![]() ![]() The characters, their personality traits and responses to stimuli, as well as what directs and motivates them, is worthy of discussion. In particular the characters in ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ provide intriguing material to consider the human condition. ![]() ![]() In studying these texts, the reader is provoked into analysing, comparing and contrasting them. However, the play is not an attempt to rewrite ‘Waiting for Godot’ in a framework of Shakespeare’s drama. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as minor characters exist within Shakespeare’s world providing Stoppard with his protagonists. Stoppard’s writing was also influenced by Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. As a result of this, many comparisons can be drawn between these two plays. Inspired by Beckett’s literary style, particularly in ‘Waiting for Godot’, Stoppard wrote ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’. Compare and contrast the ways in which ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’ by Tom Stoppard and ‘Waiting for Godot’ by Samuel Beckett teach important insights about the human condition. ![]()
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7/6/2023 0 Comments Climate Change by Joseph Romm![]() What impact will climate change have on investments and the global economy? As the world struggles to stem climate change and its effects, everyone will become a part of this story of the century. ![]() What occupations and fields of study will be most in demand in a globally warmed world?.Should you plan on retiring in South Florida or the U.S.What are the future implications for owners of coastal property? 'This book offers the most up-to-date examination of climate changes foundational science, implications for our future, and clean energy solutions that can mitigate its effects.How will climate change impact you and your family in the coming decades?.Alongside detailed but highly accessible descriptions of what is causing climate change, this entry in the What Everyone Needs to Know series answers questions about the practical implications of this growing force on our world: This book offers the most up-to-date examination of climate change's foundational science, its implications for our future, and the core clean energy solutions. The last decade's spate of superstorms, wildfires, heat waves, and droughts has accelerated the public discourse on this topic and lent credence to climatologist Lonnie Thomson's 2010 statement that climate change "represents a clear and present danger to civilization." In June 2015, the Pope declared that action on climate change is a moral issue. Climate change will have a bigger impact on humanity than the Internet has had. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments The widows of malabar![]() ![]() ![]() Now it is her responsibility to figure out what really happened on Malabar Hill, and to ensure that no innocent women or children are in further danger. Are they being taken advantage of by an unscrupulous guardian? Perveen tries to investigate, and realizes her instincts about the will were correct when tensions escalate to murder. ![]() The Farid widows live in full purdah-in strict seclusion, never leaving the women's quarters or speaking to any men. What will they live on if they forfeit what their husband left them? Perveen is suspicious, especially since one of the widows has signed her form with an X-meaning she probably couldn't even read the document. But as Perveen is going through the paperwork, she notices something strange: all three of the wives have signed over their full inheritance to a charity. Omar Farid, a wealthy Muslim mill owner who has left three widows behind. Mistry Law has been appointed to execute the will of Mr. Armed with a law degree from Oxford, Perveen also has a tragic personal history that makes her especially devoted to championing and protecting women's legal rights. Introducing an extraordinary female lawyer-sleuth in a new historical series set in 1920s Bombay! Bombay, 1921: Perveen Mistry, the daughter of a respected Zoroastrian family, has just joined her father's law firm, becoming one of the first female lawyers in India. ![]() ![]() ![]() So it appears that some of the most baffling of religious practices in history might have an ancestry passing in a straight line back to the ancient carnivorous habits of humankind. The masses embraced the new sects, and in the end their powerful support reclassified the cow into a sacred animal. ![]() During this period of crisis, reformist religions arose, most prominently Buddhism and Jainism, that attempted to abolish castes and hereditary priesthoods and to outlaw the killing of animals. Ordinary people struggled to conserve enough livestock to meet their own desperate requirements for milk, dung used as fuel, and transport. After 600 B.C., when populations grew denser and domestic animals became proportionately scarcer, the eating of meat was progressively restricted until it became a monopoly of the Brahmans and their sponsors. By later Vedic and early Hindu times, during the first millenium B.C., the feasts came to be managed by the priestly caste of Brahmans, who erected rituals of sacrifice around the killing of animals and distributed the meat in the name of the Aryan chiefs and war lords. “The earlier Aryan invaders of the Gangetic Plain presided over feasts of cattle, horses, goats, buffalo, and sheep. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Rainbirds by clarissa goenawan![]() ![]() Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. A mesmerizing novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his sister’s violent death. ![]() Clarissa Goenawan explores the mysteries of small-town Japan, drawing readers in with understated prose, then ensnaring with a subtle spell, exposing, grain by grain, the secrets behind a young woman’s death. ![]() ![]() Keiko was stabbed one rainy night on her way home, and there are no leads. Rainbirds is that rarest of debut novelsconfident, transportive, and utterly enthralling. Ren heads to Akakawa to conclude his sister’s affairs, failing to understand why she chose to turn her back on the family and Tokyo for this desolate place years ago.