![]() ![]() The story-within-the-story is told when an old man who lives in a secluded tower is asked to tell the story of the Lorax, whose name is on the base of a statue that says "unless." He reluctantly agrees, and we enter the Once-ler's story. I can't speak to how closely the adaptation follows the book, but much of the dialogue sounds very Seussian, as if playwright David Greig lifted it directly from the book. ![]() Seuss's book The Lorax came out in 1971, but I don't think I've ever read it, at least not that I remember. Such is the power of theater, of stories, of people who care a whole awful lot.ĭr. It gave me all the feels, and had me walking down the street on this first truly spring-like day in wonder. The Old Vic Theatre in London has turned this beautiful story into a charming, playful, and poignantly relevant musical that is now receiving its US premiere at Minneapolis' Children's Theatre Company (in conjunction with San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, where it will play this summer). Seuss's story The Lorax, which specifically is talking about the environment, nature, the wilderness around us. It's not." The best thing to happen lately in this dark and scary world is people caring a whole awful lot about things, and taking to the streets and the polls to make them better. ![]() Unless what, you ask? "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They are qualities that relate to men in society, not in solitude. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses and passions. Justice and injustice are none of the faculties neither of the body nor mind. It is unquestionably essential reading for anyone seriously interested in Hobbes. Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Professor Johnston has written a book belonging to this category. "The best writings on Hobbes have always been those that boldly sought to unify the warring elements in his thought. moves into the forefront of students of Hobbes."-Roger W. "With this lucid, perceptive, and original work, David Johnston. The most famous work written by Thomas Hobbes is Leviathan, which was written in 1651 in response to the English Civil War, which resulted in the establishment of a parliamentarian system and the reduction in the power of the monarchy. More importantly, it ought to be read by anyone interested in exploring 'the ideological or cultural foundations of political power,' and the ways in which political theorists contribute to or seek to undermine those foundations."-Richard Ashcraft, Albion Indeed, it is the best book on Hobbes in recent years, and, hopefully, it will help to redirect Hobbes scholars toward new paths of interpretive exploration. ![]() ![]() The Rhetoric of Leviathan presents an original and suggestive interpretation of Hobbes's political thought. ![]() ![]() When Dorothy is taken to this fantastic land, she is immersed in a series of dangers and difficulties. This place is inhabited by extraordinary and wonderful beings, such as tin men, good witches, and evil witches, scarecrows, and talking animals. This film tells the story of Dorothy, a young girl from the United States who is taken to a fantastic world by a tornado in Kansas. What are the teachings of The Wizard of Oz? It’s one of the most reproduced and referenced stories in popular culture. ![]() Since then, this story has been adapted to different formats, such as musicals, plays, comics, and songs. Its success was such that it surpassed the book in recognition. The musical film The Wizard of Oz, produced by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, starred Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Margaret Hamilton, and Ray Bolger. In this article, we’re going to tell you about the lessons learned from The Wizard of Oz and why you should see it. In 1939, this children’s book was adapted to the big screen and became a Hollywood hit. ![]() Since then, it has become a story that has captured many generations and is still relevant today. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a literary classic that was written by Frank Baum in 1900. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Watson investigate a report of a young wife sucking the blood from her baby. ![]() ![]() The adventure of the illustrious client - The adventure of the blanched soldier - The adventure of the Mazarin stone - The adventure of the Three Gables - The adventure of the Sussex vampire - The adventure of the three Garridebs - The problem of Thor Bridge - The adventure of the creeping man - The adventure of the lion's mane - The adventure of the veiled lodger - The adventure of Shoscombe Old Place - The adventure of the retired colourman. The culminating point of where fact meets fiction might actually be Michael Dibdins work of fiction The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes (1996), where Sherlock. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: With Jeremy Brett, Edward Hardwicke, Rosalie Williams, Colin Jeavons. : 25 cm Famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. ![]() ![]() Uris covered the Suez Crisis as a war correspondent in 1956 and there are two stories told about how he came to write the work. It focuses mainly on the escape from Cyprus and subsequent events in Palestine. Otto Preminger directed a 1960 film based on the novel, featuring Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan. It has been both widely praised and criticized as being anti-Arab or anti-Palestinian and as having "ignored the basic injustice" at the root of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Published by Doubleday in 1958, it became an international publishing phenomenon, the biggest bestseller in the United States since Gone with the Wind (1936) and still at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list eight months after its release. ![]() Exodus is a historical novel by American novelist Leon Uris about the founding of the State of Israel beginning with a compressed retelling of the voyages of the 1947 immigration ship Exodus and describing the histories of the various main characters and the ties of their personal lives to the birth of the new Jewish state. