![]() ![]() What’s really ironic is that Tacitus probably never even set foot in Germany. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacituss Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich is written by Christopher B. It was damaged in a flood in 1966, but is now safely housed at the Museo Nazionale in Rome. The manuscript remained in Italy after the war. They broke down the doors and ransacked the Villa, but didn’t find it. In 1943, agents of Heinrich Himmler, the head of Hitler’s SS and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich, tried to steal the one remaining copy, which had been hidden under the floor of a kitchen in the Villa Fontedamo on the Adriatic coast of Italy. But in Germania, they found a description of people they could call their forbears (21). It had been a sort of a murky part of the Holy Roman Empire. Remember, there had been no Germany before 1871. The Nazis liked the description of their ancient ancestors as simple, brave, loyal, and pure. The slim work was available in translation throughout Germany, and although Tacitus’s description of early Germanic tribes was not universally positive, he did laud their warlike qualities, and the book had become an important part of the Nazi ideology. In the 1940s, the Germania was taught in German schools and widely celebrated as a comprehensive account of the ancient Germanic people. All copies of Germania were lost during the Middle Ages, but a single, hand-lettered copy resurfaced at an Abbey in present-day Germany in 1455. ![]() In AD 98, the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus (56 – 117) wrote a text called “About the Origin and Mores of the Germanic Peoples,” or Germania, as it came to be called. ![]()
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6/25/2023 0 Comments I came as a shadow john thompson![]() Their son grew up to be a man with his own life-sized statue in a building that bears his family’s name on a campus once kept afloat by the selling of 272 enslaved people. ![]() ![]() His father could not read or write, so the only way he could identify different cements at the factory where he worked was to taste them. Thompson’s mother was a teacher who couldn’t teach because she was Black. And thawing his historically glacial stare, Thompson brings us into his negotiation with a DC drug kingpin in his players’ orbit in the 1980s, as well as behind the scenes on the Nike board today. How did he inspire the phrase “Hoya Paranoia”? You’ll see. ![]() We experience riding shotgun with Celtics icon Red Auerbach, and coaching NBA Hall of Famers like Patrick Ewing and Allen Iverson. Chockful of stories and moving beyond mere stats (and what stats! three Final Fours, four times national coach of the year, seven Big East championships, 97 percent graduation rate), Thompson’s book drives us through his childhood under Jim Crow segregation to our current moment of racial reckoning. John Thompson was never just a basketball coach and I Came As a Shadow is categorically not just a basketball autobiography.Īfter three decades at the center of race and sports in America, the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship is ready to make the private public. The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial justice into sharp relief ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the final pencil drawing that Roy created for the ACE paperback cover painting of ACE 90190 THE WIZARD OF VENUS by Edgar Rice Burroughs, published in 1970. Illustration by one of the great masters of fantasy illustration - Roy G. Since it was marketed as an ACE single I have placed it in this section. August 1970 1st ACE printing) This is a combined edition of 2 stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs - The Wizard of Venus and Pirateīlood. ![]() However, the cover art is not attributed on this volume.ĩ0083-6 COLIN KAPP The Wizard of Anharitte ( cover by Richard Corben February 1980 1st ACE printing )ĩ0190 EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS The Wizard of Venus and Pirate Blood ( coverīy Roy G. These are credited to Ruth Robbins and are not original to the Ace editions, having a copyright date of 1968. Lombardero c.1968 December 1973 2nd ACE printing) This edition has interior art: four pages of maps and 10 small drawings, one for each chapter's title page. Includes the same map and chapter heading drawings as found in the Parnassus Press hardcover edition.