īut then Ren is offered Keiko’s newly vacant teaching position at a prestigious local cram school and her bizarre former arrangement of free lodging at a wealthy politician’s mansion in exchange for reading to the man’s ailing wife. He accepts both, abandoning Tokyo and his crumbling relationship there in order to better understand his sister’s life and what took place the night of her death.Īs Ren comes to know the eccentric local figures, from the enigmatic politician who’s boarding him to his fellow teachers and a rebellious, captivating young female student, he delves into his shared childhood with Keiko and what followed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. ![]() And as the power of science and technology receded, magick rose up in its place. Where there had been order, there was now chaos. The electrical grid sputtered law and government collapsed-and more than half of the world’s population was decimated. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The only bummer is having to wait for the next one to come out but I think it’s slated for November…. It’s also quite good and the romance that’s brewing in that one is going to be spectacular. Michele G: I also give a shout out for how good Year One by Nora Roberts was! I’m currently reading/listening to the second one in the series, Of Blood and Bone. Post Apocalyptic, mixed with Irish “Magick”… characters I already love…. ![]() MicheleS: I’m reading Year One, by Nora Roberts. POST APOCALYPTIC SERIES ALERT!! Oh I LOVE those storylines and book #3 (the finale!!) is now up for preorder!!! MARYSE’S SURPRISE FROM HER FAVORITE BOOK BOYFRIEND’S. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments James gurney art books![]() ![]() It's a good time, then, to talk about solidarity. Yet it reveals ever more clearly how much we all depend on one another, and how urgently necessary it is for us to bear one another's burdens. ![]() The pain inflicted by the pandemic is far from equally distributed. from each other, but rather all belong to one great body of humanity. Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society the disease has spread precisely because we aren't autonomous individuals disconnected. Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone. ![]() The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another. 25 - Solidarity (Trade Paperback / Paperback)īy Gurney, James Katongole, Emmanuel Sacks, Rabbi Jonathan Thomas, Sally Hill, Wesley ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Everkin by Donna Grant![]() ![]() The Destiny Stone also contains stories by Mary O’Connor and Georgia Tribell. Seized by Passion was also published as Mesmerized. Notes: The novels Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made, Far From the Tree, Better Than I Know Myself, Gotta Keep On Tryin’, What Doesn’t Kill You, Uptown and Exposures were written with Virginia DeBerry. Below is a list of Donna Grant’s books in order of when they were originally released: She is both a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her first solo effort was Highland Mist in 2006. Eventually, Donna couldn’t help but write down the romance stories she had in her head, and once she completed her first book, there was no turning back.ĭonna Grant became a published author in 1997 with the novel Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made, writing with Virginia DeBerry. Growing up, she dreamed of becoming a ballet dancer and even did get to perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. ![]() ![]() Donna was born and raised in Texas, but her travels have taken her all around the United States and to places like Jamaica, Mexico and Scotland. She writes several series, including (but not limited to) Druids Glen, Dark Sword, Dark Warriors, Shields, Dark Kings, Chiasson and Rogues of Scotland. Donna Grant is an American author of historical, dark fantasy, time travel, paranormal and erotic romance novels. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments Molly baz cookbook recipes![]() This cookbook has been out for exactly three months at the time of writing this post, and it has already taken social media, home kitchens, and the world at large by STORM. This is an absolute must-have flavor bible, and if there’s one book that you should get on this list, it’s this. We also highly recommend her Netflix series, which has the same title as her book. Samin is an expert chef and teacher who contains a seemingly endless plethora of knowledge, anecdotes, and tips that will revolutionize the way that you cook. Samin Nosrat’s internationally best-selling book SALT FAT ACID HEAT has redefined the art of good cooking, and for good reason. Enjoy, and happy cooking!īehold, fellow cooks and eaters alike, one of the greatest cookbooks of all time. From savory to sweet, casual or fancy, there is a technique, recipe, or book for absolutely everyone on this list. ![]() Sometimes they can get a bad rap, but we’re here to tell you that cookbooks are informative, sexy, and NEVER go out of style!Ĭookbooks are a timeless, key pillar of home or professional cooking, and we at 4th & Heart want to share some of our absolute favorites with you. ![]() Whether you’re a brand-new home cook or a seasoned chef, you’ve probably referenced a cookbook at least once in your life. ![]() On The 4th & Heart Bookshelf: 6 Must-Read Cookbooks ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The silent companion book![]() ![]() If you can’t come up with a book you think fits for a particular week use a freebie – perhaps a recent read for example: Finally, don’t struggle with any of these, this is meant to be a fun way of highlighting books. ![]() Also, I would just mention that it’s very possible that some of these might be repeats from previous FFOs although I have tried to invent more ‘open ended’ prompt that can be interpreted differently and also prompts that relate to emotions. If you know of an event that’s coming up let me know and I’ll try and include covers that work for the event itself so that you can link up to the Friday Face Off and, as always, if you wish to submit an idea then leave me a comment – or if you’d like to host a week then simply let me know. I’ve updated the list now to include themes for next year. ![]() Perhaps not the darkest of the covers but I love the attention to detail and that eye looking through the keyhole brrr *chills*. ![]() |