![]() ![]() Medieval Portugal sees the Reconquest, the expulsion of the Muslims and rise of the Kingdom with the Burgundian dynasty and later the Avis kings. Finally, the Peninsula was conquered by the Muslims from Africa. Next, Portugal was invaded by the barbarians including the Visigoths and the Suevi. This era was followed by the Celts and then the Romans. Disney explains the economy of Portugal during this period with its strong emphasis on the mining of natural resources. ![]() The first chapter covers ancient Portugal which included hunter-gatherers and Iron Age farmers. Then in the fifteenth century, this tiny country on the Iberian Peninsula began an unlikely expansion into an economic empire which spanned the entire globe. As the country exists today, it has no political roots in its Roman, Germanic or Islamic past. ![]() The country of Portugal has no geographical reason to exist. The first of two volumes of Disney’s work covers the history of Portugal from pre-Roman times to the French invasion of 1807. I’ve been doing in depth research into the history of Portugal and I love this book. I’m just going to get straight to the point here. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() "In "The Cloister Walk," persisting in wonderfully idiosyncratic ways, she gives us the result of an 'immersion into a liturgical world'. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() Anyone with an open mind and a love of words, in short' RTE Guide n 'Who's this book for? Poetry lovers, English-literature students, marriage counsellors, monks, hairstylists, unemployed people, teachers, Catholics, Protestants, agnostics, Buddhists. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world - its liturgy, ritual and sense of community - can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. ![]() Kathleen Norris, a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith, finds herself, somewhat to her own surprise, on two extended residencies at St John's Abbey in Minnesota. ![]() ![]() ![]() If only the show burrowed into that questing, determined personality more. ![]() “Where is love?” is a genuine question, a both sweet-voiced and disbelieving interrogation of unseen forces, Oliver claiming love for his own as something he deserves as much as wants. Oliver scrappily stands up to all the villains around him, as he tries to find-against a background of workhouses and venal exploiters-some kind of happiness and security. But wait till you hear “Where Is Love?” as sung by Pajak, Oliver’s cri-de-coeur and plaintive question to the universe around him.Ī young orphan, who is terribly abused and whose foggy parentage is the plot’s major mystery, his is not simply a song of victimhood. The star of the Encores!’ production of Oliver! (New York City Center, to May 14) may only be 12, but he already has a sterling Broadway credit to his name, as a charming scene-stealer in The Music Man. It would be wrong to say “a star is born” when it comes to Benjamin Pajak. ![]() ![]() ![]() This article was written completely independently, see more details here. This article contains affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission on any sales of products or services we write about. Nightflyers is released on Netflix on Friday, February 1. ![]() The core cast of Nightflyers is supported by a number of other recognisable actors, including Bronte Carmichael (as Skye D’Branin), Miranda Raison (as Tessia), Phillip Rhys (as Murphy), and Zoe Tapper (as Joy D’Branin). O’Byrne (as Auggie), and Gretchen Mol (Dr Agatha Matheson) all star in each Nightflyers episode as well. ![]() All have previously appeared elsewhere in some way. Resident Evil and The Night Shift star Eoin Macken leads the way as Karl D’Branin opposite the likes of David Ajala (as Roy Eris) and Angus Sampson (as Rowan).įormer EastEnders actor Sam Strike (as Thale) also stars in every episode of Nightflyers, as does True Blood star Jodie Turner-Smith (as Melantha Jhirl). This is a collection of six science fiction short stories written by George RR Martin during the seventies. The Nightflyers cast includes a number of big names from the world of acting who star in every episode of the series. Who is in the cast of Nightflyers on Netflix? ![]() ![]() ![]() She is an enigma wrapped in a puzzle and tied off with more than a healthy amount of pride. ![]() When he finds a strange beautiful woman in the woods, something deep inside him knows that she's meant for him. The hero is still reeling from the sense of betrayal he felt when the woman he loved broke his heart when she found out he was half Indian. And in this new place, he is a respected business man and as such has the absolute freedom to do whatever he wants to whoever he wants and no one is there to stop him. ![]() But worse than being stuck in a strange time period is the knowledge that this mad man has come with her. But never in a million years did she ever imagine that tracking her prey through the forest would see her encountering a waterfall that sends her back in time. With her emotions walled up tightly inside and her stubborn refusal to ever let the grief control her, she does the only thing she knows how to do-she hunts. A serial killer who she's spent a great deal of time studying and tracking has murdered her only friend. The heroine has dedicated her life to