Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections: Literature, Culture, and Food Among the Early Moderns
We didn’t always eat the way we do today. It was only at the advent of the early modern period that people stopped eating with their hands from trenchers of bread and started using forks and plates, that lords stopped inviting scores of neighbors to dine together in great halls and instead ate separately in private rooms, and that Europeans started worrying about dining à la mode. Aguecheek’s Beef, Belch’s Hiccup looks at our basic staple of daily existence from an entirely fresh perspective that will appeal to anyone interested in early modern literature or the history of food.
Giovanni's Light: The Story of a Town Where Time Stopped for Christmas
Added by: badaboom | Karma: 5364.29 | Fiction literature | 30 November 2011
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Giovanni's Light: The Story of a Town Where Time Stopped for Christmas
A pre-Christmas blizzard alters the emotional and physical landscape of the idyllic village of Ryland Falls in this well-crafted holiday parable. Theroux (Serefina Under the Circumstances) introduces characters at a sprightly pace throughout the brief book, but there are three central figures: Giovanni, a mountain recluse who ventures into town once a year to sell Christmas trees; a frustrated part-time art teacher named Will Campbell; and plucky 11-year-old Miranda Bridgeman, who wants to be a writer.
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil foresees the dawning of a new civilization where we will be able to transcend our biological limitations and amplify our creativity, combining our biological skills with the vastly greater capacity, speed and knowledge-sharing abilities of our creations. In practical terms, human ageing and illness will be reversed; pollution will be stopped and world hunger and poverty will be solved. There will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11524.33 | Fiction literature | 10 November 2010
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Wrath of the Lion
Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack Higgins A rogue U--boat is patrolling the Atlantic coast, its fanatical crew ready to slaughter for a self--proclaimed dream of France. In the long dark years of the Cold War, not every battle merited centre stage. Many threats to Europe were imagined, but this one is very real. L'Alouette has to be stopped, eliminated before all out war prevails once again. Only one man can stop the threat, and the prospect of peace in Europe rests in his hands. They call him 'the Butcher of Perak!'
.........It's not surprising, then, that discussions about academic cheating are typically characterized by condemnations of the students in question, attempts to ascertain what features of their personalities or backgrounds led them to break the rules, and ideas for deterring (or catching) them. The condemnation may not be explicit, particularly in essays written by researchers, but if the point is to figure out what's wrong with these young people and how they can be stopped, then the structural issues that could help us make sense of why cheating takes place are still being neglected.
