![]() ![]() Later, this sense of belonging was formed and reformulated at every level, from high politics to popular culture, through print, literature, maps and museums. Written with exemplary clarity, this illuminating study traces the emergence of community as an idea to South America, rather than to nineteenth-century Europe. ![]() ![]() Cited more often than any other single English-language work in the human sciences, it is read around the world in more than thirty translations. Imagined Communities remains the most influential book on the origins of nationalism, filling the vacuum that previously existed in the traditions of Western thought. The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. “Anderson transformed the study of nationalism.” - The New York Times “One of the greatest.” - London Review of Books This world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations. ![]()
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![]() It's all very confusing, and I don't really get it, and I don't care. Batman gets shot back in time and has to punch time in its stupid face over and over until he's back where he belongs. I had to look online to find out what the fuck happened, and it's basically Superman Time and Again, but it's Batman. There's foppish Wayne, who looks like Bruce Wayne but more dandy.Īnd then Bruce Wayne's just kind of back and whatever. ![]() ![]() There's Pilgrim Wayne, who looks like Bruce Wayne with a dumb hat. And there are pictures of History's Greatest Waynes that keep changing or something. All you really know is someone is leaving weird clues and shit in the batcave. Well, you don't really find out in this volume. The rest of the time, I'm confused as hell.Īt the outset of this, Bruce Wayne is dead. When Grant Morrison is awesome, he's awesome. ![]() I'm done pretending I understand what Grant Morrison is doing most of the time. ![]() ![]() If anything, we tend to grade lower than we should.We use the traditional book grading system of (from best to worst): As New, Fine, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor. ![]() We hope you will trust us to accurately and fairly describe our books. Inscribed by Laymon on the title page.The Small PrintWe have been booksellers for 30 years. unless they are very excessive.Comments : See the photo of the back cover for a synopsis of the book. ![]() width x height) : 4.25 x 7.00 inchesCopyright Year : 1989Edition : FirstBook Condition : Very good, minor edgewearDust jacket Condition : NoneSpecial Condition Note : Please note that we do not always mention names, stamps, minor writings, etc. Title : Resurrection DreamsAuthor : Richard LaymonPublisher : Signet Books, NYBinding : Mass market paperbackSize (approx. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why isn't motivation alone enough to propel behavior change? ![]() For example, if you want to be more active, taking a walk around the block or hitting tennis balls for five minutes takes less motivation than running a marathon. The less motivation an action takes, the easier it will be to carry out that action. Whatever it is that it helps you feel successful, that's what will help wire in the habit. The third hack, in addition to making it tiny and then using an existing routine to remind you of it, is to hack your brain by calling up a positive emotion, by celebrating - whether that's fist pumps, raising your arms, doing a little dance, singing "Eye of the Tiger" in your head. But the habit is just tiny - you only do a paragraph if that's all you want to do. That might be the perfect time for you to open a book and read a paragraph. Ask yourself, what does this habit come after? For example, reading might come after you sit down on the subway. Then you find where it fits naturally in your existing routine. So even when you're in a rush or you're sick or you're distracted, it's so tiny that you can still do it. You make it so simple that it's almost like you have no excuse not to do it. Life Kit A Behavioral Scientist's Advice For Changing Your Life ![]() ![]() ![]() Unknown to Gilene, he also wants to reclaim the birthright of his clan. Gilene's sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies with the magic only she possesses.Īzarion, the Empire's most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion-and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery. For the last five years, one small village's tithe has been the same woman. ![]() A woman with power over fire and illusion and an enslaved son of a chieftain battle a corrupt empire in this powerful and deeply emotional romantic fantasy from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.