![]() To Govern the Devil in Hell uses the prism of governance to investigate what went wrong in territorial Kansas. ![]() In addition, the book also sheds light on the nature of democracy, the challenges of implanting it in distant environs, the necessity of cooperation at the various levels of government, and the value of strong leadership. This question is fundamentally about governance-its existence, exercise, limits, and continuance-and its study has ramifications for understanding both Kansas events and why the American experiment in government failed in 1861. Although ample attention has been devoted to understanding why territorial violence broke out in Kansas in 1856, of equal concern but less illuminated is the question of why government, both local and national, allowed the violence to continue unstanched for so long. One hundred and fifty years after Kansas was admitted to the Union, we still find ourselves fascinated by the specter of "Bleeding Kansas" and the violence that preceded the American Civil War by five years. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When asked about the purpose of his writing in a recent interview, he replied: “When I was in my teens, in the 1960s, that was the age of idealism. It’s almost impossible to pin down a single theme in Murakami’s work. His work has been translated into more than fifty languages, and nominated more than once for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He followed this success with two sequels, Pinball, 1973 and A Wild Sheep Chase, which all together form “The Trilogy of the Rat.” Since then Murakami has written over a dozen novels, works of non-fiction and short story collections, including The Elephant Vanishes (originally published in 1993). His first novel, Hear the Wind Sing, won the Gunzou Literature Prize for budding writers in 1979. Many of his characters pass the time listening to music and even the title of a well-known novel is named after a Beatles song: Norwegian Wood. Murakami’s love of music pervades his books. If you are ever in Tokyo you can still visit the Peter Cat today. ![]() After college, Murakami opened a small jazz bar, which he and his wife ran for seven years. Haruki Murakami (in Japanese, 村上 春樹) was born in Kyoto in 1949 and moved to Tokyo to attend Waseda University. “With elegant prose, Haruki Murakami conjures magical worlds overlaying ours.” This Litburo video essay explores the elegance and simplicity of Murakami’s writing style and investigates the feelings of longing and loneliness that characterise his best-known works. ![]() ![]() He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. ![]() Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. ![]() No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. Twenty-five years after the catastrophe, a dramatic and extraordinarily rare 360-degree view of the crash of a fully loaded jumbo jet. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is the regret itself.” The novel helps us make sense of our own paths not taken and dreams unrealised, posing the idea that perhaps in letting go of the regrets, the life we are living now can become the one we want it to be. ![]() As Nora says: “It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It’s the sort of book that makes us ponder our own life and regrets. In doing so, can she discover a life more fulfilling than the one she wants to leave? What would have happened if she stayed with her ex? If she’d followed a different career as a climate change expert? Or an Olympic swimmer? A member of a famous band? She even tries a few lives on she’s never even considered. ![]() She gets the chance to try any or all of these lives on. ![]() Here, the books are all potential un-lived lives as well her own Book of Regrets. In Matt Haig's wonderful new book The Midnight Library we follow the predicament of Nora Seed who, coming to the end of her rope, feels the only way forward is to attempt to end her life, but finds herself in the library of the title, a place between life and death. Perhaps it takes a clever author with their own mental health issues to write such a heartfelt yet entertaining novel about depression. ![]() When no adults believe her, the girl decides to take matters into her own hands and investigates.Īn egotistical director ( Peter O'Toole) challenges a skeptical young writer ( Charles Martin Smith) to investigate the nearby woods to find out if the banshee said to haunt the woods exists.Ī guest ( Michael Ironside) murders his host ( Robert Vaughn) and then becomes obsessed with cleaning any evidence that can implicate him in the crime.Ī hypochondriac ( Eugene Levy) contacts a “bone specialist” to get rid of his skeleton.Īn invalid boy's dog brings him people and things that it feels he needs, including a kindhearted schoolteacher ( Helen Shaver). ![]() ![]() ![]() Featuring Leslie Nielsen.Ī father ( William Shatner) haunted by the constant bullying he suffered in his childhood takes his son to a local playground, only to find that the ghosts of his past now reside in the playground.Ī car crash survivor ( Nick Mancuso) investigates a mysterious and sinister crowd that congregates at the sites of severe automobile accidents.Ī city slicker ( Jeff Goldblum) impulsively stops at a rural town, and finds himself stalked by a sinister old man ( Ed McNamara).Ī little girl ( Drew Barrymore) hears a woman scream while playing in the middle of the forest. Episodes Season 1 (1985–86) No.Īn overworked suburbanite husband ( James Coco) uses a robot duplicate to allow himself to have fun while his overbearing wife is left none the wiser. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Weapons of Choice: Longsword, shortsword, dagger, radium pistol, radium rifle For his heroic efforts he gained the title Warlord of Barsoom, and the hand in marriage of his incomparable princess.