![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor provides a frank portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJ's Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1963, Vietnam and Selma. PILLAR OF FIRE covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963-1965, including Dallas, St. Beginning where PARTING THE WATERS left off with the death of JFK, PILLAR OF FIRE recounts the rise of the movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience. In the second volume of the three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with PARTING THE WATERS, winner of the Pulitzer Prize Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So when she meets Ollie and Quentin, two mysterious brothers, the three join together to plot their great escape! Anastasia soon begins to suspect that her aunties are not who they say they are. Agony’s Asylum for the Criminally Insane.īut something strange is going on at the asylum. And UNTIL she’s taken to their delightful and, er, “authentic” Victorian home, St. UNTIL she’s rescued by two long-lost great-aunties. That is, UNTIL her parents die in a tragic vacuum-cleaner accident. Join the League.Īnastasia is a completely average almost-eleven-year-old. ![]() A creepy Victorian house, secretive aunties, and a great escape combine in this debut that is part Mysterious Benedict Society, part Roald Dahl, and all quirky, smart, hilarious storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() Retractable Fall Arrest Inertia Reel Self Retracting Lifeline to EN360.Small Personal Fall Limiter Fall Arrest Inertia Reel Blocks.Fall Arrest, Restraint and Positioning Lanyards.Work Positioning & Restraint Belts EN358.Work Positioning Harnesses EN361 & EN358.Fall Arrest and Height Safety Harnesses.Mechanical Lifting Jacks (Not Hydraulic).Hydraulic Lifting Jacks - Toe Jacks and Bottle Jacks, Handle operated.General Garage / Workshop Tools, Accessory Kits and Handling Tools.Entertainment Industry Lifting Products.Other Forklift Truck & Telehandler Attachments.Snow Plough Fork Lift Truck Attachments.Fork Lift Truck Mounted Drum Handling Attachments.Environment & Waste Handling Attachments.Genie and Counterbalance Materials Lifters.Stacker Trucks, Materials Lifts, Manual and Electric.Hand Operated Pallet Trucks, Pump Trucks.Portable Shop-Floor/Workshop/Garage Cranes.Portable/Mobile Free-standing Swing Jib Cranes.Swing Jib Cranes - Installed Floor & Wall Cranes.Lifting & Rigging Swivels - Eye, Hook & Shackle.Snatch Blocks, Sheave Blocks and Crane Pulley Blocks.Runway Beam Monorail Crane Trolleys, Push, Geared & Electric.Lifting Magnets, Permanent, Battery Electric and Manual. ![]() Cable Pullers / Hoists, Wire Rope Manual Operation.Pneumatic Wire Rope Winch / Hoists (Lifting and Pulling).Electric Winches and Hoists, AC (Mains Powered).Hand Operated Wire Rope Winches and Hoists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It used to be that successful shows were padded until they lost their way, like Lost. What makes The Handmaid’s Tale so interesting at the moment is that certainty lies amidst the chaos.Īlthough streaming is looking more and more like old-school TV, one of the most convenient things about the format is that creators aren’t as beholden to the whims of the audience as they were in the past. That’s because The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s 2019 follow-up to the source book, has already been announced for adaptation. I’ve approached it with an intense curiosity, knowing that only one season is left - one season that will be as much a prologue as a conclusion. ![]() Season 5 of The Handmaid’s Tale has been fascinating. This article contains spoilers for The Testaments and The Handmaid’s Tale season 5, as well as potential spoilers for season 6. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cross-cultural and geopolitical journey from slavery to freedom and heathenism to Christianity.īefore Chapter 1, Equiano writes: "An invidious falsehood having appeared in the Oracle of the 25th, and the Star of the 27th of April 1792, with a view, to hurt my character, and to discredit and prevent the sale of my Narrative." Like many literary works written by black people during this time, Equiano's work was discredited as a false presentation of his slavery experience.The African slave's voyage from Africa ( Igbo Land) to the Americas and England. ![]() The book describes Equiano's time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter. The narrative is argued to represent a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel narrative, and spiritual narrative. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() Clear and Pres ent Danger is, in short, the author's best work since The Hunt for Red October. His characters are nicely drawn-particularly a Cuban intelligence officer who has ''gone private'' and now works for the drug lords-and his conclusion is unusual and provocative. Clear and Present Danger is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Phillip Noyce and based on Tom Clancys 1989 novel of the same name. ![]() Contact seller Seller Rating: First Edition Used - Hardcover Condition: Good US 1.95 Convert currency US 3.99 Shipping Within U.S.A. ![]() Clancy's scenario is plausible and its development compelling. Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy Published by Putnam, 1989 ISBN 13: 0048228134404 Seller: The Maryland Book Bank, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A. As the project unravels, Clancy's protagonist Jack Ryan tries to avert a total debacle and to rescue the men who have been hung out to dry. Superior even to his descriptions of tools and techniques, however, is Clancy's analysis of the legal and moral problems of operating in a twilight zone, where the rules are ambiguous and an open society makes secrecy impossible. The CIA take on Colombian drug lords in Tom Clancys fifth No 1 bestseller now reissued with a new cover. The response is a complex and covert military campaign against the ''Colombian Cartel.'' Clancy presents the technology of special operations and the details of light infantry warfare with his usual facility. A president decides that drug smuggling has become a ''clear and present danger'' to national security. In his fifth novel, the dean of techno-thrillers demonstrates once again his mastery of the genre. ![]() ![]() Lem takes a few of the listed elements and makes fun of the incapability of humankind to use this unique possibility to push cultural and technological evolution. I am just doing it, but please don´t judge, I am not normal. And rereading feels like, yuck, extra overachiever work. The focus is on the philosophical implications, not much action in this one, but the complex mind games Lem is playing with the reader inspire too many hobby meta thoughts, so that it might be always wise to take notes while reading Lem, because one can´t get this stuff immediately. ![]() In general, what tribal stone age people would to with quantum teleportation, and why they have to hilariously fail trying. Getting no or the wrong, unexpected answer. There are different options on how to deal with this thing, difficult to talk about it, without spoilering, so I will just list a few possibilities:īuilding something good or bad with the help of the information.ĭestroying oneself with the things built.Ĭollapsing or starting a nuclear WW3 because of the ideological and political consequences. ![]() ![]() Theories about aliens and possible future implications of contacts with them enable Lem to imply and satirize everything out of ridiculous human culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan Goldsmith composed the score for the film. Shot on a $5 million budget, the project was financed by multiple funding companies, including Telefilm Canada, the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund, and CBC Films. With a cast composed of Alison Pill, Sarah Gadon, Amybeth McNulty, Mare Winningham, Donal Logue, and Aly Mawji, filming wrapped that same month on December 16. In December 2020, All My Puny Sorrows began filming in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in North Bay, Ontario. Sarah Gadon as Elfrieda "Elf" Von Riesen.Alison Pill as Yolandi "Yoli" Von Riesen.It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2021, and was released in theaters in Canada on April 15, 2022. Amybeth McNulty, Mare Winningham, Donal Logue, and Aly Mawji also star in supporting roles, with Mongrel Media set to distribute the film. It stars Alison Pill and Sarah Gadon as two Mennonite sisters who leave their religious lives behind. All My Puny Sorrows is a 2021 Canadian drama film written, produced, and directed by Michael McGowan serving as an adaptation of the 2014 novel of the same name by Miriam Toews. ![]() ![]()
![]() Earlier phases of the pulp-fiction industry-in actuality heavy with women-oriented melodramas-are remembered now for their male-dominated output. ![]() For one, the current breed’s mash-up of action, steam-heated eroticism, and the fight for agency is specifically target-marketed for female readers. But all those hungry zombies, vengeful angels, vampire lovers, scrappy postapocalyptic teens, and fairy princess-warriors with wicked blades and toned physiques bear little resemblance to pulp fiction as once defined. Any scan of the bestseller lists shows a national book culture awash in pulp. ![]() |