![]() ![]() In Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom (Astra House), Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer who was initially skeptical about police abolition. From community policing initiatives to increasing diversity, none of it has stopped the police from killing about three people a day. For more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. She is also a columnist at The Guardian, and her work and writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Review, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, The Appeal, Truthout, on Slate and NPR, and in many other publications. from Harvard Law School and works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training to community-based organizations through an abolitionist framework. ![]() ![]() Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, writer, and organizer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() State building was a more diversified and personalized process than has previously been assumed. This novel approach enables us to expose the difficulties, setbacks and false steps that the administration had to deal with. ![]() In early modern studies, agency has long remained in the shadow of the study of structures and institutions. The contributors approach Sweden’s rise to greatness from the point of view of personal agency. During this transitional period, many far-reaching administrative reforms were carried out, and the Swedish state developed into a prime example of the early modern ‘powerstate’. This anthology provides fresh insights into the state-building process in Sweden. Internationally, the case of early modern Sweden is noteworthy because the state building process transformed a locally dispersed and sparsely populated area into a strongly centralized absolute monarchy and European empire at the beginning of the 17th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The entire issue uses the title’s meta-position as simultaneously within and without the superhero comic genre to comment on depictions of race (and to some degree gender) in comics. ![]() It doesn’t feel like a DC comic (and to me that is another plus) and while it ostensibly exists in the world with other DC characters, there has been no overlap with any of the common cast, which has been to its benefit.īut I want to talk about issue #6, which is where the panels above are from. It takes advantage of the conceit of dialing up an endless variety of absurd and strange superheroes incarnations with a winking self-awareness, basking in the weirdness of the genre and paying homage to the cosmic weirdness of the Silver Age, while firmly planted in the grittiness of today’s comics. Let me take this opportunity to give a hearty endorsement for China Miéville’s Dial H – If you only read one of DC’s New 52 (and honestly, there is very little of that worth reading), make it this title. ![]() ![]() "The fact that Ulysses contains so much classical physics should not be surprising," Manos wrote. ![]() Manos is also a fan of physics-so much so, that he penned a December 2021 paper published in The Physics Teacher, detailing how Joyce had sprinkled multiple examples of classical physics throughout the novel. Count Harry Manos, an English professor at Los Angeles City College, among those fans. Eliot declared the novel to be "the most important expression which the present age has found," and Ulysses has accumulated many other fans in the ages since. Ulysses, the groundbreaking modernist novel by James Joyce, marked its 100-year anniversary last year it was first published on February 2, 1922. Fran Caffrey/AFP/Getty Images reader comments 57 with ![]() ![]() ![]() Larson is both an accomplished journalist and historical novelist. The author uses rich archival detail to support both claims. The second concerns the suggestion that there was deliberate negligence on the part of British intelligence and leadership who recognized strategic advantage in the ship being attacked in terms of its potential to draw Americans into the war as allies. ![]() The first is that the author is sympathetic to the captain of the Lusitania who was somewhat maligned after the event by those who sought to blame the sinking of the ship on his incompetence. Two central thesis are developed throughout the book. The general story line is chronological and the various perspectives alternate throughout the telling. Larson weaves this story by offering alternating views of the captain of the Lusitania, the commander of the sub that sank it, the passengers aboard the ship, British naval intelligence officers, and President Wilson. The summary is followed by an analysis of the book’s strengths and weaknesses. ![]() ![]() This review follows along the chronological storyline of the book, and includes special attention to the extensive detail offered by the author. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by bestselling author Erik Larson offers a detailed look into the sinking of the British passenger ship the Lusitania by a German U-boat near the start of WWI. ![]() ![]() ![]() Dorset however knows exactly how energetic and challenging his son could be and sitting back he wryly guessed that the captors would soon want to give Red Chief back. ![]() In desperation, the kidnappers offer Ebenezer Dorset a discount on the ransom via a letter. 