![]() With roots primarily in Protestantism, spiritualism (unlike the occult) was not interested in magic and (unlike paganism) did not incorporate earth-based deities into its beliefs or practices. Spiritualism, however, which arose in the United States in the 1840s, offered public rather than private displays of supernatural events, with a keen investment in establishing scientific confirmation of the ability to communicate with the dead. At this time, paganism-whether as an ancient or contemporary earth-based spirituality-was usually envisioned as having occult interests in secret knowledge and practices. ![]() Practised in telepathy and automatic writing and an acquaintance of Theosophical leader Madame Blavatsky, Stead hoped his new journal would foster attention to and respect for spiritualism and related subjects, such as paganism and the occult. Stead launched the periodical Borderland: A Psychical Quarterly (1893–1897) with the vision of bringing the study of immaterial phenomena to ‘the great mass of ordinary people’ (1893, 5). 1 Janet Oppenheim offers a succinct discussion of Stead’s engagement with spiritualism in The Other W (.)ġIn July 1893, editor W. T. ![]()
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The author writes about the sexism she experienced in the service, noting how “pale, male, and Yale” was a popular profile of its employees. After graduation, a Russian-language program in Moscow cemented her fascination with world affairs, and she joined the Foreign Service in 1986. As hardworking as her parents, Marie excelled in high school and, later, at Princeton. in 1962, and raised a family on the small salary of a boarding school teacher. As immigrants in Canada, they met and married in 1958, moved to the U.S. Her father left the Soviet Union as a child, and her mother survived World War II in Nazi Germany. 1958) chronicles her career in the Foreign Service, where she has served in a variety of posts, with an emphasis on the Soviet and post-Soviet world. A veteran Foreign Service officer tells all. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Girls tossing you aside with a haughty wave of a hand like yesterdays garbage, without even one word of kindness or even basic human respect? 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I don't think an author is really the creator of these. ![]() I don't think Steven King invented the school shooting - nor, for that matter, the idea of crashing a plane into a large building for terroristic purposes - although he did reference these and other acts of terror in books before they happened. ![]() ![]() Now, Otherworld readers can share these moments with some of their favorite characters - as well as catching welcome glimpses into the minds of some of the lesser-known players. ![]() Have you ever wondered how lone wolf Clayton Danvers finally got bitten by the last thing he ever expected: love? Or how the hot-blooded bad-girl witch Eve Levine managed to ensnare the cold, ruthless corporate sorcerer, Kristof Nast in one of the Otherworld's most unlikely pairings? Would you like to be a fly on the wall at the wedding of Lucas Cortez and Paige Winterbourne, as their eminently practical plans are gradually upended by their well-meaning friends? Or tag along with Lucas and Paige as they investigate a rather gruesome case that looks to be the result of a rogue vampire? ![]() ![]() Among other topics, the contributors extend McLuhan’s discussion of transportation technology to the attics and cargo boxes that moved Black women through the Underground Railroad, apply McLuhan’s concept of media as extensions of humans to analyze Tupperware as media of containment, and take up 3D printing as a feminist and decolonial practice. This volume showcases essays, experimental writings, and interviews from media studies scholars, artists, activists, and those who work with and create technology. They argue that while McLuhan’s theory provides a falsely universalizing conception of the technological as a structuring form of power, feminist critics can take it up to show how technologies alter and determine the social experiences of race, gender, class, and sexuality. The contributors to Re-Understanding Media advance a feminist version of Marshall McLuhan’s key text, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, repurposing his insight that “the medium is the message” for feminist ends. ![]() Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies. ![]() Author Resources from University Presses.Permissions Information for Journal Authors.