![]() Readers will learn how Isis later became disguised as a Black Madonna, a historical Queen of Egypt, and even as an Alchemical Principle-as well as how Her true identity as a Goddess was retained in the inner teachings of secret societies. In the first part of the book, readers discover the many faces of Isis, from Ancient Bird of Prey Goddess and Lady of Magic to Queen of the Mysteries and Savior. Isis Magic begins with a well-researched and in-depth history of the nature and worship of Isis from Her ancient Egyptian origins to the modern day. ![]() Today, as in ancient times, Isis, known as the Goddess of Ten Thousand Names, can become for Her devotees the One Goddess Who is All Goddesses. Isis Magic: Cultivating a Relationship with the Goddess of 10,000 Names enables the many women and men who are today exploring Goddess spirituality to build a relationship with the Divine Feminine by focusing their exploration through the worship of one of the most well-known and well-loved Goddesses of all time: the Egyptian Isis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The deep ocean around Antarctica is a special place for several reasons. And while we didn’t face anything like the physical hardships endured by early polar explorers on land, those dives did give us the opportunity for some unique science. Thanks to the crew of the research ship Alucia, we dived in minisubmarines to 1km deep in the Antarctic for the first time. So I jumped at the chance to join a team from the BBC on an expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula for Blue Planet II, to help them as a scientific guide. Fast-forward more than a century – and the deep ocean floor around Antarctica still offers a “white space”, beyond the reach of scuba divers, only partially mapped in detail by sonar from ships and seldom surveyed by robotic vehicles. ![]() “It has always been our ambition to get inside that white space, and now we are there the space can no longer be blank,” wrote the polar explorer Captain Scott, on crossing the 80th parallel of the Antarctic continent for the first time in 1902. ![]() ![]() ![]() What could Lori Nelson Spielman have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? I can't think of anyone I'd less like to know than the main character, Brett. The narrator's tone was off putting and whiny, the plot was unbelievable. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? As Brett struggles to complete her abandoned life list, one thing becomes clear: sometimes life’s sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places. For each goal attempted, her mother has left behind a bittersweet letter, offering words of wisdom, warmth, and - just when Brett needs it - tough love. How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other dreams (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future. Grief-stricken, Brett can barely make sense of her mother’s decision. Rather than simply naming her daughter the new CEO of Bohlinger Cosmetics, Elizabeth’s will comes with one big stipulation: Brett must fulfill the list of childhood dreams she made so long ago. ![]() But when her beloved mother, Elizabeth, passes away, Brett’s world is turned upside down. ![]() In fact, at 34, Brett seems to have it all - a plum job at her family’s multimillion-dollar company and a spacious loft with her irresistibly handsome boyfriend. Brett Bohlinger has forgotten all about the list of life goals she’d written as a naïve teenager. ![]() ![]() ![]() He had the distinct honor of working with Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen as a contributor of short fiction writing. His comic strip Tuffy, about a little girl who did funny things, was declared essential for national morale during WWII by William Randolph Hearst. He had his own TV show (Tales of Hoff on CBS), traveled the world as Whether you’re seven or seventy, the chances are you’ve probably come in contact with one of his many books (150 plus), or cartoons that have appeared in over 200 magazines in the course of his lifetime, including Laugh it Off which was syndicated for 20 years. He was awarded national advertising commissions for large companies such as Chevrolet, Maxwell House Coffee and others. ![]() Whether you’re seven or seventy, the chances are you’ve probably come in contact with one of his many books (150 plus), or cartoons that have appeared in over 200 magazines in the course of his lifetime, including Laugh it Off which was syndicated for 20 years. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the only child of Obed Ramotswe, a man who worked long years in the mines in South Africa, until one day he witnessed a crime, and knew he had to leave the mines. She is in Gaborone the capital of Botswana, a place of which she is proud. ![]() She has a secretary, and she has clients. Mma Ramotswe sits in her office, the Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency. The series did not catch on in England until the fifth novel in the series, evidence of a cultural difference between the two countries. ![]() After two more novels in the series were published, all three were published in the US to much acclaim in 2002, for example, Publishers Weekly called it a "little gem of a book". The novel was first published in Scotland, where it gained a following. She solves three cases, and meets important new people, her secretary Grace Makutsi and good friend, the excellent mechanic, Mr JLB Matekoni. When her father dies, she moves from Mochudi to Gaborone, the capital city, to begin her detective agency. Precious tells her own story, from birth, and her father tells his story. She hires a secretary and solves cases for her clients. The novel introduces the Motswana Mma Precious Ramotswe, who begins the first detective agency in Botswana, in the capital city Gaborone, after her beloved father dies. