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(One post was from Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey, who called it “a photo I love.”) The image got writeups in Time and the Washington Post and provided fodder for a cold-open skit on “Saturday Night Live.” The photographer, Johnny Nguyen, said that his picture “spread the message of coming together despite our differences.” Brian Williams, then an NBC News anchor, told viewers, “What the world needs now might just be what we see in this photo.” The Christian Science Monitor decreed the appropriate “emotional reaction to the photo” as “inevitably, a tear-stained smile, unless one’s heart is a rock.” In November, 2014, after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, declined to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the killing of an unarmed Black teen-ager, Michael Brown, a photograph from one of many demonstrations that followed nationwide, in Portland, Oregon, was shared hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”-the fastest liner then in service-and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. Dead Wake The Last Crossing of the Lusitaniaįrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania ![]() ![]() ![]() Whether it be true or not, as Buckle said, that the 'Wealth of Nations' was, 'in its ultimate results, probably the most important that had ever been written'. ![]() "The book succeeded at once, and the first edition was exhausted in six months. Adam Smith (1723-1790) spent ten years in the writing and perfecting of The Wealth of Nations. EIGHTH EDITION, which reprints the introductions to the third and fourth editions. Provenance: The Chisholm (bookplate to front pastedown of each vol.) Peter Harrington bookseller (label loosely inserted). Internally clean with very light even browning and occasional very minor spotting. Bound in contemporary full sheep, smooth spines with gilt-lettered red morocco labels, green circular morocco numbering pieces, gilt bands (spines and extremities slightly rubbed, minor repair to spine ends and hinges, corners somewhat bumped). , x, 499, vi, 518, vii, 465, pp., including half-title to each volume, appendix to vol. ![]() ![]() Bursting with detail, filled with subversive readings of such seasonal classics as "A Visit from St. Nicholas to the Christmas tree and, perhaps most radically, the practice of giving gifts to children. ![]() ![]() In this intriguing and innovative work of social history, Stephen Nissenbaum rediscovers Christmas's carnival origins and shows how it was transformed, during the nineteenth century, into a festival of domesticity and consumerism.ĭrawing on a wealth of period documents and illustrations, Nissenbaum charts the invention of our current Yuletide traditions, from St. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. 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Boorman is the son of German costume designer Christel Kruse and film director Sir John Boorman. A motorbike enthusiast, Boorman has made three long-distance motorcycle rides with his friend Ewan McGregor, documented in Long Way Round (2004), Long Way Down (2007), and Long Way Up (2020).īorn in Wimbledon, London, Boorman spent much of his formative years in County Wicklow, Ireland. Charley Boorman (born 23 August 1966) is a British TV presenter, travel writer and actor. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time the men and women of an extraordinary cast of characters find themselves at a crossroad of new ideas- about medicine, commerce, architecture, and justice. The cathedral and the priory are again at the center of a web of love and hate, greed and pride, ambition and revenge, but this sequel stands on its own. World Without End takes place in the same town of Kingsbridge, two centuries after the townspeople finished building the exquisite Gothic cathedral that was at the heart of The Pillars of the Earth. Critics were overwhelmed-“it will hold you, fascinate you, surround you” (Chicago Tribune)-and readers everywhere hoped for a sequel. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. ![]() ![]() ![]() Friday Brown was also an Honour Book, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2013. And she can't seem to find answers to all the new questions: Why is the monster dog Gargoyle hidden in the back shed? Why is the boy she sent Valentines to for years now suddenly a creep? And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night? Vikki Wakefield's first young adult novel, All I Ever Wanted, won the 2012 Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, as did her second novel, Friday Brown, in 2014. Does this make her a drug runner? She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them. Her two older brothers are in prison, so now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother. ![]() Anywhere but home-in a dead suburb and with a mother who won't get off the couch. Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go. ![]() ![]() Rule number one: I will not turn out like my mother. In the end, the same things look entirely different. Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. Winner of the Adelaide Festival Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, 2012. 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Originally published in 1903, this classic novel has captured the hearts of readers for over a century with its thrilling adventure, vivid descriptions of nature, and themes of survival and self-discovery.įrom the moment Buck is stolen from his comfortable life in California and sold into the brutal world of dog sleds and gold prospecting, the reader is taken on a heart-pounding journey through the Yukon wilderness. Experience the raw and powerful story of a dog named Buck as he navigates the harsh and unforgiving terrain of the Alaskan wilderness in The Call of the Wild by Jack London. ![]() |