![]() Arriving herself in the last years of the war, Elizabeth writes as an historian and a witness to what these women accomplished. ![]() In You Don't Belong Here, Elizabeth Becker uses these women's work and lives to illuminate the Vietnam War from the 1965 American buildup, through the Tet Offensive, the expansion into Cambodia, the American defeat and its aftermath. ![]() At a time when women were considered unfit to be foreign reporters, Frankie, Catherine and Kate paid their own way to war, arrived without jobs, challenged the rules imposed on them by the military, ignored the belittlement and resentment of their male peers and found new ways to explain the war through the people who lived through it. ![]() Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French dare devil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with starkly different life experiences but one shared purpose: to report on the most consequential story of the decade. The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war. ![]() Description WINNER OF THE 2022 GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE ![]()
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![]() She also starred with Donald Sinden in the ITV sitcom Two's Company (1975–79), which earned her a 1979 BAFTA TV Award nomination. Stritch relocated to London in the 1970s and starred in several West End productions, including Tennessee Williams' Small Craft Warnings (1973) and Neil Simon's The Gingerbread Lady (1974). Her one-woman show Elaine Stritch at Liberty won the 2002 Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. ![]() Stritch made her Broadway debut in the 1946 comedy Loco and went on to receive four Tony Award nominations: for the William Inge play Bus Stop (1956) the Noël Coward musical Sail Away (1962) the Stephen Sondheim musical Company (1970), which included her performance of the song " The Ladies Who Lunch" and for the revival of the Edward Albee play A Delicate Balance (1996). ![]() Stritch was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1995. ![]() She made her professional stage debut in 1944 and appeared in numerous stage plays, musicals, feature films and television series. Elaine Stritch (Febru– July 17, 2014) was an American actress, known for her work on Broadway and later, television. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Gibbs knows how to write a real page-burner. "Stuart Gibbs's CHARLIE THORNE AND THE LAST EQUATION is fast-paced, smart, and action-packed. In a breakneck adventure that spans the globe, Charlie must crack a complex code created by Einstein himself, struggle to survive in a world where no one can be trusted, and fight to keep the last equation safe once and for all. In desperation, a team of CIA agents drags Charlie into the hunt, needing her brilliance to find it first-even though this means placing her life in grave danger. ![]() Fearing what would happen if the equation fell into the wrong hands, he hid it.īut now, a diabolical group known as the Furies are closing in on its location. Lemoncello's Library seriesįrom New York Times bestselling author Stuart Gibbs comes the first novel in a thrilling new series about the world's youngest and smartest genius who's forced to use her unbelievable code-breaking skills to outsmart Einstein.Ĭharlie Thorne isn't old enough to drive.Īnd now it's up to her to save the world.ĭecades ago, Albert Einstein devised an equation that could benefit all life on earth-or destroy it. Description "Fast-paced, smart, and action-packed.a real page-burner." -Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through her stealing of books, she helps support her family and friends, and in the process of doing so discovers the horrors and beauty of human nature. Summary: Liesel Meminger is The Book Thief a 9 year old girl growing up in 1930’s Nazi Germany. Publisher: Alfred Knopf / Random House, 2005 ![]() Kyle Quon and his guest review of The Book Thief!! Without further ado, ladies and gents, please give it up for Mr. Then, a couple of weeks back, Kyle told me he had finished the book and LOVED it. In turn Kyle offered to review the book for us here, as an honorary Smuggler – of course Ana and I were thrilled at the prospect! But, as the year carried on, we all kind of forgot about it. ![]() It’s a young adult novel, but off the beaten path of YA paranormals. ![]() So, after lending him a few of my favorite titles ( Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw – which I still think he has…Kyle?) I decided a great Christmas present would be The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. And since then, he’s been on the lookout for reading recommendations, mostly of the young adult persuasion. Kyle is a burgeoning reader when I first met him, he’d just started to read the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer (in fact, he now has my old copies of the books). A while back – last Christmas, to be exact – I got my buddy Kyle a book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Born to a Dutch father and Indonesian mother, she took up the life of a bon vivant in 1920s Paris and modeled for Vogue magazine and Coco Chanel. Moving and illuminating, this dramatic depiction of an intrepid individual is an admirable blend of fascinating fact and wonderfully conceived fiction.” ~Margaret Porter, author of Beautiful Invention: A Novel of Hedy LamarrĬelebrated model Toto Koopman had beauty, brains, and fame. “In this impressive biographical novel, Maryka Biaggio presents World War II spy Toto Koopman as he remarkable woman she proved herself to be. As the war entered its final stages, she faced off against the most brutal of forces-Germany’s Intelligence Service, the Abwehr. ![]() Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini’s Italy, she courted danger every step of the way. