![]() The story of the victims of Franco’s reign of terror is framed by the activities of four key men whose dogma of eugenics, terrorisation, domination and mind control horrifyingly mirror the fascism of 1930s Italy and Germany. ![]() In addition to those killed on the battlefield, tens of thousands of Spaniards were officially executed between 19, and as many again became ‘non-persons’, their fates as obscure as the nation’s collective memory of this terrible period.Īs the country slowly reclaims its historical memory after a long period of wilful amnesia, for the first time a full picture can be given of the escalation and aftermath of the Spanish Holocaust in all its dimensions – ranging from systematic killings and judicial murders to the abuse of women and children, imprisonment, torture and the grisly fate of Spaniards in the hands of the Gestapo. ![]() His enemies, however, met less exalted fates. ![]() The remains of General Franco lie in an immense mausoleum near Madrid, built with the blood and sweat of 20,000 slave labourers. ![]() In this Samuel Johnson Prize short-listed work of meticulous scholarship, Paul Preston, the world’s foremost historian of 20th-century Spain, charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 innocent men, women and children across Spain. ![]()
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![]() The book became a major part of Job’s life and he is said to have reread it every year. Jobs had first read the book in high-school and discovered it again while staying at a guesthouse in India. Autobiography of a Yogi introduces the reader to the life of Paramahansa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures of both the East and West. It was the only e-book found on the Apple co-founder Steve Jobs's personal iPad 2. Regarded as a spiritual classic, ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ traces the life of Paramahamsa Yogananda and his encounters with spiritual figures in the East and West. Born in northern India, he came to the United States in 1920, where for more than thirty years he taught India’s. ![]() Paramahansa Yogananda (18931952) is widely regarded as one of the preeminent spiritual figures of our time. ![]() Believe in the divine and keep marching on doing good deeds #onelove #begratefu l#helponeanother.” He said, recommending the book on social media. An autobiographical account of an early nineteenth-century yogi as he reaches self-realization, identification with his larger self, mankind, and union with. Download the audio Autobiography of a Yogi from Audible and iTunes: Audible Edition. The understanding and implementation of the knowledge in this book will change your whole perspective and life. A must read for all those who are brave enough to let their thoughts and ideologies be challenged. ![]() 3 / 4 'Autobiography of a Yogi' by Paramahansa YoganandaĪ few years, Kohli made headlines when he recommended that fans and followers read a book that had made a huge difference to his life - ‘Autobiography of a Yogi’ by Paramahansa Yogananda. ![]() ![]() Together, text and image re-create the terrible beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the ship, and the crew's heroic daily struggle to stay alive, a miracle achieved largely through Shackleton's inspiring leadership. And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.ĭrawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition-one of history's greatest epics of survival. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. ![]() ![]() In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. ![]() So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do - he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.įraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. "My mother was not happy about that," he said.īut that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."īig break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.Įducation and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A cross between Jules Verne and Dino Buzzati’s The Tartar Steppe, a philosophical tale wrapped in a gripping plot, a meditation on solitude, violence and what it means to be human, a great, creepy, tender read.” –Yann Martel, author of The Life of Pi ![]() “Remarkable… an addictive and unsettling read. Equal parts Stephen King, a phantasmagorical Robinson Crusoe, and Lord of the Flies, Cold Skin is literary horror that deals with the basist forms of human behavior imaginable, while exploring why we so vehemently fear the Other. Armed with a battery of ammunition and explosives, the weather official and his new ally must confront their increasingly murderous mentality, and, when the possibility of a kind of truce presents itself, decide what kind of island they will inhabit. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably horrific reptilian creatures that ravage the island at night, attacking the lighthouse in their organized effort to find warm-blooded food. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a “weather official” on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. ![]() ![]() Westwick greatest claim to fame is a treatise on the construction of an equatorium, a supercomputer of its day, designed to calculate the movements of the planets and the stars, which was re-discovered in 1951 by the maverick scholar Derek Price. It’s true that St Albans was unusual in its devotions to learning and what we would now call science, but that was only a difference of degree, not of kind: as Sebastian Falk has set out to prove in his fascinating new book, The Light Ages, medieval Catholicism wasn’t the enemy of progress, it was its engine.