![]() Their books are easy to read and full of interesting facts. It’s a very good overview of medieval technology and it made me want to go away and find out more about a few things. I’ve enjoyed all the books I’ve read by Frances and Joseph Gies and this one was no different. The book finishes in the fifteenth century with Columbus, Leonardo da Vinci and Gutenberg. By then there had already been many advances in Europe, mostly to do with water in the form of improvements to ships and waterwheels. The Chinese were more advanced technologically than the Romans in many areas and much of what the Romans left behind them was allowed to fall into disuse.Įventually information started coming from China and, in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the translations of works by Greek scientists arrived in Europe via the Muslim world. The book opens with a survey of the technology that was available in Europe at the beginning of the Middle Ages, mostly left by the Romans, and there’s also a visit to China to look at what was available there. The subtitle is Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages, but it’s more even than that. This one, however, has a much broader perspective. Some of the others are about daily life in a village, a town and a castle. Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel is one of a series of books written about the Middle Ages by Frances and Joseph Gies. ![]()
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Just imagine two giraffes standing on top of each other… and then diving head first from that height! Competitive springboard diving involves one or two divers performing spins, twists and somersaults into a pool from a series of heights. ![]() It involves an immense amount of strength, flexibility, and courage. Springboard diving is one of the most spectacular and exciting aquatic sports. ![]() ![]() With a dying queen on the throne, war raging on the high seas and famine on the rise, England is on the brink of chaos. Treason, heresy and revolt in Queen Elizabeth's England. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty." Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Summary The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. ![]() ![]() But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! The Beauty Myth - How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Naomi Wolf We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog. ![]() ![]() On such an important subject, we are too often silent at home, at church, and in school classrooms. Among 500 adults, 82 percent judged a satisfying sex life as "important" or "very important." Sex came in fourth behind loving family relationships (99 percent), financial security (98 percent), and religion (86 percent). A survey sponsored by Columbia University and the National Institutes of Health asked people to rate the importance of sex and other factors in their lives. As I usually do in responding to questions, I turned to the data that science can provide for answers. That seemed the most fundamental question of all and one that deserved a serious answer. (I’m convinced the questioner was male.) "What’s the big deal?" It came from a student in Chesapeake, Virginia. It just had to provide the framework for the entire book. My favorite question, however, was too good to relegate to a single chapter. They are answered here one by one, with a lot of facts and a few (I hope) well-supported opinions. ![]() Nonetheless, as time went on, more and more questions came in from serious and thoughtful young adults. Some schools and teachers who had been eager to help in the past chose not to participate this time. Some questions were silly, embarrassed, or obscene. Unlike other books in this series that dealt with such topics as food and skin, getting questions was difficult. This book began with the collection of questions about sex and sexuality from middle school and high school students. ![]() ![]() ![]() Somehow, the author of such quiet, tender stories as “ Mary and O’Neil” had a facility with suspense and terror that could make you check the locks (twice), mix up a garlic smoothie and rush through pages till long past midnight. ![]() The story described a government experiment that accidentally unleashes a dozen rapacious vampires who kill or enlist almost everyone in the United States, toppling the government, destroying the economy and leaving the country with just a few isolated pockets of terrified survivors struggling to keep the lights on. ![]() “ The Passage,” Book 1 of Cronin’s vampire apocalypse, was the scariest, most entertaining novel I’d read in a long time. He’d received nice reviews and won a PEN/Hemingway Award and a Whiting Award - prizes that can drive dozens of people to buy your books.