![]() ![]() His 2002 story "Death and Suffrage" has been adapted for television as Homecoming, an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror series first aired in 2005. I just went to school to study literature and started writing stories." He has cited Ray Bradbury as his most important literary influence, along with Zenna Henderson, Clifford D. I never drove an ambulance on the Italian Front. I was never a gandy dancer or a stevedore. ![]() Literary career īailey has stated, "One of the abiding disappointments of my life is that I’ve never had any of the interesting jobs that writers are supposed to have. He teaches English and Creative Writing at Lenoir Rhyne University. Biography īailey grew up in Princeton, West Virginia and currently lives in North Carolina with his family. ![]() Dale Frederick Bailey is an American author of speculative fiction, including science fiction, fantasy and horror, active in the field since 1993. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Such a monopoly, according to Weber, must occur via a process of legitimation. However, this monopoly is limited to a certain geographical area, and in fact this limitation to a particular area is one of the things that defines a state." In other words, Weber describes the state as any organization that succeeds in holding the exclusive right to use, threaten, or authorize physical force against residents of its territory. As such, states can resort to coercive means such as incarceration, expropriation, humiliation, and death threats to obtain the population's compliance with its rule and thus maintain order. ![]() ![]() Weber claims that the state is the "only human Gemeinschaft which lays claim to the monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force. While the monopoly on violence as the defining conception of the state was first described in sociology by Max Weber in his essay Politics as a Vocation (1919), the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force is a core concept of modern public law, which goes back to French jurist and political philosopher Jean Bodin's 1576 work Les Six livres de la République and English philosopher Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan. In political philosophy, a monopoly on violence or monopoly on the legal use of force is the property of a polity that is the only entity in its jurisdiction to legitimately use force, and thus the supreme authority of that area. A Guatemalan Policía Nacional Civil officer holding a suspect at gunpoint during a security checkpoint exercise ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom and Louise spoke in the afternoon, before her appearance that evening at Haskell Indian Nations University.Ī reminder that because this conversation was pre-recorded, we can’t take your calls and comments. ![]() Illuminating the loves and lives, the desires and ambitions of these characters with compassion, wit, and intelligence, The Night Watchman is a majestic work of fiction. She grapples with the worst and best impulses of human nature, illuminating the loves and lives, desires and ambitions of her characters with compassion, wit and intelligence. On that day, Louise Erdrich was at the end of a 6-city book tour, still flying in full planes. In the Night Watchman, Louise Erdrich creates a fictional world populated with memorable characters who are forced to grapple with the worst and best impulses of human nature. In The Night Watchmanmulti-award winning author Louise Erdrich weaves together a story of past and future generations, of preservation and progress. ![]() Tom spoke with the author on March 11 th, 2020, when public understanding of the severity of the coronavirus pandemic was in its nascent stage. ![]() Erdrich’s grandfather, Patrick Gourneau, who led the Turtle Mountain Band’s fight against what the government called “emancipation.”ĭescribing the book as "a masterpiece," Tom notes that like the many other Louise Erdrich novels he's had the pleasure of encountering, this one is "transcendent, enchanting, and revelatory." It chronicles the efforts of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to thwart the government’s attempt to terminate them, which is to say, end federal recognition of the tribe, and force them off their ancestral land. The Night Watchman takes place in rural North Dakota in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexander left the program in 2003 to pursue a career in film and theater.Īlexander wrote a script for a one-woman show about Sylvia Plath, entitled Edge. Batchelor and Alexander was picked up for syndication on the ABC Radio Network and was, for a while, the nation's top-rated late night radio program. In 2001 Alexander teamed with fellow writer John Calvin Batchelor on a late-night radio talk show on WABC in New York. ![]() ![]() Alexander's first stage play, Strangers in the Land of Canaan was produced by the Sanctuary Theater Workshop in 1996 and was performed at The Actors Studio. His next three books profiled Kerry, John McCain, and Karl Rove, respectively. Bush, and John Kerry for George and Rolling Stone and contributed to numerous other periodicals. He profiled presidential candidates Robert Dole, George W. In 1996 Alexander became a regular feature writer for George magazine. ![]() He followed that with a book detailing the battle over Andy Warhol's estate after his death and biographies of actor James Dean and author J. He began his career as a reporter for the Houston bureau of TIME magazine.Īfter editing a volume of essays about poet Sylvia Plath, Alexander wrote a biography of her entitled Rough Magic. Paul Alexander (born 1955 in Birmingham) is a biographer, playwright, and directorĪlexander studied with Barry Hannah at the University of Alabama and participated in the Iowa Writers' Workshop with Marvin Bell and Donald Justice. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is an orphan of a modestly wealthy family and has some inheritance, but not enough to fully live on, so, as his guardian-uncle tells him, he will have to work. When the novel opens Hans is a 20ish young man who just finished a training course to prepare himself to work in ship building. Nonetheless, Mann hints that he is using Hans for other purposes:Ī man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. ![]() Hans Castorp is the character around whom the entire long novel spins, yet it isn’t really much about Castorp himself. At the same time throughout the novel, Mann is at pains to tell us that Hans Castorp isn’t any sort of special person – just a normal relatively average fellow. We learn the most minute details of Hans Castorp’s life and experiences, and thus I think I came to understand him better than virtually any other character I have read of in literature before. ![]() ![]() In reading the novel this becomes quite clear. Thomas Mann tells us this will have to be a very long book, since he wants to tell the story of a person, and a person is built up very slowly by important details of his or her past. The Magic Mountain begins with a short but important