Print this articleNavtej Kohli feels good and very clam after reading y Matthew Connelly book Fatal misconception, it’s a right movement with hard step to describe what be world population today and what serious steps would be taken. Navtej Kolhi had noticed that writer wrote in such a way that either, close to watch something wrong in next door and want to people to be aware about the truth .
Writer having keen watching over major social movements and social activities, many complexity with underestimation would be exist that can make uneasy fraction, tendencies and sub tendencies, vaguely in results unable to achieve the desired goal or even what be expectation not to be get. For that reason open his pen and fire upon world population and define what be exact mean. The explains his views by historical baggage and explain reproductive rights which are highly influenced by social Darwinists, Malthusians , racist eugenicists and many public advocate were against in the past . Betsy Hartman’s who is well known analysis of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs noticed that fight can be divided between two , one those favoring woman power through birth control and second those who want control the fertility of populations with financial incentives and coercion.
The writer starts writing about from 19th century, taking issue about higher fertility rates in US and UK, specially for non-Anglos people and decline of Anglo hegemony .
Matthew Connelly well describe Global population issue and movement progress from
Delhi and Beijing to London, Geneva and New York. But firstly it came into the light when in 197o and 1980 , Club of Rome attracted world attention over “population bomb” and most also describe India in under threat , then China covert itself to one child regime .While we are taking political countries of various counties in the mid 1980 , then easily find that government took population problem seriously and want some definite step to control .Problem get worst when people concerns seems very different with each other many people are in believes that women must have to decide and take steps because it be in hand of woman to make safe and healthy environment with controlled population on the other hand many people believe that god want to produce children for protecting caste , creed or even race and on the other side a major community opposing to use of advanced population controlling techniques .
The problems can not sorted out and or even its just not enough to make a International organization to work for unless and until national government not supporting their work . Also if local bodies and group opposing government plan then its seems that soon earth having 10 billion people.
Either anyone believes or not but many times philanthropist or even government decision harm to society besides whenever tried to change the world. 20th century is the era when governess real did hard work over this serious concerns and showed their power to control population .They can into an general idea is that firstly woman have to be educated and smart enough to take step.
Columbian university professor Matthew Connelly well described with some historical events, about rise and fall of population-control movement. He had described that efforts of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) for population problem, who and her allies encouraging woman to limit the fertility with the rules of "voluntary motherhood," "voluntary parenthood," "family control" and (tellingly) "race control and their combined efforts end up with Birth Control.
Moreover its be like a white paper showing deep study about that topic and showing what be exact means and what be targeted means . Also writer clearly showed that objective and subjective means of every moment have to calibrate such that a sound results come out easily. The reason behind choosing that topic and naming is book very meaningful especially when whole world under the threat of Population Burst. I think this book provides real way to study this crucial issue and make further hopes to make future strategy.
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Writer having keen watching over major social movements and social activities, many complexity with underestimation would be exist that can make uneasy fraction, tendencies and sub tendencies, vaguely in results unable to achieve the desired goal or even what be expectation not to be get. For that reason open his pen and fire upon world population and define what be exact mean. The explains his views by historical baggage and explain reproductive rights which are highly influenced by social Darwinists, Malthusians , racist eugenicists and many public advocate were against in the past . Betsy Hartman’s who is well known analysis of Reproductive Rights and Wrongs noticed that fight can be divided between two , one those favoring woman power through birth control and second those who want control the fertility of populations with financial incentives and coercion.The writer starts writing about from 19th century, taking issue about higher fertility rates in US and UK, specially for non-Anglos people and decline of Anglo hegemony .
Matthew Connelly well describe Global population issue and movement progress from
Delhi and Beijing to London, Geneva and New York. But firstly it came into the light when in 197o and 1980 , Club of Rome attracted world attention over “population bomb” and most also describe India in under threat , then China covert itself to one child regime .While we are taking political countries of various counties in the mid 1980 , then easily find that government took population problem seriously and want some definite step to control .Problem get worst when people concerns seems very different with each other many people are in believes that women must have to decide and take steps because it be in hand of woman to make safe and healthy environment with controlled population on the other hand many people believe that god want to produce children for protecting caste , creed or even race and on the other side a major community opposing to use of advanced population controlling techniques . The problems can not sorted out and or even its just not enough to make a International organization to work for unless and until national government not supporting their work . Also if local bodies and group opposing government plan then its seems that soon earth having 10 billion people.
Either anyone believes or not but many times philanthropist or even government decision harm to society besides whenever tried to change the world. 20th century is the era when governess real did hard work over this serious concerns and showed their power to control population .They can into an general idea is that firstly woman have to be educated and smart enough to take step.
Columbian university professor Matthew Connelly well described with some historical events, about rise and fall of population-control movement. He had described that efforts of Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) for population problem, who and her allies encouraging woman to limit the fertility with the rules of "voluntary motherhood," "voluntary parenthood," "family control" and (tellingly) "race control and their combined efforts end up with Birth Control.
Moreover its be like a white paper showing deep study about that topic and showing what be exact means and what be targeted means . Also writer clearly showed that objective and subjective means of every moment have to calibrate such that a sound results come out easily. The reason behind choosing that topic and naming is book very meaningful especially when whole world under the threat of Population Burst. I think this book provides real way to study this crucial issue and make further hopes to make future strategy.
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Navtej Kohli highly inspired by Robin Sharma writing and always like to know about new books which he going to be write. Navtej Kohli described ‘The Greatness Guide’ book is just a sequel of “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari” but difference is that in the ‘The Greatness Guide’ Robin Sharma straight write essence of life.
Robin Sharma who is best known for his international best seller book “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, wrote another book name “The Greatness Guide” for enlightening people soul and removing mind stress and giving mind bliss and peace .
Book contains near about 101 , divided into various chapter , each chapter dealing with particular topic and touching inner soul and defining new meaning about life and how can man can oneself to live highly self estimated and joyful life . Chapter contains very inspirational words which can shake your mind and soul , turns your minds towards peace for making life lighter with better thinking. Addressing all aspects of human life Robin Sharma remarks that everyone have to elevate oneself towards the higher platform. Author Robin Sharma having specialty for expressing words and feeling simply just a simple man grasp what author really want but having experience to dig deeper and elaborate your conciseness towards spirituality and mind sprit .Its raise the sprit and everyone feel good if read this book. No doubt to anyone for Robin Sharma writing and this book also left some patches in book writing. Because writer had write about simple man and his life .What man desires for his life and how much he get , what left and what life really want to a person , where the man mishandle his own life and how he best tackle his life practices.
Robin Sharma wrote in coach language like that
“Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you life your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny – shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for.”
