks back to their carefree days together in the orphanage. Werner uses his skills to help Volkheimer and other soldiers murder hundreds of people-some of them civilians-and wonders, again and again, if he’ll be able to live with his choices. As Werner grows older, he develops an aptitude for engineering and science, but is morally challenged when he is accepted into the National Institute (a prestigious Nazi school) and then during his stint in the German army. As a respite from their oppressive surroundings, Werner and Jutta develop a love for science and the broadcasts they hear via their radio (broadcasts being made, unbeknownst to either of them, by Marie-Laure LeBlanc’s own grandfather Henri). During his adolescence, Werner is close with his sister, Jutta Pfennig, with whom he lives at an orphanage (their father died in a mining accident, and their mother’s fate is unknown). Werner has whitish-blond hair, blue eyes, and is strikingly intelligent, so he seems like a model of the Nazis’ “Aryan ideal”-except that he has a stronger moral compass and a lesser sense of racial superiority than most of his peers. Werner Pfennig is a young, intelligent German boy, and one of the two protagonists of All the Light We Cannot See. Letter #10: Daniel LeBlanc to His Daughter Of course grave-dancing was frowned upon in Wessett and the likelihood of Lisenn dying first was minuscule, but that didn’t stop the younger sister from sheltering such an inclination in her heart.Īnd it had nothing to do with wanting the crown, because she didn’t. Only two people had to die for Princess Iona to become queen: her father King Gawen, an aloof figure whose passing she would one day mourn, and her older sister Lisenn, whose grave she would gladly dance on should the occasion arise. If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him and if he repent, forgive him. Names, characters, places, organizations, and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review. The band Queen actually began with a group called Smile, established by Roger Taylor and Brian May in 1967. Don't wait any longer, let us help make your wedding the unforgettable celebration you always dreamed of. Our office is staffed from 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM EST, Monday - Friday. Give us a call at (212) 645-0555 and one of our booking agents will be happy to help you immediately. Want to talk about your wedding entertainment now? Simply fill out an entertainment request form and one of our booking agents will contact you to discuss the possibility of booking entertainment for your wedding. Not only that, but we also handle all the necessary production for one all-inclusive price, so there won't be any surprises. 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It has attracted much scholarly attention because of its mysterious nature. It can also be called a magic-realism work. It has hugely impacted literature, and an example of it can be cited as a genre named ‘Kafkaesque.’ These are dystopian, nightmarish works that cause a helpless feeling of disgust in the reader. It is a modernist work, which in the form of the novella, has created a nightmarish fictional world. It was completed in 1912, but the author didn’t publish it till 1915. The Metamorphosis is Franz Kafka’s (1883-1924) masterpiece. She followed that up with “Carnegie’s Maid” a USA Today bestselling title published in 2018 that tells of how an Irish immigrant woman made Carnegie the industrialist into what he was. The debut novel of the series was “The Other Einstein” that was published in 2016 and tells the story of the first wife of Albert Einstein, who was also a physicist and might have played a huge role in the many theories and discoveries by the great scientist. 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I don’t know if Twain was an atheist, but would conclude so just based on reading this book. Some about sin and man’s relationship to God presented a skeptic’s or atheist’s viewpoint on Christianity. Some of his thoughts on women’s sexuality came from a different perspective and included things I’d never thought of. Some I found interesting, if not illuminating. These vary in length from a few pages to fifty pages. From an Unfinished Burlesque of Books on Etiquette.From The Manuscript of “A Tramp Abroad” the French and the Comanches.Thus, the book is a hodgepodge of materials, most of them dealing with religion and man, particularly relations between men and women. The editors found value in these writings and published it in 1938, more than twenty years after Twain’s death. Perhaps other things caught his interest. Perhaps he realized the project didn’t make sense. Like many authors, Twain started things, working toward some grand plan, then never finished them. The book was pulled together posthumously by editors from writings Twain never published, things they found after he died. Actually, I have another copy of this in the house which I saw while looking for something else on a bookshelf. Some time ago I picked up a used copy of Letters From The Earth: Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain. Twain’s miscellaneous writings published after his death: good to read but not worth keeping. He explained my options to me carefully, without charging me for any of it. He very kindly walked me through the legal tangle of having co-written a work and what it means when two people have copyright to a work (particularly when there is no pre-existing coauthoring legal agreement, which BTW if you are gonna cowrite, you should always have. With the hopes of protecting my intellectual property, I chose to reach out to a lawyer recommended by another author. This person has a history of abuse, deception and racism within the bookish community. I was not informed and did not give consent to this. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.Īs the gofundme has stated (beautifully and well put by my lovely friend Sadie, whom I cannot thank enough for the support and encouragement), I recently learned that a book I’d published with a coauthor in 2019 was being “reworked” and republished under a new pen name. I cannot believe how quickly you all have responded to help support me. But I thought it would be best to address the situation with my ex co-author and the gofundme legal drive in more detail.įirstly, I really cannot thank everyone who has donated thus far. Being concise and knowing what information should come when is not my strength. His travels were primarily attributed to the fact that Mozart’s father wanted to show off what a brilliant composer his son was. Despite the gruesome touring experiences, Mozart was an avid traveler. At the age of eight, he composed his symphony. During his travels, he became acquainted with other brilliant composers who he looked up to and drew influence from their works. He played before royalty at Bavaria in Munich and courts in Prague, then continued to Vienna, London, Paris, Manheim, Dover, and Amsterdam. Mozart and his sister, Nannerl, toured Europe with their parents when they were young and played as child prodigies. 1–5,’ are recorded in “Nannerl Notenbuch” (in English: “Nannerl’s Music Book”). At age five, he could play the clavier effortlessly and began composing his music. Mozart could strike thirds on his sister’s clavier, the keyboard of an organ, or a pianoforte at the tender age of three. His father, Leopold Mozart, was a violinist for the ruling Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, Count Leopold Anton von Firmian. Christened Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart - the Latin variant of his chosen name - the prodigy was off to a great start as he was born into a family of composers. Mozart lived a tumultuous and thrilling, albeit short, life as a veritable genius. |