īut then his 9-year-old daughter suggested he write about a girl who saves humanity from destruction, and the undead swooped in with a multimillion-dollar book-and-movie deal. He’d graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. ![]() In 2010, just when we’d all had enough of Bowflex vampires, the Count got a desperately needed transfusion from an unlikely donor: An English professor at Rice University named Justin Cronin had been patiently digging in the graveyard of literary fiction for 20 years. ![]() ![]() Whether that means becoming a Nightmare that’s monstrous only in appearance, to transforming into a twisted, unrecognizable creature that terrorizes the city, no one is safe. ![]() ![]() Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Gotham meets Strange the Dreamer in this thrilling young adult fantasy about a cowardly girl who finds herself at the center of a criminal syndicate conspiracy, in a city where crooked politicians and sinister cults reign and dreaming means waking up as your worst nightmare.Įver since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified-terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. ![]() ![]() ![]() And how a small group of people are trying to shut Doors and keep the knowledge secret. The writer shares his own search for information about Doors: how they work, where they are. ![]() It tells her about a young woman who found a Door, too, and a boy from another world, and who then spent years trying to find him and his world again. But then, when she’s almost forgotten that Door she found when she was young, she discovers a book that explains all about Doors. ![]() Without any other options or the freedom she so covets, January generally tries to please Locke and be a lady. She’s a curiosity herself, an in-between thing: with her medium-dark skin and wild hair, her headstrong ways, her resistance to becoming cultured and refined. Locke takes excellent care of January, but she’s really just another part of his collection. It’s basically a private museum, filled with the rare artifacts January’s father has found for him. January lives with Locke, an ultra-wealthy collector, in his grand mansion in Vermont. Instead, she sees him rarely, in between his travels to far-flung places, where he finds exotic items to bring back to his employer, Cornelius Locke. She’d love to explore this world, for that matter, like her father does-but he never allows that. A must-read.Īt age 7, January Scaller learns about the existence of capital-D Doors, the kinds of doors that lead into other worlds. IN SHORT: This is an excellent fantasy book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then he served as a Guyanese ambassador in the late sixties. He would later describe these challenging experiences in Paid Servant.īraithwaite's long and exemplary career took him to UNESCO in Paris as an educational consultant and lecturer (1963-1966). Unable to establish a career in physics, his chosen field, which he attributed to his status as an ethnic minority, Braithwaite turned to teaching.īraithwaite was perhaps best known as an author for his autobiographical novel To Sir With Love set in an east London secondary school, later directed, produced and adapted for the screen by james clavell starring Sidney Poitier as a schoolteacher from British Guiana.īraithwaite gave up teaching and continued writing, during this time he became a social worker with the London County Council working to provide foster care for black children. Braithwaite also attended the University of London. (Edward Ricardo) Braithwaite was a novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.Īn alumnus of Queens College, Braithwaite excelled at City University of New York, after which he served in the RAF during WWII as a fighter pilot (1941-45) and then went on to receive an advanced degree in Physics from Cambridge University (1949). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I also struggled a bit with Danny being a pain. I get that it’s an integral part of the story, but it honestly just felt too much like a crutch. It really felt that Daniels got too heavy-handed with the queer politics, as fascinating as they were, and it distracted too much from the story for my taste. As much as I enjoyed this book, it’s not as strong as the first. Sovereign picks up not long after the events of Dreadnought and Danny is coming more to terms with her powers as Dreadnought and coming more to terms with her transition. What I didn’t realize then or now was that it was only in January of this year that I read Dreadnaught and less than five months later I was able to request Sovereign, the sequel.* When I read April Daniels’ debut novel, Dreadnought I lamented the length of time I had to wait until the second in the series came out. ![]() ![]() Artist Molly Idle has created a story full of humor and heart, with emotions that leap off the page, and memorable characters who are worthy of countless standing ovations.”Ī flamingo, peacefully standing one-legged in the water, turns its head to look behind it and eyes one little girl, named Flora, standing one-legged in the water, imitating the flamingo, who then turns her head to look behind her.ĭo you remember repeating everything your older sibling said or mimicking every movement, just because you could? Flora mimics the flamingo, but not to get the flamingo’s goat. ![]() ![]() With a twist, a turn, and even a flop, these unlikely friends learn at last how to dance together in perfect harmony. In this innovative wordless book, a tentative partnership blooms into an unlikely friendship between a girl named Flora and a graceful flamingo. ![]() |