These beautiful words clears Robin Sharma is a globetrotting executive coach, with that verbatim piece. Many person claiming that Robin writing is very commercialize but while I read that book I feel that some one who know all about me and my life , stood in front of me , asking for , wake see that sun is shining and make your own to way to live your whole life to take everyone with him . His beautiful words “Your days define your life”, sums up the entire book. I wrote many devotional monks or even gurus book but I noticed sometimes commercialization in the book but while reading whatever Robin Sharma told is your inner words and Robin Sharma giving the shape of these words . Sharpness of his writing, the punctuated presentation style off his brief but insightful chapters that one can relate to his ones life.
He have own writing like style sometimes laymen and less psychological garbage connect a man to right way. Whenever any reader reads that book he easily know the same mean which Robin Sharma want to say. The Greatness Guide doesn’t make any distance between reader , Robin Sharma , life and its meaning.
Many beautiful notes which I have noticed so far very beautiful and each convey life meaning
1. You don’t need to have the biggest title to do the best job.
2. As you live your days, so you craft your life.
3. The real risk lies in riskless living.
4. Focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genius.
5. Human beings move when their emotions are moved.
6. Remember, every great leader was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.
7. Being a leader is not about being liked, it’s about doing what’s right.
8. This very day can be the first day of your new life. It’s all your choice.
9. Think Like a CEO.
10. Be outrageously energetic and madly alive.
11. No one wants to fail, so most of us don’t even try.
12. The only with no problems are dead.
13. It’s never too late to become the person you have always dreamed of being.
What book The Greatness Guide Really speaks to reader .
1) “Burn Your Boat”, is a book standpoint when Robin Sharma giving an option that don’t consider himself as a failure He tells us a story about a king who went to conquer another country after crossing the sea. He asked his soldiers to burn all their boats, so that they cannot think about going back. This thought instilled the thoughts of victory as the only option in the minds of all the soldiers.
2) “Drink Coffee With Gandhi” guide everyone to read books of Great people such that person can take inspiration and makes himself to fight with any problems. He tells in the book that reading books of great leaders like Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi can make a big difference to our life.
3) “Leadership Begins with an Extra Mile” makes oneself to live like Sikander and something extraordinary leaders by taking an extra mile, and doing things which others don’t do.
4) is “Push The Envelope” Robin Sharma tells us that we all should push ourselves to the extreme, then only we can utilize our potential to the fullest. He also tells that all great leaders were initially laughed at, but now they are revered.
5) “Think Like a CEO” author Robin Sharma want to everybody to handle difficulties and facing problems and taking responsibility like an CEO Do for company to own whatever they do, and do it with complete responsibility. The author asks everybody to show up like an Entrepreneur.
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Robin Sharma who is best known for his international best seller book “The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari”, wrote another book name “The Greatness Guide” for enlightening people soul and removing mind stress and giving mind bliss and peace .
Book contains near about 101 , divided into various chapter , each chapter dealing with particular topic and touching inner soul and defining new meaning about life and how can man can oneself to live highly self estimated and joyful life . Chapter contains very inspirational words which can shake your mind and soul , turns your minds towards peace for making life lighter with better thinking. Addressing all aspects of human life Robin Sharma remarks that everyone have to elevate oneself towards the higher platform. Author Robin Sharma having specialty for expressing words and feeling simply just a simple man grasp what author really want but having experience to dig deeper and elaborate your conciseness towards spirituality and mind sprit .Its raise the sprit and everyone feel good if read this book. No doubt to anyone for Robin Sharma writing and this book also left some patches in book writing. Because writer had write about simple man and his life .What man desires for his life and how much he get , what left and what life really want to a person , where the man mishandle his own life and how he best tackle his life practices.Robin Sharma wrote in coach language like that
“Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you life your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny – shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for.”
These beautiful words clears Robin Sharma is a globetrotting executive coach, with that verbatim piece. Many person claiming that Robin writing is very commercialize but while I read that book I feel that some one who know all about me and my life , stood in front of me , asking for , wake see that sun is shining and make your own to way to live your whole life to take everyone with him . His beautiful words “Your days define your life”, sums up the entire book. I wrote many devotional monks or even gurus book but I noticed sometimes commercialization in the book but while reading whatever Robin Sharma told is your inner words and Robin Sharma giving the shape of these words . Sharpness of his writing, the punctuated presentation style off his brief but insightful chapters that one can relate to his ones life.
He have own writing like style sometimes laymen and less psychological garbage connect a man to right way. Whenever any reader reads that book he easily know the same mean which Robin Sharma want to say. The Greatness Guide doesn’t make any distance between reader , Robin Sharma , life and its meaning.
Many beautiful notes which I have noticed so far very beautiful and each convey life meaning
1. You don’t need to have the biggest title to do the best job.
2. As you live your days, so you craft your life.
3. The real risk lies in riskless living.
4. Focus plus daily improvement plus time equals genius.
5. Human beings move when their emotions are moved.
6. Remember, every great leader was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.
7. Being a leader is not about being liked, it’s about doing what’s right.
8. This very day can be the first day of your new life. It’s all your choice.
9. Think Like a CEO.
10. Be outrageously energetic and madly alive.
11. No one wants to fail, so most of us don’t even try.
12. The only with no problems are dead.
13. It’s never too late to become the person you have always dreamed of being.
What book The Greatness Guide Really speaks to reader .
1) “Burn Your Boat”, is a book standpoint when Robin Sharma giving an option that don’t consider himself as a failure He tells us a story about a king who went to conquer another country after crossing the sea. He asked his soldiers to burn all their boats, so that they cannot think about going back. This thought instilled the thoughts of victory as the only option in the minds of all the soldiers.
2) “Drink Coffee With Gandhi” guide everyone to read books of Great people such that person can take inspiration and makes himself to fight with any problems. He tells in the book that reading books of great leaders like Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Mother Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi can make a big difference to our life.
3) “Leadership Begins with an Extra Mile” makes oneself to live like Sikander and something extraordinary leaders by taking an extra mile, and doing things which others don’t do.
4) is “Push The Envelope” Robin Sharma tells us that we all should push ourselves to the extreme, then only we can utilize our potential to the fullest. He also tells that all great leaders were initially laughed at, but now they are revered.
5) “Think Like a CEO” author Robin Sharma want to everybody to handle difficulties and facing problems and taking responsibility like an CEO Do for company to own whatever they do, and do it with complete responsibility. The author asks everybody to show up like an Entrepreneur.
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Navtej Kohli first review about on the book which based on romance .Either youngsters or college guys like to read some type of novels but Navtej Kohli has different views about that and find that book having some warmness which enjoys person of any age.
