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Damen doesn't want this because he is afraid of losing his youthful beauty and everlasting life. It turns out the antidote for immortality is to become mortal again. It turns out that by fulfilling their destiny, they will be provided with their true immortality, the antidote they've been looking for all along. She understands deep down that this won't be able to fix her and Damen's problems so she returns it all and asks to complete her life journey instead. Lotus gives Ever a wish that she uses to find out the necessary ingredients for the antidote. Lotus explains that the the Tree of Life is a giving force that has lost all of it's fruit. Suddenly, Damen who was once in agreement for Ever to complete her journey, can't understand why she feels she needs to do this and again insists Lotus is crazy. Lotus appears again and explains that Ever now needs to complete her journey by finding the Tree of Life. Though Afi agrees to marry him, someone stands in for Eli as he is unable to attend his own wedding. Just before the wedding, Afi learns of this other woman and the child that Eli has with her. It seems a win-win for both families: Afi will live in luxury and pursue her dreams of becoming a fashion designer, while Eli’s family hopes that he will finally terminate his long-term relationship with a woman they don’t approve of. Afi is provided with an opportunity that seems almost too good to be true: to marry a young man, Elikem (Eli for short), from a prominent family. Set in a small town in present-day Ghana, “His Only Wife” follows Afi, a young seamstress who lives in poverty with her mother in her uncle’s house with his several wives and children. Written in first-person narrative, readers are introduced to protagonist Afi Tekple and follow her journey from a young girl to a young wife. This is how the 2020 debut novel of Peace Adzo Medie starts off. Imagine getting married, but your fiancé can’t make the wedding because of prior business arrangements. “Elikem married me in absentia he did not come to our wedding.” It shows that even the Old Testament stories pointed to a Rescuer, and it is a complete celebration of the holiday season, which doesn’t end on Christmas morning with Jesus’s birth. This picture book not only highlights the significance of the Nativity and reaffirms the spiritual meaning of God’s most precious gift, it does what few other Christmas or Advent books do.
These new luxury conglomerates-principally Kering, which owns Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga, Brioni, and Gucci Richemont, which owns Dunhill, Cartier, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Montblanc, and Van Cleef & Arpels, and LVMH, which owns Bulgari, Dior, DKNY, Fendi, Givenchy, Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Thomas Pink, as well as De Beers, TAG Heuer, and Sephora-have achieved success with fashion shows, provocative commercials, dressing celebrities for red carpet events, and through licensing, franchising, outlet malls, and online retailing.Īccording to Thomas, this trend has led to inferior quality, rampant outsourcing to developing nations, and a massive surge in both counterfeiting and the illicit activities it funds. The book examines the corporate consolidation of small family-run luxury businesses into luxury goods holding companies, and their process of "democratizing" luxury by making it available for sale to the masses in the forms of handbags, clothing, and accessories. Book by Dana Thomas Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Lusterĭeluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster is a 2007 book by Paris-based American journalist Dana Thomas. The scribe is killed, the young girl kidnapped, and from there the story opens into a world that might well have come from the Tales of a Thousand and One Nights, if, that is, industrial machinery and the teeming ports of the Arabian peninsula are introduced into the backdrop. “When God created the letters,” Thompson writes, “He kept their secrets for Himself”-though he shared them with Adam while keeping them from the angels, a source of considerable friction in the Muslim heaven. As Thompson’s long, carefully drawn narrative opens, we are in a time that seems faraway, even mythical: A 9-year-old girl is married off to a scribe who introduces her not just to sex but also to the mysteries of Arabic letters, which seem to take life on the page. Slavery exists in the modern world as much as in the ancient. Thompson ( Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, 2006, etc.) returns after a five-year absence with a graphic novel that is sure to attract attention-and perhaps even controversy. The Confederate flag is a signpost of voter suppression to this day. White supremacists at the time did not need to appropriate the symbol it already belonged to them.” “Look no further than Charleston in 1875, where armed members of the Carolina Rifle Club of Charleston marched through town behind a Confederate flag in an effort to intimidate black voters as part of a statewide white-supremacist campaign that included voter intimidation, ballot box stuffing and terrorism. In this opinion piece, Domby, the author of The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory , traces an unbroken line of white supremacy from the Civil War to today: It first appeared atop the South Carolina State House in 1962 in part to protest civil rights and integration, and it’s been the source of pain and controversy in the state ever since. Rewrite” and is offered in Heritage Auctions’ upcoming Historical Manuscripts Signature Auction on April 3, 2014. It is twenty-four pages long with the heading, “2 nd chapter. No doubt, Roots is an important work.