The romanov 4 sisters5/30/2023 ![]() Rappaort aims to present a new and challenging take on the story, drawing extensively on previously unseen or unpublished letters, diaries and archival sources, as well as private collections. ![]() ![]() The Romanov Sisters sets out to capture the joy as well as the insecurities and poignancy of those young lives against the backdrop of the dying days of late Imperial Russia, World War I and the Russian Revolution. With this treasure trove of diaries and letters from the grand duchesses to their friends and family, we learn that they were intelligent, sensitive and perceptive witnesses to the dark turmoil within their immediate family and the ominous approach of the Russian Revolution, the nightmare that would sweep their world away, and them along with it. There were four From left to right, Maria, Tatiana (standing), Anastasia and Olga Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Romanov Grand Duchess. Over the years, the story of the four Romanov sisters and their tragic end in a basement at Ekaterinburg in 1918 has clouded our view of them, leading to a mass of sentimental and idealized hagiography. The four captivating Russian Grand Duchesses-Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia Romanov-were much admired for their happy dispositions, their looks, the clothes they wore and their privileged lifestyle. They were the Princess Dianas of their day-perhaps the most photographed and talked about young royals of the early twentieth century. ![]()
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John bradshaw homecoming book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience. Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques, including questionnaires, letter-writing to the inner child, guided meditations, and affirmations. ![]() Then, says Bradshaw, the healed inner child becomes a source of vitality, enabling us to find new joy and energy in living. Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. If any of this sounds familiar, you may be experiencing the hidden but damaging effects of a painful childhood carrying within you a wounded inner child that is crying out for attention and healing. ![]() Are you outwardly successful but inwardly do you feel like a big kid? Do you aspire to be a loving parent but all too often lose it in hurtful ways? Do you crave intimacy but sometimes wonder if it s worth the struggle? Or are you plagued by constant vague feelings of anxiety or depression? ![]() Little red riding hood perrault5/30/2023 ![]() Red Riding Hood, growing worried, remarks on how unusual her "grandmother" looks: When the little girl arrives, the Big Bad Wolf has dressed himself in the old woman's bedclothes and gotten into bed. ![]() Specifically: the wolf takes a shortcut to the grandmother's house, impersonates Little Red Riding Hood, and swallows the grandmother whole. Too innocent to be afraid, she tells him, and they go their separate ways. She does anyway, and is stopped by The Big Bad Wolf, who asks her where she is going. Before she leaves, she is warned not to stray from the path to pick flowers, for there is danger there. In the story, a young girl called Little Red Riding Hood, known by her favourite red hood, goes out into the woods to bring her sick grandmother some good things to eat. The story itself is much older, having been told orally centuries before that, possibly as far back as the 10th Century. "Little Red Cap") was later published by The Brothers Grimm, which has supplanted Perrault's in the collective consciousness. "Little Red Riding Hood" ("Le Petit Chaperon Rouge") first appeared in print as a story by Charles Perrault another, more optimistic version ("Rotkäppchen" a.k.a. ![]() ![]() Charles Perrault, coda to "Little Red Riding Hood" ![]() Oathbound by victoria mccombs5/30/2023 ![]() Her favorite things include peppermint hot chocolate, peanut butter ice cream, game nights with family, and Jesus. She writes young adult fantasy and adores stories about treacherous pirates and traitorous princes. Victoria McCombs is the author of The Storyteller’s Series from Parliament House Press, and Oathbound. To ignore it is to invite peril of unimaginable destruction.Īs the adventure unfolds, the sea takes more than she expects and the sea gives more than he wants. ![]() His obligations are tinged with betrayal, for his oathbind must be fulfilled. The pirate captain’s secrets are darker than the deep and threaten to kill them all. But the fates are cruel, and now a hidden sickness leads her to partner with pirates for the one thing that can save her-a cure on an island none are certain exists. The dangerous deep brings ruin to all.Įmme has spent her life avoiding anything to do with pirates. 