![]() ![]() ![]() Some ministers, politicians, and police fled their constituents, while prostitutes and the poor risked their lives to nurse the sick. The story that Jeanette Keith uncovered is a profound-and never more relevant-account of how a catastrophe inspired reactions both heroic and cowardly. Fever Season chronicles the drama in Memphis from the outbreak in August until the disease ran its course in late October. The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was particularly hard hit: Of the approximately twenty thousand who didn't flee the city, seventeen thousand contracted the fever, and more than five thousand died-the equivalent of a million New Yorkers dying in an epidemic today. ![]() Moving up the Mississippi River in the late summer, in the span of just a few months the fever killed more than eighteen thousand people. While the American South had grown to expect a yellow fever breakout almost annually, the 1878 epidemic was without question the worst ever. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The Bribe is a debut novel for Willa Nash, but it’s pen name for Devney Perry so we already knew we were in for an amazing story. And as long as the star shines on his badge, he’s going to find out.ĭownload today or read for FREE with Kindle Unlimited ![]() He wants to know why this woman is on the run. Instead, she offers him a bribe to keep her secret.īut Duke doesn’t want her money. ![]() He’s not sure why Lucy lied about her identity or why she’s in Calamity. According to her driver’s license, her real name is Lucy Ross, the famous country music singer whose sudden disappearance has been a hot topic in the media over the past two weeks. She gave him a name as fake as her hair color. As the sheriff in Calamity, Montana, he’s had his fair share of surprises but none as pleasant as pulling over a shiny black car and finding his mysterious hiking companion behind the wheel. He also didn’t expect to see her again after rescuing her from the surly beast. Duke Evans didn’t expect to interrupt a beautiful woman in a staring contest with a bison on his favorite hiking trail. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language. The online study guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. ![]() To increase student engagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from how children learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the key elements of language. The Study of Language This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. ![]() ![]() What should be a quick trip to recharge the town’s ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town’s ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn’t use her magic this way, but with only an “orchard hayride” scented candle on hand, she isn’t worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. “A delightful and witty take on witchy mayhem.” - Popsugar Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths…and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. ![]() New York Times Bestseller Erin Sterling casts a delightful spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miller was 16 and walking to high school with his father, who was so broke that he asked his son for a quarter to take the subway back into Manhattan. The biographer recalls a moment from Miller’s adolescence, which in many ways shaped his future life as a writer. (Courtesy of Yale University Press/ Jewish Lives Series) ‘Arthur Miller: American Witness,’ by John Lahr. Set in late 1940s Brooklyn, the two-act tragedy tells the story of Willy Loman, a nervous traveling salesman in despair with a mediocre life that has failed to match his ambitious expectations. ![]() When it first opened on Broadway in 1949, “Death of a Salesman” ran for 742 performances straight and won numerous prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and the Tony for Best Play. “When we first entered the small cabin, Miller pointed to his desk, where he had sat down 50 years earlier and wrote the first act of ‘Death of a Salesman’ in eight hours,” Lahr tells The Times of Israel from his home in London. ![]() Miller was then 83 years old and brought Lahr to his writing studio in Roxbury, Connecticut. People who succeed are loved because they exude some magical formula for fending off death,” says Lahr, who was The New Yorker’s chief drama critic from 1992 to 2013. “I remember Miller told me: The whole idea of people failing is that they can no longer be loved. John Lahr is recalling an afternoon he spent with American playwright Arthur Miller in December 1998. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His unique work announces Marx’s critique of speculative idealism, as well as the properly Freudian notion of drive, of a blind compulsion to repeat which can never be sublated in the ideal medium of language. Schelling, the German idealist who for too long dwelled in the shadow of Kant and Hegel, was the first to formulate the post-idealist motifs of finitude, contingency and temporality. Schelling’s Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the ‘beginning of the world,’ of the passage from the pre-symbolic pulsation of the Real to the universe of logos.