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![]() ![]() One of Wolfe’s endearing traits is his love of good food and beer, so he is a pretty rotund character. There are also movie adaptations of two of the novels: “Meet Nero Wolfe” (1936) which features a young Rita Hayworth, and “The League of Frightened Men” (1937). There are 33 Nero Wolfe novels for us to read, and 39 short stories. Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective and the hero of many stories published by author Rex Stout. It first appeared in book form in a short-story collection in 1942. It was first published in abridged form as “Death Wears an Orchid” in a magazine in 1941. ![]() “Black Orchids” is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout. There is also a thinner version that is served as a drink. Zabaglione (also “zabaione”) is a dessert from Italian cuisine made from egg yolks, sugar and sweet wine (often Marsala). Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across ![]() ![]() She's daring them to change the status quo. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn't just teaching women to cook. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Elizabeth's unusual approach to cooking ('combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride') proves revolutionary. Which is why a few years later, Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America's most beloved cooking show, Supper at Six. Except for one: Calvin Evans, the lonely, brilliant, Nobel-prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with - of all things - her mind. ![]() In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing.īut it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. 'Your ability to change everything - including yourself - starts here' ELIZABETH ZOTTĬhemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. ![]() 'A novel that sparks joy with every page' ELIZABETH DAY Laugh-out-loud funny and brimming with life, generosity and courage' RACHEL JOYCE 'A vibrant and original story of hope and staying true to yourself. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For example, the Black Panther movement rejected the “Sunday Best” that their civil rights predecessors wore to establish a new kind of resistance. Sartorial style can also be wielded to challenge those norms and offer new political ideals in their stead. These are just two of the many examples Ford has chronicled in his new book, Dress Code: How the Laws of Fashion Made History (Simon & Schuster, 2021), in which he argues that people have used dress codes to assert political control and social hierarchies throughout history. ![]() Wearing the same clothes as everyone else, regardless of one’s social status, was a way of espousing the period’s new values, such as sensibility, rationality, and even equality, says Ford. ![]() Dress codes can reveal social aspirations and political ideals, a new book argues.įor centuries, dress codes have had a role in maintaining specific social roles and hierarchies.īut fashion and style have also traditionally served another purpose: to express new ideals of individual liberty, rationality, and equality, according to new research by Richard Thompson Ford, professor of law at Stanford University.Ĭivil rights activists in 1960s America wore their “Sunday Best” at protests to demonstrate they were worthy of dignity and respect as they challenged the institutions that kept Black people at the bottom of the social hierarchy.Ĭenturies earlier, during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, a pared-down business suit symbolized a departure from the status-based opulence of previous aristocratic regimes. ![]() ![]() ![]() in History from Emory University, where she was also trained in the Emory Center for Ethics. Other publications include, but are certainly not limited to, chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body, numerous articles and book reviews, and a forthcoming monograph on feminist womens health activism in the U.S. Blank joyfully bridges the town/gown divide with a deep commitment to public history as well as more traditional academic work. The author or editor of ten books that include Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality (Beacon Press), Virgin: The Untouched History (Bloomsbury), and the forthcoming FAT (Bloomsbury, fall 2020), Dr. Her fascination with the ways bodiesand all that we experience and enact through themhelp to create us as members of cultures with highly specific individual and social identities have led her to work on topics ranging from fatness to heterosexuality and feminist health to virginity. ![]() Hanne Blank is a historian, writer, editor, and public speaker whose interdisciplinary work lies at the intersection of bodies, selves, and cultures. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This book was released on with total page 320 pages. OL1935731W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 91.35 Pages 268 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0297847678 Download or read book Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries) written by Barbara Goldsmith and published by W. Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie Atlas Books Great discoveries: Author: Barbara Goldsmith: Edition: illustrated, reprint: Publisher: W. Urn:lcp:obsessivegeniusi00gold:epub:5209e8ea-b57d-40d1-a978-cae1070d8f9a Extramarc Duke University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier obsessivegeniusi00gold Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5p84wx10 Isbn 0393051374ĩ780393051377 Lccn 2004015027 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition The bestselling, 'excellentpoignantand scientifically lucidportrait' (New York Times Book Review) of the remarkable Marie Curie.Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the mythan all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family. ![]() ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:58:50 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA107924 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon 5D City New York Containerid_2 X0008 Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1. ![]() ![]() He was the first one to get to you when you were hit." I really did like this book. I can't even do my homework in peace! And this is none of my concern." Frankie really got brownie points in a certain scene, "Frankie has the hots for you. ![]() She wakes me up all night with her bladder. ![]() ![]() The boy was magic, pure magic." Also Sophie has a temper and I truly enjoyed watching her crack and break when it came time, "Not my concern?" I couldn't contain the bitterness in my voice. I saw why so many girls had fallen for Frankie Salas. I like when Sophie starts questioning certain feelings for certain boys it shows that the girl does have a brain and can I don't know make smart decisions, "I quickly pulled my hand away and arched back. I have to give up my bedroom." No I wouldn't do it, I would say suffer. Try not to write like a girl." What an a** right? Now let's talk about Sophie's sister, would I give up my room for mine that is a hell to the no people, "Yeah. "He'll get over it." Why was I not Team Jacob you ask well let's see him wanting Sophie to do his test is a no-no that is totally a turn off, "Use my pen if you need to change anything. ![]() "Don't worry about him." He winked and handed back the bottle. So Frankie, he's a character I loved him was totally Team Frankie through out the whole book, did I like Jacob no, so let's focus on Frankie and how much I was Team Frankie. ![]() ![]() In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. The power grid of the city has been destroyed New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. As The Tin Roof Blowdown begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. In the waning days of summer 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana. Winner of the 2008 Audie Award for Mysteryĭave Robicheaux returns in an adventure as timely as real life: the fight against crime, and the fight for life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ![]() ![]() ![]() Balogh gives the 40-something lovers refreshing complexity, not sugarcoating their character flaws, and these nods to reality will make Viola and Marcel all the more endearing to readers. Home, they discover, can’t so easily be shut away. The lovers’ avoidance of responsibility not only bewilders their families but strains their unexpected deepening feelings for one another. ![]() By indulging in his liaison with Viola, Marcel happily delays returning home to his now-grown twins, who are mostly strangers to him, having been raised by relatives. But now, 14 years later, after her husband’s death and the subsequent discovery that their marriage was invalid due to his secret other wife, Viola takes an unexpected opportunity to engage in a short-term love affair with Marcel. These two once fancied each other in the early days of Viola’s marriage to Riverdale. Lust, loneliness, and love are not merely for the young, as the former Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley, learns when she escapes from her family only to meet up with the rakish Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. ![]() Balogh ( Someone to Wed) continues the Westcott family’s recovery from the reversal of fortune first unveiled in Someone to Love. ![]() ![]() The second half is spent tracing a fictional attempt to recover the original manuscript of the Rubaiyat by an obsessed American scholar. Divided into four parts, Maalouf dedicates its first half of the novel to a somewhat historically accurate recreation of Khayyám’s life. The novel is set in the city of Samarkand, a multicultural metropolis of lush tent life that was the greatest city in the world at the time when Khayyám lived there. ![]() Through the story of Khayyám’s life, we learn about the Seljuk Empire at the height of Persian civilization. Written in the historical fiction genre, the novel focuses on the life of eleventh-century Persian poet, scientist, mathematician, teacher, and philosopher Omar Khayyám, whose poetry collection Rubaiyat came from his Sufi mystic background. ![]() Samarkand, renowned and award-winning Lebanese-French author Amin Maalouf’s second novel, was published to critical acclaim in French in 1988 and translated into English by Russell Harris. ![]() |
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