ĩ0076 URSULA K. This is one of the ACE Science Fiction Specials (1st. LE GUIN A Wizard of Earthsea ( cover by Leo and Diane Dillon and interior drawings by Ruth Robbins c.1968 1970 1st ACE printing) ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Simple Secrets by Nancy Mehl![]() ![]() Mehl's dialogue reads smoothly enough throughout, but even this vital narrative element isn't enough to overcome the all-too-predictable story line. In the Fullness of Time Audiobook By Nancy Mehl, Elizabeth Adams, Elizabeth Ludwig. As Gracie notes, all around are friendly, nice people-one of whom is a killer. Buy a cheap copy of Simple Secrets book by Nancy Mehl. Internet Archive logo A line drawing of the Internet Archive headquarters building faade. ![]() 23 cm Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. ![]() In the days that follow, Gracie and Sam become close allies in the search for truth, and this alliance comes with no little cost. Simple secrets : Mehl, Nancy : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 495 p. Still, Gracie travels to her inheritance and soon discovers a cryptic letter from her uncle making a claim that leaves Gracie's mind and heart spinning. From the get-go, Gracie has some negative vibes about the whole situation since her uncle shunned her parents years earlier, when they left the community. Gracie Temple (city girl) and Sam Goodrich (smalltown fruit farmer) find themselves thrown together after Gracie inherits her deceased uncle's home in a Mennonite community. Can graphic designer Gracie Temple have it all: the big-city life and a job at a successful advertising firm Just when she feels life coming together she. ) offers fans a new tale turning on the age-old collision of ultraconservative religion and contemporary grace-driven faith. Cozy mystery author Mehl ( In the Dead of Winter ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Pumpkin soup by helen cooper![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both his earlier desertion and return fall woefully flat, but readers will be smitten with Cooper’s smart and utterly disarming artwork. When they don’t find him, they return home crestfallen, where Duck is waiting. Rendered in pictures richly evoking autumn, Helen Coopers delightful story will resonate for an child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship. They set out to find him, fret, fuss, worry that he’s been hurt, or worse, found new friends. Without his touch with the salt, however, the soup is a disaster, and Cat and Squirrel just plain miss Duck. Squirrel tells him to take a hike, which the disgruntled Duck does. Then Duck decides to take over Squirrel’s responsibilities. Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper is the focus of this literacy unit for students with autism and special learning needs. Cat dices the pumpkin, Squirrel stirs in the water, and Duck adds the all-important pipkin of salt. They are a harmonious trio, especially when they concoct their pumpkin soup. Deep in the forest, in their squash-like abode, live three little creatures: a cat, a squirrel, and a duck. Cooper (The Boy Who Wouldn’t Go to Bed, 1997, etc.) tries for a shaggy-dog story, whose details are less compelling than page after page of charmingly snug illustrations. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Map Addict by Mike Parker![]() ![]() In Map Addict, we learn the location of what has officially been named by the OS as the most boring square kilometre in the land we visit the town fractured into dozens of little parcels of land split between two different countries and trek around many other weird borders of Britain and Europe we test the theories that the new city of Milton Keynes was built to a pagan alignment and that women can't read maps. Map Addict mixes wry observation with hard fact and considerable research, unearthing the offbeat, the unusual and the downright pedantic in a celebration of all things maps. There are some fine, dry tomes out there about the history and development of cartography: this is not one of them. ![]() They are the unsung heroes of life: Map Addict sings their song. ![]() At a stroke, they convey precise information about topography, layout, history, politics and power. Maps pepper logos, advertisements, illustrations, books, web pages and newspaper and magazine articles: they are a cipher for every area of human existence. ![]() On an average day, we will consult some form of map approximately a dozen times, often without even noticing: checking the A-Z, the road atlas or the Sat Nav, scanning the tube or bus map, a quick Google online or hours wasted flying over a virtual Earth, navigating a way around a shopping centre, watching the weather forecast, planning a walk or a trip, catching up on the news, booking a holiday or hotel. Maps not only show the world, they help it turn. ![]() 6/23/2023 0 Comments Crave Me by M. Robinson![]() I loved every bit of it! I really enjoyed this series. Crave Me was so much more than your average love story. ![]() There was so much that went on in this story that it constantly kept you on your toes. But with the amount of love that she had for him, I know I wouldn't have been able to give up on him either. I couldn't believe how much strength Briggs had when it came to Austin. I loved that their relationship was beautiful in it's own way. The struggles they went through were rough. Their love story is one that will stay with you forever. ![]() Well, that is exactly what happened! "I devoured the entire thing in one sitting staying up all night until I’d finished it."