'Red Chief' chatters at his captors, asks question after question, wants to play games and when thwarted, resorts to mischievous pranks and tricks. ![]() Johnny names himself the Red Chief and does his very best to live up to the name. After settling on Mr Ebenezer Dorset's young son, they kidnapped little Johnny, a scrappy ten year old redhead with a strong personality.įrom early on they begin to think they might have made a mistake. For two ne'er do wells, Bill and Sam, the idea of kidnapping a prominent citizen's son for ransom seemed a promising money spinner. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is only 22 years old, but she is an expert at what she does. I love the fact that the main character, Lia McIntyre is a short, feisty confident woman. But lust transforms into something more when he gets to know the woman beneath the kick-ass shell.īroken is unlike any other book I have read. When he meets his new bodyguard, he falls hard for her. Unfortunately, trouble follows him to Chicago. A bad break-up with the Queen of Pop sends him from LA to Chicago, where he just wants to lie low and write new songs. The guy can't sneeze without everyone on social media knowing. His band dominates the charts, and he's constantly hounded by crowds of fan-girls and paparazzi. Jonah Locke is the front man for the most popular rock band in the United States. Until she meets her new client, Jonah Locke, a swoon-worthy rock star with a heart of gold. The walls she's built up to protect herself are rock solid. ![]() And two, never sleep with the same guy twice. ![]() To make sure that never happens again, she's got rules. She was horribly betrayed by her first love, and she's determined never to let anyone use her or hurt her again. Lia hides a painful past behind a snarky, take-no-prisoners attitude. She may be a petite, cute blond, but she's a master of martial arts and Krav Maga, and she can render a man twice her size unconscious in just seconds. As a 22-year-old female professional bodyguard, Lia McIntyre is a rarity in a male-dominated field. ![]() ![]() ![]() They’re the reason I wanted to write this story. And they helped her channel her energy into activities that made her feel good about herself. ![]() They interviewed therapists until they landed on one their daughter felt she could trust and confide in. They worked in lock step with her psychiatrist, who prescribed medication to help her sleep at night and quiet her mind during the day. In the years that followed her initial diagnosis, I’ve been so inspired by the way C and her family tackled this disorder-together. I couldn’t imagine dealing with something so intense, especially at such a young age. She felt powerless to a stream of negative, often terrifying thoughts.Īnd her group of friends unknowingly made things harder. It was heartbreaking to hear how the disorder affected her. ![]() We’re keeping her identity under wraps, so I call her C. ![]() I first became interested in telling a story about a teen with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) when a close family friend was diagnosed four years ago, at age twelve. Why did you decide to talk about this illness, and what do you hope your YA readers will gain from sharing this story? Every Last Word: Tamera Ireland Stone Exclusive Interview Sam, the main character in your story, is a teen secretly struggling with OCD. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield-her brother, fighting with the enemy-the brother she watched die five years ago.Įelyn loses her focus and is captured. Her life is brutal but simple: train to fight and fight to survive. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient, rivalry against the Riki clan. ![]() Sky in the Deep is mythic in scope and speaks straight to the heart. In her highly-anticipated debut audiobook, Adrienne Young brings to life a lush, vivid world that will enchant listeners everywhere. This book will wage a war with your heart as brutal and as bold as the battles inked in its pages." - Stephanie Garber, New York Times Bestselling author of Caraval "Fearless in its exploration of family, forgiveness, loyalty, and love, Sky in the Deep is fierce, vivid, and violently beautiful. ![]() ![]() ![]() The man appears to know of an anarchist plot to destabilize Europe, beginning with a plan to assassinate the Prime Minister of Greece, Constantine Karolides, during his forthcoming visit to London. ![]() One night he is buttonholed by a stranger, a well-travelled American, who claims to be in fear for his life. The 39 Steps is set during May and June 1914 war was evident in Europe, Richard Hannay, the protagonist and narrator, an expatriate Scot, returns to his new home, a flat in London, after a long stay in Rhodesia to begin a new life. We know the Buchan formula well, although few may remember it was he who set the mold: take an apparently ordinary man, and let him be drawn into a mystery he only vaguely understands give him a task to perform, and set obstacles in his path see that he cannot turn to established authority, see that he cannot be certain who he can trust – and then, set the clock ticking. ![]() |