įalk’s starting point is an obscure 14th-century St Alban’s monk named John of Westwick, son of a yeoman, whose career he traces largely through the mathematical and astronomical manuscripts that Westwick worked on. ![]() But those who think of the medieval world – and medieval Catholicism in particular – as the antithesis of reason and progress, might be surprised to learn that the great Benedictine abbey at St Albans had portraits in stained glass of both Muslim and Jewish scholars adorning its cloisters. ![]() There are few easier ways to enrage a medievalist than to refer to the era they study as ‘the Dark Ages’. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It encompasses the spirit and sense of possibility that he inspired in others. His true legacy lies beyond his victories in the ring and the number of trophies and championship belts he accumulated. He had an inner light that transcended his physical body and enabled him to reach the farthest corners of the world. My great person is my father, Muhammad Ali. ![]() We all admire our own great person, and each of us has our own understanding of him or her. A great man enables average people to recognize the greatness within them. He has gentleness in his touch that sets his apart from that of the common man. A great man has something open in his heart that can communicate a feeling without employing words. A great man has a deep spiritual forbearance, regardless of his chosen religion. There was a time not too long ago when people walked hand in hand in pursuit of a dream they walked in peace, united by a vision that they could change the world. IN ORDER TO recognize a great person, we must have an understanding of what greatness is. This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's June 27 Muhammad Ali Issue. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After looking at all the places she had played that day, she gave up and went home, only to find the mitten stuck on the snowman she had built that morning. 1.7M views 9 years ago In this wintry episode of NOOK Online Storytime, author Jan Brett reads The Mitten. A little girl loses her mitten after playing in the snow all day And goes searching for it. This is not the same folk story, but it caught my eye when I was looking for mitten books. The Missing Mitten Mystery by Steen Kellogg I was quite surprised that while the basic story is the same, the details are quite a bit different! I love this version just as much as Brett’s version though, and the illustrations are wonderful! This is the first version of The Mitten folk story that I’ve read that wasn’t by Jan Brett. Her illustrations tell the story without even needing the words, and the foreshadowing pictures on the border make for a very fun read with kids! This is possibly my favorite Jan Brett book of all! If you like the story “The Mitten”, make sure to check out my printables that go with the book!īrett’s version of this folk story is now more than just folklore – it’s become a classic book. ![]() I was really excited to read versions other than the Jan Brett one I am so familiar with. I’ve only just realized that The Mitten is actually a Russian Folk story passed down along the generations. ![]() ![]() ![]() Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. “An unsettling piece of work.” - New York Times “An elegant study of a world in which evil is total and totally triumphant.” - Sunday Times (London) “A whirlwind of horror!” - Library Journal This edition includes a new introduction by Jonathan Janz. ![]() įirst published in 1976, Ken Greenhall’s debut novel Elizabeth is a lost classic of modern horror fiction that deserves rediscovery. Power that begins with the killing of her parents. Through Frances, Elizabeth learns what it is to wield power – power of a kind that is malevolent and seemingly invincible. The image in the mirror of fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Cuttner is that of the fey and long-dead Frances, who introduces Elizabeth to her chilling world of the supernatural. You might notice that the image is not yours, but that of an exceptional person who lived at some other time . . .” Sit patiently, looking neither at yourself nor at the glass. ![]() “If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might see what I have seen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Karina finds out that there is a traitor in the castle, and tries to figure out who it is. Karina plans on using Malik and a couple of other people for the human sacrifice while Malik plans to kill her to save his sister. Karina and Malik meets during the Solstasia and they fall in love with each other but each of them struggles with their individual intentions. ![]() Solstasia is a festival celebrating a comet that passes once in every 50 years. So Malik becomes a champion to get closer to the princess. The evil spirit says that he has to kill the princess by Solstasia's end or they will kill Malik's sister. When his younger sister is taken away from them by an evil spirit, Malik makes a deal to kill the princess, in order to save his sister. Malik and his sisters are poor refugees from the Eshra Mountains who are heading to Ziran to find a job. When her mother, the Sultana is assassinated, Karina does not want to carry the burden of rulings and looks for a way to resurrect her mother for which will involve dark magic and a human sacrifice. Seventeen year old Karina Alahari is the princess of Ziran, who lost her father and sister in a mysterious fire outbreak. It was followed by a sequel A Psalm of Storms and Silence published in 2021. Brown's debut novel inspired by West and North African folktale was published on 2 June 2020 by Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins as the first book in a planned duology. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin is a 2020 young adult fantasy novel by Ghanaian American writer Roseanne A. ![]() |