![]() ![]() The thesis scrutinizes the identity these cultural practices produced. ![]() Through the examination of primary sources, ranging from internal Communist documents and newspaper articles to photographs and posters, as well as interviews with contemporaries and comparison with parallel Communist experiences in the United States and in the Arab world – this thesis examines the myths and rituals reflected in the holidays, as practiced by the Jewish Communists in MKI and the Israeli Young Communist League (Banki). Negating and absorbing the Zionist-Socialist and Israeli statist cultures, influenced by both Soviet and left wing European traditions as well as Jewish traditional elements, the Jewish Communists developed their own cycle of holidays. Marginalized and persecuted for most of its formative years, the Communist Party developed, from 1919 to 1965, its own distinctive subculture. The Israeli Communist Party (MKI) and its precursor, the Communist Party of Palestine (PKP), were a unique Arab-Jewish organization. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Absorption could provide a valuable concept with which to advance theories on ASCs. Increasing degrees of absorption seems to facilitate the occurrence of ASCs via an enlargement of information processing within the explicit system. ![]() Contrary to the assumptions of the THT, these exercises aim at bringing the maximum amount of information to the explicit system. In contrast, ancient Buddhist texts communicate varying depths: these writings refer to different stages of mindfulness, and describe mind exercises that bring about deeper stages of ASCs, via absorption. The implicit, unconscious, system of mainly subcortical origin concurrently takes predominance. temporarily suppressed, due to transient prefrontal cortex deregulation. For instance, the prominent transient hypofrontality theory (THT, Dietrich, 2003) assumes that ASCs emerge because the capacities of the explicit, conscious system of mental functioning are. ![]() ![]() Contemporary theories give such different depths little theoretical consideration. Flow, as well as other altered states of consciousness (ASCs), is traditionally described as being of different depths. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For her unforgivable mistake, she was banished to live among humans, far from her fairy sisters and their magical underwater world. Lil allowed herself the unthinkable: to feel the emotions of human beings and fall in love with the prince herself, going to the ball in place of Cinderella in her exquisitely gorgeous human guise. Tucked and bound behind her back are white feathery wings-the only key to who she once was: the fairy godmother responsible for getting Cinderella to the ball to unite with her Prince Charming.īut on that fateful night, something went terribly and beautifully wrong. Lil is an old woman who spends her days shelving rare books in a tiny Manhattan bookstore and lonely nights at home in her apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nightrunner Series (fantasy) by Lynn Flewellingīasically anything by Ginn Hale (Maze-Born Trouble Rifter The Cadeleonian Series fantasy) Of Last Resort (part of a series horror + fantasy) by Megan Derrīrute (standalone fantasy romance) by Kim Fielding ![]() DavisĪ Hundred Thousand Words (standalone contemporary romance) by Nyrae Dawn Lightbearer (standalone paranormal romance) by L.C. Malachite (part of an eventual series fantasy) by Kirby Crowįlaunt (part of a series contemporary romance) by E. To Hive and to Hold (part of an eventual series post-apocalyptic fantasy romance) by Amy Crook ChevalierĪ Beginner's Guide to Wooing Your Mate (part of a series paranormal romance) by R. Charles (Wanted, A Gentleman The Henchmen of Zenda Unfit to Print Band Sinister The Price of Meat Society of Gentlemen Sins of the Cities A Charm of Magpies historical romance, historical + paranormal romance)īonds of Earth (standalone historical romance) by G.N. Fawkes (The Fantastic Fluke Lords of the Underworld Sons of Olympus The Rowan Harbor Cycle The Wolves of Kismet Fire and Valor paranormal romance, fantasy, contemporary romance)Ĭaroline's Heart and Peter Darling (standalones fantasy romance) by Austin Chantīasically anything by K.J. Hell on Earth (part of a series paranormal romance) by Macy Blakeīasically anything by Sam Burns and/or W.M. ![]() Honeymoon for One (standalone contemporary romance) by Keira Andrews ![]() The Glamour Thieves (part of a series urban fantasy) by Don Allmon ![]() ![]() ![]() What she didn’t mention, and what so many people seem to have missed in their reviews, is that Mori isn’t just physically disabled in a way very similar to the way I’m disabled. I’m just obsessed with Celtic fairy lore - the real stuff, not the twee Victorian ones or the breathy New Age romantic ones that like to play with crystals you hang in your kitchen window.) (I feel it is necessary to mention that I don’t see fairies. “Mori walks like you, she’s got serious mamma issues, and she sees fairies. “It’s like someone wrote a book specifically for you,” she said. I felt that I would be annoyed by the endless references to books she had read, and possibly put off by Mori, the main character, and her sneering at those she finds less intelligent.