į.W.J. The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before leaving, I drank four cups of coffee in the canteen while chatting with students. The Railways bad just started this new summer train and nobody knew about it. In most cases I shard my compartment with talkative aunties, snoring men and wailing infants. When I was younger, I used to look at the reservation chart stuck outside my train bogie to check out all the female passengers near my seat (F-17 to F-25)is what I’d look for most). Yes, you see it in the movies, you hear about it from friend’s friend but it never happens to you. And two, it is not every day you sit in an empty compartment and a young, pretty girl walks in. ![]() PROLOGUE _ The night train ride from Kanpur to Delhi was the most memorable journey of my life. Please forget about the exercise, my doubting you and enjoy the story. It will enrich your experience of reading this book. One thing I fear: _ One thing that makes me angry: _ One thing I do not like about myself: _ Okay, now forget about this exercise and enjoy the story. Do not think too much about why I am asking you to do this. Be honest, and write something that is meaningful to you. Write down something that i) you fear, ii) makes you angry and iii) you don’t like about yourself. ![]() A great fun, inspirational One! Before you begin this book, I have a small request. ONE NIGHT THE CALL CENTER -CHETAN BHAGAT This is someway my story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before Ahmad reaches his intended destination, he meets a group of Norsemen who are even more unfamiliar to Ahmad than the Turkish tribes. Ahmad travels West with a large party and encounters Turkish tribes, whose people are unfamiliar to Ahmad. The events of the novel begin when the Caliph of Baghdad sends Ahmad on a diplomatic mission. The novel first establishes the provenance of the manuscript and the portrayal of the Viking Norsemen that Ahmad encounters. This guide refers to the Vintage eBook edition of the novel.Įaters of the Dead presents a freely adapted retelling of a historical manuscript by the 10th-century traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan. The novel was adapted into a film in 1999, retitled as The 13th Warrior. ![]() Borrowing heavily from a historical manuscript by the real Ahmad ibn Fadlan and the epic poem Beowulf, Eaters of the Dead charts the journey of a Muslim Arab who travels from Baghdad to Scandinavia in the 10th century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The townsfolk in Fourth of July Town are testing new rainbow sparklers and fireworks that explode in the formation of a queen's crown, in honor of the Pumpkin Queen who saved them all from a life of dreamless sleep. The rabbits have resumed painting their pastel eggs in Easter Town. In Valentine's Town, Queen Ruby is bustling through the streets, making sure the chocolatiers are busy crafting their confections of black velvet truffles and cherry macaroons, trying to make up for lost time, while her cupids still flock through town, wild and restless. ![]() Patrick Town, we find the stubborn, sprightly residents all awake-the leprechaun I spoke to days before still in search of his lost pot of gold in the glen, rain clouds heavy in the distance, and rainbows gleaming above the treetops. ![]() ![]() ![]() At times, Kent's comprehensiveness is exhausting-500-plus pages on video games may be a bit much, even for their most ardent admirers. ![]() Along the way, Kent interviews virtually every key player in the industry. Also addressed is the public backlash of the '80s, when video games were thought to distract students from homework, and the '90s, when Doom and other violent games were linked to the massacre at Columbine High School. Kent meticulously documents the rise of home video games and the console wars of the past decade, when Sega, Nintendo, Sony and others raced to produce the fastest, most powerful game system. In 1978, there were so many people playing Space Invaders in Japan that the game caused a national coin shortage. ![]() The original name for Pac-Man turns out to be Puck-Man its creators changed the name after worrying that vandals in arcades would replace the P Readers learn that early Atari, for example, had the corporate climate of a dot-com startup, with rampant drug use and meetings staged in outdoor hot tubs. In this rollicking, mammoth history of video games-from pinball to Pong to Playstation II-Kent, a technology journalist and self-professed video game addict, covers almost every conceivable aspect of the industry, from the technological leaps that made the games possible to the corporate power struggles that won (and lost) billions of dollars. ![]() |