![]() ![]() To support his thesis, White analyzes the complex writing styles of historians like Michelet, Ranke, Tocqueville, and Burckhardt, and philosophers of history such as Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Croce. This latent poetic and linguistic content - which White dubs the "metahistorical element" - essentially serves as a paradigm for what an "appropriate" historical explanation should be. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. ![]() Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White's Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The novels conspicuously lack aliens, mysticism, and other space-opera standbys, not least battle scenes. The Foundation confronts barbarian kingdoms, imperial revanchists, and shadowy telepaths who elude psychohistory’s grasp. Left ignorant of its details (such knowledge would play havoc with prediction), each generation must solve its own crises. His followers establish a Foundation on the frontier world of Terminus-a colony tasked with conserving all human knowledge-where they spend the next millennium fulfilling “Seldon’s plan” to reunite the galaxy. ![]() “The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now.” “Interstellar wars will be endless,” he warns. Its inventor, Hari Seldon, lives in a twelve-thousand-year-old galactic empire, which, his equations reveal, is about to collapse. Isaac Asimov’s classic saga revolves around the dismal science of “psychohistory,” a hybrid of math and psychology that can predict the future. ![]() An innocent viewer of the new Apple TV+ series “Foundation”-a lavish production complete with clone emperors, a haunted starship, and a killer android who tears off her own face-might be surprised to learn that the novels it’s based on inspired Paul Krugman to become an economist. ![]() ![]() Agent: Valerie Hoskins, Valerie Hoskins Assoc. Readers will cheer the occasional moments when Alessia claims her own agency, but there’s little else to recommend this middling erotic romance. The story’s plausibility is undermined by the unbalanced power dynamic between the protagonists, Alessia’s portrayal as a chess and music prodigy who’s oddly oblivious of modern society, Maxim’s initial sulky unlikability, and the depiction of Albania as hopelessly behind the times. When her enemies finally track her down, Alessia and Maxim must rise to the challenge to secure a happy future. As he shelters her at one of his family’s estates, the two succumb to mutual attraction, falling headfirst into a relationship that proves to be a sexual awakening for the virginal Alessia. I can’t believe it’s been a year since I was in New York, enjoying the buzz and pace of the city that never sleeps, doing press interviews and signings out in Huntington and Paramus, and beginning my book tour. But when he meets his new house cleaner, Alessia Demachi, an undocumented Albanian immigrant on the run from human traffickers, Maxim is surprised to feel protective of her. Provocative Romance The Mister and More 16 April 2020 The Mister is one year old today. ![]() ![]() Maxim Trevelyan, the newly minted Earl of Trevethick following his older brother’s untimely death, prefers to lose himself in meaningless flings and his musical pursuits. ![]() In this uneven tale of love and passion, James (the Fifty Shades series) crafts the contemporary equivalent of a Regency romance: a privileged English rake seduces the hired help, whose innocence reforms his wicked ways. ![]() ![]() The colors too, are so dynamic and engaging, just the right thing to keep a little one's attention. The text is wildly and wonderfully imaginative, supported equally by the lovely illustrations. This may be a board book, but its simplicity ends there. ![]() Just like my Mom was for me, and all Mamas are for their little bunnies. It doesn't matter where the little bunny might run, or wat he might turn into, his Mama is right there with him. That's why this book, The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brow, with iconic illustrations by Clement Hurd is so wonderful. My version of running away was more along the lines of Where the Wild Things Are, meaning I would usually just run away to my imagination. ![]() I know I thought of many escape routes as a kid whenever my Mom and Papa, said no to the chocolate bar, or sleepover when I hadn't done my chores. ![]() To my recollection this usually ends up with some elaborate plan to run away. Every child goes through it, that time when Mom and Dad, and home are anywhere, but where they want to be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In a terrifying confrontation that will push Sean and Michelle to their limits, the duo may be permanently parted.ĭavid Baldacci has been writing since childhood, when his mother gave him a lined notebook in which to write down his stories. Their persistence puts them on a collision course with the highest levels of the government and the darkest corners of power. It is now up to them to ask the questions no one seems to want Is Roy a killer? Who murdered Bergin? The more they dig into Roy's past, the more they encounter obstacles, half-truths, dead-ends, false friends, and escalating threats from every direction. But their investigation is derailed when Sean and Michelle find Bergin murdered. Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's attorney, Sean's old friend and mentor Ted Bergin, to help work the case. In the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller that inspired the TV series King & Maxwell, two private investigators dig into a killer's past-but when their search threatens powerful enemies, it could cost them their lives.Įdgar Roy-an alleged serial killer-is awaiting trial. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “ ‘It’s funny - you don’t think of doctors getting ill.’ It’ true, and I think it’s part of something bigger: patients don’t actually think of doctors as being human. And yet if I turned up at work pissed they’d probably be unimpressed - it’s clearly important my senses are only dulled through exhaustion.” I suspect my reaction times are currently the same as when I’m about three pints deep. “It’s a surreal feeling being this tired - almost like being in a computer game. In a nutshell: Former junior doctor Adam Kay unearthed his diaries from the few years he was a doctor working in the NHS. Probably not best for those currently pregnant, unless they want to read a bunch of vignettes about the various things that might go wrong during labor and delivery (though to be fair, only one such vignette ends poorly, and that’s near the end of the book). - US Taxes: Yes, You Still Have to Pay Themīest for: Anyone who likes fairly humorous personal memoirs, especially of the healthcare variety. ![]() - Getting a Job: Your National Insurance Number. ![]() ![]() Wichita, KS …Thousands of students and teachers have participated in Daum Escape. 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Daum stressed natural gas has no place in that strategy. ![]() No information is available for this page.18 media briefing from the IAA Transportation 2023 conference. ![]() ![]() This keeps the pages turning - leisurely, but gripping storytelling.īoth women are now immortal in Hollywood, living together, yet fighting off the darkest impulses that made them immune to human frailty. Kiste remains, as is her style, firmly devoted to the characters in how they behave in the plot. Lucy Westenra, a victim of the famous Dracula, and Bertha Mason, the first wife of Edward Rochester, a more human monster from Jane Eyre, are center stage in this gothic horror offering that never gets bogged down in the details. Gwendolyn Kiste inserts characters from a pair of classic novels and transports them to the modern era…well, 1967 is close enough and perfect time for the exquisite tale. Instead, the author writes the story into a realm that is wholly enjoyable while, at times, the reader may just sit back and marvel at a particular exchange or moment between the odd mixture of characters - and odd they are. ![]() This novel takes an idea that could fall apart in lesser hands. ![]() Gorgeous prose wrapped around the darkest reaches of the human condition in plots that are anything but overdone. Then again, for those who have ever been treated to one of Kiste’s works, the unexpected is part of the gift she gives to her readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() “If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?” he wrote. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be.”Īfter all, he wrote, “Somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed.” “Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. ![]() ![]() “I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is? I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book ends with a “how-to” meditation for changing beliefs and perceptions that hold us back-the first step in healing. He asks the question: “Is it possible to teach the principles of the placebo, and without relying on any external substance, produce the same internal changes in a person’s health and ultimately in his or her life?” Then he shares scientific evidence (including color brain scans) of amazing healings from his workshops, in which participants learn his model of personal transformation, based on practical applications of the so-called placebo effect. Joe does more than simply explore the history and the physiology of the placebo effect. ![]() Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs.ĭr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curse-or after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinson’s disease by believing in a placebo. ![]() Is it possible to heal by thought alone-without drugs or surgery? The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. ![]() |