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Jan gehl new city life7/5/2023 ![]() This book is based on the comprehensive and detailed study of city life in Copenhagen over the past four decades, conducted by the Center for Public Space Research at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. New city life with its demands for good city space is a new guise for one of the most important aspects of city culture. Now as before, facilitating the meeting between people is the most important collective function of the city. And for the same reason, modern requirements for good city space quality must be honoured. ![]() In a society where concepts such as democracy, diversity and security are important dimensions, the extended use of city space must be seen as a valuable advance. Now as before city space is the framework for people’s meetings, the society and each other. ![]() For that very reason this is also the story of a transition from a time when the quality of city space did not play much of a role in its use to a new situation in which quality is a crucial parameter.Ĭontemporary experience shows that when quality city space is provided it attracts an extensive and multifaceted city life with many new features that reflect the changes in society. Where city life was once a necessity and taken for granted, today it is an option. New City Life tells the story of the gradual development of industrial society’s essential city life to the elective city life of a leisure and consumer society. ![]()
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Ultraxenopia7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Wynter is taken by the DSD, which is a feared scientific research facility to be a test subject. ![]() ![]() The story kicks off on her twenty-first birthday, when she shows signs that she has an extremely debilitating and rare disease called Ultraxenopia while she is taking her exam. Ultraxenopia is the first book in a trilogy that follows our main character, Wynter. The characters were all distinct and acted their age, but I didn't process their ages until I reread it. I would also like to say that this is new adult as opposed to young adult, not because there are graphic sex scenes (there aren't any), but because the characters in this book and in their twenties and possibly thirties with some (Wynter is 21 while main love interest is like 26). Overall, it was still a really enjoyable and fun read. I also wanted more on the disease, Ultraxenopia, because I find it really fascinating, and I hopefully will get more on it in the second book. I still really enjoy this world and the characters as well as the plot, but there were just a couple of the things with the writing that would briefly take me out of the story, but nothing super major or anything. ![]()
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Crimson Rapture by Jennifer Horsman7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Here are some examples (with a link to the story that inspired it) of what I came up with-some are more fleshed out than others! I also don’t have names for these characters yet… ![]() I’m currently going through the list during my writing time each evening, reading the book description and seeing if it sparks a story idea for me. I got on Goodreads and clicked on my Historical Romance list, sorting it by highest average rating. It seems counter-intuitive and like a really bad idea to look to other authors’ books for story inspiration, but that’s exactly what I decided to do. Since I’ve never really recorded my process of coming up with story ideas (mostly because it’s been a different process each time), I thought I’d record this journey as I take it. ![]() About a week ago, I posted on my Facebook Page about a new series idea that was percolating in my imagination. ![]()
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Diana gabaldon voyager series7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() But I still watched the Season 2 premier! The TV series, though great, falls short in details, and was extremely dark and at times, unbearable to watch. ![]() Gabaldon clearly understands the convoluted pathways of the human heart, and expresses them in all their lovely, ugly glory in the 8-book series. It’s a much more detailed, ornate and intricate story, however, involving British, French and American history, the battle for Scottish independence and the devastation of the Battle of Culloden Moor, a whiff of the supernatural, a hint of sci-fi, and probably one of the most beautiful, complex and mature love stories ever written about in literature. I know I do.įor those few people who might not have heard of either the books or the TV series, the premise is simple: a woman travels through time, meets the love of her life 200 years in the past, and forever alters her past, present, and future. If you’re a book lover, a lover of history, a lover of epic love stories, a lover of time travel, or if you watch STARZ, you’ve probably heard of the Outlander series by this marvelous writer, and hopefully, you also think it’s the shizzle. So I won’t bore you with my gushing adoration for the books of Diana Gabaldon. ![]()
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The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Returning to London, he lived in relative poverty, attempting to work as a journalist, as a publisher's clerk, and as a children's tutor while writing in the evening and going on long rambling walks across London. Machen, however, showed literary promise, publishing in 1881 a long poem "Eleusinia" on the subject of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Family poverty ruled out attendance at university, and Machen was sent to London, where he sat exams to attend medical school but failed to get in. He also is well known for his leading role in creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.Īt the age of eleven, Machen boarded at Hereford Cathedral School, where he received an excellent classical education. His long story The Great God Pan made him famous and controversial in his lifetime, but The Hill of Dreams is generally considered his masterpiece. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. ![]() Arthur Machen was a leading Welsh author of the 1890s. ![]()
