It ends with the battle for democracy on the city's streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party. The story sweeps the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule.
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Ultimately, it is Temple’s unique ability describe the way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her impairment and animal temperament that is the basis of extraordinary gift and phenomenal success. She describes her pain isolation growing up “different” and her discovery visual symbols to interpret the “ways of the natives” “Thinking in Pictures also gives information from the frontlines of autism, including treatme medication, and diagnosis, as well as Temple’s insight into genius, savants, sensory phenomena, etc. Throughout her life, she has developed unique coping strategies, including her famous “squeeze machine,” modeled after seeing the calming effect squeeze chutes on cattle. Temple is among the few people who have broken through many the neurological impairments associated with autism. Each page of the picture book has 2 to 4 rhyming lines. Here, in Temple Grandin’s own words, is the story what it is like to live with autism. Temples inspiring life story shows how Temples autism helped her connect with animals and find. Her unique empathy for animals has her to create systems which are humane and cruel free, setting the highest standards for the industry the treatment and handling of animals. Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment. The captivating subject of Oliver Sack’s “Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin’s personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours. Amazon, Kindle and the Amazon and Kindle logos are trademarks of, Inc. As an Amazon Associates participant, we earn small amounts from qualifying purchases on the Amazon sites, which in turn allows us to provide our editorial content FREE to readers.Īpart from its participation in the Associates Program, BookGorilla is not affiliated with Amazon or Kindle in any other way. 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I couldn’t help but think of Poltergeist as I read Indigenous author Stephen Graham Jones’ new novel, My Heart Is a Chainsaw. That’s a movie that warns about the dangers of building your home on top of a Native American graveyard. When I think of Indigenous horror, my thoughts turn to the original 1982 version of Poltergeist. Afforded unprecedented access to Oslo's Kon-Tiki Museum's extensive Heyerdahl archive, Thor Heyerdahl: Voyages of the Sun assembles a wealth of little-known and previously unseen correspondence, expedition logbooks, journals and photographs. With October 2022 commemorating the 75th anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl's extraordinary 1947 voyage upon a balsa-wood raft, Kon-Tiki, from coastal South America to Polynesia across the Pacific Ocean, an enviable opportunity arises to reexplore Heyerdahl's innovative yet frequently contested theories and expeditions. Norwegian archaeologist, anthropologist, migration theorist, author and explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) spent decades substantiating unorthodox migration theories, with equally unconventional research methodologies: namely, practicable experiments that employed the construction of ancient vessels, driven across open oceans and waterways to retrace the movement and settlements of our ancestors. An archival delve into the remarkable life, expeditions and voyages of Thor Heyerdahl, author of the bestselling adventure classic The Kon-Tiki Expedition Sexual Fantasies in the ABC Cellar with Jim Clendenen Related stories:īurgundy's Spiraling Prices: Fact and Fiction The world of wine was an obvious idea, as a job as a bilingual night receptionist in a Beaune hotel was not appealing. When my marriage was unraveling in the mid-1970s, I needed to find work. I was a baby existentialist who had wandered around New York dressed in black and carrying a Camus novel, hoping someone would notice. I loved everything French – art, music, literature, food, wine. People regarded us with a mixture of curiosity and amusement. As the artist’s wife, I kept the wine glasses sparkling and had the pleasure of getting to know certain winemakers quite well. We lived in Philadelphia but rather than move to New York, the center of the art world in 1968, he decided we should move to France. My former husband, Bart Wasserman, was an artist. My family did not generally drink wine – it was the cocktail and highball era – but the Champagne was Lanson’s and, for women, a dry sherry. I grew up in Manhattan, where I went to the Rudolph Steiner School. © Le Serbet | Becky Wasserman-Hone catches up with Maryse and Sylvain Pataille A #1 New York Times best seller for more than a year, an American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults (2000) and Best Book for Reluctant Readers (2000), and with millions of copies in print, this novel for teen readers (or "wallflowers" of more-advanced age) will make you laugh, cry, and perhaps feel nostalgic for those moments when you, too, tiptoed onto the dance floor of life. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Freshman Charlie is a loner until he falls under the spell of the free-spirited Sam and her fearless stepbrother, Patrick, in this adaptation of Stephen Chboskys best-selling novel. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. First dates, family drama, and new friends. The critically acclaimed debut novel from Stephen Chbosky, Perks follows observant "wallflower" Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. The story revolves around series of letters written by Charlie to an anonymous person mentioning his experiences. Also a major motion picture starring Logan Lerman and Emma Watson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. Amazon Delivered Secure transaction ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ is an epistolary novel, where the narrator is a young introvert boy called Charlie. Read the cult-favorite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory. Find out who Bre is dared to kiss, and if she can complete the dare before time runs out. But, when she sees who she has to kiss, she kws it will change everything for good. Is the dare really for her? Who will she be dared to kiss? Can she pretend she never received it? With her sisters stories of consequences faced for t following through with the dares, Bre kws she needs to open her envelope and take the challenge head on. What 7th and 8th graders will be dared to kiss their fellow classmates? The game is usually played by the popular kids, so when a telltale black envelope falls out of Bre's locker on Tuesday morning she finds herself face to face with her first kiss dare and her first kiss. THE KISS DARE: With just days until the final dance of the school year, The Kiss Dare is in full effect! Every year at Central Grove Middle School the week before the last dance is all about the dares. Enjoy three sweet stories for teens in Dana Burkey's Teen Love Trilogy! Made up of the books (The Kiss Dare, On Thin Ice, and Guarding The Lake) this box set of short romances are perfect for fans of YA books and first crushes alike. It’s a museum of “oddities” one usually finds in tourist towns. The museum is owned by Steve Hummel, an avid ghost hunter and collector of all things strange and macabre-from an electrocution cap and various coffins to allegedly cursed bibles and dolls. We had been toying with the idea of visiting a museum called the Archive of the Afterlife, located in Moundsville, West Virginia. In the weeks leading up to this night, I had been in contact with Tim Vickers, a friend, colleague, and also cocreator (with me) of the EVP Challenge still in progress at the White Hill Mansion in Fieldsboro, New Jersey (Biddle 2018). Investigating claims of ghosts isn’t just for those that whole-heartedly believe in an afterlife it’s a fun hobby for many skeptics too … like me! On this night, hundreds of ghost hunting teams streamed live videos of their investigations, sharing their adventures with the entire world via social media. On September 28, 2019, many of my paranormal enthusiast friends celebrated the unofficial “National Ghost Hunting Day,” taking part in nighttime ghost hunts at various historical locations throughout the country. “Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. She’s definitely confused about her missing husband but only because she was the last person to see his body, and now it’s gone.”ģ. With the small town in an uproar, everyone is worried about the whereabouts of their beloved high school teacher. Little do they know they might be stumbling over only part of the truth…. The police are desperate to find the connection, if there even is one. At first these cases are treated as horrible coincidences until it’s discovered the student is really the third of three unexplained disappearances over the last few years. Now, Lila’s husband, Aaron, is also missing. Lila isn’t what she seems.Ī student vanished months ago. “Lila Ridgefield lives in an idyllic college town, but not everything is what it seems. She wants something from Laurie-her life!” She has learned how to haunt Laurie, but the visits soon become perilous. The truth reveals a long-lost sister who has spent the years growing bitter and dangerous. But just as her perfect summer comes to a close, things start to unravel when her boyfriend insists he saw her out with another guy-when Laurie was really home sick! More mysterious sightings convince Laurie someone very real is out there, watching her. “Laurie Stratton finally has everything a sixteen-year-old could ever want. |