Story was the beautiful town of Lake Henry where Heather Malone lived with widower names named Micah Smith who has two little girls. Story took turns when FBI one days releases Micah that Heather photo in fugitive list with some photos . FBI claimed that couple having hand in murder and wanted their custody. But both of them never believes that charges which made upon on each other seems to be true , but they want answer that how and why FBI was claming as a murders . Heather's friends Poppy Blake who is a paraplegic due to snowmobile accident I which her male partner had lost his life. But she did not lost life hopes and Griffin Hughes who was reporter led the FBI to Heather . Griffin is very nice guys and discover some truth about Heather’s past life and break through Poppy's shell to find the loving woman underneath. Barbara Delinsky came to
the town of Lake Henry, New Hampshire for Lake news and truth about love , lies and second love. Its be nice story and try to find out truth love and also gives some backdrop to reader.
Story is based upon a couple who are living near about 14 year in a town of Lake Henry and one day they find that they were wanted in a murder case. Whole town was shocked after listen that news because no one believe that woman who lives near for many year having hand in murder. Poppy Blake comes with hope and support in Heather's life . who work hard to solve this murder mystery . Poppy who lived his lives on wheel chair running , who was operating an telephone messaging service in town , help hard . Suddenly he find true love in Griffin Hughes who was an investigative reporter. Griffin Hughes change Poppy mind and tell that it was only an accident and your life have many color which want you to be live happy life , after that Poppy again finds hopes in his life . Her relationship mature and both of them bond with each other for life. Heather's imprisonment leaves Micah without a partner during the maple harvesting season, but Delinsky delivers a town of caring, helping hands reminiscent of another time period, a town that steps forward to assist one of its own. In AN ACCIDENTAL WOMAN, Delinsky gives us refreshingly realistic folk facing the same issues and problems we all face --- loss and love.
Its be great book to read , gives many messages to society . Living happy life is an art .
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Story was the beautiful town of Lake Henry where Heather Malone lived with widower names named Micah Smith who has two little girls. Story took turns when FBI one days releases Micah that Heather photo in fugitive list with some photos . FBI claimed that couple having hand in murder and wanted their custody. But both of them never believes that charges which made upon on each other seems to be true , but they want answer that how and why FBI was claming as a murders . Heather's friends Poppy Blake who is a paraplegic due to snowmobile accident I which her male partner had lost his life. But she did not lost life hopes and Griffin Hughes who was reporter led the FBI to Heather . Griffin is very nice guys and discover some truth about Heather’s past life and break through Poppy's shell to find the loving woman underneath. Barbara Delinsky came to the town of Lake Henry, New Hampshire for Lake news and truth about love , lies and second love. Its be nice story and try to find out truth love and also gives some backdrop to reader.
Story is based upon a couple who are living near about 14 year in a town of Lake Henry and one day they find that they were wanted in a murder case. Whole town was shocked after listen that news because no one believe that woman who lives near for many year having hand in murder. Poppy Blake comes with hope and support in Heather's life . who work hard to solve this murder mystery . Poppy who lived his lives on wheel chair running , who was operating an telephone messaging service in town , help hard . Suddenly he find true love in Griffin Hughes who was an investigative reporter. Griffin Hughes change Poppy mind and tell that it was only an accident and your life have many color which want you to be live happy life , after that Poppy again finds hopes in his life . Her relationship mature and both of them bond with each other for life. Heather's imprisonment leaves Micah without a partner during the maple harvesting season, but Delinsky delivers a town of caring, helping hands reminiscent of another time period, a town that steps forward to assist one of its own. In AN ACCIDENTAL WOMAN, Delinsky gives us refreshingly realistic folk facing the same issues and problems we all face --- loss and love.
Its be great book to read , gives many messages to society . Living happy life is an art .
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Finding something different, Navtej Kohli quest about new book end with Banana which wrote by Dan Koeppel . Describing more about book Banana and writer Dan Koeppel Navtej kohli says “It’s just be first part of Banana history, author must have know more about around the world for writing about Banana .”
This is a book which name give hint for what to book be written, yes its be true that Book is dedicated for Banana lovers gives various moods and lifestyle which are depends upon the history of Banana also gives various political situation and evens
that are associated with the Banana . The question arises Why Dan Koeppel choose such as frutistic name for his Book, the answers is that Banana is only fruit which can be easily available across the world and many religious faith associated with the Banana and many political events and ups and down are associated with Banana cultivation.Dan Koeppel Book in real be full description of banana history and its cultivation. The author Dan Koeppel wisely written its Book and avoid to give its personal traveling experience and given some straight biographical reasons. While Dan Koeppel started writing about Banana from where it came into existence - in an arc from New Guinea through Southeast Asia. And he describes its spread to Asia, the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas. Many events are also attached with the history of banana. The first is the growth of North American banana companies such as the United Fruit Company and Dole, starting with the first large banana shipments in 1870. Koeppel describes their role in Central American politics, most notably in the Guatemalan coup of 1954, and their domestic politics and the colorful businessmen involved with them. This book also throw light upon various old Banana verities and also new one .People always like banana to be seedless .Some banana variety was caused of diseases so that be soon replaced such that Cavendish which was be big caused of Panama Disease, caused by a fungus. Also author describe scientist research for making more banana breeding.
More about Banana can be found in that Book ,author also wrote about monkey and make some remarks over Banana and monkeys life , he stated that monkeys always like to eat banana , but the question is that ‘Who discover Banana Monkeys or other “. Before that man had adopted and used banana as fruit and start to use in daily life, banana is just nothing but wild herbs perhaps that breed unable to eat , but used as medicine , but after while man had started it cultivation , banana became more tasty and good to eat . But many point which associated with the Banana Dan Koeppel had forget to write about that banana is also related with various religious and rituals which make it more auspicious. Either write having idea only on America continent and in Asia and Africa many culture and religion using banana in their rituals. Moreover book is just like encyclopedia and throws light various uses and events associated with banana . But in my point of view that not be end of banana , some more book in the series Dan Koeppel will have to write.
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Navtej Kohli always curious to read books which have some fiction and imagination that can drive everyone beyond the world. While Navtej Kohli discussing Mary E. Pearson book ‘The Adoration of Jenna Fox’ , he was expressing like a child watching cartoon and said that ‘I am interested to read more pages of this book ,because I was such busy while reading that I felt that story was very short.’
The stories moves round on 17 year old Jenna who was awaken from a year long coma , and then the story had began to Jenna quest to find out ‘Who was I ?’ and what my existence . Her parent’s shows movie of her past times and also try to remember his
old lifestyle but she was unable to find her old memories after checkout mind. But after sometimes she suddenly came to remember her past life and the real story now began at this point. While remembering her past life, some question had arises in the mind which she want to sort out . Many times she asked to know what be reason behind my accident and what up after my accident but her parents; family member escape themselves to sort out her problem. With some imagination and fascination author draw very beautiful sketch about past life and future life connection. In this beautiful story Mary described that Jenna , which suddenly awoke from one year comma , find herself as a child and unable to behave properly because she did not know about her past and she had to learn everything smile , behaviors , name by face even walk also , for the sake her parents show her movies of her past times .The problems had that now they had no past belongings means her family moved to Boston to California and now she had only her parents and grandmother .But she got some remembrance from her past memories , suddenly some question had arise in her mind “like what about her life before accident , why accident took place and what happened after accident. The author sometimes used poetry to describe Jena life and his view and what she thinks about life specially knowing pastimes. At last she came to know that somebody had killed her dog as well as her best friends and left her to die. That are the moment where such be came into mind that to stop reading.An amazing science-fiction story, I would classify Pearson’s novel as dystopian It raises questions of medical ethics, bioethics, humanity, and how far we are willing to go to save someone we love.
