As people on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, new crops, and religion. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, she presents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. Valerie Hansen, a much-honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world’s first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire? It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to AD 1000 were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn’t yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings’ invasion of Britain. From celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen, a groundbreaking work of history showing that bold explorations and daring trade missions connected all of the world’s great societies for the first time at the end of the first millennium.
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The latter resulted from infection with an H1N1 virus that had a genetic structure reminiscent of viruses of avian origin, though its actual source remains unknown.Īccording to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the 1918 pandemic, which started to peter out the following year, caused around 40 million deaths globally.Īs the flu started spreading throughout the world, local governments and newspapers struggled to keep up with the devastation. More recently, the world was turned upside down by the 1889 flu pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, sometimes referred to as the “Spanish flu.” There have been many before it, including the infamous Black Death, which historians believe started in 1334, and which may have lasted for centuries. The COVID-19 pandemic is not a first in world history. Louis Post-Dispatch file photo/Tribune News Service via Getty Images In a deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of U.S. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, where tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers are buried. It is the story of Angola Prison in Louisiana, a former plantation named for the country from which most of its enslaved people arrived and which has since become one of the most gruesome maximum-security prisons in the world. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads readers of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. Henry Stein (der.), The collected clinical works of Alfred Adler, (Vol. The general system of individual psychology: overview and summary of classical Adlerian theory & current practice. Alfred Adler: The Pattern of Life, London, Routledge. The Pattern of Life, Walter Béran Wolfe (Ed.). Superiority and social interest: a collection of later writings. The Structure and Prevention of Delinquency, Heinz L. Özellikle “yararlı tip” demokrat kişilik imgesine iyi bir örnektir Psikolojinin önemli isimlerinden Alfred Adler'in kişilik kuramı, demokrat kişiliğin psikolojik temellerini anlamak için önemli bir kaynaktır. Demokrat kişilik için politika bireyin ve toplumun gelişmesine yönelik kamusal bir edim, demokrasi ise bunu öğrenme sürecidir. Bu çerçevede demokrasinin gelişmesinin, büyük ölçüde demokrat kişiliğe bağlı olduğu düşüncesi öne çıkmıştır. Politik psikoloji disiplininin ortaya çıkışıyla birlikte tartışmaya demokrasinin psikolojik temelleri de dahil olmuştur. Bunun için bir yandan çeşitli demokrasi teorileri (çoğulcu, katılmacı, temsili, liberal, radikal vb.) ortaya konurken, diğer yandan demokrasinin fiziki altyapısı denilebilecek sosyal, ekonomik, kültürel ve politik koşulları tanımlanır. Demokrasiye ilişkin tartışmalar genelde daha iyi bir demokrasinin nasıl elde edilebileceği sorusu etrafındadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı önemli kişilik kuramcılarından biri olan Alfred Adler’in demokrasi düşüncesi açısından önemini tartışmaktır. The translation here, dating from 1655, is one of the great English translations of the 17th century, made while Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), a supporter of Charles I and Charles II, was under house arrest during the Cromwellian inter-regnum. , fashioning a national epic on the empire’s origins in much the same way as Virgil had done for the Rome of Augustus. , so Camões uses the great navigator, Vasco da Gama, as his tutelary spirit, while also aping Virgil’s approach in the Aeneid As Dante took Virgil as his guide in the Divine Comedy (The Lusiads), an epic poem on the beginnings of the Portuguese maritime empire, for which the author himself had fought as a common soldier – in North Africa (where he lost an eye in battle), in India, in southern Africa, the Red Sea, India and Macau – where the grotto in which he wrote some of the poem is a tourist attraction. A wonderful lyric poet, and also an occasional dramatist, his masterpiece is Os Lusíadas Camões (ca.1524/25–1580) is the national poet of Portugal, with a status in the Lusophone world akin to that of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes and Goethe elsewhere. Hannah was a healer with the gift of sight, and Maria grew up knowing that she, too, was special in that way. Hannah was taken with the baby and brought her up as her daughter. Maria was just a newborn when her mother abandoned her at a clearing in the forest near Hannah Owens’ hut. Magic Lessons is a celebration of life and love and a showcase of Alice Hoffman’s masterful storytelling. And it’s here that she learns the rules of magic and the lesson that she will carry with her for the rest of her life. Here she invokes the curse that will haunt her family. When Maria is abandoned by the man who has declared his love for her, she follows him to Salem, Massachusetts. It is here that she learns her first important lesson: Always love someone who will love you back. Under the care of Hannah Owens, Maria learns about the “Unnamed Arts.” Hannah recognizes that Maria has a gift and she teaches the girl all she knows. Where does the story of the Owens bloodline begin? With Maria Owens, in the 1600s, when she’s abandoned in a snowy field in rural England as a baby. In an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic. Strange how people drifted in and out of your life, and you never really got to know them.