![]() ![]() His research and teaching focus on the Gramscian notions of hegemony and common sense, and their connections to social justice and progressive social change. He is also the former director of the University of Arizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. Marv Waterstone is Professor Emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member for over 30 years. Among his most recent books are Hegemony or Survival, Failed States, Who Rules the World?, Requiem for the American Dream, and What Kind of Creatures Are We? Chomsky is the author of numerous best-selling political works, which have been translated into scores of countries worldwide. His work is widely credited with having revolutionized the field of modern linguistics. Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona. He studied linguistics, mathematics, and philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. ![]() Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1928. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The district of Daviot, near her home of Inverness in Scotland, was a location her family had vacationed. Mackintosh also wrote plays (both one act and full length), some of which were produced during her lifetime, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot. She also used the Daviot by-line for a biography of the 17th century cavalry leader John Graham, which was entitled Claverhouse (1937). The first of these, The Man in the Queue (1929) was published under the pseudonym of Gordon Daviot, whose name also appears on the title page of another of her 1929 novels, Kif An Unvarnished History. As Josephine Tey, she wrote six mystery novels featuring Scotland Yard's Inspector Alan Grant. Josephine was her mother's first name and Tey the surname of an English Grandmother. ![]() ![]() Josephine Tey was a pseudonym of Elizabeth Mackintosh. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emily has made it perfectly clear that she's taken charge of her destiny and nothing is going to interfere, not even falling in love with a perfect stranger. And that's why Travis is escorting young Bostonian Emily Finnegan to Golden Crest, Montana to her new home as a mail-order bride. Travis Clayborne may be the youngest of the Clayborne brothers, but he's most definitely his own man-unless it means saying no to his beloved Mama Rose. 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It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, and climatically aggressive country. ![]() It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.Īustralia is a country full of life that is difficult to believe exists in such an inhospitable environment. It is the home of the Great Barrier Reef, and the largest monolith, Ayers Rock. It is the only country that began as a prison, and the only one that is also a continent.Īustralia is a country full of strange and dangerous animals. We rarely pay attention to them, and this is strange considering they are a country that doesn’t misbehave and is peaceful and good.īecause we know so little about Australia, it is a country that is worth getting to know. Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 1Īustralia is a difficult country to keep track of. Insights on Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country ![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to play with that a little by injecting a more cosmic horror, so the “thinness” is between our Earth and something lying far beyond. ![]() The polar ice has been used throughout literature as something of a liminal space, where the veils between this world and death, or the supernatural, have grown thin-it’s very memorably portrayed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Captain of the Polestar” as a place of supernatural encounters. Thank you! I’m delighted you picked up on the sense of otherworldliness. Could you go into this aspect a little more? You also touch on the idea of illusion throughout the story, both with David’s relationships, and with the peculiarities of the crucible they’re in. ![]() It harks back to Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland, and even Frankenstein, with a dash of Moby Dick. 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He gained a large local following, and, alongside other wolves at the sanctuary, had a classroom named after him at Beenham Primary School. ![]() Torak was christened after the main character in Michelle Paver's Chronicles of Ancient Darkness book series. He was born into the care of the Anglian Wolf Society in 2006, coming to Beenham as a cub. ![]() ![]() ![]() What were you thinking? they would likely ask as they discovered our slowly deteriorating condition, We intended for you to have a republic, not the popular democratic spectacle of turbulence and contention demonstrated by the ancient record. They would no doubt be biased in this regard, but if the founders could be resurrected long enough to survey how we managed the well-considered legacy they gave us in 1787, and how Amendment Seventeen (A17) impacted that legacy, they would be horrified. 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