Īlso known as: John Carter of Mars, Warlord of Mars, Warlord of Barsoom, Jeddak of Jeddaks, VandorĪlso known as: Warlord of Mars, Warlord of Barsoom, Jeddak of Jeddaks, VandorĬhildren: Carthoris (son), Tara (daughter) John Carter would go on to rescue his beloved Dejah Thoris from a cruel fate, unite many of the Red Planet’s disparate peoples, save all of life on Barsoom after its life-sustaining atmosphere plant failed, and overthrow the bloodthirsty false religion of the Holy Therns. Among this brutal people, he met three who would become his greatest allies: his faithful calot Woola, the Tharkian chieftain Tars Tarkas, and most important of all, a beautiful captive red Martian-Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. Adopted by the four-armed green warriors of the Thark horde, he rose to the rank of chieftain. ![]() While prospecting for gold, Captain John Carter of Virginia found himself paralyzed by a mysterious force in an Arizona cave and then mysteriously transported to the planet Mars, or “Barsoom” to its inhabitants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I personally like historical fictions that imagine unknown parts of history, so I enjoyed this. This book is a great fit for people who are fans of Agatha Christie, as it recreates her life as imagined by the author. The Mystery of Mrs Christie by Marie Benedict a fast, entertaining read that imagines the story of Agatha Christie’s still unexplained 11-day disappearance. With her trademark historical fiction exploration into the shadows of the past, acclaimed author Marie Benedict brings us into the world of Agatha Christie, imagining why such a brilliant woman would find herself at the center of such murky historical mysteries. The puzzle of those missing eleven days has persisted. Eleven days later, she reappears, just as mysteriously as she disappeared, claiming amnesia and providing no explanations for her time away. ![]() ![]() Her World War I veteran husband and her daughter have no knowledge of her whereabouts, and England unleashes an unprecedented manhunt to find the up-and-coming mystery author. Investigators find her empty car on the edge of a deep, gloomy pond, the only clues some tire tracks nearby and a fur coat left in the car - strange for a frigid night. In December 1926, Agatha Christie goes missing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Still conceptually rooted to art historical references, he stretches, combines, distorts and layers images to create subtle yet complex line-based works. In the last few years, Brown has extensively embraced drawing. The forms of his sculptures and the colour combinations used reference other artists’ paintings and sculptures. They are created by accumulating thick layers of oil paint over structures or found bronze casts. His sculptures, deliberately emphasizing the three-dimensional quality of oil brushstrokes, stand in stark contrast to his flat paintings. ![]() Brown sees these appropriations and oppositions as key to his approach.īrown also places sculpture as a central point of his practice. The effect is powerful–often unsettling–creating an artistic language that transcends time and pictorial conventions. His grotesque yet fascinating figures appear to be painted with thick impasto, but are actually executed through the application of thin, swirling brushstrokes which create the illusion of almost photographically flat surfaces. Starting with reproductions from other artist's works, Brown transforms the appropriated image by changing its colour, position and size. ![]() He is known for the use of art historical references in his paintings. Glenn Brown, CBE, (born 1966) is a British artist. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In these works the tone is ‘private, subjective and modest’. ![]() Many of his poems are also colloquies (conversations) between himself and God or with his heart, and we can see good examples in his poems ‘Good Friday’ and ‘The Pearl’. A few famous ones being ‘King of Glory, King of Peace’ and ‘Teach me, My God and King’. In fact, we can still find some of Herbert’s work in British hymnals today. An example of this could be ‘Easter Song’. ![]() Perhaps some poems were indeed meant for musical accompaniment. His writing is sometimes musical and often his structural forms are uncomplicated and not unlike a ‘song’. There is a clarity and directness in Herbert’s verses. But unlike Donne, ‘Herbert wrote no love poetry, having decided, when he began writing poetry at Cambridge, to devote his poetic works to God’ (Mackean, 2005). ‘These close links with the older poet had an influential and positive effect on Herbert’s life and work’ (Graham, 2000). When Herbert’s father died the young family moved to London, and Herbert’s mother became friend and patron to the Metaphysical poet John Donne. His poetry reflects a balanced Anglicanism (neither Puritan nor Catholic), and for me the simplicity of diction and metaphor are an important part of what make them so interesting and effective. He was also a poet and his colloquies and religious themes really appeal to me. George Herbert was rector of Bemerton between 1630-1633. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her books have been translated into German, French, Spanish, and Bulgarian. Angie Stanton is the award winning, best selling author of Dont Call Me Greta, If Ever, Waking in Time, Rock and a Hard Place, Snapshot, Royally Lost, Dream Chaser, Under the Spotlight, Snowed Over, and Love ‘em or Leave ‘em. She is a contributing writer for and is currently working on her next book. Angie has a Journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin. So today, as six inches of snow falls gently outside my window and I listen to acoustic guitar music on Sirius radio, I. In her spare time, she loves to venture off to Broadway. ![]() A daydreamer at heart, Angie puts her talent to use writing contemporary fiction about life, love, and the adventures that follow. ![]() Waking in Time won the Midwest Book Award and was a finalist in the National Readers Choice Awards.Īll of her books have been Amazon top 100 bestsellers. Angie Stanton is the award winning, best selling author of ten novels including Don't Call Me Greta: Stolen at Birth, If Ever, a Broadway love story, and Waking in Time, an epic time-jumping romance. If Ever is the recipient of the National Readers Choice Award, The Holt Medallion, and the Write Touch Reader's Award. Snowed Over by Angie Stanton A simple ride home for the holidays turns into a nightmare for strangers Katie Brandt. Snowed Over by Angie Stanton eBook Details. ![]() |