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first detective novel in the eponymous series by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, first published in 1998. ![]() ![]() ![]() Human beings struggle to achieve beautiful things that they lack in life, and in so doing they obtain happiness. Since love is always in want and seeks to achieve beautiful things, it has compelled human beings to strive for beautiful things. ![]() Therefore, Diotima views love as a continuum of beautiful and ugly things that human beings desire to achieve and attain happiness. According to Rouse, Diotima views love as one of the spirits that mediate between human beings and gods, and mortal and immortal things (98).ĭiotima argues that love is the offspring of gods of Plenty and Poverty and that is why he (love) desires beautiful things for his father is Plenty, and he dwells in want because his mother is Poverty. However, Diotima disputed this view because gods own both beautiful and ugly things. ![]() Therefore, Socrates presumed that love is a god of beautiful and marvelous things only. In their view, love does not desire emptiness or ugly things because it has to adore something or beautiful things. ![]() In their dialogue, they asserted that love desires and is always in want of beautiful and praiseworthy things for it triumphs in happiness and wanes in sadness. Ultimately, they agreed that love must have an object and that the object must be in short supply and beautiful, or amusing. Socrates and Agathon were in deep dialogue trying to define love. ![]() ![]() Plus the story line was so easy to devour. This New Adult story was beyond sexy and the characters were so easy to click with. He’s the king of the ice, and I’m just… no one.īoyfriend Bargain was an emotional read that was filled with fabulous angst, friendship, forgiveness and love. ![]() Will this hockey star score his forever girl, or will this boyfriend bargain end in heartbreak? Too bad she can’t trust a player with a reputation for breaking hearts. The only rule in her boyfriend bargain: no falling in love.īut after one (um, two) smoking-hot hookups, he’s done with pretending and vows to make their fake relationship real. Zack Morgan is the king of the ice and the bedroom, but nothing prepares him for the mystery girl who shows up everywhere he does-frat parties, his favorite bar, and finally his front door with an offer he can’t refuse. ![]() Her mission? Get on this hockey player’s radar any way possible. Wanted: one hot guy with rock-hard abs and a big stick.īroke and desperate, Sugar Ryan has no use for arrogant, bad-boy athletes…until she’s forced to bargain with the cockiest of them all. ![]() Boyfriend Bargain ( Hawthorne University #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() W e should not judge women while ans wering this question, but rather find out what is going on in the organization of art (Nochlin and Linda 54). A keen reader will realize that the author points out some important issues regarding the problems that women face in the modern society by providing a standard discussion of other issues that women face socially. Linda Nochlin drives most of her argument through the appeal of emotions that provide a historical investigation. The author begins the article by an illustration of the facts about her will to take her feminist stance differently from the recent feminist activities. Throughout my entire reading of the essa y, it is clear that the article focuses on the history of the feminist art and the theory of the feminist art. The article "why have there been no great female artists?” was written by an American art historian famously known as Linda Nochlin. ![]() ![]() ![]() She knows something is wrong here, but grows too fond of sweet little Tiffany (played by twins Anniston and Price) to kick the travelers out. (Though it appears to have been shot entirely in Georgia, the film finds atmospheric stand-in locations for swampy Louisiana and sunny Texas spots.) Raquel says the girl has never seen the ocean, so that’s where they hole up - in separate rooms, though that hardly quashes the suspicions of the hotel’s manager Nance (C.K. While Roy’s waiting in the car, he hears a gunshot.Ī road movie where most of the story centers on one place, Galveston settles into a cheap motel in that coastal town. Someone owes her money, she says, but what she emerges from the pit stop with is a trash bag full of clothes and a 3-year-old girl. As they drive west from Louisiana, she gets him to make a pit stop in dinky Spring, Texas, for an errand. Raquel breaks that deal pretty quickly, but Roy won’t know for a while. “Be straight with me and I’ll be straight with you.” “Cut the baby-talk shit,” he says at one point. Fanning persuasively plays someone who has learned to ingratiate herself with men, but her reflexes don’t work here. ![]() ![]() Thinking she needs to secure her position, she offers herself a couple of times, testing his patience. Taciturn Roy is not looking to make friends (he’s been told he is dying, though he keeps that to himself), and the 40 year-old has no prurient interest in his 19-year-old passenger. ![]() ![]() Signed by Allen Williams, the Artist Gift edition is limited to 1000 copies and features a dust jacket with wrap-around artwork. The novel and Richard Matheson are often credited for creating the zombie-vampire genre. ![]() In 2012, the Horror Writers Association gave I Am Legend the special Vampire Novel of the Century Award. Robert must hunt by day, hide by night, and most importantly, survive. I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville, who appears to be the sole survivor of a pandemic that has turned the human race into a crossbreed of zombies and vampires. Originally published in 1954, Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend ushered in a different kind of novel, defying and transcending genre to combine elements of horror and science fiction within a post-apocalyptic frame. This quote from mystery writer William Campbell Gault graced the first edition cover of what would become one of the most influential and adapted works of the 20th century. ![]() “This may be the most terrifying novel you will ever read.” Limit 1 Per Customer/Household Per Edition Type ![]() |