Download or read book UNDERHANDEDLY CLEVER written by Karen Kellock and published by CHAMPION GUIDES. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They traumatized her with shallow insincerities and polite cruelties: every single one was crazy. The wicked creep into houses leading captive silly women and the early trauma made her needy of treacherous friends if you can call em that. HEAL from being scorned, mocked and belittled by dam rats. The controller breaks your spirit: he is underhandedly clever micromanaging the situation with you kept under. He leads you to hope but never delivers and hope deferred makes the heart sick/all visions blurred. Just walk away--it's that simple. Start a new life every day then avoid those people. Cover design by Karen Kellock, inside art by Blaze Goldburst

Download or read book Virginia Woolf written by Maria Cândida Zamith and published by Universidade do Porto. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Incest and Influence written by Adam Kuper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many gentlemen of his time, Charles Darwin married his first cousin. In fact, marriages between close relatives were commonplace in nineteenth-century England, and Adam Kuper argues that they played a crucial role in the rise of the bourgeoisie. Incest and Influence shows us just how the political networks of the eighteenth-century aristocracy were succeeded by hundreds of in-married bourgeois clans—in finance and industry, in local and national politics, in the church, and in intellectual life. In a richly detailed narrative, Kuper deploys his expertise as an anthropologist to analyze kin marriages among the Darwins and Wedgwoods, in Quaker and Jewish banking families, and in the Clapham Sect and their descendants over four generations, ending with a revealing account of the Bloomsbury Group, the most eccentric product of English bourgeois endogamy. These marriage strategies were the staple of novels, and contemporaries were obsessed with them. But there were concerns. Ideas about incest were in flux as theological doctrines were challenged. For forty years Victorian parliaments debated whether a man could marry his deceased wife’s sister. Cousin marriage troubled scientists, including Charles Darwin and his cousin Francis Galton, provoking revolutionary ideas about breeding and heredity. This groundbreaking study brings out the connection between private lives, public fortunes, and the history of imperial Britain.

Download or read book Sudan written by Edward M. Spiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1898, Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army defeated the armies of dervishes at the battle of Omdurman. To commemorate the event, 11 historians have produced a reappraisal of the reconquest and its international repercussions. They examine some of the policies, personalities and issues involved.

Download or read book Balfour s World written by Nancy W. Ellenberger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of political culture in Britain in the last decades of the nineteenth century, revealing how Arthur Balfour and his circle served as a clear bridge between the Victorians and the moderns in Britain's twentieth-century political culture.

Download or read book The Quiet Heart written by Mrs. Oliphant and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Quiet Heart' is a novel by Mrs. Oliphant that draws the reader into the world of Menie Laurie, a young, fearless woman who has never experienced any heartache or headaches. The story begins with Menie's sole servant, Jenny Durward, who is impatiently questioned by a visitor about Menie's whereabouts. Although Jenny is determined to remain calm, her temper flares, causing her to "fuff."

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Download or read book Foolish Hearts written by Emma Mills and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary novel about a girl whose high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream leads her to new friends—and maybe even new love.

Download or read book New Science of the Mind written by Darragh Tobin and published by Chipmunkapublishing ltd. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionNew Science of the Mind is an expression of personal emotions encountered on a journey navigated through fifteen years of living with mental illness. The book contains a selection of writings in the form of 'inner philosophy', fantasy and poems expressing concerns about a world affected by wars, climate change, famine, terrorism and suffering amongst the innocent. New Science of the Mind is Darragh Tobin's first book. About the AuthorBorn in 1972, Darragh Tobin grew up in Cork and Co Wexford before moving to Kildare where he now lives and writes. He has been a mental health service user since the age of 15 years and enjoys films, music, travel, entertainment, arts and sciences. Darragh Tobin describers the process of writing as both difficult and liberating and now wishes to share the fruits of his innermost thoughts and labour with others.

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Group written by Stanford Patrick Rosenbaum and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additions to the revised edition include an early anonymous newspaper account of Bloomsbury, and observations by Quentin Bell, Beatrice Webb, Gerald Brenan, Christopher Isherwood, Frances Partridge, and others.

