He lives outside New York City with his wife and children. He is also the writer-presenter of historical and art-historical documentaries for BBC Television. He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt’s Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. ‘Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events’ ‘Dazzling – beyond praise – He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book’ ‘The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution’ Â Â Eugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review ‘Monumental … provocative and stylish, Simon Schama’s account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist’ One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama’s Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced. : Simon Schama : Alfred a Knopf : A Chronicle of the French Revolution : 1989-3 : 948 : USD 40.00 : Hardcover ISBN: 9780394559483.
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There was no predicting where Jeffrey Eugenides would go after his first two novels, so different were they in tone and form. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Fathoms by rebecca giggsFathoms was additionally shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize - Australia's most notable literary award for writing by women and non-binary authors - and, in the UK, the book was distinguished as 'Highly Commended' in the shortlist for the 2021 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. In Australia, Fathoms won the 2020 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Prize for Literature, the Royal Zoological Society's Whitley Award for Popular Zoology, and the Western Australian Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer. The book also listed as a finalist in the Kirkus Prize and the PEN/E.O. In the US Fathoms was awarded the prestigious 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Her first book is Fathoms: The World in the Whale. 5/27/2023 0 Comments Another Shore by George HitchcockAfter college, he worked as a journalist for several labor movement periodicals, including The Western Worker and The People’s Daily World, simultaneously developing an interest in poetry which was fostered by Kenneth Rexroth. Hitchcock was born in Hood River, Oregon, graduating in 1935 from the University of Oregon, where he was a reporter on the school newspaper. Merwin, and early books by Robert Bly and James Tate. Equally important, Hitchcock published writers under the "Kayak" imprint including the first two books by Charles Simic, second books by Philip Levine and Raymond Carver, translations by W.S. He is best known for creating Kayak, a poetry magazine that he published as a one-man operation from 1964 to 1984. George Parks Hitchcock (J– August 27, 2010) was an American actor, poet, playwright, teacher, labor activist, publisher, and painter. 5/27/2023 0 Comments The wave susanCasey follows this unique tribe of people as they seek to conquer the holy grail of their sport, a 100foot wave. The pioneer of extreme surfing is the legendary Laird Hamilton, who, with a group of friends in Hawaii, figured out how to board suicidally large waves of 70 and 80 feet. These are extreme surfers who fly around the world trying to ride the ocean’s most destructive monsters. They found their proof in February 2000, when a British research vessel was trapped in a vortex of impossibly mammoth waves in the North Sea - including several that approached 100 feet.Īs scientists scramble to understand this phenomenon, others view the giant waves as the ultimate challenge. 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The oldest stone lamps that were excavated are known to be from the Baekje Kingdom (18 B.C. These stone lamps are protected as part of national treasures, together with bronze bells, religious statues, and stone pagodas adorning Buddhist temples, gardens, and royal tumuli throughout Korea. They were lit with candle light during the religious rituals of spiritual enlightenment for centuries in Korea. The stone lamps (or lanterns) are part of the ancient Buddhist and cultural relics existing to this day in Korea. The poem and photos by © Therese Young Kim December 2021 (My utmost gratitude to Angelica Schlieff, Editor of Soundings East, Salem State University, USA, for publishing the above poem, Spring 2020.)Ī bouquet of roses to you for glorious holidays and happy and healthy 2022!! The sun throws an angel’s halo over his golden mane he cannot see,nor does he know how glorious he looked in the window he just left. Only to turn away to a destination long forgotten. Midway through,he peers into the window of the hotel looking for someone he used to know behind his beards Outside in the pink morning hue people stream down the sidewalk alongside the rush-hour traffic.Ī homeless man weaves through the crowd dragging a rickety old cart heaped with possessions hollow, wheels rolling astray. In the lobby of a Midtown hotel the morning starts with fragrances of hair spray and Eau-de-Cologne,Ī potful of forget-me-nots and narcissus behind a picture window elbowing for attention from passersby. |