īut then my friend Naomi handed it to me, demanding that I read it. When Among Others by Jo Walton first came out and everyone was geeking out about it, I decided not to read it. ![]() ![]() ![]() In all the time I’ve been away, I never forgot Gemma. The shapely woman undressing in my studio is none other than my best friend’s not-so-little younger sister. ![]() But on my first night in the studio, my plans are rocked. I’ll teach a class or two and use the rest of my time to reconnect with my art. I never thought I’d return to Garland, but when I’m offered a stupid amount of money for a short-term residency at the local university, I can’t turn it down.Too many years in the city have drained me, and I need a change of scenery. Especially when the artist turns out to be Bentley Cormack, my one true love and the man who left me behind. ![]() Because … getting naked? In front of a stranger? It’s a lot. ![]() All my life, I’ve let other people define how I see myself but not anymore. The thought of wearing nothing but my handmade jewelry and hanging the finished product on my bedroom wall makes me feel strong, sexy, and empowered. Fueled by a sugar high and bravado, I promise to step out of my comfort zone and book myself a life-drawing portrait. I’m popping bonbons and riding the high of securing the lease on my jewelry boutique off Main Street when I make a Galentine’s Day pact with my girlfriends. ![]() ![]() ![]() And in between are deft and humorous stories of the wild excesses that marked the 80s, leading to his quest for family and sobriety. During his time on The West Wing, he witnessed the surreal nexus of show business and politics, both on the set and in the actual White House. The Outsiders placed Lowe at the birth of the modern youth movement in the entertainment industry. Teen idol at 15, international icon and founder of the Brat Pack at 20, and one of Hollywood's top stars to this day, Rob Lowe chronicles his experiences as a painfully misunderstood child actor in Ohio uprooted to the wild counterculture of mid-1970s Malibu, where he embarked on his unrelenting pursuit of a career in Hollywood. A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the literature professor in me certainly plays into my romances. It's like being Superman, with power suits for both lives. ![]() The other day I bought a delicious pink suit to tape a television segment on romance I'll never wear that suit to teach in, nor even to give a paper at the Shakespeare Association of America conference. When I'm not writing novels, I'm a Shakespeare professor. In her professorial guise, she's written a New York Times op-ed defending romance, as well as articles published everywhere from women's magazines such as More to writers' journals such as the Romance Writers' Report. ![]() Her "double life" is a source of fascination to the media and her readers. Currently she is an associate professor and head of the Creative Writing program at Fordham University in New York City. from Yale and eventually became a Shakespeare professor, publishing an academic book with Oxford University Press. A reviewer from USA Today wrote of Eloisa's very first book that she "found herself devouring the book like a dieter with a Hershey bar" later People Magazine raved that "romance writing does not get much better than this." Her novels have repeatedly received starred reviews from Publishers' Weekly and Library Journal and regularly appear on the best-seller lists.Īfter graduating from Harvard University, Eloisa got an M.Phil. ![]() Her novels have been published to great acclaim. New York Times bestselling author Eloisa James writes historical romances for HarperCollins Publishers. ![]() ![]() ![]() This title lacks the hilarity of Willems's previous accounts of persuasion, but it does assert the power of a spoonful of sugar. The simply drawn children recall the various Peanuts characters, and the insistent mice clown around in ways that reward rereading. ![]() Finally the girl appeals to her father with a gracefully hand-lettered "please" that does the trick, and the tutorial concludes with the rodents begging (politely) for a bite of her hard-earned cookie. ![]() Have an ulterior motive-wave banners and fly tiny zeppelins emblazoned with word-by-word commands: "Go ask a big person/ and/ Please say 'please'!" Then, in a digression from the main story, they and some other children demonstrate the versatile applications of "please," "excuse me," "sorry" and "thank you" ("you have to mean it!"). As she resists their advice, the mute mice-who might The gaggle of Ignatz-lookalike mice first introduced in Time to Pee!ĭispense the lesson, instructing a girl who wants a cookie by holding up four red placards shaped like stop signs ("Don't just grab it!") to arrest her first impulse. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. In his previous life, Mo was a six-time Emmy Awardwinning writer and animator for Sesame Street and the creator of Cartoon Network’s Sheep in the Big City. In this etiquette lesson (from which Pigeon, star of a few other of Willems's picture books, could benefit), the author explains the tactical usefulness of the magic word. He also wrote Today I will Fly,My Friend Is Sad, There Is a Bird on Your Head, and I Am Invited to a Party, the first books in this series. ![]() Willems's assertive characters know what they want, but they seldom ask for it politely. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though they've escaped the criminality of their old life, their work for Alistair is still chock-full of gory, nasty violence, complete with zombies, rabid werewolves, and magical creatures gone feral. Lock, a pale-skinned half dryad, is the object of Ava's confused, angst-ridden affections. Ezra is stunningly gorgeous, amber-eyed, tan-skinned, and russet-haired, half Japanese and half fox. Ava, white, is a firebug who burns through most of her clothing as a side effect of doing her job. Though they're still recovering from the events at the climax of the previous book, they are formidable. Working for her new, strangely benevolent boss-Alistair even pays her for her work!-Ava and her two best buds take on investigative work for the Boston-based Coterie. Somebody still needs to make sure that magical people are neither exploited nor exploiters that's Ava's job. ![]() Giant snails, terrified kelpies, and supernatural knitting: this is life for the teenagers running supernatural law enforcement in small-town Maine.Įven though Ava, Lock, and Ezra destroyed their evil old boss who ran the Coterie like "something out of a supernatural Goodfellas" in Firebug (2014), the Coterie hasn't gone away. ![]() |