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![]() ![]() We spend a day at Nicolas Cage’s Las Vegas home for our cover story, get an acting masterclass from Tilda Swinton, have Ridley Scott waxing lyrical on the power of Joaquin Phoenix, Ang Lee paying tribute to Heath Ledger, Gina Prince-Bythewood hailing the talents of Viola Davis and much, more more. Your votes were counted, totted up, and in the magazine – on sale Thursday 22 December, and available to order online here – we take a deep dive into the resulting list, speaking to the stars themselves, gathering tributes from the directors that worked with them, and much more. And on top of that, you have to have that thing that can’t really be learned, or taught – a charisma, a command of the camera, an energy that enlivens even the most stellar script, and makes audiences flock to the multiplex in their droves.įor Empire’s February 2023 issue, we asked readers to vote for the best actors of all time – the silver-screen stars that always deliver, that have changed the game, and whose distinctive talents can never be replicated. ![]() Plus, you have to be able to take that technical mastery and apply it across multiple genres, from quiet character dramas to epic action-packed blockbusters. For one, you have to be able to act – to really inhabit a character’s deepest emotions, to step into their skin so that the words on the page come across as lived and felt. ![]() Ever since there have been movies, there have been movie stars – and becoming one of the world’s greatest actors involves being able to be many things at once. ![]()
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![]() The story takes an abrupt turn toward a Lifetime movie when Ellie figures out that Sean murdered his brother, who was, in fact, Nina's boyfriend, and that he plans to murder both her and Nina. An unbelievable plot-Ellie's mom doesn't care that her daughter is missing for days, Amanda lets her friend run off with a complete stranger, and Nina has made no effort to contact her family despite the ability to do so with the help of police and the Internet-combined with sloppy writing-makes this one hard to recommend, despite the intriguing premise. ![]() ![]() His brother died a few years ago, and he'd do anything to get him back, so he relates to Ellie, and the next thing they know they're driving from their suburb in Illinois to Nebraska, Colorado, and California, following clues. At a party in town, she meets Sean, a guy from a local prep school who thinks fate brought them together. ![]() By chance, Ellie finds one of Nina's drawings in a donation box at a thrift store, and with the help of her friend Amanda, who works there, she tracks down the guy who donated the box, leading her on a chase all over the country to find her missing sister. ![]() Grade 8 Up-Ellie's beloved, artistic, and wild older sister disappeared two years ago. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() But his most admired production is his Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation. In another class were works on grammar and one on natural phenomena special interest in the vexed question of Easter led him to write about the calendar and chronology. Besides Latin he knew Greek and possibly Hebrew.īede’s theological works were chiefly commentaries, mostly allegorical in method, based with acknowledgment on Jerome, Augustine, Ambrose, Gregory, and others, but bearing his own personality. ![]() He was ordained deacon (691–2) and priest (702–3) of the monastery, where his whole life was spent in devotion, choral singing, study, teaching, discussion, and writing. Now with enhanced navigation »īede “the Venerable,” English theologian and historian, was born in 672 or 673 CE in the territory of the single monastery at Wearmouth and Jarrow. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends the founding mission of James Loeb with an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. ![]()
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Kishore mahbubani new book7/3/2023 ![]() General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said that “China probably poses the greatest threat to our nation by about 2025.” * The summary of America’s 2018 National Defense Strategy claims that China and Russia are “revisionist powers” seeking to “shape a world consistent with their authoritarian model-gaining veto authority over other nations’ economic, diplomatic, and security decisions.” * Christopher Wray, the FBI director, has said, “One of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat, but a whole-of-society threat… and I think it’s going to take a whole-of-society response by us.” * Even George Soros, who spent millions trying to prevent Trump from being elected, has praised Trump on China. Indeed, he has received strong bipartisan support for it, and a strong consensus is developing in the American body politic that China represents a threat to America. The president has divided America on all his policies, except one: his trade and technological war against China. ![]() Although President Donald Trump launched the first round in 2018, it will outlast his administration. ![]() ![]() The geopolitical contest that has broken out between America and China will continue for the next decade or two. ![]()
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Louise's War by Sarah R. Shaber7/3/2023 ![]() I not normally a person who read or listen to this type books but for some reason the title caught my eye and I had to hear it so I got the whole series. I also enjoyed reading about how a lowly file clerk tracks down a murderer. I really enjoyed these little details of life in the time of the Greatest Generation. People of color "knew their place" and gays kept their sexual orientation to themselves. They were also expected to look pretty, fetch coffee and make finding a good husband and raising a family their life's goal. Women like Louise all knew they'd be expected to give up their jobs when the men came back for the war. Sarah Shaber paints a vivid portrait of life during war time-ration books, leg makeup to replace the nylon stockings which were in short supply, listening to the radio for entertainment, not to mention the societal norms of the 1940s. ![]() Knowing that file is the only hope for the survival of Rachel and her family, Louise sets out to find it. ![]() Also, the file on Rachel's husband is missing. She's desperate to help a school friend Rachel Blach whose trapped in occupied France, facing the threat of deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. ![]() ![]() Louise is a widow from Wilmington NC (where I happen to live), working as a file clerk for the OSS in World War II era Washington, D.C. ![]() |