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services. ![]() ![]() ![]() I also love, The Crow, Labyrinth, Constantine and The Nightmare Before Christmas. My favourite story of all time is Bram Stoker's, Dracula. ![]() Scary films are a true love of mine, although I find it very hard to find one these days that actually frightens me. See the complete Bloodlines series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Great deals on one book or all books in the series. You can find out more about my art by clicking here. Find the complete Bloodlines book series by Lindsay Anne Kendal. ![]() I also create promo art and book trailers. Read Revelations: 3 (Bloodlines) book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. ![]() I'm down as an available illustrator for Crooked Cat Publishing, and have recently been working with Empire Voices, creating the paperback and audio covers for their "Classics" line. Amazon.in - Buy Revelations: 3 (Bloodlines) book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in. I create ebook covers for Sizzler Editions. I work as a freelance graphic artist. I've helped out World Castle Publications with some of their covers. However, I have recently been working on some non-paranormal books too. I'm a very dark person, I love anything spooky, supernatural, or unexplainable, and so that’s the genre I want to write for the rest of my life. My stories play like videos in my mind, then I go and write them down. I’ll sit listening to it and suddenly I’m no longer in the room. I never knew what I wanted to do with my life until I began writing. I live with my parents, my younger sister, Cheryl, and her little girl, Faith. I have lived in Droylsden, Manchester, all my life. ![]() ![]() The Schlegels and the Wilcoxes met while vacationing in Germany, and while it seems as though the families’ trajectories will diverge after that, they remain intertwined thanks to Margaret becoming friends with Henry’s ailing wife, Ruth (Julia Ormond), after the Wilcoxes take a flat in London not far from the Schlegels. ![]() The letter in question is written by Helen Schlegel (Philippa Coulthard) to her older sister Margaret (Hayley Atwell), letting her know that she’s decided to break off her impulsive engagement to Paul Wilcox (Jonah Hauer-King), son of industrialist Henry Wilcox (Matthew Macfadyen). This is a subtly audacious way to kick off a fresh version of a beloved story, and in the end, the production mostly delivers. Forster’s novel by screenwriter Kenneth Lonergan ( Manchester by the Sea) and director Hettie Macdonald ( Doctor Who), and airing over the next four Sundays on Starz. So writes a character in the new Howards End, a BBC mini-series adapted from E.M. “My darling sister, it isn’t going to be at all what was expected.” Photo: Laurie Sparham/Starz Entertainment, LLC ![]() ![]() ![]() In his review article, he wrote: "Peter Thiel's new book, Zero to One, shines like a laser beam. In The Atlantic, Derek Thomson describes Thiel's book as possibly the best business book he has ever read. ![]() On September 13, Thiel appeared on NPR with host Wade Goodwyn to discuss the book. On September 11, Thiel answered questions for Ask Me Anything on Reddit. On September 9, Thiel was interviewed on Timothy Ferriss' podcast. He was also interviewed by Alexia Tsotsis of TechCrunch. To promote the book, Peter Thiel sent out his first (and only) tweet ever on September 8, 2014. It is a condensed and updated version of a highly popular set of online notes taken by Masters for the CS183 class on startups, as taught by Thiel at Stanford University in Spring 2012. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future is a 2014 book by the American entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel co-written with Blake Masters. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s theme was the rescue and protection of rare endangered species at what was the beginning of the now well-established kakapo recovery programme. ![]() In the same format, Moa was followed by Kakapo, Parrot of the Night (1988) which told the story of the world’s largest flightless parrot being rescued from predators on Stewart Island, where it had been rediscovered a few years earlier. The story could be read to children as young as three or four while older children could enjoy reading the book for themselves. The book was divided into a larger story section with Gaskin’s fine illustrations, followed by a smaller strictly factual section that could be used for educational purposes by parents or teachers. Their first collaboration was Moa, the Story of a Fabulous Bird (1985) which told the life story of one of New Zealand’s giant prehistoric birds within the larger theme of avian extinction. The concept was a creative non-fiction approach to stories about New Zealand birds within the context of a larger environmental theme. Following his books for adults about the outdoors and natural environment, Philip Temple pioneered a new kind of children’s picture book with his colleague, artist Chris Gaskin. ![]() |