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Muslim Civilization: The Causes of Decline and the Need for Reform
Navtej Kohli is a very secular person and he never like to favor or oppose any caste or culture but after reading Mr Umer Chapra book Muslim Civilization Navtej Kohli had set up his mind to tell something.
It’s a book in which writer successfully correlate and abides modern economy with Muslims economy. But in my view that author had failed to make clear his vision either he was afraid or even he had tore some pages after writing that because he had not mentioned what be plane and how should it be framed. They had map out what problems that must be first tackle like , Muslims and economy growth are parallel running processing since last seven centuries , in beginning its moved upwards but now going downward comparison to other. Islam , Muslims and off course economy are in coordination means with each other , in other words either or not Islam responsible for less economical Muslims growth. While staring his vision Chapra had vision which originally define by fourteenth century philosopher/historian Ibn Khaldun. Which states that it be derived by nature that every government have to follow Islam which contains wealth , prosperity , development and justice but writer had told that Islamic societies began to decline with the failure of the political authority. According to writer before Islam there was sop many tribes living and then Islam wipe out these tribes into powerful , political and social Muslims society , but he was unable to point what be limitation while the government or society was in critical moves means limitation of Islam mostly he drew Middle east Asian society .But when we go further author of book describe Ibn Khaldun's theory to find out what be reason to fall of Muslims society .He writes “given the upward push that Islam provided to these societies, there would be little justification in blaming it for their later decline." Writer had declined kuran’s claim that Islam progress is not only one day work but he get mature by generation by generation. Like Ibn writer is also agree that Islam was not but internal political disputes are responsible for that. Further writer point out few points that political illegitimacy, general overindulgence in military campaigns, unjust taxation and detrimental economic policies was behind of fall of Islamic world. But after discussing various issue writer had came to point that reason behind the fall are declines in education, science and technology
Chapter five analyzes the decline in education, science, and technology, all of which were vibrant in the first few centuries of Islam. While the writer concerns and book is concerns I am very frank to tell this which I suppose be necessary to point out that writer took dare decision to write about that but he really confused what he want to write either Muslims , Islam , political or even economical condition or even describing history. More over its be good book for library and students to read.
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Navtej Kohli having much interest in reading in historical books , some books that be wrote during the era expressing clear image of that time of society but when a person write about past historical events , because describing that type in which the author was not lived like shooting bird in dark . Navtej Kohlihad read a book written by Mary Beard and the name of the Book The Roman Triumph.
Mary Beard beautifully described the Roman Era specially while get backed after victory and the scene was welcome in the city. When major military victory was be accomplished in ancient Rome, the general under which army was fought, passed through all main places and reached to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill. This book show how in reality Roman victory was cheered in ancient days . Besides past golden days this books also shows shaded area in Roman Era. What did it mean when the axle broke under Julius Caesar's chariot? Or when Pompey's elephants got stuck trying to squeeze through an arch? Or when exotic or pathetic prisoners stole the general's show? And what are the implications of the Roman triumph, as a celebration of imperialism and military might, for questions about military power and "victory" in our own day? The triumph, Mary Beard contends, prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrates military glory.
Mary imagination was just go beyond reality while describing the things which Roman conquers after victory such that animals which was not seen yet or even Roman Officers cruelty while they showed wars prisoners during victory march past .Many times Mary just want to ask that why people not celebrating his lost either in war or even game. Means the person who is winner always try to insult and tease the looser in such a way that loser either turns slave or even turns to became man eater tiger.
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"Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna Aardema" A review by Navtej Kohli
Written in a cumulative format this Caldecott award winning African tale, or better say porquoi story tells why mosquitoes buzz in people ears ( for those who don’t know what a porquoi story is, it is a story that explains why something is the way it is).
The story goes like this – A Mosquito says something silly in Iguana’s ears, who in response put sticks into his ears so that he would not hear such foolishness ever again. Now, another animal who got scared to see iguana that way, triggers a chain of chaos and panic roping in one animal after another. It continued until a monkey brings a twist in the tale. In the end, animals figure out the tragedy. They blame the mosquito and gets furious with him. Thus, according to this story mosquitoes buzz in people's ears to ask if everyone is still angry with them.
Book has some excellent illustrations that further extend and elucidate the tale. Each illustration is is made livelier with vivid watercolors and airbrush strokes. Each figure has been purposely outlined with white, to give stained-glass look. Sometimes the print is black on white and, in the endless night, it is white on black. As the animals explain the sequence of events, one part of the illustration shows what they think happened while another part on the same page shows what really happened. The Dillons make comic characters of some of the animals. An antelope, unmentioned in the text, mugs at the viewer on several pages, stealing the scene. A red bird, also unmentioned is on each page and seems to represent the reader there.
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Navtej Kohli recently read ODD hours of Dean Koontz and feels that writer wrote the story in such a way that can attract reader for all the time but the essence of the story was missing.
Odd Thomas is very moody person while he writhing any novel , he never predefines what be next event or even scene in my book or story , even they moves around and try to find new plots as well as character for his story. Odd hours are the fourth book of Dean Koontz and Odd Thomas series. In this book Odd Thomas is a vary brave and intelligent guys and fought bravely for saving many cities from destruction. Odd Thomas is 23 year old passionate loving cheerful who like to live in danger and fight bravely. He has superlative abilities to smell danger knowing lost valuable goods, solving mystery and confused souls who are unable or unwilling to “move on.”
Moreover ODD hours are very interesting book and give enjoyment for the person every age. Especially youth like that book very much.
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King Crow, a picture book by Jennifer Armstrong, is a apt for the third grade students. King Crow is a fairy tale and the illustrations in this book are lush and dark. It's story of wise but vanquished King Cormac who has been blinded and placed in prison by his conqueror, King Bregant. Cormac is visited three times in prison by a crow who tells him just enough of what's going on outside to allow Cormac to seem to have magic knowledge.
The language in this picture book is haunting and there's a moral here, but not too heavily handled.
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The language in this picture book is haunting and there's a moral here, but not too heavily handled.
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The Rabbit's gift is one of the children books that I liked a lot and think it's worth sharing it on my Navtej Kohli Blog here.
Rabbit’s Gift by George Shannon is a modern retelling of the "giving" fable. The spirit of the original story is shown by the re-gifting of a turnip by a well-intentioned community of animals.
