![]() ![]() * History Revealed * Olusoga's account challenges narrow visions of Britain's past. Rich in detail and packed with strong personalities, this is an important contribution to our understanding of life in the UK. * Herald Scotland * An insightful, inclusive history of black people in Britain. Arifa Akbar * Guardian * A thrilling tale of excavation - Colin Grant * Guardian * Lucid and accessible. Kwasi Kwarteng * The Sunday Times * A radical reappraisal of the parameters of history, exposing lacunae in the nation's version of its past. ![]() It is thoroughly researched and there are many interesting anecdotes. Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion. * Observer * comprehensive and important history of black Britain. David Olusoga, in keeping with the high standards of his earlier books, is a superb guide. ![]() You could not ask for a more judicious, comprehensive and highly readable survey of a part of British history that has been so long overlooked or denied. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They have conducted research based on their conceptualization of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis in the hopes of finding empirical evidence to support it. ![]() ![]() Scholars in a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology, have disagreed about the role of language in thinking and how Sapir and Whorf intended to conceptualize that relationship. Consequently, because of its lack of specificity, the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis has been a controversial idea since its inception in the 1920s and 1930s. However, neither theorist specified exactly the relationship between language and thought that is, whether he believed that language determines thinking or just influences it. Scholars also interpret the hypothesis as standing for the proposition that differences in the structure of languages produce differences in how people think (linguistic determinism). Sapir and Whorf posited that the particular language we speak influences the way we see reality because categories and distinctions encoded in one language are not always available in another language (linguistic relativity). Edward Sapir (1884-1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941) developed the idea known as the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. ![]() ![]() And while I didn’t read as much as I would have liked, I did read some fantastic books this month. By doing these few things, I was able to keep on reading without pushing myself too much. So I re-read a few books and read some books that had been on my tbr for a while. ![]() Which lead to a not great reading month for me. And even after I still wasn’t able to concentrate that much. But then at the start of April, I ended up catching Covid… It wasn’t a great time, I was pretty out of it for a while. ![]() I was finally back into reading after the slump I had last month. Well, I wasn’t expecting my April to go like this. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is, of course, by now a familiar face to moviegoers, having appeared in Terrence Malick's recent sprawling drama "The Tree of Life" and now in theaters with "The Debt" and "The Help." Chastain said she and Pacino workshopped the play for over a year, in New York and Los Angeles, then rehearsed for a month on stage before filming on a soundstage, which made her very familiar with the character. "As soon as I met her, and saw her, I thought: This is the person to play 'Salome' and I must get her to play it before the world picks up on her - which it has done - and turns her into the next big star." "Wilde Salome" has been so long in the making that the role was Chastain's first on film. "There is Jessica Chastain, who I really believe is the reason I made the movie," Pacino said Sunday ahead of the film's long-awaited world premier in a side event at the Venice Film Festival. But his inspiration was simple: Jessica Chastain. VENICE, Italy (AP) - Al Pacino's movie "Wilde Salome" is a complicated examination of Oscar Wilde's once-forbidden play about illicit love and revenge. Photo Source: AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() but to what end? Rediscover this brilliantly imagined world where men are masters and women live to serve their every desire. He is disciplined by the best teachers and warriors that Gor has to offer . . . It emerges that Tarl is to be trained as a Tarnsman, one of the most honored positions in the rigid, caste-bound Gorean society. One frosty winter night in the New England woods, he finds himself transported to the planet of Gor, also known as Counter Earth, where everything is dramatically different from anything he has ever experienced. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. Summary The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality. Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy ![]() ![]() ![]() The book covers the impact of mainstream use of private and public cloud services, the maturation of IPv6 implementations, new DNS security approaches, and the proliferation of IoT devices. ![]() ![]() The new edition addresses the way that IPAM needs and methods have evolved since the publication of the first edition. Accomplished professionals and authors Timothy Rooney and Michael Dooley offer readers coverage of recent IPAM developments in the world of cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and security, as well as a comprehensive treatment of foundational concepts in IPAM. The thoroughly revised second edition of IP Address Management is the definitive reference for working with core IP management technologies, like address allocation, assignment, and network navigation via DNS. Rediscover fundamental and advanced topics in IPAM, DNS, DHCP and other core networking technologies with this updated one-stop reference ![]() ![]() ![]() Josef travels to the location and finds a run-down apartment building that appears to be empty. ![]() He is given an address but no specific time. The next day Josef receives a phone call and is informed that his initial court date is set for next Sunday. That evening he visits Miss Bürstner to apologize for the trouble, and tries to kiss her, but she rebuffs him. Josef goes to work and his day proceeds without further incident. The men take him to the room next to his, where Miss Bürstner lives, and make it clear that although he is under arrest and in serious trouble, he won’t be placed in confinement but is free to continue working. They know nothing of his crime, and Josef initially thinks perhaps this is a prank played on him by his co-workers at the bank. wakes up on his thirtieth birthday to find two men in his boarding house the men tell him they are warders who have come to arrest him. ![]() A nightmarish story where the rules of reality are bent and twisted, it is a story open for interpretation although told in a rigorously realistic style. It was left unfinished and published posthumously. The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, published in 1925 but most likely written ten years earlier. ![]() ![]() ![]() But just as Nora and Pendergast begin to unravel the clues to the century-old killings, a fresh spree of murder and surgical mutilation erupts around them, and New York City is awash in terror. In the aftermath, FBI Special Agent Pendergast and museum archaeologist Nora Kelly embark on an investigation that unearths the faint whisper of a mysterious doctor who once roamed the city, carrying out medical experiments on living human beings. Yet when the excavators break into a basement, they uncover a charnel pit of horror: the remains of thirty-six people murdered and gruesomely dismembered over 130 years ago by an unknown serial killer. In the ninteenth century, New Yorkers flocked to collections of strange and grotesque oddities called "cabinets of curiosities." Now, in lower Manhattan, a modern apartment tower is slated to rise on the site of one of the old cabinets. ![]() ![]() The author’s pointed case study of Hadrian’s Wall shows that it may not have been a defensive success, but that does not mean it didn’t have a defensive purpose, as some scholars have recently argued. There are mysteries associated with the ruins, just as there are with the Great Wall of China, another of Frye’s examples-and one that proves, readily, that where walls go up, people find ways to get around and over them. One of his examples is the Tres Long Mur, a defensive structure built more than 4,000 years ago, stretching across the Syrian desert and shielding some of the world’s oldest towns from marauders from the steppes beyond. Walls, on the other hand, make peace-history offers plenty of examples, he writes, to show that “the sense of security created by walls freed more and more males from the requirement of serving as warriors.” Indeed, by Frye’s account, walls are hallmarks of civilization, if ones that are easily thwarted. ![]() It’s a slogan, writes Frye (Ancient and Middle Eastern History/Eastern Connecticut State Univ.), “designed to give military historians fits.” Bridges, after all, have military purposes: to get across moats and earthworks and to ford rivers into enemy territory. ![]() A sturdy historical tour of walls and their builders-and their discontents as well.īuild bridges, not walls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now all of a sudden it Only shows up in a totally different state and with exact name search. ![]() Is there something I could do to send signals to Google to show that I am in Matthews, NC?Ģ months ago my listing quit showing up at all unless you typed exact business name What could possibly cause my listing or Google to do this? 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