her career and with only her partner to whom she can count as a friend, she's developed her entire world into the hunt for the bad guy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Perel describes two viewpoints where people can stand in a relationship. ![]() Hence, desire typically fades as relationships lengthen. It is easy to see that desire often fades as security increases in a relationship. Importantly, Esther Perel explains that it is impossible. Hence, humans struggle to lust with the same person that they seek comfort and stability. However, security and excitement are challenging to combine. As well as having a propensity for security, we also have an equally strong drive for adventure and excitement. We often make this decision based on the security associated with this relationship, rather than our sexual drive. As a result, most humans commit to long-term monogamous relationships. Is it any wonder that so many relationships crumble under the weight of it all?” - Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity At the same time, we expect our committed relationships to be romantic as well as emotionally and sexually fulfilling. “Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity. StoryShot #1: The Quest for Security Undermines Erotic Vitality ![]() ![]() ![]() Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff, by pulling himself up and hobbling on frostbitten feet to nudge each of them in a gesture of thanks and love. He was found the next morning by library director Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. On the coldest night of the year in Spencer, Iowa, at only a few weeks old-a critical age for kittens-he was stuffed into the return book slot of the Spencer Public Library. ![]() Description Experience the uplifting, "unforgettable" New York Times bestseller about an abandoned kitten named Dewey, whose life in a library won over a farming town and the world - with over 2 million copies sold! ( Booklist)ĭewey's story starts in the worst possible way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now those last two faults are forgivable if we accept British diplomat Cecil Spring-Rice’s advice, “You must always remember the President is about six.” The first fault-his preachiness-is excused by the fact that the American electorate dearly loves a moralist. And he used to make rude faces out of the presidential carriage at small boys in the streets of Washington. ![]() He piled his dessert plate with so many peaches that the cream spilled over the sides. Morison’s delicious phrase, he had “a recognition, too frequently and precisely stated, of the less recondite facts of life.” He significantly reduced the wildlife population of some three continents. He was an incorrigible preacher of platitudes or to use Elting E. Let us dispose, in short order, with Theodore Roosevelt’s faults. This essay was delivered as a speech, in somewhat longer form, at a recent symposium on presidential personality at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. The following study of TR’s personality-which so well illustrates this point-was written by Edmund Morris, who won the Pulitzer prize for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt in 1980 and is now at work on a second volume. If Theodore Roosevelt seems to push his way into our pages with extraordinary frequency, it is because the force and variety of this “giant,” “over-engined” man appear to be endless. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He specifically addresses the vigilantism, or acting without official legal authority, during the Algerian War of Independence (1954–62). Sartre denounces the crimes of European settlers in Algeria. Sartre does not really believe "natives" are lesser than "men." He is demonstrating one of Fanon's points: colonialism dehumanizes people.įrantz Fanon's analysis is summarized by Sartre when he says: "The peasantry, when it rises, quickly stands out as the revolutionary class." All the other classes, such as "the puppet bourgeoisie" and "the urban proletariat" then "fall into line" with "the rural masses." He begins by describing the world's population as consisting of "men" and "natives." The "men" are the citizens of colonial empires the "natives" are the colonized people. The preface is written by 20th-century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writing as Ann Maxwell, she began her career in 1975 with a science fiction novel, Change. The novels range from science fiction to historical fiction, from romance to mystery to suspense. ![]() There are 30 million copies of these books in print, as well as reprints in 30 foreign languages. Maxwell individually and with co-author/husband Evan Maxwell and Annalise Sun.Īnn Maxwell has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. Since then, seven of her nine science fiction novels have been recommended for the Science Fiction Writers of America Nebula Award A Dead God Dancing was nominated for wh Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.Īka Lowell Charters, Elizabeth Lowell, A.E. ![]() Ann Maxwell has written over 60 novels and one non-fiction book. ![]() Maxwell individually and with co-author/husband Evan Maxwell and Annalise Sun. (1)romance author aka Lowell Charters, Elizabeth Lowell, A.E. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]() |