Through the eyes of the adorable forest creatures that are beautifully depicted by by Laura Dronzek, the reader sees that while he is not responsible for the happiness of others, his actions can deeply impact those he comes in contact with.
The book has a very easy conversational style of writing. It's logical flow of events, and the twist to the original story make this book a new classic. Shannon has done a good job in telling a complex story in a plain language that can be easily understood by children.
Rabbit’s Gift by George Shannon is a modern retelling of the "giving" fable. The spirit of the original story is shown by the re-gifting of a turnip by a well-intentioned community of animals.
Through the eyes of the adorable forest creatures that are beautifully depicted by by Laura Dronzek, the reader sees that while he is not responsible for the happiness of others, his actions can deeply impact those he comes in contact with.
The book has a very easy conversational style of writing. It's logical flow of events, and the twist to the original story make this book a new classic. Shannon has done a good job in telling a complex story in a plain language that can be easily understood by children.
This story is about four beautiful girls who were born on a farm in Oja de Agua, Dominican Republic. Their names were Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Theresa. They also had another name and sworn duty to get rid of the Dominican Republic dictator. Their code name was Las Mariposas, or the butterflies.
All the four girls go off to school for their education, where the revolutionary spark is ignited. Minerva is the first to embrace the idea of living in a free country. Her parents do not listen to her idea up until the Discovery Day Dance. They get out of the fix, and her father dies after only a few days at home.
After the school, the girls are all grown up and Trujillo is becoming more and more obsessive. One by one the girls and their families joined the revolutionary group started by Minerva and her husband. They went through rough times like jail, and house arrest and no friends. They believed in their cause and didn't give up when things got rough.
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All the four girls go off to school for their education, where the revolutionary spark is ignited. Minerva is the first to embrace the idea of living in a free country. Her parents do not listen to her idea up until the Discovery Day Dance. They get out of the fix, and her father dies after only a few days at home.
After the school, the girls are all grown up and Trujillo is becoming more and more obsessive. One by one the girls and their families joined the revolutionary group started by Minerva and her husband. They went through rough times like jail, and house arrest and no friends. They believed in their cause and didn't give up when things got rough.
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This is an important book as it tells us something about the state of affairs in Russia and gives insight into things popular history is content to pass over. Joe Serio lived in the former Soviet Union for seven years witnessing the country and culture form many different angles. He was the only American to work in the Organized crime Control Department of the Soviet police and has been a consultant to “The New York Times,” “The Washington Post,” CNN and the BBC. He also played harmonica in a Russian rock ‘n roll band.
This book is very comprehensive with footnotes and flow charts making it worth a read. It is divided into three parts. The first deals with the term “mafia” as applied to the Soviets, the nature and number of crime groups in that country, and the role of the media. Part two examines key issues in the rise of criminal organizations and gives some perspective from the past 400 years that helps us understand the long-term context of the problem. Part three takes a close look at criminal organizations, business, and law enforcement—three spheres inextricably linked in a struggle for power in Russia.
I don’t know what that means for businesses, tourists, and even governments who now interact with that part of the world, but comprehending the past, understanding the larger context of existing problems and appreciating the things that keep us in ignorance of one another, is a start.
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This book is very comprehensive with footnotes and flow charts making it worth a read. It is divided into three parts. The first deals with the term “mafia” as applied to the Soviets, the nature and number of crime groups in that country, and the role of the media. Part two examines key issues in the rise of criminal organizations and gives some perspective from the past 400 years that helps us understand the long-term context of the problem. Part three takes a close look at criminal organizations, business, and law enforcement—three spheres inextricably linked in a struggle for power in Russia.
I don’t know what that means for businesses, tourists, and even governments who now interact with that part of the world, but comprehending the past, understanding the larger context of existing problems and appreciating the things that keep us in ignorance of one another, is a start.
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This is a story of Rod Amis and the time when Katrina hurricane hit New Orleans. Rod Amis is a bartender in New Orleans, in and around the French Quarter in the years before hurricane Katrina devastates the city. As Katrina hits his city and he frantically looks for his friends, he is both saddened, outraged and anxious.
He is saddened by the destruction of the city. He is outraged by the slow reaction of his country to devastation in New Orleans and the "surprise" about New Orleans that the news media and government officials express."
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He is saddened by the destruction of the city. He is outraged by the slow reaction of his country to devastation in New Orleans and the "surprise" about New Orleans that the news media and government officials express."
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This book is part of the Oxford University Press' Lives and Legacies series. It is a very short book about Winston Churchill, an extremely famous British Prime Minister. Even though the book is short, it does a good job of detailing Churchill's long career.
The author's central theme revolves around the fact that Churchill's huge ego was both his greatest flaw and his greatest strength. He was a genius, but he sometimes made bad choices because he never asked other people for advice. For example, during World War I he made the disastrous decision to try to invade Turkey through the Dardanelle Straits. The failure of the operation led to the death of 46,000 allied soldiers at the battle of Gallipoli.
During World War II he redeemed himself. His strong stand against appeasement was key to defeating the Nazis. After World War II, Churchill coined the phrase the "Iron Curtain".
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The author's central theme revolves around the fact that Churchill's huge ego was both his greatest flaw and his greatest strength. He was a genius, but he sometimes made bad choices because he never asked other people for advice. For example, during World War I he made the disastrous decision to try to invade Turkey through the Dardanelle Straits. The failure of the operation led to the death of 46,000 allied soldiers at the battle of Gallipoli.
During World War II he redeemed himself. His strong stand against appeasement was key to defeating the Nazis. After World War II, Churchill coined the phrase the "Iron Curtain".
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Thomas J. Stanley, a Ph.D. has written a revolutionary book aimed at those who desire economic success. A high IQ isn't mandatory for monetary success. Many millionaires's SAT scores were not in the top percentile, however their ambitious drive excelled them forward into success. The book explains action and thought processes utilized by millionaires. It allows one to discover pertinent factors along with great perspectives into the millionaire's mind and chosen vocation.
This educated author profiled characteristics of 773 millionaires who accumulated wealth and have relatively small or no outstanding credit balances. He compiled demographic data and used his methodology to break down common factors amongst millionaires.
You will learn about many lucrative ways to enhance an economically productive life and live in financial independence. This book offers entrepreneurial optimism to all those in business.
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This educated author profiled characteristics of 773 millionaires who accumulated wealth and have relatively small or no outstanding credit balances. He compiled demographic data and used his methodology to break down common factors amongst millionaires.
You will learn about many lucrative ways to enhance an economically productive life and live in financial independence. This book offers entrepreneurial optimism to all those in business.