introduction. New York: Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Grove Press, Inc., 1969 Book review - THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN By Thomas Mann THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN By Thomas Manm ![]() ![]() The award-winning author of numerous children’s books and a prolific translator, Alma Flor Ada is a leading mentor and philosopher of bilingual education in the United States. ![]() Ada also works in school districts with children, teachers and parents. Reading Up!, Natural Head Start AssociationĪ frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. USIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young PeopleĪdvisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio Programs She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading AssociationĬABE, California Association for Bilingual Education NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of : ![]() Ada was the founder and First Editor in Chief of : NABE, Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education She has been active for many years in various professional associations including : IRA, International Reading Association CRA, California Reading Association CABE, California Association for Bilingual Education USIBBY, US Branch of the International Board of Books for Young People She is a member of : Advisory Board of Loose Leaf Public Radio Programs National Television Workshop Between the Lines Reading Up!, Natural Head Start Association A frequent speaker at national and international conferences, Dr. ![]() ![]() With sly wit and a keen understanding of human nature, Montalbano is a detective whose earthiness, compassion, and intelligence make him totally irresistible. Montalbano's passion to solve this old crime takes him, heedless of personal danger, on a journey through the island's past and into a family's dark heart amid the horrors of World War II. The Terra-cotta Dog opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket heist, and some dying words that lead Inspector Montalbano to a secret grotto in a mountain cave where two young lovers, dead fifty years and still embracing, are watched over by a life-size terra-cotta dog. JACKET NOTES: Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Salvo Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic, engaging take on Sicilian life and his genius for deciphering the most enigmatic of crimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Translated from the Italian by Stephen Sartarelli) The Terracotta Dog is the second outing for the fractious Inspector Salvo Montalbano and his team based in Vigàta, Sicily and despite this being only my third read from the series I already feel that I am reaping the benefits of a growing familiarity with the characters and the ‘flexible’ justice system that Camilleri recounts. Andrea Camilleri The Inspector Salvo Montalbano Mystery Series The Terra-Cotta Dog DESCRIPTION : The Terracotta Dog, the second book in Andrea Camilleris Inspector Montalbano series, opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso. The Terracotta Dog, the second book in Andrea Camilleris Inspector Montalbano series, opens with a mysterious tete-a-tete with a Mafioso, some inexplicably. ![]() ![]() What’s the deepest root of your joy - what God gives to you or what God is for you? One way to get at that question in your own soul is to ask, Why did Jesus die and rise for me? And of course, there are glorious answers like, “He died to forgive my sins, and to take away the wrath of God, and to give me deliverance from hell, and to give me imputed righteousness, and to give me entrance into heaven, and to cause my body to be raised from the dead, and to give me entrance into the new heavens and the new earth and take away all my tears.” And that would be right and gloriously true, and we should rejoice in it. I recently found it and pulled it to share it with you here. Two of these texts came up in a short video Pastor John recorded in 2017. ![]() ![]() Each of them, in their own way, says God is the prize of the gospel. They include Psalms 40:16 70:4 Romans 5:11 and 1 Peter 3:18. And each is worth a close study - worth writing out by hand into a journal, worth meditating on, even memorizing. ![]() ![]() To see how, Pastor John has historically turned to a handful of key Bible texts, particularly four of them - four go-to texts he mentions a lot, about fifty times now on this podcast to date. What makes you the happiest? What are you after? What’s the one main thing that, if you got it, would make you the most joyful person for the longest amount time?Įvery breathing human being on this planet is on a quest to find a fountain of joy. ![]() ![]() ![]() His later body of work reflected his wide range of interests, including marine biology, politics, religion, history, and mythology. Steinbeck often populated his stories with struggling characters his works examined the lives of the working class and migrant workers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. Later, he used real historical conditions and events in the first half of 20th century America, which he had experienced first-hand as a reporter. In his subsequent novels, Steinbeck found a more authentic voice by drawing upon direct memories of his life in California. An exception was his first novel Cup of Gold which concerns the pirate Henry Morgan, whose adventures had captured Steinbeck's imagination as a child. Most of his earlier work dealt with subjects familiar to him from his formative years. Steinbeck moved briefly to New York City, but soon returned home to California to begin his career as a writer. This upbringing imparted a regionalistic flavor to his writing, giving many of his works a distinct sense of place. Steinbeck grew up in the Salinas Valley region of California, a culturally diverse place of rich migratory and immigrant history. ![]() ![]() In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. ![]() In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939, and the novella, Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. ![]() ![]() He must foil a major terrorist plan by the environmental terrorist group Help Earth, who plan to kill every major oil baron in the world, all at once. ![]() The Recruit is the first book in the series, where James after moving to CHERUB is sent on a mission that turns out to be one of the biggest in CHERUB history. ![]() After he and his sister Lauren are moved to a foster home, James wakes up one day in a secret location where kids are trained to become lethal spies. James’s world is subsequently turned upside-down. One day James comes home from school after getting in a fight to find his mother dead after drinking whilst on medication. The Recruit is about a boy named James Choke who is frequently bullied at school because of his obese mother. Imagine a world where terrorist organisations, drug barons and major criminals are brought to justice by children. Review by Kitt Camans (310513) Rating (9/10) ![]() Review by Darragh Walsh (311216) Rating (9/10) ![]() |