![]() ![]() ![]() A new interior design updates The Gutenberg Galaxy for twenty-first-century readers, while honouring the innovative, avant-garde spirit of the original. This new edition of The Gutenberg Galaxy celebrates both the centennial of McLuhan’s birth and the fifty-year anniversary of the book’s publication. ![]() The Gutenberg Galaxy foresaw the networked, compressed ‘global village’ that would emerge in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries - despite having been written when black-and-white television was ubiquitous. Readers will be amazed by McLuhan’s prescience, unmatched by anyone since, predicting as he did the dramatic technological innovations that have fundamentally changed how we communicate. Fifty years after its initial publication, this landmark text is more significant than ever before. The Gutenberg Galaxy catapulted Marshall McLuhan to fame as a media theorist and, in time, a new media prognosticator. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She wishes to make her family name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family once again.Ĭonflict with her newfound grandparents soon arises, however. Heaven dreams of a wonderful new life - of new friends, a good school, beautiful clothes and, most importantly, love. ![]() And as Heaven reached out for love, she was slowly ensnared in a sinister web of cruel deceits and hidden passions!Īfter the events of Heaven (the first book in The Casteel Series), Heaven Casteel finds herself in the care and custody of her grandparents, the wealthy Tony and Jillian Tatterton, who live at Farthinggale Manor. Soon she would make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again.īut even in the world of the wealthy, there were strange forebodings, secrets best forgotten. The pearls of culture, wisdom and breeding would now be hers. In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life - of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love. free from the scorn and contempt of her past! ![]() It is the second book in The Casteel Series.Īt last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan Perón led the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fútbol, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under César Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats. Argentina's rich, volatile history-by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic-is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths. Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona, Alfredo Di Stéfano: in every generation Argentina has uncovered a uniquely brilliant soccer talent. The Masterful, Definitive History of Argentinian Soccer ![]() ![]() ![]() The point of F is not its humour (though Kehlmann, like Robbe-Grillet, can be very funny indeed), but its generosity. There are many such moments, they are all as beautifully judged as this one, and they are not the point. The white of the naked canvas shone through in several places, and even the ship was a mere assemblage of lines and dots. ![]() There were just some tiny bright patches of colour above the main deck. ![]() There were no more people any more, no more little flags, no anchor, no bent watch. The spirit of Alain Robbe-Grillet, the movement’s greatest exponent, illuminates the scene in which Arthur takes his granddaughter to an art museum to study a picture by her missing uncle: “She stepped even closer, and immediately everything dissolved. If Kehlmann played this intertextual game to the hilt – if F itself were as unforgiving as Arthur’s novel – then we would be looking at a less important book, as well as a less enjoyable one: some Johnny-come-lately contribution to the French nouvelle vague. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have no say in our gender - we're not allowed to question it, play with it, work it out with our friends, lovers or family. It's documented by the state, enforced by the legal profession, sanctified by the church, and it's bought and sold in the media. We're born: a doctor assigns us a gender. It's not sane that we classify people in order to oppress them as women or glorify them as men. It's not sane to demand we fit into one or the other only. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white. If I'm born with a body that gives mixed gender signals, I'm at risk of being butchered - fixed, mutilated. If i change my gender, I'm at risk of homocide, suicide or a life devoid of half my responsibilities. “I think gender can take a lesson from sadomasochism (S/M): gender needs to be safe, sane, and consensual. ![]() ![]() In End of Days, Penryn and Raffe are together again, and it’s obvious that both are thrilled. They find each other at the end when the angels are bested by a ‘daughter of man’ who can strangely wield an angel’s sword in battle. ![]() In World After, Penryn and the human resistance try to rescue the humans held captive by the angels on Alacatraz while Raffe plots his vengeance on the angels who betrayed him. Making a pact, Penryn and Raffe (also known as the archangel Raphael) help each other make it to the Aerie, the angel stronghold, to rescue Penryn’s sister and get Raffe’s wings sown back on. In Angelfall, Penryn, a human teenage girl, saves the life of an angel who had his wings cut off by other angels. World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2) Book Review A true horror for young and old adults.Īngelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) Book Review Unlike your typical dystopian YA fare, this series is clean in some ways, but insidiously dark and twisted in others. In this dark urban fantasy, angels of Judeo-Christian lore herald the foretold apocalypse and have wreaked havoc on the earth, killing and destroying wherever possible. ![]() End of Days is the final book in the Penryn & the End of Days trilogy by Susan Ee, a post-apocalyptic, supernatural set of thrillers for young adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run. And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept.Īs Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. and Sleeping Beauty as she's never been seen before. Vividly imagined scenes of action, romance, and political intrigue are seamlessly woven together to reveal a richly created world. ![]() Rhiannon Thomas's dazzling debut novel is a spellbinding reimagining of what happens after happily ever after. ![]() ![]() The first three books were okay and, all right, this book was kind of enjoyable at times, but this is the most annoying book ever. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a book that they don’t have to think about while reading. It didn’t really have much of a plot, but it was a nice, easy read. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was slow, and mostly just rich people complaining about how bad their posh, over spoiled lives were. This book wasn’t horrible, but I can’t say I really enjoyed it. They stumble into an unattended house and discover it must belong to an incredibly wealthy person. They get lost in the middle of a flat, open field during a lightning storm and need to find somewhere to stay. A few days (and lots of boy drama) later, the two girls venture out on a walk. Samantha (Sam) wants to fret over her appearance, find someone to crush on, and live life the wild way, even though she’s not really a wild girl. She ends up at a resort in Mexico and decides to learn how to surf. When her father bails on one of his work trips, Anna takes the opportunity to go in his place. ![]() She doesn’t want to worry about how she looks or acts, and is irritated with her family for being so superficial. ![]() ![]() ![]() Therefore, to get the full story you will also need to commit to reading Conviction (Book 2 of the Consolation Duet). However, please note that this is the first part of a duet that must be read in its entirety. ![]() However, in fiction, like in life, things are rarely what they at first appear to be on the surface, and Consolation is the recounting of one woman’s journey of rebuilding her life to find true happiness.įurther rounding out this emotional and heartfelt tale is a solid performance by veteran narrators Andi Arndt and Sebastian York making this a great story to experience in audiobook format. Things were never supposed to happen this way, but when tragedy strikes, the heroine of Consolation is left with no choice but to pick up the pieces of what she had believed had been the perfect life. Imagine being within a few weeks of delivering your first child, and being told that your husband, a former Navy SEAL, who had recently left the military to take on a “safer” security civilian job, was just killed on a mission. ![]() Narrated by Andi Arndt and Sebastian York ![]() ![]() ![]() Since 1945, no nuclear weapons have ever been deployed in war partly because Hersey alerted the world to their true, devastating impact. When the magazine published “Hiroshima” in August 1946, it became an instant global sensation, and inspired pervasive horror about the hellish new threat that America had unleashed. ![]() For nearly a year the cover-up worked-until New Yorker journalist John Hersey got into Hiroshima and managed to report the truth to the world.Īs Hersey and his editors prepared his article for publication, they kept the story secret-even from most of their New Yorker colleagues. The cover-up intensified as Occupation forces closed the atomic cities to Allied reporters, preventing leaks about the horrific long-term effects of radiation which would kill thousands during the months after the blast. But even before the surrender, the US government and military had begun a secret propaganda and information suppression campaign to hide the devastating nature of these experimental weapons. Just days after the United States decimated Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear bombs, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. ![]() Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century-the true effects of the atom bomb-potentially saving millions of lives. New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. ![]() |