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Navtej Kohli gives another review of a very light and well written book by Wolff. In this new collection, Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff is more often than not begin by catching people in what seem to be mundane, routine positions. The start of the stories begins with the story "My friend Clark and I had decided to build a jet plane,". "They were doing the dishes, his wife washing as he dried," begins another. "On her thirtieth birthday, Ted threw a surprise party for Helen." In openings that deftly infer an ordinary world around them, Wolff’s lights come up on familiar people, in familiar places: They live in small towns on the West Coast. They are stuck driving somewhere they do not want to go. They are doing cocaine for a friend’s birthday. They are going hunting. They are building an airplane with a new friend but stop to visit an old one. They are driving cross-country to try to start a new life. It is Wolff’s gift to enter these worlds in a plainspoken way, one that seems matter of fact, but nonetheless determines a great deal quickly.
Take the sentences with which Wolff’s entire collection launches: "When she was young, Mary saw a brilliant and original man lose his job because he had expressed ideas that were offensive to the trustees of the college where they both taught. She shared his views but did not sign the petition. She was, after all, on trial herself -- as a teacher, as a woman, as an interpreter of history."
The next story, "Hunters in the Snow," plays with the forces that imbue a similar constellation -- fear, power, loyalty, being trapped -- in the relationship among three friends out deer hunting.
It is the everyday quality of the ingredients and recipes that makes these stories great. Each tale is delivered in spare, precise prose, and many return us to the spectacle of small slights, subtle cruelties -- that in turn lead one character to hurt herself or another to abandon someone he once said he would love. It is a very good bedtime read story.
Take the sentences with which Wolff’s entire collection launches: "When she was young, Mary saw a brilliant and original man lose his job because he had expressed ideas that were offensive to the trustees of the college where they both taught. She shared his views but did not sign the petition. She was, after all, on trial herself -- as a teacher, as a woman, as an interpreter of history."
The next story, "Hunters in the Snow," plays with the forces that imbue a similar constellation -- fear, power, loyalty, being trapped -- in the relationship among three friends out deer hunting.
It is the everyday quality of the ingredients and recipes that makes these stories great. Each tale is delivered in spare, precise prose, and many return us to the spectacle of small slights, subtle cruelties -- that in turn lead one character to hurt herself or another to abandon someone he once said he would love. It is a very good bedtime read story.
101 Sonnets is a collection of sonnets from hundred and one different poets, with an informative introduction and interesting piece of commentary. In the introduction part Paterson describes the history of sonnet and some of its commonly known structures, metres, and rhyme schemes: most familiarly a "turn" between an eight line octet and a six line sestet, iambic pentameter, and Italian (ABBAABBA CDCDCD) or English (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) rhymes. There are many alternatives to these, however, and Paterson argues that strict definitions of a sonnet are unworkable — "the only qualification for entry in this book is that the poem should have fourteen lines" (and one fails even that).
Many of the selections he has considred are unsurprising — poets such as Donne, Keats, Yeats and Dickinson as well as Shakespeare and Heaney — but many less familiar ones are also included. The sonnets themselves are arranged thematically rather than chronologically or alphabetically. All are properly organized by indices.
Eighteen pages of endnotes offer short paragraph comments on each poem, providing snippets of background and context and touching on issues of form or style. These are thought-provoking — just enough to make one stop and think without ever being obscure or pretentious. End note this book is a very good collection and a must read.
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Many of the selections he has considred are unsurprising — poets such as Donne, Keats, Yeats and Dickinson as well as Shakespeare and Heaney — but many less familiar ones are also included. The sonnets themselves are arranged thematically rather than chronologically or alphabetically. All are properly organized by indices.
Eighteen pages of endnotes offer short paragraph comments on each poem, providing snippets of background and context and touching on issues of form or style. These are thought-provoking — just enough to make one stop and think without ever being obscure or pretentious. End note this book is a very good collection and a must read.
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Racial Theories is a book that talks about historical and typological overview of academic theories of race. The author Michael Banton touches on the critical issues such as ethnicity and discrimination. It consists many racial theories and would be of interest to a person who has a liking for this topic.
Banton begins with some general terminological issues, such as differences between folk and analytical terms and alternatives to "race". In "Race as Lineage" he then covers early modern concepts of race, based on the creation stories in Genesis and then on the work of naturalists such as Linnaeus and the German naturphilosophie school. Cuvier's confusion of lineage and variety provides a bridge to "Race as Type", where Banton sketches the theories of writers such as Morton and Nott in the United States, Gobineau in France, Smith and Knox in Britain, and Vogt in Germany.
Darwinian population thinking and the rejection of essentialism took some time to influence racial theories. "Race as Subspecies" describes early applications in the theories of Beddoe and Sumner, Park's social ecology, and some general issues with reductionist explanations. It was not till the modern evolutionary synthesis brought a more sophisticated understanding of human genetic variation that the need for a biological concept of race disappeared entirely.
The final chapter presents Banton's own ideas on how to build a "bottom up" theory of race. He argues that race should be considered a social construct within broader theories of group and category construction: socialisation, individual choice, political mobilisation, ethnicity, and nationalism. And he suggests that race will eventually be replaced as a social concept in the same kind of way it was made redundant as a biological one.
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Banton begins with some general terminological issues, such as differences between folk and analytical terms and alternatives to "race". In "Race as Lineage" he then covers early modern concepts of race, based on the creation stories in Genesis and then on the work of naturalists such as Linnaeus and the German naturphilosophie school. Cuvier's confusion of lineage and variety provides a bridge to "Race as Type", where Banton sketches the theories of writers such as Morton and Nott in the United States, Gobineau in France, Smith and Knox in Britain, and Vogt in Germany.
Darwinian population thinking and the rejection of essentialism took some time to influence racial theories. "Race as Subspecies" describes early applications in the theories of Beddoe and Sumner, Park's social ecology, and some general issues with reductionist explanations. It was not till the modern evolutionary synthesis brought a more sophisticated understanding of human genetic variation that the need for a biological concept of race disappeared entirely.
The final chapter presents Banton's own ideas on how to build a "bottom up" theory of race. He argues that race should be considered a social construct within broader theories of group and category construction: socialisation, individual choice, political mobilisation, ethnicity, and nationalism. And he suggests that race will eventually be replaced as a social concept in the same kind of way it was made redundant as a biological one.
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MacGregor West is a complete lost soul—eternally between jobs, nursing latent abandonment issues, sponging off his cousin while deciding what happens next in life. When his aunt sends him a shoe box filled with his deceased mother’s memorabilia, he notices that a stack of empty envelopes inside that box bear a San Francisco return address of his mother.
After getting these new clues to the mysterious past, he finds the address. There, at the mansion, instead of answers he finds Carolyn Ware. Both of them get infatuated at the first sight. Carolyn, daughter of literary legend Charles Ware, can confirm the envelopes are her father’s stationery, but can’t comment on their significance. The ensuing love affair between Mac and Carolyn provides greater opportunity for Mac to get to know the Ware family, yet the deeper he probes into a possible correlation between his mother and them, the more elusive both Carolyn and answers become. A poster affixed to Carolyn’s wall that Mac’s mother once designed; a photo of Charles and his famed publishing friend with Mac’s mother in the periphery—these reveal a complicity beneath the family’s elegant, wealthy exterior that they all seem determined to hide.
