Novel the casual vacancy6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptional bravery in defending the village of Courcelles-le-Comte during the First World War. Her mother's maternal grandfather, Dugald Campbell, was born in Lamlash on the Isle of Arran. Her parents first met on a train departing from King's Cross Station bound for Arbroath in 1964. Her mother Anne was half-French and half-Scottish. Rowling was born to Anne Rowling (née Volant) and Peter James Rowling, a Rolls-Royce aircraft engineer, on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Bristol. ![]() NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series and The Casual Vacancy, a novel for adults. Her mother's paternal grandfather, Louis Volant, was awarded the Croix de Guerre for exceptiona This is a pseudonym for J.K. ![]()
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Complete Works of Isocrates by Isocrates6/28/2023 ![]() La discussion en classe mise en scène à la fin du Panathénaïque d’Isocrate (§199-266) contient la plus ancienne référence à l'amphibolie dans la littérature rhétorique. While Aristotle introduced amphibolia as a (weak) type of argument from the perspective of rhetorical composition, Isocrates is focused on audience reception and rhetorical criticism. ![]() Thus, they are enabled by training to critically assess the moral problems underlying the issues under discussions and unmask the flattery or slander involved in public speech. This article argues that by introducing a rhetorical concept like this in an educational (and literary) setting, Isocrates sets his students (and readers) the task to identify the moral ambiguity of arguments they are presented with. In a way very similar to Aristotle’s notion of amphibolia, he understands these to be arguments that are meant to obscure the moral implications and dissimulate the intentions of a speech. The Laconophile former student introduced as advocatus diaboli in this section describes Isocratean arguments as logoi amphiboloi (§239f). ![]() ![]() ![]() The dialogue section in Isocrates Panathenaicus (§199–266) contains the earliest reference to amphiboly in rhetorical literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() How did the three of you get started writing books for children? These three authors have very different perspectives on book publishing and writing, and I hope you'll enjoy their varied insights as much as I did. She is a prolific author of over 90 non-fiction children's books ranging in a variety of subjects from UFOs to the Donner Party. Emily Rose Oachs is part of our youth services team, which oversees the work of youth librarians throughout the entire library system. ![]() Her many written works include numerous issues of everyone's favorite magical ponies, the My Little Pony graphic novel series. Christina Rice is a senior librarian and oversees the photo collection at the Central Library. Susan Lendroth is a public relations specialist and writes acclaimed picture books, the latest of which is Here We Go Digging for Dinosaur Bones, illustrated by Bob Kolar. Here at the Los Angeles Public Library, our staff members don't just work with books-they write them, too! I had the honor of interviewing these three wonderful authors at our library who write books for children. ![]() The beatles anthology tv6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In the DVD version, they play more clips from the reel-to-reel, and it ends with this poignant image of the tape ending and spinning endlessly on the tape player, about 30 minutes in (which is not in the version) In the version, this clip is abbreviated (around 28 minutes into the episode). There's the segment of the early demos on the reel-to-reel tape (the B&W sequence with guitars perched against chairs). They describe the same information but they are definitely different video clips, based on what they are wearing and their settings. Paul and George rerecorded their interview/discussions of the Manchester "applause" audition, when John didn't have a guitar on the way there but someone at the audition "was relieved of their guitar" at the end of it (this is about 26 minutes or so into the DVD episode). I realized this while watching episode 1, and noted some slight variations between the and DVD. If I may disagree, the streaming version is slightly different than the DVD version. ![]() State of wonder by ann patchett6/28/2023 ![]() The irony of his escaping family life for a christening party needs no underscoring.īert finds himself in a suburban Eden where thirst is quenched by gin and oranges (in lieu of Eve’s apple). But our initial focus is on Bert Cousins, deputy district attorney, who gatecrashes the party because of his need to escape the tedium of toddlers and his tired wife, Teresa, on a Sunday afternoon. We will get to know “Franny” as she and the novel grow up. 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