![]() Triggering content in films, as sensitivities vary from person to person. IFC Center does not generally provide advisories about subject matter or potentially This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky…Īll showtimes that begin at 6:00pm or later will be showing in Japanese with English subtitles all showtimes that begin prior to 6:00pm will be English-language dubbed. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. Sneak previews Wed Jan 15 at 7:00 (English-language version) & 9:30pm (Japanese-language with English subtitles)! Sneak preview Thu Jan 16 at 9:30pm (Japanese-language with English subs)! ![]() ![]() ![]() Friday, January 17 - Thursday, January 30, 2020 ![]()
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![]() ![]() A stunning reappraisal of history is about to be published. Until now, scholars have considered that the Italian Renaissance - the basis of our modern Western world - came about as a result of a re-examining the ideas of classical Greece and Rome. ![]() But his research has led him to astonishing new discoveries that Chinese influence on Western culture didn't stop there. In his bestselling book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies presented controversial and compelling evidence that Chinese fleets beat Columbus, Cook and Magellan to the New World. Now he presents further astonishing evidence that it was also Chinese advances in science, art, and technology that formed the basis of the European Renaissance and our modern world. B&W and Colour Illustrations 9 X 6.10 X 1.40 inches 368 pages "In his book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. ![]() DJ and boards show light edge wear, a couple of short tears with creasing, previous owner's gift inscription on half title page A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You’re not alone, and it’s perfectly normal to struggle in a new environment and buckle under the weight of elevated expectations. Luckily, you don’t have to suffer in silence or give up on your dream of a college degree. It turns out there were really good existential reasons for paying attention in primary school English.Īnd nowadays, it’s as easy as typing “Make an essay for me” in live chat. ![]() All that business about grammar and figures of speech is actually essential for getting on in the world quite apart from speaking proper. This classic from the 1970’s shows why this is so in an entertaining and convincing way. It looks like something neutral, a tool for doing things, some good, some not so good depending on its user. But language is crafty it seems to have its own interests more than ours at heart. The conspiracy of language becomes obvious as soon as one recognizes the fact that words are defined solely in terms of other words, never in terms of things outside of language. This is a difficult idea to hold onto, mainly because it suggests that none of us really knows what we might be talking about. The way this works in daily life is by our inevitable and pervasive use of metaphors to describe the world and what we’re doing in it. We fall in love, offer food for thought, try not to waste time, and build theories. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The myth comes from discerning whether or not Carriacou really existed, or whether her mother had just mixed up the name. Zami tells the biography that Lorde knew from her mother as a child it was truth. Merriam-Webster defines this as “a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people or explain a practice, belief, or natural phenomenon” or “a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone especially one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of society” or “an unfounded or false notion.” In biomythography, the distinctions are blurred. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition is “a usually written history of a person’s life” or “an account of the life of something.” Then, though, there is that key component: myth. ![]() Let’s pick apart the name in order to debunk this subgenre: biomythography. There isn’t much variance in the subsequent results, either. When you search “Biomythography” on internet search engines, the first result that comes up will say it is a term coined by Audre Lorde to describe her book Zami. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the eyes of a young Mycenaean woman, Hughes examines the physical, historical and cultural traces that Helen has left on locations in Greece, North Africa and Asia Minor. Helen exists in many guises: a matriarch from the Age of Heroes who ruled over one of the most fertile areas of the Mycenaean world Helen of Sparta, the focus of a cult which conflated Helen the heroine with a pre-Greek fertility goddess the home-wrecker of the Iliad the bitch-whore of Greek tragedy the pin-up of Romantic artists.