Įvery year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital-her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. ![]() ![]() ![]() Scholars believe he would have written or transcribed the epic sometime between 1300-1000 BCE. This scribe would have lived in ancient Mesopotamia and may have been a priest, healer, and scholar from Uruk. In the text, the scribe of the Akkadian version names himself Sîn-lēqi-unninni, which was unusual for the time. Later, during Babylonian times, the stories were connected in the standard Akkadian version of "The Epic of Gilgamesh " (used for this analysis). Five surviving Sumerian poems give early accounts of Gilgamesh’s exploits. ![]() The original author of "The Epic of Gilgamesh" is anonymous, as the myth was likely orally circulated and translated by many for centuries. Facing the reality of his own mortality, Gilgamesh sets off on a journey to find the only living immortal man who can tell Gilgamesh how to escape death. After various exploits together, Enkidu dies. The hero of the poem, Gilgamesh, evaluates his courage and strength alongside his male companion Enkidu, who was born and raised in the wild. ![]() ![]() Sunset Oasis (واحة الغروب) Roma Tearne – Mosquito Olga Tokarczuk – Flights ( Bieguni) Zlatko Topčić – Safet Sušić Graham Swift – Tomorrow M. 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Canongate Myth Series by Polish publisher Znak. ![]() The title in English didnt catch the real meaning of BIEGUNI. The original Polish title refers to runaways (runners, bieguni), a sect of. The book Flights kept me reading without breaks. (Bieguni) in English Language ISBN: 9780525534198 Price:26.00 Home > BOOKS > Polish Literature In English DIARY VOLUME TWO Available Discounts 10 Discount buy any, save 10 Click Here to View All Items by Gombrowicz, Witold Our Price: 12. The book was translated into English by Jennifer Croft. ![]() ![]() ![]() A seedless fruit with a unique reproductive system, every banana is a genetic duplicate of the next, and therefore susceptible to the same blights. Entire Central American nations have been said to rise and fall over the banana.īut the biggest mystery about the banana today is whether it will survive. ![]() Rich cultural lore surrounds the fruit: In ancient translations of the Bible, the 'apple' consumed by Eve is actually a banana (it makes sense, doesn't it?). But for all its ubiquity, the banana is surprisingly mysterious nobody knows how bananas evolved or exactly where they originated. In others parts of the world, bananas are what keep millions of people alive. ![]() Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruit ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet it has to some extent been slighted on awards lists. Lavinia is, by any measure, one of the best fantastical novels of 2008. (Thus he and Lavinia are first cousins, but of course in royal marriages such consanguinity was often no bar.) Unfortunately, Turnus’s character is in question-and, indeed, Lavinia cannot respect or love him. The clear leader is Turnus, who is handsome and charismatic, and who is also Amata’s nephew. Many prominent local men are interested, but, naturally, it is the kings and kings’ sons who are most eligible. As Lavinia grows older she grows spiritually-she communes with the local gods much as her father does-and of course physically, and, as with any royal woman, the question of her marriage becomes politically charged. This sets up a dynamic that drives some of the later action: her mother resents, even hates, Lavinia, and wants nothing to do with Latinus, but both of them are too dutiful to put Amata in her place. Her mother, Amata, is from a nearby kingdom, and has been driven mad after Lavinia’s two brothers both died. Lavinia tells her own story, beginning in her youth. ![]() ![]() Tina Athaide’s powerful novel is gripping as it explores the 1972 expulsion of 50,000 Asians from Uganda. And with only days before the deadline, Asha and Yesofu must decide if the bravest thing of all might be to let each other go. Now as neighbors leave and soldiers line the streets, the two friends find that nothing seems sure-not even their friendship. But Yesofu is torn, pulled between his friends, his family, and a promise of a better future. Tall.īut when Ugandan President Idi Amin announces that Indians have ninety days to leave the country, suddenly those differences are the only things that people in Entebbe can see-not the shared after-school samosas or Asha cheering for Yesofu at every cricket game.ĭetermined for her life to stay the same, Asha clings to her world tighter than ever before. ![]() ![]() ![]() Themes: Friendship, Social class, Ethnic relations, East Indians, Uganda, Family life, Idi Amin, HistoryĪsha and her best friend, Yesofu, never cared about the differences between them: Indian. ![]() |