![]() ![]() Too much drama and backstabbing, whether from family members or company politics. ![]() Had been more than happy to get the fuck out of dodge. He’d left a lot of bullshit behind when he joined the space program. Not that Garret missed Earth all that much. Like home, but not quite, albeit definitely just as beautiful. What’s more, with nearly the same land to water ratio as Earth, it had an unexpectedly comforting appeal. Would you look at that.” Kegan scanned the alien planet, awed by its beauty.Ī tapestry of rich purples, oranges and blues, intertwined in a backdrop of green. After miles of descent in virtually zero visibility-the high altitude cloud cover having been thick as pea soup-it was reassuring and incredible to finally see what they were heading toward. ![]() Location: Planet Nira of the neighboring star system, SiriĮxiting the stratosphere’s dense orange gases, Garret Scott and his co-pilot maneuvered their aircraft into the lower atmosphere. Any similarity to real persons, living and or dead is coincidental and not intended by the author. ![]() The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without written permission from the author. ![]()
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In his introduction to this volume, the editor Jeremy Lassen writes: They have been featured in various short story collections, including The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures: The Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson, Volume 1. Sargasso Sea Stories are a group of short stories written by English author William Hope Hodgson that are set around the Sargasso Sea. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. ![]() ![]() But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation-a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century-based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This deeply researched and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. ![]() ![]() The programme ran for 13 series and 70 episodes in total each episode was adapted from a novel or short story by Christie that featured Poirot, and consequently in each episode Poirot is both the main detective in charge of the investigation of a crime (usually murder) and the protagonist who is at the centre of most of the episode's action. The series also aired on VisionTV in Canada and on PBS and A&E in the United States. ![]() Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios. David Suchet starred as the eponymous detective, Agatha Christie's fictional Hercule Poirot. Poirot (also known as Agatha Christie's Poirot) is a British mystery drama television programme that aired on ITV from 8 January 1989 to 13 November 2013. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “860 glittering pages” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times): The first volume of the full-scale astonishing life of one of our greatest screen actresses-her work, her world, her Hollywood through an American century.įrank Capra called her, “The greatest emotional actress the screen has yet known.” Now Victoria Wilson gives us the first volume of the rich, complex life of Barbara Stanwyck, an actress whose career in pictures spanned four decades beginning with the coming of sound (eighty-eight motion pictures) and lasted in television from its infancy in the 1950s through the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() There she worked with World War I, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War soldiers who were living with quadraplegia, incapacitated by loss of arms and legs. Veterans Administration Hospital in Hines, Illinois. Her book Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of The Wild Woman Archetype was on the New York Times' best seller list for 145 weeks, as well as other best seller lists, including USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal.Įstés began her work in the 1960s at the Edward Hines Jr. Beginning in 1992 and onward, her work has been published in 37 languages. She is the author of many books on the journey of the soul. ![]() She earned her doctorate, from the Union Institute & University, in ethno-clinical psychology on the study of social and psychological patterns in cultural and tribal groups. She is a certified senior Jungian analyst. She is the author of Women Who Run with the Wolves (1992), which remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 145 weeks and has sold over two million copies.Įstés was born in Gary, Indiana, to Emilio Maria Reyés and Cepción Ixtiz, who were from Mexico. Clarissa Pinkola Estés (born January 27, 1945) is an American writer and Jungian psychoanalyst. ![]() ![]() You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. The happiness of being envied is glamour.īeing envied is a solitary form of reassurance. Its promise is not of pleasure, but of happiness : happiness as judged from the outside by others. Publicity is about social relations, not objects. Yet what makes this self-which-he-might-be enviable? The envy of others. The image then makes him envious of himself as he might be. It offers him an image of himself made glamorous by the product or opportunity it is trying to sell. Publicity is always about the future buyer. Publicity is never a celebration of a pleasure-in-itself. This is why publicity can never really afford to be about the product or opportunity it is proposing to the buyer who is not yet enjoying it. The more convincingly publicity conveys the pleasure of bathing in a warm, distant sea, the more the spectator-buyer will become aware that he is hundreds of miles away from that sea and the more remote the chance of bathing in it will seem to him. But it cannot offer the real object of pleasure and there is no convincing substitute for a pleasure in that pleasure's own terms. ![]() Publicity begins by working on a natural appetite for pleasure. Clothes, food, cars, cosmetics, baths, sunshine are real things to be enjoyed in themselves. ![]() “Publicity is effective precisely because it feeds upon the real. Wilson See more on GoodReads Popular quotes ![]() ![]() ![]() Shulman, Chapter 72: Science and Society, (Quotation appears as chapter epigraph), Quote Page … Continue reading Boldface added to excerpts by QI: 1988, Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations, Edited by Isaac Asimov and Jason A. The epigraph for the “Science and Society” section was the following. The work contained 86 sections, and each began with a quotation from Asimov. Shulman published “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Quotations”. Quote Investigator: In 1988 Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Would you please help me to identify the author of this statement together with a citation? Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ![]() Yet, humankind’s thoughtfulness and judgement have been severely tested by the new insights and capabilities that have emerged. Dear Quote Investigator: Science has been extraordinarily successful in making impressive discoveries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I did not know what to expect when I started listening to The Worst Best Man. Still, this star-crossed couple can never be more than temporary playmates because Lina isn’t interested in falling in love and Max refuses to play runner-up to his brother ever again… Except Max has been public enemy number one ever since he encouraged his brother to jilt the bride, and Lina’s ready to dish out a little payback of her own.īut even the best laid plans can go awry, and soon Lina and Max discover animosity may not be the only emotion creating sparks between them. If they can survive the next few weeks and nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning -absolutely off-limits - ex-fiancée. Tired of living in his older brother’s shadow, marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. After impressing an influential guest, she’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s managed to make other people’s dreams come true as a top-tier wedding coordinator in DC. Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. ![]() ![]() ![]() But what I did have, even then, was my writer’s ear. ![]() I was not carrying around a recording device when growing up in Mississippi. In an author’s note, Sessums writes of the rich, novelistic conversations he recreates: “The dialogue-as true to these people and events and what was said around me as my memory can possibly make it-is my own invention. Mississippi Sissy won praise as an assured, richly detailed narrative of a gay youth’s encounters with love and death.īut it’s a work that hints at the narrator’s unreliability. In the company of Hains, whose literary circle included Eudora Welty, Sessums remembers enjoying a rare respite from loneliness. You seem to be spying right there out in the open all the time, right there in our midst…. You are remarkably free of judgment and yet you are preternaturally wary. ![]() “Don’t ask me why,” Frank Hains, a newspaper editor, theater columnist, and stage director, tells the teenage Sessums, “but I trust you completely. In Kevin Sessums’ 2007 coming-of-age memoir, Mississippi Sissy, an early mentor describes the demeanor that would contribute to Sessums’ success as a celebrity interviewer for Vanity Fair, Parade, and other publications: ![]() |
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