![]() Radden Keefe, through careful, thorough research, interviews, and clear, penetrating prose brings the sins of the Sacklers to life in the lives of the people most hurt by their dishonest business practices in selling Oxycontin and bringing us to the opioid crisis as we know it today. What I appreciate the most about Radden Keefe is his ability to balance impeccably sourced and researched content AND a tone of banked righteous anger, a moral core, a sense of things not right. ![]() It’s early days yet, but it’s not likely I’ll forget it. Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021) is as remarkable, precise, well-written, measured, and ethical a book as Radden Keefe’s Say Nothing, my 2021 book of the year. ![]()
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![]() It was bound in black, had a found key taped to the cover, and contained a magical door at the front labeled THE AUTHOR, so that King could re-enter his vast universe. To King’s surprise, six weeks later she handed in a Dark Tower encyclopedia, complete with characters, places, games, diseases, gods, lore, and languages. ![]() Would she be interested in the extra job? She said yes. He told her that he was about to return to his Dark Tower series and needed complete page references for all of the characters and places listed in the original four novels. On a snowy afternoon in December of that year, after completing the last of her assigned tasks, Robin met Stephen King in person. She was a published poet, loved fantasy, science fiction, and horror, and was an avid Constant Reader. Burt knew of a PhD student who fit all of King’s needs. ![]() Hoping to employ a local graduate student, he contacted his old advisor, Burt Hatlen, at the University of Maine at Orono, and asked if he could recommend someone for the job. In the autumn of 2000, Stephen King needed a temporary research assistant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Visual novels typically plonk the player in front of a static 2D image, and though you might peruse that image at your will, you won’t be able to look behind you, or stretch your vision to see if there are any curses standing next to you (because that sure is a thing in Paranormasight). ![]() ![]() “It always ends up being messy work, trying to make each and every scene connect in a way that’s interesting.” With a handful of lead characters and a wide supporting cast to pace throughout Paranormasight, it’s a minor miracle the game’s plot unfolds so smoothly.Īnother subversive element is Paranormasight letting the player explore 360 degrees around them. “I always start out thinking I’m going to create a beautifully organised plot, but it never goes that way,” Ishiyama says. Aligning the five plot paths was a process of trial and error for Ishiyama, as the stories would at times become “misaligned” from their end goal, requiring he go back and smooth things out. Paranormasight is divided up into five ‘routes’, with a different character spearheading each path and providing a different viewpoint on the events around Tokyo, as characters work to reclaim deadly curse stones and prevent murders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Photo by Valter Campanato/Agência Brasil via Wikimedia Commons. Patricia Hill Collins during a conference in Brazil. Far from being the apolitical study of truth, epistemology points to the ways in which power relations shape who is believed and why” ( 2000, 252). In Black Feminist Thought, Collins wrote that epistemology “investigates the standards used to assess knowledge or why we believe what we believe to be true. ![]() Collins’s work established a paradigm for the past thirty years of feminist epistemology. One of the most significant contemporary philosophers contributing to feminist epistemologies is Patricia Hill Collins. Indeed, feminist epistemologies value plurality: collaboration among multiple perspectives results in more complete, valid knowledge. ![]() This chapter’s title is plural- feminist epistemologies-because there is not one unified feminist epistemology. ![]() Apply concepts in feminist epistemologies to real-life situations (e.g., in current events, pop culture, and lived experiences).Contextualize feminist epistemologies in relation to other significant conversations in epistemology.Identify some significant philosophers contributing to feminist epistemologies.Discuss important concepts in feminist epistemologies, including standpoint, situated knowledge, gaslighting, power-based ignorance, epistemic advantage, epistemic injustice, and epistemologies of resistance.Upon completion of this chapter, readers will be able to: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 9780749937447 Simply Love 33.3000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books /shop/books/fiction/contemporary Anne Jewell is a teacher at Miss Martin's School for Girls, a genteel academy in Regency England. 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When an unprecedented expansion of trade and colonization in the early seventeenth century launched the first global economy, a vast, diverse, and landless workforce was born. ![]() The Many Headed-Hydra recounts their stories in a sweeping history of the role of the dispossessed in the making of the modern world. Long before the American Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a motley crew of sailors, slaves, pirates, laborers, market women, and indentured servants had ideas about freedom and equality that would forever change history. Winner of the International Labor History Award ![]() ![]() ![]() As this story unfolds the characters are all so amazing, from psychic elderly ladies, to nine ‘sisters’ and sinister spy like characters and agents. Praise for Tegon Maus’s ‘Machines Of the Little People’ (The Eve Project, Book 1): The only thing he knows for certain… the only thing he can count on are the two words offered repeatedly by his friend and guide…. ![]() ![]() His search for her leads him back to the lights in the sky and leaves him with more questions than answers. After helping her to escape she disappears before he can learn the truth about who she is or where she came from. Sent to do a fluff piece about lights in the night sky over Arizona, he discovers far more than he ever expected when he comes upon a mysterious young woman held prisoner in a basement. Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing (September 5, 2014)Īfter 27 years as a newspaper man, Peter Anderson’s career is slipping away… at least it was… until he stumbled upon the story of a lifetime. This post was most recently updated on December 1st, 2014 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Meyer also says that her love of superheroes helped lead to the creation of Renegades. Growing up, Meyer admits that she had a strong love for fairy tales and one of her favorite shows was Sailor Moon, both of which later impacted her creation of Cinder. She later attended Pace University and received a Master's in Publishing. Meyer was born in Tacoma, Washington and attended Pacific Lutheran University, where she received a Bachelors in Creative Writing and Children's Literature. She is best known for her series The Lunar Chronicles, which includes her 2012 debut novel, Cinder. A large portion of her bibliography is centered on retellings of fairy tales. Marissa Meyer (born February 19, 1984) is an American novelist. Young adult fantasy science fiction romance ![]() ![]() True, financial rewards for services rendered were of royal proportions - some royal mistresses earned up to $200 million in titles, pensions, jewels, and palaces. Wearing a mask of beaming delight over any and all discomforts, she was never to be exhausted, complaining, or grief-stricken. ![]() She was ready to converse gaily with him when she was tired, make love until all hours when she was ill, and cater to his every whim. The successful royal mistress made herself irreplaceable. And what women they were! From Madame de Pompadour, the famous mistress of Louis XV, who kept her position for nineteen years despite her frigidity, to modern-day Camilla Parker-Bowles, who usurped none other than the glamorous Diana, Princess of Wales. Forced to marry repulsive foreign princesses, kings sought solace with women of their own choice. Curiously, the main function of a royal mistress was not to provide the king with sex but with companionship. Alive with flamboyant characters, outrageous humor, and stirring poignancy, this glittering tale of passion and politics chronicles five hundred years of scintillating women and the kings who loved them. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Now Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization’s darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a relentless human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature.and then begins to evolve. The delivery method is a cell phone- everyone’s cell phone. ![]() But all those good feelings about the future change in a hurry thanks to a devastating phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse. On October 1, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and graphic artist Clayton Riddell is visiting Boston, having just landed a deal that might finally enable him to make art instead of teaching it. The next call you take could be your last in this terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller by master storyteller Stephen King! ![]() |