![]() The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.ĭrawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. ![]() Visual & Material Culture: Southeast Asia & Sri Lankaĭeathpower: Buddhism's Ritual Imagination in Cambodia by Erik W.Visual & Material Culture: Central Asia.Visual & Material Culture Toggle Dropdown.Tibet: Contemporary Masters & Teachings. ![]()
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She was unable to interact her brother, because of Shaker laws that separate boys and girls. She was placed in the sixth grade at the Shakers small schoolhouse. Lydia shared a room with three other girls, Grace, Rebecca, and Polly. ![]() Sister Jennie Mathers was Lydia's caretaker and guided her through the Shakers rules and customs. Henry was incapable of taking proper care of his niece and nephew, and brought them to 'Chosen Land' at Sabbathday Lake to live with the Shakers. Lydia and Daniel went to live with their uncle Henry, his wife, and children. ![]() Several days later, her father, mother, and little sister fell ill and died of Spanish flu. On her eleventh birthday in 1918, her parents gave Lydia a journal and an opal ring that had belonged to her mother's mother. Her best friend was Emily Ann Walsh, whom she acted out parts of The Secret Garden with. Her family consisted of her parents, Caroline and Walter, older brother Daniel, and a younger sister Lucy, who was born in July 1918. Lydia Amelia Pierce was born on Octoin her childhood home located in Portland, Maine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Put that way, the notion looks unpleasant. ![]() To his credit, Mukherjee is suspicious of the ethics of a scheme whereby an authority, having genotyped children in a particular area, could then be allowed to choose who is worthy of the attention of the best teachers and the most resources and who is not. The idea of a resilience gene has since taken root, leading psychologists to propose that susceptible short-variant children – the worst behaved but better at responding to counselling – be targeted for scarce and costly intervention. “It is as if resilience itself has a genetic core,” says Mukherjee in this broad-ranging guide to modern genetics and its impact on life. That grim start to life was not quite so hopeless as it seemed. They found the former group, while more prone to antisocial behaviour, was also more likely to react positively to counselling. But the researchers went further, providing counselling for short-variant binge drinkers and long-variant “normals” to see how each group responded to help from others. Combine a deprived background with a set of “bad” genes and your chance in life was doomed, it appeared. Sure enough, the scientists found that possessors of short variants were more likely to binge drink, use drugs and be sexually permissive. ![]() ![]() ![]() WATER, CARRY ME, his third, was also nominated for the IMPAC Dublin prize. ![]() His second, THE WORLD I MADE FOR HER, was a critically-acclaimed nominee for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s largest fiction prize. Moran’s debut novel, THE MAN IN THE BOX, was a finalist in the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers series in 1997, and won the Stephen Crane Award for Best First Fiction. At twenty-eight, after five years as a journalist, he earned a Pulitzer nomination in investigative reporting for a series of stories on Mafia activities in New York City. Thomas Moran was born and raised near Baltimore. In high school he lettered in varsity lacrosse and wrestling, and continued his education at the University of Maryland and The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism ![]() ![]() Along with Dyvim Marluc they go on a quest for a black plant which Elric may be able to use to replace the strength he gets from Stormbringer. Along the way, they make the acquaintance of one of Elric's cousins, Dyvim Marluc, who leads a band of Melnibonean refugees who must balance their hatred of Elric for his betrayal with the sense of loyalty they feel for their former emperor. ![]() Ostensibly making the arduous journey in order for Elric to learn more of his people's ancestry and their relationship to the Phoorn, the technical name for the race of dragons who protected Melnibone before Elric betrayed his kingdom. The novel sees Elric and Moonglum travel to the opposite site of the world from Melnibone, indicating that their world is somewhat egg-shaped and giving them a new world to discover. ![]() The novel The Citadel of Forgotten Myths builds not only on the previous Elric stories and novels, but also brings in many of the concepts of the multiverse and the moonbeam roads that Moorcock has introduced and developed throughout his work. ![]() More than sixty years after Michael Moorcock introduced Elric of Melnibone in "The Dreaming City," he has once again returned to his creation, taking a look at a previously unreported adventure Elric and Moonglum embarked upon shortly before the events of Stormbringer. ![]() ![]() Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can't seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him. ![]() Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked KING CITY by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It has a huge YA cross-over audience-loyal fans live on Twitter and Tumblr and are eager for more from the world of Night Vale! WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE is a novel based on the wildly popular podcast, a community radio show for the fictional desert town of Night Vale. ![]() ![]() Paul’s client, George Westinghouse, has been sued by Thomas Edison over a billion-dollar question: Who invented the light bulb and holds the right to power the country? The case affords Paul entry to the heady world of high society-the glittering parties in Gramercy Park mansions, and the more insidious dealings done behind closed doors. A young untested lawyer named Paul Cravath, fresh out of Columbia Law School, takes a case that seems impossible to win. The person who controls the means to turn night into day will make history-and a vast fortune. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is in its infancy. an exciting, sometimes astonishing story.”- The Washington Post From Graham Moore, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Imitation Game and New York Times bestselling author of The Sherlockian, comes a thrilling novel-based on actual events-about the nature of genius, the cost of ambition, and the battle to electrify America. ![]() “A world of invention and skulduggery, populated by the likes of Edison, Westinghouse, and Tesla.”-Erik Larson “A model of superior historical fiction. ![]() EBook includes PDF, ePub and Kindle versionĭESCRIPTION BOOK : NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ![]() ![]() ![]() And now she’s been rejected from an art show because her work “has no heart.” So when she gets another opportunity to show her paintings, Abby isn’t going to take any chances.Ībby gives herself one month to do ten things, ranging from face a fear (#3) to learn a stranger’s story (#5) to fall in love (#8). She hasn’t been able to manage her mother’s growing issues with anxiety. She has a not-so-secret but definitely unrequited crush on her best friend, Cooper. Seventeen-year-old Abby Turner’s summer isn’t going the way she’d planned. What do you do when you’ve fallen for your best friend? Funny and romantic, this effervescent story about family, friendship, and finding yourself is perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han. ![]() Audience: Young adult contemporary romance ![]() ![]() A traitorous CIA officer has found refuge with the Russian mafia with designs on ensuring a certain former Navy SEAL sniper is put in the ground. Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets-a man intent on killing her. Get ready!"-Chris Pratt, star of The Terminal Lis t, coming soon to Amazon Prime "A rare gut-punch writer, full of grit and insight, who we will be happily reading for years to come." -Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series In this third high-octane thriller in the "seriously good" (Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Terminal List series, former Navy SEAL James Reece must infiltrate the Russian mafia and turn the hunters into the hunted. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Take my word for it, James Reece is one rowdy motherf***er. ![]() |