MacGregor, a gifted short story writer, can create a sense of place in just a few lines. It’s pure pleasure to read a writer who not only get her details correct but chooses such evocative, accessible language to paint a picture, such as when Mac nostalgically surveys his cousin’s Redwood City backyard.
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After getting these new clues to the mysterious past, he finds the address. There, at the mansion, instead of answers he finds Carolyn Ware. Both of them get infatuated at the first sight. Carolyn, daughter of literary legend Charles Ware, can confirm the envelopes are her father’s stationery, but can’t comment on their significance. The ensuing love affair between Mac and Carolyn provides greater opportunity for Mac to get to know the Ware family, yet the deeper he probes into a possible correlation between his mother and them, the more elusive both Carolyn and answers become. A poster affixed to Carolyn’s wall that Mac’s mother once designed; a photo of Charles and his famed publishing friend with Mac’s mother in the periphery—these reveal a complicity beneath the family’s elegant, wealthy exterior that they all seem determined to hide.
MacGregor, a gifted short story writer, can create a sense of place in just a few lines. It’s pure pleasure to read a writer who not only get her details correct but chooses such evocative, accessible language to paint a picture, such as when Mac nostalgically surveys his cousin’s Redwood City backyard.
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Most of us who listen to Wisconsin Public Radio has, at some point of time, heard the voice of Jean Feraca. As host of WPR's "Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders," she is advocate and educator, an expert at mixing international issues with culture and aesthetics. An example of the program's diversity can be seen in any random week's schedule.
Now, Feraca has turned her craft on herself with "I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death and the Radio." She traces her own life and craft through a collection of personal vignettes, retrospectives that consider the people who have shaped her and her journey to become a writer. The end result is a vivid, often haunting autobiography that unites a fascinating life with a voice gifted enough to provide all the details.
Feraca's life is as diverse as the selections of her program - growing up in an Italian-American New York family, courtship in a monastery, a Jewish wedding in a nightgown, poetic rebirth in Italy with a sick child. She skims over her messy divorces and personal loneliness in favor of the epiphanies that saved her, concerned with the positives and the process. Readers are also treated to the aesthetic side of Feraca's work: the book is peppered with asides such as a commentary on California wine, tips on writing poetry and a report on South American tribes.
The book is written in a style that is expected from someone with so much of experience in public radio, a calm and literate voice which feels like it can nurture and inform on any topic.
Her writing's potency is also attributed to the characters she writes about, practically forces of nature in their own right. These include a brother who holds Sitting Bull and Mussolini in equal regard, a mother whose mind is rapidly deteriorating but exerts a manic energy, a poetry teacher more comparable to a master craftsman and an aunt consisting of ethereal sweetness. There is a mix of frustration at how difficult growing up with these people was, tempered with a wistful gratitude at being able to grow up with them.
Although she listens too closely in some cases - the last chapter on marriage and God feels almost thick after a glorious odyssey to an Amazon clinic - "I Hear Voices" is a memoir worth reading in depth, both for its burnished prose and the startling life it recounts. Feraca's life is as much a story as any of her show's topics, and deserves equal time and attention.
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Now, Feraca has turned her craft on herself with "I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death and the Radio." She traces her own life and craft through a collection of personal vignettes, retrospectives that consider the people who have shaped her and her journey to become a writer. The end result is a vivid, often haunting autobiography that unites a fascinating life with a voice gifted enough to provide all the details.
Feraca's life is as diverse as the selections of her program - growing up in an Italian-American New York family, courtship in a monastery, a Jewish wedding in a nightgown, poetic rebirth in Italy with a sick child. She skims over her messy divorces and personal loneliness in favor of the epiphanies that saved her, concerned with the positives and the process. Readers are also treated to the aesthetic side of Feraca's work: the book is peppered with asides such as a commentary on California wine, tips on writing poetry and a report on South American tribes.
The book is written in a style that is expected from someone with so much of experience in public radio, a calm and literate voice which feels like it can nurture and inform on any topic.
Her writing's potency is also attributed to the characters she writes about, practically forces of nature in their own right. These include a brother who holds Sitting Bull and Mussolini in equal regard, a mother whose mind is rapidly deteriorating but exerts a manic energy, a poetry teacher more comparable to a master craftsman and an aunt consisting of ethereal sweetness. There is a mix of frustration at how difficult growing up with these people was, tempered with a wistful gratitude at being able to grow up with them.
Although she listens too closely in some cases - the last chapter on marriage and God feels almost thick after a glorious odyssey to an Amazon clinic - "I Hear Voices" is a memoir worth reading in depth, both for its burnished prose and the startling life it recounts. Feraca's life is as much a story as any of her show's topics, and deserves equal time and attention.
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Standing Stones combines great photographs with a short but informative overview of megaliths, covering their place in prehistory, history, and folklore and myth. Mohen begins with megaliths in legend, touching on pagan, Christian, and romantic views of megaliths, and their emergence in pseudohistory.
"The Druidism that Stukeley invented is a completely original idea. It has nothing to do with the actual Druids, Gallic priests known to Caesar in the 1st century BC — and was created a full millennium and a half after the last ceremonial use of the megaliths."
He traces the rise of antiquarian and scholarly interest in megaliths, and the development of broader public attention.
"Interest in megaliths spread from experts to the public as picture postcards were produced; they were especially popular around the year 1900."
He gives a brief history of the forms of megaliths over three thousand years.
The final section of the book, named "Documents", contains excerpts from writings on the megaliths: William Stukeley on the origins of megaliths, Gustave Flaubert on the excesses of "Celtic archaeology", an extract from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Gerald Hawkins on Stonehenge's astronomical significance, Prosper Mérimée on the Gavrinis images, and Mohen himself on megalithic art and on modern attempts to move large blocks of stone.
This is all rather limited in depth, as most of Standing Stones is taken up by photographs. The bulk of these illustrate the text, but there are also ten separate double page photo sets, illustrating Mediterranean megaliths — "Statue-menhirs and the torres of Corsica and the Balearic Islands", "Sardinia's giant tombs", and "Temples and hypogea of Malta" — megalithic traditions outside Europe — "The megaliths of Senegal", "The stones of the Toradja", and "Tombs and gods of the Americas" — and megaliths in art — paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, Johan Christian Dahl, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner.
Standing Stones is a nicely put together volume in the best Thames and Hudson tradition. It has little about specific sites, even Stonehenge and Carnac, and is of no use as a guidebook, but it makes a lively and attractive introduction to the megaliths of western Europe.
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Standing Stones combines great photographs with a short but informative overview of megaliths, covering their place in prehistory, history, and folklore and myth. Mohen begins with megaliths in legend, touching on pagan, Christian, and romantic views of megaliths, and their emergence in pseudohistory.
