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Tiger Eyes traces the impact of this event upon his daughter, Davey, Jason, a younger son, and Adam's wife, Gwen. One night while tending the store, he is robbed and shot. Yet little discussion occurs in most families or in school settings that might assist young people in finding ways to cope with such fears.Īdam Wexler operates a 7-Eleven store in Atlantic City. Few young people have sufficient experience to draw upon when a parent, sister, brother, or other close relative dies to be able to cope with the loss, much less find some kind of rational explanation for the fears associated with the continued absence of a loved one in their lives. Tiger Eyes, a novel written in 1981, is no exception.Īlthough many events in an adolescent's life loom large and often appear insurmountable, death is one that can be expected to have a lasting impact. In spite of this, or even perhaps because of this, adolescents find what Blume writes related to a variety of issues in their lives to be meaningful and readable. In fact, her works show up consistently on various lists of most-censored books. No one would ever accuse Judy Blume of shying away from controversial topics. This series is designed to equip parents to confidently address the subject of biblical sexuality with children of all ages. Are we made in our own image according to our own feelings, or are we made in God’s image according to His design? Given the significance of this topic, we did a four-part podcast series on CHRISTIAN PARENT/CRAZY WORLD to dig deeply into what God has to say about sexuality. Our politicians, our celebrities, our educators, our feelings, or God?Īs Christian parents, this is the most relevant cultural issue of our day because the question of sexuality goes to the very core of who we are as human beings. Your kids cannot go into a public restroom these days, turn on the television, go to school, or play high school or collegiate sports without being confronted with the question of sexuality. Ibn Battuta is generally considered one of the greatest travellers of all time.Ħ Near East, Central Asia and Southern AsiaĪ 13th-century book illustration produced in Baghdad by al-Wasiti showing a group of pilgrims on a Hajj.Īll that is known about Ibn Battuta’s life comes from the autobiographical information included in the account of his travels. His journeys included trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China. Over a period of thirty years, Ibn Battuta visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands. He is known for his extensive travels, accounts of which were published in the Rihla (lit. Occupation Islamic scholar, Jurist, Judge, explorer, geographer ( Leave a comment ) Ibn Battuta – the great traveler. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with her taxidermy mouse collection than her own granddaughter. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. This "fiercely written and endlessly readable" novel of a teenage girl in thrall to a magnetic-and terrifying-preacher who promises to save her dying town is "a godsend" ( Entertainment Weekly).ĭrought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. He was a two-time nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is the recipient of the Bradford Washburn Award, presented by the Museum of Science in Boston to an outstanding contributor to science. His numerous awards include the MacArthur Fellows Program award, the Caldecott Medal, won for his book Black and White, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, the Washington Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award, the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, and a Dutch Silver Slate Pencil Award. Time magazine said of his work, "What draws, he draws better than any other pen-and-ink illustrator in the world". Macaulay's books have sold more than two million copies in the United States, been translated into a dozen languages, and been widely praised. He spent his fifth year at RISD in the European Honors Program, studying in Rome, Herculaneum and Pompeii. After graduating from high school in Cumberland, Rhode Island in 1964, he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), from which he received a bachelor's degree in architecture. He began drawing while in the United States. Born in Lancashire, UK, Macaulay moved to Bloomfield, New Jersey at the age of eleven. The historian uncovers, and evokes, the model's.īohemian life in Paris: the cafe's and alleys of Montmartre the painters' studios and salons the squalor, scandal, and feverish creativity. Finally, their destinies become inextricably entangled. Every day she loses herself a little more in the other woman. Every step she takes to undo the erasure of Meurent's life brings her face-to-face with the boundaries of her own. As the pieces of an untold story begin to accumulate, something unforeseen happens to her. Streets of Paris, an American art historian sets out on an inquiry into the life of Victorine Meurent. Was Meurent, as her contemporaries would have had us believe, simply a drunkard, a prostitute? Or was she - whose defiant gaze from Manet's canvas provoked a riot - an accomplished artist in her own right? Through the. In this stylish work of imaginative nonfiction, Eunice Lipton re-creates a provocative figure out of nineteenth-century art history, Victorine Meurent, the mysterious woman who modeled for Manet's most famous paintings, Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'herbe. He examines its many layers of illusion and interprets its linguistic turns and echoes, arguing that the earliest surviving text is an adaptation, perhaps carried out by Shakespeare himself in collaboration with Thomas Middleton. In his introduction Nicholas Brooke relates the play's changing fortunes to changes within society and the theatre and investigates the sources of its enduring appeal. In the theatre, this tragedy remains perennially engrossing. The cruel ironies of their destiny are conveyed in poetry of unsurpassed power. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition.Īs he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. It’s a rotten, fallen world that magician John Constantine lives in, ushered along by his ripely tortured narration (“My mouth is rank – sweat bathes me, like the cold, nicotine condensation on the carriage window”), and sometimes simply by panel after panel depicting British urban misery in Ridgway and Alcala’s scratchy inks. But since I don’t actually want to go sloshing around in the surrounding milieu of stagnating American comics, I just have to take people’s word for it that they were stagnating – which means that it’s hard to completely understand what the Brit Pack reacted against so successfully. I theoretically know plenty, for example, about what the 1980’s British Invasion of Comics achieved, and I’ve consistently enjoyed the associated works. This is, obviously, that you don’t actually appreciate what the game is that they’re coming along and changing. There’s a certain disadvantage to targeted reading of comics (or whatever) that are considered to be gamechangers. Original Sins collects issues 1-9 of Hellblazer, written by Jamie Delano, with art by John Ridgway & Alfredo Alcala. The maps used to carve up the African continent were mostly inaccurate large areas were described as terra incognita. This book is intended as testimony to their fortitude. What has always impressed me over the years is the resilience and humour with which ordinary Africans confront their many adversities. But for the innumerable acts of kindness, of hospitality and of friendship I have received, I am profoundly grateful. To list them here would cover too many pages. Many people on many occasions have given me valued help and assistance. Along the way I have met with much generosity and goodwill. As a research fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and as an independent author, I sought deeper perspectives on modern Africa. As a foreign correspondent based in Africa for fifteen years, my experience was more often related to wars, revolution and upheaval. As a young reporter on the Times of Zambia, I was fortunate enough to witness the surge of energy and enthusiasm that accompanied independence. In many ways, my African journey has continued ever since. In 1964, at the age of twenty-one, I set out from Cairo travelling up the Nile on a journey to central Africa. |