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Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks: An Approach to Provide Secure and Trusted Data (Author's: Paridhi Singhal,Manoj Diwakar, Manish Mahashi ) Mitigation Curves For Determination of Relief Holes to mitigate Stress Concentration Factor in Thin Plates Loaded Axially for Different Discontinuities (Author's:Shubharta N agpal, S.Sanyal, Nitin Jain ) Name of Research Article(Volume 2 Issue 3 ,September 2012) ISSN:2277-3754 ![]() The magic mountain mann5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He has smoothed out Mann's periodic sentences so that they do not read choppily (Lowe-Porter's translation often does) and has replaced Lowe-Porter's sometimes delicate avoidances. Woods has carefully evaluated these contrasts and chosen a style that neither simplifies nor complicates. While the novel is not impenetrable in German, it is very discursive and swings between being flip (especially regarding the hero Hans Castorp) and ponderous (in the philosophic paragraphs that discuss Life and Nature). Mann might be thought of as a kind of philosopher-jeweler who looks at his characters and their situation as though he were examining a faceted gem. "The Magic Mountain" is not a traditional late-19th Century narrative but an acute analysis of human beings under threat of death. Therefore, tone is crucial in properly translating the novel. The novel has a narrator, a nameless spirit who looks down on the happenings at the Berghot sanatorium with benign amusement, displaying the "Olympian hauteur" that George Steiner complained about in Mann's works. ![]() Black butler vol 1 yana toboso5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant. Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom, its master one Ciel Phantomhive. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark secrets of London's underbell. ![]() Undisputed truth book5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He is honest about his juvenile delinquency and sums it up pretty good on page 36 saying, “I did a lot of bad sh**”.He goes into detail about his highly publicized relationship with Robin Givens and her mother. He tells about his early life of being in an alcoholic home without a father and being traumatized by beatings, something that no doubt lead to his later alcoholism and drug addiction. For the boxing aficionado, he goes into a lot of detail about his relationship with Cus D’Amato and the art of boxing. ![]() ![]() It is an honest book I think and he tells the kind of life he lived without sugar coating. That being said, let me tell you some of the highlights and my impressions. The language of the book is the language of the street and the reader should expect a lot of profanity. It is an easy read but takes several days because it is so long. It is 552 pages long not including the Epilogue. I am glad I read it and I do recommend it. I just finished Mike Tyson’s memoir “Undisputed Truth”. ![]() The Lost Boys by Craig Shaw Gardner5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() There are titbits about the lore behind the vampires of Santa Carla in the film, mostly told via Edgar and Alan Frog aka The Frog Brothers, and their vampire comics. By night, the boardwalk is where the story begins to unfold. After Lucy’s divorce, she moves with the boys from Arizona to her father’s house (Bernard Hughes) in Santa Clara, California. The film's main focus is the story of Michael, Sam and their mother, Lucy (Dianne West). Here are 15 Ways To Make The Lost Boys TV Show Awesome. ![]() With the recent news that there’s a Lost Boys TV show being developed by The CW and writer Rob Thomas ( Party Down, Veronica Mars), let’s hope that it’s as interesting, fun and horror-filled as the original. The film told the story of two brothers, Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam Emerson (Corey Haim), in the seaside town of Santa Carla and their encounter with a gang of vampires. ![]() The Lost Boys made vampires cool and paved the way for 'edgy' vampire stories in mainstream media today. The movie also spawned phrases such as ‘vamp out’ and quotable lines such as ‘you’re eating worms, Michael’, the latter has been parodied in popular culture many times over. Elmo’s Fire (1985), Falling Down (1993) and Flatliners (1990) were quite iconic among his work, but no movie morse so than 1987’s The Lost Boys, which has become a cult classic for 80s kids all over. ![]() Before Joel Schumacher ever made some embarrassing Batman films, he was actually a pretty decent director. ![]() The National Road by Tom Zoellner5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land––in every direction––could be fastened together into a whole?” This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land ( Publishers Weekly). ![]() |