![]() Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more. This edition reproduces the original book version and enables readers to appreciate its immediate historical context as well as the reasons for its continued importance today, in the face of the challenges of multi-culturalism and post-modernism.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. How can individuals be educated, not indoctrinated, and what is the role of the state in disseminating 'sweetness and light'? ![]() Unrest and uncertainty that pervaded mid-Victorian England. He contrasts culture, 'the study of perfection', with anarchy, the mood of Arnold seeks to find out 'what culture really is, what good it can do, what is our own special need of it' in an age of rapid social change and increasing mechanization. And sigh that one thing only has been lent To youth and age in commondiscontent. ![]() And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title Culture and Anarchy in 1869, debate important questions about the nature of culture and society that are as relevant now as they have ever been. Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy Despair. 'The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.' ![]()
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In a letter received by the district, Oliver was accused of favoritism, of covering up for irresponsible employees so they could also cover for him, and of allowing people of ill repute to come into the Marina Children”s Center, where he worked as site supervisor.īy June 2011, multiple sources brought similar charges to the California Department of Education, accusing him of coaching friends and acquaintances to lie about their life circumstances so they could get into subsidized child care. ![]() MONTEREY > > Like other unpleasant episodes in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District, this one began with a series of anonymous messages.Ĭhris Oliver, who has worked for MPUSD since 1993, had been the target of a series of anonymous allegations dating back to April 2011 - some say longer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Lauren in typical work attire: a headband, pearls, and a going-out top. Still don’t believe me? 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Thank you to everyone who read our work over the years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She vows to do whatever it takes to avenge her beloved sister, Vittoria… even if that means accepting the hand of the Prince of Pride, the king of demons. ‘I am your favorite sin.’ “ – Kerri Maniscalco, “Kingdom of the Cursed” What It’s About:Īfter selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of Wrath, where she’s introduced to a seductive world of vice. ‘What?’ My own voice came out breathless. ‘Tell me,’ he whispered, his voice sliding like silk over my flushed skin. ![]() To see my Fancast/Dreamcast of the series so far – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 4.5 Stars To see my review of book #1 – Kingdom of the Wicked – Click HERE ***Warning!! This review contains spoilers from this book and the previous in the series, so continue reading at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!*** Genre(s): Paranormal, New Adult Romance, YA Fantasy ![]() ![]() “Automation is critical for understanding inequality dynamics,” says MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, co-author of a newly published paper detailing the findings. Now a new study co-authored by an MIT economist suggests automation has a bigger impact on the labor market and income inequality than previous research would indicate - and identifies the year 1987 as a key inflection point in this process, the moment when jobs lost to automation stopped being replaced by an equal number of similar workplace opportunities. In other cases, forms of automation, from robots to phone-answering systems, have simply replaced factory workers, receptionists, and many other kinds of employees. In some white-collar jobs - designer, engineer - people become more productive with sophisticated software at their side. Modern technology affects different workers in different ways. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is part 3 of a three-part series examining the effects of robots and automation on employment, based on new research from economist and Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu. ![]() ![]() ![]() I instantly fell in love with the stories of Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, H.G. This first installment of Rick Riordan's best-selling series is a non-stop thrill-ride and a classic of mythic proportions.Ī Note for Amazon Customers from Illustrator John Roccoĭear Readers, When I was about eight years old I had the great luck of stumbling upon my father’s collection of Classics Illustrated comic books. All too soon, a cryptic prophecy from the Oracle sends Percy on his first quest, a mission to the Underworld to prevent a war among the gods of Olympus. There's little time to process this news. 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He told them that he was going to read to them as if he were reading a bedtime story to his own children. “And yet, I finally did that.”īefore he started reading from the latest installment in the series, the then-unpublished “The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Riddle of Ages,” Stewart again addressed the disparity between the present audience and the audience for whom he’d written the book. “The other thing that I never thought that I would do was return to the ‘Mysterious Benedict Society’ series,” he said, referring to the hit book series that had earned him international acclaim and a then-in-the-works television adaptation, which has since premiered on Disney Plus. ![]() ![]() I could also relate to those hot summers Bec described and wanting to go to the pool or into an air-conditioned fast food restaurant to get away from it so there was instantly that connection to our surroundings. I received this book from Harlequin Australia for review (thanks!) and I wanted to read it because I love psychological thrillers, like a lot of people do and I’m always looking for new ones that really shock me and leave me dying to know more. I didn’t even realise this book was set in Australia (since I skimmed the plot) until I started reading it and it mentioned familiar places but it definitely added another level of enjoyment to the story because it was placed I knew. As the imposter dodges the detective investigating her case, she begins to delve into the life of the real Bec Winter-and soon realises that whoever took Bec is still at large and that she is in imminent danger.” Playing with her twin brothers. But Bec’s welcoming family and enthusiastic friends are not quite as they seem. A young woman, desperate after being arrested, claims to be the decade-missing Bec. Soon the imposter is living Bec’s life. Mysteriously ominous things began to happen-blood in the bed, periods of blackouts, a feeling of being watched-though Bec remained oblivious of what was to come.Įleven years later she is replaced. She’d been enjoying her teenage summer break: working at a fast-food restaurant, crushing on an older boy and shoplifting with her best friend. ![]() ![]() “ In 2003, sixteen-year-old Rebecca Winter disappeared. ![]() ![]() If at times it's hard to separate what is part of the vampire's or monks' plans and what is simply horrifying catastrophe, that also feels thematically appropriate. Watts' nihilistic meditation on evolution and adaptation is by turns disturbing and gorgeous, with a biologist's understanding of nature's indifference. When the ship encounters an alien intelligence, Brüks guides us through the twisting plot to a funny, grim conclusion. ![]() In escaping the threats lurking in the desert, Brüks finds himself on a spaceship full of posthumans-along with the vampire. Caught up in the conflict is Daniel Brüks, a field biologist in a world that has largely moved beyond the old methods of science, who is on sabbatical in the desert-where he intends to hide from a mass murder committed using his research. She escapes her captors to hunt a reclusive hivelike sect of scientist-monks living in the Oregon desert. Dick proud, told in a literary style that should seduce readers who don't typically enjoy science fiction.Ī companion to Watts' Blindsight (2006), the book opens with a hyperintelligent vampire brought back from extinction by scientists in the 22nd century. ![]() A paranoid tale that would make Philip K. ![]() ![]() Go get yourself a copy, curl up on the couch and travel to England in the 1840's courtesy of Charlotte Bronte! Happy Reading! -Submitted by Jennifer C. Jane Eyre is truly timeless-it is a work of literature that will introduce readers of any age to memorable characters and a story that gets better and better each time you read it. ![]() This book leaves the reader wanting to know what will happen to the much abused Jane and read with increasing credulity all that she goes through as a child and subsequently the fate that befalls her once she is at Thornfield. The plot is so imaginative and so full of unexpected turns and coincidences that it is impossible to put down after being drawn in at Chapter One. It is a romance between two strong characters each with diametrically opposed pasts and who represent the time period in which it was written. For sheer what-is-going-to-happen-next value, Jane Eyre really can't be beat-it is a true gothic novel. ![]() What lies in wait for Jane is nothing compared to what she has escaped from and this, I feel, is the most incredible and page-turning aspect of the book. ![]() The story develops in a way that holds your interest as she meets Rochester and the secrets of Thornfield are revealed. When I first read Jane Eyre, I was absolutely captivated by the story, the characters, Jane's plight as an orphan at Gateshead and Lowood and her transition to governess at Thornfield. ![]() |