Īustin and Briggs' story shattered my heart. Plus, I knew once I started, I would be sucked in, unable to put it down. Unfortunately, when it hit my kindle it happen to be a busy weekend for me, and I didn't want to start it until I could give it 100% of my attention. When I first received Crave Me, I wanted to start reading it right away. Someone you possibly met in a previous life, someone who may have meant something to you." ![]() But, feeling it in your heart, in your mind, and in your soul that this person was a part of you. “Have you ever met someone that you felt like you already knew with every fiber of your being? Knowing it was physically impossible, knowing it was the first time you had ever laid eyes on him, knowing that he was a complete and utter stranger. ![]() ![]() That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father (a professional taxidermist who created dead-animal hand puppets) and a childhood of wearing winter shoes made out of used bread sacks. When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. Book summary:įor fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris-Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. In the UK you can get it at Amazon.UK, Waterstones and UK indie stores. It’s also available at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, Books-A-Million, Audibleand iTunesand it somehow became a #1 NYT BestSeller the first week out. Just tell me what you want me to write when you order. If you want a signed copy you can order one from my book store, Nowhere Bookshop. Because I love you.Īnd that’s why you should buy my book. But only if you hollow it out and fill it with your own cocaine. You should probably go buy it right now, because it’s filled with awesomeness. I wrote a book and it only took me 11 years. ![]() 6/22/2023 0 Comments Nothing like a puffin![]() (Sept.) Copyright 2011 Publishers Weekly, LLC Used with permission. This is a 39 page activity/companion/literacy packet centered around the theme of Comparing/Contrasting using the book Nothing Like a Puffin as an. What's more, his restrained palette reinforces the similarities Soltis so effectively uncovers, e.g., the house's awning is striped with the same orange, yellow, and blue of the puffin's beak. But wait-a puffin is black and white, too! What are the chances?" This epiphany leads to others (a puffin can swim like a goldfish and dig like a shovel) as Kolar's (Big Kicks) bold, cheerful cartoons show the bird causing lighthearted havoc, tearing the homeowner's newspaper and biting a snake on the tail. "A newspaper, to be sure, is nothing like a puffin. About Nothing Like a Puffin, her first picture book, she says, Writing this book was a great exercise in logic. ![]() After discussing how a ladder and a house are nothing like a puffin, the narrator runs into a bit of trouble. ![]() "What a marvelous creature, one of a kind and amazing," she writes of the puffin. ![]() Much like her eponymous puffin, Soltis shows her mischievous side in her debut picture book, a playful exploration of unexpected comparisons with twists that will have readers reconsidering the ways in which disparate things can be surprisingly similar. By Grade + Interest - K to 1st By Grade + Interest - 2nd to 3rd By Grade + Interest - 4th to 5th ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() However, and only for him, they are tender and full of love. because her hands can be powerful and unforgiving. For her there are no gender rules (where woman is protected). The surprising Gera shows that her impressive beauty is not her only virtue also, her extraordinary combat skills and the nobility of her heart. In the middle of all this conflict, Alfenon, Almea and the celestial leaders are involved. The Guardians of Eden will try to stop this whatever the cost. They have arrived with the intention of destroying the "magical garden". * Almost a thousand celestial beings with supernatural powers have risen against the supreme. *** Behind every fable, there is a dark side to the story *** Will they be able to protect the magical garden or is this the end? **. Please note that this title is Independently Published or self published and the quality of production may vary. Translated by Anonimo, Anonimo By Arancibia Hurtado, Raul German Guardians of Eden: Will they be able to defend the garden or is the end. ![]() |