Ī wise man knows for himself as much as is required, but the man of discernment apprehends the whole, knowing both his own point of view and that of others…Īll the world, it seems, is a grayish sea of ambiguit, and we must learn to navigate in it or be drowned. He faced the winter with a determined sense of calm, whose source he could not understand but which he found distinctly pleasurable. Where do we read about evil as a separate manifestation, as a result of too abundant a growth of the quality of judgement separated from the quality of mercy? There is deep, deep within us the irrational… It was very good to re-read, and here are just a few quotes: So I picked up The Book of Lights again, thinking it was one of my favorites. Recently I saw The Chosen on someone’s coffee table, and it reminded me how much I enjoyed Potok. I read almost everything Chaim Potok wrote, maybe 8 to 10 years ago. Ann helps her grandma in the green house, and she has a boy her age name Raiden that fancies her, but there’s nothing keeping her on Eco. Her descendants came to Eco to terraform the plant to resemble Earth. But when an entire species is placed in jeopardy by her actions, she must make a choice – fulfill the dream that’s always sustained her, or save the planet she’s never considered home.įacsimile follows Ann whom is desperate to get off of Eco. One offers riches, one shatters Ann’s perceptions of herself, and one reveals that the humans stranded on Eco are not its only inhabitants.Īnn’s willing to sacrifice friendship and love for a new life on Earth. Ann‘s determination to escape the limitations of her small, frontier colony never falters, until Dace’s expeditions uncover three secrets. Especially since all she’s required to do is escort Dace Keeling, a young naturalist, through the wilderness of the partially terraformed planet Eco. For a ticket to Earth, seventeen-year-old Anna-Maria “Ann” Solano is willing to jettison her birth planet, best friend, and the boy who loves her. The final pages of the book include a key to the Secret Garden, showing the locations of all the hidden goodies. Secret Garden is also a look-and-find book, with a host of creatures and other things, like a message in a bottle, a treasure chest and keys, hidden throughout the pages. Best of all, beyond being a beautiful coloring book, Secret Gardenis, as Basford says, filled with challenges like "mazes to solve, patterns to complete and lots of space for you to add your own inky drawings. Besides being dead gorgeous, her illustrations are intricately playful and magically creative. More than a year ago, I was perusing the coloring book section at Barnes & Noble, looking for a gift for my son to take to a 10 year old girl's birthday party and Basford's first book Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring Book jumped out at me. The book is flowers, trees and animals - youll need plenty of shades of green The basis is on reality - many of these books have the internal spaces of animals filled with a giddy mass of geometric lines and patterns, just to add complexity to the drawings. That said, coloring books for adults have become enormously popular in the last couple of years, fueled by the self-proclaimed Ink Evangelist, Johanna Basford, and in this season of gift giving her books are especially worth noting. In seven years, I have never reviewed a coloring book here, although I have reviewed more than a few doodle books. The Maxson family was not only breaking on the inside but became increasingly distinct from the outside world as well. The addition of fence parts throughout the play supports the notion of separation. Finally accepting death after decades of tempting fate and fighting the devil, Troy evokes the struggle of finding fulfillment in one’s duties, rather than goals that seem unattainable. Never being allowed into the MLB, never having the perfect relationship with his sons and never being satisfied with his life, Troy Maxson - the show's main character - had many dreams, but the only one he achieved was his nightmare. Wilson’s plays are a vital encapsulation of Black history and contemporary life.” Kelly ends this section noting, “In his time, ahead of his time for all time, August Wilson shares history we cannot allow to disappear but must remain on our stages. Kelly continues by saying that this is a timely production as limits on the education of race and discrimination around the country are expanding. Baron Kelly (Gabriel Maxson), and Noah Mustapha Kohn-Dumbuya (Lyons Maxson) in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Theatre Department's production of August Wilson's "Fences". (Left to right) Micah Anderson (Cory Maxson), Burgess Byrd (Rose Maxson), Naomi Greer (Raynell Maxson), Dr. |