![]() ![]() But what if these long-held beliefs were all wrong? In this stunning, powerful, and ultimately persuasive book, Rodney Stark, one of the most highly regarded sociologists of religion and the bestselling author of The Rise of Christianity, argues that some of our most firmly held ideas about history, ideas that paint the Catholic Church in the least positive light are, in fact, fiction. As we all know and as many of our well-established textbooks have argued for decades, the Inquisition was one of the most frightening and bloody chapters in Western history, Pope Pius XII was anti-Semitic and rightfully called "Hitler's Pope," the Dark Ages were a stunting of the progress of knowledge to be redeemed only by the secular spirit of the Enlightenment, and the religious Crusades were an early example of the rapacious Western thirst for riches and power. ![]()
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![]() ![]() He’s reinvented himself several times as life has presented new challenges and writing is the latest and the greatest reinvention yet. ![]() With his foray into being a published author, Cliff opens a new chapter in his life. When he isn’t writing, he’s busy exploring the mountains or painting one of a kind artwork or taking spectacular landscape photos which he sells along with his artwork at local flea markets and fairs. Cliff is married to his sweetheart, Donna and has two daughters and six grandchildren. For a short time, Cliff had the privilege to serve as the Township Supervisor/Safety Director in his adopted hometown in Michigan, where he had a successful career running a local refuse company and was elected to the post in the early nineteen nineties. He’s been an employee, business owner, award winning salesman in two fields, a Politian and now an author. ![]() He has worked as many different careers as he has places he’s lived. ![]() From Maine to California to Texas to Florida to Tennessee, Cliff has experienced a wide spectrum of American life. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Author Cliff Roberts grew up in suburban Detroit and has since lived in several different states. ![]() ![]() In Anishinaabe belief, writes Kimmerer, sweetgrass “was the very first to grow on the earth,” a constant reminder of the creator called Skywoman. ![]() “This braid is woven from three strands,” writes Kimmerer, an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation: “indigenous ways of knowing, scientific knowledge, and the story of an Anishinabekwe scientist trying to bring them together in service to what matters most.” The author’s 2013 book of essays on Native folkways concerning plants and their roles in human life is reissued here with new illustrations and design, a handsome production that well serves her engaging text, which will be of interest to readers schooled in the work of writers such as Wendell Berry, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Joy Harjo. ![]() ![]() Wisdom about the natural world delivered by an able writer who is both Indigenous and an academic scientist. ![]() ![]() Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. 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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mother’s death, the ghoul in the cave-?it is all too much to bear.īut still, after everyone retires I spend a few minutes looking at some of the assorted books piled in the sitting room. We are waiting for our next move, whatever it may be. ![]() The remainder of the day is spent quietly, each of us with our own thoughts. “How would that thing know that?” Emily asks.īalthazar turns to her. “‘Ring around the rosy, a pocketful of posies,’” I whisper. It is the same one we heard from the boy in the alley.” ![]() “The rhyme,” Gabriel says, looking up from his book. Darby almost laughs aloud, but quickly turns to leave. If I don’t drink, it feels like I’m gonna burn to a crisp.” She fills one and hands it to Emily, who gulps it down without pausing. “Only on the full moon can she make the transformation.”ĭarby comes back into the room bearing a tray with a ewer of water and glasses. ![]() “Darby cannot change at will,” Balthazar says wearily, as if he has stated it before. “She’s all right, you know? We could’ve used a wolf against those monsters.” “We would accept her, and she would be an equal. “She could join us,” I suggest, looking to Gabriel and Emily for support. “Well, she certainly knows that her master is not an ordinary chap,” he answers, “and that the children who reside in this house are quite unusual.” ![]() ![]() When his long-lost mother makes national news by pelting a presidential candidate with stones, Samuel meets with his publisher and agrees “to deliver a book that told (his) mother’s story while also ripping her to shreds, rhetorically.” ![]() ![]() It’s like revenge for having to teach them.”Ī once-rising literary star, Samuel is years overdue with the manuscript of his novel. The Nix (Knopf, 620 pp., **** out of four stars) jumps viewpoints and time periods with delightful abandon: there’s sixth-grader Samuel in 1988, prone to crying jags, as if sensing that his mother is about to forsake him video game addict Pwnage in 2011, obsessed with playing the fictional World of Elfscape Samuel’s mother Faye, caught up in the riots of 1968 and finally the grown-up Samuel, an embittered professor who “secretly likes when he gets to fail a student. ![]() That “the things you love the most can hurt you the worst” could serve as a subtitle for this rich and multilayered book. ![]() Though no actual supernatural monsters hit the pages of his dazzling debut novel, Nathan Hill finds broad use for the Nix as metaphor. A Nix is a creature out of Norwegian folktales that enthralls children, only to carry them off to be drowned. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There are hundreds of novels that make 50 shades look like a kid’s game. 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But it is also misunderstood and often romanticized, its history and politics oversimplified in Western headlines. ![]() long been known as a city of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that today exists at the margins of an authoritarian, ascendant China a city rocked by mass protests, where residents take to the streets to rally against encroaching threats on their democracy and freedoms. "In a place where time is running out, sometimes the most radical act is remembrance. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fan-turned-pro Tyson Hesse had a hand in reshaping Sonic for the better, and the end result was good will that simply wouldn't have been there had Paramount responded with "deal with it this movie's for kids, not you whiners on the Internet". ![]() Later that year, the world was graced with a newly redesigned Sonic, a version of the Blue Blur closer to his game counterpart. This delay was due to production time being devoted to redesigning Sonic after the uproar surrounding "realistic Sonic" and his disgusting teeth. Mere days after the redesign was unleashed upon the world, the film was delayed. Given that this was in the wake of the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, one would expect this to be yet another story of "toxic nostalgia-blind manbabies rage at media that isn't for them" from the perspective of the journalists.īy some manner of the arcane, this "realistic" Sonic redesign united not only the notoriously splintered Sonic fandom, but also the entire Internet in sheer hatred for it. ![]() Many fans of the franchise reacted negatively to the eponymous anthropomorphic hedgehog's "realistic" redesign. erm, "graced" with the first trailer for Paramount Pictures' adaptation of SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog. ![]() ![]() Laini Taylor’s books include the silk singer ( dreamdark ), blackbringer and the daughter of smoke and bone which ranked as the New York best sellers and the Amazon best teen book for 2012. In 2004 she had written the graphic novel for image comics. She writes fantasy book for young people though can also be enjoyed by adults. Taylor has become famous because of the daughter of smoke and bone. She has written various novels and one series known as the daughter of smoke and Bone. Her husband is an illustrator who by name is called Jim Di Bartolo. Currently she lives in Portland Oregon with her husband and daughter. ![]() She studied her higher education at UC Berkeley University where she graduated with a degree in English. She was born on December 1971 in California town called Chico. ![]() ![]() Laini Taylor has been the top author winning the National book Award finalist. ![]() |