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. ![]() ![]() But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. ![]() To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected-she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. ![]() ![]() The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. ![]() ![]() Not to mention the wonderfully-titled song by the late Warren Zevon, “Lord Byron’s Luggage”.Īnother writer who has been a great source of inspiration to musicians is Edgar Allen Poe. Led Zeppelin wrote a number of songs inspired by Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” is based around the work of the poet Anne Sexton and then, there’s the most obvious example, Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights”. ![]() Literature has inspired many songs and even entire albums. The same applies when it comes to music inspired by literature, and vice versa. (And, there was a also a band called the “Rock Bottom Remainders”, that featured Stephen King, Amy Tan and Rick Moody, amongst others). On the flip side, there aren’t as many examples of writers-turned-musicians, but there are a few, such as Michel Houellebecq and Neal Pollack. Some examples of musicians-turned-writers include Bob Dylan, Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen and Patti Smith. ![]() ![]() Now writers are rock stars and rock stars are writers. Writers were solitary, reclusive individuals who shuffled around in their pyjamas mumbling to themselves, while musicians were rock gods who strutted the stage, ingested massive quantities of illegal substances, and … well, shall we say, got better acquainted with their fans. There was time when being a writer and being a musician were two completely separate things. ![]() ![]() ![]() But above all, we believe in enjoying the sport and experiencing the thrill of every step of the game. We envision a facilitated community ingrained on the pillars of camaraderie, constructivism and sportsmanship. ![]() The Esports Wing is confident that with a little direction to crude talent, our incredibly adept Rosters could win laurels on national and international levels also. We are dedicated to weaving an amicable milieu promoting universal cooperation and fostering solidarity and positivity. The Esports Wing is an expressive and dynamic arena for both professionals and novices seeking to up their game and hone their gaming skills to excellence. This wing of the Technical Club strives for global recognition in popular games like Valorant, Counter-Strike, Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, Battlegrounds Mobile India, COD(Mobile) and many more! With targeted training and collaborative representation, The Esports Wing strives to harness raw gaming potential and polish it to sheer perfection. It doesn’t come as a surprise that the industry is expected to proliferate four-fold in the upcoming 7 years! With the architype inclining towards electronic platforms, esports were worth more than $1 billion in 2019! ![]() ![]() Technical Club proudly invites you to: “The Esports Wing”, Bihar’s maiden venture into the cosmic craze of electronic sports and gaming.Īs the 3rd decade of the 21st century marks its transition, esports have never been more popular. ![]() ![]() So, again, like De la Costa’s, it has ended up as reference or supplementary reading. Agoncillo, Milagros Guerrero Edition, 3, revised Publisher, R.P. Corpuz’s two-volume “Roots of the Filipino Nation.” Published two decades ago, this dense data-filled work has led some readers to joke that the author’s real name is “Over-Dose Corpuz.” Surely, the book of a former secretary of education and president of the University of the Philippines could be easily made required reading, but Corpuz refused to shorten or simplify it for use in schools. Title, History of the Filipino People Authors, Teodoro A. ![]() Unfortunately, Zaide’s two-volume work did not fly, because it was too expensive for students and required much from the teacher. After that, groups of Austronesians later migrated to the islands. ![]() On controversial issues, like when and where the Philippine Revolution of 1896 started, Zaide would give his opinion, but a lengthy footnote would point the reader to contrary or conflicting views. History of the filipino people by teodoroagoncillopdfebook The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans 1 2 3 using rafts or boats at least 67, years ago as the discovery of Callao Man suggested. To be fair, Zaide’s unused college text, the two-volume “Pageant of Philippine History,” was different from the simplistic texts he generated for the primary, intermediate and secondary schools. His notable works include The History of the Filipino People Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic The Writings and Trials of Bonifacio and Revolt of the Masses. ![]() ![]() As far as the locals are concerned Mattis is ‘simple’, and yet that strikes me as short-sighted. Certainly, Hege treats him like a child, looking after him, telling him what to do, and often humouring him in his strange preoccupations and mental flights of fancy. ![]() While Mattis is an adult, he appears to have the mental age, and physical capacity, of someone much younger. In The Birds, acclaimed Norwegian author, and one time Nobel candidate, Tarjei Vesaas tells the story of Mattis and his long-suffering sister Hege. ![]() There are, of course, a lot of horrible things that can happen to a human being, but it strikes me that the loss of mental agility, and being aware of this loss, at least some of the time, must be a particularly potent kind of misery. He had obviously picked up on my irritation, and I felt ashamed, as, I suspected, he did too, but for different reasons. But then, a moment or two later, I realised that he was offering me this information as an excuse, as an explanation. ![]() ‘I’ve had three strokes,’ he said, and I nodded, thinking this was merely an example of the strange compulsion people have to inform others of their problems or ailments. He was easily confused often repeated himself and stuttered terribly. The other day I was talking to a man who, impolitely, one might call ‘slow,’ and I felt myself getting annoyed and losing patience. ![]() |