As soon as the spear had left Breca’s grip she knew it would hit its mark. The spear left his fist: a hiss as sharp iron sliced through air. A dozen reindeer stood grazing in a glade, a thick-antlered bull watching over the herd of cows and calves as they chewed and scratched moss and lichen from trunks and boulders.Ī shift in Breca’s eyes, an indrawn breath that he held, followed by a burst of explosive movement his hips twisting, his arm moving. Spring sunlight dappled the ground through soft-swaying branches, reflecting brightly from patches of rimed snow, winter’s last hoar-frost kiss on this high mountain woodland. Hard words are needed for this hard world. Muscles bunched in Orka’s jaw, hard words already in her throat. He stood to her left, solid and huge as a boulder. “Wait,” Thorkel breathed through his braided beard, a cold-misting of breath. She opened her mouth to scold him, but a hand touched her arm, a huge hand where Breca’s was small, rough-skinned where Breca’s was smooth. He is too gentle for this world of pain, Orka thought. “Death is a part of life,” Orka whispered into her son’s ear.Įven though Breca’s arm was drawn back, the ash-spear gripped tight in his small, white-knuckled fist and the spearhead aimed at the reindeer in front of them, she could see the hesitation in his eyes, in the set of his jaw. CHAPTER ONE ORKA The year 297 of Friðaröld, The Age of Peace
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In a direct challenge to Eisenhower, McCarthy alleged that the US Army was harboring communists and launched an investigation. Nichols shows how the tension between the two men escalated. In “a thorough, well-written, and surprising picture of a man who was much more than a ‘do-nothing’ president” ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review), David A. Therefore, the president operated-more discreetly and effectively-with a “hidden hand.” In spite of a public perception that Eisenhower was unwilling to challenge McCarthy, Ike believed that directly confronting the senator would diminish the presidency. They shook hands for the cameras, but Dwight Eisenhower privately abhorred Senator Joseph McCarthy, the powerful Republican senator notorious for his anti-Communist campaign. The full, little-known story of how President Dwight Eisenhower masterminded the downfall of the anti-Communist demagogue Senator Joseph McCarthy is “a gripping, detailed account of how the executive branch subtly but decisively defeated one of America’s most dangerous demagogues” ( The Washington Post). Machiavelli’s guide to power was revolutionary in that it described how powerful people succeeded-as he saw it-rather than as one imagined a leader should operate.īefore his exile, Machiavelli had navigated the volatile political environment of 16th-century Italy as a statesman. It was his hope that a strong sovereign, as outlined in his writing, could return Florence to its former glory. Rather, when Machiavelli wrote The Prince, his shrewd guidelines to power in the 16th century, he was an exiled statesman angling for a post in the Florentine government. Tony Soprano and Shakespeare’s Macbeth may be well-known Machiavellian characters, but the man whose name inspired the term, Niccolo Machiavelli, didn’t operate by his own cynical rule book. According to Machiavelli, the ends always justify the means-no matter how cruel, calculating or immoral those means might be. They’ve each made progress with their own personal hang-ups and issues, love each other very much, and are still funny as hell. Two years into their relationship, Luc and Oliver still have separate flats but are together constantly. But more on that later.īlatantly modeled on Four Weddings and A Funeral**, the plot of Husband Material follows Luc and Oliver, the extreme-opposites-extremely-attract couple from the first book as they navigate being in a healthy long-term relationship (a first for both of them) while seeing all of their friends embracing wedding planning and baby making. And for the most part, Husband Material does not disappoint… except for the ending. This Summer 2022, you’re invited to the event(s) of the season.Īfter giggling my way through Boyfriend Material earlier this year, I just knew I needed the sequel in my life. Good thing Oliver is such perfect HUSBAND MATERIAL. But it’ll take more than four weddings, a funeral, and a bowl full of special curry to get these two from I don’t know what I’m doing to I do. Now it seems like everyone around them is getting married, and Luc’s feeling the social pressure to propose. In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak and disappointment and family and friends…and somehow figured out a way to make it work. A high school friend’s social media post read, Call me crazy, but the running is getting to be fun! Chapter 1 Off the Sofa and into the Ravineįive months before my forty-ninth birthday, I slouched on the sofa in my pajamas, squinting at my laptop screen. Then I pulled up my panties, opened the door, and ran. I would have to carry my heavy heart across the pavement solo. This left me in treacherous company-with only my mind-forever critical. Even the dog, my other regular running companion, was absent-at home-probably asleep. My ever-faithful husband, my sister, and friends, all still very much alive, were on the course, but miles away. I’d spent a mile convincing them to leave after I could no longer ignore my bowels.Īlone in the fiberglass cubicle, trying to avoid sitting down, I shivered with loneliness as I finished my task. The running partners I’d begun the race with that morning, and trained with for the past four months, had gone ahead without me. The sun shining on the white top bathed me in gray light. Who do you think you are? it growled as I squatted in a green porta potty four and a half miles into the Columbus Marathon. Over the course of the twentieth century, a growing number of commentators have claimed that Engels fundamentally distorted Marx’s thought, and that “Marxism” and especially Stalinism emerged out of this one-sided caricature of Marx’s ideas. 1 But if this context has been unpropitious for Marxism generally, criticisms of Engels’s thought have a second, quite separate, source. Despite the recent global economic crisis and associated increases in inequality that have tended to confirm Karl Marx and Engels’s general critique of capitalism, Marxism is an optimistic doctrine that has not fared well in a context dominated by working-class retreat and demoralization. The main reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is undoubtedly political. This article is an adaptation of the introduction to Blackledge’s latest book, Friedrich Engels and Modern Social and Political Theory (SUNY Press, 2019).Īt the bicentenary of his birth, Frederick Engels’s reputation as an original thinker is, among Anglophone academics at least, at its nadir. He is coeditor of Virtue and Politics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), Alasdair MacIntyre’s Engagement with Marxism (Brill, 2008), Revolutionary Aristotelianism (Lucius and Lucius, 2008), and Historical Materialism and Social Evolution (Palgrave, 2002). He is the author of Marxism and Ethics (SUNY Press, 2012), Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History (Manchester University Press, 2006), and Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left (Merlin Press, 2004). Paul Blackledge is a professor of Marxist theory at Shanxi University. You can also connect with Delia on Facebook at. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel. Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising. Perfect for fans of Barbara Kingsolver and Karen Russell, Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Delia Owens is a New York Times bestselling nature writer and author of the stunning debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing, already a New York Times best seller. She currently lives in Idaho, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. Delia Owens is a New York Times bestselling nature writer and author of the stunning debut novel, Where the Crawdads Sing. She has won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in Nature, The African Journal of Ecology, and International Wildlife, among many others. Delia Owens is the co-author of three internationally bestselling nonfiction books about her life as a wildlife scientist in Africa- Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna. She currently lives in Idaho, where she continues her support for the people and wildlife of Zambia. Vimes has him trapped on the University Library's roof, but when a lightning bolt note the same time altering one from Thief of Time strikes, it causes a freak magical incident that catapults Vimes and Carcer thirty years back in time. The Watch is on the hunt for a serial killer named Carcer, who has murdered Sergeant Stronginthearm. The framing events take place at the same time (such as it is) as the previous novel Thief of Time and also set up events for the following novel Monstrous Regiment. The 27th Discworld novel and the sixth in the Watch theme. History finds a way? Well, it would have to come up with something good, because it was up against Sam Vimes now." 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