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With breathtaking command of her shocking material, and with her customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects us into an outlandish yet wholly believable realm populated by characters who will continue to inhabit our dreams long after the last chapter. How did everything fall apart so quickly? Why is he left with nothing but his haunting memories? Alone except for the green-eyed Children of Crake, who think of him as a kind of monster, he explores the answers to these questions in the double journey he takes - into his own past, and back to Crake's high-tech bubble-dome, where the Paradice Project unfolded and the world came to grief. As he tries to piece together what has taken place, the narrative shifts to decades earlier. He searches for supplies in a wasteland where insects proliferate and pigoons and wolvogs ravage the pleeblands, where ordinary people once lived, and the Compounds that sheltered the extraordinary. When the story opens, he is sleeping in a tree, wearing an old bedsheet, mourning the loss of his beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. The narrator of Atwood's riveting novel calls himself Snowman. Home 1 › Oryx and Crake: A novel By Margaret Atwood 2 I Love Toronto: Books, Maps, Prints & Art When Margaret Atwoods new novel opens, her main character, Snowman, is sleeping in a tree. ![]() ![]() The other morning, I was so engrossed in a letter from Jen that I missed my subway stop. The book is so perfectly realized that it’s easy to fall under its spell. Straka, really, and what does he have to do with Eric’s sinister dissertation advisor?-you have to read not just “Ship of Theseus,” but all of Jen and Eric’s handwritten notes. To solve the book’s central mystery-who is V. Between the pages, they’ve slipped postcards, photographs, newspaper clippings, letters-even a hand-drawn map written on a napkin from a coffee shop. Open it up, though, and you see that the real story unfolds in Straka’s margins, where two readers, Eric and Jen, have left notes for each other. ![]() From the outside, it looks like an old library book, called “Ship of Theseus” and published, in 1949, by V. Abrams and Doug Dorst, may be the best-looking book I’ve ever seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() The pals have great discussions about nature, America’s deplorable treatment of Indigenous and Black people, and the writers Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, two of Offerman’s heroes. ![]() Offerman’s first quest is a culture lover’s dream: He spent a week in 2019 hiking in Glacier National Park with his “bromance partners,” author George Saunders and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. ![]() The result is an undeniable immediacy, as though readers are spending the day hiking right beside him. He’s an entertaining raconteur and prone to digressions (Sirius Radio commercials that annoy him, for example, or his irritation with people who don’t make eye contact as he jogs past). Offerman divides his observations among three very different adventures, all devoted to exploring his relationship with America’s landscapes and past. His latest is Where the Deer and the Antelope Play, which Offerman has subtitled in his frequently reflective, self-deprecating style: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside. The man who made Ron Swanson famous in “Parks and Recreation” is also a touring comedian, saxophonist, professional woodworker and author of books like Paddle Your Own Canoe and Good Clean Fun. There’s no denying that Nick Offerman is one of America’s more intriguing celebrities. ![]() ![]() In this valuable and revealing anthology, cultural critic and best-selling author Roxane Gay collects original and previously published pieces that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are "routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, denigrated, besmirched, belittled, patronized, mocked, shamed, gaslit, insulted, bullied" for speaking out. Vogue, “10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018” * Harper’s Bazaar, “10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018” * Elle, “21 Books We’re Most Excited to Read in 2018” * Boston Globe, “25 books we can’t wait to read in 2018” * Huffington Post, “60 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018” * Hello Giggles, “19 Books We Can’t Wait to Read in 2018” * Buzzfeed, “33 Most Exciting New Books of 2018” ![]() ![]() Edited and with an introduction written and read by Roxane Gay, the New York Times best-selling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays read by all 30 contributors including Gabrielle Union, Ally Sheedy, and Lyz Lenz, tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 46. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution press. Human remains from Voegtly Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Donostia, Spain: Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi Zientzi Elkartea. Enterramientos humanos: excavación, análisis, interpretación. Handbook of Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology. Blau, Soren and Ubelaker, Douglas H., editors.Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador. Grieder, Terence, Farmer, James D., Hill, David V., Stahl, Peter W., and Ubelaker, Douglas H., editors.Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions. Fibiger, Linda and Ubelaker, Douglas H., editors.In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 51. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press. Biological Anthropology of Latin America: Historical Development and Recent Advances. Beijing: China Science Publishing and Media, Ltd. The Global Practice of Forensic Science (Chinese Translation). 1, Special Issue on Forensic Anthropology, Part II. In Forensic Sciences Research, Vol 4, No. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons, Incorporated. Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living. Parra, Roberto C., Zapico, Sara C., and Ubelaker, Douglas H., editors.Anthropology of Violent Death: Theoretical Foundations for Forensic Humanitarian Action. ![]() |