![]() Written centuries before the rise of modern historiography, Thucydides' narrative is not continuous or linear. ![]() ![]() However, this classic book has long presented obstacles to the uninitiated reader. ![]() Thucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta “a possession for all time,” and indeed it is the first and still the most famous work in the Western historical tradition.Ĭonsidered essential reading for generals, statesmen, and liberally educated citizens for more than 2,000 years, The Peloponnesian War is a mine of military, moral, political, and philosophical wisdom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Now, I'm a feminist so I'm all for girl power books. Why do I care? Because 95% of this book is "cool girls" teasing this girl about liking pink. Problem is the study shows a correlation between an increase in social aggression in media and an increase of the "Mean Girl Syndrome" in elementary school kids. In the last two minutes they resolve the conflict hoping the kids see the moral of the story. "Educational Cartoons" like Arthur regularly have a conflict focusing on social aggression between classmates and friends. the stuff you see on the movie Mean Girls). ![]() Blast! I had a whole review written and my wireless internet dropped and I lost the whole thing, but I feel strongly enough about this book to rewrite it.īackground info: in NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children there is a chapter that cites a study about a decrease of violence in cartoons and an increase in 'social aggression' (i.e. ![]() ![]() ![]() And still other libraries are withdrawing the books from circulation. Other libraries are reviewing their options. Some libraries will continue to circulate the books while not using them for displays or public readings. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, said, “Any author, or anyone publishing books, can make choices about what is out in the world.” Caldwell-Stone noted, however, that “an author’s or publisher’s decision to stop publishing a book should not be grounds alone for removing a book from a library’s collection.” Libraries around the country are reacting in diverse ways. ![]() The titles contain offensive depictions of African and Asian people. Seuss’s children’s books due to racist stereotypes that “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” The six titles withdrawn from publication were And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, If I Ran the Zoo, McElligot’s Pool, On Beyond Zebra!, Scrambled Eggs Super!, and The Cat’s Quizzer. Seuss Enterprises issued a statement on March 2, 2021, announcing they would cease publication of six of Dr. ![]() Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tyler finds himself in a TROUBLE TRIANGLE when both women want him for their own needs. She beds him easily enough and uses him in a vendetta against Holly. Debbie Meyers is sexually confused and has her own ideas for Tyler. He should be grateful, but is besotted with another girl. As he is about to dump her, a revelation from his past comes back to haunt him and Holly is the only person who can save his Navy career and keep him out of prison. Life keeps getting better when smooth-talking Tyler lands a date with the base's hottest chick, Holly Knight, but things sour quickly when he discovers how controlling and annoying she is. When Tyler gets stationed in Pearl Harbor all his troubles look to be behind him. ![]() After several brushes with the law, he avoids jail by enlisting in the Navy. 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Buy The Summer Girl by Elle Kennedy for 20.99 at Mighty Ape Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() As his correspondence with Thomas Jefferson during the campaign shows, Greene was also bedeviled by the conflict between war and the rights of the people, and the question of how to set constraints under which a free society wages war. A bloody civil war between Rebels and Tories was wreaking havoc on the South at the time, forcing Greene to address vigilante terror and restore civilian government. ![]() Insufficient manpower a constant problem, Greene attempted to incorporate black regiments into his army, a plan angrily rejected by the South Carolina legislature. With a supply line stretching hundreds of miles northward, it revealed much about the crucial military art of provision and transport. Greene’s Southern Campaign was the most difficult of the war. In this long-awaited sequel, Buchanan brings this story to its dramatic conclusion. In The Road to Guilford Courthouse, one of the most acclaimed military histories of the Revolutionary War ever written, John Buchanan explored the first half of the critical Southern Campaign and introduced readers to its brilliant architect, Major General Nathanael Greene. ![]() ![]() ![]() He will try to fulfill a new-found destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion-and one last meeting with hi. Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined. ![]() From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. And Newt can’t bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. But now he has a burden that can’t be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. Crank Palace: A Maze Runner Novella Paperback Novemby James Dashner (Author) 2,635 ratings Related to: The Maze Runner See all formats and editions Kindle 6.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback from 21.01 6 Used from 21.01 Audio CD 20.79 2 New from 20. Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. ![]() ![]() Overcome with nerves, he told the moderator, Lorin Stein, the editor of the literary quarterly The Paris Review, “If anyone leaves while we’re talking I won’t be able to go on.”) This summer, I spent three days with him in Scandinavia, amid the church-dotted fields and hills of the village of Glemmingebro, in southern Sweden, where he lives with his wife, the poet and novelistĪnd their four young children in Ystad, 20 minutes away and in Oslo, where I accompanied him for a reading from his newest book, Om høsten (In Fall). At Oslo’s Kulturhuset cafe, he swayed from side to side, barely containing his anxiety while he read from his new book in a deep Norwegian singsong, as the crowd reacted to his text with exuberant appreciation. (This was a big change from one of his prior trips to New York, in 2012, when a small group of early Knausgaard adopters turned up at the tiny 192 Books in Chelsea to hear him. He was so thronged by literati that it was hard to get to him. The first time I met Knausgaard was in the spring of 2014, after a standing-room-only talk in a cavernous hall of the New York Public Library following the publication of the third volume of his 3,600-page autobiographical novel, My Struggle. ![]() The groundbreaking writer Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals insights into his process and his past, and still marvels at the success of his six-volume opus, "My Struggle." A film by MediaStorm ![]() ![]() ![]() The theme of the work is a Socratic question previously explored in the works of Plato, Aristotle's friend and teacher, about how men should best live. The work plays a pre-eminent role in explaining Aristotelian ethics. Alternatively, the work may have been dedicated to his father, who was also called Nicomachus. The title is often assumed to refer to his son Nicomachus, to whom the work was dedicated or who may have edited it (although his young age makes this less likely). (I§1) It consists of ten books or scrolls, understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum. ![]() (I§2) The aim of the inquiry is political science and the master art of politics. ![]() The Nicomachean Ethics ( / ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n/ / ˌ n ɪ k ə m ə ˈ k i ə n/ Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics, the science of the good for human life, which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. First page of a 1566 edition of the Nicomachean Ethics in Greek and Latin ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter how hard she tries, Amari can’t seem to escape their intense doubt and scrutiny-especially once her supernaturally enhanced talent is deemed “illegal.” With an evil magician threatening the supernatural world, and her own classmates thinking she’s an enemy, Amari has never felt more alone. Now she must compete for a spot against kids who’ve known about magic their whole lives. ![]() So when she finds a ticking briefcase in his closet, containing a nomination for a summer tryout at the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs, she’s certain the secretive organization holds the key to locating Quinton-if only she can wrap her head around the idea of magicians, fairies, aliens, and other supernatural creatures all being real. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said he was gone for good. ![]() Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor.Īmari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. ![]() New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. ![]() |