![]() ![]() Stoicism’s four virtues and how you can apply them in any situation The counterintuitive reason you should welcome misfortune Why so many successful people are Stoic If you’re looking for the answer to modern stresses and strains, you’ll find it in Stoicism. You will uncover how to find the opportunity in any challenge and how you can use your journal to transform your life. In Stoicism: How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness, you will learn about what made the ancient philosophers so wise. Now you too can discover for yourself what gave them the emotional resilience to make the most of any situation. Four simple virtues empowered them to cope with the end of a relationship, the loss of a job, ill health, and even bereavement. The Stoics knew what made for a good man – and a good life. Stoicism changed the lives of its followers for the better and now it can do the same for you. Are you tired of the glass being half empty?ĭo you worry you don’t have the strength to cope when something bad happens? (And something bad always happens!) ![]()
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![]() ![]() Black churches, colleges, social clubs, charitable groups, sororities and fraternal organizations have fashioned beauty competitions for more than a century. Suggesting otherwise is a Eurocentric and distorted view that disregards life and culture when not attached to white people. ![]() ![]() Similarly, Jackie Robinson’s Major League career does not mark the beginning of Blacks in baseball. Although actress Vanessa Williams’s 1984 Miss America victory is an important moment by which African American participation in beauty contests is often framed, Black people in America have long lauded women of color within their own pageant productions. Historically, pageants organized by African Americans, and heavily supported by the Black press, materialized remedies for American popular culture’s persistent assault on African American women. The history of mainstream American pageants, particularly Miss America and Miss USA, plainly reflects these imaginations with their limited presentations of fitness and loveliness. Conversely, racism requires women of African descent to be marked by labels of promiscuity, ugliness and worthlessness. It has used white women as ornamental benchmarks to underscore the idea of superiority. American racism, both in practice and theory, has always linked human value to twisted notions of physical health and beauty. ![]() ![]() ![]() High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. ![]() I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. ![]() "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. ![]() ![]() ![]() Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) was published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). ![]() Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel. ![]() The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George and Carl with whom he often took boating trips. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental passages seem a distraction. It is a story of three men, accompanied by a dog, as they travel in a boat up the River Thames. Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. ![]() ![]() Until someone suspects she's more than she seems.Ĭaptured by the Southern warlord Griffin, Cat's careful camouflage is wearing thin. ![]() Stuck in the middle is Cat - circus performer and soothsayer - safely hidden behind heavy makeup, bright colours and the harmless illusion of the circus. Now rebellion is stirring in the rough, magic-poor South, where for the first time in memory a warlord has succeeded in uniting the tribal nations. ![]() In the icy North, where magic is might, an all-powerful elite ruthlessly guided by a glacial Queen have grown to dominate the world. ![]() Kingdoms would rise and fall for her.if she is ever found. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His prose mimics how we think, with abrupt starts and stops, the interior flow of perception interrupted continuously by digital cues and exterior shocks that require immediate analysis: Quick, a stranger at the door. He mocks the bizarre institutional structures we’ve created - mindless bureaucracies, stale theme parks (in his 1996 first collection, “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline’’), immoral goals promoted in rah-rah corporate technotalk, without being contemptuous of his characters. He is satiric without being sarcastic, ironic yet compassionate. George Saunders captures the fragmented rhythms, disjointed sensory input, and wildly absurd realities of the 21st century experience like no other writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of the beasts will be familiar to readers of the Harry Potter books - the Hippogriff, the Basilisk, the Hungarian Horntail. Scamander's years of travel and research have created a tome of unparalleled importance. In this comprehensively updated edition, eagle-eyed readers will spot a number of new beasts and an intriguing new author's note. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an indispensable introduction to the magical beasts of the Wizarding World. Rowling, an irresistible new jacket by Jonny Duddle, illustrations by Tomislav Tomic and six new beasts! An approved textbook at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry since publication, Newt Scamander's masterpiece has entertained wizarding families through the generations. ![]() A brand new edition of this essential companion to the Harry Potter stories, with a new foreword from J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stephen King commented, “I love the Hard Case format, and this story-combining a boy who sees beyond our world and strong elements of crime and suspense-seemed a perfect fit.” ![]() Both of the previous two, THE COLORADO KID and JOYLAND, were New York Times bestsellers. ![]() LATER is the third book Stephen King has written for Hard Case Crime. One of the most beloved storytellers of all time, Stephen King is the world’s best-selling novelist, with more than 350 million books in print. ![]() LATER tells the story of Jamie Conklin, a boy whose unusual abilities could aid his single mom and her police detective lover – but only at a terrible cost. Press Release: Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, will publish LATER, a brand-new novel by Stephen King, on March 2, 2021. With the supernatural noir now available in paperback, audio, and digital ( ahead of its limited edition hardcover release on March 30th), we've been provided with an excerpt to share with Daily Dead readers!Ĭlick the cover art below to read an excerpt from Later, and to learn more about King's new novel, read the official press release and visit: Hard Case Crime previously published two of my favorite Stephen King novels- The Colorado Kid and Joyland-so I'm thrilled that they've teamed up with King once again to publish his new book, Later. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the pages of this book are the customs, the superstitions, the charming scenery, the revelations of Japanese character, and all the other elements that Lafcadio Hearn found so bewitching. ![]() The modern reader can still, through these pages, experience that "first charm of Japan, intangible and volatile as a perfume." Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan combines two volumes of a work that first appeared in 1894. Among the reasons is that here, more than anywhere else, the author most vividly captured a place that so affected him that he stayed for the rest of his life. Though Lafcadio Hearn went on to write a dozen more books on Japan, this collection of first impressions remains his most popular. This is a complete, two-volume set of one of the greatest books on 19th century Japanese history and culture. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The game is overexposed," Halberstam says. Once there was Wilt now the NBA seems to be dying on the vine. "Not just in the number of whites, but in the way it is played," Halberstam says. And with the television audience predominantly white, clearly it is a whiter game. The college game - more disciplined, seemingly more innocent, certainly more intense because of its shorter schedule - seems to be a sounder television draw. Attendance and television ratings are down. Halberstam is a fan of pro basketball, which he calls "the new American ballet," (Sure, Baryshnikov can jump - but can he play D?) and a fan of pro basketball players, whom he calls "the best athletes in the world." But as the game ends, a fan notes: "Another troubled game in a troubled league." ![]() David Halberstam, who spent a full season with the Portland Trail Blazers gathering material for his excellent book, "The Breaks of The Game," was one of them. ![]() On a cold, rainy night the San Antonio Spurs, perhaps the least attractive good team in the National Basketball Association, defeated the Washington Bullets, an ugly duckling of a team if ever there was one, 110-99, before 5,583 people. ![]() |