Download or read book Keynes written by David Felix and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-03-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a person of Keynes's unique character could have achieved what he did. After teaching neoclassical economics for two decades, he developed an extraordinary theory—extraordinary in that it built upon the theoretical complex he intended to overthrow and extraordinary in that it provided the best guidance for defeating the Depression of the 1930s and managing an economy thereafter. This biography shows how Keynes's personality left its stamp on his ideas, the connections between his all-too-human quirks and his theorizing, between his dominating personality and his success as a policymaker. Although sympathetic to the man, his aims, and his accomplishments, this is the first critical biography of John Maynard Keynes. Based on the mass of material Keynes left behind, including hundreds of letters, the book shows how he thought, rationalized, and acted, as well as the connections between the fallible human and the abstract theory. It shows his transformation from an active homosexual to a contented married man—the relationship giving him a personal and social stability that was important to his achievement. It shows his superb confidence that he was right—even when he completely reversed his previous position—and his unshakable resolution to see his ideas carried out. This is A Critical Life—critical because Keynes's life had a critical impact, and because the book takes a critical look at that life.

Download or read book Leonard Woolf written by Victoria Glendinning and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously researched and compassionately rendered portrait of Leonard Woolf, the "dark star" of Bloomsbury, is the first to capture his troubled relationship with his wife, his own intellect, and the tumultuous world of artists and eccentrics around him. A man of extremes, Woolf was by turns ferocious and tender, violent and repressed, opinionated and nonjudgmental, always an outsider of sorts within the exceptionally intimate, fractious, and sometimes vicious society of brilliant but troubled friends and lovers. In telling Woolf's story, Victoria Glendinning traces the development of the Bloomsbury circle, bringing to life the group's literary and personal discussions. She also provides an unprecedented account of Woolf's marriage to the legendary Virginia, revealing his undying creative and emotional support for her amid her numerous breakdowns. Leonard Woolf is a perceptive and lively biography of a man whose far–reaching influence is long overdue the full appreciation Glendinning provides.

Download or read book Clever Hearts written by Hugh Cecil and published by Pub Overstock Unlimited Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell written by Bertrand Russell and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This acclaimed selection of Russell's early letters, available in paperback for the first time, reveals the full scope of his life and innermost thoughts up to the First World War.

Download or read book Anny written by Henrietta Garnett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. Based on new and original research, this enchanting and evocative memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin on Lake Coniston. In addition we read about Anny's own inner life: her near-obsession with her father: William Makepeace Thackeray, her escape into writing, her startling marriage to her second cousin and her godson, and the story of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen. We also learn of Stephen's second wife, Julia Jackson, mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Meticulously researched, this intimate story draws not only on a wealth of letters, journals, hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs, but also on family legends passed down to the author through four generations. Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury.

Download or read book Faint Praise written by Gail Pool and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2007-07-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two hundred years, book reviewers have influenced American readers, setting our literary agenda by helping us determine not only what we read but also what we think about what we read. And for nearly as long, critics of these critics have lambasted book reviews for their overpraise, hostility, banality, and bias. Faint Praise takes a hard and long-overdue look at the institution of book reviewing. Gail Pool, herself an accomplished reviewer and review editor, analyzes the inner workings of this troubled trade to show how it works—and why it so often fails to work well. She reveals why bad reviewing happens despite good intentions and how it is that so many intelligent people who love books can say so many unintelligent things on their behalf. Reviewers have the power to award prestige to authors, give prominence to topics, and shape opinion and taste; yet most readers have little knowledge of why certain books are selected for review, why certain reviewers are selected to review them, and why they so often praise books that aren’t all that good. Pool takes readers behind the scenes to describe how editors choose books for review and assign them to reviewers, and she examines the additional roles played by publishers, authors, and readers. In describing the context of reviewing, she reveals a culture with little interest in literature, much antipathy to criticism, and a decided weakness for praise. In dissecting the language of reviews, Pool demonstrates how it often boils down to unbelievable hype. Pool explores the multifaceted world of book reviewing today, contrasting traditional methods of reviewing with alternative book coverage, from Amazon.com to Oprah, and suggesting how the more established practices could be revised. She also explores the divide between service journalism practiced by reviewers versus the alleged high art served up by literary critics—and what this fuzzy boundary between reviewing and criticism really means. This is the first book to analyze the field in depth, weighing the inherent difficulties of reviewing against the unacceptable practices that undermine the very reasons we read—and need—reviews. Faint Praise is a book not just for those who create and review books but also for everyone who loves books. By demystifying this hidden process, Pool helps everyone understand how to read reviews—and better decide what to read.

Download or read book The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell Volume 2 written by Nicholas Griffin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited second volume of Russell's best letters reveals the inner workings of a philosophical genius and an impassioned campaigner for peace and social reform. The letters, only three of which have been published before, cover most of Russell's adult life, a period in which he wrote over thirty books, including his famous History of Western Philosophy. Richly illustrated with photographs from Russell's life, the collection includes letters to Ho Chi Minh, Tito, Jawaharlal Nehru and Albert Einstein.