"The Druidism that Stukeley invented is a completely original idea. It has nothing to do with the actual Druids, Gallic priests known to Caesar in the 1st century BC — and was created a full millennium and a half after the last ceremonial use of the megaliths."
He traces the rise of antiquarian and scholarly interest in megaliths, and the development of broader public attention.
"Interest in megaliths spread from experts to the public as picture postcards were produced; they were especially popular around the year 1900."
He gives a brief history of the forms of megaliths over three thousand years.
The final section of the book, named "Documents", contains excerpts from writings on the megaliths: William Stukeley on the origins of megaliths, Gustave Flaubert on the excesses of "Celtic archaeology", an extract from Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Gerald Hawkins on Stonehenge's astronomical significance, Prosper Mérimée on the Gavrinis images, and Mohen himself on megalithic art and on modern attempts to move large blocks of stone.
This is all rather limited in depth, as most of Standing Stones is taken up by photographs. The bulk of these illustrate the text, but there are also ten separate double page photo sets, illustrating Mediterranean megaliths — "Statue-menhirs and the torres of Corsica and the Balearic Islands", "Sardinia's giant tombs", and "Temples and hypogea of Malta" — megalithic traditions outside Europe — "The megaliths of Senegal", "The stones of the Toradja", and "Tombs and gods of the Americas" — and megaliths in art — paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, Johan Christian Dahl, John Constable and J.M.W. Turner.
Standing Stones is a nicely put together volume in the best Thames and Hudson tradition. It has little about specific sites, even Stonehenge and Carnac, and is of no use as a guidebook, but it makes a lively and attractive introduction to the megaliths of western Europe.
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A former military commander, General Mackenzie Hawkins is back! In this excellent comedy thriller which would also make a rib-tickling movie, the Hawk (after having infiltrated an Indian tribe called the Wopotamis) goes to the US Supreme Court by claiming back the state of Nebraska on behalf of the Wopotamis! How does he manage? A protocol from 1878 found in a dusty archive. Armed with evidence the hawk transforms himself into Chief Thunderhead. As he hatches his devious plan, his old adversary is back, lawyer Sam Deveraux. With the assistance of Jennifer Redwing, a Native American, and assorted colleagues, they do all they can to stop the Hawk once again before he threatens national security - remember Strategic Air Command is on the land the Wopotamis want back! And so the hilarity begins.
Robert Ludlum is really a genius!
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Robert Ludlum is really a genius!
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After sailing on the maiden voyages of the Lusitania and Mauretania for the Cunard Shipping Company as in-house detectives, George Dillman and Genevieve now work for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. The story describes their sailing journey on the Marmora from England to Australia with a stop in Egypt. The purser on the ship Brian Kilhendry makes it clear to them that he has no use for them and thinks they are not needed as there is never crime on his ship.
Shortly after he makes that proclamation, a woman sailing alone is robbed of her jewelry and money while she is out of the cabin. Other robberies follow and the victims are all women traveling without a man to protect them. While the two detectives are trying to help the victims, a man is murdered but nothing is missing from the room. The man was very popular leaving Dillman and Genevieve desperate to find the criminals even if it puts them in danger.
Anyone who loves to sail the seven seas will want to read MURDER ON THE MARMORA, a picturesque who-done-it that will make readers want to go on a cruise. Although much of the book is concentrated on the mystery, Genevieve is kept busy trying to evade her ex-fiancé on board with his new bride and Dillman is trying to discourage a young woman from chasing after him. The surprise ending is just the icing on the cake for one of Conrad Allen's best voyage mysteries.
In a nut shell this book is worth a read.
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Shortly after he makes that proclamation, a woman sailing alone is robbed of her jewelry and money while she is out of the cabin. Other robberies follow and the victims are all women traveling without a man to protect them. While the two detectives are trying to help the victims, a man is murdered but nothing is missing from the room. The man was very popular leaving Dillman and Genevieve desperate to find the criminals even if it puts them in danger.
Anyone who loves to sail the seven seas will want to read MURDER ON THE MARMORA, a picturesque who-done-it that will make readers want to go on a cruise. Although much of the book is concentrated on the mystery, Genevieve is kept busy trying to evade her ex-fiancé on board with his new bride and Dillman is trying to discourage a young woman from chasing after him. The surprise ending is just the icing on the cake for one of Conrad Allen's best voyage mysteries.
In a nut shell this book is worth a read.
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Jeffrey Archer comes up with yet another on the edge story. Small but very captivating.
With a deviousness born of long practice, Harvey Metcalfe, a Boston based master of deceit, stays behind the scenes and runs a stock scam involving some bogus petroleum shares at the London Stock Exchange. After the scam folds, Harvey happily goes away a million dollars richer and leaves behind four stupified men, the unwitting principal buyers, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.
David Kesler a Harvard graduate working for Prospecta Oil in all innocence made four people invest in Prospecta Oil Shares. David was told that the company had made a fantastic strike in the North Sea and when they announce it the shares of the company would be at an all time peak.
Stephen Bradley, a visiting American professor at Oxford, chooses to get even rather than get mad and brings together the other three investors comprising of Harley Street's Dr. Robin Oakley, gallery owner Jean-Pierre Lamanns and Lord James Brigsley. They decide to turn the tables on Harvey. Combining their individual abilities and expertise, they each come up a scheme to relieve Harvey of the exact amount he robbed them of. "
All the four came up with their individual plans using their skills and area of expertise. James who initially did not come up so easily with the plan, ultimately surprised the other three with his plan. The four with their neatly laid plans went ahead in pursuit of their goal of defeating Metcalfe and getting their money back.
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With a deviousness born of long practice, Harvey Metcalfe, a Boston based master of deceit, stays behind the scenes and runs a stock scam involving some bogus petroleum shares at the London Stock Exchange. After the scam folds, Harvey happily goes away a million dollars richer and leaves behind four stupified men, the unwitting principal buyers, teetering on the edge of financial ruin.
David Kesler a Harvard graduate working for Prospecta Oil in all innocence made four people invest in Prospecta Oil Shares. David was told that the company had made a fantastic strike in the North Sea and when they announce it the shares of the company would be at an all time peak.
Stephen Bradley, a visiting American professor at Oxford, chooses to get even rather than get mad and brings together the other three investors comprising of Harley Street's Dr. Robin Oakley, gallery owner Jean-Pierre Lamanns and Lord James Brigsley. They decide to turn the tables on Harvey. Combining their individual abilities and expertise, they each come up a scheme to relieve Harvey of the exact amount he robbed them of. "
All the four came up with their individual plans using their skills and area of expertise. James who initially did not come up so easily with the plan, ultimately surprised the other three with his plan. The four with their neatly laid plans went ahead in pursuit of their goal of defeating Metcalfe and getting their money back.
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