On various tracks, listeners hear invented folk songs played on unfamiliar instruments, cyclical vocal chants, minimalist mallet pieces, and occasional environmental sounds. Fitting into the fictional anthropological framework, the sounds on the original cassette were presented as Lomax-style gleanings from The Valley, as the region is called throughout the book. To fully actualize the sonic world that courses through the text, Le Guin collaborated with Todd Barton, a polymath composer and musician whose remarkably diverse career includes a four-decade stint as resident composer for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a deep expertise with a variety of modular synthesizer systems. Music and singing are interwoven throughout Kesh culture as important elements of ritual ceremony, seasonal celebration, and general playful expression. As with the four other excellent reissues in their catalog-which occupy a strange space between homebrewed ambient music, outsider electronic composition, and/or Fourth-World aesthetics- Music and Poetry of the Kesh resists easy categorization. Not long after Le Guin’s death in late January of this year, the stellar Freedom to Spend label released as an LP the material from the original cassette.
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Lust hate lovePrevious research by Cacioppo has shown that different networks of brain regions are activated by love and sexual desire. “Although little is currently known about the science of love at first sight or how people fall in love, these patterns of response provide the first clues regarding how automatic attentional processes, such as eye gaze, may differentiate feelings of love from feelings of desire toward strangers,” says lead author Stephanie Cacioppo, director of the High-Performance Electrical NeuroImaging Laboratory at the University of Chicago. That automatic judgment can occur in as little as half a second, producing different gaze patterns. Scientists say if the gaze is focused on a stranger’s face, then love is possible, but if the gaze focuses more on the stranger’s body, then the attraction is more sexual in nature. Where someone’s gaze falls could indicate almost instantly whether attraction is based on feelings of love or of lust. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Flawless by Lara ChapmanSarah is completely loyal to her best friend Kristen. This book is about loyalty, trust, and acceptance and hits a lot of sweet notes for me. The guy her best friend falls in love with first. It is a modern version of “Cyrano de Bergerac” which features Sarah with her ‘ugly’ nose who falls in love with the one guy she can never have. This is a Young Adult RITA nominated novel in a high school setting. For someone so smart, what was she thinking?įlawless is one of those books with a ‘happy sigh’ ending. So when Kristen begs Sarah to help her nab Rock, Sarah does the only thing a best friend can do-she agrees. And when Rock and Kristen stand together, it's like Barbie and Ken come to life. Problem is, her best friend, Kristen, falls for him too. On the first day of senior year, Rock Conway walks into her journalism class and, well, rocks her world. Sarah's got the best best friend and big goals for print journalism fame. There's just one tiny-all right, enormous-flaw: her nose. She's got killer blue eyes, gorgeous blond hair, and impeccable grades. The summary: Sarah Burke is just about perfect. This book is nominated in the “Best YA Romance” category for the RITAs this year. This RITA Reader Challenge review is from K risti Davis. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Just a mess by mercer mayer|a Little Critter cleans up his messy room to try to find his baseball mitt. |a "Mercer Mayer's Little Critter"-Cover p. Mercer Mayers Little Critter has made quite the mess in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. Whether hes trying to make breakfast, mow the lawn, or carry the groceries, both parents and children alike will cheerfully relate to this beloved story. |a 24 unnumbered pages : |b color illustrations |c 21 cm. Just A Mess is a good conversation starter for children who have trouble keeping up with room cleaning and misplacing important objects. Mercer Mayer (Author & Illustrator) 4.29 26,882 ratings164 reviews Little Critter is trying his best to be a help to his mother in this classic, funny, and heartwarming book. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Ethan frome novelThough her education-at the ends of a series of governesses-was intended only to provide her the social graces necessary for a society wife, she spoke three languages before adolescence, and read widely in the great literature of Western culture. Edith's mother, a notoriously commanding and aloof woman to whom the birth of her daughter relatively late in life was an embarrassment, was perpetually critical and disapproving of her daughter's intellectual ambitions.īut Edith demonstrated early a formidable intellect and a great love for books. It was a society in which the only acceptable aim for a young woman of the upper class was to enter into marriage with a gentleman of the upper class and become mistress of a household. Her parents, George Frederic and Lucretia Stevens Rhinelander Jones, descendants of prosperous English and Dutch businessmen, bankers, and lawyers, were pillars of the fashionable New York society Wharton would depict in many of her novels. Edith Wharton was born Edith Newbold Jones on January 24, 1862, during the American Civil War, into a world that could hardly have been more discouraging of her desire to be a writer. 7/6/2023 0 Comments The Sojourn by Andrew KrivakMarian, or Zlee as they come to call him, is the son of a cousin of Ondrej. One spring when they are down in the village they add a new member to their family. It is a small existence, and quiet, but Josef learns English and history and becomes a very good shot. There his father runs into trouble with the local citizenry and, fleeing the law, takes his young son back to the old country.ĭuring a time when Austria-Hungary was still an empire filled with a variety of ethnicities and local identities, Jozef and his father Ondrej live the life of the shepherd, spending half the year perched in the Carpathian Mountains. Early in his life he loses his mother in a train accident and his father takes him east to Pennsylvania. Jozef Vinich is an American-born young man born to Slovak parents, living in the turn of the 20th century. "The Sojourn" by Andrew Krivak is a novel depicting the journey of a young man from anonymity to the horror of war, and back again to a life of peace and productivity. And it turns out that the picture is nothing like what we expected. For the first time in the debate over homosexuality, John Boswell has gone back to the sources and combed through an immense amount of writings by Latin, Greek and Early Medieval authors to find out what they really had to say. This is rightly called ‘a truly ground-breaking work’. Intellectual Change: Men, Beasts, and “Nature” The Triumph of Ganymede: Gay Literature of the High Middle Agesġ1. Whitney Griswold Professor of History at Yale University and the author of The Royal Treasure, The Kindness of Strangers, and Same-Sex Unions in Pre-modern Europe.ĩ. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: (Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century), by John Boswell.Īuthor bio: John Boswell (1947-94) was the A. O'Donnell of the University of Pennsylvania. Chaucer was aware of some of these works in the Nun's Priest's Tale, Boethius' treatise on music, De musica, is cited (VII.3294).įor good introductory materials and a complete translation, see the edition in the admirable University of Virginia e-text series. 395-97).īoethius was author of a number of other popular and authoritative works, including translations and commentaries on a variety of topics. It deeply influenced Chaucer's work, especially in the Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyda see the introduction to Boece in the Riverside Chaucer (pp. Chaucer translated it into English, as did King Alfred before him, and Queen Elizabeth I a couple of centuries after him. The Consolation of Philosophy, by Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, written in prison while he awaited execution by Theodoric, ruler of Rome, was the most popular and influential philosophical work, especially among laymen, from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Turkey by Golriz GolkarYou can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly lost and wandering in the wilds.Īfter searches for the unknown man come up empty, local law enforcement is strangely set on dismissing the case altogether, raising Alex’s suspicions. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. The first book in a thrilling series featuring an intrepid wildlife biologist who’s dedicated to saving endangered species…and relies on her superior survival skills to thwart those who aim to stop her. Source: Paperback via William Morrow / Audio via library Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks / Harper Audio |