įocusing on the 'real' Helen - a flesh-and-blood aristocrat from the Greek Bronze Age - acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes reconstructs the context of life for this elusive pre-historic princess and places her alongside the heroes and heroines of myth and history. For millennia she has been viewed as an exquisite agent of extermination. Because of her double marriage to the Greek King Menelaus and the Trojan Prince Paris, Helen was held responsible for both the Trojan War and enduring enmity between East and West. ![]() ![]() As soon as men began to write, they made Helen of Troy their subject for nearly three thousand years she has been both the embodiment of absolute female beauty and a reminder of the terrible power that beauty can wield. ![]() ![]() ![]() at Harvard University in 1991, after one year of study, under the direction of Boris Feigin and Joseph Bernstein. After receiving his degree in 1989, he was first invited to Harvard University as a visiting professor, and a year later he enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard. ![]() While a student there, he attended the seminar of Israel Gelfand and worked with Boris Feigin and Dmitry Fuchs. He was not admitted to Moscow State University because of discrimination against Jews and enrolled instead in the applied mathematics program at the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas. As a high school student he studied higher mathematics privately with Evgeny Evgenievich Petrov, although his initial interest was in quantum physics rather than mathematics. His father is of Jewish descent and his mother is Russian. ![]() Edward Frenkel was born on May 2, 1968, in Kolomna, Russia, which was then part of the Soviet Union. ![]() ![]() The final chapter answers that not only is it possible, but it is good. In her introduction, McLaughlin asks: is it really possible, for sensible grown ups who know that Santa is a children’s story, to believe in “the infant Son of God cradled in a manger and born to save the world?” (8.) The first three chapters answer an emphatic yes, it is certainly possible. This final chapter draws the threads of this short book together, and confronts the reader with the Light of the World who came down at Christmas. All this builds to Chapter Four: Why Does it Matter? Chapter One considers the evidence that Jesus was a real person, Chapter Two examines the Gospel accounts to see if they stand up to historical criticism, and Chapter Three asks whether science has simply explained away the miracles these Gospels describe. ![]() ![]() McLaughlin’s short book looks at three big question marks that surround the Christmas story. And if it is, then it really might just matter. ![]() What this little book does excellently, however, is suggest that maybe the Christmas story really is credible after all. She doesn’t try to respond to every question, nor dispel every argument against the Christian faith. Different books very much do different things, and Rebecca McLaughlin’s new book simply seeks to answer whether or not the Christmas story is truly believable. ![]() ![]() ![]() This website is developed as a part of the world's largest public domain archive, PICRYL. law and are therefore in the public domain. ![]() ![]() The Library provides Congress, the federal government and the American people with a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage them and support their intellectual and creative endeavors.ĭisclaimer: A work of the Library of Congress is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. The objects in this archive are from Library of Congress - the nation’s first established cultural institution and the largest library in the world, with millions of items including books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections. Slatkine has recently issued a deliciously faithful reprint of one of Albert Robidas major illustrated SF novels, Le Vingtieme siecle (The 20th Century). ![]() ![]() To me, it felt a bit senseless, until right at the end, but by that point it wasn’t able to fully redeem itself. I think if I had read this as a teenager I might have enjoyed this more. I was really hoping for something more from this novel but it never really clicked with me. But when news comes of Eric’s escape from the hospital Frank has to prepare the ground for his brother’s inevitable return – an event that explodes the mysteries of the past and changes Frank utterly. In the bizarre daily rituals there is some solace. Frank has turned to strange acts of violence to vent his frustrations. Frank’s mother abandoned them years ago: his elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital and his father measures out his eccentricities on an imperial scale. Their life is, to say the least, unconventional. Frank – no ordinary sixteen-year-old – lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What are the ways in which the novel shows the effect that Afi's social class has on her choices and on the way her relationship with Eli unfolds?. ![]() Other than their wish to see Afi and Eli married, are there other similarities between Afi's mother and Aunty?.Do you think Afi's decision to marry Eli was the right one? Why?.How much do Afi's mother and her other relatives influence Afi's decision to marry Eli? Do you think she would have agreed to the union if this pressure were absent? Do you think women in your society are also subject to pressure to get married? If so, where does it come from and what does it look like?.How does the opening sentence reflect the rest of the novel? What does it lead you to expect about how Afi and Eli's relationship would develop?. ![]() |