![]() ![]() Africa's booming growth is driven by the voracious hunger for natural resources from rapidly emerging economics such as China. 'The Looting Machine' takes you on a gripping and shocking journey through anonymous boardrooms and glittering headquarters to expose a new form of financialized colonialism. But far from being a salvation, this buried treasure has been a curse. A third of the earth's mineral deposits lie beneath its soil. ![]() While accounting for just 2 percent of global GDP, it is home to 15 per cent of the planet's crude oil, 40 per cent of its gold and 80 per cent of its platinum. Africa: the world's poorest continent and, arguably, its richest. Overseas Press Club Award Winner 2016 A shocking investigative journey into the way the resource trade wreaks havoc on Africa, 'The Looting Machine' explores the dark underbelly of the global economy. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But I loved the way Ridley was able to bring Jessica out of her shell and back to church even while he was dealing with his own personal crisis. However, if I had a criticism of Who I Am With You, it would be that she recovered from the lost of her daughter more quickly than seemed natural given the way she was portrayed at the beginning of the story. I enjoyed watching Jessica grow past her grief and open up to live and love. Ridley and his adopted stray dog challenge Jessica to come out of her shell. Jessica has shut herself away from friends and life, but that changes when Ridley Chesterfield moves in next door. In the present story, Jessica Morgan is an artist who is expecting her dead husband’s baby while still recovering from his death, and the death of their daughter. Yes, the book description says this, but I guess I saw “Robin Lee Hatcher” and didn’t read the the book description properly. So I was surprised when I started reading and found it’s a dual timeline story. ![]() ![]() I was expecting this to be a contemporary romance, because all the other Robin Lee Hatcher novels I’ve read have been contemporary romances. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Brian Staveley and the Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne “Intricately plotted and masterfully told.” - The Alliterates ![]() “A fantastic standalone book with a very satisfying conclusion – well thought out and written incredibly well.” - The Bookbag “A highly engrossing fantasy world amazing characters.”- Fantasy Book Review “Full of surprises […} more inventive and grisly than I could have imagined.” - Fantasy Faction, 9/10 stars “Pleasantly grim and emotionally complex.” - Kirkus Reviews “A stunning prequel that actually lives up to the original trilogy's legacy Staveley has proven himself to be a master of world-building, character development, and sheer storytelling.” - Beauty in Ruins Visceral action scenes and memorable characters bring this tale to life.” - Publishers Weekly “Lush, evocative descriptions sharpen the setting, which recalls Southeast Asia. ![]() It was very, very hard to put down, and had an emotional punch to match its high adrenaline moments.” - Sci Fi and Fantasy Reviews “A warm, funny, character-focused novel which is also darkly charming, bloody, and lethal. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author Skullsworn is a brilliant new chapter in a fabulous series." -V. ![]() “Staveley has quickly become one of my favorite fantasy authors, and his latest doesn't disappoint. “A lyrical, bloodsoaked, impossible quest that's sure to entertain.”- Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author ![]() ![]() ![]() "Even in a crowded field, Bryant’s tightly focused work, cast in the fictionalized voice of Braille himself, is particularly distinguished."- Bulletin, starred review "An inspiring look at a child inventor whose drive and intelligence changed to world-for the blind and sighted alike."- Kirkus Reviews Boris Kulikov’s inspired paintings help readers to understand what Louis lost, and what he was determined to gain back through books.Īn author’s note and additional resources at the end of the book complement the simple story and offer more information for parents and teachers. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.Īward-winning writer Jen Bryant tells Braille’s inspiring story with a lively and accessible text, filled with the sounds, the smells, and the touch of Louis’s world. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read.Įven at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him.Īnd so he invented his own alphabet-a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. **Winner of a Schneider Family Book Award!** ![]() An inspiring picture-book biography of Louis Braille-a blind boy so determined to read that he invented his own alphabet. ![]() ![]() For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won first prize of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies.įor his Ukrainian-language profile, please see: Сергій Плохій. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. ![]() Plokhy is currently the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where he was also named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in 2013. Serhii Plokhy, the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute, has written a history not to offend. For his Ukrainian-language profile, please see: Сергій Плохій Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian and American historian. A pleasure to read, The Gates of Europe will take those familiar with the Moscow narrative on a mind expanding tour of Ukraine's past.' Prof. ![]() For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won first prize of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian and American historian. ![]() ![]() Dhaliwal’s infectiously funny instagram comic follows the rebuilding process, tracking a group of women who have rallied together under the flag of “Beyonce’s Thighs.” Only Grandma remembers the distant past, a civilization of segway-riding mall cops, Blockbuster movie rental shops, and “That’s What She Said” jokes. When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society’s ashes. D+Q’s edition of Woman World will include new and previously unpublished material. ![]() Now, readers everywhere will delight in the print edition as Dhaliwal seamlessly incorporates feminist philosophical concerns into a series of perfectly-paced strips that skewer perceived notions of femininity and contemporary cultural icons. ![]() ![]() With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000 likes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “American War” describes an imaginary future civil conflict and its aftermath. ![]() He is certainly making a good career of it. But El Akkad doesn’t write novels, he constructs messaging objects, and maybe that’s what readers want these days. Who is sending El Akkad, and books of similar stripe, into such high places? Not readers, I don’t think, at least no reader who likes novels. This brings us to Portland-based writer Omar El Akkad, author of the plodding, dimwitted, much-praised bestseller “American War” and its schematic, boring follow-up, “What Strange Paradise,” both nominated for various prizes and both widely lauded within the industry. ![]() Art allows no principle beyond the pursuit of what makes it good and true, and so it cannot be corrupted by an agenda and still be considered art. This beautiful coherence is what gives art its robust morality and what lends many artists their aversion to fashionable politics. Successful art surprises and confounds everyone, including its creator, because art is wild and constructed not from meaning but from coherence and beauty, which cannot be planned. Novelists who write to convey meaning rather than to uncover characters, or follow a plot, are for the most part not artists but propagandists. ![]() ![]() In spite of all these sci-fi tropes, Atwood calls the book a love story. Flashbacks reveal more about this character and his life in a society that is being altered irrevocably by scientists playing at gene mutation. The trilogy begins with Oryx & Crake – released in 2003 – and introduces the character of Snowman, who lives on his own in a bleak, seemingly post-apocalyptic landscape. OK, so we’re sneaking in three books under one heading here, but we’re sure you’ll forgive us. If nothing else they’ll give you an idea of the vast range of genres and ideas the grande dame of Canadian literature has explored, and will certainly leave you wanting more. ![]() ![]() And if you loved that adaptation as much as we did but haven’t otherwise had much engagement with Atwood’s work, then you’ve come to the right place.Īn active novelist since the 1960s there is a huge body of Atwood’s work for you, and us, to choose from, but to help you out we’ve narrowed it down to five to get you started. ![]() ![]() ![]() This event took place on Monday, March 4, 2019. Beautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the. Weheliye, and Tina Campt joined Saidiya Hartman to discuss this book’s vital contributions. Scholars Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Alexander G. Combining historical analysis and literary imagination, Hartman recovers radical aspirations and resurgent desires. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Hartman narrates the story of this radical transformation of black intimate and social life, crediting young black women with shaping a cultural movement that transformed the urban landscape. They refused to labor like slaves or to accept degrading conditions of work. Longing and desire fueled their experiments in how to live. They cleaved to and cast off lovers, exchanged sex to subsist, and revised the meaning of marriage. Hartman’s book explores the ways young black women created forms of intimacy and kinship indifferent to the dictates of respectability, and outside the bounds of law. A social revolution unfolded in the city. In the early twentieth century, young black women were in open rebellion. Saidiya Hartman’s highly anticipated new book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (Norton, February 2019) wrestles with the question, “What is a free life?” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.-But the age of chivalry is gone.-That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Oh! what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream that, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,-glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. “It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. ![]() |