Īn early typed manuscript of chapter 2 of Roots has recently surfaced. TV program), especially as it won a slew of awards and changed television and America. In fact, most of the nation noticed the controversial and racially-charged miniseries (the final episode of the miniseries is the third highest-rated U.S. Haley a Pulitzer Prize in 1977.īut I do remember bits of the Roots miniseries that aired on ABC in 1977-it formed some of my earliest television memories, along with Captain Kangaroo. I also didn’t notice when the book earned Mr. I was far too young in 1976 to notice as the book sold almost 2 million copies within eight months of its publication and spent 22 weeks atop the New York Times best seller list (it was non-fiction). Michael Eric Dyson summed it up well in the 2006 introduction to the 30th Anniversary Edition of Roots: “Haley’s monumental achievement helped convince the nation that the black story is the American story.” If you know anything about American history, you know that was no small achievement. It has been 38 years since Alex Haley published Roots in 1976. Historical, Rare Books - Icon Spotlight by Heritage Editorial If your style isnt in the list, you can start a free trial to access over 20 additional styles from the Perlego eReader. The book's title is a quotation from Rudyard Kipling's 1890 poem " Gunga Din", and is ironic since Fraser certainly was not "quartered safe out here", while serving in Burma during one of the final campaigns of the war. Citation styles for Quartered Safe Out Here How to cite Quartered Safe Out Here for your reference list or bibliography: select your referencing style from the list below and hit copy to generate a citation. Fraser's book has also been praised by the English author Melvyn Bragg and the American playwright David Mamet. The military historian Sir John Keegan wrote: "There is no doubt that it is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War." Keegan gives similar praise to Norman Lewis' Naples '44 memoir, later produced as a movie. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the wars final year, and he offers a first-hand glimp. This included his participation in the Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay and the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations. George MacDonald Fraser beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. It describes in graphic and memorable detail Fraser's experiences as a 19-year-old private in The Border Regiment, fighting with the British 14th Army against the Imperial Japanese Army, during the latter stages of the Burma Campaign in late 19. Quartered Safe Out Here was first published in 1993. Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma is a military memoir of World War II by George MacDonald Fraser, the author of The Flashman Papers series of novels. Issuing an invitation to participate fully in feminist movement and to benefit fully from it, hooks shows that feminism-far from being an outdated concept or one limited to an intellectual elite–is indeed for everybody.īell hooks is the author of numerous critically acclaimed books on the politics of race, gender, class, and culture. Hooks speaks to all those in search of true liberation, asking readers to take look at feminism in a new light, to see that it touches all lives. In language both eye-opening and optimistic, hooks encourages us to demand alternatives to patriarchal, racist, and homophobic culture, and to imagine a different future. With her customary insight and unsparing honesty, hooks calls for a feminism free from divisive barriers but rich with rigorous debate. Hooks applies her critical analysis to the most contentious and challenging issues facing feminists today, including reproductive rights, violence, race, class, and work. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice. Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by critic, academic, and writer bell hooks is described by the author as a primer, a handbook, even a dream come. In this engaging and provocative volume, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and the wisdom of experience. A genuine feminist politics always brings us from bondage to freedom, from lovelessness to loving….There can be no love without justice.-from the chapter “To Love Again: The Heart of Feminism” |